#ily add layer effect

[frongle444]

my skin is burning up, temptation is too much

all lyrics from irreverant girl by weevildoing ily tptm

[panxramic]

Was just talking about this with a friend but I adore Tallulah’s hat options and how she’s started using them to reflect her emotions/how she’s feeling. I think it’s such good story telling for her because she’s very much an egg that wears her emotions on her sleeve. Before she would just tell people how she’s feeling, communicate it fully with those around her to show that.

This is Minecraft roleplay thus we do not have facial expressions or complete body moments with the egg models so having the hats adds that layer. I’ve always seen Tallulah as the kid who you can read her face like a book. When she’s frustrated and angry she puffs out her cheeks and crosses her arms. When she’s happy she wears a smile so happy and wide and when she’s sad you can physically see it on her face. How her eyebrows down turn and her frown lays there like a permanent mark. Tallulah’s emotions pour out of her like a river into the sea. She feels everything and anything, it’s also how she’s able to somewhat communicate with her dead siblings.

I think the hat thing is good for Tallulah too in general, just so she doesn’t have to talk when she doesn’t feel like it. It helps q!Phil (and others) catch on to how she’s feeling quicker. She uses them for comedic effect as well, which exemplifies how her emotions on her face range so widely. She’ll over dramatize her sadness and anger to get a laugh out of q!Phil, and the hats add that extra layer of drama. It exemplifies who she is as a kid.

I’d also like to talk about Chayanne in this regard because same friend (hi Kash ily Kash) brought up that for him it would be SOO beneficial for him to have som sort of way to display how he is feeling as an aid sort of? With Tallulah I see it more as her physically features changing or her acting a certain way but with Chayanne it’s a physical object he has that tells others how he is feeling. Both of them having a similar gimmick but used/come off in different ways because they’re different kids.

Chayanne is a kid that always has trouble wording things and speaking his mind. He’s quiet and his emotions are locked away. Some things you can notice, like how he moves slower or zones out more when he’s sad. But he never speaks up about it until he can’t hold it in anymore. Not only would it benefit him but it would benefit q!Phil as well.

q!Phil CANNOT tell when Chayanne is sad unless there is a specific or drastic change in his character, and there usually isn’t. It’s easier for him to tell with Tallulah, he’s usually good at understanding when she’s sad or off but that’s also because Tallulah is much more expressive. So when she’s quiet even for 5 minutes, he knows something is off. You can’t follow that logic with Chayanne.

And it’s not that q!Phil doesn’t care, let’s make that clear. In fact, he’s beaten himself up over it, he’s felt horrible in the past for not being able to tell when his son was feeling bad. And it’s exemplified by how for the first time Tallulah hid her feelings from q!Phil too and that’s the only time he couldn’t tell something was wrong.

q!Phil’s emotional intelligence is not high, he struggles a lot with understanding how someone else might feel. He goes off of assumptions (which can be very dangerous) or what he’s told.

So, with Chayanne, having a little symbol or object that shows when he’s sad or angry or scared, it would benefit them both. Chayanne who doesn’t know how to say how he’s feeling and q!Phil who can’t grasp emotions that well unless told directly.

[sodaneko]

soft launch - chapter 8; review :3

YOUR EDITS MAN i am sooooo in love with them, you are so incredibly talented and creative. i love the "thoughts about kissing him" MY HEART, the way she crashes out dksbshjbdhj

yukie is so fucking funny (and by proxy, YOU are), "just us and our attachment issues against the world" - love love love love love (she is such a real one, she knows yn wants osamu BADDDDD, her suggestions are sending me)

makki is the best person. everybody needs a makki in their lives, and you write the dynamics so well. you write them so relatable, too.

"you were glowing tonight, and not just because of some man but because you didn't bother to dim your own light for a while" - tell me why i legit started tearing up. soooo many of us deal with this, and sooo many of us feel unseen and unloved, and this really just kind of hit, because it speaks about an issue we all struggle with and feel ashamed to have. i just. i just kind of needed to cry reading this and i'm glad i get to process this feeling through the love swelling in this fic and through knowing i've gotten to know you. i'm super glad i met you, lale. so very glad, and i hold so much affection for you.

i cant believe you have me snorting next second with "sunarin says osamu keeps it well trimmed", this is playing w my feelings!!!!

i love your tweets so much. you are so incredbily funny man, i cannot. i love love love love !!!!!

the last three slides in which he quadruple billion texted -- my heart fluttered. i am. okay, genuinely, when i read fanfic, i laugh, i may cry, i get angy, but there's not always like proper physical response. lale. oh, lale. oh my sweet beautiful lale. when i tell you that my heart fluttered and i had this wondrous look on my face, my chest all tight at his messages as if they are ACTUALLY directed at me. the thought that while he was wriitng this all out, yn was on the couch, holding it, breathless because she's following each message without blinking once -- oh, gorgeous ethereal lale, i loev you so much. i love you and the effect this fic has on me.

i imagine osamu eating the cheesecake like that one pic of JB from got7

this one ^ this is how i imagine him eating the cheesecake at 4 am, right after the shower.

lale. i am so in love. my heart is so full with affection. i love this fic and i cannot comprehend how lucky i am to still have 10 chapters to go!!!! AND THE FINALE!!!

ily ily ily ily i dont know how to properly express it

12h later and i'm still weeping in my hands reading all of this jelly ;-;

please believe me when i say i'm keeping screenshots of these messages so i can read them over and over again whenever the slightest bit of doubt about my own writing rises up in the back of my mind. it's funny because it makes me reread the chapters as well and reading them through your eyes adds an extra layer of love to them. we're basically making a baklava with so many layers and sweet syrup hehe!

i always say soft launch is about all kinds of love, romantic and platonic, and i'm so glad you see the friendship between all of them for what it is aaahhhh feels like i did something right

about the feeling you described–yeah. yeah. it's so easy to forget just how loved we are, isn't it? hugging you so tightly and i'm sooo lucky to have met you too <3 <3 <3

and man. when osamu lost it and texted these block of messages, that's exactly how i pictured y/n reading them, just one wall away, huddled up on the couch, heart pounding, mouth dry, not blinking once so she doesn't miss a thing. aaaahhhhh. galaxy brain that it made you feel this way. i love you i love you i love you

we don't talk about the photo here! i will go feral but also yes. yes that's exactly how he devoured it. canon soft lauch!osamu fr fr fr only a few future scratch marks missing whoah who said that

i hope you enjoy the rest of your read!! finale is coming soon but i'm sure you'll be around to witness it hehe. thank you soooo much jelly you have no idea how much your words mean to me. i'll reread them over and over again MWAH MWAH

[knockyasocksoff2022]

INTERVIEW: (a little questionnaire I did as part of this project)

How is printmaking similar or different from other kinds of art?

It is similar because it involves drawing. You have to be precise and purposeful when placing prints. It reminded me of when I drew a Picasso drawing upside-down (in a drawing on the right side of the brain class), having to think of just the shapes and about how I'd do each line so it would look good reversed on the paper and then carved away. There was layering and sculpting with the carver like with clay.

Describe the design of your print. How did you combine shape with pattern and texture?

My print is something from my favourite anime. I made the kanji the central feature of the print on purpose. I thought they'd be fun to draw and carve and I thought ink would portray the inked calligraphy style very well. I think it did in the end because no one's handwriting is perfect the imperfections only make it look more realistic.

What was the drawing/carving challenge with your selection? What carving tools did you use to make your print? What types of marks did they help you achieve?

The drawing was a challenge. I knew I had to make it so the kanji would read correctly when reversed, but first, I had to find a way to draw it. I don't speak and can't read any Japanese, so I knew I'd have to trace. I used my fleece jacket over my head and my computer to create a space dark enough in the studio to trace from my computer. (It would have been funnier to turn the lights out on everyone, but I'm too nice for that 👉🏽👈🏽 and there are big windows. Stupid sun! J.K., ILY❤️) I think I must have looked funny.

After tracing the basic shapes, I sketched it out further with a sharp pencil to get the "drawn" effect and make it look more like a swooping brush stroke than a precise pencil tracing. But I had to redo it because I traced the characters in reverse not realising it would be enough to do them normally, then "reverse" them onto my linoleum block. 

So for that, I simply went to the window, turned the paper over and retraced the kanji onto the black side so they were the right orientation for me to trace onto the block. It made my project take a lot more time than I wanted, which put me a bit behind. That is why I decided to add the red detailing by hand.

For me, the carving wasn't about creating a texture so much as a means to an end. I didn't want any strokes to show, just remove the linoleum from certain parts, but the lines around the characters did help define them.

What colours did you choose for your print? Why? What effect do your colour choices have on how someone might interpret your art? 

I chose dark green and black. Originally, I planned to add red to that, but it was taking longer than I wanted, and the lines will be easily enough done by hand after I've met the two-colour minimum requirement. 

I chose these colours to match the design I'm following. To be honest, I hadn't thought at all what other people might think. The colours are kind of dark, maybe people will think it's something deep and meaningful lol. I suppose Ideals are meaningful, but it is an anime prop after all, so, not a statement piece.

Describe the importance of registration in a multi-layered print.

Registration is important if you want your design to come through clearly. It keeps the art looking neat and polished. I think you could certainly use the "messiness" as a sort of texture, maybe to make something look "trippy" but for me, cleanliness was important. (Kunikida is a very neat character.) The placement of the characters did give me some breathing room because it was supposed to look hand-done, but because I had black underneath most of them, I needed to be sure the green covered all of it.

Registration is why I switched to using a smaller brayer (originally I was using a really long one to cover the whole thing easily) and started inking only the kanji so that I wouldn't have to worry as much about registration and covering the black underneath.

What do you like about your print?

I love how it looks like it was actually done with ink and brush. Also, drawing the kanji was a fun challenge. I was so sad when I had to carve them off! (T-T)

How did you improve during the process? What could make your prints better? Are they all identical or not? (i.e. If you could go back in time, what would you do differently?)

I definitely got more efficient as I learnt how much ink to use and how often to clean the block and add fresh ink. Also as I said above I found "short-cut" techniques for registration.

I did accidentally carve a bit into the "frame" and one of the characters, so next time I'd be even more careful about that (mostly, I was busy trying not to IMPALE myself). The character was fixable, but the frame was not. It's small but noticeable. In hindsight, I would definitely start by inking only the kanji, so I could avoid having to cover the black which would also help to disguise any non-sever alignment mishaps (the kind I had).

The prints are not identical, sadly. None of the alignment was too horrid, but one or two are noticeably off with the black under-ink still clearly visible around the edges. I need a better way to line up the paper with the inked block, some sort of wooden jig or frame maybe. If I did this again I would probably build one from plywood.

Describe a moment during the printmaking unit when you felt like everything clicked and this process started to make sense.

It definitely clicked late in the first stage of inking (ahh, why couldn't it have been sooner!?) when I had the idea to stop inking the whole thing and only the kanji. But everything did get clearer after I saw the first finished one with the green. I'm still happy with how they turned out as a collective, even though some are imperfect.

IDEALS Notebook Reductive Linoleum Print (Part 1)

STAGE ONE: I sketched the design into the block, including red binding and the characters for IDEALS (Risō). They're backwards so that when I place the block on the paper they read correctly.