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💎 gem hair for V 💎

as soon as I saw Tae w his hair color I knew I had to draw this xD this comeback is calling my name tho! Dionysus is so good!!!

#my art #bts #bts v #kim taehyung #hnk #phosphophyllite #crossover #diop draws #fanart #dionysus

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was thinking about gijinkas and decided to take a crack at it since I had some time on the subway today

also since it’s vaguely asian enough uhh happy lunar new years everyone!~ ;;v;;

#my art #diop draws #sketch #gijinka #pokemon #characterdesign #hanfu #wow its been a while oops lets just accept i’ll always have long absences ;;v;;

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I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D

[EDIT] this is in Adobe Photoshop, sorry for forgetting to mention that!

#tutorial #reference #omg this will change my life

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friday night tutorial time

this post is massive but i tried to cover both the conceptual and technical side, hopefully it’s somewhat coherent

continued under cut

Keep reading

#tutorial #reference #useful

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It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

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妖怪 04 牛妖 

The Earth Ox is honest and prudent, with a strong sense of responsibility.

#inktober #inktober2018 #inktoberday4 #ink #art #zodiac #my art #diopdraws

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妖 03 牛🐃

decided to be ~fancy~ with some silver ink and my sister’s markers✨

#inktober2018 #inktober #ink #zodiac #ox #my art #diopdraws

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怪 02 鼠妖

an exercise in character design xD according to a zodiac chart, water rats are "always aware of all events. She is erudite, intelligent, inquisitive and has her own opinion on everything." (zodiacs have fixed elements!)

#inktober #inktober2018 #ink #zodiac #my art #diopdraws

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Hey~ can you tell us about the straw hats with veils coming down to cover the wearer's face we see mostly in wuxia? I have seen some very pretty ones with added accessories like pearls and flowers too. What are they called?

Hi, thanks for the question!

The traditional Chinese veiled hats that we mostly see in Wuxia are called Weimao/帷帽. I wrote about the history of Weimao in this post. Please also see this post by fate-magical-girls for further information on the history/evolution of Chinese veiled hats.

As you’ve noticed, it’s recently become trendy among Hanfu wearers to decorate Weimao with various kinds of accessories such as pearls and flowers. The effect is really pretty!

Weimao can be worn by men as well:

For more references, please check out my Weimao tag! 

Hope this helps!

Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  

#qilin story #reference #useful

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‪妖 01 鼠

back at it again this year!~ my theme is 妖怪 [yaoguai] and will probably do zodiac animals first before drawing more mythological creatures. Yaoguai are demons or spirits who were originally creatures, plants, or objects that gained enough celestial energy over millennia to take on human forms.

(‪this paper was much more absorbant than I expected, I’ll play around with other pens tomorrow then‬)

#ink #my art #inktober #inktober 2018 #zodiac #rat #diopdraws

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What the hecks going on with critical role and those tweets? did something happen? ive been out of the loop trying to catch up

So last week, at the beginning of the episode, Matt offered some words of encouragement to Dr. Ford (who was testifying against her rapist and supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh). 

Apparently, some people in the chat started being assholes and complaining that Matt shouldn’t ‘politicize’ the game with his opinions. So he replied with this: 

Of course, the cast supported him 

And he finished up with a few more statements

Overall, Matt and the others were very respectful while still standing up for what they believe and, like, basic human decency. We stan a good bunch of people.

#bless #i'm so glad i stan good people

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art tip: gray is the secret to color richness. if you put a ton of super rich colors next to each other, they all look pretty bright…but if you put a rich color next to a desaturation section, it’s gonna pop out like crazy. everything is relative!!

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#tips and tricks #reference #useful

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3D Learning Resources

This is not coding related, I know, but gamedev-learning related enough to be here! :) I’ve been asked about learning resources for 3D modeling and tried to make a list of tutorials I could remember - I’m highlighting the ones I’ve tried myself but I’ve heard good things about all of these. This list is low poly focused but the knowledge can be applied for anything else. 

I haven’t been doing this for long - I started learning 3D last July and have been ever since but as a 2D artist the technical side of it still overwhelms me a lot. I’ve gone nowhere near animation yet but I’ve been adventuring with low poly quite a lot (which you can check out in #GemuNoGemu, image above - I also put up assets pics in a Trello here as well as stuff on my website). I mainly use Maya (now Maya LT) but I’ve been trying to tackle Blender too. Here are some helpful goodies:

Maya:

I started learning Maya with this series of videos on youtube by Misterh3d. I watched through units 1-7 and it’s a pretty great introduction! Nicely paced, covers a bunch you gotta know.

A series on Low poly for game assets using Maya 2015

Blender:

Blender 3D - Noob to Pro: for the basics! :)

And another Blender course for beginners

The popular Secrets to Creating Low Poly Illustrations On Blender - great intro to making some low poly goodness :)

Blender Cookie - CGCookie is a website that has a bunch of awesome tutorials (loads for free) on many softwares, including Unity. Take a look at this Low Poly Game Asset Creation tutorial.

Some character creation tutorials by ward7299

Bunch of really cool low poly tutorials here by Manuel Graphics!

A Minecraft character modeling and texturing tutorial

All things 3D/low poly:

Creating a low poly treasure island

PigArt: rad speedart/timelapses of adorable looking low poly art, lots to learn from watching these :)

Digital Tutors has loads of 3D modeling tutorials, some free some paid. Tried a few of those and they’re pretty cool!

Cool Misc stuff:

Blender Cycles rendering introduction

Creating flat colored low poly art. This is how I currently color all assets for Gemu (I used to color using materials or vertex colors before because I can’t stand UV unwrapping but this is a pretty easy alternative) 

Please do check the Polycount forum, so many cool references and useful info! Also do check their low poly thread :)

There’s also reddit’s /low_poly

Study Files:

Cocefi kindly uploaded a low poly model for download here :)

You can download models on Sketchfab! Here are some popular low poly ones

Lots of cool Cinema 4D project files for download here

(I’ll share some Gemu stuff soon! Lemme know if you have any files you’d be willing to share :D)

Rad people making awesome 3D stuff:

@PIXELATEDCROWN

@turnislefthome

@chickysprout

@metkis

@korigame

@GarretRandell

@IMPLODINGORACLE

@ultrakurtzwelle

@khalkeus3d

@AckkStudios

@q_dork

@andmish

@heatpenn

@dicey

This is it for now! :) I know it’s short but I hope I can keep it growing - I’ll add more stuff to it as I find other tuts (let me know if you have any suggestions!).

#resources #useful #3d #tutorial

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Hhhhoooly moly, I just read your Nuzlocke comic and sweet googly moogly, your style is gorgeous! I love it, it's so nice and painterly, and so detailed! I'm very excited to read the comic as it comes out. Interesting that you're doing something different with the setting, too, that's really nice to see!

aaa omgg thanks so much, you’re so sweet!!! i had to read this over and over bc i really appreciate this a lot!! i was kinda hesitant to make this comic bc of the setting and style so i’m glad that you and others have liked it so far

#cinders in the wind #nuzlocke comic #amondrask

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no offense but broadway and other forms of high theater should be more accessible and should at the very least be taped and released for easy home viewing when they close

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Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

#good reads #writing #stories #inspiration

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Basically every artist I know (including myself) bemoans that they need to practice drawing backgrounds, but then never DOES it… so I’m setting aside a week to do just that! Background Blitz Week will run from March 25th to March 31st, 2018 and has the following goals:

draw to completion at least one environment a day

learn how to ration time and figure out what you can realistically accomplish in a single day’s drawing

learn what you like and dislike about environment drawing– savor the good bits, and learn how to speed up the parts you hate so you spend less time doing them

If you’re into daily themes, here’s a good starter list:

wilderness

garden

urban

room

market

roadways

restaurant

But if you have environments for a specific world or story you want to work on then feel free to make your own specialized list, like I’ll be doing. Tag your work with #BackgroundBlitz if you’d like to share with everyone else!

#i probably wont do this everyday or at all but ill try