#why do they have eyeballs

[toonzxy]

TMNT 2003 Seaon 7 Donatello’s Arc is something I will never recover from

[astroshiloh]

I think because of the whole hiatus and whatnot we were very much blind sided whenever ichikawa really went forward with eliminating most of the main characters we loved and cared about, but also there were many who were upset phos went through with the prayer.

I'm not gonna pretend what phos went through to become divine was horrific. They didn't deserve to suffer. But that doesn't seem to be the overall point of the story. Consider why phos decided to pray away. It was the overall best decision considering phos knew humanity had run it's course, but also there wasn't a point in letting the remnants of humanity suffer for eternity. It was unfair, but what's the point in enacting more suffering?

And after so many millions of years of sleeping, and finally finding some peace with himself. To Phos, the events of the series are now a a small moment of their current lifetime, and a blink in the universe. There is no going back. But even then, it's not like it's all over.

Everything has an end eventually and they've accepted it. They will one way be back in some form, maybe it'll be better or maybe it'll be worse. But they will have the option to act again and maybe they'll act different. I'm not sure at this point because I'm constantly blindsided.

And although I think it would miss the point if we did have the other main characters come back I do wish we had some sort of closure between them. At the same time, that's how life is. Phos needs to move beyond that now because that isn't what is happening to them now.

Maybe in a different universe.

[pineappical]

actually yknow what heres what ive been working on in roblox for the past 2 days

[7-andahalf-rats]

slug ted call that bitch sled

[synthshenanigans]

Ik Heart literal wise is the actual heart but like what would Mind be? Cos im thinkin it about it an since Heart & Mind are stated to be the halves of the brain, he cant be the brain then?

[coconut530]

GO FRENCHIE GO!!!!

[quirinah]

how do you get your colors to look so nice and your lineart so red and vibrant? i love it

omg anon thank you!! 😭 im going 2 be honest I am Not Great with color theory... but i like having my sketch pages look cohesive to me...

BUCKLE UP this is going to need a readmore bc i like talking.

I always sketch in neon colors it's a habit i picked up from an old teacher but I'll think of a color usually on a whim and draw with that. and then if i want to draw something else ill pick another color that i think goes well with the page. usually most of my color schemes r analogous (colors right next to each other on the wheel)

yanked this from recent dunmesh post; i kept most of my colors within the pink/red/orange range.

i wouldn't recommend doing everything in monochrome or analogous palettes though because it's sort of a guilty crutch of mine XD.

sometimes when im coloring ill change the layer mode of the sketch. color burn gets you either very very bright or very very deep colors depending on the color of the flats underneath. multiply and linear burn do the same thing but they're a lot tamer and generally always return darker colors. im sure there's some technical bits behind this though. ill either color my lineart afterward to compliment the color of the flats, leave it as is, or mess with layer modes if i feel like it. my favorite trick is color burn + linear burn + some combination of two lineart layers and just fiddling until i get a nice burn effect.

mithrun was done with crimson red on color burn.

coloring... like 999% of this is relative color which is like. kind of the idea that colors look different when placed next to each other. if you eyeball it a bit it's pretty noticeable.

what i used to do a bit ago was i would fill in the area i wanted to color with one big mask of color, make a new layer that has a clipping mask down to the flat layer of color, and then draw my actual flat colors. the color of the mask helped me pick my flat colors bc if I picked a color i think stood out too much next to the mask i could kind of just adjust it until it looked a little more cohesive.

old ish drawing next 2 a canon reference. i ignore local color a lot...mea culpa....but my overall color palette here was a light pink, so the shirt here is actually a desaturated pink? or violet i believe. if you shift sort of that purple color far enough into the gray area of your color wheel it can take on a blueish or even greenish hue. it being next to a lot of warm pinks/fuschias helps.

a neat thing that kind of helps is that if you desaturate or saturate certain colors they can kind of take on a certain hue? not sure if this makes sense. sort of how orange here turns tealish blue the grayer it gets. so if im drawing something that's predominantly orange and i have a blue color i can just take an orange color and desaturate it until i get a color that sort of looks like blue. and that way it kind of looks more harmonious? at least to me XD

shading. i don't apply serious lighting to a lot of my drawings, but a helpful bit is that the shadows tend to be the opposite of whatever color the lighting is? i try to think first about the "mood" or the main color i want to go for in the drawing and then i pick a shadow color opposite of that. so for here, i wanted the lighting to be a coolish magenta so the shadows r lime green. if there's anything off i fiddle around until i get something i like. the shadows on the skin here were too green initially so i shifted them a little more orange.

there's a "band" of color going on between the transition of the shadows to the light. generally this could be for a lot of reasons and i tend to use it differently (core shadow? overexposure? etc etc). but this is a color post so ill try not to go too off track.

but generally digital doesn't "mix" colors the same way traditional colors do if you use RGB (cmyk is a bit better with this but is kind of a pain to get used to), so to make blending a little less muddy, i sometimes add an intermediate color to smooth things out a little. for example, mixing digitally blue n yellow tends to get you gray, but generally, blue + yellow makes green, so if im making a blue->yellow transition ill slap some green color in the middle so it flows a little better.

I do a lot more cel shading nowadays. if you've been on here for a while earlier this year i have another style of coloring but it's not really accurate to how shadows really work so i wouldn't recommend looking at it. it's mostly to add zest and texture to the underlying flat colors.

coloring your lineart does a TON to helping your colors look vibrant, though its like the garnish on a dish to me (same with shadows). i think it's good to try and play with your flat colors and try to make sure those look in order first before adding flourishes. usually ill leave it a dark, saturated color that again matches my overall palette but sometimes i go in and color them by alpha locking my lineart layer and picking a color that matches the flat colors underneath? not sure how to explain it properly.

i used a darkish purple for shuro's ponytail to match the dull red of the flat colors (more relative color! trying to simulate a black/brown while keeping the pink palette there) but a lighter crimson for laios's blond. the light was this super intense like blush pink so i thought it might be cool to add this neon salmon red in the areas of that light to really give off that vibe of a very bright intense rim light.

sometimes you could also tweak with gradient maps or color balance, which adjusts hue based on how light or dark a color is. these r fun to mess with as a final touch but i need to watch using them because they can become crutches real fast XD but those are also just tools to help you. in the end just developing a good sense of how color works and how you want to use it is the best place to start.

LONGASS ramble but yeah. tldr just kind of train ur eye for color and look at what you like best. which is unhelpful and a little sucky but it really is just observation and practice and maybe some personal zest.

happy drawing!

[skiploom]

he is so small and so little and so SLEEPY!!!

[tswwwit]

Nobody asked for these, but here are some random Familiar AU thoughts!

Lately, Ford has been begrudgingly admitting that he knows of one time someone summoned a demon and it worked out.... okay. For certain definitions of the word. He grumbles about it a lot, but all of his associates are very surprised by this small admission. The news really comes in handy the first time Dipper and Bill meet some demon hunters. Nepotism at its finest.

Dipper is dreading the day he has to admit his marriage to his parents. Bill hasn't brought up the subject; Dipper's pretty sure it's because Bill doesn't care about them. Mabel, thankfully, hasn't spilled the beans yet. Maybe Dipper can avoid it forever. (He Can't.)

Wendy, whenever she finally meets Bill, is entirely unaware of his seething jealousy at her being Dipper's first crush. Soos, however, gets along with Bill fairly well! Considering he's Bill and all.

Bill has a whole set of extremely gaudy gold jewelry he can't wait to see Dipper wearing. (ONLY wearing that) He daydreams of his 'servant' feeding him eyeballs while he lies on a chaise lounge holding court. (Not gonna happen.)

One of Bill's first goals with the first reincarnation of Dipper is to sleep with him. Not sex, just literally sleep. Nap. Rest and snore in his ear and cuddle, because it's something he hasn't done before.

Dipper absolutely takes a ton of inspiration for his illusions from all the nightmares he's seen in the Mindscape. He's still a shitty actor, though, so the best bet of telling if that horrific writing monstrosity is real or an illusion is watching his face.

If Dipper's clearly pretending to be afraid? Illusion. If he's scared? Real. If he's calm? That's a coinflip; he's either making it, or he knows the guy from somewhere and isn't worried. Best to be cautious, 'cause it might eat you if you get close.

Finally, I bet Bill is the type of Gross to like popping his partner's pimples. Behold the only thing that could get Dipper Pines into skincare: Self Defense

[staryarn]

Season with your heart

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[todayisafridaynight]

obsessed with the bullets from my 'physical impacts from 'gaming'' notes for class cause they all talk about violence and aggression an yeah that sure is a thing in videogames but have you considered ichiban deserves to enact a lil violence. just a bit. also he's the light of my life and the ray of sunshine in the dark and

[keeps-ache]

trying to write, i want to write but the only place i have with dark mode is my computer's notepad and i can't access those files from anywhere else. augh

[werewolf-transgenderism]

tuatara gang

little mossy dinosaurs with a mysterious third eye, what could be better

that's a capital-L Lizard, baby!

[13eyond13]

As much as I roast Beyond Birthday for his lack of subtlety I also kin him for it. Because in art school we were sometimes required to incorporate deep symbolism into our art pieces, and I was always doing things like drawing a dude holding a compass and wearing goggles to represent that he's feeling directionless about his worldview

[royallygray]

I'd like to start a protest because the word Ouija as in Ouija Board has too many vowels and I have had to type it out because my current hyperfixation is Phasmophobia and then twice more to complain about it.

NO TWO SYLLABLE FIVE LETTER WORD IS WORTHY OF FOUR DAMN VOWELS

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[darabeatha]

❝ Please do not wear glasses with wrong prescriptions nor purchase regular fantasy contact lenses if you have astigmatism ❞