#but this got under my skin

[forecast0ctopus]

Any advice on drawing McCoy? I’m not used to drawing ancient wrinkley bastards (affectionate) and it’s surprisingly tough v-v

FOR SURE lmao i made. a diagram. just a warning that i am going to be irritating and long winded because u just hit a topic i really like sorry lmao

so first off i did some traces just to show whats there vs redraws to show my interpretation

ive said this on other asks but again jsyk, tracing isnt bad!! its a tool. theres some stuff with intellectual property and whatnot but using tracing to study shapes and forms is a really valuable practice.

also just taking some time to learn facial structures and anatomy is super useful, reading what bones and muscles are where and how they interact with one another. taking this info and staring in the mirror and moving your face around and thinking about it. just really furthers understanding of how the face works. trying to sound normal about this but i love anatomy and motion and physics and whatever

anyways im going to go through all the numbered points so there's no confusion. 1. forehead lines - self explanatory. more prominent when brows are raised 2. crows feet - at the outer corners of the eyes, more prominent when smiling or squinting 3. nasolabial folds - the folds that go from the corners of the nose to the corners of the mouth. more prominent when the mouth is wide, like smiling 4. brow furrow - self explanatory, most prominent when brows are furrowed. mccoy tends to have two right next to his eyebrows, kirk has one in the middle. everyones face works different lmao 5. chin crease - caused by how the chin and lower lip interact. 6. nasojugal groove - start from the inner corners of the eye and can extent over the cheeks. everyone has these and idk why people dont like them i think theyre really cool!!!! but Society. i guess. :/ 7. eye bags - caused by the skin sagging beneath the eyes. mccoy isnt even that old in tos i think hes meant to be mid 40s by the end of the 5 year mission, hes just got really prominent eye bags lmao 8. idk what the name is for these, but when the mouth is wide and pushes the skin to the sides, these folds sometimes form outside of the nasolabial folds 9. philtrum - the groove above the upper lip. i dont usually draw this but mccoy's struck me as prominent enough that i usually draw it on him 10. masseter - the muscle that moves the jaw up and down. its a pretty rugged muscle and while i wouldnt say mccoy's is especially prominent, it kind of extends that nasojugal groove from certain angles/positions 11. orbicularis oris - mouth muscle, usually easier to see when lips are pursed or frowns are pulled. mccoy's is pretty prominent from 3/4ths or side, his mouth tends to protrude in profile 12. this isnt a muscle but more of a line defining the planes of the face, but since i drew it i felt i should explain lmao

a few points:

im an animator i tend to exaggerate and emphasize certain things so i usually make him more square.

i like to combine eyebags and crows feet for brevity/flow, same with nasojugal grooves, eyebags, and masseter lines. my approach is always subject to change based on pose, expression, reference image, etc.

i take out details that i deem redundant or cluttering and keep what details i need to make things feel Right

all this info is applicable to any character of any age, its just in how you apply it and facial proportions that willl change how old a character is perceived to be

there's a lot more with drawing a Character rather than an Actor, just because the features are there doesnt necessarily mean things will feel correct? its very much in the mannerisms and poses and expressions

i only went over my approach to his likeness but not really body type or posing or anything idk if u want that i could always try to answer that later haha

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anyways all that info kind of exists nebulously in my brain while i draw its not like im sitting there thinking Must Draw. Nasolabial Fold...... i jsut do what feels right with the visual info i have. also i love specificity in faces.... i dont like to be a hater but when every character is drawn the same it pisses me off a little lmao. so

also dont take my word as The Only Way to do anything i just draw how i like to draw and no one should feel like these are things that Must be done to be a good artist or anything do whatever the hell u wanna do

#anyways my apologies that was. a lot #it will happen again if asked of me. #anon #ask #everyone has this stuff going on with their face and its really cool but capitalism and the beauty industry and whatnot #have been rotting peoples brains since the moment they came to be #the more u look at and appreciate how ur skin an muscles and bones interact with one another the more fine u are with your own face #trust me #because its really cool. like mechanically and stuff #idk if its like theraputic or something but maybe it is or maybe i think about it all way too much #how i draw #ive got some other similar things under that tag i think pertaining to merlin but still similar info

[astarlightmonbebe]

the appeal of yeojeong as a normal guy who’s just a little bit off. not enough that you would notice when talking to him, of course, but it’s just there, under the surface. a disturbance. and i think it’s interesting because typically you have two types of guys somewhat adjacent to this: guy who seems totally normal but is secretly sadistic/a psychopath, and then guy haunted by a traumatic/troubled past, who has that secret layer of torment running beneath the surface of their image. but yeojeong breaks through these archetypes, and i think part of it is because he’s just so...calm. it’s not that he’s living a double life (kind doctor by day, killer by night) or hiding part of his past (everyone he worked with knew about what happened to his father, and watched his downward spiral during his college days). he’s not the typical male character who is, at every attempt, trying to outrun his tragic past (even though he does run once or twice); he’s not haunted by flashbacks, or suffer from PTSD in the way that is usually portrayed in dramas. and i think part of that is because the glory is a story about victims. it’s dongeun’s story, first and foremost, even though it is also yeojeong’s story, and hyeonnam’s story, and sohee’s story. but it’s a story about dongeun’s pain, and when it’s not about her pain, it’s just about the pain of victimhood - unlike other dramas, this isn’t a show where male pain outweighs the rest.

so yeojeong is just a normal guy. he’s handsome. he has a good career. he’s a plastic surgeon, an interesting choice when both his parents were/are hospital directors, and his father seemed to have worked in the er or something of the sort prior to his death (or at the very least wasn’t a plastic surgeon). something could be said here of yeojeong choosing the ‘safe’ path as a doctor, a path where he cures pain and makes people happy without the added risk of being attacked by one of his patients. there’s no proof of that in the show - why he chose to be a plastic surgeon - but it’s an interesting thought path to travel. 

dongeun says he must have lived a good life. that he’s never had to worry about the path that he’s on. and that’s true, to a certain extent. to everyone, including her in the beginning, yeojeong is perfectly friendly. he’s perfect, but not the perfect that people perceive as too perfect (i.e. the guy who’s hiding things); he has his moments where he spazzes out, gets into fights, goes crazy over dongeun texting him back, teases his mom. he’s perfectly well adjusted (a perfect contrast to dongeun’s ‘maladjustment’). he wears flip flops to work and gets the same coffee order daily. he plays go with old men in the park.

he likes to listen to the fizzing of vitamin tablets in water because it calms him down. is this a strange thing? only because he thinks it’s important enough to mention to his therapist. he does it at work too - drops the tablet in, closes his eyes, rests his head. he does it at home - drops the tablet in, opens the drawer, draws a knife. it’s about the noise. bubbles rising to the surface, like bubbles rising from underwater. he stays underwater until the last possible moment, when he has to break the surface in order to breath. dongeun makes him feel like he’s at the eye of a storm - a deceptively calm center, while everything else rages outside. and i think it’s kind of important that he makes that comparison, when he’s someone always seeking that calm. the soothing noise, that makes him feel lonely.

so he’s just a normal guy. a normal guy who receives letters on a regular basis from the prisoner who brutally murdered his father. he doesn’t like letters, he tells dongeun. who knows what he does with the letters - does he keep them? does he throw them away as soon as he sees them? he must have read some of them; maybe you only need to read one to know what is in the rest. maybe he’s still reading them; maybe he keeps them without reading, an invisible torment. it’s not what he does with the letters that matters, but that he receives letters at all. 

can you still call it a haunting if you’ve almost made your peace with it? if you’re living with it? 

he’s just a normal guy, who looks his therapist right in the eyes and tells her that she couldn’t fix him. he diligently attends therapy for years on a regular basis, even though it doesn’t work. he finally abandons it when he moves to semyeong, because he chooses to embrace dongeun’s revenge. he chooses his own revenge, too, in a way. the dark part of him that he can’t escape. the one that makes him pick up the knife, who asks dongeun who to kill before she even tells him she wants any of them dead, even when he’s a doctor from a family of doctors, and doctors don’t kill - they save lives instead. 

you couldn’t fix me, he tells his therapist calmly. so calmly. as if there’s not a bloodied man sitting next to him, a man he dreams of killing. the man is just life to him, just like the letters are life to him to. a dulled numbness. an acceptance of it. 

is your son going through hell? can you even tell it’s hell, if it’s what you’ve become used to? is it hell when you’re a doctor dreaming of murder? is it hell to no longer be tormented by dead men and living murderers who send you letters? is it?

#star stumbles #my thoughts #the glory #the glory 2022 #netflix the glory #kdrama #joo yeojeong #hmm. yes. how long has it been since i made a very long text post analyzing a character? quite a bit #he's just under my skin #it's the normalcy and then the just...tad bit off uncanniness to it all #like staring at a room and feeling as if something is wrong but you can't pinpoint what it is #until maybe you finally discover there's a book out of place or something missing or something unaligned #and it's not even psychopathic. seen a lot of people say that but like...it's not #it's a slightly different vibe from that #it's like dongeun staring at the boiling kettle and reaching out to touch it #the dissociation from reality #when you hurt yourself and marvel at the wound before feeling the pain #the fizzing of the vitamin tablets got me first & the letters #but mostly - what really wormed into my core - was the way he stared at his therapist and simply said 'you couldn't fix me' #'after all this time you couldn't fix me' #the dead acceptance. #feeling so mentally unwell about him i can't even describe it #the way his character was designed to be dongeun's (romantic) partner in crime

[sysig]

I can't remember if you've done any drawings for this before, sorry, but I have a requestober prompt! Vargas ladyverse snake charmer au? Or ladyverse dryder au Scri, I feel like the potential for pretty spiderweb clothes is high there. I would request both, but I want to respect the rules ^^ Thank you!!

Day 27 - Skillfully spun sheer shawl

#My art #Requestober #Vargas #Scriabin #Spider #So fun fact: I did do a couple Ladyverse!Snake Charmer!Scriabin doodles but they were just concept sketches so I never posted them #I still have at least one Ladyverse!SC idea written down but I haven't done anything with it lol #I never made it as far as Ladyverse!SC as a drider but then you said ''fashion'' and that's one of my sleeper words I Can't Not lol #I may have gone a little extra on this one but I was excited! I got sidetracked with those stones in the BG lol #Rock textures are still very fun ahh I can't help myself #The whole thing is extra! The web-cloth needed to contrast against her skin so I needed the directional lighting so I needed the background #Every step needed the next! It was decently fun tho #Not in small part of getting to look at some Acanthoscurria Geniculata <3 #Funny actually haha; my step-sister went to the zoo recently and there was That Specific Species of tarantula there! #She took a picture for me :) Cute #Pretty spider <3 And pretty drider! #I'm still very normal about Lady!Scriabin >.> And backs lol they're fun to draw! #You'll notice under the webbing she's wearing a similar top to what I drew Classic!Drider Scriabin in that one time #This one's a halter-top tho :) Leather halter top haha #I think it breaks up the shapes nicely :D #And her little urticating hairs poking through the webbing hehe ♪ She's very cute! Very pretty :)

[gojoest]

satoru has the veiniest arms istg. the way his muscles buff and his veins swell even more when he picks you up and holds you by the ass cheeks to fuck you while standing up….good lord

#— ai rambles #it looks like big ass wires are crawling under his skin #IT IS SO HOT #veiny arms my biggest weakness #this bc zuro anon hit me with such a pleasant ask and it got me thinking...i am looking for references as we speak :>

[loupy-mongoose]

I know I said that the next update is 16 pages, but I'm strongly considering writing out the second half instead, or at least part of it.

I've finished the first half of it, and I like how the art turned out, but it was time-consuming to do, and, uh... I don't want to do much more of it. XD

#Today has left me DRAINED #Overstimulated kid at work got under my skin #And then had a B I G shopping trip. #And trying to figure out how I can condense Linden Roots lol #Ultimately nothing horrible big-picture-wise. #But my mood has been sour most of the day. X<

[herebecritters]

Happy pride, here’s a reminder that non-binary Flaky is incredibly important to me

#happy tree friends #htf #htf flaky #I’ve been seeing a weird amount of non-binary flaky erasure lately #which is weird especially during pride month???? #I know it’s mostly harmless so don’t attack folks over it #but I will never write flaky as cis #I saw a post calling my otp a cishet couple and it got a little under my skin #I also know their gender is open to interpretation though so no shade is directed at anyone on how they personally see flaky #but on this blog know they are always non-binary #sorry for the ramblings #nonbinary rep is important to me for personal reasons

[ineedassistance28]

maybe it’s just because i’m a fan of max, but sometimes it annoys me how f1 fans get so happy when he doesn’t finish a race. i understand that it’s boring to see the same person win all the time, and personally there are drivers that i would absolutely love to see win a grand prix (lando, charles, lewis, etc.), but it just rubs me the wrong way to see fans make tiktoks about how the australian gp was beautiful just because max didn’t finish it, and that they hope stuff like this happens for the rest of the season, etc., joke or not.

i just don’t get why people hate max’s success so much when we’re literally witnessing history being made (especially last year’s season). max verstappen’s prime years are some of the most impressive in all of f1, and i feel like more people need to recognize that. it’s amazing that a driver can perform on such a high level and get the best possible performance out of a car so consistently.

i don’t want it to seem like i’m irritated because max didn’t win or something. i think it’s boring when max is out in front with a 20 second gap; i want to see him have proper fights with other drivers that push both of them to the limit. i want to watch someone beat max after battling with him the whole gp, rather than a driver beating/catching up to max because of mechanical issues. it made me so happy to see carlos win a race, knowing that ferrari dropped him for lewis and left him without a seat. it was amazing to see carlos prove that ferrari made a mistake and he’s worthy of a seat in the future, whether that’s next year or 2026. that being said, i would’ve enjoyed it a lot more if max had been able to challenge him.

max as a driver is ridiculously impressive, he has a great personality, and he deserves more support. fans shouldn’t be celebrating because he was knocked out of a race by mechanical issues.

#max verstappen #red bull racing #australian gp 2024 #maybe i’m overreacting #idk why but it gets under my skin #maybe i just feel bad for max after seeing how mad he was after he got out of the car #can you imagine losing a gp-finishing streak like max’s due to soemthing totally out of your control? #i’d be pissed #the australian gp was crazy #i was so scared for george too #congratulations carlos 🎉🎉

[milkbreadtoast]

new Siwon doodle (OC)... I think I finally figured out how I want to draw his hair😳 I like how this came out hehe...🐶 excited bc i was able to solidify his design more...!!🥹

#wanted to bring back some of the cuteness from my initial drawing of him... #but implement some of the changes he's had since then... i think I succeeded YAY ^__^🧡 #i think i finally struck a good balance btwn curly and straight w his hair... #and fluffy and soft... but not too fluffy that its like way too big?? #i also got rid of the mullet (longer hair on neck) for sure... imagine that its p short in the back #i used to draw his hair poking out under his ears but got rid of that #also happy bc his hair doesnt look too similar to how i draw milk cookie KDJS that was bothering me a lil... phew #some more small changes: #slightly thicker eyebrows #as well as a more solidified eye shape (eyelash wings/sharp ends) #+ made his base skin hair and eye color imperceptibly darker #+ incorporated the larger frame that ive been drawing him with lately KFJSKD #he rly underwent detwinkification ig... #milkcookiefication... #my art #OC #baek siwon

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

#i took an exam at 8.30 to 10. when the fuck home and got tattooed from 1 to like 5 #it was only like 2hrs of tattooing. mostly it was me having her redraw the lines a million times #the color is dark blue and i really like it. wasnt super painful bc i think i have pretty high pain tolerance #i could feel it most under my shoulder blade and a lil on the soft part of my inner elbow #glad i did it today bc i was feeling fucked up abt thr exam. bc the frustrating thing is that i think i could verbally explain the concepts #to u better than i articulated them in writing. idk grades dont really matter for me at this point but i still feel fucked up abt it #anyway. apparently markers stick really well to my skin bc i never go out in the sun lol #she had to scrub so hard and it would not come off with rubbing alcohol #unrelated

[novelconcepts]

You know that feeling, when you’re listening to someone tell a story, and you can just feel in your gut that what actually happened is SO much darker than how they’re relaying it? And they’ve put a ton of effort in, right, to sand the edges down. They’ve gone over it a hundred times, beating all the wrinkles out, practicing like you’d practice a presentation or a stand-up routine. By the time they tell you the story, it’s perfect. You can’t help but be charmed by it. Can’t help but laugh at all the little silly bits. Can’t help but see it the way they want you to, so you don’t ask questions, you don’t dig in to the open wound just behind the plaster, you don’t let the certainty that it was Bad, Actually sweep you away. It’s just a fun anecdote now. Smile with them. Laugh with them. They’re here now, so it’s fine, right? Right?

I get the feeling that’s just Simone’s entire marriage to Taissa, and I feel so fucking bad for them both.

#yellowjackets #taissa turner #Simone deserves so much better and I say that as a number one Taissa stan #I love tai. I live for tai. oh my GOD watching her relationship with Simone gets under my skin #it has to be perfect. it has to be perfect so it can never be real #whereas with van they had no shot at perfect. no choice but to be real. #and tai got out of the woods. and out of the next three years or so (presumably) with van #and went ‘cool cool cool how do I do the opposite of that so I have control over myself’ #and the answer is: a lie. a pretty lie. shined up. put all the realities in a box. tell her NOTHING. #look cool and fun and hot when you’re in a good mood. shut her out when you’re not. #and watch with surprise when the house of cards you’ve meticulously built just blows away the next time a hurricane rolls into town #how MANY conversations over YEARS did Simone look at her and KNOW she wasn’t getting the real tai #and just. coping with it out of love and hope that she’d get there some day #gaaaaaah. Justice for Simone. get her and Sammy to a beautiful home faaaaar away from Jersey and wilderness gods

[merriconstance]

xix the sun (if you saw me delete this before no you didn’t)

#the demons got to me i’m afraid #they’re living under my skin anyways #yellowjackets #jackie taylor #jackie yellowjackets #yellowjackets fanart #tarot cards

[fizzytoo]

#gif #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #fizzy plays: bg3 #bg3: aelwyn #karlach #YEAH 3 kissing pictures. we ALL deserve it #grrr GRRRR #IM SO ‼️‼️‼️‼️ #i couldn’t get a decent screenshot but AELWYN WAS STANDING ON THEIR TOES #karlach’s teeth catches their bottom lip 🧟‍♂️ me next #and they way she looks down at them under half lidded eyes!!!!! #i’m bouncing off the walls shaking with pure energy. i could power 3 whole cities off this energy #there still must be warmth radiating from her. her skin must still be hot to the touch #and while it doesn’t burn aelwyn the warmth of the kiss does ignite a fire in them #it was 3am when i took this and it wouldnt post i was suffering BY MYSELF!!! #im on fire #got ts on repeat in my head #who wants to come over and stream wyngate kiss we me

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Today was Derision. And I love my SO, but I don't love him that much, so he watched it solo while I made him a snack and then we talked about it once he was done.

His feedback: as someone who actually has professionally diagnosed and treated PTSD, fuck this episode. PTSD doesn't just magically turn on and off. If Marinette had it pre season one, then she needed to be showing signs of it from season one on. She also needed to be seeing a mental health professional.

PTSD is not something that you can get over by talking with your boyfriend and that's a terrible lesson to teach. A significant other should be supportive, but they cannot be your therapist. PTSD also had no true cure. You can get better and learn coping strategies, but you will always have PTSD. My condition deserves better representation than this bullshit.

He was also bothered by how the bullying was handled. With how serious and common bullying issues are, the show shouldn't have treated it as something that kids should deal with on their own. The parents should have stepped in and either got Chloè expelled or pulled Marinette out of school. Bullying on that level is no joke. If you're going to show it, show strategies to deal with it. Marinette is supposed to have good, loving parents. Where were they? Even shitty parents have been known to step up in cases like this. If Marinette has loving parents, then there's no excuse for any of this.

That's all stuff that I've said before, but hey, at least I can now give even more context for why I've said it and why I actively hate Derision and its fallout when bad writing usually just leads to mild disappointment! Derision just hit a lot of personal soft spots.

#ml writing salt #ml writing critical #ml season 5 salt #Derision salt #ml derision #he's fine btw #This reads really serious and it is but he was not triggered by the show or anything #He just had some strong thoughts #He honestly handled it better than I did #To my annoyance Derision really got under my skin which I really try to avoid letting fiction do #I was just so upset by what they did to Marinette's character #Tom and Sabine too but to a lesser extent #suffering through a rewatch of season 5 for love of my SO

[cuddlingdragons]

Hey shout out to Home Safety Hotline for having one of the most unsettling examples of what I GUESS could be classified as a mimic creature in their game? upsetting execution, well done.

#[trash talk] #Home safety hotline game #beware! if child death is upsetting #it got under my skin #bro the false artifact call. the pooka.

[nade2308]

It all started with me seeing all the posts and hyps about Fast X on Alan's instagram. The rest is history.

Or in other words: acquired a new one, folks.

@thethistlegirl

#aimes #fast x #alan ritchson #my gifs #fast X gifs #my edit #he is so pretty #I love him #oops another one got under my skin #I should know by now #acquired a new boy