#tho it's a first draft probably full of typos

[sky-kenobye]

Making of Monday

More of a fun fact than a making of, but I struggle a lot to not edit as I go, which slow me down so much, and a while ago I read a writing tip that said that setting the font to something you can't read helps with that (since you can't read it you can't edit and you keep writing). I finally tried it and honestly it's working pretty well so far I think?

Anyway,

I'm writing a star wars fic in aurebesh:

(Sorry for the bad quality, I took a photo of my laptop like an old person lol)

[mawrrbid]

I've been working on these two guys since yesterday, and I am having the most fun I ever had in a while.

Both of them are highly inspired by Yaelokre's aesthetic, "Wolf" also having some inspiration from Vessel, Sleep Token's singer.

They don't have name yet (just referencing to them as Lamb & Wolf for now), nor story, but I do have few things settled down.

Feel free to keep reading if you want to see me ramble about OCs that are not even fully fleshed out yet.

I mostly have design drafts in my sketchbook. Most of them of Lamb because he was the first one I came up with, along with one digital draft for their colors.

The main idea was to keep them simple so I could eventually cosplay them someday for funsies, but alas, brain is screaming to me to make them more detailed, so I will have to revise their design.

Wolf's first draft was on digital, and I hate it so bad. I did it at 1 a.m after playing for few hours online with friends, my brain was just NOT there.

I hate the colors, I hate the clothes, I hate everything. I actually had their design idea BEFORE Lamb. It was supposed to go in a complete different direction and be a lot more based of Vessel. So I just, did a 180° turn and completely changed the direction of what I wanted to do with them, which kind of lost me in the process of designing them, I didn't even know what kind of aesthetic I wanted to go for with them kjhjkkj.

But I picked up my sketchbook, and managed to pull something that I like a lot more.

As I mentioned, I do not have a set up story for them, but they are basically the whole "appearance can be deceiving" trope.

In short, I just want people to sit in front of them, and wonder who's the real monster. Is it the clearly not human one who looks like they could rip you appart, or the one with the sweet smile & innocent demeanor? Who knows?...

I wanna work more on them, but I am running out of steam since I've been working on them for like... Almost a full day?? So will take a break, probably gather some more references, make moodboard and color palette. Because even tho I have kind of solid idea on what colors I want Lamb to be, I have NO idea which colors I'm gonna give to Wolf. Wanted them to be kind of complementary, Lamb blue and Wolf red, but red doesn't look good on Wolf no matter how hard I try so I'm gonna have to do more test on that matter kjhjk.

Anyway, I don't know why I felt the need to do that super ass long post. I feel like people follow me here mostly for Touchstarved content. But I kind of wanted to ramble about something else for once.

I also don't often share my thought process whenever I create OCs from scratch, but I thought it could be interesting??? Porbably not, it's mostly just me rambling heh.

Sorry for all potential typos, I am not fully awake while writing that, and my ADHD is like, off to the roof lately.

ALSO, if you have name ideas for these two, please lmk!! I'd love to hear your suggestion. 🙏

[j3tsabyss]

Hollywood Undead iceberg 2 full explanations

Ok I had this in the drafts for awhile and now here is iceberg number 2 explained. Once again feel free to correct me on anything and remember this is a long post

Level 1-Undead: probably their most well known song

Psalms EP: 2018 EP

Myspace: HU got their start on myspace

Dead in Ditches: one of the best known unreleased HU songs

Hats: they all wear hats a lot

Sarcasm: they all also use sarcasm. A lot. Extremely

Funny Claus: FunnyMan being Santa Claus in Christmas in Hollywood. Also there’s this video of Funny Claus

Label issues: HU has had a lot of issues with their labels from past to even present

Level 2-Johnny’s captain hats: basically Johnny’s signature during Swan Songs. He usually wore a white captain hat but there’s possibly more variants (such as the black captain’s hat)

Charlie and Funny’s matching Hawaiian shirts: both Charlie and Funny had matching Hawaiian shirts during 2015/DOTD

Bastard Threads: another clothing line ran by FunnyMan. You might’ve seen their hat with the word “bastard” on it. Once again the clothing line went defunct without explanation

Undead Origins: a comic book released in the Five era that has a rather... odd artstyle. It was on the HU merch store but it’s no longer there for some reason

Danny’s long hair: Danny had long hair at one point. As you can tell he hasn’t grown out his hair since

J-Dog’s foot fetish: a joke but J-Dog references being “turned on” by feet in this interview. He’s likely joking but…

Tony Lovato: Johnny’s friend from the band Mest. Whose band also has their songs featured VERY PROMINENTLY in Highway to Havasu

Johnny and Charlie kissing: there’s at least 2-3 photos of Johnny and Charlie kissing. Absolutely NONE of them have context except for one which was supposedly taken at Charlie’s birthday party. Imagine seeing those pics when you know nothing about HU

Mysterious background vocals: there’s a lot of videos of HU background vocals and there’s times where the background vocals are not one of the HU guys. Of course I can’t think of any specifics right now

Johnny’s shoddy wifi during the first virtual meet and greets: Johnny’s wifi got crappy due to the bomb in Nashville that was a few days before the virtual meet and greets. This resulted in Johnny not being present for some meet and greets because of his wifi. In my case I was lucky to have him in my virtual meet and greet tho his square was rather blurry at times. And then again he was CLEANING

Level 3-pre-AT FunnyMan skipping an interview to read comic books in the back room: self explanatory but I can’t remember the interview this was sorry. I’ll update this with a link to the interview if someone gives me it

Funny deleting all old Instagram posts in 2018: Funny deleted all of his past instagram in New Years 2018 for some reason. There’s still no explanation to why that happened

Funny’s old instagram profile pic: for a time Funny’s original Instagram profile pic was a pic of himself with a meme-like font that said “FUN D.M.C!” Or something like that. You can see that in old screenshots

Viral Tiger: Charlie’s gay white tiger plush that he wanted to go viral. Despite the fact Viral Tiger was last seen in a dump truck he still had a impact on the HU fanbase godspeed Viral Tiger

Freej3t shirt: some shirt of Swan Songs mask Johnny with a text saying that. I honestly don’t know why this shirt was made but both J3T and Funny have worn it. It could be connected to that time Johnny got arrested in 2009 but I’m not 100% sure

HU making typos all the time: credit to Dove for this one. EVERY HU guy has made a lot of typos. I think it’s the most common with Johnny because of his big fingers. Or finfers rather

Charlie’s mullet: Charlie had a mullet in 2014/2015 then he later cut it. Rip Charlie’s mullet

Johnny’s obsession with Spencer Charnas: joke entry where it references two random comments Johnny made on Spencer’s posts

Freak Nasty: Johnny was featured on this song back in 2016 and at least to me it’s somewhat hilarious

“Wrap a rope” lyric: lyric from Dead Bite that gets misinterpreted as “wrap a wrap” in its own lyric video

Hollywood Undead Swan Songs era documentary: Hollywood Undead - The Undead Story was a documentary about the HU guys during the Swan Songs era

HU4Life (tumblr): a fan tumblr that had literally every kind of photo of all HU guys. They were pretty popular but at one point they ended up being involved in discourse where they put their url over photos that clearly weren’t theirs. There’s even a post where someone messaged them about that and they pretty much said they didn’t give a shit about that. And then I don’t remember what happened next but they’re deactivated now so

Level 4-Daisy the chicken: for some reason Kurlzz had a pet chicken named Daisy. I remember seeing snaps of Daisy and there’s some pics of her with him but other than that I don’t think we’ve ever seen this chicken again

That random high pitched “kIcK iT” in House Party: I’m surprised nobody asked me about this one. Basically during the Another Way Out intermission there’s this random “kICK IT” that you can hear and it’s just, it’s just not Danny who says that (he later says “kick it” himself). So basically there’s just a really random “kick it” that came from like outta nowhere. I posted a video of that but uhhh it got copyright claimed on here so .-.

Danny’s actual birth year: Danny’s birth year has been given as either 1982 or 1985. While google says 1982, 1985 is the birth year given on the site famousbirthdays(.)com and it’s also a common year that’s seen on Danny Rose Supply merch. I think his birth year likely is 1982 but who fricking knows

Funny and Danny can draw: Danny has posted some of his own drawings before and he apparently drew some of the art in Notes from the Underground booklet. There’s a IG story from awhile ago where Funny was drawing on a ipad and he actually did good and there is a drawing he did himself that he posted on instagram before. Also he done the art for Charlie’s song lil Tim McGraw (not out yet)

Charlie’s snapchat: Charlie had a snapchat and he’s even verified as a celebrity snap or something but he pretty much never ever used it

“Whoeuce?”: kinda a joke but there was a screenshot of someone asking the HU facebook about Deuce and the response was that

All HU guys except for maybe Danny have criminal records: most of the HU guys basically have committed a crime at least once. Johnny said before he’s considered a felon. In the case of Danny he never has committed a crime I don’t think but in my opinion he probably has once. Just once

Hollywood Land Magazine (HLM): the HLM in J-Dog’s username stands for that. But the thing is I have no idea what exactly is this magazine. They have a instagram but it’s been inactive for like years and they used to have a website but it’s also defunct. So basically Idk what’s with J-Dog keeping HLM in his username (just like how Johnny has co in his username despite 3tearsco being defunct now)

Dark Places was written about their record label: tbh this is a vague one because I actually got this from tvtropes. At least what tvtropes says is allegedly Dark Places was written about their record label but that kinda makes me wonder where did they get that. Tho tbh it would make a lot of sense if it really was about their record label considering Johnny’s and Charlie’s verses

3 Pill Morning’s Never Look Back originally featured Charlie Scene: there was a time a band called 3 Pill Morning originally was gonna feature Charlie on their song Never Look Back. Of course later the band announced that Charlie isn’t going to be on that song but he’s credited a songwriting credit. I think once again HU’s label probably prevented Charlie from this. Also I guess this would’ve been Charlie’s first feature if he was able to sing on it

Carly and Brittini: both exes of Johnny. Thing is there’s no confirmation about their surnames and there’s no pics of how they looked either. In fact Brittini is only known due to the fact he tattooed her name on his chest (well he covered it up eventually). Meanwhile in the case of Carly she ended up standing out because Johnny in this video already reacts to a fan that just happens to be named Carly and he mentions she broke up with him. So make some of that if you will

Level 5-Vanessa gave away her wedding dress after she got married: I can’t remember where I heard this from originally but basically after Vanessa got married she sold her wedding dress back. I don’t really recall if there was a reason why she did it but it’s actually bought by a fan now

Johnny was on TMZ: honestly I’m surprised literally no one asked me about this because I could go on about this. Anyway in March 2019 Johnny was once on TMZ about the myspace deleting tracks thing and gave his thoughts on it and all that. But the slightly peculiar thing about him being on TMZ was he got called “THE FRONTMAN” of Hollywood Undead. And then at least to me since then I felt like there was a sudden increase of news outlets referring to Johnny as “the frontman” which was something I never once seen before UNTIL TMZ said that. Also the only other time TMZ ever reported on Hollywood Undead was that jumping incident so yea there you go sorry that I rambled so much

Who runs the official Hollywood Undead accounts?-self explanatory. I’ve seen fans wonder about who runs the HU accounts. Most think either J-Dog or FunnyMan but it’s never been confirmed. It’s definitely not Johnny because he said himself before that it’s definitely not him running the official HU account

Johnny knows about Love Sick Radio: self explanatory. Johnny knows about one of the DOTD rejects and as a lost media person I was enthusiastic to know that Johnny remembered the DOTD rejects

[chubbysewcialist]

Pattern-making Plans - 2018 Update

Made my first attempt at a pattern block last weekend, definitely needs some tweaking but wasn’t as far off as I expected. Although double checking the internet for reviews/hacks of Armstrong’s pattern-making book (and it’s typos) makes me want to redo my measurements and start over. Which compared to past projects really isn’t that big of a deal, lol. But doing something is never the same as reading about it, and even then just reading through all of the different pattern blocks and alterations I’ve amended my priorities a bit for next year. And by that I mean I’m aiming to have these covered by the *end* of next year, so hopefully I’m not overloading myself. I also need to pick up some proper pattern-drafting tools. I’m not sure where or why I got my current set of curves but they’re just not big enough for patterns my size, and I don’t have a hip-curve. Trying to use my metal ruler as a bendy-curve resulted in me needing a lot of bandaids. Will also need a new roll of brown packing paper, which is what I used to use to draft circle skirts and I’m almost out. I’m just not sure I need 150 feet of it off Amazon Prime, tho that would mean I don’t have to lug it through the snow... So, newly re-prioritized plans: 1) Try out the ‘basic block’ dress. Still looks boring and unflattering, but now I think if I slide it over my dressmaker form and try padding it out that might help me out with future projects. Curious notion, no idea if it will actually work out. 2) Skirts! I’ve drafted circle skirts without a pattern for costumes and underskirts (for costumes) and that wasn’t tricky at all. And if Santa brings me fabric gift certificates, I’d like to make a couple of winter skirts. Much as I've enjoyed   V8749 I’d really like something that flares a bit less. It’s effectively a 3/4 circle skirt and a lot of other ppl end up sitting on it when I’m on the subway, whups. I’m going to try to draft a half-circle, and a slash-and-spread style flared or a-line skirt. The chapter on bias cutting also perked up my interest in making a tea-length (or longer) bias cut skirt. 3) Knits block!  This chapter is a bit confusing in how its worded, but I think what they’re getting at is a knit version of a pattern needs to be either bigger or smaller than a woven pattern depending on how stretchy the knit is.  It’s based on a unified dart-less body block which can then be made into a shirt, or lengthened for a skirt, widened for a cardigan, etc. I mean, that’s how pattern blocks work overall, but without the darts to worry about this one might be simpler to play with.  (And while I don’t usually follow trends, all of the stretch velvet I’m seeing in stores online reeeeeally make me want more velvet dresses and tunics. I might be able to resist, but if it motivates me to crank out more patterns then yay? #gothproblems ) 4) Draft wide leg trousers that don’t require a zillion darts. I still need new/better trousers (wow linen wears out fast), but getting a sense of how measurements vs darts work by drafting skirts might cause less stress in the long run. New winter trousers would be nice, but might have to wait until next year. 5) Crossover bodice top. I really like wearing these kinds of tops, but have always had trouble fitting them properly. And then I learned at DCon that all commercial patterns are based on a B-cup, and suddenly it all made sense. I could alter my old patterns with a "Full Bust Adjustment”, but I think I’d rather just start from scratch given how much I like creases and folds in these bodice patterns. Might be easier to block a FBA and then slash in the foldy bits in afterward than doing it the other way around?  And then I can add a small ‘skirt’ for a nice top, or a much longer one for a nice empire waist dress.

6) Button-up Shirt. Getting into the more complicated category, I’ve rarely to never liked wearing these, but a friend of mine with similar feelings had one custom made for her measurements and loved it. So I’m curious to try this, although I’d probably still wear them like cardigans. I moreso want to turn one into a shirt-dress for the summer, which does not seem that much more complicated once I’ve got a shirt-block. 5) Blazerquest. Seems a bit more complicated than I first realized. Still want to do it, but want to try easier stuff first to get used to equipment, formulas, etc. Not to mention, could not find the word “blazer” used anywhere in this edition of Armstrong’s book, at least not in the chapter on jackets, which lead to internet research where I realized how weird (and male-coded, yikes) jacket terminology is.

6) Leggings pattern. Moved down in priorities less for complexity and more because the leggings section of my dresser-drawer is too full to close. I had to make some emergency heavyweight leggings with the old pattern for the winter (heating at work is broken), and the ankles still don’t fit, and I still need the butt adjustment, but its not like I ever wear leggings without a skirt or dress over them and nobody will notice :-P I’m still pretty optimistic about all of this, which feels oddly freeing. I won’t have to search for patterns similar to what I want anymore, and settle for good-enough. I can at least try to make what I want from scratch, and start with all of my weird shape measurements instead of altering someone else’s work to fit them. Don’t have any costuming focused sewing/drafting plans thus far, but that could very well change when con season starts next year. And Arisia is in January, squee!