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someone asked for it, hope this is helpful

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Finished my first thing in forever with a half-bust half-fake screencap of my YYH OC. Utashi is my lightning bby, tbh.

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OC October

So kaigetsudo and I want to do an art challenge called OC October where you draw and post a different original character you made every day of the month. You can add a little bio if you want, too! Who’s with me?

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I love pokemonetherealgates already, so have my baby~! Jinkai is my fave of the PEG pokemon so far, an so Djinna is the favorite member of my time.

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Administration issues made me miss a week of class, BUT for our buttons I threw together this for it! Dunno why I had to do Emma, but either way I’m so pinning this 2.25″ baby on my bag when it’s printed~ -w-b

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Innnnnnn which my daily doodles turned into Kyra/Magience ahaha! And have Monday’s, too, if only ‘cause I like the “sky island” and it could prolly fit in the same world as well~ =w=

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Did someone say not-suit

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I interrupt a long-term hiatus to help raise awareness towards the new Copyright Laws that might come into effect starting next week unless we join efforts to stop it. 

A friend and fellow artist, Will Terry, has joined forces with Brad Holland to help us understand what this Copyright Law is all about, here is their message:

“Orphan Works in a Nutshell:

- Congress is drafting a new US Copyright Act. If passed, it would replace current US Copyright law. There isn’t any bill yet, but the Copyright Office has issued its recommendations for one. Their Report is 234 pages long and is very complicated, so it’s risky to try reducing it to a few words. But here’s a summary of its basic features:

It would void your Constitutional right to the EXCLUSIVE CONTROL of YOUR work.

It would effectively reverse the default premise of copyright law; which means…

It would make the public’s right to use your work its defining goal; which means…

You would have to make your work available to the public.

You would have to do this by registering every picture you want to retain the rights to with for-profit registries.

Unregistered work would be considered legally “orphaned.”

Orphaned work would be available for commercial infringement by “good faith” infringers.

Good faith infringers would be anyone who believed they had made a “reasonably diligent,” but unsuccessful effort to find you.

Infringers could also ALTER your work and copyright the “derivative works” in their own names.

This would affect all visual art: drawings, paintings, sketches, photos, etc.; past, present and future; published and unpublished; domestic and foreign.

It would include family snapshots and any picture or work you ever put on the Internet.

The Copyright Office acknowledges that this would pose special “challenges” for visual artists…

But they conclude that it’s in the public interest for your work to be available for anyone to use.

The Copyright Office has also recommended the following:

Mass Digitization of the world’s intellectual property by corporate interests.

Extended Collective Licensing, a form of socialized corporate licensing that would replace voluntary agreements between artists and clients.

A Copyright Small Claims Court to handle the expected flood of orphan works lawsuits.

         —> The deadline is This Thursday, July 23, 2015″ <—

– WHAT CAN WE DO? –

Write a letter —> HERE <— Let them know why this isn’t a good idea!

Don’t know what to write? Here are Letter samples 

SHARE this information as much as you can! 

– LEARN MORE –  

Watch/Listen to Will Terry and Brad Holland discuss this Law on “ Everything You Know About Copyright Is About To Change”

Read all about it.

IPA Artists Alert

Join Illustrator’s Partnership

This Copyright Act could affect all kinds of creators!! 

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FireWire reboot and doodles ofc means doodles of my BLADE babies. Emma and Tai are undoubtedly THE strongest members on the team, even if either of their abilities have caused many... ahem, incidents. Mostly Emma, even if Tai’s move-set is far more impressive and flashy ahaha.

One, Tai’s hair is ridiculously hard and probably nearly gave Ike an ulcer, two, I am never pleased with how I draw Emma and IT IS FRUSTRATING, three, I really need to draw the rest of their crew, and four, I have a sketch sheet in-progress for Em and really should finish it and ones for the rest of the unit (if only because they’ll all feature a however-much younger version of the member too).

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FREE ART (No, Really!)

SO. My sister’s only source of income —and communication in general, really— lies in her computer (eight years old and not even supposed to work at all in the first place due to its parts), and it’s breaking down! With no computer to work on and an only poisonous, if not outright abusive, family and town itself, she has no way of getting the funds for a new and proper computer herself.

And the free art mentioned in that nice big text up there?? It’s all based around her GoFundMe campaign!

HERE’S THE DEAL:

Donate, have someone you REFERRED to donate, or just share her campaign, and you’ll receive some art for what you did from me! There’s no limits on what I will or won’t do, so feel free to think of anything~!

—SHARE the campaign, and you’ll get a rough sketch of whatever you want! Spamming it, however, won’t get you any extras.

—REFER someone who donates (both you and the refer-ee will have to mention or at least confirm the other’s involvement), and you’ll get a clean, flat-colored sketch of your choosing. Each referral will earn you a reward sketch, so keep that in mind!

—DONATE yourself, and you get the reward: A lined, fully colored and complete shaded piece of what you want! Please note, though, that smaller donations (under $20 USD), will get you another, lower-tier’s reward instead.

For questions or rewards, I can be contacted on here, Twitter, or through e-mail (99terminater@gmail.com).

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Reminders to myself (and any other artsy people who follow me i guess)

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs. 

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

- Just keep making art. The only way you can really fail is if you give up. 

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COMMISSION PRICING

‘Cause I realized this is, probably, more convenient than sloppy commission sheets~

Well, actually it’s so I can help with getting my sister’s new computer (because her current one is crap crap and constantly blue screening and/or required a forced shut-down); hopefully before it finally kicks the bucket~

Payment will be done via PayPal (99terminater@gmail.com) and, depending on the cost, it might or might not be upfront — or some weird mid-ground between the two.

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PRICING

Rough Sketch: $3 USD (Fullbody) Clean Sketch: $6 USD (Fullbody)

Bust (Lined): $7 USD

Flat Colored: $10 USD

Shaded: $18 USD

Halfbody (Lined): $10 USD

Flat Colored: $14 USD

Shaded: $25 USD

Fullbody (Lined): $15 USD

Flat Colored: $20 USD

Shaded: $37 USD

Additional characters cost an extra fifty percent (+50%) each.

Toning available instead of and/or in addition to coloring.

Detailed content (armor, complex tattoos/patterns, etc) will lead to a higher price.

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Doodled some last night; FINALLY (IF ACCIDENTALLY) FIGURED OUT A STYLE I LIKE~ Likely un-coincidentally, they’re both badass ladies. Though, Sa’s my oldest character and Diana has such mischievous habits that she’s not nearly as intimidating as she ought to be. =w=a

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“i got cursed and turned into an animal and taken to the shelter and ended up getting adopted by someone who is really hot OH NO” AU

Once the AU/RP shenanigans started with this DID YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO RESIST?? So have a quick/sloppy no-longer-puppy Sa who, as an embarrassed puppy, is MANY a times cuter than normal~

(I’d say the scarring is a spoiler, but it’s the specific HOW/WHY of it that’s a spoiler, rather than the WHAT. Also, I’ve no idea how to draw burn scars, let alone w/ more on top ; v; )

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This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).

✑ PLANNING

Outlining & Organizing

For the Architects: The Planning Process

Rough Drafts

How do you plan a novel?

Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character

Plotting and Planing

I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?

Choosing the Best Outline Method

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

Effectively Outlining Your Plot

Conflict and Character within Story Structure

Outlining Your Plot

Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

✑ INSPIRATION

Finding story ideas

Choosing ideas and endings

When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story

Writing a story that’s doomed to suck

How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers

Finishing Your Novel

Finish Your Novel

How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit

How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan

✑ PLOT

In General

25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story

The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development

Originality Is Overrated

How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps

Finding Plot: Idea Nets

The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure

Make your reader root for your main character

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

Adding Subplots to a Novel

Weaving Subplots into a Novel

7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel

Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot

How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext

Understanding the Role of Subplots

How to Use Subtext in your Writing

The Secret Life of Subtext

How to Use Subtext

Beginning

Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)

Why First Chapters?

Starting with a Bang

In the Beginning

The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel

A Beginning from the Middle

Starting with a Bang

First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer

23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story

Start Writing Now

Done Planning. What Now?

Continuing Your Long-Format Story

How to Start a Novel 

100 best first lines from novels

The First Sentence of a Book Report

How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book

How to Write the First Sentence of a Book

The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening

Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing and the Red Hering

Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing and Suspense

Foreshadowing Key Details

Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing

The Literary Device of Foreshadowing

All About Foreshadowing in Fiction

Foreshadowing

Flashbacks and Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing

Setting

Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life

Write a Setting for a Book

Writing Dynamic Settings

How To Make Your Setting a Character

Guide for Setting

5 Tips for Writing Better Settings

Building a Novel’s Setting

Ending

A Novel Ending

How to End Your Novel

How to End Your Novel 2

How to End a Novel With a Punch

How to End a Novel

How to Finish a Novel

How to Write The Ending of Your Novel

Keys to Great Endings

3 Things That End A Story Well

Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid

Endings that Ruin Your Novel

Closing Time: The Ending

✑ CHARACTER

Names

Behind the Name

Surname Meanings and Origins

Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames

Common US Surnames & Their Meanings

Last Name Meanings & Origins

Name Generators

Name Playground

Different Types of Characters

Ways To Describe a Personality

Character Traits Meme

Types of Characters

Types of Characters in Fiction

Seven Common Character Types

Six Types of Courageous Characters

Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills 

Males

Strong Male Characters

The History and Nature of Man Friendships

Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)

‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship

Male Friendship

Understanding Male Friendship

Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling

Character Development

P.O.V. And Background

Writing a Character: Questionnaire

10 Days of Character Building

Getting to Know Your Characters

Character Development Exercises

✑ STYLE

Chapters

How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?

The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter

How Long is a Chapter?

How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?

Chapter & Novel Lengths 

Section vs. Scene Breaks

Dialogue 

The Passion of Dialogue

25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue

Dialogue Writing Tips

Punctuation Dialogue

How to Write Believable Dialogue

Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech

Writing Scenes with Many Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

Interrupted Dialogue

Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue

Show, Don’t Tell (Description)

“Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder

The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Bad Creative Writing Advice

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do

DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell

GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell

Writing Style: What Is It?

Detail Enhances Your Fiction

Using Sensory Details

Description in Fiction

Using Concrete Detail

Depth Through Perception

Showing Emotions & Feelings

Character Description

Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)

Help with Character Development

Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page

Omitting Character Description

Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T

Character Crafting

Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”

Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?

5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring

List of colors, hair types and hairstyles

List of words to use in a character’s description 

200 words to describe hair

How to describe hair

Words used to describe the state of people’s hair

How to describe your haircut

Hair color sharts

Four Ways to Reveal Backstory

Words Used to Describe Clothes

Flashbacks

Using Flashbacks in Writing

Flashbacks by All Write

Using Flashback in Fiction

Fatal Backstory

Flashbacks as opening gambit

Don’t Begin at the Beginning

Flashbacks in Books

TVTropes: Flashback

Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction

3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks

The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks

How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing

Flashbacks and Foreshadowing

Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?

Forum Discussing Flackbacks

P.O.V

You, Me, and XE - Points of View

What’s Your Point of View?

Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”

How to Start Writing in the Third Person

The Opposite Gender P.O.V.

LANGUAGE

 How To Say Said

200 Words Instead of Said

Words to Use Instead of Said

A List of Words to Use Instead of Said

Alternatives to “Walk”

60 Synonyms for “Walk”

✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS

Grammar Monster

Google Scholar

GodChecker

Tip Of My Tounge

Speech Tags

Pixar Story Rules

Written? Kitten!

TED Talks

DarkCopy

Family Echo

Some Words About Word Count

How Long Should My Novel Be?

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!

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“Dorma? What about it.” “Twenty-three years ago. When rebels tried to kill the White Lord.” “And how in the world do you know about that? I thought both he and the Emperor agreed to hide just how severe it truly was...” “They did; I was there.” “Then, if you know what really happened, why are you asking about it?” “Because knowing the truth and knowing what Qauron knows are two different different things.” “If you know as much as you say, then you should know there isn’t much to tell you; though Rame wants power over the Lion Tribe, he had nothing to do with the attacks. Even when it was investigated, the most anyone found was a Leii Kaoujt’s possible recruiting of members and allies.” “...I presume they never found him?” “No, though I’m sure Rame wanted to work with him. But then, you already knew that as well, didn’t you?” “...” “I hope you don’t expect me to take that as a sufficient answer.” “...So he’s gone. And if he has any direct presence in Qauron, then it’s undoubtedly under a different identity.”

SO! Moved on from background/past stuff to more present, potential fic scenes stuff! With Kiimare’s... involvement in the Dorma incident, suffice to say she has lots and LOTS of reasons to want to know what happened to those involved (well, the one’s that weren’t killed, at least). More precisely, she wants to know about those behind it and therefore those who almost had her killed.

Well, that and what others know bc SHE AND KISELL KEEP QUIET ABOUT THE TRUTH FOR A REASON. -c OUGH-

(P sure I’d more to say, BUT instead I’mma just leave you all with how this was at least 80% inspired by the 7T update today.)