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This is old artwork I did a few years back but never published here it seems. Art of Bombolo Turilli, Fragola Gateau's father. He's a member of Passione and the person that Fragola has been looking for in her story. You can read about him in the story I'm currently writing on AO3 of Fragola! https://archiveofourown.org/works/37983220 Art by me @snlangford. Do not repost without permission, edit over, color over, or claim as your own.

#jjba oc #passione oc #golden wind oc #snlangford art #my art #oc art #anime art #my artwork #original character #jojo's bizzare adventure oc

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So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

#ai #fight against ai

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When someone uses your makeup looks for their character ideas.

I feel so honored rn that someone likes my makeup enough to use it for their character! ❤️

#screaming internally #i feel honored #thank you for appreciating my work❤️

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Another Diabolik Lovers OC I made thanks to the RP server I’m in!

Kura Sen is a vampire with a lot of ✨trauma✨

Art by me @snlangford . Please do not repost without permission, color over, edit over, or claim as your own.

#Kura Sen #diabolik lovers oc #dl oc #dialovers oc #vampire oc #snlangford art #my art #anime art #character artist #character art #oc art #oc artist #original vampire character #goth oc #punk oc

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Hi i haven’t shared art in a while lol

Here’s art of Bara (Elysium Version, so she’s 19 here!) and her cat Kinmaru!

Note: Elysium is a College AU for Diabolik Lovers. All characters are adults in there. I had to try Bara as a rp character in there and loving it rn!

Art by me @snlangford . Please do not repost without permission, recolor, edit over, or claim as your own.

#Bara Shikki #my art #my artwork #SNLangford art #Bara Shikki Art #anime art #procreate #procreate artist #oc artist #anime cat #original chatacter #character artist

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Hi. Here’s a refresh lol

I can’t find my blogs master post. Guess imma make a new one lmao

@snlangford - art/main

@dialoving-lemons - DL writing blog (hiatus rn)

@book-of-yanderes - yandere writing blog

@barashikki-dialoversoc - DL OC paired w/ Kanato

@mizutsurugi-natsuxlaito-sakamaki DL OC paired w/ Laito

@bloody-fraulein DL OC paired w/ Shin

@ill-doc-s-personal-nurse HypMic OC paired w/ Jakurai

@joker-of-heartslabyul twst OC based on Mad Hattwe

@that-feral-herbivore twst Ramshackle OC

@crashing-into-the-desert twst Octavinelle OC

@just-a-human-fae twst Diasomnia OC

@kuririn-chan Sanrio Danshi OC

@danse-des-amoureux Tokyo Ghoul OC

@snlts3ccfinds My sims 3 cc finds blog

@intellectual-rage My Obey Me OC blog (paired with Satan)

@sanrio-joshi Group blog for sanrio that is not yet complete.

Hope this helps for those looking for specific OCs of mine!

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some storyboarding techniques as a sequel to my storyboarding basics presentation. I focus specifically on tips for action and conversation scenes!

as always, these are general tips and tricks, but rules can always be broken. happy boarding! ✍️✨

#storyboarding #2d animation #animation #comics and manga #art reference #art tutorial #art help #art resources #storyboard #storyboard artist

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In honour of disability pride month, we made a disability Pride Knight! Stay proud! ⚔️🌈

#disability pride month #disability #disability awareness #not my art

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A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions in your writing, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

This is NOT a medical resource!!! And never tell a real person you think they're using a cane wrong!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height can make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(some people elect to use a cane wrong for their personal situation despite this, everyone is different!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane and the bad leg and follow with the good leg!

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

#mobility aid #drawing tips #art tutorial #art tips #writing tips #writing advice #art resources #art help

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Thank you! Will definitely need to try sometime!

Spring Oc Collab

Here are the prompts, message me if you'd like to join (Jack the "Human"#2524)! Basically, you put your oc into a scenario with the prompt you pick, it can be drawn or written. Oc ships are welcome!

Picnic

Hiking

Playing softball

Bike riding

Horse riding

Kite flying

Blowing bubbles

Chalk art

Flower crowns

Making a fairy garden

Getting caught in the rain

Fishing

Gardening

Planting trees

Going to a farmer's market

Star gazing

Picking flowers

Looking at clouds

Bird watching

Nature walk

Going to a nature reserve

Camping 

Watching the sun set/rise

Hide and seek

Nature collection

Scavenger hunt

Zoo

Making paper mache sculptures

Campfire 

Make a fort

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A new Diabolik Lovers OC! Say hello to Margherita Okano!

She’s a child from an Italian and Japanese couple who had her in Italy and moved to Japan shortly after since mom could up and move while dad couldn’t. And due to her first name, she goes by Mari in Japan to make it easier for classmates.

I made her for a college AU DL server where we rp. She a fashionista who has a messed up sleep schedule, so she goes to a night school unaware it was made by Karlheinz for his sons and to experiment with shiz slkfjslkdfjkl

Art and character by me @snlangford . Do not repost without permission, color over, edit, or claim as your own.

#snlangford art #diabolik lovers oc #dl oc #dialovers oc #margherita okano #oc #character art #character design #procreate art

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A moment of light during the siege

#tumblr #new followers #bots

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CRYING CAUSE THIS TURNED OUT SO PRETTY LIKE OMG?????

Art by me @snlangford . Do not edit, color over, repost without permission, or claim as your own. Reblogs are appreciated!

#snlangford art #Bara shikki #oc artwork #diabolik lovers oc #my ocs #oc #my oc art #my art #procreate #dl oc #dialovers oc #diabolik lovers oc art #oc artist #anime art #airbrush painting

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

#fanfiction #ao3 #piracy #dmca #pirated fanfic #please signal boost

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Commission for @lunaangel1010universe ! This is a CG edit of inserting an OC over the heroine!

Edit by me @snlangford . Do not repost without permission, edit over, recolor, or claim as your own.

#commissions #cg edit #dL oc #diabolik lovers oc #diabolik oc #Amina x Carla #oc art #oc edit

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

#writing advice #writing tips #writing #reblog

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Commission for my friend @neroflare / @ladybugblues !

Art by me @snlangford . Please do not repost, color over, edit over, or claim as your own. Only @neroflare / @ladybugblues has permission for reposting. If wishing to share, please reblog!

#commission #snlangford art #my art #anime art #digital artwork #art commission #digital art #procreate #blood magic #oc art #character art