#looking good on a budget

[thatcurlychic]

The ultimate guide: How to look good on a budget

How to Look Good on the Cheap Look Good on a Budget Are you looking to look good without breaking the bank? It can be difficult to stay fashionable while still within your budget, but it is possible. Here are some tips on how to look good on a budget that will help you save money while still looking your best.  First of all, shop around and compare prices. As with anything else, researching…

[twistsandturbans]

The ultimate guide: How to look good on a budget

The ultimate guide: How to look good on a budget

How to Look Good on the Cheap Look Good on a Budget Are you looking to look good without breaking the bank? It can be difficult to stay fashionable while still within your budget, but it is possible. Here are some tips on how to look good on a budget that will help you save money while still looking your best.  First of all, shop around and compare prices. As with anything else, researching…

[dunderella]

happy megamind sequel release day!!!!

here's a bunch of stickers i made as crew gifts for the wrap-up party last night 😊

[theclearblue]

Just watched episode 1100 how we all feeling?

[appropriatelystupid]

[queenofinys]

Every Marisa Coulter Outfit in His Dark Materials (2019 - 2022)

[possessable]

for the record i've been talking to my friends about Captain Underpants for 4 days straight but i haven't even drawn him a single time yet somehow

[quietwingsinthesky]

now that my friend pointed it out i cant stop thinking about the design of the tardis in the tv movie because 1) it was gorgeous but 2) that was a home. that was his home. he had a chair to lounge in and a record player. seeing the tardis in the tv show, that one huge console room, bigger on the inside and yeah, it’s impressive but it’s functional. (i’m assuming this is a budget thing, because it would probably be extremely impractical to have the kind of set they put together for the tv movie for every episode of an actual show lmao.)

there’s just something so. i think it’s the first time i’ve really looked at the doctor in the tardis and thought, right, he lives in there. rather than it just being his car. it is very funny to think of the doctor as a guy living out of his shitty van, but no, the tardis can be a home. it can be warm and comfy and full of knick-knacks.

[thebramblewood]

EIGHTIES, Part II Requested by @moonwoodhollow Featuring Grace Anansi

Continuing the goth trend (because I couldn't seem to find inspiration in anything else) by paying homage to the Mistress of the Dark.

[crismakesstuff]

everytime I see someone bitch and moan about “the animation in invincible sucks” “they should treat the animators the same way MAPPA does”

i just ,,,,,

maybe we should sit YOU down in front of the computer and id like to see YOU animate smoothly and cleanly at 12-24 fps since y’all want that so bad !

[pinkeoni]

Your show about 80’s movies isn’t shot on film

[thatcurlychic]

The ultimate guide: How to look good on a budget

The ultimate guide: How to look good on a budget

How to Look Good on the Cheap Look Good on a Budget Are you looking to look good without breaking the bank? It can be difficult to stay fashionable while still within your budget, but it is possible. Here are some tips on how to look good on a budget that will help you save money while still looking your best.  First of all, shop around and compare prices. As with anything else, researching…

[presiding]

genuinely admire those who were optimistic for dishonored 3 but in this videogame industry climate and [insert a 4hr video essay about arkane's recent history here], honestly, not getting dh3 is good news

[carpblu]

So it was more of a homoerotic murder Roadtrip than a gay forest sex party 😄

[homosexualslug]

give it up for natural brunettes!!!

[snek-panini]

Books! The ongoing project I've had half-finished since March continues to thwart me, so I want to show off a project from May that turned out incredibly well. I'm extremely proud of these!

Ta-da! Look at my creations! Are they not beautiful?? This is a set of two related works, From the Deep and Into the Deep. They are by the same author, @worse0mens, and they share a lot of worldbuilding but are not a series and can be read independently. They are siren AUs with very solid characterization, both for everyone's favorite main characters (three guesses who I mean; this is a Good Omens work) and for the secondaries as well (Eve in Into the Deep is a particular favorite for me). The worldbuilding is another star; I would read non-fanwork originals in this universe and that's not something I usually say.

More photos and process talk under the cut! I had to make a lot of adjustments to the design while it was a work in progress, so this post got even longer than usual.

Since these are so closely related even without being a series I really wanted to make them look like a set, and I honestly think I nailed that. I found the pale blue scale-patterned paper on ChibiJay before I even started the typeset and knew it would be perfect if I could match it in black, given that those colors are so heavily associated with our two viewpoint characters. The original plan was to have one in all blue and one in all black, but that blue paper was kind of a nightmare for color-matching. It clashed horribly with the blue book cloth, so I switched that to the black book, and then it also clashed with the black cloth I had chosen. So it got charcoal in the end, and it ended up coming together quite well. The titles are HTV, first time using that on cloth, and that also did not go well. It very much did not want to stick, took more than twice as long as it should have to press, and I still ended up with some wrinkling. Further experiments are needed, I think. It was worth it in the end, though--colors and fonts are perfect, and I like the vertical orientation even more than I thought I would.

Endpapers are solid brown on both books. Another nightmare of color matching. Black is easy! Everything looks good! But that blue was really stubborn about what I could match it to, and this was the only paper that I could find that looked good with both. It's ludicrously thick and was hard to trim even with my plow. Endbands and bookmark are solid black and solid blue respectively, the only easy match in the entire project. Even then, I had originally wanted a gold bookmark on both, to match the gold lines on the covers, but I couldn't find one that was thin enough. Everything in the right colors was wider than the spines. I was very glad to find that blue ribbon, and it was an exact match for some endbands I got ages ago as part of a variety pack. Stroke of luck, there.

Interiors. As I said above, I wanted them to look like a set, so the same fonts, sizing, and text ornaments are used throughout both copies. All the images came from rawpixel, all I did was resize them and I think adjust the color. I was originally planning a much simpler look for these, and the typeset reflects that sort of stripped-down look; there are fewer text ornaments than I normally use, and the title fonts are less curly and ornate than my usual. The plain endpapers were also chosen with that thought in mind, but the covers turned out way more ornate than I thought when I first pictured them in my head. I don't think the insides match the outsides terribly well, but both came out so nicely that I don't mind. I could never regret those covers, they are too gorgeous for that.

Top view on both books. I had some issues with the boards warping on this project, which you can see in the first two pictures. The one on the left is how it looks normally, and you can see that the boards curve away from the text block in the middle, leaving a gap. If you squeeze the book (middle image) this gap goes away. It's present in both books, though more visible on the blue one. I think I made an error with the grain direction, possibly in the endpapers. Or the very heavy endpapers just have more pull to them than the much lighter chiyogami on the outside, and it can't compensate. Hopefully it won't lead to any structural issues further down the line. It's just less than ideal, is all.

I've toyed with the idea of making a slipcase for these. They're already a set, but they could be a BOXED set. Very fancy. I've never done boxes before though, so I'm a bit intimidated. I may revisit them someday to do that.