#perfect expression for perfect girl

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Merrill for A8 c:

pics taken seconds before murder

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[blaithnne]

Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6

Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.

The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!

She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.

These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!

This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos

[googleincognitomode]

U can’t convince me otherwise that katniss’ dad’s name isn’t Heath. Why? It’s an evergreen shrub, founded in the moors n deep into the forest. It’s fitting for the family, since they has very botanical names. It’s also a plant used for medicinal purposes- linked w kidney n heart cleansing/ benefits, something that would links w Mrs Everdeen apothecary career, possibly needing heath (plant) for her healing n Heath (person) because she truely love him so much, she would leave her comfortable world in town.

Now, what would Mrs Everdeen’s name be? Erica. It’s another botanical name, w apothecary uses, what is always founded alongaide the heath plant. Someone told me, u gotta fact check, that when the Heath plant dies, the erica will still grow, but will slowly die off n become different to its initial blossoming. Which in my mind- is so poetic n sad, since it perfectly describes the relationship w mr n mrs Everdeen. She was a different person w her husband, n when he died, she slowly withered away. Though recovered, she still isn’t happy with her life source next to her

I like to also mention, a heath is the light and source of fire of a central force/being= thus, the Everdeen family. And when he died, a small part of everyone was left cold and empty, because they are constantly without their heath of a fire (physically n metaphorically).

And credit to my friend, since there is a Heath of a fire, it connects to katniss cus SHES the GIRL ON FIRE!!

[spaceratprodigy]

(palette challenge) PINK LEMONADE OR WATERMELON FOR DELIRIS ⁉️⁉️⁉️

@oldworldwidgets — [ palette prompts ]

WATERMELON LEMONADE DELIRIS 💖💚

[hirayaea]

it’s been a month and I still stare at this from time to time cause this is what got me

he’s pinned me down and I’m still here - ahem (〃ω〃)

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sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve had a Life Event due to my new job and it’s been eating my time! will be back to regular programming soon

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source: memoria - heartstring symphony

[nmzuka]

haven't even watched this anime (yet) but felt too fitting to not draw anyway

[thedreamerstoryteller]

[percki]

“we need more complex female characters” you guys couldn’t even handle 14yo katara. be so fr

[pealeii]

not only does the line “from here on in it’s independence day” in girls rolling stock flip greaseball’s insult (miss america) on its head, but it also declares its dinah’s independence day. her worth isn’t dependent on what anyone says, and she is her own independent person

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

I was rewatching The Stone Forest and I really like to think that Hilda had to pass by the Bell Keeper’s outpost on her way out of the city limits. I like to think that idiot looked at what was happening, shrugged, and said ‘eh, she’s the scariest thing out there’

[ice-devourer]

my niece wanted pizza but my sister told me she eats a lot of those already and requested not to let her eat fastfood as much as possible during her vacation here, so,,,the options for her early dinner this lovely 5 pm are

1. hamburger steak w mozzarella-filled patties & mac n cheese

2. baked chicken w mustard veloutte & toasted butter bread

3. pork cutlet w cheesey scrambled eggs & rice

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

get yourself a cat who will smack you impatiently, then once you pick her up she sprawls on your back to groom herself, and five minutes later gets up to Sneeze 3x in your freshly washed hair

[faaun]

my arms keep burning and turning red i keep smiling at polaroid photos of my friends i bought a set of pans so i wouldn't have to steal theirs. when i asked 2 ethicists why the way she treated me was so bad (tell me logically why i should let her go) i really meant tell me why i deserve better. tell me why what she did matters in the context of how you know me. will you tell me why do i deserve better than to suffer for a beautiful person?

[problemcore]

hiiii halfway? thru the story. hard as hell to avoid spoilers online i need to stay away 😭 rant in tags, spoilers for 2.2 . i already reached 30 tags wow 💀

[drones-of-innocence]

Princess Peach purposefully applying the most pigmented and shimmery lip gloss the owns, knowing full well she'll be at a very formal event with Mario and will be able to find a reason to kiss him on the cheek at some point 🤭

...And Mario, flustered by her attention and confused by everyone's knowing looks, not noticing the very obvious kiss print until he gets home and sees it in a mirror 😆

[ghostsberry]

The way you draw spy is so OUGHH I wanna gnaw on him also your art reminds me of Avatar The Last Airbender and it's so good so awesome

woah avatar is literally one of the reasons why i like to draw!!!! i have spent WAY too many hours analyzing its style and trying to draw it