#embrace the distance

[1495-gauge]

there's that fucked up three-eyed thing that lives in the woods. whose turn is it to chase it off again??

[crustyfloor]

high-key obsessing and stressing over this little teaser I can't wait to see Till's tattoo-polaroid but I'm scared over what I will see. I might do something drastic

[yeesiine]

Someone can be miles away and still be able to hold your heart

[prismpuffle]

Current concept living rent free in my head is an AU where the Kitakami siblings went to Naranja/Uva Academy instead of Blueberry, and Kieran gets recruited as a Team Star Boss and has the time of his life! He's hesitant and a little intimidated by the idea at first, but in their pitch the other bosses explain how they also feel like socially awkward outcasts and formed this team to stick together. They proceed to give him a tailor-made costume, a Grass Crew base to defend (that he'll add plenty of Ogerpon imagery to ofc), and his own living battle car with built-in boss music to ride on top of while he challenges people, and by the tenth 'Wowzers' they've got him completely hooked.

[yumbles]

a preview of a piece I drew for @kairizine Destiny's Embrace, a flower-themed, Kairi-centric artbook! preorders are open for a little longer, till april 28th.

i wanted to see her visit the Symphony of Sorcery...!

[lollytea]

I thought about Hunter making Willow a pair of garden overalls before and I like to imagine that he takes her old season 1 dress that she's outgrown and repurposes the material into something practical that she'll wear all the time. She might not be the same person she was but that person is still special to her and she carries the memory proudly <333

[mega-adam-blr]

I choose to love you in silence... For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness... For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance... For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind... For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams... For in my dreams, you have no end,

Jalaluddin Rumi

[moonstruck-stormy]

Is Barleycorn ok? The halved is sexy, but I don’t think it’d be a good judgement to work for none of them are. I hope it treats Barleycorn well…

[tetsuskei]

i think i might have to do a character exploration on childe, kaeya, and alhaitham and then touch starved natures bc when is the last time they ever felt a loving embrace from anyone

[feluka]

why did i end up with such selfish classmates

[retrowebz]

unrelated from my usual rants but I didn’t expect Percy in Chalice of the Gods to sucker punch me in the gut and call out the insecurities of growing up and moving into adulthood

[pompompurin1028]

also can we talk about the gentleness in which Nikolai holds Fyodor's hand orz

[hiraeth-22]

[snoligostranssexual]

i make art sometimes and i think its pretty cool. her name is kjitty and shes my girliepop. more kjitty below the cut. ever so mild nudity. shes a girl with top surgery scars and those r shown in the second one (third overall second below the cut)

and heres an alt with the original tail!!! i like both but i like the top one better :3

[sklira]

A Continuous Rail Road | 3cm Tour

[suburbanbonfire]

All of the detail in your latest post is incredible I can't imagine how long you must've spent on all of those finishing touches!! Please tell me how you did the floor details 🙏

MEANT TO ANSWER THIS LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND WHIFFED IT

but now i am here with many screenshots!! probably too many, some are saying!

First, i just counted and the ground alone is 10 layers so

I started with the base grey color, added in the beige stripes, and then put the tile pattern over it. For the tiles, i found a good hexagon png, and then copy+paste+merged down that sucker until i wanted to scream, then used the transform tool to put it into vague perspective

you can also see in the screenshot that the tiles didnt actually run all the way back to the building. this was part because realistically at that distance you wouldn't be able to make out individual small tiles anyways, and part because i couldn't be fucked to copy+paste one more time

to fix that, i put a mask over the tiles and gently airbrushed out the further away bits, as well as randomly selecting areas to buff out for variety. I also added a shadow over the beige stripes going from the background to foreground to make the areas near the building fade out even more

Textures!!! My two big ones are rake brushes, and spatter brushes. First i went in with the rakes (and it looks like my weird screen tone brush in some areas?), using a darker grey-blue on the grey sections, and a darker orange in the beige.

Then we did spatter in reverse! the grey-blue tone was used on the stripes, and the beige was used on the main ground. this helps really break up the large shapes and confuse the eye into seeing a bunch of detail without looking too close.

finally, i went back into the layer with the tile lines, locked that shit, and painted over some of the darker areas with beige and used some haphazard rake brushes for variety in there too.

there's also a cool gradient soft light layer i threw on it at the very end, but that's not part of the detailing, just cool :)

thank you and hope this helps!