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[tofupixel]

you literally inspired me to try pixel art, i made a minecraft skin!

🥺😥🥺😥 thats so amazing !! please show us

[trashofspace]

steals black hole and runs away

Careful, pal. He might break the pact 😧😧😧

[paleopinesofficial]

In many asks, I've seen you say you'd like to add various features "if you get the opportunity." What does that mean to laypeople? Aside from getting more people to play/buy the game, is there something we can do to make more content more likely?

This is a great question!

Aside from getting the game, the thing that helps games like ours is simply spreading the word! Tell your friends, family, teachers, coworkers, dogs, cats, lizards about us! Engage with our socials so we can reach more people, post reviews on steam (or on your console stores!)- visibility is really key for indie titles, and we're Lucky (haha!) to have a community who's so great at spreading the word already!

[aghostnamedcalamity]

Hello! question for Benjamin: (He's so adorable btw, help.)

What does he thinks of pancakes or waffles? Or both?

Have a good day/Night! :)

Big fan, 10/10 he would recommend. He doesn’t get them too often, though.

And thank you! His level of cuteness….varies wildly throughout the day.

I think we all know how Mordecai feels about pancakes.

[notmakos]

propably not anon

[nikoco11]

hii, first of all your art is absolutely gorgeous and you are so talented 💞!! i was just wondering if you had any advice on how you draw curly and textured hair? no worries if you don’t have the time to answer this!!

hi thank you!!! sorry this took me forever HAHA i wanted to put together a coherent detailed thing but realized i uhhh honestly don’t think that hard abt it when i draw

i tend to just plan out the hair parting n hairline

and then i just simplify n stylize curls by only drawing the front half of the curl? like this ^^ i like drawing them in an implied sort of style

rest of advice i’d give is to just observe how real hair sits (ie looser curls being more visible from further away n coming off as bigger etc etc) n how other artists draw hair !

[redspringstudio]

Does Vere’s tail wag when he’s happy?

One of Vere’s worst kept secrets is that his tail wags furiously when he’s happy. As someone who works hard to maintain an air of aloofness, he’s quick to hide or clamp his tail down whenever it twitches at a bad joke or unexpected delight.

[kiksniko]

in my braceszai era (I’m terrified to get braces but braceszai makes me feel a bit better)

i'm sure your braceszai era is gonna go well! if you get the demon in your ear telling you to eat that toffee just know it's actually dazai

[catfindr]

Who is the cat in your header?

thats lili! shes the reason i made this blog

[phantomrev]

Heya Mango! Saw that you watched dragons rising sooo…. Thoughts on the master of wind?

Myself, I was kinda bummed that Morro cant hold that tittle anymore but then again hes been dead for a while now and the title for wind master has been open since so—

Funny enough I really like her and im glad they kept the element "alive"

Also i strongly believe Morro is on a vacay somewhere in the departed realm while chaos ensues in ninjago

[tofupixel]

Just realized it's acceptable to share. Your pixel art also inspired me to start making my own! They're mostly icons for entities of value- posting them in sorta-linear order to show progress (which I'm really proud of!)

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they look great !!! i especially love the chanterelle. u can rly see improvement already 💕🥺 ty for showing me

[wordsnstuff]

This might sound strange... writing a romance I started to see romantic potential between my lead and a side character, rather than strictly between the two leads... I'm starting to swerve. How can I suit my writing/mindset to keep the relationship with the side character platonic?

When characters develop minds of their own...

Writing is one of those mediums where people tend to overlook the importance of experimentation. It's seen as a fairly linear process: brainstorm, map the plot, write the draft, edit the draft, publish. If any other type of creation was done this way, most would see the process as incomplete, because experimentation is imperative to creativity. Curiosity is the key to finding satisfaction, and no matter how brilliant you think an idea is at its conception, the best way to do it justice is to question it.

If you find yourself in a situation where your story begins to develop outside your control, don't strangle it back into the shape you imagined for it at first. See where it goes. Let it bleed outside the lines and see what you prefer. You can always return to the original plan. The beauty in fiction is that it has infinite possibility, and if you have the talent to write characters and worlds that determine their own trajectory, enjoy the reward.

In your case, you've designed a romance between two characters but the chemistry of a different pairing has become more compelling, so see what happens. There is a good chance you've simply written a secondary character that serves the story better in a leading role, and there's no harm in experimenting to see if that's correct. If it doesn't work and you're convinced the relationship is more suitable in the platonic category, you will find the reason along the way and that reason will speak for itself as you return to writing the original pairing. If anything, this might become an organic way for you to misdirect the reader in order to make the payoff of your original idea more substantial.

Writing should be an intuitive process. If you're swerving in another direction, satiate your curiosity and then make decisions with all of the information. Just like any other artistic medium, you will only know what's right once you've established what isn't.

Best of luck,

x Kate

[halveablock]

hi!! i literally do not know how to use tumblr but i made an account so i could reach out bc i just wanted to say that your jjk art is just so ??? aaaaaa especially your maki art/comics since she's by far one of my favorite characters, i feel like you've got her character down so well and all of your ideas really just hit me fmksfsdfs,,, the first time i saw your work was with your pyre maki zine and when i tell you every time you pop up on my pinterest or twitter feed i go a little bit insane

aw thank you so much anon 🥺 i'm so happy for all the maki love

this msg also made me miss drawing her so i sketch

[toxictoxicities]

Moon and Pebbles in the sibling shirt? Sibling code demands it! /nf love ur art btw ❤

I wasn't too sure what you meant but I hope this will suffice

[paleopinesofficial]

❤️🧡💛 FLASH DINO COLOUR COMPETITION 💛🧡❤️

We're boosting everyone's dopamine vibes again and giving one fan the opportunity to choose the colour of a DINO 🦖 to add to Paleo Pines!

This time around, we have SPECIFIC dinos that need some love! 👀

To Enter:

1️⃣ Follow Paleo Pines on Tumblr (hey that's us!)

2️⃣Reblog the Competition, with your entry

3️⃣Include up to four colours in your entry along with a name for your colour scheme and if you have a preferred dino from the selection below- feel free to use these templates!

We can't WAIT to see your creations filling our feed - we will accept written entries ✒️ drawings🎨 songs 🎶 Anything that gets your colour idea across!

Competition will close this Monday, January 29th at 8pm GMT 🏆

[nikoco11]

little breakdown abt the same 4 lines i tend to use for drawing folds!!

not a tutorial just some notes ^^

ps sorry for spelling accordion wrong every single time. i will not learn from this

second ps the biggest diff between accordion and pinch is that pinch lines meet at the origin point while accordion lines imply a future meeting but don’t actually touch