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Please do you have any art tutorials, especially on colouring, or brushes I can buy?
i never think to take screenshots during my process so it would be easier to explain, but i do it like this : i sketch in a colored pencil, change it to black when i consider it done enough to start adding colors, and then i choose the dominant tones of the drawing. if i want the background to be colorful, i choose it now! if you choose all your colors against a white background but change it last second, it will change the balance completely. by choosing dominant tones, i mean picking either one color or two colors that contrast, and fill the whole sketch with these tones. for example, if im drawing a princess on a white background and i want the tones to be warm, i might fill her whole form with the same red. then i start picking her skin tone so that it matches that warm red, and it might end up being a tone that would look much too saturated and red on another drawing. but here, it looks harmonious. and if i started from a green base, i'd end up with a very different color. see here : a blonde lady wearing a blue dress, but starting from red & green
it's the same way when i paint with real paint ; i don't mix from scratch, i often reuse my mixes and change them just barely to get to the color i want. so if i paint orange flowers, i will add blue to that mix until it's green enough, and it's a nicer color that will match my orange flowers nicely, way more than if i started from scratch every single time
it's also largely a matter of practicing and training your eye to palettes you like, as unhelpeful as that is. i'd recommend looking at the palettes of artists and art you like, seeing how it's balanced, maybe color picking it for practice and see how that helps you think in colors
for brushes ; i do have a couple special brushes, i mostly use procreate defaults (6b pencil my most beloved) but i do have some from this pack (i think it's the right one?), i use sketchy sarmento all the time and it's really nice
#anon#answered#im mega tired so i hope it's somewhat coherent#i don't feel too qualified to give advice but i hope this helps! good luck to you :-)
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“A baby.”
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Part 2
Summary: Annabeth maybe doesn’t choose the best day to tell Percy they’re having a baby
If younger Annabeth could be here now, she’d be freaking out and cursing the gods. She wouldn’t know what to make of what 25-year-old Annabeth was facing right now. Her left hand with a shiny new diamond engagement ring and holding a positive pregnancy test. A decade ago, Annabeth never would’ve thought she’d be planning a wedding and starting a family with Percy Jackson.
Sure in her wildest dreams, she thought about it but despite her mentality of being six steps ahead of everyone else she never clocked in on his feelings for her. Too absorbed in hiding, and at times suppressing, her own. At least until they were fifteen. Ever since they were inseparable. Of course, their friends would disagree because Annabeth and Percy had always come as a pair.
The bathroom door was locked and she was meant to be applying her makeup. Percy was probably playing games on his phone in their living room. But Annabeth couldn’t force herself to put the test down. She kept staring at it like the test would say “April Fools, no baby!” but it never changed.
They were meant to be going on a date but Annabeth knew if she stepped out of this bathroom and told Percy, they’d never make it to the restaurant. He’d probably pick her up and spin them around the living room. They’d cry happy tears together.
Damnit, she wanted to go on this date. She was already dressed up and in heels. So, she wrapped the test in some toilet paper and put it in a drawer. Annabeth grabbed her favorite eyeshadow palette and got to work.
Percy knocked softly, “Beth, you almost ready?”
“Mascara and lipstick then I’m done.” She unlocked the door and opened it. “We won’t be late, I swear.”
Percy was wearing a navy button down and a gray tie. He looked good. Almost good enough that Annabeth wanted to say “screw it, let’s just stay home.” It’s not like she could get more pregnant.
Then her stomach growled.
“Someone’s hungry,” Percy said, walking away laughing to himself.
Under her breath, Annabeth murmured, “yeah your kid.”
They made it to their reservation on time.
“Since someone,” he looked pointedly at Annabeth, “hogged our only bathroom, I’m going to use theirs. Order me whatever to drink.”
Their waiter came while Percy was gone.
“Two waters, a coke, and can you make me some sort of fruity mocktail?”
Anytime they went out to dinner, Annabeth usually got some sort of speciality cocktail. She didn’t want Percy to get suspicious though knowing him as she did, he likely wouldn’t notice. On the off chance he did Annabeth didn’t want to risk it.
When Percy returned, their drinks were already there.
“What looks good?” He asked, “besides you of course.”
“You will not get inappropriate with me right now.” She blushed.
“What? Stop being lewd. All I meant was you look beautiful tonight.” He leaned closer, “though you do look good enough to eat…out.”
Annabeth could feel how warm her cheeks were.
Thankfully, they both turned their attention to the food, quietly looking over the menu and ordering. Their food came out quickly.
“I’ve been craving this potato leek soup all week,” Annabeth told their waiter when he asked how things had come out.
Briefly she wondered if it was too early on to be having cravings. Thankfully Percy couldn’t see her hands, she pressed her palm against her still toned stomach.
She was going to tell him when they got home.
Of course, Percy had other plans when they got home. Annabeth immediately found herself pressed against the front door, wrapping her legs around his waist, and Percy kissing her like it was his last breath. He carried them upstairs. Somewhere in the hall she kicked off her red heels and threw his tie to the floor.
Annabeth was in the midst of unbuttoning his shirt when Percy dropped her onto their bed causing several buttons to snap off. She barely heard them fall because Percy was kissing his way down her neck.
“Now can we be lewd?” Annabeth asked.
From between her thighs, his fingers tucked under her panties, Percy grinned.
It was nearing ten pm when Annabeth finally found the right moment. They were sitting on the couch, she had a mug of green tea in her hands.
“Good news and bad news,” she said.
“Bad news first,” Percy answered.
“Well, you know how we were looking to book that Montauk venue for the wedding next August?”
“They filled up!” Percy exclaimed, “the guy I talked to swore they didn’t book up until the end of November. I’ll call tomorrow and…”
“No Percy, they’re not booked up, it’s just we’re going to have to postpone a year.”
“Wait, why?” He asked, “I thought we decided we didn’t want to wait too long.”
He grabbed her left hand and straightened her ring. Honestly, Annabeth wasn’t really used to it yet. It was only a few months old but it didn’t feel odd being engaged to Percy. She had known for years now that someday they’d be right here, together.
“I know but there’s been a change of circumstances,” she replied, “good news is I’m pregnant.”
“Haha,” Percy said, dropping her hands, “very funny Annabeth it’s April first you got me good.”
“No I didn’t.”
“Sorry I figured it out too quickly. Look being with you has made me smarter I think.”
“No? Percy, I’m pregnant.”
He shook his head, “c’mon, give it up.”
Annabeth stood up and ran upstairs to the bathroom. She quickly pulled out the drawer and unwrapped the test. Percy was standing at the bottom of the stairs. So, she held up the test.
“I’m pregnant,” she said, quietly.
Percy froze and just stared up at her. “You’re pregnant.”
She nodded, smiling as she watched his face change. From shock to delight. He tripped up the stairs, Annabeth caught him on the last step.
“A baby?”
Percy pressed her face into his chest and squeezed her. They were rocking back and forth hugging for a long time before he pulled back to kiss her sweetly.
“I love you,” he said, pressing their foreheads together.
“I love you too.” She was tearing up.
“When did you find out?”
“Right before dinner.”
“You had a drink at dinner!”
She shrugged, “Mocktail.”
“A baby,” he kept saying.
Like repeating it would make it feel more real.
In the kitchen, washing their mugs. “A baby.”
Brushing his teeth, through the toothpaste foam, “a baby.”
Curling up beside Annabeth, lightly tickling her neck, “a baby.”
She thought Percy finally fell asleep because he had gone silent. Until she felt his fingers tapping her belly.
“You know, I thought Hera hated us.”
Annabeth chuckled, “I guess she got over it.”
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Katsu's alternative Afterglow Palette
as I mentioned in my last post, I made a lil alternative hair colour palette. Before I got into Afterglow, I really wanted to try out @0201-sims VK actions, as I love the idea of a visual kei inspired hair colour pallete. But I got into afterglow, so forgot about it for a while! Then when I was ill and making a bunch of sims and downloading a bunch of CC recently, I thought that I wished I had a secondary family of naturals to chose from, as when I was using Pooklet's colours I used 2, one being what my DRs were in, and the other being just another option. So I tried out the VK actions, but wasn't 100% happy with how some of them looked on Afterglow textures. Afterglow has a subtle, silky shine (which is what converted me, aha) that can easily become flat looking with certain colour actions applied- so I trialed some other colours I like and this is what I came up with!
The colours and why I chose them:
It's a mix of Cassis' VK actions and @digisims2 Ephemera Inspired Color actions. Cassis' Aliene is a much cooler (as in cooler tone) and slightly more unnatural, alternative looking black than Poppet's, which fits well with the Vkei theme. I knew I wanted cooler, but the green undertones are really striking! Basier is used as the red rather than the brown, its the main one I wanted as it reminded me of when I was a teenager and took a picture of Hizaki to the hairdresser as a reference photo. I suppose you could call it a strawberry-esque colour, its very fun. For blond and brown I picked out a couple of Digi's Ephemera colours that were dissimilar from the colours already included in afterglow naturals, and Digi's always been an inspiration for me in my CC making journey, as well as Ephemera, so it seemed only fitting. The main idea I wanted to get accross with the main 4 colours is hair that has clearly been dyed, but in natural types of colours, maybe for alternative types of sims, aha. For the grey I knew I wanted something richer and warmer, so went with @blackswan-sims Pipe Bomb x Finade mix, which I have had saved by for a while because it intrigued me so much! Finally I'm adding just one unnatural because I missed having a bright pink option, and this was the hardest to pick out. I went through a lot of options before landing on ol' reliable @pooklet, in Pentolite. It's warm but not too red, and doesn't blast out all the subtle detail. So yea, the main purpose of this alternative selection is to suit my game with a lot of late 90s FRUiTS and other Japanese street style inspired fashion ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა
That may be too much information/explaination on my choices there, I'm mainly just excited to show you all these colours!
As much as I just picked these out because I liked and wanted to use them, anyone else is welcome to try this alt palette; but I don't expect others to like or use them, or for them to be a norm amongst afterglow creators. Besides these being maybe a bit of an odd choice- having one family of naturals makes CC creation easier, cuts down on the size of your downloads folder, and keeps your bodyshop neat! Nothing wrong with that, I'm just someone who's a lil over the top with these types of things I suppose, aha.
If you do want to use them, I'm uploading them as a set of actions for PS:
Download my Afterglow Alternative Palette actions
I didn't alter the original creators actions at all, just bundled them together- which means they may not work on all versions of Photoshop. I've included individual swatches in the file with the creators names so they can be found easily!
Intended to be run over Afterglow but would work on any volatile base. Check @the-afterglow-archive for more Afterglow ₊˚⊹♡
I'll be posting anything I make with these colours to this tag!
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My opinions on the Barian Emperors’ designs :3!!!
Nasch — “hehe silly hair, a lot of these big crystals in the same kind of area, the red cape makes him look cooler + brings a colour other than purple that works in abundance, gotta have a cape *^0^*, I love his whole face (look how angry he looks here LMAO), turtle neck :0, plain fr </3 (the trousers, leggings things??), supposed to be an accent colour but it feels too much to be a proper accent, just like his normal shoes :3”
Marin — “she’s so cool <3, the colours go so cool together as well?? - the lighter colours for her body/dress thing contrasting the darker hair??? Just wowie :00, these shoulder plates look cool?? Yippee!!, I love the longer hair they give her, her dress/skirt design is just WOAH!!, the diamond theme again fr (more subtle + nicer than Nasch’s design tbh /nm), HEELS?? /pos)”
Vector — “Gonna be honest I thought more of the frets would be warm tones but turns out they are colder when I colour picked them, I like this multi-coloured skin he has going on, and how the diamonds run along the divide, goddamn I didn’t notice the diamond theme until I did this tbh like Woah :0, not too fond of this yknow? (The yellow thing on his chest) should have added more yellow around (feels like you need to look there instead of where you would usually wanna look (the face)), I love the colour palette for Vector. Like mostly greys/blacks with an accent of the reds in terms of mostly diamonds, I can’t decide whether I like or dislike the wings tbh </3 (I’m leaning more to like), could scratch out someone’s eye with those nails, just as he would want it to be like :3, hehhe Idk I just like his shoes :3, + I love his face ^0^, (btw if Vector has no Fans I’m dead)”
Alito — “sorry I’m not too fond of his design </3, I feel like this would be slightly better (the mask thingy) with that reddish-brown colour but idk??, gotta have the diamonds, this colour (the green one) is a nice contrast to the warmer tones used, this darker colour makes the design better, his shoes are nice though (PROBBALY my favourite thing about his design), maybe using this red more could have been better?? (Just relegated to his hair), these are cool (the arm thingys)”
Girag — “ooooo face shrouded in darkness, silly!! (Horns), silly little Mohawk :3 - random use of that colour though - one off can look good/fit with the design but doesn’t feel like it does here, idk how to feel about this collar </3, his design does not feel derailed enough tbh - especially compared to the better designs imo (Vector + Marin), Woah more diamonds! Who would have guessed!!, how could have I never noticed this before??? (The G on the belt) THIS IS SO STUPIDD /Pos”
Mizar — “The mask is very unique + translates in a fun way to his human design as well, love them being the 2nd tallest fr <3, love it (the face), I’m sorry but his shoulders + his torso?? I just- it basically ruins his design for me /nm (not entirely true but yknow), Just feels REALLY yellow at the torso, good choice to not make his arms too much of one colour (the bandages (same goes with his legs)), I don’t like this belt </3, I love this little additional for the clothes because even though they are aliens it feels weird for them to be completely naked, mandatory crystals fr, don’t know what’s going on here but lacks the nice patterns that Marin had </3”
Dumon — “I’m sorry but I really don’t like Dumon’s design-, hair + face colour mostly blends together like hardly different, these are cute :3 makes me think of a cat, mandatory diamonds fr, the facial markings look cool :3, I’m sorry but this belt is NOT it, shoulder plates look cool, mostly the other barians are wearing SOMETHING but not him”
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Quick ranking:
7. Dumon - sorry but his design just doesn’t look nice to me. I’m not too attached to his character either so that doesn’t help. He does look WILDLY better in his human form though
6. Girag - orginally gonna put Alito in this place but Girag is much more plain imo like go girl give us nothing!!! /nm (they did do him so dirty in both his forms though </3)
5. Alito - sorry Alito but your design is not much better. Like I like your boots and that reddish-brown colour but idk I’m just not too fond of it (prefer his human design). It is growing on me but I still dislike it </3
4/3. Mizar/Nasch - I couldn’t decide who to put above the other so they are tying. I love their faces like they both look AMAZING looking at just that part of their designs but I feel like as you look further down it’s like “uhmmm-“
2. Vector - I love Vector so much so it’s not surprising that I’m gonna also be fond of his design too. Like when I first starting rewatching Zexal I forgot most stuff so when this silly little guy appeared on my screen I started to LOVE him (and now he’s one of my favourite Yugioh characters) and it 100% helps that I love his design fr
1. Marin - MY GOD DID THEY DO HER SO WELL??? Like just look at her design and try TRY to tell me that she doesn’t look wonderful?? YOU CANT!!! Like she looks just so amazing. It just makes me wish that she had more focus because her design is making me see her in a brighter light than what they gave to here tbh. Like the backstory for her + Nasch is MAINLY focused on Nasch I get how he’s important and everything but I would like to see more of her </3 (the episode of her as Rio showing how cool she is beating all those people who just want her to manage their teams cause she’s pretty is just SO COOL!!)
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I do love all these characters though (some more than others LMAO) and not trying to insult the character design at all just wanted to look at these designs and point out what I liked and didn’t <3333
(Also I felt like i had to write out all what I put on the actual images CAUSE MY HANDWRITING IS BASICALLY UNREADABLE TO 90% OF PEOPLE </3)
#yourlocalpurplekinnie#yourlocalpurplekinnie info dumps <3#yugioh#ygo#yugioh zexal#barians#I am NOT a Professional character designer or anything#these are just my personal opinions yknow!!!
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Hello love I was wondering how you set up color palettes and how you apply the colors to carrds and maybe blog aesthetics if you're able to? thank you so much! we appreciate everything you do!
Hi! Applying color palettes to carrds and your blog aesthetics is really all about personal taste and what you think might look good. When it comes to carrds, unless I'm going into it with a specific vision in mind, usually I start by going to a palette website for inspiration, like coolors, which lets you browse trending palettes or allows you to make your own, or colorhunt. (Since I do public carrd templates, sometimes I find a bunch that I like and then do a poll to see which of them people would like most for a new template.)
From there you plug in the colors wherever you want on your carrd and again it's something that comes down to personal judgement and taste, and often a bit of trial and error. Sometimes you might pick a palette and then things don't look exactly like you thought they would when you put them all together on a carrd so you end up having to shift the colors a bit to be more cohesive. (Knowing a bit about color theory and what colors pair well together certainly helps so I highly recommend looking into those concepts if you want to make aesthetics that are pleasing on the eye.)
I'll use one of my recent templates, Dreamer, to show how this worked for me as a palette versus the colors I ended up using. If you look at the codes of the colors on the palette against the color codes in the editing panel of this text box, you'll see that some of the colors are the exact same, but some are a little different. They are similar shades to what was on the original palette, but they were adjusted to better fit aesthetically as otherwise there would have been *too* much contrast between color groups that I wanted to complement each other. Many of the violet shades were shifted in hue to be cooler / bluer in tone (rather than warmer / more red) to better match the base background colors I was building off of, and it was the main text color I used and the warm pink in some places that I wanted to be the contrast against the dark, cool-toned background, the colors that draw the eye; everything else needed to be more of a monochrome to avoid what I call "color overload", where you just have too many colors that stand out on their own and don't blend in some way, and it can be overstimulating and unpleasant to look at.
When it comes to building those monochrome complements to a palette, especially when it comes to background elements, it's best not to shift the hue *too* far, and better to play around with the brightness of the color itself to create that contrast within space; take the color of the dark primary background color and the secondary background color behind the main sections of the Dreamer template for example in that regard, see how they are almost the same color but shifted so that one appears lighter than the other and creates a more subtle (but still noticeable) border effect. It's the same for the light version of the palette, Ghostly. But not all palettes need that much thought put into them, and some carrd designs do not require as much work. Take the Rose template for example; a lot of my carrds follow this simple outline border design, where you only need a border around your containers that contrasts with the background (which is the same color as the container) in order to create that visual separation. That whole template uses a three color palette primarily, so the process definitely can be something simple depending on how much detail you want to put into it and how varied you want the colors to look!
When adding graphics, I tend to use psds and adjustment layers to better match them to the aesthetic of the carrd. And all of this advice applies the same to editing blog aesthetics, except blog aesthetics are perhaps a bit easier since you really only need a two-color palette for the blog itself, and if you use big graphics, the aesthetic becomes more reliant on the graphics as they will draw the eye more than the background and colors. (But I am personally of the belief that graphics are absolutely not necessary to have a great rp experience; I don't believe in that kind of elitism, and when it comes to your blog, your writing should be what shines above all else!) When choosing which graphics to use from an aesthetic standpoint, it's best to use your creativity. Pick a theme and try to visualize what you want your blog / carrd to look like, and then choose images and coloring psds that complement that theme. Especially when it comes to changing your blog aesthetic, to me, it's always easier to do your graphics first (if you are going to use a lot of graphics) and THEN adjust your blog colors, since it will be easier to shift those two colors in the blog settings than to go back and keep editing your graphics over and over again until all the colors look exactly right together.
And I guess the best advice I have to add on top of everything is basically . . . just do whatever you want! It's your blog, your carrd, and it needs to look good to *you* and make *you* happy. No one else's opinions really matters. If you want a big header and pinned post graphics on you blog? Cool! If you don't want to lean heavy into the graphics and just keep things more simple? That's also perfectly fine! And don't let anyone tell you otherwise! Editing can be hard; it's something you have to learn over time, and not everyone has the resources or software or years of practice to really bring whatever they envision to life, so it really can come down to an accessibility issue. If the idea that you have to make fancy graphics is stressing you out or you're feeling pressured to do it, then don't worry about it. I promise you that your experience will be better when you stop worrying about it; you will attract the right partners for you just as you are, doing your own style of things.
That is also something I need to mention: accessibility. While like I said, at the end of the day, the only person whose opinion matters on your blog aesthetic is yourself, it is also a very kind (and helpful) thing to do as an rp partner or just a tumblr blogger in general to try to make your blog / carrd / googledocs / whatever you want to use accessible for others. This includes choosing a text and background color combination that has enough contrast for low-vision users to see, as well as not making your fonts *too small* (or even too big) or using fonts that are hard to read in general (like many cursive / script fonts). Also, color text in the tumblr editor can be fun (I use some color text for accents on my own rp blogs) but it's best not to overuse color text, and also many of tumblr's default colors to select from are indeed eye-straining, especially when put together, so I recommend using this editor to add color to your text; it's more customizable and you can pick pretty much any color you want, and it's easier to make things more of an accent to your blog colors if you wish to use colored text at all.
There is no universal accessibility answer to give here tbh, because everyone has different needs when it comes to impairments. For example, I have major low vision issues, and I find it easier on my eyes to read light text on a darker background, but I have seen other people with similar conditions say that the opposite is true for them.. So really the best thing to do is balance that accessibility and your own taste as well as you can, and above all, be mindful in everything! Don't over think it; it's as easy as stopping every once in a while and asking yourself, "Is this legible? Are these colors eye straining? Is the text big enough for most people to read, or does it contrast enough with the color of the background?" And if the answer is yes to any of those questions, it shouldn't take more than a small adjustment across the board to fix that. I promise your rp partners will be grateful for it, and being more accessibility friendly will help attract more partners that might have otherwise stayed away because they have these needs.
I'm not sure what else there is to add to this, but I am always open to giving more advice about color palettes, editing, etc.! My inbox is open and I am happy to help however I can 🩷
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(Jacobsbadwig) I’m so disappointed because the packaging is so cute but the color story is just…not hitting it. Also people in the comments of the instagram post are arguing about if it needed red which is does because of the blood typing scene which people are forgetting and the whole James bite like duh. But also the company teased the shadow look with someone in red contacts so…it definitely gave an expectation of more and it wasn’t clear if it was the entire saga or just the first movie especially leaning on the Team Jacob and Team Edward thing
yeah color story is not it for me. tbh i'm really liking some of the matte shades, but i totally agree with you (and IG comments) that there are some shades missing. red for sure - i saw that same post with the red eyes and was so excited there would be this deep carmine color. i also would've loved a warm brown/orangey shade reminiscent of Arizona. or like a gold for Edward's eyes?? (the gold in the story looks too washed out imo). or jewel-tone purple from the flowers in the meadow??? & there are so many colors & different directions you could go... why stick to all greens and blues and greys?
and idc how reputable the brand is, i will always side-eye a promo vid that just shows the swatches but doesn't give us an action shot of swatching. like, we have no idea how many layers it took for these promo swatches to look the way they are. sucks bc the palette was what i was most excited about, but idk. maybe i'll wait for some reviews. wyt?
#hard agree packaging is super cute. i feel that way about all the products they've hyped :)#but ofc we don't buy makeup for the packaging!!!!
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hi fern my friend fern:] improtant question for you. What is your minecraft wood type tierlist ranking 🎤
- @jupesoupiter
OOO good question!!! also hi jupiter :D
so spruce is like. one of my favorite blocks in the whole game so it's going number one. note that i love every wood type i think theyre all great and have their own uses so NONE of them are hated here.
spruce - so so so versatile i love the colors and the doors/trapdoors. best wood shes perfect.
oak - great all around wood type. good doors and trapdoors. classic.
cherry - its pretty and its pink!!! pretty trapdoors and doors, though ill be honest it's hard to pair it with a lot of blocks. needs a specific palette.
mangrove - beautiful red i love how warm it is. way easier to pair with other blocks in palettes i enjoy, but its lower than cherry because i hate mining it.
jungle - i've really grown to love jungle wood over the years!! i used to HATE it but now its such a nice block that pairs well with bricks, terracotta, cherry wood, and moss! lovely wood <3
warped - REALLY pretty blue. i wish i could use it more often because it's such a nice color. works best with copper and dark prismarine as a roof wood tbh.
crimson - same as the warped wood but with nether brick. i love using this as a wizard tower palette or just tower addition to a house palette.
dark oak - i like how deep it is, but it's too dark for me for any huge parts of a build, and i don't like how dark the signs are. the trapdoors and doors look like chocolate bars, which is cute? but i'd prefer spruce. the stripped wood is way too close to spruce stripped wood too. but it works well as lining a roof and as interior walls or floors in foresty builds!
birch - i do like birch. but it needs to be in a very specific palette. paired with bone blocks, bright pops of color, and maybe using oak as a darker gradient block? it works great. but in large chunks? i don't know. it can work. but i'd rather use other woods.
acacia - GREAT accent wood. not so great house wood. the actual logs being gray are bad paired with the orange interior but on their own work nice as rock texturing or as petrified trees! they work great with andesite/cobble walls! but yeah as a stand alone wood? no.
bamboo - i love the green of the bamboo logs. not a huge fan of the yellow tint of the bamboo wood. i wish there was a way to make the trapdoors and wood and doors themselves green. i dunno. the yellow is just... i think TOO cool toned and bright for me. i'd rather use birch i think. but the green of the logs is SO pretty and bright i love using it with moss and green terracotta!!
i THINK that's every wood type so there's my ranking and my reasons for their placements!!
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I've been really self conscious about my coloring abilities in digital art, can you maybe give some tips on that because your art looks amazing
of course!
some general tips i can give you with no specific order of method is: *filters, *what are complementary colors, *color picking, *hue direction on lighting and *layer blending modes to summarize what i’m covering here.
tip #1- feel free to mess around with filters. if you have a program with filters like brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, yada yada, value those tools to help you adapt better to understanding flattering coloring. sometimes you may color a piece and it feels super saturated or bright, use the filter tools to adjust it in a way that is less straining for you to look at but also still makes sense.
tip #2- practice identifying complementary colors. what colors work with red? blue, green, etc. what level of contrast/brightness should it be to help the red pop out more? these foundations will help you decide necessary colors for your palette, but try to keep it simple. and dw multiple colors of the same hue (section of the color wheel, like blue) count to, but try to keep it simple.
tip #2.5- you can also just copy off an official color palette if you ever need to, it’s also just helpful for accuracy.
tip #3 for shading, the hue of the lighting will tend to vary both based on position and environment. i wouldn’t worry too much about it but some general tips are, lighting will get gradually cooler the further it is to the darkest area of the shadow.
another general trick is if you don’t know what color to use for the shadow, warm tones like crimson or maybe the color of the skin are good for general lighting like day time or such. cooler tones like sky blue are good for stuff like closer to night time or a cool-lit room, etc. but again it also really depends on what looks good and benefits you.
oh yeah, for shading layers, i tend to switch between multiply and linear burn on blend layers. it just depends how intense i want the shading to be without having to directly go to the filter tool. multiply does general shadow building but linear burn helps emphasize shadows in darker colored areas, like a dark navy blue. again it depends on whatever i need. i also tend to use the add or glow dodge or linear light whatever is the brightness and most saturated blend mode on your program for highlighting certain areas. i typically use warmer colors for this unless it’s nighttime to which i’d use like a cyan.
these are really the main basics i’ve had in my coloring routine for a years that always helped me.
i hope these aren’t to confusing or broad, i would have drawn more examples but i’m kinda tired rn ^^. if you’d also like some recommendations i suggest looking into sinix design and his quick tutorial videos. marco bucci is also really good at coloring but there are really a lot of videos so i’d recommend colour harmony - 10 minutes to better painting. you don’t really need to start digitally painting but it’s just good fundamentals to learn about as it impacts cell shading as well.
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Q2 Empties & Declutters
same shit now it's july
iUNIK Propolis Vitamin Eye Cream - A fine eye cream. Do I need eye cream? It certainly helps with moisture before putting concealer on but any other benefits I did not really notice. Maybe I should stop buying eye cream and take my night cream up under the eyes.
e.l.f. Cosmetics Blemish Breakthrough Acne Fighting Spot Gel - You'd think with a rollerball you would just roll it on your face easy peezy lemon squeezy but this thing is prone to just. stopping. or maybe my face is that uneven I'm not sure. Kinda hurts too. Also maybe unhygienic so I rolled it on my fingers and rubbed it in that way. It did help calm my acne down, not sure about its ability to get rid of it since there are a lot of factors at play with my skin. I am so bad at reviewing stuff
Rohto Mentholatum Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Acid Lotion (Light) - To be real, I don't know how I feel about this. I use it as a second (technically) toner/essence. It's simple and a watery texture. Sometimes you don't need fancy skincare. Maybe the other version would feel more hydrating/richer.
COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner - Light and gentle for what's technically an exfoliator. Comes in a spray bottle which I guess makes sense since it's a thinner and watery formula than other liquid exfoliators and toners from COSRX. I like pretty much everything from this brand so no surprises here. The problem with spray bottles though is at some point it just doesn't want to spray. I opened it up to just get some on my hands and it all spilled out. Was it doing wonders for my skin? Not really, but that was a lot of product literally down the drain.
PURITO Deep Sea Water Cream - The blue of the packaging flakes off if you put too much pressure on it like for example if you're trying to squeeze every last bit out. Should I have gotten the scissors out? Maybe, but the moment I bring out the scissors is the moment I lose. The moisturizer itself irritated my skin for the first like week before calming down? It felt nice and hydrating but I don't know about using it again.
Maybelline Volum' Express the Colossal Cat Eye Washable Mascara (Glam Black) - Dried up and I didn't bother trying to resuscitate. Never liked it that much tbh she will not be missed. Wasn't bad but wasn't anything spectacular.
Milk Makeup Blur Stick - Hey, I reached my goal before it finally expired. Smells absolutely rancid now so fly high soldier or whatever. Is it even possible to finish it all before the expiration date??
ETUDE Look At My Eyes (BR407, PK007, BR415, BR416, and BE104) - Why the fuck did I buy so many shimmers. I think it was because they were essentially $2 a shadow and I just got excited. The formula is nice but I don't use shimmers and as much as I would like to become one of the one and done shadow girlies I'm just not. Anti clean makeup. Dirty bitch makeup. It's like when I tried to convince myself I was bisexual for all of high school. If I want eyeshadow I am breaking out a palette and doing a look. I cannot date a woman. I don't even wear neutrals that often and I certainly don't wear warm orange toned browns. What am I doing.
O.TWO.O Eyeshadow (NO.01-8) - The less intense version of an ETUDE shadow and I just don't need that in my life right now I have enough trauma as is
BH Cosmetics Mrs. Bella Lip Gleam (No Sidechick) - How did I not realize I have this color in a lipstick already. Milk Makeup Lip Color C.R.E.A.M. Nearly exactly the same on me but one is a gloss and the other isn't. I have a clear gloss. I can replicate it. And then there was one (BH Cosmetics Mrs. Bella Lip Gleam Notice Me).
AOA Studio Everglow Highlighter (Twilight) - My mom wanted a highlighter and I was like yeah sure I think you'll like this one it's more neutral and she did so
ETUDE Soft Drink Lip Tint (1 Zero Red) - The stain it leaves is a little orange and I already have an orangey tint I can mix with. Be thrifty and resourceful like that
e.l.f. Cosmetics Glossy Lip Stain (Fiery Red) - Decided to wear this on a day with a dark purple red eye as a base tint for a brown red lip and this wasn't fucking around. It is obnoxiously bright and saturated red and clashed horribly
Milk Makeup Flex Foundation Stick (Golden Nude) - She finally expired on me,,,, first the blur stick now the foundation stick. I should check my lipsticks next. Also for some reason it turned more yellow? Godspeed my beloved I will not purchase you again because it's like $36 and also I don't be reaching for foundation sticks outside of one season a year. Bad investment but I will cherish our times together when I actually got some sun
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it’s me again :D
man i love the angst too!! and i could theoretically just draw them for you. but 1. i’m too lazy rn and 2. id have to go off anon and i love the mysteriousness hehe i feel like a secret agent whenever i’m on anon
SO :D first of all, they’re both afab and 15 years old
imma start with floryn!! she’s 1.58m tall, her skin tone is a darker sienna (a medium brown, idk how to describe it) she has an hourglass body type but is kinda chubby, her hair is dark brown and curly (hair type 2C if we wanna get rlly specific) and around shoulder-length. she usually wears it half down and the other half in a messy kinda bun. her eyes are pretty round (my art style is more on the cartoony side, not sure how it would look irl) and also brown. her eyebrows are pretty thick and dark as well. she doesn’t use a lotta makeup but sometimes draws a heart or star on her cheek with colorful eyeliner :D she usually wears dresses or skirts with cardigans or tank tops depending on the weather. and she prefers shoulder-less sleeves that are either a bit puffy or loose. if that makes sense?? the skirts are mostly around knee length and she always wears sneakers that are mostly white with different pastel colored accents. her clothes are always very colorful and she has dresses in genuinely every color of the rainbow, some pastel ones, some brighter ones, just no dark colors. she loves wearing all of them, although her fav color is orange <3
imma just hope i didn’t forget anything and move on to rory :D her skin tone is ivory and her face always has a visible light blush. and whenever she actually gets embarrassed or something her whole face goes red and it’s very cute tbh. her body shape is either the rectangle or inverted triangle one, i’m not 100% sure yet & she’s pretty muscular. in my style her eyes are more rectangular?? kinda like this shape ♦️but horizontal if you know what i mean? they’re blue & her eye brows are more round. her hair is wavy (hair type 2A maybe), around armpit length and a warm blond (pantone 4655 but a bit warmer, i’ve been searching for the perfect color for like five minutes and i give up) and at some point later in the story, once she gets more confident, she dyes her hair tips a light blue color!! her go-to hairstyle is usually a high ponytail. she usually wears jeans or corduroy pants and on warmer days she often wears bermuda shorts. she mostly wears crop tops but also tank tops and sleeveless shirts. when it’s colder she wears button-up shirts with long sleeves. she doesn’t HATE skirts but you’ll very rarely see her wearing one, usually it’s jean shorts and crop top :] her color palette isn’t that colorful, usually blue with accents of brown, grey, white and/or black but she has a few tops in other colors too. she definitely wears dark blue converse and those tennis socks with two colored stripes at the top
i have no idea if that was detailed enough, if you’d like to know anything else feel free to ask :D also if you have any questions abt their story or them as characters apart from their physical appearance, i just love rambling about them <3
i haven’t described their personalities in detail yet i think so maybe i’ll do that in another ask but my phone battery is running out aksbkajdkja
and i love florora tbh that sounds so magical <3
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!!! they sound absolutely adorable!!! idk why but i was imagining rory to be like a redhead with a boyish cut and straight hair?? like that one girl from that "arcane legends" show or whatevr. but her with long blond hair also soumds adorable!! esp with round eyebrows as i'm imagining
ohh and their clothing styles <3<3<3 ehegehgtjehr rory does seem like the kid to wear sleeveless shirts and button ups snsbksebkshs. and flora!! she gives me very soft warm color vibes so i can see it!!!
and ohh w the little heart on the cheek <3 i think rory would absolutely stare at that
also flo's 5'2 :D??? awee little friend :33333
#asks#ask box story#char sent me some calming music so now i'm sleepy again so this answer isn't as long as i expected </3#✨️ anon
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Other pieces in this series:
Steampunk AU Kitsune Tomura AU Vigilante Tenko AU Merman Tomura AU Reanimate AU (Villains) Violinist Tomura AU Moth Tomura AU Demon AU Reanimate AU (civilians)
EDIT: tried to adjust the colors and I think its a bit better now; it has a better atmosphere, closer to what I was aiming for. I think this one is so difficult due to how ultimately simple it is, not enough detail for my taste lmao
Fourth part of the series; this time based on Crossroads. originally I meant to make the Violinist one, but after receiving that lovely art gift for this fic AU, I decided to do it instead.
....Unfortunately this didn’t come out as well as the previous three in my eyes. Something about the palette just didn’t quite work for me, but I ran out of patience heh. I might do another version for this if I feel like it.
Anyway, this is based on their first interactions in the fic, in Sako’s bar, where Tomura gets curious about a pro hero’s sidekick lurking around such a place, and Dabi lowkey flirts with him eventually.
#Lumi's art scribbles#my fic au#crossroads tomura#shigadabi#dabishiga#dabi x shigaraki#dabi x tomura#bnha tomura#shigaraki tomura#I dunno what it is#maybe the palette I used was too red and warm toned#I prefer having more color contrast#red is also such a difficult color for me to shade#meh
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Hey there! If you're still doing critiques, would you mind taking a crack at my pre-Beacon summertime Yang and Ruby? I've tried to incorporate some of the advice I've seen you give others before, which was really helpful when it came to Yang specifically. But yeah, I'd love to have your opinions, so I can take it to heart for when I eventually move on to the part of the story where I handle their Beacon looks. Thanks a bunch!
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/those-rwby-fics/690057218773614592?source=share
(obvi you have my permission to repost in your critique, if that needs to be said.) ^.^
I actually saw this on my dash before it was sent in, and I really like the style you went for the two girls! Since their only meant to be casual summer clothes, rather than specifically Huntress outfits, I’ll be keeping that in mind and critiquing more for looks rather than function in a fight.
Starting with Yang first since my girl could always use cuter outfits, I actually really like how this looks overall.
With the positive, I’m glad that she’s moved from brown, orange, red, yellow, rainbow, ultraviolet, that light only mantis shrimp can see in the show to just black, white, yellow and purple. Slimming down her colour palette to just those four colours really does wonders for her in terms of looks and getting across her designated colour; yellow.
The black sleeveless jacket looks great, and the quilted texture on the sides just adds to the look. The inner lining being red not only gives her Ruby’s colour and alludes to her eye colour when using her Semblance, but also pops against the dark neutral shade. It works pretty much like the red lining in Weiss’ colour, a good choice for some characters.
Really, the way the colours are used is good, barring some parts. The black when coupled with the yellow not only contrasts great, but also gives off a more dangerous vibe. It’s very harsh between two colours, compared to the more subdued and warm browns and oranges that Yang uses in canon. Also, the yellow stripes on her boots look like lightning patterns and it reminds me of Kaminari from BNHA.
The purple socks also work really well compared to just orange. I’m not too sure about one being red, I understand it’s for Yang’s asymmetry vibe, but you could also get that across just with obvious different lengths. The red sock looks a bit too out of place when combined with a light lavender purple.
Similarly, the purple shorts don’t look bad, I can see how they work in line with the rest of Yang’s outfit, but it’s a bit too much. The purple works great as an accent colour, similar to Weiss’ red. With a reasonable size that the shorts take up, it’d look a bit less much if it was more a neutral colour. Plus, you don’t wanna use too much of the colours outside of black, white and yellow, or you could start making the design look a bit jumbled.
The yellow itself is used pretty well. You avoided using too much like some designs that slap Yang in bright yellow pants, and it looks really nice when combined with the other of Yang’s colours.
Either way, the actual outfit is great, and you did well with the colouring. Just toning back the purple and maybe bringing some yellow there to help it not disappear too much would help!
Ruby is really a character that you can’t go wrong with in designing, and you really did do great by her.
It’s a simple design compared to the more lolita style that she wears in Beacon, but there’s still some aspects of it on her casual outfit here. I love the black lace frills on her shorts, and added belts at least help to secure her boots and such on her without being too cluttering. I also love that some of her design mirrors Yang, with the short sleeves and shorts under her skirt, it’s nice seeing how Yang has influenced her little sister.
The use of red with the cape is good. The red on her boots with the frills, laces and soles help to keep the red on her bottom half without getting lost in the giant cape she wears. Similar with her corset, the red laces and belt add some of the colour to the midsection, all without doing too much that it could again get lost in the cape.
I do wish she had some red on her arms, similar to Beacon, but the short sleeves and gloves are really cute. Maybe changing the black cuffs of her shirt to red, similar to Yang’s, could help with distributing some of her colour onto her arms.
While I do love the detail on the shorts, it is also kinda hard to see them with the black shorts and the black skirt. A red underskirt like Ruby wore before would help separate the two and let us see the detail you put in, while also helping her colour travel more. It’s good to think about colour placement with the cape, but you gotta be careful that Ruby doesn’t look too colourless when her cape comes off.
Overall, still a great look at what Lil Red wears outside her Huntress clothes.
As a side note, for both of them, I love that they wear a Yin/Yang necklace set. Not only does it tie the two together thematically, but the gold lining on Ruby’s is a good way of introducing Yang’s colour to her. Love it.
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I am almost 100% sure this has been asked before but I think the tumblr search engine just hates me, but what is Vesperion's physical description? (hair, eye colour etc all I can remember is that he apparently has a great ass lol) you know for...science.
Yeah, Tumblr’s search is… not great, lol. This is the first public description of Vesperion I posted:
The new RO is Vesperion Verathae – the nephew of Queen Alapharen, your siblings’ mother. You meet him about mid-way into chapter two, at the end of your sister Ilythis’s party, when he goes out of his way to try to humiliate you in front of everyone. He’s a petty rival who can grow into a proper – and formidable – enemy as the two of you grow older. He seeks to undermine you whenever the opportunity presents itself because he’s been told stories of how your mother murdered his aunt since he was a small child. He hates the Maeliahs and you in particular.
You are, of course, able to become friends with him as you grow up and then later on become lovers, or go straight from enemies to lovers. Or you can just stay enemies.
Vesperion himself has mastered the disinterested aristocrat persona – he’s all one eyebrow raised, mocking smirks, and wry comments – and some may call him cold, but there are things he’s very passionate about. Being close in age and cousins, he and Terrisen often train together, and Vesperion loves fighting. He enjoys outmaneuvering opponents, using their strengths against them, and can be quite cocky when he wins. He has a fairly barbed wit and is able to see through someone quickly and effectively to deliver the most devastating remark possible, and his smart mouth often gets him into trouble. Where Nethica is charming, he is unsettling.
He’s very close friends with Terrisen as a child. As he gets older, he occasionally spends an evening out with Nethica and his friends, despite him and Nethica often butting heads. Unlike Nethica, however, Vesperion isn’t much of a philanderer – he doesn’t do half-measures and prefers an “all-or-nothing” approach.
As for his physical appearance, he has copper hair, amber eyes, fair skin, and a tall, athletic build. His features are angular, like most Verathaes, and his eyes are upturned like a cat’s.
All of the above still applies for the most part, and his appearance is unchanged! Here is the current official description for him:
He’s tall and has an athletic build with fair skin, bronze hair, and amber eyes.
Copper and bronze both work to describe his hair color, and russet could work too. It’s a very warm but desaturated mid-tone color. Maybe something like this? But y’all are free to interpret the color how you please, from a warm brown to a burnt orange color.
His hair is kept relatively short and has some curl to it, the kind that would straighten into waves were his hair longer. My friend Liv made a moodboard for him once and used this picture, and it comes to mind a lot when I picture Vesperion. I also drew Vesperion myself once, but I don’t like how it turned out and it isn’t really how I picture him, so I’m not going to link it, lol. It’s not like when I drew Nethica, which is pretty much exactly how I picture him, lol.
As for his eyes, I’d say they’re a sort of orange-yellow color. Not gold, but not brown either. Very much like a fox’s. His skin tone is, as I said, fair and has a warm undertone.
His entire color palette really is just shades of gold, copper, and bronze. His house colors of red and gold really suit him.
#seven heirs#vesperion verathae#i used to draw the romance options regularly#but that was forever ago and my style has changed a lot#might get back into it again#also i am still proud of how nethica came out even if there are a lot of things i wish i had done differently/want to fix#my favorite character portrait i did/most accurate is probably kosphoren's#but as ever y’all are free to ignore me and imagine the characters however you like#if you want to give vesperion long hair or something go for it#romance options#asks#anonymous
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notes: Artist Keigo is something I did not know I needed until I made my own dumb paintings lol. Title credit from Crimewave by Crystal Castles
characters: Hawks/Keigo Takami
warnings: 18+, artist!Hawks, drug use, minor choking
summary:
You see swirls of purples and greens forming spirals that you’ve never thought of before, dancing like glitter being blown in the wind and then suddenly you see white. You’re thinking in tones of purples and pinks, they pulse and shine against a wall of white and now you’re thinking of Valentine’s day.
The blanket is pulled from over your head and you look up into golden honey eyes, they look even brighter and you swear that they glow as you look up into them. “You having fun under there babe?”
I’m not an artist, I don’t know how to paint. You told him, intimidated initially when you walked into his apartment and saw a box of paints along with two small easels. The only painting you’ve done was just with your fingers back in elementary school when you were a child, how were you supposed to paint alongside someone who’s a fucking art major who’s got a whole portfolio to backup his experience? But Keigo eased your worries, told you that there’s no need to be intimidated at all.
“You don’t have to worry at all about being good or anything like that dove. The trip will tell you what to paint.”
“It’s gonna look like shit when the trip is over Keigo.”
“Don’t say that dove, art is subjective. Trust me, when you’re on you won’t care as much.” He touches the small of your back and leads you towards the dinner table, “And besides, you might really like what you make in the end.”
“I don’t know what I want to paint.”
“The trip will tell you what to paint, you’ll see.”
Keigo has you sit down to eat first, just takeout pizza from a nearby restaurant along with some breadsticks. Barbecue chicken with a side of ranch, he doesn’t like pepperoni pizza at all. His first choice was fried chicken or wings but that’s damn near what you eat with him almost all the time so this is his compromise. He’s got a little basket of snacks and candy on his kitchen countertop, prepared ahead of time for tonight along with a plastic container of red and green grapes already washed.
“I don’t like grapes Keigo.”
“Trust me, you’ll be grateful to those grapes when you’re on dove.”
He brought out a plastic baggie from his fridge and set out the contents of it onto a wooden chopping board, watching as he broke up the small pieces carefully with a knife. You heard that acid comes in forms of little blotter paper or that people put a drop of it into sugar cubes and dissolve it in water to micro dose someone. Keigo cuts two pieces of what look like little window panes, very small fragments and when you inspect them closer, it almost looks as if there’s little gold flakes inside the gelatin.
“When will I know it’s kicking in?” you ask him, looking down at the tiny piece that sits in the palm of your hand. Such a small little thing that’s apparently a strong hallucinogenic, Keigo’s told you before that he’s felt his sensations cross over like hearing colors or seeing sounds. You had no idea what he spoke of but the best way to find out is to give it a try. “How long will it take?”
Keigo’s fixing up the easels in front of the couch, has blankets ready and is putting a video playlist up on his television. “Depends on the person but most of the time it tends to kick in after half an hour or so. You’ll know when you’re on, you’ll see it.” he explains.
You look around Keigo’s apartment, paintings he made himself hung up on the walls of his home. Most of his paintings were done sober but he’s got a few framed up that he’s particularly proud of that he made when he went on acid trips. He’s already such an amazing artist, certain pictures on his walls capturing your attention and invoking particular emotions from you. You’ve seen Keigo color match your sweater in just a mere manner of seconds, sampling little bits of paints and combining them until the hues matched exactly what you were wearing. And there’s you, just a mere amateur when it came to the arts. But Keigo assures you again that it’s not about making something ‘good’, it’s just there for you to have fun with it. He’s got canvases of all shapes and sizes for you to work with and that even though he’ll be on too, he’s definitely going to take care of you for your first trip.
You trust Keigo, it’s just the canvases and the paints that make you nervous.
He stands in front of you, smiling gently before leaning down to kiss you. His lips are soft, just a hint of vanilla you taste off his mouth because you let him borrow your chapstick earlier, and it’s so tender the way he holds your cheek in his hand that your heart flutters in your chest and butterflies tickle the inside of your tummy. You feel a little flustered when he pulls back, blonde hair swept back stylishly and a lazy grin on his face as he holds his own tab in between his fingertips.
“Cheers!”
The little tab goes underneath your tongue and you’re just supposed to wait for it to dissolve.
So Keigo puts on the playlist and the two of you talk for a little bit before moving to the art stations. “Choose whatever colors you want dove, choose the colors that you think will speak to you.”
You squeeze certain colors you think you want to work with into your little plastic palette, making sure to shake the bottles first and filling all the little spaces that’s meant to hold the paint. Keigo easily chooses the paints he knows he’s going to work with to start himself off and sets himself in front of his easel. He wears a simple red hoodie and gray sweats, comfortable loungewear for the next few hours and you’d be lying if you said that you didn’t notice the print of his cock sometimes when he swiveled his hips a certain way. You wear pajamas pants and one of your soft sweaters, a gentle shade of lilac, perfect for keeping you warm on this rainy night.
You know you’ll be exhausted by the end of it, deciding to take acid for the first time overnight but at least you’ll have the next two days to recover.
And you’ll have Keigo as well.
He makes easy conversation with you, talking about how his week was and in turn asking how yours was. You look down at the paints in your palette as you talk back and forth with him, forcing yourself to not wonder how much time has passed. Your phone is by the kitchen table, placed face down so that you don’t obsess over the time so you try to measure the amount of time has passed based on the time of the videos playing on the television. Yet you start to care less about the time as you actually start to get caught up in the paints in front of you, experimenting and pleasantly surprised with how you came up with such a pretty violet color. You point it out to Keigo, stupidly excited over it but he smiles and agrees with you. “Such a pretty color dove, but not as pretty as you.”
His words make the butterflies flutter in your stomach again but you say nothing, turning back to your canvas and picking up a brush. For a few minutes you just stare back and forth between the paint and the white canvas, wondering how you should start off. Keigo obviously sees you concentrating too hard and reminds you, “Don’t think about it too hard, just paint and see what happens.”
Okay... so in other words, just do it.
So you take a deep breath, dip your brush in the paint, and make a single stripe at the very top edge of the canvas.
“See? Not so scary.”
“Y-Yeah, it’s not!” You squeak out, still embarrassed but a little less intimidated now that you actually started it. You’re not exactly sure what you’ll do with it but there’s no harm in just winging it.
Hm... wings...
You glance over to Keigo, one of his sleeves rolled up and his tattoo visible on his forearm. It’s a detailed wing on his forearm inked in only black, the very tip of it extended towards his elbow and he’s got a matching one on his other forearm as well. You remember the first time you saw them and how Keigo let you run your fingers over his tattoo, watching in amusement over how fascinated you were.
Back to your canvas, you see the sheen of the fresh paint on the white canvas and decide to add more to it. Maybe you’ll get inspired the more you add to it, thinking what colors compliment violet and what exactly you could create. Over the next few minutes you just continue painting the violet further onto the surface of the canvas, looking down briefly at the black paint that’s also in your palette and wonder if you could try painting a mountain. You recall plenty of times looking up at the sky when you were done hiking and just in awe of the colors of the sunset, hues of purples and reds and orange that invoked a certain feeling in your chest.
A sunset... a sunset!
Easy enough yeah?
You just have to add red, orange, yellow, probably a touch of blue... some clouds would be nice too.
So you spread more of the purple across the canvas, concentrating hard at first before realizing something. “Keigo?”
“Yes dove?”
“I think my painting is breathing.”
Keigo laughs from his side and you feel his hand ruffle your hair affectionately.
You look hard at your canvas and swear that you can see the paint inhale and exhale, the veins of the paint pulse in the painting. Wait... veins? You don’t remember painting anything like that, all you did was just cover part of the canvas to get you started. The longer you stare at the canvas, you swear that you can see the paint drip down slightly, the canvas inflating and deflating, and hidden designs on the untouched parts of the white canvas.
The acid had finally hit.
“Keigo... I think I’m on.” you say as you dip your brush into the water cup to wash off the violet, this time into the yellow paint and haphazardly brushing it onto the canvas before switching over to the bright red without washing off the yellow. You think how powerful the color red is, how strong and overpowering it is on the canvas and you tell Keigo, “I think you’d look gorgeous with red wings Keigo.”
Keigo is concentrated on his own canvas but he does glance over to you and smiles how you’re suddenly so into painting when you were so reluctant at first when you walked into his studio. He watches you blend the red into the yellow, wondering what exactly is inspiring you and what your finished product will be. “Ah how interesting dove, you comparing me to an angel?”
“Angel wings are white, I said your wings would be red.”
“Why red?”
You shrug your shoulders as you brush some blue onto the violet on the top of the canvas, blending the blue and violet together. “I don’t know, just suits you a lot... I wore wings last year, I was an angel last year for Halloween.”
“You dressed like an angel last year for Halloween, you certainly didn’t act like one.”
Suddenly the memory of last year’s Halloween comes rushing to the front of your memory and you begin to giggle, needing to set your brush down and have your little giggle fit; he was very right, drunk shenanigans in your angelic costume while holding White Russians with your friends surfacing to your mind. You don’t know why you’re so amused but you are, leaning back against the couch and curling yourself into a ball. You pull the blanket over your shoulders, pulling the bottom corners into your lap and you look down in awe. You swear that even though you’re sitting still, the blanket looks like it’s pulsing as well and you can see the small fibers of it sticking out from the surface. You can’t help but pick at one and hold it in between your fingertips, staring for a few seconds before releasing it.
Moving to lie on your side, you press your cheek into the couch cushion and stare at the painting you just started. It looks weird right now, purple on top with yellow and red in the middle but you’re determined that you’re going to paint that sunset!
You look over towards Keigo, seeing that he started off his canvas a golden yellow at first and is brushing a crimson red on top of it as well. It sort of reminds you of fire and you wonder what he’s seeing. You pull the blanket over your head, sheltering you from the bright lights of the room and you stare at your own hands right in front of your face. Every line and wrinkle is moving, like they’re switching places on you and you ‘ooh’ quietly. When you shut your eyes, it’s not a straight darkness you see like when you close your eyes and go to bed. You see swirls of purples and greens forming spirals that you’ve never thought of before, dancing like glitter being blown in the wind and then suddenly you see white. You’re thinking in tones of purples and pinks, they pulse and shine against a wall of white and now you’re thinking of Valentine’s day.
The blanket is pulled from over your head and you look up into golden honey eyes, they look even brighter and you swear that they glow as you look up into them. “You having fun under there babe?” Keigo asks you, clearly amused to have looked back and saw you as just a lump under his blanket. “Yeah, looks like you’re having fun.”
“Hehehe... yeah.” you smile up at him, pushing some of your hair back from your face. You look as he presents a single red grape to you, drops of water still on it to let you know that it had just been washed and while grapes weren’t your favorite fruit to eat, somehow they looked so appetizing in that moment. You open your mouth and Keigo places the fruit into your mouth, chomping down and it’s so juicy and firm and crunches so loud in your head that you moan as you chew.
Delicious, it’s delicious!
Keigo feeds you grapes every so often, whether you’re sitting in front of your canvas to continue painting, looking at the television and the visuals presented along with the music, get up to look at his other paintings that you think are whispering or waving to you, or when you decide to just stare at the tapestry he hung up in front of his balcony. You understand why tie dye is so appealing to look at now, you know for sure it’s not the wind making the tapestry move, the colors waving at you and you try to reach into the tapestry, your fingertips just barely grasping the colors in front of you.
“How long has it been Keigo?” you ask as you continue to look at the tapestry.
“It’s almost eleven, so it’s been three hours since we took it.”
Wow, three hours...
You’re not sure how the passage of time is feeling for you, everything is looking warped and you suppose that your sense of time is included in that as well.
You feel hands under your armpits and your lifted up to your feet, leaning back and touching the arms that hold you securely. The tattooed wings on Keigo’s forearm, the feathers look as if they’re rustled, they look like they need to be preened. It’s important for birds to preen their feathers so that their wings look presentable. “Okay dove, time for a bathroom break. Think you’ll need my help?”
No, you’re a big girl, of course you can go to the bathroom yourself.
Though you do have to ask Keigo to hold your hand, looking down at the floor and not trusting your own feet. It’s like you’re looking through a fish eye lens, like the floor seems so much wider and closer to you. Keigo says something to you when he drops you off at the bathroom but you don’t hear him, humming absently and you close the door. You do your business and wash your hands, using the nearby hand towel to dry off your hands and then you look up at the mirror.
You lean forward and inspect your pupils, they’re blown up and you think you can see shifting colors in your iris. You really are on, pulling back and inspecting your reflection. Now you feel like you’re caught, not sure if you recognize the person who’s looking back at you and... and... is the shower curtain moving towards you? Is that really you in the mirror? Your hair is never this mussed up and the color of your shirt you always liked before but why did it look so weird on you now?
“Dove, I’m coming in.” Keigo announces and slowly pushes open the door so that he doesn’t catch you in any indecent state. But he sees you just staring intently at your reflection and just comes up behind you, pressing his front to your back and tilting your head back to look at him. “Ah got caught looking at yourself in the mirror huh? S’alright, the first time I did acid apparently I spent a half hour just looking at my own reflection too.”
His eyes are the color of honey and you think you can suddenly taste it in your mouth, you imagine it. “Your eyes are pretty.”
“You’re pretty.”
But you shake your head at the compliment and ask, “Did I always look so weird Keigo?” you ask him, reaching one hand up and brushing the tips of your fingers along his stubble.
“No you never look weird, you’re always so cute.” he reassures you, pressing a kiss to the tip of your nose. “Go back to the living room, lemme have my bathroom break and I’ll join you in a hot minute.”
“Don’t fall in the mirror.” you say absently as you walk out the bathroom and shut the door. You hold onto anything you can to help balance you, the floorboards beneath your feet look as if they’re trying to trip you up but you manage on your own to make your way back to your spot on the couch, staring at your unfinished painting.
What... what was I making again?
Violet, blue, red, yellow... oh yeah, the sunset.
Keigo really was right when he said that trip would decide what you would paint.
You don’t hear the bathroom door open but you look up as Keigo comes into your vision and ask, “How do I make clouds?”
“How do you mean? Like how clouds are made in the sky? Well you see clouds are made of water droplets that are so small that they’re able to stay in the air. You see the water vapor-” Keigo starts on what you know is a very educational lecture on clouds but you stop him with a whine, pointing to your canvas. “Oh... oh! You want to know how to paint clouds. Haha, sorry dove!”
Keigo makes himself comfortable right behind you, your bodies once again pressed to one another as he hands you the palette of paint and picks up a different paint brush has you hold it in your own hand but he covers it with his own; you’ll hold the brush while he controls your movements. So he dips the paint brush in the white paint, also adding in a touch of red that almost makes it pink and you gasp. It’s not gonna go together! you think but Keigo hushes you, tells you to just trust him. And although you’re watching how he dabs the paintbrush onto your canvas, you’re not really perceiving the process. One minute it’s a messy slate of purple, yellow and red and then boom suddenly there are clouds that actually create a picture. “Ah you were trying to make a sunset, I can see why you wanted to paint clouds. Very creative, I’m proud of you!”
“I did that?”
“You did!”
He praises you as if you were a child doing it for the first time... though you actually are painting for the first time and honestly it actually is coming out pretty nice, though it’s only thanks to the help of Keigo. So you look back at him, pressing your lips against briefly and whisper out, “Thank you.”
Returning back to his canvas, you decide that you can continue painting on your own. You close your eyes and try to remember any memory that contains a sunset, whether it was through your own eyes or perhaps looking at images on the internet. You try your hardest, your mind producing more interesting shapes and patterns of colors that almost distract you but you’re going to pain that sunset damn it! So you blend the colors on the canvas, adding in more tones of violet and purple towards the bottom to cover up the blank spots. You thought about adding in a mountain or some trees but you feel that’s much too advanced for you to attempt, though you know that you can ask Keigo again but he already helped you once. Now you were determined to do another by yourself.
You ask if you can have another canvas and Keigo gets up to the little pile of untouched ones. When he hands you one and ask if it’s a good size, it’s a question you can really answer because the way he holds it out to you makes it seem to long. And realizing that your perception is altering the way you look at the canvas, he holds it upright for you and you ask for something a little bigger.
Carefully setting aside the sunset painting... whoa it’s like the clouds are really moving!
Focus.
You set up the new blank canvas in front of you, wondering what to make next.
“Ah I almost forgot, I got this for you too while I was at the craft store.” Keigo tells you as he brings up the box paints, holding out a tube of-
“Ooooh... glitter.” you awe at the opalescent colors, holding it against the light to see sheens of white and pink and purple. You’re not sure if it’s the acid or not but it looks extra pretty and you shake the little tube in your hand.
“Have fun with it just uh... make sure to not get too messy.”
You could imagine such pretty colors like the stars and them falling into your eyes... oh, you could make a starry night for your next painting. So you enthusiastically brush more violet and blue onto the new canvas along with a touch of black to make a dark sky. The canvas breathes at you and you think that the more color you add to it, you think you can hear it sigh in relief. You blend it all together and wonder what else you could add to it. You drift to the palette and zero in on the white paint, exchanging your current paint brush for a smaller one, dipping it into the white paint and just making little dots here and there to represent the stars. Then you open the tube of fine glitter and you’re particularly giddy; your painting is going to be amazing, it’s going to look exactly like the night sky... no even better! It’ll be like the cosmos!
You must have been a little overzealous with the glitter on your painting because Keigo nudges a towel just right underneath your easel and you feel him pat down your feet.
Careful with the edges of the painting since it’s still wet, you gently shake off any of the excess glitter and then lean back to really inspect it. In the moment it really looks like a beautiful starry sky and you think that you can literally see shooting stars in it, so sparkly and pretty in the moment. You pull the blanket back over your body and crawl your way to Keigo’s side of the couch, sitting behind him and perching your chin atop his shoulder. Weird, you could have sworn that when he first started painting he started off with yellow and red, he’s painting over it with blue and green now. “Keigo, what are you painting?”
“I don’t know. I started off thinking about fire at first and then all of a sudden I just started putting green and blue together... I think I might have been either thinking about the ocean or the forest... I forget.” Keigo explains, still not stopping his paint brush over the surface. You guess that even artists start off sometimes nonsensical too and that they don’t always have a clear idea how their end product might come out. But you still admire it anyway, reaching your hand out and loosely holding onto his wrist. His arms look even longer from where you’re looking and yet he’s sitting so close to his painting at the same time.
Perception sure is a strange thing when you’re on.
He smells nice, pressing your nose into his neck and breathing in his cologne, humming in delight and pressing yourself even closer to him.
Now you’re not exactly the bold type, every once in a while you’ve decided to make the first move but most of the time you let others give you the signal first before you flirt back. Already you and Keigo have been seeing each other for a few weeks, a few dates here and there but you’ve yet to progress anything spicier than a few make outs and maybe some teasing touches. So it comes as a surprise to him when you drag a hand down from his chest and let it rest in between his spread legs, groaning when you lick the shell of his ear and nibble on it. “B-Babe... we’re supposed to be... to be...”
“Painting? That canvas isn’t the only thing you can paint Keigo.” you whisper in his ear, feeling for his cock in his gray sweats and pleased that you can feel that he’s getting hard. You form your hand over his cock and stroke it through the sweats while your other hand drags over his arm, still stretched out towards the painting but now his arm is tense. “For example... you can paint me with your cum. Inside or out, I’ll let the artist decide.”
Keigo sets down his paint brush and his palette before tugging you to his bed.
It’s dark in his room when he shuts the door but you’re quickly put on the surface of his bed. You can hear him fiddling around somewhere in the corner of the room and then red light fills the room, it’s pretty basic of him to own those strip lights seeing as you’ve had more than a few friends decorate their room with it too but now isn’t the time to critique the mood lighting. You do have to wonder why the color red, why not just put on the regular ceiling lights?
He’s on you once the lights are on, pulling off your pajama bottoms and setting them to the side for the time being. Spreading your legs open, Keigo starts off with kissing the inside of your thighs and slowly goes up higher. Your panties are still on but you moan softly when he kisses your pussy through the cotton, then it’s up to your belly button, pushing your sweater up along with the soft bra you decided to wear tonight as stops to pay attention to your breasts, nipples perked up to the cold air along with the way Keigo flicks his tongue over them. While he sucks hickies onto your breasts, you run your hand through his hair and look up at the ceiling, you think you can hear the flap of a bird’s wings and think something flutters from the corner of your eye. “K-Keigo... is it okay for us to do this while we’re on?”
“You’re safe babe, I’m here.” he assures you as he helps tug off your sweater over your head. “Just focus on me, I’ve done this before.”
Oh great, he didn’t just allude that he’s fucked other people on acid before did he?
Keigo seems to catch his choice of words and grinds his clothed cock against your panties and gives you an apologetic smile. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. I just mean that sometimes sex on acid can be a precarious thing to engage in, I just wanna let you know that I got you.” he presses the pad of his thumb where he guesses your clit is. “You trust me yeah?”
Yeah, I do.
“How about a little art lesson for ya? That’ll help get you in the mood and you’ll learn something interesting.” Keigo takes off his sweats and his underwear, leaving you the only one who’s almost naked in the room. The music still plays from the living room, smooth guitar and easy beats still reach your ears. “You wanna know why I made the lights red? Red provokes the strongest emotion and is considered the warmest and most contradictory of the colors. Can you tell me some things you think of when you think of the color red?”
Apples, firetrucks, blood.
“Red is one of the most visible colors in the spectrum, its the kind of color that’s an attention grabber which is why it’s used to warn people of danger. Red can convey a sense of danger,” Keigo explains this while he pets you through your panties, it’s almost leisurely the way he does it but he can see how you quiver underneath his touch. “but it’s also associated with excitement, that even sometimes just being exposed to the color can cause elevated blood pressure and heart rate.”
Your heart rate is certainly up right now and it’s not just because of the acid.
You feel Keigo pull your panties to the side and easily glide a finger in but he wants something in return as well, “Spit in your hand and stroke my cock.”
As you stroke Keigo and he gently fingers you, he continues on about his lesson on the color red. “So along with danger, excitement, there’s also aggression and dominance. There’s not exactly a clear reason why red is associated with dominance, maybe it just goes hand in hand with feeling aggressive, perhaps also representing power as well.”
“K-Kei... please get to the point!” you whine, sitting up with one hand braced on the bed while the other continues to stroke him. He’s added another finger and you notice that he’s put a little bit more vigor in his actions. “Please won’t you just-”
“Most of all though, my little bird,” Keigo continues over you but you can take a guess where this ‘art lesson’ is going by the way his lips quirk up and how is voice drops. “red is also linked to passion, love, and desire, that it’s apparently a very attractive color. You remember what color you wore the first time we met?”
“You... you saying that you only liked me ‘cause I was wearing red?” you ask, a breathy laugh leaving your lips but then whine as Keigo strokes your g-spot and you almost dropped back onto the bed but he’s quick to catch you. He quickly pulls his fingers out of you and winds it around your waist to pull you flush against him and settles you in his lap, your hand trapped between your bodies but you continue to jerk his cock despite the limited space.
Keigo chuckles along with you, leaning down to press a kiss to your neck and give you a gentle bite. “Aha I’m just teasing you dove, it was your cute face I saw first and besides, you weren’t wearing a red shirt when we first met... You were wearing red panties, I remember seeing them when you bent over in that short little black dress.”
“You’re embarrassing.” you mumble, adjusting yourself so that you hover over his cock, slapping the head of it against your clit. “And that wasn’t an art lesson, that was more like color psychology.”
“You still learned something, did you not?”
You cup Keigo’s cheeks in your hands, kissing him briefly and pull back to tell him, “I’m not looking to learn anything except how your cock feels inside me.”
So you brace your arms around Keigo’s shoulders, sighing as he eases himself into you slowly. His hands hold your ass, gently lifting you off his cock and then easing you down again to take him further, repeating the process until his girth was sheathed all the way inside you. You gasp together, you at his size and him at your tightness, hands all over each other and you’re wondering where his body begins and yours ends. Whatever other cocks you had inside you before, they’ve never felt like this when they first entered you.
And then the two of you are moving in sync with one another, holding each other’s gaze, just barely able to see the reflection of each other in your blown out pupils. You can’t really see the honey gold of his eyes thanks to the lights but you you think you can taste it still, every time you just taste that sweet nectar when you look into Keigo’s eyes. It must mean how sweet he is, that must be why his eyes are colored like that.
He’s sweet like honey.
Again, you hear the flap of a bird’s wings even though you know the bedroom window isn’t open.
It’s slow and sensual at first, sex on acid is something more heightened, something indescribable behind the sensations as you lean back slightly to roll your hips while you meet Keigo’s thrusts. Your hands locked behind his neck and your head lolling back, a sensual sigh from you when you feel a hand go to your throat. A breathy ‘yes’ spills from your lips as the pads of the fingers carefully press at the sides of your neck; feels good, feels so good...
Suddenly you’re pushed onto your back, gasping in surprise at first and then uninhibited moans as he viciously fucks you. And what can you do but take it, take all of it, peering at him through the haze of pleasure and the peak of your high when you see it.
Bright red wings spreading from Keigo’s back, brighter than the lights, the feathers ruffle and seem to groan alongside him, he’s losing himself in this carnal moment, bracing himself over you and the wings coming forward as well. You feel floaty, almost as if the wings are carrying you themselves, you think you can feel feathers tickle your skin while Keigo’s hands have your hands pinned above your head, your ankles locking just right above his buttocks.
It feels like the sex is lasting forever, that as fast and hard Keigo pumps into you it feels never ending. In truth you don’t know how much time has actually passed, just that the passage of time seems longer. But it feels good, you feel one with Keigo and even just the slightest clench of your fingers intertwined with his feels even more intimate. His panting, your whimpers, the music, the lights, the flapping of the wings, and you crying out his name.
Even as you clench your eyes shut, swirling patterns of hues of red dance behind your eyelids. They seem to move in time with Keigo’s tempo, every slap of his hips connecting with your body, they respond accordingly. You feel one of his hands drawn down from your neck, past your breasts, giggling when he goes over your belly button, and groan when he plays with your clit.
He praises you, tells you how good you’re doing even though you’re just lying there and taking it, you try to participate by rolling your hips up to meet his but his power is just too overwhelming. “Kei... Kei... go, it feels so good...!”
You wriggle your other hand free from his and pull him down, practically hugging him and bringing him even closer, eyes shut hard as he goes into double time. His face is pushed into your neck, breathing hard into it and you think you can hear his wings flapping even harder. His hands hold your waist, just lifting you up slightly so that your back slightly arches.
Soft skin against rough hands.
“Where you going to paint your cum Keigo?” you ask, your lips just barely brushing against the shell of his ear. “All over my face? My tits? Maybe... even turn me around and blow it all over my back?”
“Fuck! Keep talking like that! ’M gonna cum dove... I’m gon’a cum!”
You push him back just enough and once again cup his face in your hands, “Look at me when you cum.”
Jittery nods of his head, he’ll absolutely obey anything you want as long as you don’t let him leave inside of you. All over your face would be so nice, your tits even nicer, he hasn’t pulled out to cum on someone’s back in months but fuck when you mention it, it’s so fucking enticing. But nothing beats when it’s oozing out, like ice cream melting on a hot day as it drips so he has to ask you if it’s okay. “Babe... can I paint you inside babe?”
Does an artist even have to ask permission to paint their canvas?
“Yeah... paint me white inside.”
And that’s all permission he needs, a few harsh thrusts and he cums with you, his cum shooting inside you while you gush around him, almost like it’s trying to push him out. But he stays inside you, his visit isn’t over quite yet, he doesn’t want to leave, not when he feels so connected with you.
You catch your breath, blinking your bleary eyes and see all of those red feathers slowly leave Keigo’s back. You don’t know how many there are, maybe two hundred or something like that, but you watch them leave one by one, almost as if they’re each being controlled individually. You think Keigo is the one that’s dismissing the feathers and you reach out towards them; you never got the chance to touch them.
Hands sliding down his back, you express a mild disgust over how sweaty Keigo is, “Ew... take a shower.”
“Only if you come with me.” Keigo chuckles pushing himself off you but wiping at your forehead as well. Geez, you hadn’t even realized you sweated too.
So the two of you stand under the warm shower spray, he lathers his shampoo and conditioner into your hair first, washing it out for you before you return the favor for him. You note how even more intimate this is compared to the sex before, looking up into his eyes and you give each other an endearing smile. The peak has been passed and now the acid will ease off, already things look a little less distorted and the intense distortions don’t feel like they used to when you first started.
“How are my eyes dove? Getting lost in them?” Keigo chuckles but he doesn’t give you a chance to answer, choosing to kiss you instead. “Did you mind that our first time was on acid?”
“No, it was good.” you tell him as you draw a single line on his collarbone with the tip of your finger. “I can’t wait to have regular, sober sex with you.”
“Hehe, I hope it compares well to my first performance.”
“I don’t know,” you singsong to him, “maybe you set the bar too high having first time on acid.”
“Well don’t say that now.”
The two of you laugh together, he playfully pushes your head but pulls you back in for another kiss. The water runs down both of your bodies and you pull back, looking down at the ground. Keigo thinks that you’re looking down at his cock and that you might be up for another round but you look back up at him and ask, “My feet are like a million miles away... have I always been this tall?”
You dry up together and change into clean clothes, returning to the easels and you’re surprised that the television still is playing music from the playlist. After so long without having your phone, you check the time to see that it’s well into two in the morning and it’s no wonder that you feel tired, not just from the sex but how late it was as well.
You curl up onto the couch while Keigo still works on his painting, the last thing you see were your sunset painting alongside the starry night one, the clouds shifting on one and the other still sparkles with shooting stars.
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“Ugh, I told you that they’d look like shit when the trip is over.”
“Don’t say that, they look fantastic.”
You hold up both of their canvases and each hand, looking deadpan at him with tired eyes. “This one looks like I just puked glitter on it and the only part of this one that is good are the clouds that you helped me paint!” you sigh out and look down at each of the paintings. You knew it, you weren’t an artist after all and you had thought that you did such a good job last night.
Keigo takes your starry night painting and brings it over to the sink, banging the edge of it gently a few times to shake off any glitter that didn’t dry on the paint before handing it back to you. “See, now it looks a little less like glitter puke and I have to tell you this dove, but you painted those clouds yourself.”
Huffing at him, you set down the starry night painting and look down at your sunset painting. “Keigo, I know I was on last night but you for sure helped me paint the clouds. I remember that part pretty clearly, don’t try to treat me like I’m a kid and say some bullshit to make me feel better.”
“I helped you get started but I saw that you picked it up on your own and you painted the rest of it yourself, I swear.”
“Keigo-”
He stops you with a soft call of your name and even though the two of you are tired as hell and feel disassociated from your own bodies and personalities, something tugs in your heart that way he says your name. “I’m serious, I helped you start making the clouds but you actually got the hang of it and watched you do it yourself. I told you the trip would tell you what to paint and you did it!”
You still look disbelieving at him, swearing that you thought you felt his hand help you paint last night. But then again, you also thought you saw one of his paintings of a balloon flying away too so maybe he might be telling the truth. It’s a little hard to discern what were your actions that actually happened versus what was in your mind. Much like the wings you thought he sprouted when the two of you had sex.
“Can you just show me yours? I fell asleep before I could see what you made.” He hands you his own canvas and you stare hard at it, looking back and forth between him and the painting in your hands. “Did you make another one last night?”
“Nope, I used that one canvas the entire night.”
“Didn’t you start off painting it with yellow and red? How did you end up with,” you turn the painting around to show him, “painting this?”
Delicate pinks and purples dotted just right to look like wisteria flowers and a big tree trunk in the very center of it. It just wasn’t fair that he was so good at conceptualizing these kinds of things. You have to wonder if he just had a natural talent for it or if it was something he honed over time. Either way, you know he didn’t get that art degree for nothing.
Keigo chuckles and sets aside his painting. “I looked at your sweater last night and thought I saw wisteria flowers sprouting out, I got my inspiration from you. Also you seemed really into the color purple last night so that helped too. Although you did also give me an idea last night too.” he takes your hand in his, pulling you close to him and reaches one hand underneath your shirt, his palm resting on the small of your back. “That whole ‘paint me thing’ you said yesterday... I was wondering if one day you’d let me paint on you?”
You tilt your head to the side, “What do you mean?”
“Like... just let me paint on your body one day. I can get those body friendly paints and just make a picture on you.” Keigo explains with a sheepish smile coming onto his face despite how tired he looks. “It kinda turned on me on last night when you said you wanted me to paint you inside and I just thought ‘well what if I actually did?’ But not with my cum I mean, though I wouldn’t mind that either.“
The thought of laying down for Keigo while he does such a thing, it sounds quite intimate. You look into his eyes, his pupils still a little wide but it’s only a few more hours for the acid to exit your bodies. It was intense last night but you were glad to have done it with Keigo and even though you think the art you did last night is sort of crap now, you can’t deny that it was sort of fun to do it still.
Your paintings lay to the side, his own stupidly good wisteria painting sitting alongside your glittered starry night and sunset painting. Strange how your eyes perceived everything last night from elongated lengths, the dynamically changing colors you saw when you shut your eyes, you felt everything alive around rather than thinking of the furniture as mere static objects, the red wings and feather you swore you felt against your skin when Keigo fucked his cock into you, everything was beautiful and you couldn’t have asked for a better first time.
You’d like to do it again.
“Can I dove? Can I paint on you one day?”
“... Yeah, I’d like that.”
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home sweet home.
[ read devil in a new suit ]
i just really, really wanted to explore a bit about kook’s family because i think it shines a big light on who this adorable baby is. i hope you enjoy! xo
pairing. jjk x f!reader. rating. explicit. tags. you’ll get cavities from reading this, honestly. but also, very light smut in the form of: inappropriate bullet egg use and tit groping (again, kook is a boob guy). wc. 1.7k.
You meet his parents on a Sunday afternoon, invited to their palatial home for family brunch. It’s the first one you’ve been invited to, despite the fact you and Jungkook have been dating for what feels like forever (but in reality is only six months).
Mama Jeon is an intimidating woman with a deceptively sweet face, aging gracefully around her eyes, the barely there lines upon her hands doing little to detract from her beauty. She holds herself with immeasurable grace, practically dances into her son’s embrace when the two of you step into the modernist’s dream, chicly decorated and swathed in neutral tones. It reminds you vaguely of Jungkook’s apartment - but decidedly more refined. Same colour palette, though.
“Jungkook-ah,” she hums, patting adoringly at his cheek when he passes a kiss against hers, looking every inch the mama’s boy he is.
“Eomma,” he returns, so giddy it makes your heart soar in your chest. He’s so easy to love - and so easily loving, offering the world to the woman who’d raised and loved him. Two hands - the picture of respect - pass over the box of pastries you’d picked up on your way, the bag of too-expensive fruit topping the container. (Apparently, his mother loves grapes, but only green ones.) “These are for you— from us.”
Now is when he gestures to you - standing just to the side, beyond his shoulder - with a flourish comparable to that of a game show host. It’s adorable how eager he is, beaming proudly at his eomma as he reaches for your hand, squeezes it tight between his own tattooed one.
When she turns to you, her expression is inscrutable.
This woman isn’t someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, offers pleasantries for the sake of it. She’s confident and critical (but soft, somehow, for the people she loves most), forged from steel and refined by experience. You’re simultaneously awed and afraid, a mixture of emotion you’re not quite used to.
She levels you with a look. A moment passes, then another. You wonder if your smile falters, eclipsed by the grey of her stare. (You feel like that one girl from that one movie about those crazy rich… what was it?)
Finally, she speaks, drags her eyes from your shoes - red Ferragamo pumps, with the signature bow detailing on the toe - up to your face. It feels more like a stringent assessment than a casual perusal, stirring heat beneath the colour of your blouse. You’re not nervous, per se, but you want her to like you. Right now, you can’t tell if she does - probably have a higher chance of winning the lottery than getting an answer. “Lovely to meet you, ____.” Her tone is warm enough, polite and paired with a tiny nod of her sophisticat head.
The patriarch of the family is the opposite of his mother, endlessly genial and full of booming laughter. It reminds you a little of Jungkook’s own giggle, but somehow more - rounded by years and years of full-belly laughing and further ingrained by the wrinkles around his eyes.
Just like his mother, Mr. Jeon is slim, good-looking in a way that comes from proper self-care and living an easy life. (Not that it’d always been this way, you remind yourself. Jungkook had told you how hard his parents had worked - all the long hours his father had put into getting where he was, able to support his wife and two children.) He encourages his son’s stories and looks fondly at his daughter - the spitting image of her mother, with the same round stare as Jungkook.
When your bowl runs empty, he makes sure it’s refilled, nodding in approval when his son is the one to make it happen. When his wife makes an off-hand comment in response to a story, he’s the one to chide her, however gently. He’s not nearly as sharp as she is, softly rounded edges like the toe of his slippers, the natural sag of his jaw with time.
(You get it now. Meeting his parents for the first time, juxtaposed so hilariously against each other, it all makes sense. Who Jungkook is, how he is equal parts soft and yielding and hesitant and distant. Why he smiles so freely - with wrinkles you see aged nearly three decades in his father’s face - but loves so tenderly, offering it with whispers of affection that you might miss, should you look away.)
His father asks you questions like he really cares, nodding thoughtfully each time he learns a little bit more about you.
“How did you two meet?” He’s bright-eyed, curious over the coffee mug he sandwiches in his grip. You imagine he’s heard the story - must have heard some form of it in passing from Jungkook - but you appreciate his interest nonetheless. He just wants to see the perspective from someone other than his lovestruck son.
You can’t help but laugh, sucking in your cheeks like you always do when you’re contemplative. Jungkook shifts at your side, drops his inked palm over your covered knee and squeezes. You’re not sure whether he’s reassuring you or himself with the gesture.
“He actually kept coming into my store.” It’s not a lie. Certainly not as scandalous as the full truth, but a truth nonetheless. That is how you’d met.
“Your store?” It’s Jisoo, curious and pretty from her seat where she’s still picking at the desserts you’d brought over. (She’s a fan of tart and tangy flavours, unlike her brother.) “Do you own a shop or something?”
You wonder how much she knows. You know she’s younger than either you or your partner, a student at Korea National University. Part of their dance program, if you’re not mistaken. You’d heard all about it a few weeks ago, when she’d sent a video to Jungkook and he’d raved about it nonstop, so proud of his little sister you couldn’t even make fun of him.
“I work at CELINE.”
That earns a noise of delight from Jisoo (together with an “oh my god, that’s so cool”) and a polite albeit disinterested nod from Mr. Jeon (if his nondescript but stylish clothes are any indication, luxury fashion isn’t his top priority).
What you don’t expect - what you just barely not from the corner of your eye - is the surprise written across Mrs. Jeon’s expression. As if she’s just learned something groundbreaking.
“You have a job?” Maybe she doesn’t mean it how it comes out, disbelieving and abrupt. You don’t let it rub you the wrong way, nodding. (You know where she’s coming from - you feel the same way about his exes as she does, it seems.) She’s hardly looking at you now, though, gaze trained on her beloved son. There’s a silent conversation happening between them - something you’re not privy to, an exchange held only with those matching eyes of theirs.
He’s upon you the moment he climbs into his car, clumsily knocking against the centre console as he drags your body closer, forces your knees apart with his hand unceremoniously shoved all the way into your silk crepe trousers.
“She likes you.” The words are muffled against your lips - already spit slick and swollen by how savagely he attacks them, tugs your bottom between his teeth and nibbles.
You know he means his mother. She’d hugged you on your way out, patted gently at your upper arm when she’d sent you both off with some leftovers in pretty ceramic containers. It’d been a surprising farewell from the woman who had otherwise kept you at arm’s length through most of brunch, offering small smiles and exchanging only the basest of pleasantries.
You have to admit - it feels a bit like taming a lion. You’re high on the feeling and it seems Jungkook is too, utterly delighted as he drags his finger through the arousal that’s all but ruined your thong, thin material shoved aside by his deft movements.
“Your sister?” You laugh - sound bitten off by the edge of your teeth when he teases at your folds, presses the tip of his fingers over your clit and circles back enough times to make you shudder.
He’s sucking into the sensitive spot beneath your ear, catching your earlobe with the wet point of his canines. “My mom,” he mumbles, burying himself into your skin as if he’d happily live there, make a home between your bones if you’d let him. (You would.) “She hugged you.” Hilariously enough, he sounds just as surprised as you.
“She did,” you hum - sigh when the pressure in your abdomen increases, mirroring the same one between your legs. He’s pulling gently at the cord peeking past your lips, tugging at the smooth pink egg snug within your pussy. It’s not on now - not like it had been all through brunch - but it still feels absurdly good, perfectly shaped just the right amount of stimulation against your fluttering walls.
Jungkook makes the softest noise, one that sounds like his heart falling into place, his soul settling where it feels most comfortable. It’s at odds with the way he gropes your chest over the smocked bodice of your blouse, seeking out the hardened bud of your nipple beneath layers of chiffon and macrame.
The tiny vibrator continues fucking into you, muscle walls clenching around it each time he yanks on the cord and then lets it fall back into place. You wish it were his fingers (wish it were his cock, more than that) but your pants fit too-well, tailored slim around your waist and flaring over your ankles.
Your 70’s pants, as your silly boyfriend liked to call them.
“I can’t wait to get you home.” It’s so dreamy, hazy with affection that overwhelms you. He’s looking at you so sweetly now, forehead resting against yours, entire palm pressed to your cunt. “K-knew you were always perfect but—” You lose sight of his lovely doe eyes, your own sliding closed when he stamps a kiss to your mouth, so terribly sweet it’s reminiscent of the cheesecake you’d just had.
You understand what he means without him having to finish the thought, smile of your own acting as the ending punctuation to your conversation.
Family means everything to him. Now, you were one step closer to being part of it.
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If it hasn’t been asked a lot before, what are your favourite tropes, for either reading or writing?
(If it has, ignore me! I hadn’t expected you not to like yellow: I feel like there’s often a lot of golden tones in your art, but maybe that’s different. I love the glow to your colour palettes, anyway)
I almost mentioned it in the original ask, but it is a bit ironic that I don't like yellow but still use a lot of warm, yellow-ish hues in my art. 😂 but I think for me, while I personally don't love yellow, I like how warm colors like yellow, gold, orange and red are meaningful to Andreil, and so I use them a lot in my art. It's symbolic, in a way, of different aspects in their relationship. I could go into more detail about it if people wanted but I won't ramble about it here.
My favorite tropes... hmm.... this is hard to choose bc there are so many and it depends on my mood! I think pining/mutual pining is a big one, I love some delicious pining. Slow burn is another one I really enjoy. And hurt/comfort. I read a LOT of hurt/comfort fics. Especially ones where one character gets hurt protecting the other, or the ones where one character gets hurt and the other absolutely loses their shit (you can now see why I like aftg so much lol)
As for writing, I LOVE writing fluff and angst. Writing smut can be fun too, at times! Especially emotional smut. But there's something about writing a fic fluffy enough to make you soft and yet angsty enough to make you hurt that I just love. It's the perfect combination.
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