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[artisticdivasworld]

Pastels: Mastering their Use

Pastels have been a beloved medium for artists for centuries, offering a unique blend of vibrant color and delicate texture. In this comprehensive guide, we delve deep into the world of pastels, exploring their history, types, techniques, and how to master their use for stunning artworks. Today, we begin a series about the different types of art mediums available today for you to experiment…

[certified-pinkwasher]

here is the true evidence of my insanity about isat

is mixed media (oil pastels(? idk pastel language is so confusing), gouache, white gel pen, and colored pencil) on canvas paper

[bonefall]

Have you thought about collabing with the creators of Clangen?

It would be cool? But from what I know, Clangen really tries to stick close to canon, moreso than I do. They wouldn't be looking to add my clan culture expansions or spirituality overhauls.

So like, sure, if they/a mod maker approached me with an idea or request. Otherwise I'm not sure what we'd collaborate about?

[teenagefeeling]

I’ve been on a big YouTube nostalgia kick lately and finding your side blog so well tagged and active was such a beautiful sight for sore eyes. We watched many of the same people and it was truly refreshing to see someone posting older gif sets and edits. You’re awesome and I appreciate you.

ahhhh ily this is so sweet 💕💕💕 it's been very fun digging through archives and rewatching older stuff to make new gifs lol. maybe if the 15 of us who are still active just keep posting we can get everyone back into 2010s-era british youtubers 😈

btw if there's anyone/any videos u wanna see in post form feel free to hmu! i usually just make gifs and/or fill the queue when im procrastinating schoolwork so im happy to take requests lmao, gives me more material

[epicdogymoment]

havent watched this video (bernadette banner shoulder harness posture video) all the way through yet but woah. didnt realise the shoulder construction of the garments themselves impacted the posture so much -> oh hey one of these prototypes looks basically identical to how people tie back kimono sleeves -> wait i (notoriously bad posture) have a shitty fabric belt thats long enough to do this with

[alsikeclovers]

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People were very nice today. Very generous, and considerate, and kind when they did not need to be.

The circumstances were wild though, I'll be honest. Did not expect the day to go in this direction at all.

[docbe]

Good news tho, looks like the temp/weather is gonna be stable for the next week or so, after the whole derecho+tornados last night and storms last week

So maybe, now that we’re over the covid and finally are back on meds and got the dog her insulin and have stable internet and are past migraine weather, it’ll finally not be an uphill battle and continuous new crisis for a while and I can get some real work done!

[6ebe]

no bc I’m literally having to spend my entire workday today fixing an incompetent guys mess bc I completed all my actual work for the week early 😐

[starlotties]

Colored pencil portrait of my oc, Ari :]

[nighttimepatrons]

I saw a video of a falcon punch and oh my goooosh i want to draw dragon!Celegorm doing thaaaat I want to draw Celegorm doing that so baaaaad.

Also!!! Dragon!Celegorm kidnapping Luthien is so!!!! Perfect!!!

Aaaaaaaaa

If I ever do the piece of Melkor slaying dragon!Finwe then i will simply have to do a companion piece of Beren (and/or Luthien) slaying Celegorm

[certified-pinkwasher]

just got a large order of art supplies im gonna explode

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think the thing that's been bothering me about the "is it okay to use ChatGPT to plot/make characters/etc" is that at the end of the day, these are not tools that are helping your writing, they are shortcuts that are undercutting it.

These things are supposed to be hard, because you need to learn how to do them.

And listen, I know this sucks. I've got to knock off 4k of words from my current novel to make it more sellable, which seems like a completely arbitrary thing to do, but things like printing costs absolutely do factor into traditional publishing. It took me five drafts to figure out a completely obvious in hindsight plot point that explains why a character does what he does. It takes a few tries to pull together a detailed outline into a workable story, and it always will.

I would have loved to figure this all out way earlier, but I had to learn how to spot the gaps in my writing before I could fix them. Generative AI isn't ever going to bridge the gap between sitting down and learning how to work things out, because if you don't do that, you never will become a more competent writer. If that wasn't part of the point, none of us would be doing this in the first place.

[burntoutdaydreamer]

Weird Brain Hacks That Help Me Write

I'm a consistently inconsistent writer/aspiring novelist, member of the burnt-out-gifted-kid-to-adult-ADHD-diagnosis-pipeline, recently unemployed overachiever, and person who's sick of hearing the conventional neurotypical advice to dealing with writer's block (i.e. "write every single day," or "there's no such thing as writer's block- if you're struggling to write, just write" Like F*CK THAT. Thank you, Brenda, why don't you go and tell someone with diabetes to just start producing more insulin?)

I've yet to get to a point in my life where I'm able to consistently write at the pace I want to, but I've come a long way from where I was a few years ago. In the past five years I've written two drafts of a 130,000 word fantasy novel (currently working on the third) and I'm about 50,000 words in on the sequel. I've hit a bit of a snag recently, but now that I've suddenly got a lot of time on my hands, I'm hoping to revamp things and return to the basics that have gotten me to this point and I thought I might share.

1) My first draft stays between me and God

I find that I and a lot of other writers unfortunately have gotten it into our heads that first drafts are supposed to resemble the finished product and that revisions are only for fixing minor mistakes. Therefore, if our first draft sucks that must mean we suck as writers and having to rewrite things from scratch means that means our first draft is a failure.

I'm here to say that is one of the most detrimental mentalities you can have as a writer.

Ever try drawing a circle? You know how when you try to free-hand draw a perfect circle in one go, it never turns out right? Whereas if you scribble, say, ten circles on top of one another really quickly and then erase the messy lines until it looks like you drew a circle with a singular line, it ends up looking pretty decent?

Yeah. That's what the drafting process is.

Your first draft is supposed to suck. I don't care who you are, but you're never going to write a perfect first draft, especially if you're inexperienced. The purpose of the first draft is to lay down a semi-workable foundation. A really loose, messy sketch if you will. Get it all down on paper, even if it turns out to be the most cliche, cringe-inducing writing you've ever done. You can work out those kinks in the later drafts. The hardest part of the first draft is the most crucial part: getting started. Don't stress yourself out and make it even harder than it already is.

If that means making a promise to yourself that no one other than you will ever read your first draft unless it's over your cold, dead body, so be it.

2) Tell perfectionism to screw off by writing with a pen

I used to exclusively write with pencil until I realized I was spending more time erasing instead of writing.

Writing with a pen keeps me from editing while I right. Like, sometimes I'll have to cross something out or make notes in the margins, but unlike erasing and rewriting, this leaves the page looking like a disaster zone and that's a good thing.

If my writing looks like a complete mess on paper, that helps me move past the perfectionist paralysis and just focus on getting words down on the page. Somehow seeing a page full of chicken scratch makes me less worried about making my writing all perfect and pretty- and that helps me get on with my main goal of fleshing out ideas and getting words on a page.

3) It's okay to leave things blank when you can't think of the right word

My writing, especially my first draft, is often filled with ___ and .... and (insert name here) and red text that reads like stage directions because I can't think of what is supposed to go there or the correct way to write it.

I found it helps to treat my writing like I do multiple choice tests. Can't think of the right answer? Just skip it. Circle it, come back to it later, but don't let one tricky question stall you to the point where you run out of brain power or run out of time to answer the other questions.

If I'm on a role, I'm not gonna waste it by trying to remember that exact word that I need or figure out the right transition into the next scene or paragraph. I'm just going to leave it blank, mark to myself that I'll need to fix the problem later, and move on.

Trust me. This helps me sooooo much with staying on a roll.

4) Write Out of Order

This may not be for everyone, but it works wonders for me.

Sure, the story your writing may need to progress chronologically, but does that mean you need to write it chronologically? No. It just needs to be written.

I generally don't do this as much for editing, but for writing, so long as you're making progress, it doesn't matter if it's in the right order. Can't think of how to structure Chapter 2, but you have a pretty good idea of how your story's going to end? Write the ending then. You'll have to go back and write Chapter 2 eventually, but if you're feeling more motivated to write a completely different part of the book, who's to say you can't do that?

When I'm working on a project, I start off with a single document that I title "Scrap for (Project Title)" and then just write whatever comes to mind, in whatever order. Once I've gotten enough to work with, then I start outlining my plot and predicting how many chapters I'm going to need. Then, I create separate google docs for each individual chapter and work on them in whatever order I feel like, often leaving several partially complete as I jump from one to the other. Then, as each one gets finished, I copy and paste the chapter into the full manuscript document. This means that the official "draft" could have Chapters 1 and 9, but completely be missing Chapters 2-8, and that's fine. It's not like anyone will ever know once I finish it.

Sorry for the absurdly long post. Hopes this helps someone. Maybe I'll share more tricks in the future.

[batbetbitbotbut]

So I am still a very very very new weaver and things don't always turn out how I want. This was my first attempt at "overshot", a weave structure which is meant to have a soft thick weft making fancy patterns over and under a square plain weave background, and it was awful! I got the plain weave maths wrong so it isn't square to begin with, and I got the yarns wrong so despite the coloured cotton being twice as thick as the white cotton it didn't cover it up at all. I hated it!

Tried again with half as many plain weave weft shots, to force the colour to be a little denser even though the plain weave was much further off square, and I still hated it and also it was really hard to keep track of the pattern.

And then something on the loom came loose so I couldn't weave at all and I was so disheartened and also I couldn't figure out what was wrong so I pretended the loom didn't exist for like 2 weeks. It was the brake tension screw and it's fine but for a long time I couldn't even face troubleshooting it. Also I made this warp quite wide which was A Choice(TM) for my first attempt at a new technique and it just made all the fixing harder.

Anyway, problem fixed and I made yet another attempt, this time doubling the weft. And it's working! We're finally getting some solid patterns! It's not perfect but it's workable.

In theory, those ovals were meant to be circles. So after working 1 full motif I started afresh yet again and shortened the pattern a bit. Switched to purple because I was concerned about using up so much pink on these samples.

And!!! It's okay! It's not everything I had hoped for but it's alright to look at and it's alright to weave. So finally, FINALLY I moved on with the rainbow instead of restarting again.

Still experimenting with the pattern a bit, so this particular tea towel won't quite have even stripes, but I like it more and more as I go. It only took like a week of warping and two weeks of suffering and a week of slowly facing the pain and shame. Next project will be anything but overshot, but he only way out is through.

Onwards!

[thereezer]

Playing around with chalk pastels today, did a quick little landscape. Took about an hour then I sprayed it with workable fixative to keep it from smearing.

[ice-creamforbreakfast]

In the meantime, if you can't wait for creators to update, run your eyelashes through CAS Tools and they'll probably (it worked for some but not others in my experience) be workable until the creator can update them themselves. Do this at your own risk though and ideally only if you're fairly confident in making/messing around with CC.

Don't use this to upload updates for a creator without giving them a breathing chance to upload their own content, that's shady shit....unless they're a permapaywaller ofc.

I can't guarantee this will work for you. I had success on some eyelashes with it but not others.

Make backups.

If it doesn't work, wait for the creator to update.

I won't be able to troubleshoot any issues that may arise as I'm on day five of the plague

This was created as a fix for CC eyelashes that were broken with the 8th of August 2024 patch. If you're reading this after some time has passed, it's probably out of date.