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soapallo · 4 days
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Turn your sound up for this little bastard
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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...
Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?
Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?
Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?
Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?
Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?
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soapallo · 6 days
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Hello!! Years ago you recommended an anatomy book you carried with you all the time and it really helped you... Can you please tell about this book again? Your art always inspired me <3 have a great day!!!
Of course! Since then I've actually picked up a few more books that are great for anatomy:
Classic Human Anatomy by Valerie L. Winslow This is probably the book I recommended years ago and it's excellent. It goes in depth into anatomical breakdown and how motor functions affect how the body looks visually with plenty of drawn visual references.
Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet This one includes both drawn and photographs of live models to visually explain anatomy. It even has a neat feature in each section where a translucent page with a drawing of the skeleton overlays the next page of a photograph of a real body. It really helps you visualize and understand how the different structures of the body line up and affect each other!
Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds by Michel Lauricella This book is essential. It does a phenomenal job of explaining how weight, fat, and age affect anatomy and express the variation of the human form. It's abundant in visuals and I highly recommend it!
The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William A. Ewing I actually picked this book up from my artsy grandmother's collection haha. It isn't really an anatomy book per se, it's actually more focused on the art of photography but some of the poses included are very gestural and would be great to use as reference. Fair warning: some photos included in the book are disturbing! The "Estrangement" chapter specifically includes depictions of death, disease, and genetic deformities.
line-of-action.com I know this isn't a book at all but it's a wonderful resource that allows you practice some life/figure drawing! It even includes a setting that simulates the timing they use in an actual class setting. I highly recommend doing a session with friends! My friend and I do a call in discord and I share my screen of the website while we both draw off it. We even compare and critique each other's drawings after. It's a great way to learn and a lot of fun!
Hope these resources can help! Have a great day :)
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soapallo · 8 days
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so fucking evil that i don’t have the jagged pointy cartoon teeth that fit together like triangles. i deserve them
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Writing Advice: How to Create Conflict when Your Characters are Competent.
Featuring Leverage, the ultimate in Competency Porn.
Make them so good it gets them in trouble. So you've got a hacker and he's the best, definitively. Okay, well, one of his fake IDs just got called for jury duty. You pretended to be a psychic so well, someone kidnapped you to talk to a dead crime lord.
Make them targets. You're so good, enemies you didn't even know about are trying to kill you just so they won't have to take you on in your element. You're being blackmailed into doing a thing because you're the only one that can.
Limit the scope of competency. Sure, you're competent as a fighter, but your hacker is in jail and now you have to do his job and you are not competent in that. Yeah, you can climb a building, but do you know what you need to do to not end up in a crevasse while climbing a mountain?
Raise the stakes. Can you handle extracting a orphan being used by a washed up actress to fund her extravagant lifestyle? Yes. But can you handle extracting 30 orphans being used by the Slovenian mob to fund gunrunning? Maybe all you wanted was to get enough money to buy back a house, but instead you have to ruin the company so that all houses they illegally obtained are returned to their rightful owners.
Make others competent, too. Your characters are the best, but are they the best of the best? If you take you enemy down, do you go, too? If you win, does it make them win? Does it get out of hand and make other people start noticing when you're trying to keep your head down? Do they know every trick in the book and know the next move before you make it?
Make others painfully incompetent. Your characters are the best, but are they woefully unprepared for people who are not even good? Can your hologram hacker roll with it when the vital information is on a casset tape? Is the old mentor up to date on the recent technology, or is he going to screw you because he assumes the cops are just as corrupt/incompetent as when he was young?
Have some standards. Specifically, morals that make it impossible for your characters to back out or gets them in trouble for doing things "off-script." You can't leave on the train someone just stole for you because you've got to go back and stop the bad guys from bombing the IRS (even if we don't like them). You wish you could just say no to that assassin contract and leave, but someone's getting assassinated and you have to stop it because you're a good guy.
Bring up the past. Do you think that bad guy you brutally scarred a decade ago is going to carry a grudge? Do you have to save your ex-wife from the bad guy, who may also be her boyfriend, and if you suggest that she'll shut you out and you won't be able to save her or get paid? It's Draaamaaaa, babee.
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soapallo · 9 days
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Hey can i rip your wings off? Haha sorry that was wierd. Can i tear your halo from your head? Haha omg that was so random. Can i tear the divinity from your wretched form, removing you from the guiding hand and will of that which made you? Can i supplant your divine spark with wires and cables? Can i replace your golden halo with a golden circuitboard? Hypothetically
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soapallo · 9 days
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your honour my client merely just got a little bit genghis khan
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soapallo · 10 days
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yeah sorry i just don't think i can make it out tonight. i have to pick up my wife from her murder trial.
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soapallo · 14 days
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society really lost the war when dressing nice / slutty = “gay” “metrosexual” “is he 💅🏻”. we had decades of men wearing crop tops and short shorts without blinking an eye and now it’s ye ole pilgrim standards and talk of scandal if they show their knees
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soapallo · 17 days
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nurse feratu and dr. acula are ready to see you for your blood tests
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soapallo · 17 days
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Whenever I talk about whatever media I’m into at the moment imagine I am presenting the characters to you like this
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soapallo · 18 days
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soapallo · 18 days
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horror is always like oh no they're possessed by a demon well what about possessed by an angel? angelic possession is also horror.
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soapallo · 19 days
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me: :(
spring birdies: peep peep
me: :)
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soapallo · 20 days
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you masc and moaning like that when he drinks your blood…..? :\
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soapallo · 23 days
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blorbo wrapped you thought about the same fucking symbolism and story the whole year you goddamn whore
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