#news paper clippings

[loki-valeska]

Christmas Mimi pfp 2023

I made an old one back in 2022 but wanted to revamp it in my new style

Le old one

[finntheehumaneater]

my sister just went to an new bookstore very close to us and brought back a photo album from the very early 1940s. Most of the photos are missing, but it’s a lot of stuff from the places near us—including this state park we go to every week

[kelocitta]

I love your RW art month tiles. What art program do you use and how do you get those really clean textures and shapes?

I use PaintToolSai, both 1 and 2- but most of the drawing gets done in SAI1 since I couldn't get my brushes to import right for 2. Its an extremely bare bones program all things considered (Sai2 less so, it has a bit more tool-wise, but I only draw in it if i *have* too or for minor stuff) so its nothing really fancy being employed, everything geometric I do just by using a self made grid to measure out shapes like you would a piece of paper.

Literally its just a measured out grid of like... 50 by 50 px squares with cross sections? I just paste it as needed and draw the lines around it and since the measurements are consistent it just works.

my default pen is already "crunchy" so being perfectly matched isnt a huge deal, and you can general paste and rotate to make it look a little cleaner. Honestly I've used this same grid for forever (and it was off by like one pixel at one point lol) its just really useful for quick matching things for a program that doesn't have stuff built in for lining things up As for the textures, those are all default to SAI (I think?). The brush I use lightly uses of fabri (which mostly just makes the edges of the brush grainier) and then I usually also put some various level of a layer texture overlay thats just one of SAI's default 'watercolor' textures. It mostly just adds a little bit of a noise/grain effect. Heres that on max

For ArtMonth itself I just draw out a tile canvas using the grid with all the layers broken up- then I just reuse it over and over as needed. There's probably smarter ways to do it, but eh it works

And yeah, theres just two borders. One for the bottom and one for the top, makes it easy to make something that goes 'in and out' of the tiles without having to think to much. Just snip as needed

[milktea-grn]

“all my grief says the same thing:

this isn’t how it’s supposed to be.

this isn’t how it’s supposed to be.

and the world laughs.

holds my hope by the throat.

says:

but this is how it is”

— Fortesa Latifi

[catfindr]

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin 🆕️ 👒🕺💙

Jil Is Lucky 🎶 Paper Plane

[todaywasafairytaletv]

Found a paper clip tucked behind my ear. This is all well and good, however I have absolutely no recollection of where it came from.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Continuing to use this to do list notepad very chaotically

[loki-valeska]

Another year has come and gone. And this year was filled with Super Paper Mario and Zelda lmao Looking back at my progress, I think I definitely made some improvements. They're small, but there's a lot of them. I worked on anatomy, and shading, and I think it really shows. I also started to enjoy drawing hands. There's just something whimsical about them.  I've also gotten a bit more experimental with my style and use of colors. I started doing Comic and Manga style, which I find really fun!  And even most recently I tried a painted lineless piece for the first time. 

Other achievements for this year include: making my first animated GIF, started writing my Super Paper Mario AU, and even started setting up my streaming equipment again. Hopefully I can stream again in 2024. 

Overall I posted 107ish pieces this year, according to my 2023 art folder. I've still got some finished pieces on the backburner too, but I'll save those for next year. Overall a pretty productive year I'd say. 

[jbartz]

Some pictures taken around the house~ Tried my best to imagine what it must be like being first-time parents, go to work full time and try to take care of the house as well, it's absolute chaos in TS4 at least! Feels like the house is pretty much ready and I kinda wanna start working on a new one already after looking up 1990s family house designs 😩

[tora-the-cat]

Ok. I waited 2 years before checking the Eaymond Chestnut & Five character tag on Ao3. I was very patient. So can someone explain why no one else has written the 'Hazel sends five a couple months back instead of a couple DAYS back and five goes to live with Allison but has to pretend to be her little brother because she is NORMAL that you very much and we get amazing five+allison+ray meal interactions and five's general existsnce only furthers Allison's friend's secret theory that she escaped a cult and he will NOT go to school but he does keep dragging weirder and weirder Other Guys (brothers?) to the Chestnut household and what if he gets there just before the wedding because he would cry like an old sap if he got to go to Allison's wedding and he keeps writing math on the walls and just WON'T stop and Ray has watched Allison try to explain that stealing is bad even if you don't get caught and this ALSO perpetuates the cult theory and Ray tries to hire a sitter for the kid when Allison ans him have a meeting at oddessa's to attend but five just laughs at him and he looks at Allison for help but she is ALSO laughing and-

[mel-addams]

HEY there's new folks here since I last rambled about Rebelle, and they've got a HUGE sale going on for the preorder of the next version, SO

TL;DR: amazing traditional-paint-emulating drawing program on huge preorder discount, $30 for Pro version GO GET YOU YOURS

I've been using the digital art program Rebelle for a bit over a year, and it is SO GOOD at emulating the feel of working with traditional paints, pencils, and pastels! It's got thick (or thin) impasto texture for oils/acrylics, water physics (!!) for watercolors, and can actually use the texture of your canvas to affect both wet and dry media brushes. It feels SO MUCH better than hooking a texture into a brush and working on a canvas that just...doesn't match it, or applying a texture afterward. BUT ALSO they're gonna be updating it soon, and adding not just standard digital niceties, but also METALLIC. PAINTS. Plus more texture stuff you can control, and even better texture reactivity, but METALLIC! PAINTS!! USING THE BUILT-IN LIGHTING AND TEXTURE SHENANIGANS, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO MESS AROUND WITH WRANGLING/OUTSOURCING EFFECTS YOURSELF

And the pre-order price from now until November 30th is ONLY $30 for the Pro version (which I absolutely recommend!), when the price is usually $150 (!!). The Pro preorder price will increase to $50 from December 1st to the 13th, then full price when it releases on December 14th. And they don't do subscription! Just free updates (typically good and/or requested features, as well as bugfixes), in between full upgrades like this that have been HUGELY discounted on release.

You can check out further info on Version 7's upgrade features, as well as the link to buy it, via the link at the top of the post. BUT if you wanna test out basic watercolor simulation, and/or test the trial version of Rebelle 6 (I think) to see if you like how it feels? You can check out this link: https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/try/

(Also they often do this sort of thing with the free bonus papers for spreading the word, as mentioned at the beginning of the Version 7 info link. I think it's happened...at least each time they've done a version upgrade, maybe once or twice in between? And it's been a different set of papers each time. But I already did my shared-post earlier. This post is genuinely just 'cause I think stuff like the feel of brushes reacting to visible texture and water physics (which you can pause!) are SO NICE, and the preorder price is bonkers-cheap. I still need side stuff like Affinity for like...fonts, but Rebelle is my current favorite for actual drawing and painting.)

PERSONAL EXAMPLE TIME

Playing around with watercolor drips, because you can control the "tilt" of the canvas (via either a tablet's features if it can, or a disk in the UI if not): Bakuratober Ghost prompt

Using canvas texture to get a RAD cracked-paint look on a dark canvas (I used the Straw canvas from the "Mulberry Coconut & Straw" purchasable paper set): Bakuratober Vampire prompt

Taking advantage of thick acrylic texture (plus watercolor which flowed into the brush streaks for emphasis), to simulate both muscle and sand texture (body horror warning): Bakuratober bonus prompt (Nightmare)

Combining a mildly textured pencil with a subtly textured canvas to emulate how I use physical colored pencils (plus layer effects for glowy ghosties): Bakuratober Dancer prompt

Combining wet canvas and watercolors to let the pigment feather out to create a "blurry" foreground effect (plus setting lineart as a masking fluid layer to keep colors contained): Disco (Elysium) Harmony

[theartofgooglebooks]

Driving IN TRANSIT.

From the back matter of Driving by His Grace the (Eighth) Duke of Beaufort (1901).

[johnmeowston]

i fuckign hate young sheldon as a show but little sheldon means the world tome and id shoot people in th ehead for him

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonne soirée 🆕️ 🎸 💙

The Paper Kites 🎶 Till The Flame Turns Blue

(At the Roadhouse)

[fozmeadows]

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?