#consistency for instance.....

[mumblesplash]

followed you after the grian comic but i’m only now realising you do a lot of things?? you wrote the hope poem and the sl end poem and you did something for hotguy calendar and apparently you also made that crouching sign language post how is it possible for someone to be so good at everything?? /pos

aww haha thank you <333 the sheer variety of things people recognize me from is pretty funny

[attyrocious]

survivor's guilt

[chulippi]

I was gonna do another one of these but like lost steam completely and also didn’t wanna do a background so I’m just gonna dump this here <3

That’s pookie bear 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️🦅🦅‼️‼️🗣️🗣️

[mewnia]

*kicks the door open* Alright you guys I have now played Tales of Berseria AND Final Fantasy 16 and here are my notes—

Spoiler here:

[sysig]

How far did you get? (Patreon)

[ckret2]

Loved the comic above the chapter. It was glorious and this is now my headcanon XD. The art is great too! What's the new programs you got? Had to ask before I dive into this chapter!

-🥸

new program is Affinity Designer, for vector art. My hands are shaky as hell (it's amazing how many weird-ass symptoms ADHD has that you don't hear about until you dig deep) and that makes it a pain in the ass to get my lineart looking as smooth as it does—i'm hoping using vector art for lining will speed up my workflow.

Right now while I'm still getting the hang of it I think it's slowing me down lmao. Got to learn how to deal with entirely new problems from the ones I used to have, like, "why does this damn program keep randomly switching between clicking on the layer I want and clicking on some totally different object group, when i choose a layer in procreate it stays on that damn layer until I tell it otherwise" and "why does drawing a new line sometimes apply the line style I wanted and sometimes apply a line style I used like twenty layers ago for no reason"

But once I've worked out the bugs I'm hopeful it'll speed things up.

Like, this! Look at this. I made a Bill and saved it as an asset. Have a generic Bill.

And now I never need to draw Bill again in my life.* (*this is hyperbole.) I can just slap that asset down, bend some things, rotate some things, and turn it into...

... whatever pose I want.

His body and hat are always the right shape and it's easy to deform them however I want and then instantly un-deform them with one button; his bricks & tie & eye are already applied; his limbs are always the exact same thickness, his feet are always the same shape, it takes one click to put his joints into perfectly smooth swoopy curves at the joints, and even the glow effect is always already applied

and man, I know stuff like an automatic glow is no big deal to people with fancy-pants high-end art software like Adobe Whatever, but I don't have Adobe Whatever, I have Procreate and you have to manually make your glow layers and if you redraw the image you've gotta redo the glow from scratch. Never again!!

You wanna know what I had to actually hand-draw to change the first image into the second image?

That's it.

My two issues are—one—because I'm so new at this, it takes a lot of time twitching around individual nodes and figuring out clever little ways to layer objects to get the right effect that a pro wouldn't have to spend on it, and—two—because vector art is SO precise and smooth, it tends to drain some of the personality and "character" out of the art. Like,

the angry Scalene on the left "looks better" just in terms of having clean consistent lines and pixel-perfect gradients and no sketchy corners—but the one on the right has a better angry face, it's more visually appealing and more intense. There's a lot more rage in those scrawly uneven fists than there is in the smooth flawless fist. I spent a lot of time fussing over her expression on the left and still couldn't get it to look as good as the one I did months earlier with Procreate, because in procreate you can just draw the lines but with vector art you manipulate the curves in strange and esoteric ways.

So I've gotta work to bridge that gap.

and then by god I'll be unstoppable.

[yoccu]

I think the number one thing I feel insecure about in Dyskrasias AMV is how there is literally zero continuity in how I draw the water. The way to prevent this might have been to dedicate a few days purely to study and then nail down a technique, but between the art, the writing alongside it, and delays caused by my disabilities, I didn’t want to hamper my progress any further. This is one of the compromises I’ve made to get this thing out the door just a little sooner... So! here’s a compilation of what my brain thought the right way to draw ripples in water was on any given day 😵‍💫 (first two aren’t done yet but the water is finished)

[gayofthefae]

For anyone wondering about my confidence levels in my ships I've found that the formula is very simple: more one on one time than they have with other characters between two similarly aged characters = romance.

There are a few other factors here and there like that screentime containing an arc not just being stagnant like the Shawn and Gus platonic example I've used before and compatible sexualities (alleged straightness is not incompatibility - I'm talking more like Stobin), but with just those two conditions in mind...I have yet to be wrong.

Go forth with security in your ships.

Byler screen time break down

[the-batacombs]

All that aside, didn't the CW kind of do Absolute Green Arrow thirteen years ago?

[britneyshakespeare]

beatles poll, for research (reductive binary opinions only)

[dailyhtfboards]

The....insanity....

ya know sometimes, times are tough and ya just gotta yell at the floor

(From webseries episode 31 Get Whale Soon)

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

I have now learned Kim lives 15 or so minutes away from Martinaise, and it has for some reason shattered me

I was so confident he lived an hour or 3 away 😣

[mortiflyer]

tennis discourse is soooo weird on both sides from the carlos-jiri match today because the majority of people can't even focus on jiri playing great and winning, which isn't totally surprising or anything considering he's quite under the radar for a top 25 player, but im pointing it out bc people were ignoring the win in favor of dissecting carlos' loss and what it means for his career (???) which is so funny bc like. its february. bro had a worse start last year when he didnt win anything till iw and then he won two slams in a row like...u literally have nothing to worry abt

but within the group of people talking exclusively abt carlos there are like two sub-factions, which are his fans and his...idk...weird straight dudes who appear to only watch tennis to drag down every young player ever lol. anyways the fans are oddly up in arms abt this when he didnt rlly play that badly, he just showed his normal inconsistencies like he does in lich rally every match but ok

and then the chronic ig commenters are like "JANNIK IS THE REAL NO 1" which...do we not know this????? look at the rankings dumbass! idk i don't like watching carlos but there is zero merit to comparing him to jannik, theyre so dissimilar and dont even have relevant career trajectories atm so i dont get this. carlos isnt even world no 2 with 10000 points, so he's not close to usurping the top ranking rn. not understanding this need to underline janniks dominance like this is new information

all this to say sports fandom is fawking insane to be a part of and i hope no player in the top 100 ever checks their phone LMAO

[mousemannation]

made these for some reason 🙂‍↕️

[zeroducks-2]

I love seeing all your headcanons for darker flashfam aus, because I have been thinking for a while that even though DC tries to push for cute/wholesome interpretations of the teams and families, a lot of the time in practice there's actually really dark stuff going on that they refuse to acknowledge, but the problem is fandom also doesn't like to talk about it either...

This is not a problem only with the Flash family, yeah. These folks have very complicated relationship and not all of it is sunshine and rainbows, there's a lot of dark spots and there's a lot of abusive behavior they have towards each other. And they are written like this! Fans aren't the ones who came up with Wally nearly killing Barry because Hunter told him so, or with Aquaman betraying and nearly killing Garth to save Arthur jr, or with Bruce beating up and gaslighting Dick, and I could go on. This is all canon, but then DC flips the switch and acts like these "families" (between quotation marks because in some cases these aren't families at all) are all good and sweet and "unproblematic".

And it's a big problem with the fandom too. You can show people entire pages of Iris verbally abusing and guilt-tripping Barry, or the downright outrageous way Bruce treats Stephanie, or all the shit that went down between Oliver and Roy, and people will still act like these relationship are flawless and there's absolutely nothing wrong with their dynamics.

Some of it boils down to people refusing to acknowledge abuse, and like, this is a problem in real life too so I'm not exactly surprised here. Some of it is people having developed a specific idea about the DC "families" (through fanon or some fluffy stories or their own headcanons), and refusing to acknowledge that reality is different than what they thought. Either way it's extremely frustrating. Relationships between heroes and their clusters are complex, and "everything is ok because they love each other" doesn't cut it because it's not so simple by a long shot (not saying that they DON'T love each other, but love doesn't negate abuse). And if DC wants their families to be unproblematic then they should write them that way!

[silverskye13]

I might be looking to deep into this but is Helsknight praying to Tanguish while Tanguish was bleeding important?- ik it was small but it was pointed out that Tanguish’s knuckle was bloody and Helsknight prays to the Saint of Blood and Steel- Hey Author what does this mean Author what does this mean-

(Brain loosely connected these as I reread the chapter and I immediately came to ask- you don’t have to respond if u don’t wanna :])

Brain loosely connected them correctly! Blood as worship, harm for the purpose of the holy, is a Theme. I want you to make those connections.