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weird asks that say a lot

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1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

2. chocolate bars or lollipops?

3. bubblegum or cotton candy?

4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?

5. do you prefer to drink soda from soda cans, soda bottles, plastic cups or glass cups?

6. pastel, boho, tomboy, preppy, goth, grunge, formal or sportswear?

7. earbuds or headphones?

8. movies or tv shows?

9. favorite smell in the summer?

10. game you were best at in p.e.?

11. what you have for breakfast on an average day?

12. name of your favorite playlist?

13. lanyard or key ring?

14. favorite non-chocolate candy?

15. favorite book you read as a school assignment?

16. most comfortable position to sit in?

17. most frequently worn pair of shoes?

18. ideal weather?

19. sleeping position?

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

21. obsession from childhood?

22. role model?

23. strange habits?

24. favorite crystal?

25. first song you remember hearing?

26. favorite activity to do in warm weather?

27. favorite activity to do in cold weather?

28. five songs to describe you?

29. best way to bond with you?

30. places that you find sacred?

31. what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names?

32. top five favorite vines?

33. most used phrase in your phone?

34. advertisements you have stuck in your head?

35. average time you fall asleep?

36. what is the first meme you remember ever seeing?

37. suitcase or duffel bag?

38. lemonade or tea?

39. lemon cake or lemon meringue pie?

40. weirdest thing to ever happen at your school?

41. last person you texted?

42. jacket pockets or pants pockets?

43. hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket?

44. favorite scent for soap?

45. which genre: sci-fi, fantasy or superhero?

46. most comfortable outfit to sleep in?

47. favorite type of cheese?

48. if you were a fruit, what kind would you be?

49. what saying or quote do you live by?

50. what made you laugh the hardest you ever have?

51. current stresses?

52. favorite font?

53. what is the current state of your hands?

54. what did you learn from your first job?

55. favorite fairy tale?

56. favorite tradition?

57. the three biggest struggles you’ve overcome?

58. four talents you’re proud of having?

59. if you were a video game character, what would your catchphrase be?

60. if you were a character in an anime, what kind of anime would you want it to be?

61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.?

62. seven characters you relate to?

63. five songs that would play in your club?

64. favorite website from your childhood?

65. any permanent scars?

66. favorite flower(s)?

67. good luck charms?

68. worst flavor of any food or drink you’ve ever tried?

69. a fun fact that you don’t know how you learned?

70. left or right handed?

71. least favorite pattern?

72. worst subject?

73. favorite weird flavor combo?

74. at what pain level out of ten (1 through 10) do you have to be at before you take an advil or ibuprofen?

75. when did you lose your first tooth?

76. what’s your favorite potato food (i.e. tater tots, baked potatoes, fries, chips, etc.)?

77. best plant to grow on a windowsill?

78. coffee from a gas station or sushi from a grocery store?

79. which looks better, your school id photo or your driver’s license photo?

80. earth tones or jewel tones?

81. fireflies or lightning bugs?

82. pc or console?

83. writing or drawing?

84. podcasts or talk radio?

84. barbie or polly pocket?

85. fairy tales or mythology?

86. cookies or cupcakes?

87. your greatest fear?

88. your greatest wish?

89. who would you put before everyone else?

90. luckiest mistake?

91. boxes or bags?

92. lamps, overhead lights, sunlight or fairy lights?

93. nicknames?

94. favorite season?

95. favorite app on your phone?

96. desktop background?

97. how many phone numbers do you have memorized?

98. favorite historical era?

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Rock Guitarist Keith Richards playing a Dan Armstrong "See-Through" guitar, which has a clear Lucite or Plexiglas body. During a concert of the rock band The Rolling Stones at at the Paris Sports Palace, September 24, 1970. (Photo by Christian Rose/Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

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9th doctor era was simply The Best One im sorry. shaved head leather jacket doc martins telling people to kill themselves. sweetie pea retail worker universal union organizer who became god for him. their stray cat horny little boytoy bottom who becomes an unkillable eldritch horror because of their love. did i mention the first guys a dilf and the other two have daddy issues.

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Hey there! I keep coming back to your nature ink sketches of trees to learn. I’ve been trying to get back at it but can’t seem to fully understand what to do to get different foliage textures and juxtaposition of leaves…

Any suggestions beyond observing and practicing?

Love your art!

Hello!

I’m very happy you like my sketches and want to learn from them! I think that inking trees is quite difficult, and creating an inking style that works takes time and a trained eye for inking. I'm still struggling with drawing trees.

I’ll do two step-by-step studies of tree photos to show my approach. Hopefully this helps!

First tree

The first thing I notice about this tree is the feeling I get from the leaves, then the general shape of the trunk and branches, and lastly where the light and shadow areas are. The leaves have a slightly angular shape to them, and are both in clusters and by themselves.

I start off with drawing the leaves. Sharp edges and implied detail is my interpretation of this tree. I'm not just drawing an outline, I'm also drawing clusters on top of each other within the outline.

Then I draw the trunk and branches. These are mainly in shadow, but I’ll leave the darkest tone to the top half of the trunk.

Lastly, I draw leaves in shadow and add some more detail.

Second tree

This pine tree has its needles more clustered, and the shapes are a bit rounder than the previous tree.

Pine needle clusters tend to point upwards. So I’ll keep that in mind when drawing them.

Add some shadows and details.

More shadows, and some extra upward pointing needles. I might have overdone the needles a bit.

If I were to fix this, I'd remove some of the details to keep it simpler. Something like this.

Summary

I think my approach to inking trees has a lot to do with trying to understand the character of a tree and its species. How dark are the shadows, how do the branches look, what’s the feeling I get from the leaves and leaf clusters? Working from life or reference is very important too, otherwise the trees turn in to a kind of generic tree without character.

Further Reading

Keep making your own studies from photographs, and also do studies of other artists. I can recommend looking at Hermann Huppen, Linnea Sterte and Jean Giraud/Moebius for example.

Hope this helps!

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and if you don't love me now you will never love me again

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Mermaid in a pool with goldfish ~ 1904 ~ Franz Heinz (German, 1892-1976)

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’69 on the Road, Velvet Underground Photographs, Doug Yule, 1996

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Tom Petty On set of the “You Got Lucky” music video from ‘Long After Dark’, 1982. Photos by Dennis Callahan for Petty Legacy LLC.

Via Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers FB.

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last summer

[ savannah, ga // july 2024 ] [ portra 400 // canon ae-1 ]

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how the hell do i talk to people

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me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the

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This "music" thing is insane

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coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

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snoopy inside labi siffre's guitar case, from the vinyl release of crying laughing loving lying

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[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost