#tutorial tuesday

[omegaverseloversunite]

WEEKLY EVENTS—

TUTORIAL TUESDAY

In the #writer-resources and #artist-resources share your favorite tutorials, videos, posts, etc that you have found helpful on any topic.

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[helioscopepdx]

Happy Hamm Tips Tuesday!

Today we're highlighting this incredible volume of Jesse's writing on Alex Toth, available for just $5 on Gumroad. In Jesse's own words:

Over the years, I've written several essays about master cartoonist Alex Toth, focusing on his strengths and methods. I've compiled everything I've written into one 106 page PDF. Included here are seven essays, an obituary I wrote for The Comics Journal, and excerpts from several conversations I've had in the comments sections at my blog, where I answer questions from readers about the man and his work. All told, there are 15,300 words, plus illustrative images and diagrams. 

Other books collect Toth's work and describe his life, but if you've ever wanted a book-length, in-depth discussion of Toth's methods, here it is. 

[inventors-fair]

Trivia Tuesday: Playtime

[onemillennialquilter]

So I've been struggling with chain piecing my latest project. Every time I'd end up with a knot of thread and I was losing my mind. Turns out I wasn't keeping enough tension between pieces. Was kind of venting to the husband and he reminded me that I was a beginner and it wasn't possible to just know everything.

So, for all you people just getting into crafting like me, here's a message from my husband. Be kind to yourself as your learning. Learning something new is hard enough without you kicking yourself over every mistake.

[volivolition]

prepping for my Bonus Days. i love tutorial agent lmao

[a-queer-rail-fan]

Newsham station is opening next Monday!

[meme-loving-stuck]

I really love your art style! ♥️ Do you have any recommendations for tutorials on learning to draw digitally? I know I could just look at little micro tutorials but I’m autistic so I need really specific instructions step by step to get started

Hey thanks! Honestly I am not good at digital art as much as traditional. Also, this question is pretty vague and you havent reblogged/liked anything of mine so Im not sure which artwork you might be referring to... if you mean pixel art, digital paintings, commissions Ive done, etc

But, I have a HUGE tag full of art resources that are 90% for digital art because I also had a really hard time getting started!

If you want to scroll through my #art ref tag, I have been compiling resources for almost a decade.

Here is a small tutorial Ive been pulling up for years to look at whenever I forget how to digitally paint, that just shows exactly how the artist does layering, shading, etc

Also, Tutor Tuesday is a BUNCH of tutorials that are all about very specific things (hair, faces, animals, lining in general, sketching in general, you name it) , in fully illustrated guides so you can see step-by-step how to do it. This is the best resource I can find for beginning digital art

Also check the users I reblog tutorials from, if the above aren't really what youre looking for. Drawingden, etheringtonbrothers, and art-tutorials-n-references are all good pages to follow if you want to see more guides!

Feel free to message me if you want to see more of my processes, I might have some old pics or videos I can share!

[kof-xiii]

GIRL I AM NOT ATTENDING A 9 AM CLASS WHEN MY OTHER PROF IS MOVING A 12 PM CLASS TO ASYNCHRONOUS

[gallawitchxx]

getting to tag game tuesday right away this week because i cannot keep @celestialmickey or @energievie waiting & i also have real life responsibilities to attend to 😔 BUT FIRST --

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name: bee 🐝

age: 30, flirty & thriving ✨

pronouns: she/her, but also in a genderless way lmao idkkk 😅

tell me about one of your hobbies: i'm about to have a future hobby as i just picked up a sewing machine from my parent's house last weekend 🧵

what languages do you speak? english & conversational french 🗣

one of your comfort movies: elizabethtown ⚱️

do you have any kids? do you want any? nope & nope. i think i'm okay with just raising my lil pup!

cold weather or hot weather? hot bayybeee ☀️

you're at an amusement park. what ride are you going on first? ooooh it depends on which amusement park i'm at, but likely some kind of coaster! the bigger, the better! how about a loop-de-loop? 🎢

what's your go-to hairstyle/how do you wear your hair most days? it's usually pulled up into some kind of messy bun, but recently i've also been loving having it down with a big ole headband! 💃🏼

who was your top artist in your spotify wrapped/apple music replay in 2022? MUNA 🥰

you've just been handed $1000 but you have to spend it on clothes. where are you shopping? i do love a good secondhand store, but i think if the money's just been handed to me, i'm going to anthropologie 🤘🏼

wireless or corded headphones? wireless, over-the-ear chunky boys 🎧

finally, tell me something that sparks joy: over the weekend, we drove up to my hometown for an engagement party & it's so nice to be in such close proximity again! it makes me feel like every visit doesn't have to be this HUGE EVENT, which i also think will help with some of the strange post-lockdown mess we've been navigating... a big blessing! 💫

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tagging @squidyyy23 @thisdivorce @heymrspatel @gardenerian @metalheadmickey @whatthebodygraspsnot @whatwouldmickeydo @howlinchickhowl @harrowhark-a-vagrant @iansfreckles @y0itsbri @grumpymickmilk @grumble-fish @sleepyfacetoughguy @too-schoolforcool & whoever else wants to play! i love you all! xx

[organogeneticist]

i'm losing my mind my friend just read all of homestuck in 10 days. what the hell

[catboybiologist]

Hi! I’m CatboyBiologist.

Formerly a femboy, now a trans woman just starting HRT, and a PhD student in molecular biology. I started using this online persona as a fun, shitposty way to explore gender a few years ago. I post selfies (generally sfw, but somewhat sexy, so minors and ppl who don’t like that have been warned), rambles about science, tutorials and advice from the stuff I’ve learned by being a femboy in the past, nature pictures, stuff about the ocean, my adorable grumpy little tortoise, and unsolicited opinions on random nerdy topics. Any pronouns are fine. I don’t plan to socially transition for a while, and still present as a man most of the time, so I’m used to whatever you wanna use for me (for now, I’ll update this if that changes). Please send me pictures of your pets or other cute animals in your life!

As a scientist, I’m also documenting my transition! This google sheet will be updated at least monthly. I also have additional metrics I’m keeping to myself, and pictures that go with this, but I’m not sharing them publicly yet. Keep in mind that this is just one person’s experience with HRT, and may not represent universal trends!

Adding a little something here, bc I think it was an interesting bit a writing: if you want to see me respond to a transphobe about what "biologically female" means, here's a thing I wrote about it. CW for transphobia and discussion, obviously.

Also, if any of my measurements look weird, its entirely possible I fucked up. Let me know if anything looks off!

Here’s some of my favorite pre-HRT pictures:

If you want to see more of my pre-HRT selfies, browse the “femboy” tag on my blog!

And as of this writing, I’m only 2 days after the start of HRT, so here’s a picture with my tortoise that’s technically post-HRT (but with 0 time for actual changes):

If you want to see my future post-HRT selfies, browse the “trans selfie” tag on my blog!

Also here's another really cute picture and fanart of my tortoise by @whalesharkcat:

I have affectionately given my tortoise the title of The Grumpus.

I also wrote a couple of tutorials and general vibes about being a femboy before I started HRT:

Sometimes I make shitposts of myself, I don’t take myself too seriously:

This includes the way I came out on tumblr:

And here’s an overly serious, long ramble about trans thoughts and things that I wrote shortly afterwards:

Later addition: Someone asked how I take selfies, so I wrote a quick and dirty guide with some tips on how I do so in response to their ask:

Oh yeah and apparently I was a 196 microcelebrity? I never to thought I was popular enough for that but apparently some people do 🤷‍♀️. So uh, hi 196 tags, I'm abusing you for my pinned post LOL

As for terminology, I personally do think of myself as a “man who is becoming a woman” as opposed to having always been a woman. If that doesn’t resonate with your experience, I totally get that! But that’s why I freely call pre-HRT me a femboy, while still calling post-HRT me a trans woman. I’m also keeping the blog name as CatboyBiologist for the forseeable future, because at this point, Catboy just seems like a gender neutral term to me.

I’m also trying to put together a script for a podcast regarding how studying biology influenced my perspective on sex and gender- lmk if there’s any interest in that! It’s probably gonna be way too long and indulgent but oh well.

So uh. Yeah. I don’t end these types of things well. Byeeeeee

[j0them0971]

TUTORIAL TUESDAYS

Idk if imma keep doing these but its worth a shot. This handsome fucker above is who we're gonna be drawing today! (I will have to post this in 2 parts bc tumblr doesn't like more than 10 photos per post 🙄)

Step 0: get some A4 paper. Get a couple of pencils (I used mechanical pencils but that's just me), a few different-sized erasers, some scissors, and some tape (if ur bad at planning like I am lol)

Step 1: draw an L

Trust me, this works.

Step 2: add a top and sides to the L to form a neck and a rump

Step 3: Fill in the chest, belly, and knee area

Step 4: add the belly, chest musculature, and withers (as well as forming the back and spine)

Step 5: add 2 circles, one by the hips and one by the shoulders, and add an oval for the head (you may have to adjust the neck a bit)

Step 6: add in the stick leggies! Don't forget to add the actual shoulders and hips (inside the circles). again, you might have to adjust the doodle

Step 7: Continue the leggies to the ground (or in my case, to the bottom of the page) if ur not me you can begin to add the hooves lol

Step 8: add the tailbone, eyes, ears, adjust head size if needed

Step 9: adjust the chest if you're an idiot like me, flesh out the leggies (and hooves if ur not me lol)

Stay tuned for part 2!

[thetoxiccupcakes]

I make little art tip videos !! maybe check them out?

🌟Reblogs are appreciated🌟

[onlyhereforangst]

Talk Shop Tuesday: what’s your gif making process look like?

let’s pretend I answered this on tuesday and not saturday 🫣

my gif making process boils down to I get obsessed with an idea and can’t think about anything else until I finish that idea. whether it’s a parallel I noticed or a lyric or quote that screams so and so ship or a new effect I want to try, I get obsessed.

in that obsession I get so particular about the exact scene and underlying meaning of even the dialogue of the scene I use in a gif. I want it to match the feeling of whatever copy will go along with it perfectly AND look pretty lmao. recently I can’t do anything without blending, it’s a problem but you know it’s me, hi, im the problem and idgaf. I typically outline & pick all my scenes way before I even open ps, down to the caption I want.

in ps my favorite layers are curves & selective color and im weird and stubborn and refuse to use multiple of the same type of layer 💀 almost always do I add some bright vibrant color bc why not and then add like three different effects including the typography bc also why not. and then i post and hope like hell it doesn’t flop bc I just spent hours adding color and fun effects.

finally there’s so many ideas that get left on the cutting room floor due to lack of time which is probably the most depressing part of my gif making process.

[onemillennialquilter]

I've been gone for a couple of weeks, but I wanted to share this as more of a life tip then the normal quilting tips. A tip that more or less boils down to: you got to put in the work, and it is okay to acknowledge both where you are now and the journey to come.

Story is a little long, but I have a point I promise.

Roughly 9 months ago I agreed to run a marathon with my husband, his two brothers, and my father-in-law. Now I was NOT a runner when I started. I was actually rather out of shape and chubby. Now my amazing FIL who knew what he was doing gave my husband and I a training regimen that started with a couch to 5k (3.1 miles) training plan and then built on that foundation for the marathon training.

Day 1 was 1 minute jogging followed by 1.5 minutes walking for a total of 20 minutes. So I jogged for 8 minutes total on day 1. Now I wasn't so out of shape that I couldn't do that, but it wasn't exactly a breeze either. "How am I ever going to run a marathon (26.2 miles)?" I wanted to quit before I'd ever really begun, but pride, spite, and the fact that I would have to pay my FIL $80 if I failed fueled me to keep to find the answer, which was (unfortunately) keep running.

I progressed from 1-minute jogs to 20-minute jogs, 20-minute jogs to 3 mile jogs, to 5, 8, 16, 20 mile jogs! Finally, I jogged/walked 26.2 miles for 6 hours and 10 minutes to cross that finish line.

Y'all there were so many days that I woke up and thought "I hate running. I don't want to do this. This is stupid." I still showed up, though. I put in the work, and I finished! Was every run fantastic? No! I had some truly terrible training days, but I kept running. When I began 3 miles seemed like a Herculean task. Now? I nearly signed up for a 5k on a whim, because why not?

To bring this back to quilting, I've only been hand quilting for a couple of months. I keep getting frustrated and I catch myself thinking that I'll never have even stitches, I'll never master the rotary cutter, I'll never finish a big project, etc... And I have to forcefully remind myself that I'm at 1 minute. I'm on those short runs that are slowly building up my skills to go further. Just as 9 months ago I couldn't have run a marathon, I can't expect to suddenly just be awesome at sewing. And that's OK!!! Y'all I can do it, because I spent 9 months running which I don't even enjoy. I did that training; I've put in the work. So for all of you that struggle at being not great at something and feeling like you should quit immediately because "I'm clearly just talentless at this" your just at 1 minute. You just gotta put in the reps.

[bredforloyalty]

word vomit tonight because i'm procrastinating 👍 and need a distraction from my treacherous uterus