#and what is composition even

[whump-captain]

No. 20 - It’s been a long day

Going into shock | Fetal position | Prisoner trade

[Image ID: A greyscale digital drawing showing a man cowering in a corner, raising his hand to shied his face. His expression is terrified and he’s cradling his arm, which is covered in blue and yellow bruises. His curly hair is in disarray and his glasses are cracked. The background is empty apart from a white rectangular frame. End ID.]

#whumptober2022 #no.20 #fetal position #oc #art #whump art #oc whump #captain's stuff #captain's ocs #kintsugi #ehhhhhhhh im not happy with this #everything is muddy and idk how to fix it #needs a focus point i guess? but who knows how to add it #and what is composition even #ehhhhhhh #i went thru my art folder and compared it to last year's whumptober stuff tho #im beating my brain w/ a stick forcing it to admit i improved and im steadily becoming a better artist

[ski-ip]

skin and bones

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi fanart #farcille #marcille donato #farlyn touden #falin touden #farlyn #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #can you tell i love angsty shit #experimental #what even is composition

[hychlorions]

a what-if i've been thinking about for forever... trucy knowing the truth before anyone could tell her

#trucy wright #apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #ough ough ough how many times has she helped 'ruin' someone's life... #like what if when she was so desperate to help phoenix get acquitted she gets hit in the face with the realization that #she might just be ruining her new-found brother's life too #so yeah. how would she even bring that up #haha hey polly. remember that time i handed you fake evidence. well did you know i saw your bracelet and remembered my mom had one too. fun #by the way did you know she told me she had two and gave one to her first-born who she lost a long time ago #like do we know how much trucy remembers about their mom. no! that's why i think this could work #ough i've wanted to make this comic for so long but i never knew how to format it #well i drew the first panel as warm-up and then was like. why not go all the way.... #that way i'd be forced to really think about composition

[pygmypouter]

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

#have linked 2 this song before and i will link 2 it again. because HELLO. canaan house thesis statement 2 me. #rlly obsessed w this scene i think i’m just fascinated w the idea of harrows journals…… her drawings of canaan…what else is in there #anyway this was mostly an excuse for me to play around w using architectural drawings as a sort of compositional element/framing device. #did it work? who’s to say. the most important part is that i had fun except. i didn’t even do that. #text is slightly edited for length etc…. + i cut off the scene where i did because well…. makes me insane. lol #don’t pay too much attention 2 the architectural parts they don’t make sense #because i cobbled them together from the plans of like 3 different buildings. #anyway enjoy. or don’t. i’m not ur boss. #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #okay that’s it

[diiaf]

Trigger did an incredible job on this episode, but this:

Does not have anywhere NEAR as much impact as this:

My man looks like his world has been shattered, just an incomparable panel

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck #the 3-expression sequence was really good though #clever of them to portray it sequentially for extra contrast #even though we miss out on the super close-up on the shocked face and them the pull-back on the angry face #and now that I’m thinking about it him sinking into despair and regret in the next panel lets the focus shift back to Laios #okay nvm I take back what I said Kui is actually a genius at scene composition and trigger should’ve taken better notes

[canisalbus]

found your son at a garden center the other day

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#my son... #I've seen a few of these extremely vertical greyhound statues now and every time the urge to get one grows more insistent #I don't even have a yard let alone garden #answered #birdweird #irl Vaschete sightings #though from what I've seen I think they're a little expensive for mass made composite stone statues

[sysig]

How far did you get? (Patreon)

#My art #Handplates #UT #Gaster #Frisk #A DBZA incorrect quote technically - it's just such a raw line #Even what it's in reply to kinda works in this context! ''What exactly changed between you in the future and now?'' Time travel nonsense #It feels real weird to have a piece fully finished in black and white and have that be Correct lol #I am So pleased with the composition of this ♥ #Gaster vertical and the human horizonal! Gaster confined and the human- #Hint: He's not looking at Frisk #Gaster being able to see Zarfox consistently is very interesting to me #Or rather - that bit makes sense lol he got as far as he could within the confines of his world and understanding #It's still cool how much he can actually see tho - understand? Interpret? Hard to pin down and define haha #What Sans is able to see doubly interests me - he got some but just glimpses! Different from - I assume - Gaster's consistent sight #Poor Papyrus being left out haha #It's been a while since I've drawn a Vessel - weird to think about Frisk in that context haha #It's accurate! Just weird ♪ #I am so in love with Gaster's post-Void design <3 The fact that his lineart is ''canon'' - however you want to phrase it just ughgjkdslafd #Any instance of The Medium being drawn attention to down to its format and details gives me the zoomies lol #Visual representation of the unfathomable! It's so cool!! #And the fact that at the Very least Gaster suspects just how limited his viewpoint is - is phased in and out of it - what he assumes is real #He knows that even with everything that makes him up now - the threads of the multiverse! - it's still so much bigger than he can understand #''More than I thought'' - and then actually getting to talk with some/thing/one(s) that make up at least a sliver of that Bigger #''Less than you'd think'' - like moving a grain of sand that contains a universe on the beach of infinity #Hghhh it's cool <3

[knightforflowers]

premonition

#the adventure zone #the adventure zone ethersea #taz #taz ethersea #ethersea #taz fanart #got. way more ambitious with this than I expected. #(covered in blood and viscera) anyone else think abt arms outstretched 2.0 #took a bit of creative liberties with this I just love foreshadowing #again the alt text has some elaboration on certain composition choices and what they mean if ur interested <3 #amber gris #devo la main #zoox anthellae #taz koda #does bro even have a tag #romeo’s flowers #id in alt text

[dripgnoll]

crayola marker sniper...

#yes i know his vest isnt cropped like this i do what i want for the sake of compositional shapes and faggotry #tf2 sniper #sniper #tf2 #team fortress 2 #my art #CAN WE GET SOME COMMOTION FOR THE HAND??? im normally good at drawing hands anyways but even still this one i rlly rlly like

[tears-of-taelia]

How many times have we done this, Interceptor? You betrayed me at one point.

composition

#pokemon rejuvenation #melia #emma #did i take a screencap of the entire altar incident and pause it frame by frame to transcribe the backwards text? #no #maybe #perhaps #no fr tho i love all of the small touches in 13.5 #the replay value is phenomenal #i know i'm not the only one who finds paragon melia off #who even is melia anyway #melanie + maria? #what about emma? #only upon drawing this did I realize how nearly identical Melia's Archetype winx club fit and the Emma “disguise” are #working on a theory about that whole disguise situation and might post something soon #in an actual post tho bc it's probably bad to be abusing tags like this #but the stream of consciousness format is so fun #anyway i had a lot of fun making this. trying to make art for fun and for me again. 2024. #linked the composition inspo in the post body! super dope great study

[mumblesplash]

my favorite thing about comics specifically is how much it checks your ego if you think you know how to draw characters. like i’m pretty sure people who don’t do comics assume the hard part would be how *many* drawings are involved in making a comic, and sure that’s part of it, but i think the real challenge is having to accept you’re not as good at drawing characters as you think you are. being able to depict a convincing character, a dynamic pose, or even an expressive face out of context as opposed to within a narrative is such a different skill set in ways i don’t think a lot of people realize

#mumbling #i can only assume animating dials this up even further #i think a good example of what i’m talking about here would be like. how many angles can you draw a face at #bc if you primarily do single page illustrations you genuinely don’t *need* to know how to do that many #like there are not many compositions where being able to draw a worm’s eye view of a human face is necessary #hell you could probably get away with nothing but 3/4ths view and front view if your focus isn’t on pose work #but with comics there’s a lot more elements to account for and weird angles are going to come up more often #and then in animation like. ideally you’re able to do a full character turnaround before you even attempt it

[scooterpengie]

Redraw of one of my favourite moments in Succession because Roman's my favourite and I wanted to practise drawing him but then I got too involved and turned it into a whole comic and I don't even really like how it turned out but I spent too long on it to not post it 😭

I wish I could do something more creative than just redrawing scenes from the show but I find the characters so difficult to write 😭 like I'm genuinely jealous of people who can write good fanfiction of them

#NO SPOILERS i still haven't finished!! #succession #succession hbo #roman roy #gerri kellman #succession fanart #romangerri #i don't ship them but this scene is objectively a bit romangerri so i wanted to tag #comics #my art #considering i wanted to practise drawing Roman #this was actually a really annoying scene like his hair doesn't usually look like that #at least i can draw gerri now #i hope the composition/movement makes sense here i had to adapt the scene for comic form #like i put way too much thought into this #and it took me like 9 hours to nightshade #these two make me insane actually #love how he says “it's a lot to think about” at the end #like what is there to think about?? what has he even said?? #i headcanon this was a real proposal #he just talked himself out of it once she didn't say yes

[hychlorions]

i have some Thoughts on apollo's experiences at gavin law offices. mainly that his boss was a pretentious ass bitch

#apollo justice #miles edgeworth #kristoph gavin #ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #.png #sorry about the composition i know it's ass but like. when drawing at 5am it's about getting the point across. #this is directly in contrast with that other thing i want to make though #about miles not giving a damn about what the fuck tea is. he just keeps it up to fuck with people #'i couldn't care less if it's tea bags or leaves or if the tea came from the queen's asshole herself. i can't even tell the difference' #kristoph: why are you telling me this #then edgeworth: because no one will ever believe you (leaves him to rot) #in other news! how do i make 'apollo justice is a closet tea snob' in character? #you make it so that he's a tea snob because he desperately wanted to be praised at his job<3 #he doesn't even know he was the tea snob all along... press F for respects

[pasta-pardner]

spotify | john marston's revenge quest, set to music from 1960s spaghetti westerns.

Fun detail: the opening cutscene for Red Dead Revolver (2004) features an instrumental version of "His Name Is King". The lyrical version is oddly fitting for John, given that it's a song about seeking vengeance for a dead brother.

#red dead #rdr2 #john marston #arthur morgan #pardner playlists #pardner posts #tagging arthur in this bc even tho its a john-centric playlist.. its about the way john grieves arthur #y'all know me !!! im always a sucker for a revenge story!!! #so i cant help but dwell on johns attitude of ~i will throw away my chance at a future because i'm stuck in the past grieving you~ #like thats a banger. thats a good revenge story. the ultimate act of devotion is also an ultimate act of betrayal. #this is admittedly a kind of pulpy playlist and im embracing that. im a fan of 'horse opera' westerns and im attaching that to epilogue joh #anyways. all the songs on this playlist were released btwn 1966 - 1971 so its definitely a vintage vibe. #i tried to match that vintage energy with the graphic design. the cover art is screenshots of rdr2 that i've /heavily/ edited in photoshop #i wanted the images to look like those oil and/or acrylic paintings done for old movie posters #it took a lot of filter adjustments and paint-overs to get to this stage. i spent a lot of time on it. (please clap) #i initially wanted john to be wearing arthur's hat for this but . hdkhjdf ran into some difficulties sourcing usable screenshots. #i refuse to accept unmodded epilogue john as canon. i dont know what you think that thing is but that is not my son etc etc. #its jmrp or bust for me #most of the jmrp screengrabs i could turn into a workable composition featured the john hat so i just went with that. unfortunate but mehh #sidenote. plz click for quality bc a lot of the paint texturing in these covers gets lost in the compression #alight yall. have fun with the playlist !! lmk if u end up giving it a listen. #rdr2 spoilers #🤠 #art

[tavina-writes]

CQL and Genre Intertextuality

I'm being bashed over the head with the "nhs's fan in CQL is made of xuantie/dark iron" thing again and @poorlittleyaoyao please understand that I am thinking of this constantly since you made that post talking about it because I'm just.

holding my head in my hands bc ye gods the cql show writers were genre savvy in ways that are hilarious but also make me feel like I've been hit upside the head with a waffle iron.

For those of us who are no longer damaged by the post or hadn't seen it (I don't actually know where it's gone bc the search feature doesn't work on this webbed site):

Xuantie/Dark Iron is a Jin Yong created metal that famously was used for the blade of the Dragon Slaying Sabre in the third novel of the Condor Trilogy, 倚天屠龍記/The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber.

The Heaven Reliant Sword 倚天劍 was created from Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv's Gentleman and Lady swords, whilst the Dragon Slaying Saber 屠龍刀 was created from Grandmaster Dugu Seeking-a-Loss's Dark Iron Sword.

Can we please all take a moment to appreciate how NHS's fan not his saber, NHS, from The Family With The Sabers, gets to shout about how his fan is made of xuantie. The most famous for being the metal that made up The Dragon Slaying Saber. His fan. Not his saber. his fan. dark iron. Dragon Slaying Saber. This is so funny I'm about to mcfucking lose it yet again while typing this.

Going back to Grandmaster Dugu Seeking-A-Loss (who appears in both Return of the Condor Heroes and Xiao Ao Jianghu) and his giant pet condor (sadly, only a ROCH feature) who might've been his one true soulmate for a second, this situation from episode 7, when the Yunmeng Siblings are leaving the Cloud Recesses:

Now, the subtitles here really DO NOT do this line justice because when I first saw it it took me FLAT THE FUCK OUT and I had to lie on the floor laughing for like, 80 seconds before I got my breath back.

Okay, what this line ACTUALLY says is "I am Dugu Qiubai (Grandmaster Dugu Seeking-A-Loss), what's wrong with seeking a match?"

Now, to understand this, we come to this backstory on Dugu Qiubai in XAJH:

“Senior master Dugu Seeking-A-Loss, who created this set of sword techniques, had a name ‘Seeking-A-Loss.’ He had been seeking a loss all his life and still couldn’t get one. Once the sword techniques were executed, he would become unmatched anywhere in the world. Why would he have to defend? If anyone could have forced him to draw his sword back and defend himself, the respectful master would have burst with joy and be delighted beyond measure.” Feng Qingyang said. “Dugu Seeking-A-Loss, Dugu Seeking-A-Loss,” Linghu Chong muttered as he imagined how the senior master had wandered about the Martial World, unmatched anywhere, with only his sword, and couldn’t even find a single one who was capable of forcing him into a defending stance. That was truly admirable.

from Chapter Ten of XAJH: Sword Training.

"If anyone could force him to draw his sword back to defend himself, the grandmaster would have burst with joy and be delighted beyond measure" DO YOU SEE WHY JC STARTED CALLING WWX SHAMELESS NOW. they're JUNIORS. WWX is calling himself "the greatest man of all, who'd sought the feeling of losing just ONCE being forced to defend himself just ONCE in a LIFETIME" and saying "LWJ might be my equal. my soulmate. the loss I was seeking my whole life."

All 15 years of it I'm sure, WWX.

I'm not going to get into finding martial arts manuals or a respected grandmaster who taught you incredible things in a cave bc 1) LHC and Feng Qingyang up there are sitting together, in a cave and LHC is being taught incredible things and 2) Duan Yu from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils once found the magic finger lasers of ultra laser in a cave. In front of the statue of a goddess. (don't talk about the dancing goddess statue now, Tav. We don't have time for that in this post.)

Not kidding the intertextuality of CQL and how much it plays with and against the tropes of its genre, especially other wuxia tv adaptations as well as wuxia novels is insane. There's other ones I'm missing for certain and these were just the most funny to me, personally, but! just! oh my god! insane! insane! SO funny, so clever in so many ways

#meta #my meta #wei wuxian #nie huaisang #nie huaisang my beloved #I don't even know how to begin to explain how much this show and its show writers really KNOW its genre #there are certain shots where I'm like #'oh god that's an exact mirroring of the composition of this other shot in a show made like 20 years earlier!!!' #no cql doesn't know what a pacing is and there's four episodes of guanyin temple #but my god do these people who made this show really love wuxia and it really really shows #and that's lovely I'm so happy about it

[yeahivegotanaccount]

The train will go to the next station without fail! @battle-couple-battle

#I thought of it on rwby fight but genuinely did not have ability to do it. I like its versatility - even upon poll loss it still fits. #The way I did tones is far more fitting for colors but I am simply would not have been able to choose them wisely. #GG hope it was fun and thanks to the organiser! #risuyu #вышедшее из под моего пера #Also doing it made me understand that hikaren is actually balanced tone-wise against eachother #I don't know... I hate compositions that break the way things are to highlight whatt you intend to show but you gotta do what you gotta do. #I just hope that someday I'd be able to choose angles of perception rather than conveniently break reality #shoujo kageki revue starlight