#using this for ref!

[eliteseven]

Just wanted to follow up on your lovely reply—hope it’s okay I drop this in your inbox.

Thank you for your incredibly kind words, truly. I’m so happy the piece resonated. 😁 And to answer your questions: The whispers are from a vocal library called Shevannai—I like how soft and ethereal they sound, like something lifted from a Tolkien world. I believe they’re not real Elvish, just phonetics, but they felt right for the song. The female chantings are from Zero-G ETHERA Gold 2.5—the singer is Clara Sorace. If you look her up on YouTube, the things she can do with her voice are honestly impressive.

As for the crispness—thank you! Getting them to sound crisp often comes down to the quality of the libraries, plus some mixing magic and performance tweaks. Even good headphones or speakers can help polish things up, depending on how you’re monitoring your mix. I honestly still struggle with it too now and then. I also occasionally blend in real instruments with VSTs when I can, but for this piece, it was entirely VST-based.

And if you ever have music questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m always happy to help if I can. 🫡

Omg of course! My inbox is always open and I cherish every message 😁💕

Again, phenomenal work on this arrangement 🥰 but you already knew that!

That’s amazing!! The whispers were SUCH a nice touch to add to the feel and give it a sort of Tolkien-esque whimsy. It just made the soundscape that much richer!! Great addition 😄 I need to check out your resources!! I’m usually on Ableton, pretty sure the library is compatible!!

Yesss, your quality is amazing!! I struggle with equalizing and balancing eq all the time, but sometimes my plugins don’t come through with that crystal clear level you have going on here! (I am using like a fuck ton of distortion 😅, admittedly) so I’m kind of always chasing that elusive clean tone. I swear, even my VST’s aren’t half as smooth!!! So gorgeous.

I’d love to pick your brain sometime and troubleshoot, if it wouldn’t bore you to tears haha 😭

[donutsbagels]

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

[runningwithscizzorz]

🎶BEEEE WHO YOU AAAAREE🎶

Nour's actual reaction to the idea of pride month

[aomaoe]

deep in the trenches again.. so defeated my artblock with a tony

[unrelatedsideblog]

I don't know much abt yoga but hope it counts at least in some way lmao

I imagine this as their first training together after the time skip. Sanji-deficit for the past two years is catching up with Zoro now that he finally has him again (✿◡‿◡)

[coffee-cait]

May triumph always be yours, Mydeimos.

[snarkspawn]

let them sleep

[p0mipaws]

Damn look at my first Laios drawing y'all

[stargirl230]

ghost of you

super quick Sua screencap redraw to celebrate the new video release - no I was not expecting it to be Like That and yes I was devastated

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[dziwaczka]

i saw this photo and was like hey. that’s karen as hell

[pigeonstab]

Pay your tab with a dance

[donutsbagels]

Part 3: Combining shapes, braids, and textures! And utilizing parts and fros!

[crowkip]

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[vazdelart]

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week to all my gelphie truthers!!

[majyykdust]

[wyntonyang]