hi japh i've been a fan of you for YEARS. i love your art and i love how you design not just your characters but also their clothes and their fashion. im not sure if you remember but there was this one design you did for a character...i believe it was a cheongsam/barong combo? anyway that still lives in my head for YEARS and i kinda wanna use that concept for myself
OH I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABT CAM'S OUTFIT?? I should still have that in my archives here!
But please feel free to reference it for your wardrobe or derive a fit for your OCs if you wish I'd love to see it in action!
Something about opening your blog seems to set off my anti-virus? It could be nothing but maybe worth updating your passwords and/or looking at the code just in case.
omg I'll go check... maybe it's that defunct link to that custom mouse I used to have on?? I hope it's nothing serious...
Is it ok if I use the Velvet BallRoom concept for a persona ttrpg idea I'm planning to run?? It's extremely genius (not askin to use the art just the general vibes and style) love Ur art lots <3
sure, please feel free to try the concept out! I'm not the best at writing so I'd love to see how you build it up ;u;)/
The person behind the Martyrs of Gaza account account just posted that their daughter was martyred in November.
The text:
Noor, my daughter, was the only one who held my heart in this world. Her story was different from other girls.
Noor Al-Fara, 13 years old.
She had dreams for the future and was planning to achieve things beyond her age. She lived in her own world, with thoughts and interests that were unique. Whenever someone met her, whether a woman or a man, they would sit with her, chat, and say, "This girl is extraordinary. Mashallah, she seems like a university student, not a child who hasn't even turned 14." Indeed, when they said this, we realized that we are not just numbers. We have souls and bodies, and we have dreams that we want to fulfill in the future. It was as if she sensed that her time in this world was limited, but her dreams were grand, so she raced against time to achieve as much as she could.
As soon as she entered the house, she would start talking as if she had been away from me for a week. She would share many details about herself, her friends, teachers, and school news.
She was an icon at school; she felt like the center of attention among the students. She participated in all academic and non-academic activities, and she was a dynamo at home, on the street, and at school with her friends.
On November 7th, 2023, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the entire square in front of the Farhana School in Khan Younis, and Noor was martyred. Oh God, she left a great void. My life turned into an empty desert after her, despite the crowdedness around us.
I have noticed that in your artwork, some areas will be really rendered out, while the rest will have a gradient over it or just basic block shadows. I assume its to pull the eye towards a specific area of the piece, but whenever I try it, it looks like I forgot to finish the painting - any tips or tricks for that? Because I am honestly jealous of how you play with the level of detail
ogh idk how to explain it anon I've just simply been practicing it a lot until I got stuff I liked looking at ;u; but I'll try to explain if I can:
my professor back in uni always told me that when it comes to making quick concept illustrations to show to a client or audience you want to be able to make something that looks cohesive enough from 5ft away!
so I've always been trying to make it so that whenever I draw smth the level and scaling of details remain consistent.
Detail, as I look at it, come in a spectrum- for pieces where I emphasize details on certain areas while leaving the rest as gradients as you've mentioned I tend to do it in a way where both the less AND the more detailed parts fall within a certain threshold: again, I want them to look cohesive from a distance while still emphasizing what I want viewers to look at!
What I've noticed with my work is that, barring certain pieces where I did do this kind of stuff on purpose (I love doing designs where it's like! Solid black with gold filigree! The contrast is delicious to me), typically the farther the types of details are from each other on the spectrum the more likely one of them is to look unfinished especially when sitting next to each other.
Even then, when doing solid colors like black, you can still notice whether or not I've decided to make an effort in emphasizing or finishing the silhouette, and can change the feel of the piece depending on how I approach it!