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Here's some Bungo Stray Dogs drawings I did!
I love them😍 and I'm very proud of these drawings🥹
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hi im so sorry if youve already answered this but how do u go about selecting the colors you use for your works!
hi! i've had this question a few times and every time i've only been able to answer with a vague sort of 'ehhh i just pick them'. but i think i'll actually talk some more about it now since a lot of my art actually takes a lot of beating before i decide on a final palette. but with a lot of them admittedly i already know what palette i'm using, and i organise the whole composition around those colours.
i use like two main palette methods and here they are (once you see it in my art, you won't unsee it). It mainly involves picking one main hue, and then a contrasting secondary colour.
So the most basic is to have a drawing be mostly a small range of hues, in this case the reds and oranges, and adding a single contrasting shade. Here it is the bounce light on the metallic metal parts, and doesn't appear anywhere else. It looks blue but it isn't - if I used actual blue, it would be too jarring and the colours would not appear unified. This is a warm and nice scene. So instead I pick that strong blue and blend it into a small swatch of the base colour. Then I pick from the blended portion, and what I get will be more blue than the base, but not actually blue. In fact it is yellow-orange :) The entire drawing looks warm as a result.
When working with marginally stronger contrast, here I have a cream unicorn on a green background. The main shadows on the unicorn will be the colour of that ambient room temperature bg - green. So I use the same test swatch method to pick a shadow colour which LOOKS green without being too disruptive of the cream unicorn. I increase the saturation and darken the value (moving the colour dot diagonally to the lower right hand corner of the box) and also spin the whole wheel towards green just a bit. Then I blend into the cream and colour pick a shade in the middle. But for the bounce light, I chose to use a common contrast of green - pink. It looks like pink in the drawing but in fact it is a low saturation orange! Using that real pink would be disharmonious. I do the exact same thing - I blend the pink into the bg colour and come up with that orange shade. It looks harmonious.
Now (top example) I am using two contrasting hues side by side. I decide the shadows will be warm, and the highlights in that contrasting zone. That means that for every colour i pick - Islin's skin, hair, his glasses, his shirt collar, his coat - every colour gets slid around the colour wheel until it falls inside that narrow band. And when I am highlighting his skin, I turn the wheel towards green. When I am shading his skin, I turn the wheel more red. I do this for every single element in the drawing.
It's the same for the Rua cover but this time I am not using such a wide band of available hues on the colour wheel, it's much tighter. I did this to replicate the look of a faded print, intentionally lowering the available contrast I had to work with by removing black as tool. It's all in that small cream to red window but it LOOKS purple - it looks like Pascal wears a purple shirt and that the smoke in the bg is lilac. Well, it isn't. That's all red and orange. I pick those colours by, again, choosing my goal "look" - a low-saturation purple, and then turning the wheel into the red range.
Okay so! for this it's just... the exact same thing again. Literally it always is. But since this one is recent I still have the process fresh in my mind. I envisioned it in the car, and I wanted this empty sort of desolate blue bg and a cold, distant overall tone. I ended up making the white on the chessboard & white pieces warmer, cream instead of white-grey, which worked out great. I wanted the blue, I wanted the pale cream/white, and the black of the chessboard. I didn't envision a colour for Pascal's shirt. but when the time came it was an obvious choice. It has to contrast with the bg both in value and hue, without falling outside the cream range already established by the chess pieces. So it's shiny salmon pink :) or orange, whatever you think it is. The only disharmonious part of this palette is the red velvet under the black knight piece - it works, but if I'd taken more care I might have spun the wheel more into orange and it would stand out less. But I don't mind.
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Hey how's it going? I hope so. I had this idea a long time ago, a platonic Yandere from Moon Knight where the reader is bullied at school and is attacked, he tries to hide his father's injuries but they end up finding out, they are super worried wanting to know who did it but as soon as the boys find out they're soon after revenge for hurting you.
(I love your work❤)
You began to walk home from school as a million possibilities ran through your mind.
How were you going to hide this from him? If they found out a kid had punched you, the kid would be found dead the next day.
A large dark purple bruise had formed and wasn't exactly easy to cover up.
You ran into the local drugstore and got a cheap concealer before you quickly made your way back home.
They wouldn't be back from work for another hour so you had some time to cover up the bruise.
Once you had got back to the apartment you quickly washed off your face and got to work with the concealer.
It wasn't exactly your shade but with some blending and maybe keeping your hood on for a while, they wouldn't notice.
Once you had finished you sighed and got into your pjs, making sure to cover your head with a hood.
You sat at the table and began to work on your homework.
Eventually you heard the door open and you saw Marc walking in with some takeaway for dinner.
"Hey, sweetheart. How was school?" He asked as you looked at him a little and smiled.
"Just the usual, I'm just finished my homework." You replied as he smiled and kissed the top of you head.
He gently pulled the hood down and looked at you.
"Why are you covering up, love?" He asked as you shrugged a little.
"I just felt a bit cold, that's all." You replied as he nodded a little and walked away.
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After you had finished homework you sat on the couch with Marc beside you while you both ate dinner.
Marc glanced at you and you became nervous.
"Darling? Do you have make up on?" He asked as you kept your head in front.
"Y-Yeah, my friends and I were just messing around with some today, that's all." You said as he narrowed his eyes at you.
"Baby, I know when you're lying. What's going on?" He asked as he gently moved your face to look at him.
He grabbed a tissue and began wiping away the make up as you cringed, knowing what would happen next.
Once the bruise was mainly revealed, Marc's eyes widened as he starred at you.
You knew all three of them were talking and panicking.
"Y/N, who the hell did this?" He asked as you looked up at you.
"It was just a stupid boy at school, it's okay he's just some asshole." You said as he gripped your chin harder.
"Name and his parents names, now." He demanded as you felt tears in your eyes.
"Dad, please! You don't need to do anything!" You said as he gave you a stern look.
"I won't ask again, Y/N." He said before you sighed and gave him all of the details he asked for.
Once you were done he kissed your forehead.
"Good girl, I'm sorry you got hurt, baby." He said as you nodded a little.
"No school tomorrow, okay?" He said as you nodded again and hugged him.
"I'm sorry, I tried to hide it from you."
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The next day you had a sleep in and woke up to see a note left from Marc.
He said he had gone to work early but you knew exactly where he was going and you also knew you never see your bully turn up to school again
#moon knight#steven grant#marc spector#jake lockley#marvel#mcu#Yandere#Yandere moon knight#Marc spector x reader#Platonic
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With all the talk of dancing today, you all have inspired me. This is a lead-in to the spicy Zevlor fic I wrote a while ago, typed furiously on my phone while I was at work. Apologies for any formatting issues, y'all know I'm garbage at that anyway.
“Dance with me?”
Zevlor’s head snaps up as you approach. He’d been standing alone beyond the firelight as if trying to blend in with the darkness, his arms crossed, staring at a random spot on the ground somewhere in front of him. Glowering, to your estimation. You had been looking for him, and the soft siren call of the tiefling’s presence drew you to him here in the dim flickering of the distant fires. He looks for a moment like a startled deer, before flinching and sketching a brief bow. “I beg your pardon, my lady. I was miles away. Did you need something?”
You laugh softly and hold out your hand. “I asked you to dance with me, Zevlor. Please?”
He looks at your outstretched fingers and swallows, staring at your hand as if it were a snake about to strike. “Oh… I do not… I am not very good at dancing. There are others who would be better for… hm.” His consternation is so adorable, you think, but you don’t let up, instead moving closer, gazing up as the flames in his eyes pulse lightly. He tenses a little, as if preparing to bolt. “You should try Ikaron. He can… or even Alfira. She’s a wonderful dancer. I am afraid I may just trip over my feet and embarrass us both.” But his hands twitch, clawed fingers briefly flexing, and you sense the heat of him rising. If his skin weren’t already a beautiful shade of deep red, you’d have sworn he was blushing.
You tilt your head, narrowing your eyes at him playfully. “Alfira is playing the music. And Ikaron seems so determined not to enjoy himself… everyone else has a partner. I am afraid it will have to be you, Commander. Would you really deny me one little dance?” You let yourself pout a little, and risk touching him, placing your hand lightly over his where it grips his biceps.
He swallows again tightly, looking down at your hand, before allowing himself to relax a bit. “I think I could deny you nothing… I mean…” he coughs, “alright. One song. But you must forgive me if I disappoint. I am more accustomed to the battlefield and the barracks than genteel society functions.” He smiles, finally and slips his fingers into yours. His hand is incredibly warm, and grips you firmly. His other joins, chafing lightly at the dorsal surface. “Your hands are cold.” His eyes widen as he realizes what he’s said. “That wasn’t meant to be a criticism. I know that you are… just… let’s just go.”
“I think you’re warm enough for the both of us.” You giggle softly and begin to lead him closer to the fire, where groups and couples are swirling around Alfira, who is currently playing a lively number on her lute and singing gaily. You catch her eye and she nods, grinning, and shortly brings her tune to an end amidst the laughter and applause. She tunes the instrument for a few minutes, giving the dancers time to grab a drink and reset themselves. You pull Zevlor into position, placing yourself before him and smiling up into his eyes. He gulps, and then, as Alfira’s nimble fingers caress the strings in a more sedate, almost sensual melody, he bows, takes your hands, and begins to move.
His steps are not vigorous or intricate, but he has a warrior’s grace as he guides you around him, turning to keep you in his sight. Those burning eyes never leave you, even when he cups your waist and lifts you easily before turning in a quick circle and setting you down again. A soft smile spreads on his angular face, his hands more confident. A dip, a rise, a light press of his palm on your back. He mainly moves your body, keeping his feet in roughly the same spot as the dance goes on. He is certainly not tripping over himself, you note as he twirls you once, twice, appearing to actually be enjoying himself for the moment. You feel the heat of him as he pulls your back briefly to his chest, swaying before guiding you back out again. You see his free hand curl loosely around a lock of your flying hair, letting the silken strands flow through his fingers. His tail, which curls sinuously around him, occasionally brushes against your bare ankles. As the song ends, he draws you flush against him, with a hand on your lower back, and goes still.
His eyes burn into you, his hand warm on you, and he wets his lips, suddenly looking rather frightened. Your stomach flip flops as you get a glimpse of two tapered points. He usually speaks tightly, through gritted teeth, so you’ve never noticed that his tongue is forked. His gaze moves to your own mouth, and he catches his lower lip with his sharp pointed teeth. You let your hand drift up his chest, curling around his shoulder, and apply just a whisper of pressure. Inviting him to do what he so obviously wants. His grip tightens as the world fades, and you part your lips with a tiny gasp when he begins to lower his head.
A sudden, loud wolf whistle cuts through the fog, making you both jump, and Zevlor’s head jerks up, quickly smothering a frustrated snarl. Everyone is looking at the two of you, their eyes glowing with tipsy tiefling amusement. He smiles thinly, releasing you and lifting his palms in good-natured surrender before taking your hand and leading you back to his previous spot, followed by laughing applause and a few catcalls.
Your heart is racing as you take your position by his side. He relaxes his grip, but you do not, instead pressing his hand more firmly, and glance up at him. “I do not know what all the fuss was about. You’re a wonderful dancer. I forgot where I was, for a moment.”
He does not protest, but instead mutters thanks and allows you to remain, holding his hand and standing close enough to feel his warmth. He is gazing out at the others, who seem to have lost interest in ribbing the older man, and have returned to their merrymaking. “It is so good to see them smiling. It… all of this has been very hard on them.” His voice is casual, but when he cuts his eyes down to look at you, you see what seems to be a flicker of pain dart across the orange surface, before he tries a slightly wobbly smile and looks away. “I should go. There are still things I… you should stay and enjoy yourself. You deserve it after all you’ve done for us.”
You squeeze his hand tightly, sidling a bit closer and keeping your voice low. “And what of yourself, Zevlor? You’ve been through just as much. Do you not deserve a little comfort as well?” You think you already know his opinion on that, but you don’t give him a chance to start depreciating himself again. “I myself… we’ve all had a difficult time with things of late. But shared burdens are lighter. Will you not stay with me, for a little while?”
“It’s my responsibility…” he begins, but then sighs. He nods, but then his expression becomes thoughtful. He’s worrying something over in his mind, you think, and you wait, silent, giving him time to organize his thoughts. When he finally speaks, his words come in a quiet, breathy rush. “I do not… they do not need a dusty old soldier glowering at them tonight. But if you are still interested in my company, I will return to my office. You may join me there if you wish. I have a map to finalize with Tilses, but then I will send her to join the party. She… sleeps with the others. I should be alone within the hour. Then we can… talk.” He glances back at you, seeming surprised by his own boldness, and you nod in agreement as he lifts your hand to his lips and presses briefly before releasing you and moving off into the shadows. You feel your cheeks burn with a flush, because you know he doesn’t really want to talk. Zevlor, Hellrider, former Commander of the cavalry forces of Elturel, has just invited you to his bed.
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𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔
𝒁𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊 𝒙 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓
𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅
Loud chatter and music played in the background as you paced around, fingers twiddling with the edge of your sleeve as you waited for him.
He wasn't late, it's just that you were early. Maybe five minutes or so, but still early, and usually, it was him who was early and you who was late. But today was a special day, it was the lantern festival, and you had specially invited Zhongli to come and join you during this day of celebration and joy, as you wanted to share it with him.
You had put on your best attire - a traditional dress in the colours of scarlet red and golden. The fabric was mainly red, however golden streaks ran alongside the edges of it, and the gold adorned the scarlet colour with golden glaze lily flowers, all scattered across spacious parts.
Your sleeves were wide, and they covered your entire arm, up to your hands, they were covered in golden cascades that ended at a definite curved end by your fingers.
Your hair was let down, and adorned with a couple of decorative golden hair pins, as well as one golden, flowery comb.
To say you were overdressed would be a subjective statement. To some you looked simply gorgeous, embodying the image of a typical Liyue woman, to others you would look somewhat out of place - too rich for the harbour.
But what did that matter? All that your thoughts could run to was Zhongli.
You wondered how he was dressed, did he wear something special? Different compared to his usual work attire? What would he think of you?
You checked your watch, noting that it was almost time for him to be there. You put it away and slowly looked up, looking at the crowd of people around you, all carrying lanterns and enjoying snacks from the numerous food stalls scattered across the harbour.
You smiled, trying to imprint this image into your memory, as you did with every other lantern rite.
You breathed a content sigh, and looked around, your heart almost stopping as you spotted Zhongli standing beside you, a small content smile of his own gracing his lips.
"How long have you been standing there?" You asked, a big grin spreading itself across your cheeks as well, as you turned your body to face him.
You looked him over, cheeks reddening as you noticed his attire.
He himself was wearing traditional robes, boring the colours of amber and deep brown, which matched his usual look, but complimented his features stunningly. His hair was half down, some of it tied into a small bun at the back of his head,the longer untied strands sat loosely over his shoulders, now blending with the shorter strands, that had escaped his bun, together into one piece.
As you looked further down, you noticed one hand was behind his back.
"I wasn't standing here for long," he said, looking down at you through thick lashes, "But I noticed you were staring off into the distance and didn't want to interrupt you." He finished, smiling gently as he looked you over.
"You look beautiful, Y/n. Prettier than any glaze lily I've ever seen."
The blush on your face reddened to a shade darker, and you bit your lip, looking up at him in adoration, inhaling before you said, "You look amazing yourself, some would say you look like the statue of the Geo Archon himself." Your voice was quiet enough for him only to hear, and soft enough to pass as a whisper.
Zhongli's eyes widened, and an uncertain emotion swirled in his pupils before he blinked, and the look was gone. He thanked you and cleared his throat, asking for your hand.
"Since this is a special occasion, I brought you a gift," he said, bringing forth a bouquet of freshly picked flowers, "Liyue’s specialities. I do hope you'll enjoy them."
The bouquet was filled with every native flower to Liyue, sparkling with bright colours ranging from the baby pink of silk flowers, to the velvety blue of glaze lilies.
You were stunned, admiring the beautiful flowers that he had placed in your palms, their colours swindling brightly in the light of the numerous lanterns hanging above the two of you.
You looked up at your companion, smiling and blinking away a tear.
"Thank you Zhongli, these flowers are so beautiful," you said, bringing them closer to your face, enough for your nose to bury itself within them, "I will cherish them forever." You said as you pulled away, hanging onto the bouquet by one hand, the other sneaking through Zhongli's extended arm.
"Shall we?" He asked, subtly nodding his head towards the crowd of Liyue citizens who were all waiting at the harbour, their very own lanterns sat within their grasps, awaiting to ignite their deepest wishes into the sky.
You nodded at Zhongli, and walked along the people, admiring the vastly different lanterns, before you looked to Zhongli, who's gaze seemed to soften at the sight.
You smiled, and gripped lightly at his forearm, before turning your attention back to the festival before you.
The two of you walked hand in hand, tasting all the different local foods from vendors, standing to watch as people created their own fireworks - which would be displayed further into the evening - and watched again as bands played traditional music, as children ran past, their giggles and laughs erupting into the sky.
You looked at Zhongli once again, mouth barely opening before he beat you to speaking.
He leaned his head down, enough to be at eye-level to you, before his hand tucked some hair behind your ear, and he neared his lips to it, “Would you like me to buy us some lanterns? Joining in on the tradition would be wonderful.” He asked, his voice low and smooth like velvet, but still loud enough for you to hear.
As though he had cast a spell upon you, you found yourself unable to mutter out a single word of a response, and so, you opted to nod instead, eyes wide like a deers, cheeks rosy, mouth agape.
Zhongli laughed, and grabbed your free hand, intertwining your fingers before pulling you crit her into the crowds in search of a lantern seller.
Just a bit ahead, there was one vendor.
It was just your luck - they had two more lanterns left and looked as though they were about to close shop.
"Excuse me! Can we buy those?" You asked, breathing heavily as you rested the bouquet on the wooden table in front of the vendor. They were an older gentleman, who was maybe in his 60s, and he looked at the two of you surprised.
"You're just in time! I was about to close for today. Nobody wanted two lanterns as most people are in larger groups!" He shouted over the crowds, before turning to grab the two remaining lanterns. He then headed back to you and Zhongli, smiling softly at the two of you,
"Well aren't you a beautiful couple? Are you married?" He asked, passing over the lanterns.
Your face flushed a bright red, and you looked to Zhongli, who's eyes seemed to once again widen, his orbs swirling with an unknown emotion once again.
"N-no-," you started, but your companion interrupted you, "Yes. We are not married yet, but I plan on proposing soon." Zhongli said full of confidence, smiling down at the older man, before fishing some mora out of nowhere.
You looked from the grandpa to Zhongli, eyes wide as saucepans, mouth wide open in shock, heart pounding loudly against your ribcage.
He looked back to you, smiling gently, before giving the gentleman the money and taking your hand, his other holding onto the lanterns as you said your goodbyes and went to join the crowds.
"You plan on proposing to me?" You asked after a while of silence, looking up to him.
A light blush dusted over his cheeks, but other than that, nothing else gave away Zhongli's feelings.
"Oh look, they're about to let their lanterns out." Zhongli pointed out, skimming over your question before you could utter any other words. His hand tugged at yours, leading you through the crowd to reach near the wooden staircase.
"3.."
The people began chanting, raising their arms into the air,
"2.."
You and Zhongli did the same after lighting your lanterns, smiling, hips touching, hearts pounding,
"1.."
You looked to Zhongli, giggling in excitement as he looked back at you, a content smile on his face,
"Happy Lantern Rite!"
The crowds shouted, and hundreds of lanterns were let out into the starry night sky, their golden glow illuminating the night, painting it golden.
It was as though there was a new sun in the night sky.
Zhongli turned to you, eyes focused, smile soft, and hands reaching up to caress your cheeks.
"Happy lantern rite, Y/n." And with that, he pulled you in for a tender kiss, the warmth of his lips enveloping yours as people around cheered, wishing each other happiness and good fortune, but all that was drowned out by the sound of your heartbeat, and the happiness you felt as you melted into your new lovers touch.
#genshin impact#genshin x reader#genshin imagines#genshin fanfic#genshin fluff#zhongli#genshin morax#morax x you#rex lapis#lantern rite#zhongli fluff#zhongli imagines#mihoyo#zhongli scenarios#zhongli smut
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if you want to, can you do a tutorial of how you shade/render? i love your art so much and i was wondering how you make it look so smooth!
Thanks you!! I am glad you like my style!
I'm not as good at explaining as I am at drawing, mainly because my process is a bit messy, but I'll try to explain it simply.
My style is quite inspired by Arcane, so I use quite prominent shapes to highlight areas of the face. I start with a flat color and then define the areas that will stand out the most due to the light source. In Arcane, because the planes of the face are so well marked, it is easy to guide yourself to determine which parts of the face receive the most light and shadow. As an example:
Another important detail is that at least in my case I have learned that it is not necessary to blend everything. Leaving these areas intentionally marked with lines (for example the nose area) is one of the things I use most in my style, especially because it later helped me know what "shapes" to associate with each character.
Here's a quick drawing I did of Nya. Once I got rid of the sketch lines, I began to "underline" the areas of the face to give them more definition. The main tool that works best for this in my opinion is the lasso tool
Once the areas of the face are defined, I create a layer in multiply and another in soft light to give more depth to the character.
Something I usually do in my style is use a lot of ambient light to define the colors, as well as adding a light behind the character, even if it is subtle to help separate them from the background.
This is how the final drawing would look after adding the other details, I hope I explained it well! Thank you for the ask!
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I saw your drawing (the one of Leo, Raph and Donnie) and really liked the shading. If you are willing to share, how do you get the flat colors to how they appear in final (layer settings, thought process, color picking)?
Sure! An important thing I learned early on with shading that steps up your end product is that you don’t use black, I mainly use purple for it. You can use other colors, but I find purple works best most of the time
Then i change the blending mode to color burn
Then I picked colors from the background and made a gradient (but blend it out more than i did, you can definitely see a hard line between colors in the end result bc i needed to get it done so i could stop looking at it and hating it)
Play around with the opacity until you get something you like and change the blending mode to overlay.
Then just for a little extra shading I added a black and white gradient on top and changed it to overlay as well
Have fun with blending modes, they can completely change the vibe of your piece.
And that’s it! Hope that helped
#I’ve been doing digital art for years so I know a bit I guess#I’m more than willing to give tips if someone asks#I can try to go more in-depth but ehhh
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When it comes to Marvel I mainly focus on Black Panther, but I wanted something Red, White, and Blue to photograph during the summer months here in the USA. We've got Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day where cookouts are all the rave and you literally see stars and flags and all that jazz.
This year I decided on making Sam Wilson as Captain America for a number of reasons -- he's a person of color, a man of color, a superhero of color, and he represents America. If that doesn't scream volumes for a great deal of reasons then I don't know what does.
Since I can't classify myself as a big fan of Marvel since I'm considerably new to it, I have to work off of source pictures/movie screencaps most of the time. With that said I did not realize that the suits were different for Sam until I was in the full swing of things. When a friend asked me cool which suit are you making Sam in I'm like uh...? 😂 I told her -- a blend of two or maybe more, I really don't know.
So that's what I did. I worked off of these three images and a little bit of the comic book version of him to make my version of Captain America, Sam Wilson style.
So let's talk a little about yarn and the process. I stuck with Red Heart yarns, Their brightest shade of red, a light gray, and a Navy blue.
A lot of detailing went into Sam because making separate pieces would have made him too bulky looking. He took me about 10 hours between two days -- one of my quickest ones to make because again the focus was there so I could get him done before Memorial Day.
I kept reminding myself he needs wings because back during Christmas Eve I watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and I remember wings, but when I was all done I said ah! The shield! So I had to make that, too. 😂
I was unsure what to do about his hair. He's got it super short, but I wanted to add some texture to it so it didn't look like straight hair. It's a little higher than I wanted, but that's the yarn's fault (okay, and some of my own, too. I'll admit that).
He's my first doll that I haven't had to use safety eyes which was a little bit of a mind trip -- and so we're the glasses, but now I've done them so I can say, of course I know how to make glasses/goggles.
And of course not to forget Steve Rogers. I made him about a year ago or so, I think right around the Fourth of July. He was the quickest thing I think I've ever sold. A friend who is a big fan of Steve (and Bucky) saw him and immediately wanted to own him.
The troubles I remember having with him had been through the concept of making a helmet.
(That's my friends hand 😂)
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Anyway, thanks for stopping by to check out/read my post. I'll be sharing more photos of Sam on YouTube Shorts and Instagram if you're interested in seeing more.
At some point I'll most likely pop him in my Etsy shop to see if anyone would like to give him a forever home.
Please reblog to support a Fiber Artist, but to also inspire others to learn how to crochet/make Amigurumi and also to show representation towards people of color.
Happy Crocheting!
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The Color Series
So @throttlegainwell asked for some BTS on my color series and I am, of course, more than happy to provide :D
I think I want to talk about my color choices because I've talked briefly about one character and no one else's.
So, like six months ago now, I posted my Across the Vale series, which was character sheets for a DnD AU I had made of Stranger Things. Which was loads of fun to construct. And that is where I got many of my colors for the color series from. But, not all of them. Because I had, at the time, all the hex codes for the colors written down on a few different post-it notes and they were randomly picked based on vibes.
When I started the color series itself, I needed proper color names. So I started with those hex codes and looked up each one to get the color name. I have like three different sources I used to get color names from and I kept most of the colors. But, not all of them. Because some of them just... were not great. For example, only two of Jonathan's colors were roll-overs as two of them were just way too close together (as it turned out) and the fourth was University of California Gold. And as much as I laughed when that came up, I was not using that.
Now the DnD series had only four colors each, so everyone who had a DnD sheet got a bonus fifth color and from that I picked one where I liked the color name. If I didn't like the color name, I would pick something that was a similar shade to one that was dropped.
That worked overall. Many characters got colors similar to their color vibe in the show. Purple for Nancy, blue for Steve and Mike, yellow for Will, brown for Jonathan. The other kids don't have "colors" but I picked green for Lucas, red for Max, and orange for Dustin because the vibes. Joyce (which I've talked about somewhere before) got a blend of Jonathan and Will, also being very earth-toned. For El, I wanted to make her more faded cause she is still learning who she is. So she has purple and pink (mainly pink) tones, but they are very grey-leaning. I did something similar for Hopper to tie them together, green but very grey-leaning.
Robin, Argyle, and Erica got way more fun vibes. Robin's is quite literally the lesbian flag. I pulled the hex codes initially directly from it. I wanted Argyle to similarly be very fun colored, some of his are from the pansexual flag, but they are overall very bright and fun. For Erica, I experimented a bit and many of her colors are pulled from her outfits leading to fun array of colors as well. Dmitri, well, I intended him to be the Russian flag. It was an accident he ended up so bisexual themed XD
Everyone else got one color assigned to them. They didn't have color sheets, so I was starting everyone else from scratch. I would think of what color generally fit them and then go through my color name sheets and find a color name that fit them. Lots of scrolling and searching. With some, I did follow the Erica route and pull the color from something they wore, like Chrissy and Heather. Some were pure vibes like Eddie or Karen. I still have the huge list saved of everyone's color assignments.
One thing I did try to do when making the sets is make sure no one had the same middle blend color. Sometimes, with the larger sets, the second or fourth would be the same somewhere. But the middle one was always unique. This was quite a challenge sometimes. With the characters with multiple colors, I would just change out the color they were for another when I noticed the blended color was the same. Photocheer was actually very difficult because of this. I think using the color Rabbit for the Jonathan side was my second-to-last choice. I really struggled with it. But I have a second list of all my blended sets and their colors. And as I made more and more, I started having to ctrl+find to make sure the color wasn't used elsewhere already. Cause many of the sets I posted in January were already made before I started making the sets I posted in December. So it became a problem really early on in the posting process. I think I managed to pull off never using the same photo twice as well, but I could be wrong.
One type of set for this series that I'm actually kind of sad that I haven't made is any friendship sets between the main teens and the kids outside of siblings and group sets. But it is a kind of set I would want to make equal and there just isn't good interaction between some characters that I would be able to justify to myself.
I hope that works as those are some of my thoughts on making this series! I am happy to go into more of any specific part if anyone has any further questions. This series really was a labor of love and it introduced me to so many ships. Like holy cow... But also, I hope I got to introduce some to you guys too.
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Got a few more until tomorrow
1: you said in a earlier post they like spider-man, I don’t know if you played and beaten the spider-man game with the white spider (2018 ps4), but what’s their reaction to that one scene in the game at the end with aunt may? Speaking of that just now playing the “3rd” game on the ps5, pretty amazing! No pun intended lol
2: what type of jokes do they enjoy? puns, toilet humor, dad jokes, dark humor,etc…
3: if there was a video game starting the two what type of game will it be? Like Gotham knights, mortal kombat shaolin monks, maybe like Arkham knight where you play as one character only but you can change characters in certain fights, etc…
4: in universe, did Jake come up with sky bird on the first try?
5: any alternative outfits for Chris? I did saw a flame bird type suit for Jake.
6: I saw an earlier post seeing Jake in a Robin outfit, was he like the fifth or sixth Robin for Batman? Or just become Nightwings sidekick?
Sorry for the lateness @gothicghost2000 but If I may…
1. Oh…tears. So many emotions pouring out of them, as if the earlier final boss fight against Doc Ock was bad enough for those two
2. Primarily they’d wordplay, snarky quips, quick witted one liners (For Example, from the film 300; “Our Arrows will blot out the sun” “….then we will fight in the shade”), dark comedy that often deals with recently deceased on Jake’s case (mainly as a defense mechanism when he’s left with no options but to investigate suspicious passings and has to do examinations of the body(ies) as per his detective skill in forensics) and finally, slapstick, Three Stooges style slapstick
3. Somewhat a hybird between classic Arkham Knight style open world with individual cases across a city or few and some stealth missions, 3D beat ‘em up, and for boss battles, 3D fighting with plenty of space to move around whether on ground or floating in the air a la the Budokai Tenkachi and Raging Blast Dragon Ball games. There’s exists in the menu a Fighting Mode that pertains to that last style of play with a small character roster fetaung not just the Duo but also both close Allies (for example Mar’i and Jon) and foes (some DC staples including Deathstroke and Zsasz or some newer villains they the two encountered recently)
4. He sort of did when he debuted his brand new blue Discowing colored outfit when helping Nightwing and Starfire take down a HIVE Five robbery. All he had prior to that small adventure was his moniker having bird in it so when the villains are beaten and some news reporters ask him about what his mantle is named, Jake took only look at a blue sky above and hastily said Skybird as a means to get out of their bombardment of questions. The next morning, the papers declare him Skybird and the rest was history
5. He’s currently coming up with a dark purple and grey Sleath version of his Nightwing suit which can enable him to blend into the shadows during spying missions since while his blue can theoretically work out fine enough, a darker color scheme can help better if he plans to pick up on schemes being plotted more up close
6. Mainly Jake as a ‘Robin’ was limited in being Nightwing’s particular partner during patrols and capers in Bludhaven, similar to when Cass was briefly operating as a Batgirl in Hong Kong. For the official Robin who does work alongside Batman at Gotham, that honor (at least in this fanon verse of mine but I digress) goes to Jake’s beloved uncle Tim(my) Drake. Jake transitioning to the Skybird mantle further solidified that notion of being technically his own mantle that just so happens to take heavy inspiration, tactics and aesthetics to The Boy Wonder.
#chris kent#jake grayson#starburst duo#dick grayson#koriand'r#tim drake#mari grayson#jonathan samuel kent#sfw
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so.. I’ve been hearing about some glaring issues regarding we love katamari reroll and well, it’s very concerning.. mainly about how they reused assets from katamari reroll instead of giving the characters their design from we love katamari ie, Ace not being spikey nor Ichigo being strawberry shaped. They still have the same design as they did in damacy reroll. Okay I understand why in katamari damacy cousins like ichigo, Ace, and even Opeo would have their old designs from the first game since it was a remake of the first game however with this
they didn’t even bothered in bringing back their we love katamari designs in we love reroll, so it’s kind of worrying. And on that note, I’ve already talked about my friends about how young king of all cosmos’ blush looks off here let me just show you a comparison between Young king of all cosmos in we love reroll vs Beautiful Katamari
Okay soo, I’ve pointed this out to one of my friends awhile back about how the blush on the king doesn’t really blends very well to his skin, this shade of pink should of been more deeper and less lighter since well, compared to most cousins, most of the cousins/cosmics have a lighter skin tone. And again, I can understand reusing assets as a base while working on your games but it shouldn’t be used for the final product. And before some people say it, No Im not trying to pull a whole “sonic has green eyes so this game suxs now” crowd, No. There’s a clear difference between criticizing how some colors of blush doesn’t work well for some skin tones vs just complaing about a minor detail in a character that doesn’t really matter. Like say what you will, but at least with modern sonic (sonic with green eyes) at least some of the games still care about details and stuff (not talking about the newer modern sonic games tho they do not look good. I was kinda thinking like sonic rush at least.. and maybe even sonic adventure)
but that’s not all of the issues about we love reroll. So yea there was audio issues left and right and there were bugs. And how I know about all of this, is because there was a stream testing out the game and well.. it made me depressed.. like no really. I wasn’t feeling too good mentally as it is but it seems like some of the devs who were working on it Just straight up have the codes hold up in spaghetti string. And it’s really concerning since I don’t want another Pokémon SV again.. like Glitches the eye can see and stuff. Pokémon SV Already depressed me a lot and I didn’t even want to play the game.
The trend of Quantity over Quality with most games is very much concerning and depressing. Im sure that the devs would fix these issues before release and actually make things a little bit better? But I’m just asking too much and a part of me has this feeling that they don’t really care and they’ll ship it anyways regardless by how people people talked about this issues.
Im sure it still be good but not as great or better than the original We love katamari. If anything.. let’s try to not get our hopes too high…
anyways imma crawl back into my depress nap guys, sorry to bum you all out..
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so a friend asked me if I could give some tips on how I blend gifs like these:
and LOL let me tell you I mainly recommend following tutorials like these (one, two, three) and honestly I owe so much of what little I know to @anya-chalotra especially the text lol I learned how to do that text line thingy from her. but I just wanted to give some pointers and maybe help explain why some scenes work and some don’t. it’s all trial and error.
setting a layer to screen in photoshop makes dark spots in the layer see through so I try to line up the parts of a scene that I want to highlight with those darker spots. I found a scene that had jyn backlit so that I could just turn up the contrast and make her silhouette darker (after I had finished the basic coloring I do for gifs). then I took the scene with cassian and put a gradient map over it, but I made sure to brighten the shit out of the scene so that it wasn’t just a dark blue blob, that there was a decent amount of contrast in his face.
now if you imagine the gif as having four quadrants, and I’m sorry I’m lazy so you’ll just have to imagine it for yourself, look at the top right quadrant. what I could have done was put a clipping mask on a new layer above the scene with cassian and drawn a bit of black with a big, diffuse brush (set to normal) in order to erase the bit of blue from cassian’s scene that is near jyn’s nose (I actually did that underneath but idk I guess I liked the look of it lol) and that is a good way to hide parts of a scene that you don’t want showing through the other scene. why black? because with a clipping mask layer it will only show up for the layer that is it is clipped to, and since black/dark shades are more transparent with a screen layer, it will allow the other scene to show more clearly.
this works best with scenes like these where the subjects aren’t moving too much.
but with this gif, the movement is the point:
it was completely unintentional, I just lined up the two scenes are noticed when the people with the helmets walked past cassian, you could see the other scene of him walking away more clearly - and the theme of the gifset was spy, so it just ~~fit the theme to me. that his face would be hidden and you’d see him in the background, walking away, in flashes.
in this case I think I literally just put the two scenes on top of each other, set the scene with the gradient map to screen, brightened that layer up significantly and called it a day. it helps that they are both from the same scene in the film, so there is a uniformity to the mess of these individual scenes that are cohesive. but usually all this movement can obscure the subjects and that’s generally not what people are looking for when making gifs. in this case, it works because of the theme.
it also helps that there is a contrast between the lighting of these scenes - the background scene has cassian silhouetted and backlit. so there are more dark spots to show the foreground scene, which has cassian’s face highlighted and bright.
conversely, when using two light scenes like in this gif
I actually darkened/added more contrast to the scene with jyn and cassian and sloppily did that clipping mask with the black brush onto the scene with the gradient map (and you can actually see it a bit lolll it was late I was very tired) in order to create more contrast between the overlapping subjects. if I felt like redoing this, which I don’t, I would make that black brush a bit more diffuse in order to blend more nicely.
I hope this helped and sorry for the laziness.
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Exploring Rubber Hose Pt.3
Clean Up and Conclusion!
The process of lining my previous roughs was quite tedious. After being used to animating in twos, it was kind of annoying having to invest so much time into short movement. Still, the simple style defintely helped so I can very much see why this was the norm in those times.
After looking at a few more references to gauge things such as line weight, I set to work animating.
This was my final timeline for the line art at the end of animating.
The longer sections are my key poses, with the last section of singles being that shake at the end.
One benefit was that colouring the piece was extremely easy and as long as my lineart was consistent, it only took a few seconds at most per frame.
I also whipped up a quickbackground that's a wash with a few shades of gray just to get rid off the blank white space and to allow the chaarcter art to stand out.
After all the desired animation was done, I moved to post-production where all I really wanted to do was add video grain. I had to source a royalty free example that I felt worked well, being a 16mm scratched one offered by Shutterstock. Applying it only involved combing it with my animation in Premier then setting the blending type to overlay.
Overall, I enjoyed the process of rubber hose but animating it all in singles was far too labourous for me to devote an entire project it. If I were to revisit in the future I think I'd mainly pull from the ignorance of anatomy and the iconic design quirks. I did learn some valuable skills along the way such as adding effects such as the video grain that I can utilise later.
Pt. 1 Here
Pt.2 Here
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Whumptober 2022 day 4
Dead on your feet: Hidden injury | Waking up disoriented | Can't pass out
Content: mainly just Francis having a horrible migraine, while suffering the effects of diazepam addiction. No one getting stabbed or anything! Just. Bad migraine. Bad substances. And important stuff to do. Oh ig CW Graham Reid Malett, unfortunately he is There Again.
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For the audience, what was at stake was a grand cash prize; for Francis Crawford it was art, freedom, life itself. If he didn't win this contest, his son would never be returned to him, lives would be split apart and hopes shattered, and he would be locked out of any act of creation that didn't directly profit Graham Reid Malett.
It was, all being said, not the ideal time for a migraine to strike.
He waited backstage in the darkness behind the thick, velvet curtains of the stage at the Topkapi Casino. He had no qualms about using meditative techniques the Rajneeshees had taught him back at the studio in London as he tried to imagine that he was separate from his body, from his surroundings - nothing but a pair of hands waiting to pick up an instrument, and a heart to set the audience alight.
Beyond him, on stage, Jerott was holding his own just as Marthe and Philippa had done before him. Although Marthe had fought to be the one to play opposite her old teacher, Francis had insisted, much to her fury, that Jerott would be the one to outplay Georges Gaultier. Gaultier was a fussy, classical player, and Marthe had mastered all he could teach her - she could match him note for note, arpeggio for arpeggio - but even with the extra years of practice she had on Jerott, Marthe had never had the opportunity to cultivate her own style much beyond her teacher's.
She would have done fine, in all likelihood, but out there, past the ringing in Francis' ears, he knew Jerott was doing more than fine - he'd soon grown bored of Gaultier's staid choices of Flamenco staples and had let his own influences leak in. The innovations George Harrison had borrowed from Indian culture were reclaimed, foregrounded and blended with Django Reinhardt's louche, jazzy beats; the precision of Davy Graham's Andalusian-inspired picking collided with cocky, raï-infused syncopation.
Francis managed to smile wanly despite the weakness in his legs, the cold sweat springing to his skin. He could hear the frustration building in Gaultier's dry, heavy finger-work - he fumbled more notes as the audience talked over him and began to heckle, and when Jerott's guitar cut in again the listeners screamed and cheered. The sound was like a bolt gun to the base of Francis' skull, but it meant that soon he would be the one to take the stage - Gaultier was finished.
Archie - ever observant, ever vigilant, always managing to be where he was needed most - handed Francis a pair of sunglasses as he stood at the edge of the stage, his eyes closed, his pulse speeding, his stomach empty and volatile.
He felt the plastic frames between his trembling fingers and tried to get enough air in his lungs to counteract the growing feeling of nausea.
"Maestro, did ye take a dose...?" Archie asked softly. Even so, gentle as he made his voice, his gravelly accent was like needles in Francis' gums, like a vice tightening on top of his spine.
"Yes," he said hoarsely. "I've had enough." The diazepam didn't do anything for the migraines - in fact he'd been on it for long enough that it just added to the fuzzy, unbalanced feeling he had anyway - but without it he would be a wreck, unable even to hold his guitar.
"And ye can play?" Archie asked, as the audience in the vast arena erupted to confirm Jerott's victory.
Francis grimaced and forced the sunglasses on, though he kept his eyes closed as he did, and struggled to settle the frames over his ears with the interference of his violently shaking hands. He swallowed, but his throat remained dry. "I must play, Archie," he murmured.
Behind the shades, he cracked his eyes open and even his teeth seemed to ache at what he could see of the stage lights. He grunted and winced and turned his face towards Archie, his eyelids shut tight again behind the tinted lenses.
"Archie."
"Maestro?"
"A red light on Reid Malett. Blue on me. Nothing more, you hear?"
"Aye, Maestro. I'll speak wi' the technicians."
Even with his eyes closed, even with the relentless howling agony in his head, Francis knew that Jerott had stepped off stage and come to stand by him. His breathing was heavy - self-satisfied, scented with bourbon and tar-rich cigarette smoke - but the hand on Francis' arm, though sweaty, was kind. "You're up."
"I know," Francis pushed his body away from the scaffold he'd been propped up against. Belatedly, he added, "You did well, Jerott. At least the audience is on our side."
Jerott didn't acknowledge the praise directly, but his next words were squeezed by some new emotion: "Francis - are you sure about this?"
Francis sighed. He didn't have the energy to shrug Jerott's hand off him or to explain why this was the only option. Out on stage, the compere seemed to shriek into his microphone, and the record agent Kiaya Çalışkan giggled into her own mic - the sound felt to Francis much like he imagined it would feel to have sand rubbed into his eyeballs.
"He's better than you think on the electric..." Jerott persisted. "But you'd have no problem with this."
With the hand that wasn't on Francis' arm, Jerott was offering the acoustic guitar he'd played. Francis squinted at it, shook his head - once, slowly, feeling the pain behind his eyes turn to a swirl of colours as he did. He forced his clenched jaw apart and thanked Jerott in barely more than a whisper.
"But no - it must be the electric. We can't follow you with more of the same. It's a good instrument, and it's been set up well."
"He'll have - "
"He might have tampered, yes. I can tune my own guitar, Jerott," Francis tried to smile and moved unsteadily past Jerott and his instrument. The stage was dark except for a white spot on the compere and on Kiaya, the competition's sponsor. Francis put Jerott and his worries from his mind, he put Archie and the request he'd made from his mind, and waited for Kiaya Çalışkan to mince off stage in her figure-hugging gold dress and towering stilettos. He focussed on his breathing and opened and closed his fists in time with it, imagining stillness in his fingers until he had willed something close to it into existence.
"Ladies and gentlemen..." the compare yelled.
Francis lowered his head and closed his eyes again, picturing the distance between him and the guitar, counting the necessary steps in his head.
"Without further ado - please welcome to the stage your headline combatants! A real Highland fling here for you tonight..."
Francis had stopped listening to the words. It was too much effort to push past the static of chimes and electric shrieks his mind was telling him his ears could hear. He waited only for the mechanical thunk of the spotlight going off and then he shuffled out onto the dark stage - one step, one breath, two, two, three, three...
"Watch out, buddy, are you drunk?" the compere brushed past him on his own way to the side of the stage, but Francis was nearly there now. He grasped the neck of his guitar as a man dying of thirst would reach for fresh water.
In the darkness across the stage, from behind the lenses of his sunglasses, Francis could just about make out the glittering points of his opponent's instrument - metal tuning pegs, bridge and pickup shining like his golden cufflinks and broad, white-toothed smile.
Francis shouldered his own guitar, unplugged it, and checked the tuning. It wasn't quite what he'd asked for, but he was glad he had that to concentrate on as the crowd roared and the lights went up.
Archie had done his job at least, and twilight blue light bathed Francis as he stood with head bowed, listening with all his might for the hushed, metallic twang of the strings. It was probably muscle memory as much as anything that did it then - knowing how tight the pegs should feel relative to the tension on the strings. It seemed close enough - and if he was off, he would hide it with some elaborate distortion and retune it as he played. An advantage of playing electric, he reflected.
Into the hot, heavy, not-quite-silence beyond the chaos in Francis' head, his enemy launched into a wild, virtuosic riff. At the end, he shook the reverb on it out, letting the sound fade away as the audience's cheers built.
"Are you ready, sweeting?" Graham Reid Malett called across the stage. He chopped out a couple of chords as punctuation, and Francis released a steadying breath through his nostrils. He nodded, settled his hands on his instrument, and played a modest response to Reid Malett's opening that was, at least, in tune.
Francis' opponent threw back his head and laughed. He let rip, and Francis' eyes followed his fingers, picking up what his ears wouldn't let him observe. It wasn't necessary to copy, just to show he was capable of doing the same - and more.
Reid Malett's left hand moved effortlessly up and down the neck of his instrument, his fingers dancing over frets as the digits of his right hand plucked and flicked at the strings. He was quick, but not quite quick enough to hide his workings from Francis.
And at least, come his turn, Francis could close his eyes, forget about the noise in his mind, and think only of the movements of his own hands, of the mechanical processes of wringing emotion from metal and plastic and wood. He could be alone with the guitar and his breathing, where a calmness, sweetened by just a touch of the adrenaline he felt when performing on stage, led him to the point of balance he needed. While he stood there, his body wracked by the year's struggles, practically dead on his feet, he could put himself inside the instrument, inside the music and the patterns of it, and let the colours of the migraine drop into the background as he imposed his own art over the top.
One solo down, he let himself peer across the stage at his opponent from narrowed eyes. He didn't hope for the satisfaction of seeing fear in Reid Malett's expression, but hoped, perhaps, to have rattled his confidence.
Instead, Graham Reid Malett smiled, his eyes mad beneath the filters of red light and dark shades. "I am glad, my pet, that we will have a real contest tonight...don't pass out, now..."
#whumptober2022#whumptober#every day i write the book#character: francis crawford#character: jerott blyth#character: archie abernethy#character: georges gaultier#character: graham reid malett#character: kiaya khatun#band au: pawn in frankincense#setting: topkapi casino
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Hey do y’all remember my OC Misty?
Well I gave her a redesign and she’s BACK!
I decided to try out this new way of shading as well while I was working on this piece and I really like it.
I’ve never done this type of shading before like ever. It’s quite different compared to how I’ve shaded before. I’ve mainly used simple lines, maybe some blurring, and a layer of extra effects.
Here I used blending, new lighting, and a new angle. That part wasn’t intentional tho-
Now for her redesign:
Before she had yellow skin, given she was supposed to be a fire spirit and I wanted her to have this whole fire mood. But as I can up with more concepts so did it feel weird that everyone else had normal skin and she didn’t. So I decided to give her the skin tone I imagined her having when she was alive.
Now her hair used to be made out of entirely fire, but I just wanted to be able to give her some other pretty hairstyles so I decided to make the part above her eye fire and below normal. I also decided that her eye is gonna be visible majority if the time.
I have another piece that I’m working on with Misty as well. And I’m also working on rewriting my book and a fanfic of mine. Now for my characters so am I going to make a official design for the other characters that I haven’t quite introduced yet and a redesign for the ones I already have introduced, and introducing Misty’s son.
And in my opinion so is she the hottest character I have (literally and cuz she’s a Milf)
That’s all I have to say that the moment and everything I can remember. If there any further updates so will I tell y’all!
Hope you have an amazing rest of your day/night!
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You and Your Mold: Ratios Matter!
The terms of Support, Control, and Memory are defined in this earlier post here.
Now, to actually use these terms for different parts of the mold as related to actual canon characters!
Support, being structurally focused, is the portion that kicks in to restore the body to its former state. The super healing, so to speak. Or the getting super big monstery part.
Control is used by individuals with a heavier Memory-leaning megamycete to control other individuals’ megamycete. This includes to my knowledge, only three individuals in canon: Miranda, Eveline, and Rose. And I’m putting a mental question mark by Rose’s ability, due to what I think she’s actually doing in the false memories (more details further on).
Memory...now, Memory is a little more complicated to place. Mostly because I believe that the vast majority of enemies we face in RE7 and RE8 lacking the concentrations of Memory strands that make them matter.
Or, as Miranda puts it in the Shadows of Rose DLC on the matter of the memory realm we visit as Rose, “Only those who are attuned to the mutamycete in life retain control of their faculties here in this realm.”
Ethan, Miranda, and Eveline...along with Rose herself, are shown to be the only individuals able to influence the memories found in the mold. In my terminology, it is because they have larger Memory concentrations and thus a finer connection to the communication between the mold clusters themselves.
Rose’s powers as shown in canon (so far) are focused on disrupting that same communication, even.
Now Miranda appears to have focused mainly on Support and Control strands when blending up her Cadou, as to control her creations and make them supernaturally durable. Which naturally leaves less space for Memory. The Memory where her beloved shade of her daughter would be stored. Or in other words, the Cadou hosts would never be able to serve as a decent vessel because they lack the Memory needed.
Miranda, you ruined your ratios! Your plan wasn’t going to work!
What’s going on with everyone else? Here we go:
Ethan does not have a perfect combination between all three, but he definitely has a lot of Memory and enough Support to reconnect lost parts (but not enough to regrow them with some major sacrifice in other directions).
RE7 individuals such as Mia and the Bakers were heavily seeded by Eveline’s Control spores. Existing as long as they did in Eveline’s vicinity as a mold colony as well also infected them with Support. Naturally, when they died, their bodies became part of the Memory of the oversized mold colony that had over a year to grow.
In a nice plentiful swampy area at that. Full of life and food! Much better than their native hostile mountain environment.
(Yes, Eveline is both a biological weapon and invasive species. Make of that what you will.)
The mixture of Ethan’s Memory strands and Mia’s Control, combined perfectly with the Support they both had, to make a bouncing baby moldling: our Rosemary.
RE8 foes such as Lycans and the Lords are hosts for Control-Support centered parasites, and thus not entirely mold infested. Well, I don’t think the Lords are. The Lycans might be.
Any questions? Hit me up!
#resident evil mold#resident evil meta#resident evil megamycete#worldbuilding#the lords of course are all varying ratios of their own types of megamycete#because miranda was trying to get them to work as vessels#i would put the eva that i write in my fic as a walking support cluster with a hell lot of memory#the duke? no idea#may have to think on him
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