#very basic tutorial

[sonyshock]

I guess I had enough spoons on me that when I was asked to do a tutorial on this picture I did

It's not perfect but it might help someone:

[emychu-art]

really happy with how this (unspesified) (heavily velociraptor inspired) raptor lineart is turning out, this is from a comic project i'm working on so stay tuned if you like historical fiction settings with victorians, domesticated dinosaurs and time travel shenanigans !!

[jils-things]

happy 6th constabell anniversary ♡

(and a happy birthday to dear irene!)

[5.28.25]

a few months ago, it was his birthday, and i wanted to say my words but i decided to keep it short to save it for the anniversary :)

i remember when i was still very fresh to id.v, it was 2018 back then. the concept of new survivors joining the faction was still a brand new thing to me ... i remember when aes.op carl came out, i was always eager to find new characters to play with!

i remember when nor.ton were teased to come out. i didn't think much of him, but i did adore his design a lot. i remember that well. his playstyle confused silly me back then, so i had nothing but appreciation for prospector mains at the time

i don't know how it happened, but one thing led to another - i made an oc for this game, but it was for the purpose of roleplaying with a friend (who also happened to be the reason why im playing, hi xelle <3) and i thought it would be very fun to pair her with nor.ton. but as i slowly learn about him more and more, i came to like him a lot! favorite character at best. it was hard to learn anything about him, because his lore was little to nothing at the time.

i suppose, the more i just shipped irene with nor.ton as is, the more i started to actually like him, and started to project my feelings more into the ship. but i only had myself and xelle to share this at the time, and then i dropped the game for a few years.

for a brief time, nor.ton debut on my tumblr around 2021 or 2022? i had a little spark that made me miss him, and so i indulged for a bit. but it was short lived, unfortunately.

and another spark came in, when fool's gold became a real concept. he became a hunter. i still look back at this silly post of mine and giggle about it... the final nail in the coffin was when i decided to watch id.v stageplay and goodness gracious i fell back in the hole so hard and look at me. typing this out as i celebrate the 6 years ive known this man

while i regret not being with him in-between my years- i'm glad i can catch up to genuine lore that has been provided for him and it's still ongoing, so it feels like i can fix myself into the loop again :) now that i finally know his story, i feel incredibly attached to him for that too. he feels right at home in my heart again, i hope younger me is happy that i'm back to him again ^^ his story is nothing but difficulty- the kind of struggle that almost hits close to home sometimes and i truly care for what he's gone through. he is such an amazing character design and i want to continue appreciating him as much as i can. his story is still unfolding, and i look forward to the future for that :)

cheers to more content with you norton campbell, and that i can continue to make lovely stories for these two 💚

[abbidavisart]

Nice, I like how you pony's, can you make a tutorial?

[roseverdict]

thinking about my frustrations with the current system we live under and realizing my experiences (constantly having very little money, thus preventing me from buying things except once in a blue moon unless there's a free option available) are not universal. however i am charging headlong down making a mobile game, and while i probably will put ads into it bc im a broke bitch i refuse to let it be just another of the hundreds of half-assed tutorial projects with a quadspillion ads in them apiece

but this leads me to a conundrum.

i want to have cute little skins for the player character that can be "bought" through one of two things: achieving a cumulative score high enough to unlock it, or by watching a certain number of ads willingly. notably, i refuse to use the ones that interrupt the gameplay out of nowhere and do nothing except pay me, even if they technically pay app makers more than any other kind of ad.

i'm just not sure exactly how to implement it:

should the "unlock via Playing The Game" skins be completely separate from the "watch x number of ads" skins?

should the "unlock via Playing The Game" option be available on the same skins that have the "watch x number of ads" option?

should the "watch x number of ads" thing be reworked into just "watch an ad to add x amount to your current spendable score"?

should i go the scummy route and implement flat-out in-app purchases for if someone doesn't want to watch an ad to get a skin??? does anybody actually do that????? i'm too broke to comprehend the existence of that kind of person but they have to exist if half-assed apps (and tbh whole-assed apps) keep on acting like they're real

should i forfeit my dignity and integrity and do lootboxes

[rbtlvr]

& by the way i literally CONSTANTLY think about how loop uses the partys titles to create distance to remind themself that those arent 'their versions' of them. that theyre not loops party anymore. and yet and yet and yet

[yellllowstar]

slowly I'm recovering the beauty of discovery

(creature by half•alive)

(textless + timelapse below cut)

[cometshift]

Please i gotta know HOW DO YOU COLOR YOUR MODELS PLEASE I CANT SPEND A DAY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW AGAIN /nf

no worries anon :} i literally just use materials / material slots. i avoid texturing because 1. that's closer to phighting's style (there's very very few things that are actually textured in phighting) and also because 2. i can't texture for the life of me. thankfully for both of us, materials are actually super simple to use!

first, make sure to be on material preview mode in the viewport shading, you do this by selecting it in the top right

so, let's say we want to color subspace's horns here (i removed their color for the sake of this post. don't worry, they'll get it back)

what you want to do is select an object (in this case, his horns here) and go to its material properties

and here you can add a new material

now all these things will show up. (if they don't, you'll have to click the 'use nodes' button under the surface tab.) though you probably won't be needing nodes unless you want something more specific. in this case though, we want to pay attention to where it says 'base color'

if you click on the white box next to base color, this little colorwheel should show up. you can choose any color here, or input a hex code in the hex tab if you want a specific color

once you choose a color here, it should show up on the current object you have selected

now i just do the same for his bottom horns. any material that you've created before will save, so here i just selected the exact same material as the horns on the top of his head

and there you go :} one thing to mention. because both of these objects are under the same material, if you change the color then it should change for both of them at the same time!

here you can see i only have the bottom horns selected, but because they're under the same material as the top horns, it's changed colors too

there's also a way for an object to have more than one material. to do this you have to select an object and go into edit mode

(i had to reset his pose here. goodbye to his gay ass pose)

let's say that, for example, we want only the tips at the top to be a different color. so we do this by selecting the faces at the top

and we click on 'add new material slot', then 'new'

because we already have the faces we want a different color selected, we just click 'assign'

now you can just change the base color as we did before, and only the assigned faces will change color while the rest stays the same

^ he dyed his horns. so stylish

and there you go :} sorry for the long tutorial, but i hope this helps! there's a lot more you can do with materials and it can go a lot more in-depth, but generally for this sort of style the very basic features will suffice (at least for me. i don't like to do texturing. it hurts me)

[curiosity-killed]

I like visible mending because I love the idea of clothing living with you and being visibly changed by its lifetime and because I am terrible at sewing prettily and too impatient to take the time to learn but quite good at extremely tactical, sturdy stitching

[arthrobug]

Found some practice sketches I did bout a month ago of me reteaching myself how to draw best boy Bullfrog,,, again lol

A different theme I did with these though is that if he was injured I would fix em up (The right column is the main product of this 👍)

[brobietumbles]

I put my TADC OC, Qwerty, into a bunch of AUs

Carnival AU - @sm-baby

Fightclub AU - @burrotello

Freakshow AU - @hootbon

(Sorry if I got anything wrong with the Freakshow or Fightclub AUs, I don’t really know much about them) (also sorry if you got 2 notifs I accidentally posted this to my side blog)

[theokusgallery]

I love that Roman has personal drama with every Dark Side so far. He trades insults and snarks with Virgil basically 24/7. He and Janus "Ew, get away from me. ...Roman" Deceit act like bitter exes. And then of course there's Remus

[emberglowfox]

irt 2 someone’s tags on the comic— comic-making is something that i, while tangentially interested in for a while, have no knowledge in. no professional training, no serious experience, nada. i know absolutely nothing abt panel layouts or text sizing that i have not awkwardly gleaned myself from the few comics ive read over the years.

to that end, if u have advice for comic-making or see something i’ve posted and think “hmm that could maybe be better if you did xyz” PLEASE tell me if youre so inclined! really! i’m doing this for fun, yes, but i would love to get better. as long as you’re polite about it, im basically always accepting advice/critique on my artworks, especially areas im less experienced in like comics, 3d art, and so forth

[madumagia]

Learnt the hard way yesterday that if u put sugar in ur bread dough u best belief ubetter turn down that oven temp boy 😹😹😹

[riacte]

hi! i love reading your fics but i specifically love the social media shenanigans in dearly beloathed. i was wondering how you would feel if i took some inspiration from that for a fic of mine because i would love to write something that's very similarly formatted but i wanted to make sure you were fine with that (cause i'm assuming it took some time and effort to come up with) before i did. anyways your writing is awesome and i love reading it

Yes sure of course! I took inspiration from ao3 fics (F1 fandom in particular is stunning at formatting, I have so much respect for their dedication), such as this one (I basically took the formatting from this) and this Twitch streamer AU. If you're posting on ao3, there's the option of playing with HTML/CSS for a more "realistic" socmed interface, for example this one for Twitter which is magic to me. This one is an extremely impressive Discord mockup. An Unauthorised Fandom Treatise is a nice look into mid 2010s Superwholock era fandom whereas F1 rpf and indeed mcyt / streamer stuff is more "modern". Anyways yeah there's a lot of potential in this genre of fics and loads of stuff to check out on ao3 if you wish :) I love scrolling through the Unconventional Format tag because people are just so creative. Good luck with your writing!

[celticbotanart]

When I can't draw my favorite character consistently in my style, so I'm forced to dust off Sculptris from the depths of my computer (cause I can't use Blender to save my life) to make a freaking 3D model of their face to use as ref

(I also made 3d models of some of my OCs' faces, I'm excited! hehe)