#this is specifically about That brand btw

[sylenth-l]

Hi hello, I love your art so much LIKE MY BROTHER. IT'S SO YUMMY, THE SHADOWS THE EXPRESSIONS, I love how you draw Timur , Felwinter and Osiris together 🙏 little bird with his two funky adoptive parents. I stare at your art like , I'm always ready and hyped to give traditional art another try ✨

If I was to go back, any tips for which watercolours to pick? I so far got only aniline colours.

Aah, thank you so much!! 😳💙

Hmmm, the thing is, I use fountain pen inks almost always for painting. I don't use watercolour much, so I can't really suggest anything in particular… I have a selection of colours from different brands, of course, I know quite a lot about pigments, and I like using watercolour from time to time to add some special effects to my works. For sketching outdoors it's also the easiest to use among all other paints, probably. But painting a whole artwork with it……… I try doing it sometimes, but every single time I end up thinking "God, I wish I used inks instead, I hate this so much, why is it so BLEURGH". I guess watercolour just isn't my medium 😂 

I can share my thinking process when building up a palette though, I use it with all mixable mediums I use, be it inks, watercolour, gouache, etc. I found it to be the most effective (and money-saving, lol) approach for me.

So what I want for my main mixing palette is to have 3 sets of primary trios. All colours also must be as smooth as possible, with no surprises or unwanted colour separation. For watercolour - not granulating ones.

(my camera tends to make all colours brighter and also fails to see the subtle difference between some shades, but you can still get the idea)

The first trio is extremely vivid, consisting of bright cool colours - lemon yellow, cyan, magenta-leaning pink. It gives you access to all the bright, open colours.

Second is the classic they teach in all art schools (probably, from what I've heard, I never went into one alkjdshfk) - sunshine yellow, bright warm red and ultramarine blue. This gives you a huge selection of warmer, natural colours, like all shades of golds, eggplant purples, olive greens, etc. It also allows some nice selection of wood browns.

Third is my personal favorite, the muted trio. You kinda can get similar colours from the previous trio, but I prefer having these separately, because of how often I use them all. It consists of golden ochre-leaning yellow, dark bloody red and dark indanthrone blue. It gives you the most beautiful browns, beiges, blacks and other rich, deep colours.

On top of that I also like to have at least one decent black (in my case it's Quink Black ink, I cannot live without it).  And these 10 would be my essentials. Other colours I add to my mixing palette are basically shortcuts to the shades I find myself mixing the most - like a few browns and violets. There are also a few inks that I need for some very specific purposes - like, I have a very vivid cold magenta ink to mix a certain bright cold shade of the Void, and also a fluorescent orange for adding shiny Exo LED lights. And etc.

(Actually I'm currently in the process of re-organizing my main palette and also considering making a few small sets for painting some characters specifically)

I also have a separate selection of chromatographic inks, which can probably be compared to granulating watercolours… But not quite. A few examples:

Here I don't have any special notes or advices, just get the ink you like and enjoy it. Some of these I use so often that I always keep them in my main palette, and others I only get out for some special occasion. These are also mixable btw - I constantly add other ink in Quink Black to get different shades of it.

However, I must say that not all of the ~special effects~ inks are polite and well-behaved, some will agree to work only on some specific paper after a significant amount of coaxing, and others will straight out say "fuck you" at the most crucial moment, even if they worked perfectly just a moment ago.

Btw, when working with inks, I really recommend to put it into smaller bottles with a dropper, so you don't have to open the big bottle each time. It's both easier to use for you and much safer for inks! 

ANYWAY, I hope this post was of some use for you 🌈

[mx-paint]

I love it when people blatantly shit on dni posts and say how they're not going to check, then Immediately log onto their 2nd account after being blocked to ask "why do you hate me 🥺 im just a little guy who followed, I didn't know, why didn't you tell me!"

[ugly-anarchist]

If your argument is "I support x because x is better than y" then you actually don't support x and should maybe reconsider your stances and views

Yes, I'm still talking about sex negativity.

"Romantic sex is better than friends with benefits"

"Friends with benefits is better than one night stands with strangers"

"One night stands with strangers is better than-"

Shut up!

Literally shut up!

It's not a matter of finding something "worse" to scapegoat! You should just support people having safe, consensual, sex! No matter who they're doing it with or why!

Let people have sexual autonomy! It's not hard to mind your own fucking business!

[starlightwalker]

one thing that i've realized while casually rereading the first and second books is that you could make an argument and convince me that brand is into addam as much as you could convince me of the opposite. however there is no force on this planet that could make me not believe that addam is REALLY into brand

[trinketbug]

people getting mad at me for drawing that furry inflation image being at a mcdonalds cuz we're boycotting mcdonalds. first of all mcdonalds is not on the bds boycott list rn. second of all do you think i could afford mcdonalds either way

[sanstropfremir]

So you have mentioned long ago that btses and strays are similar and I was curious how? I see it in their um interesting fandoms. But I can also see similarities with blokb kinda.

well.

rapper leader that supposedly had a hand in choosing members

three rapper unit

marketed as a 'self produced' group

self love + positive reinforcement branding

weekly recurring lives/shows on vlive

huge emphasis on intl audiences to the point where there's not a lot of domestic regard

extremely poorly behaved fanbase of mostly intl fans

vocalists that can't pass muster

overrated dancer

underrated dancer that gets shafted constantly

steep increase in production budget that does nothing visually other than show off how much money the company has

[sonknuxadow]

annoying archie sonic fans who can't accept that the freedom fighters arent coming back will see a girl character in idw sonic do literally anything and immediately call her a sally ripoff

[soup-soup-soup-soup-soup]

SOUP-ER BOWL ROUND 15

LIVIN' THE DREAM IN CREAM, THIS SOUP IS A SWAMP OF FLAVOR YOU AND YOUR ONIONS WILL WANT TO SINK INTO, LIKE AN OGRE INTO MUD, THIS SOUP'LL SOON BECOME YOUR LIFEBLOOD--IT'S CREAM OF ONION SOUP!

(image credit: tasteofhome.com)

AND, AS THE NAME IMPLIES, FROM FRANCE THIS SOUP IS MULTI-LAYERED JUST LIKE ITS MAIN INGREDIENT--IT'S GOT CROUTONS, IT'S GOT CHEESE, AND OF COURSE, IT'S GOT ONIONS--SAY BIEN VENUE FOR FRENCH ONION SOUP!!

(recipe: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13309/rich-and-simple-french-onion-soup/

image credit: poshjournal.com)

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

Got my souvenirs

Freeze dried skittles and handmade watercolors made by the owners of the art shop i got them at

They grind their own pigments and everything

Their business card is a 6inch ruler

[moodr1ng]

also im so sorry to be that guy but the whole "europeans are weird for this" "americans are weird for that" shtick is so tired already why do we spend so much time online just being annoying abt mundane random shit that people elsewhere do. is that doing anything for anyone. does anyone give a shit

[fingertipsmp3]

I’m not sure if the seasonal depression is hitting especially hard this year or if I’m just grieving for Mabel or if I’m finally going irreparably insane or if life/people is being unfair towards me or all of the above

[scaredstupid]

what if i had a crush on specifically the book version of a character from a classic movie

[kaizokuseb]

i don’t like taking medicine + i have adhd, and i forget that over the counter meds even exist. so when i do take something like midol for my cramps because they’re so bad i can’t stop thinking about it, it feels like fucking magic. like i just swallow these little guys, and 20 minutes later, i feel perfectly fine. my hips have stopped aching, i don’t feel like i’m going to throw up any more, my body can actually relax. it feels like i just took a health potion from a video game. and it’s silly because i always have this option but i almost never use it, and i don’t think most people even put this much thought into it. but i think about all the ways people who had periods have found methods to reduce suffering over the centuries, and it took so much testing and knowledge being passed down over the generations, and now i can just take a little pink pill and feel so much better. those remedies still exist, and they work, but not everyone has that knowledge passed onto them. how nice is it that people who were afab don’t have to struggle to find a method that works when there’s no one in their life to turn to? how wonderful that we don’t have to be in pain, and how excited our ancestors would be to see how easy it is for us. i didn’t mean to get all serious about this, but yeah. magic.

(*all of this applies to people like me who can take some midol when the pain is too much. it doesn’t work for everyone, and some have much more pain than others. i am not discounting those people, only speaking to my own and similar experiences. i hope everyone who suffers on their period can find a way to lessen the pain; we all deserve to be comfortable.)

[capaldiera]

i said on the tags of a post once that mulcahy isn't homophobic and that was true but like it's just not that simple obviously and it bothered me a bit to leave it at that but the post was already a mile long and i can't elaborate further without like talking for an hour and not really saying anything by the end of it. anyway the only purpose the statement needed to serve in that post was that it's nice for gay students at the school for the hard of hearing mulcahy works at post-canon that their chaplain isn't homophobic.

[uupiic]

Rimi frozen cherries are better. They're smaller and sweeter than Maxima ones. Probably a different sort.

Conclusion: buying Rimi frozen cherries for next winter.

(Maxima has better frozen strawberries and broccoli btw)

[thewirewitch]

2 dead, 5 injured:

Shipping on a small item about 3x the price of the item itself.