#process pics

[chipper-smol]

Process photos cause i love em \o/

15 minute sketch I made at work bc i was bored -> y'know it wouldn't look bad with a background -> ok maybe i'll line it too -> ok flats time- everything feels like it looks too bright, but things start comig together at the -> aaaaah yes shading layers my beloved -> lighting 💖-> additional adjustments for that extra happy eye feel

[robosexualunderground]

Happy Threshold Day! I commemorated this iconic Voyager moment in stained glass.

[bookish-bogwitch]

Hello! I don't have any new words to share from Basil Pitch's Diary, but thought I'd share the BPD plot timeline that lives over my desk. Here it is, redacted but for one spoiler.

Art credits from top left: Basilton Grimm-Bitch by @artsyunderstudy Baz Pitch by @dead-cherry-bitch "Twinkle, twinkle little star!" by @dancingwdinosaurs

I just needed to physically move things around to grasp what could / should go when. When I finish writing an event, the paper slip comes down. (It's not to scale in terms of chronology--this started about halfway through the story.) At this point I've changed a lot and it's out of date but I've kept it up for inspiration. I mean--look at him! He deserves an HEA.

Tags & hullo to @facewithoutheart, @thewholelemon, @cutestkilla, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @mooncello,

@raenestee, @rimeswithpurple, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @hushed-chorus, @emeryhall, and anyone reading this.

[finalfrontierpublishing]

It slipped my mind that I kind of promised a making-of post - sorry @notabuddhist, who so kindly gave me permission to bind One of Many Great Fires for @pleasantboatpress!

I've tried to include as many making-of photos but sometimes i am just a shit photo taker so I am very sorry in advance.

Step 1: Stitch a text block and planning, Endband making

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good rounded book. I started rounding books from my third bind and haven't looked back.

I took a little while to get to this as it required colour printing and I don't have a colour printer at home. I finally got off my ass close to the end of Binderary and went to the printer I usually go to to print my coloured prints - luckily they didn't read my gay porn or ask me about it, though I've been getting increasingly pointed questions about what exactly i'm making.

glue round number 1 and trim with my guillotine, and then i take my trusty hammer to the spine to do some rounding.

So, okay, anyone who's read this fic knows it takes place on Vulcan. And i've seen enough imagery on star trek to know Vulcan is endless red sand and heat and oh boy, i feel hot just thinking about it.

I knew red would be a colour that fit thematically and I had recently found lovely marbled paper that really looked so much like the gas giant appearance of Jupiter but red. I then pulled out my trusty colibri cranberry bookcloth to do a couple of colour match checks- i love colibri and will never not recommend it.

Usually at this point, I do my endbands - and I did a simple two colour front bead endband because when i started this, that was all I knew how to do.

Step 2: Case making

I recently found out that what i usually do for books is called the square back bradel bind (though technically this is not square back), but you get my meaning.

Case is made, and then glued to bookcloth. Look at those crisp edges, yum yum. I'm generally a messy glue user, so you can see all the bits of paper stuck to the back of the half-done case, also with big F and Bs drawn on them because i never remember which side i want the front and back to be. The case looks pretty good with nary a glue stain. (I did a good job with glue management this time, phew)

Step 3: Decorative steps

My usual go-to is HTV because I'm not quite adept at other arty decorative methods like paint or usage of the foil quill. I decided to go with vulcan calligraphy on the back - with a river binding strip of marble paper in the middle. To make it look extra fancy, i made little silver HTV strips to border the river binding strip, though it warped a little from the heat because it was so ridiculously thin.

Step 4: Casing in

No photos of this because i'm usually hopping on one foot doing things on speedmode with PVA.

Shall pay tax with this photo - I love taking photos of my bookshelf and I really loved the burst of colour of the bookshelf after Binderary'23 was over.

I have made something like 21 case binds, but nearly 30 book binds (inclusive of coptic and stab) in total. that's a pretty decent number for someone who's only been binding for the last 9 months.

[zytes]

a few choice iterations from the process of “head heavy in june”

[cyborgjack]

[image: A picture of a computer screen showing a Word document titled 'Creature Comforts.' Smaller text blocks read 'a Trigun Hurt/Comfort fanfic anthology,' 'the crossdressing fic isn't H/C, that’s just indulgence,' and 'OCCASIONALLY EXPLICIT.' A wanted poster of Vash the Stampede from the '98 anime and a wanted poster of Vash the Stampede from the Trigun: Stampede anime are on the right side of the page. On the left is a chibi-style manga panel of Nicholas D. Wolfwood straddling a prone Vash, caught in the act of punching him while Meryl Stryfe reaches out to stop them. Wolfwood and Meryl are staring at the viewer. Vash looks nervous, but it’s unclear where he’s looking because he has his sunglasses on]

Feeling incredibly smug about this anthology typeset title page.

I’ve been building a lot of anthology typesets because I love oneshots 20k or less and this is a great way to compile some of my favorite short fics under a vague theme umbrella. Pretty much any Trigun fic is probably Hurt/Comfort if you squint enough, though the referenced crossdressing fic really is just clothing/costuming porn with. Literal porn.

[noahbradley]

Learning to paint landscapes better

[wormyorchids]

Gem oak + progress on a basswood geode

[gaybugcentral]

The neurogaunts are done, the neurotyrant is underway

[citrusratz]

Chronicles of making Rhamiel! The tail took the longest by far. You can also see the point where I realized his leg was too long and had to perform surgery to shorten it. I actually had to cut his front legs off completely and lengthen them at one point but I didn’t take any photos.

His neck/head were the last to be completed because I wanted to make sure I knew how big the rest of his body was first. It’s hard to accurately predict sizing with needle felt. I knew there’d be a very real risk of making his head too big or too small and having to redo it.

(Please disregard the Potter thing in the corner of one of these, someone gave it to us for Christmas and we don’t know what to do with it)

[ciriceart]

Right: A Best Friend made for me by my best friend.

Left: A Best Friend made for my best friend by me.

Their species is Best Friend. They have no names.

[nazzzzzz4]

[kaynon]

Been busy with artfight, but I picked up some cheap gouache paint the other day and this is what I've come up with

[lovingempress]

For Vy-chan~ @writer-and-artist27

I forgot to post these for so long huhuhuhuu 😭 just some other faces of your girl from when I first started this piece, and a bit near the end before the final edits. They were so fun to experiment with, and they came out so cute~! It’d be a shame to hide them away forever. Can’t believe I haven’t posted them until now agh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tbh, I really liked the light blue background I started with (it’s the “Hoshino Tomoko” color in my head nowadays lol), and I wish I kept it somehow. The sunny background with clear blue skies really fits our sunshine girl. It wasn’t working with the texture I was trying for, but in its own way, I think the plain blue was really nice. This starry version I finished with was also really cool- really emulated that “Hoshino” glow ehe~ for the finale I added some glow lighter purple in the middle, was kinda going for galaxy-vibes, I guess? I had issues with the coloring of the letters tbh; once I added the lighter purple, I couldn’t keep the yellow lettering. I tried all sorts of colors, but the most visible was this orange brown, so I stuck with it as a callback to Obito 🥽👍🏼

[cmfinn]

Everybody's girl

What's the point in being everybody's girl?

Maybe you think that way there's no chance getting hurt

Living for no one costs me way more than it's worth