#coz now i sleep

[maiaczy]

Thank you guys sm for all the sketch requests! I'll try to do them all, so if you've made a request you can look forward to it in the upcoming days!

Starting off with our local dino boy 🦖

[tangledinink]

Can we see what's at the bottom of the lake if there is anything?

swanatello

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[probablyhuntersmom]

"Oh, trying to run? We weren't finished. Remember?"

[necrophiliak]

[cappymightwrite]

“Eurydice of House Atreides,” Feyd-Rautha says, enunciating her name and title slowly, “Bene Gesserit… velliväri .” His head tilts. “For ten years you have plagued my dreams…a parasite in my mind, refusing to yield. You have eaten away at me, night after night. And now here you are.” Eurydice raises one hand to latch onto his wrist, while the other stays at her side. Her knuckle clenches, waiting and biding her time. “Here I am,” she grits.

Admitting it now, I've been totally consumed by @vulpine-spectacle's utterly amazing Dune fic Echoes in our Blood. Featuring an original character so fleshed out and expertly written... I can't get over how well done it all is. So even if you're only vaguely into the Dune-verse, do yourself a favour and start reading this now!

[boysbeloving]

oh no babe is crying....he's crying what do i do

BABE IS CRYING WHAT DO I DO I DON'T WANT MY BOY TO HURT SO MUCH OH NO THIS IS HEARTBREAKING

[here-on-occasion]

If I ever acknowledge just how ooc the mcdonald's stuff was for sylvie I'll probably never get over it so i'm gonna ignore the whole thing

[siwym-archive]

im still mad about this so

:)

[atsu-i]

[hellothere-generalangsty]

It's way past my bedtime ans my cat is sleeping-purring next to me but I thought I'd post the process of the @ailani-reillata Ailaniversary art I made today just to talk a bit more about it

Disclaimer: doing traditional art is cool until you need to scan it or post a picture of it 😂 also kinda long post below so ofc no obligation at all to read it!

Phase one: Sketching the Idea

My inspiration for the posture was a Yara Flor comic strip I found on Pinterest. Yara looks over her shoulder and her hair falls on the side of her face, and I loved the way it framed her face and thought it would look great with Ailani's hair.

I drew a little doodle on the page to help me visualize how the hair would be divided, and focused on 3 main parts (the lines, the bubbles, the empty space) which would - supposedly- help me during the lineart stage. Below are images of the final sketch.

I was hesitant on adding details to her arms, such as the folds of a dress, but I was so anxious about ruining the drawing I abandonzd that idea. I was considering adding her tattoos and was still not decided at this stage of the drawing.

Phase 2: Line-ing the Art

Is that even a real word? Idk, I'm too tired to English properly so we will say it is. Following the sketching phase was naturalle the lineart phase, which is one of my favorite stage when drawing. I bought new inking pens too so I was able to test them out, and it went quite well!

As you can see, the ribbons, outline of the skin and facial features have been done with my new pens, and i was quite happy with the result! It gives a more natural look to the whole drawing in my opinion.

At this stage I decided not to add her arm tattoos and consider this version of Ailani as the one you would find in the early chapters of Begged and Borrowed Time, so before she would get her tattoos.

Phase 2.5: Line-ing the Hair

This stage has it's own part because it was really fun to do! The inspiration for the way I draw hair comes from @/ssavaart (aka Scott Christian Sava on Youtube). I've been following him for a while now and I'm trying to push my art beyond my comfort zone and try new stuff thanks to him, and having fun with drawing hair is one of these things!

Look how beautiful these curls are. I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm really proud of the drawing at this stage 😂 it's the perfect moment where the inking went well and I have not yet ridked myself with the watercolours - so I always take a long sight (and tons of pictures) to celebrate reaching this stage without incidents.

Phase 3: Watercolours

Here comes the difficult part. It always makes me nervous because I always fear ruining my drawing and all the efforts I put into it by doing the watercolours. But I love the medium too much and if I want to get better I need to practice. So, testing the waters, I finally dive head first into this crucial stage.

The watercolouring goes well, I'm overall satisfied enough to take some pictures and even try to scan it, with the hope that the scanned rendering will be better than the usual "photographing and editing" I do with my phone.

Spoiler alert: the scan was NOT better than the pictures, and no amount of editing could change that. (Or maybe I am just very bad at editing.) So, back to my "photographing and editing" habits, I somehow managed to get a good enough result:

I still feel unsatisfied as I find these digital versions do not properly render the visuals I have on paper, IRL. With the digital versionsw the hair is either so dark we don't see the details, or too bright, the colours are too warm and light... And while Ailani looks light-skinned, the paper version has these visible brown tones that I struggled to find on the digital version, even when editing the pictures. The closest I got is the tone you see on the first picture, but the image is not lighted enough so the overall quality of the picture is a bit lessened by that.

Still, I won't complain too much, because overall it was a very fun drawing to do, I enjoyed every stage of it and I would love to do another piece like this! But for now I will go to sleep because it is Way Past My Bedtime 😂

If you've made it this far, thank you for your attention, feel free to let me know which stage is your favorite and what you liked most (or disliked most) about this drawing!

I for one really had fun doing Ailani's lips, as well as filling her hair, and colouring her eyes! 😊

[tangledinink]

BE SO SAD ON MAIN BE SUPER DUPER SAD ON MAIN BC YOU DESERVE TO LET YOUR FEELINGS OUT!

Well if you insist 💖

I wanna go to sleep but I can already tell ima have a spooky dream if I do so I’m just like :((( sad.

[mwagneto]

past few days ive literally suffered more than jesus but at least sted will have gay sex in 12 hours

[code-dy]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if during the time Thorin worked as a blacksmith, he ended up marrying Bilbo for his money but Bilbo ended up agreeing to the marriage because the blue mountains is prime mushroom farming estate and the dwarrow just doesn't see the value to it? Like, they're both golddiggers who thinks the other is their sugardaddy or something and they both feel really guilty for only marrying the other for their material possession.

A slow burn fic where they slowly fall in love with one another but feels supper guilty in doing so.

Bilbo, who probably has gift-giving as his love language, keeps on buying things for Thorin and Thorin being super guilty about taking advantage of Bilbo's generosity and is now panicking that maybe Bilbo will stop supporting him financially when Bilbo finds out that he only married him for his money.

Thorin, who probably has acts-of-service or quality time as his love language, spends more time with Bilbo doing menial tasks and just is always there and Bilbo being super guilty that he's taking advantage of Thorin's "genuine feelings" to get access to those mushrooms that made all the other hobbits green with envy and is now panicking that maybe Thorin might stop his mushroom gathering privilegea once Thorin picks up on the real reason that he said yes to him.

Also dwarrow and hobbit cultural difference and miscommunication on what they value the most (dwarrow thinking that mushrooms as a courting gift is just scandalous, while hobbits thinks that giving money is akin to buying someone's affection or something)

[miyamiwu]

Winning a contest would solve a lot of my problems tbh. Not only do I get money, I'll also finally have something nice to put on my resume

[russeliarat]

Been slaving away at this Powerpoint for the last 2 weeks :'] I don't know where people got the idea that my course is easy because it's really not.

Animal Management is not just a fun little bunk off career path where you get to pat rabbits for 2 years, I have to do reams of Biology tests and homework and so many Powerpoints on animal behaviour and diseases and the exact needs and equipment, even if you're distracted or burnt out or exhausted or if your attention span is about the same as the literal goats you take care of every week. Not to mention constantly straining my back, legs, and frequently cracking joints from all the physical labour I have to do just to keep about 40 animals clean, fed, and hydrated every week.

On the bright side, at least I get to do my own personal moth project in about a week or two, one of my tutors is gonna get some wax moths in for me to help do a breeding project with coz we're all insect nerd (in the best way possible) and the tutors will do anything to get more bugs into the college animal room lol

[bugmin]

i dont think i will ever feel at peace abt my relationship w my dad and that is a kind of grief i dont know how to begin to process. something something in the middle of a sunny street