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ceruleancattail · 1 year

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OH BOY DO I EVEN HAVE TO TELL YOU HOW HOOKED I AM ON THE BUTLER AU? We need more content istg (but also don't overwork yourself cuz you're precious)

For the request, I am so going for butler Idia (and someone else if you get ideas for them) with a heavily artistic master? Everything they make is so beautiful, but god, they make a MESS

tysm!

AWW THANKS!!

Ahah, I’ll try not to overwork myself, don’t worry.

Butler Idia with an Artistic Master

Butler Idia x reader

It’s not uncommon to see splotches of colour cling onto your sleeves. Dots of paint line your clothes, a multicoloured show on its own. Everything you touch is marked. Colourful fingerprints beaming from cups you’ve drank from. Paint splatters on the edges of table clothes, blooming like little flowers.

Smears of paint on Idia’s hands,adding some colour to those pale hands of his. Little thumbprints on his face, from when you cupped his face. A blue spot of paint on his nose, from your own nose.

The pink on his face wasn’t from your paints, though.

You create wonderful pieces, bits of personality shining through the canvas. He’s seen you spend evenings sprawled out on the dining table, pencil scratching away at your sketchbook. Sometimes, he can’t help himself. He’ll peer over your shoulder, curiosity getting the better of him. Does genius brew, Master?

If you allow him, he’ll love to thumb through your sketches. Flipping through your sketchbook, Idia’s excruciatingly careful with each and every page. Taking special care not to bend the spine, he’ll pour over your drawings.

Idia will gladly discuss art with you. Debating over compositions, figure placement… he’s surprisingly passionate about it. Idia doesn’t mind being a bit more vocal if it’s you. The sparkle in your eyes when you talk about art… it’s wonderful.

Well, with every art piece, there comes the cost of creation. You tend to get a little carried away with your paintbrushes. Paint splatters on ever surface, dark murky water spilled over the ground, staining the carpets. Paper flying everywhere, crumpled with your steps.

Even as your butler, he does dread the cleaning. He doesn’t hold it against you, though. How could Idia?

Not when you’re so apologetic about it. You even help him with the cleaning, scrubbing at the walls until your fingers glow a scarlet red. In a weird way, he does look forward to the cleaning afterwards.

Just you and him, in a room. All alone.

Idia can’t really lie, it does make his heart skip a beat.

Dunking a rag into a bucket, the bubbles cling onto his wrists, a bracelet of sorts. There’s one around your wrist as well. His fingers meets yours, just barely grazing each other. Yanking his hand out, countless apologises are spilling out of Idia’s mouth, his flames glowing a bright pink.

Laughing, you reach for his hands. Intertwining your fingers with his, pressing your palm against his. His warmth flowed through your skin, hands fitting together perfectly.

Idia does know for a fact that people weren’t allowed to touch the masterpieces. That why they have those borders in museums.

But what’s the protocol for when a masterpiece touches you?

#twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #idia shroud #idia shroud x reader #idia #idia x reader #twst idia #butler au #lucky charm🔹

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atalienart · 7 months

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hi! i really love your art and i've been following you since 2020🥺, your art is really inspiring to me and i really wanna start to draw too! do you have any advice?

Thank you. I'm not sure I can help much but these are the things I've learnt:

Draw regularly to make it a habit (this is how you make your brain produce more ideas)

Don't force yourself to draw if you really don't want to or can't; if you need a break, you need a break (this is how you avoid burnout)

Draw what makes you passionate, fanart, your own original content, it doesn't matter, just draw what makes you happy (this is how you stay motivated and have fun)

Draw inspiration from many sources and different artists (this is how you learn more and create your unique voice)

Learn fundamentals; anatomy, colour theory, composition, form etc.(this is how you get better)

Don't try to learn everything at once, divide it into smaller chunks and conquer it practising and incorporating new knowledge into your drawings (this is how you not get overwhelmed)

Try different mediums and different ways of doing stuff, use different brushes etc. (this is how you figure out what you like and feel comfortable with)

Don't take every advice to heart, some will work for you and some won't and that's okay.

Be patient with yourself

#q&a #drawing advice

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velnna · 8 months

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This might sound like an odd question but I’m planning on making my own comic at some point and I was wondering if you had any advice? Specifically in making the plot, deciding what each character does and maybe panel/page composition and how to make harmonious colour palettes?

Also one more question but when you were at the beginning of developing Stray Souls did you post little lore/plot snippets and character doodles/info or did you mainly wait until the comic was out?

(Sorry I know this is a lot but I was just wondering sort of what your process is because everything seems so seamless and well-put-together :> )

Ehh first of all the seamless and put-togetherness is an illusion 🫠

A lot of my work is built organically (fancy way of saying I just sorta wing it) and very dependent on what makes me excited at each given point. Generally, I come up with an idea for a character or a plot point and from there start branching out.

Say, I create character A. A needs a story so I create some beats for them, a beginning-middle-end type thing. While thinking of this, characters B, C, etc pop up as placeholders/devices for A's story, and the world gets shaped around it as well. Then suddenly something in the world gets decided that in turn changes A's story a little, and so on. Then I go into B, C, etc and do the same thing (build a story, let it bleed into the world and let the world bleed into it).

There's pros and cons to this sort of thing of course. Most of the time I over-develop characters or world bits that are completely unnecessary and clutter the narrative (especially when it's something like a comic, where things need to be explained visually and economically), and because of this sort of chaotic process I also tend to get entangled in my own concepts and lose track of my main threads. I don't dislike it entirely so it's just a matter of figuring out what works best for your own goals and processes.

Some general advice for comics that I've learned from trial and error: try stripping your story down to its bare bones and see what you absolutely need VS what's there for flavour or added context. Only add flavour once you're sure you can tackle the minimum, both in writing and artwise. Keep your character designs simple if you value your hands lol. It's fun to design complicated details but you WILL get tired of drawing them after a while. Sometimes it's ok to tell and not show 🤷‍♂️ if you're a one-man team sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet. Bear in mind that long stories will take YEARS to complete in comic format. Not an end all be all, but you do need to think about that. Also just go for it once you've got a structure you feel good about. I personally don't like over planning and don't even script things, so I don't think you need to have everything on paper before getting some chapters rolling. Most of what I've learned about comics has been making them, not thinking about making them. Oh, and readers tend to be more lenient than we give them credit for - if you're passionate enough about your world or characters, chances are at least some people will be interested regardless of whether you think art or writing are up to par

As for the other question, I spoiled the shit out of stray souls before launching it and still kinda do it for fun LMAO. Nothing too serious ofc but I've always loved giving people an insight into characters and world outside of the comic since the comic itself is a little peek into the whole thing. It also kinda serves to keep people interested imo

And I just can't keep my mouth shut about my stories lol

#q&a

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rubysunnday · 2 years

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sleeping beauty

a/N: i hate the word huskily

summary: painting the woman of his dreams feels like a fairytale warning: smutty ish at the end... kinda... sorta - aka lottie thinks she's written some very vanilla smut

"Thank you, Miss Elliot. I shall have it finished by the end of the month."

Y/N stood up from the chair she'd been sitting on for the last three hours, hands clasped in her lap, face calm. "Thank you, Mr Nichols. I look forward to seeing it."

She grabbed her shawl from the back of the chair and draped it over her arms, walking out the room. The Royal Academy was a beautiful building. Y/N walked down the corridor, looking around in awe, wishing she could spend more time here.

Y/N walked past an open door, peering inside as she passed. She skipped to a halt and looked back inside, double-checking what she thought she'd seen.

Benedict Bridgerton had his back to the main door, his jacket abandoned on the chair behind him as he painted a background onto a canvas. He was absorbed in his work, clearly oblivious to everything else around him.

Y/N had spent a lot of time with Benedict over recent months. They had walked around galleries and museums together, promenaded through the park - she had even been invited over to Bridgerton House for dinner.

But this was the first time she was seeing him as Benedict and not Mr Bridgerton. His walls were down and he looked... happy.

Y/N reached over and knocked gently on the door. Benedict turned, his paintbrush still up against the canvas, and looked at the door. His eyes widened and he almost dropped his palette in his hastened attempt to get up.

"Miss Elliot, I am so sorry, I did not -"

"Do not apologise, Mr Bridgerton," Y/N said, chuckling as he tried to make himself appear more presentable. "I was merely passing by."

"You've been here?"

Y/N nodded, walking into the room, folding her shawl over her arms. "I am having my portrait done by Mr Nichols. My mother insisted."

Benedict nodded, laughing softly. "Mr Nichols is an excellent artist."

Y/N hummed, tilting her head slightly, approaching Benedict. "I think we both know there is someone else I would rather have, Mr Bridgerton." She stopped in front of his canvas. "If you do not mind me asking... what exactly are you doing?"

"Oh, I am just starting a new painting," he said, turning to face his canvas. "This is just a base layer before I start the actual thing - it's a colour wash. Gives it a base that isn't white. It helps make the colours look more natural."

Y/N nodded. She glanced down at the stool next to him. "Is that a book of fairytales?"

"Hmm, what? Oh, yes." Benedict sighed, smiling. "My little sister Hyacinth -"

"Mr Bridgerton, I do know who Hyacinth is, I have been to dinner -"

"Yes, of course, my apologies. Hyacinth asked me to do her some paintings inspired by the stories in the book. Anthony and I read them to her a lot back when it came out - we still do sometimes."

Y/N gently picked up the book - which was evidently well loved. She carefully opened it, flicking through the pages and admiring the drawings within. "Which is her favourite?"

"It depends who is reading," Benedict answered, leaning over Y/N's shoulder. "If it is Anthony, it is Little Snow White. If it's me it is Cinderella. But her absolute favourite - no matter who is reading - is Little Briar Rose. Why I do not know."

Y/N laughed to herself. "So, is that the one you are painting, then?"

"Well, trying to," Benedict replied, taking the book from her. "I have. studied the drawings in here for hours and yet I cannot quite figure out the composition. What I really need is a model but unfortunately Isabella - our usual model - is away for the next few months. I am a bit stuck."

Y/N was silent for a moment, clearly thinking. "I do not know if this is at all wise..."

"But?"

"Why don't I model for you?" She suggested. At Benedict's raised eyebrows she sighed. "I know it is not proper but I would enjoy it. As long as I do not have to take my clothes off and that door remains open, we should be fine."

"I do believe Briar Rose remains fully clothed throughout, Miss Elliot, you are quite safe."

Y/N smiled. "There we go, then. Besides, I adore Hyacinth. We all know I would do anything for her."

Benedict chuckled, tucking the book down again. "And that is precisely the issue, Miss Elliot - everyone would do anything for her."

"Ok, then, tell me what to do."

Y/N stood there as Benedict looked at her, his eyes narrowed slightly in thought. He abruptly walked away, over to a large crate sat in the far corner of the room. Benedict rummaged through it and eventually pulled out several large pieces of fabric. He put them on the floor next to his easel and then grabbed a wooden rectangle block, lifting it up onto the small rectangular platform in the centre of the room.

He stared at it for a minute and then jumped off the platform and grabbed another box, pushing it up against the other one.

Y/N watched with a fascinated expression as Benedict rushed around, throwing cushions and fabric over the boxes, and placing odd items in the background.

Benedict stopped for a moment, looking at his work. He then turned to Y/N and held out a piece of dark blue velvet. Y/N took it, brushing her fingers over the soft material.

"Put that one over your shoulders," Benedict said, pulling her shawl off her arms, "and then this one on top."

Y/N obliged, wrapping herself in the dark velvet, letting it fold over her arms. Benedict then took the lighter blue shawl she had been wearing and put it over the top, the colours contrasting one another perfectly.

"I assume I am to lie down?" Y/N asked, looking at the makeshift bed.

Benedict nodded, taking her hand. He led her up to the podium and to the makeshift bed. Y/N sat down on the edge and carefully laid down, not wanting to knock any cushions off.

She looked up at Benedict, waiting for him to move. "I am your model, Mr Bridgerton," she said softly as he stared at her, "you can touch and move me."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I wouldn't have agreed to this otherwise."

Benedict took a step forwards and heistated. He crouched down beside Y/N and took her arm, his fingers wrapping around the fabric of the makeshift shawl. Y/N inhaled suddenly as she felt him take her arm but kept her composure as he moved her left arm, placing it gently on her stomach.

"Would it help if I closed my eyes?" She suggested, turning her head so that she was looking up at the ceiling.

"Please."

Y/N glanced at Benedict and then shut her eyes, nestling her head into the cushions. She could feel Benedict moving around her and she found herself trying not to breathe too loudly, for some bizarre reason.

She flinched with surprise as Benedict grabbed her legs and carefully moved them closer to the middle of the bed, grabbing the edge of her dress and straightening out, his fingers brushing her calf. He then moved the velvet as well- Y/N could feel it tugging on her arm as he pulled it onto the floor.

"Can you let your arm hang for a moment?" He asked quietly from somewhere to her right.

Y/N let her right arm go limp and allowed it to fall off the edge of the bed, hanging in mid-air. The velvet fell with it and she felt Benedict's fingers brush the inside of her wrist as he manoeuvred it around until it sat just right.

"Do you want me to take my hair down?" Y/N asked, glancing up at him as he fiddled with cushions.

Benedict turned to face her, smiling softly. "If you don't mind."

Y/N leant her head forward and roughly pulled on the pins and combs holding her hair together. Benedict came over and she felt his fingers brush hers again as he helped untangle her hair, letting it loose.

"Feel free to mess with it," Y/N told him, lying back down, trying not to move too much.

She shivered as Benedict combed through her hair with his fingers, spreading it out over the cushions and over her shoulders. Every time his hand brushed against her bare skin, her breath caught in her throat and goosebumps decorated her skin.

His hands gently pushed her chin up and he turned her head to the side, brushing against her cheekbones.

"Ok," Benedict said, his breath tickling the bare skin of her neck. "Do not move an inch."

Y/N smiled gently. "I do not dare, Mr Bridgerton."

She watched as benedict jumped off the platform and rushed over to his canvas, sitting down in front of it. He glanced over at her as he picked up his pencil and then back at the canvas.

The sound of a pencil against canvas was a rather soothing sound. That mixed with the smell of paint made Y/N feel at ease in a way nothing else truly could.

"So, why is Mr Nichols painting your portrait?" Benedict asked, his voice slow, showing how much he was concentrating.

"My mother wanted it done before I marry and am no longer Miss Elliot," Y/N said quietly. "She wanted one more of me as her daughter and not as a wife."

"Has someone proposed, then?"

"No." Y/N tried not to move her head as she looked over at Benedict. "But we all know who will."

Benedict smiled. "Apparently so." He paused his sketching and peered around the canvas. "Close your eyes for me."

Y/N chuckled quietly but obliged, closing her eyes and staying as still as she could. As he worked, Benedict began to hum quietly. Y/N couldn't work out what exactly he was humming but the sound began to lull her to sleep.

Benedict glanced over at Y/N, pausing for a moment, flexing his hand. He could tell she'd fallen asleep - her breathing had evened out and her body looked more relaxed than it had ten minutes before. Benedict smiled to himself as he looked at her - he knew she was beautiful but there was something about how she was that made her even more so.

The peaceful expression on her face. The way her chest rose and fell as she slept. He did have to admit that she looked like something out of a fairytale.

Benedict finished his sketch and immediately picked up his paint brush, wanting to get as much done as he could before he had to inevitably wake Y/N up and escort her home.

Almost two hours later, Benedict was happy with how much progress he had made. He knew he'd be able to finish the rest of it off later on either at home or in his studio.

He set his palette down and stood up, quietly approaching the platform. Benedict crouched down beside Y/N and gently shook her shoulder. His breath was stolen from him as she slowly opened her eyes and blinked, the confusion fading away as she realised it was him. God, she was beautiful.

"You did not do it right," Y/N said softly, looking up at him.

Benedict frowned. "What did I not do?"

"If I remember correctly, she is woken up by a kiss."

Benedict pressed his lips together as he smiled. "Is that so? Well, I do fear that would be improper of me, Miss Elliot."

"I do believe we can make an exception," Y/N told him. "After all, I am not going to marry anyone else, am I?"

"Are you proposing?"

"I will if you do this right," Y/N replied, her voice a whisper. "Go on."

Benedict shook his head at her antics but stood up, stepping back from the platform. Y/N closed her eyes again and Benedict walked up to her. He knelt down on one knee and gently moved Y/N's hair behind her ear, running his knuckles along her cheek and down her jawline. He leant forward and pressed his lips against hers.

Y/N's eyes fluttered open and she looked at him, a smile growing on her face. "Perfect."

"I am glad," Benedict whispered huskily. He was inches away from her and everything inside him wanted to climb on top of her. "There is another part of the story."

"Oh? Which is?"

"After the prince wakes Briar Rose up, they get married and have two children together."

"You honestly think I am putting this body through two children?!"

Benedict burst out laughing, tilting his head forward. Shaking his head, he said, "that is not what I meant."

"I know what you meant," Y/N told him.

"Unfortunately, I am a gentleman."

"Fortunately," Y/N countered, "you are already on one knee."

Benedict glanced down and belatedly realised that he was. He looked back up at Y/N. "Well, then, my sleeping beauty. Will you marry me?"

"You already know the answer, my prince."

Y/N pushed herself up and put her hands around Benedict's neck, catching his lips with hers. She pulled him down towards her and Benedict didn't resist. He swung one leg over her body and straddled Y/N, his hands on either side of her shoulders.

Y/N leant up into him, pressing her stomach against his as she kissed him, unwilling to let go. But she had to - mainly because she was running out of air.

"Are you sure?" Benedict asked, panting slightly.

Y/N ran her fingers through his hair, tugging on it slightly. Benedict closed his eyes, trying not to moan as the small action sent fire through his belly.

"Of course I am," Y/N said, brushing her lips against his. "I would not still be lying here if I wasn't."

"The door is locked."

"Excellent."

"It is late. No one else will hear."

Y/N smiled against his lips. "Even better."

Benedict pressed himself against Y/N, forcing her back down onto the cushions. His hands reached behind her and he began unhooking her dress, tugging it off her shoulders and down to her waist. Y/N pushed herself up and Benedict pulled it all the way off, throwing it to the floor.

It was the first time he'd seen her in just her undergarments. And as much as he wanted to rip them off, he knew he had to savour each moment.

"One day," he whispered into her ear as his right hand danced up her thigh, "I'll draw you in nothing but these."

Y/N arched into him as his hand got higher. She dug her nails into his shoulder, burying her head in his chest. "That day better be our wedding night."

Benedict laughed, ducking his head into her shoulder. His hand moved higher still, drifting just below her stomach. Y/N groaned, closing her eyes as she gripped his shirt tightly.

"I'm sure," Benedict muttered, delving inside her and savouring the noise that came out of her with a chuckle, "that can be arranged."

#benedict bridgerton #bridgerton #bridgerton x reader #benedict bridgerton imagine #bridgerton imagines #bridgerton imagine #benedict bridgerton x reader

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rosekasa · 11 months

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Hello! I am a beginner artist and I love ur art!! Super pretty and the colors are very tasty. Do you have some tips? I'd love to see your art process!

HELLO ANON!! first of all i am very honoured that u would ask me this because 90% of the time i feel like i have no idea what i am doing and like im still a beginner artist myself DSDSJDF. i would love to share some stuff i learnt and some stuff about my process (regardless of how messy it is sdfhsj)

(final piece)

here's an old example of my process i found! while the steps sometimes look different for other pieces, i feel like this is a good demonstration of how the basic structure looks.

1. the sketch - this is where i'm mainly figuring out how i want the piece to look. i was redrawing a screenshot for this piece so it looks a LOT neater than what a lot of my other sketches look like, for example, here's the process of me figuring out my recent drawing of haise:

(final piece)

in the first two steps, i was mainly working with showing myself what the piece was going to be. the last one was where i used references/technical knowledge to try and show whoever will be looking at it what the piece was

2. cleaning up the sketch + base colours. these two usually occur simultaneously because i will get bored cleaning up the sketch midway through and want to start adding colour LMAO. on a more practical note, sometimes putting down the base colours and having a better idea of what the finished product will look like might make it easier to refine things.

a note: cleaning up for me doesn't mean doing lineart. it mostly means erasing any overly messy lines on the sketch and redrawing small parts to make it look tidier where needed. i often leave it 'messy' at this stage, too. like here:

(final piece)

3. light/shadow. this is my FAVOURITE part because it's where the piece starts pulling together. the method i used in the current piece was putting a multiply layer over the colours folder and filling in where light would be obstructed. after that, i used a luminosity layer to put in some bright sunlight. marc brunet has a great way of explaining it by advising to pretend that the light is the camera and you're behind the lens. this is such a good way to block in average light/shadow values! sometimes this looks a bit crazy because everything is still so messy but that is why we have...

4. rendering. this is where i fit all the remaining pieces of the puzzle together. i'll refine the colours a bit more -- e.g. colouring in the eyes, -- and fiddle a bit with the shadows to add some more variation to the hues/value. this is where i think a lot about light and shadow theory and try and make it look more realistic. marco bucci saved my LIFE with his videos about ambient occlusion and ambient light (part 1 / part 2) -- essentially, what i keep in mind the most is that if a plane in shadow is facing the sky (or is open to any other form of light that isn't the direct light source) it will contain ambient light. it is SUCH a game changer when you add it to your pieces, trust me, even if youre lazy about it. if needed i'll pull up some references to make everything look good!

5. rendering... part 2? honestly this step kind of blends with the last one as i tend to do it simultaneously. i basically clean up all the messy lines from before by painting over them! with the majority of the colours i need put down, i can just eyedrop them and paint over anything that's needed. this also comes in with the light/shadow, where, if i need a more subtle hue for either/or, i will eyedrop it and brush it in.

some further notes:

i very rarely use references during the first stages of my sketch. i think it tends to look quite stiff and unnatural if i rely too hard on the. and i personally prefer the creative room when the idea is still being conceived. references come in when i can look at what i have down on the canvas and have a fairly decent idea of what i want, including pose, composition, etc. it's essentially a first draft to guide me to where i want to go with the piece. it's when i'm done with this that i bring out references, and even then, they don't necessarily have to be the exact pose -- i'll usually get a couple of pics which show what i need to double check and keep them up as a guide. by the end of the 'sketch', i usually have a basic construction of what i need to continue, even if it's messy.

i use very soft brushes when putting down colour because it allows for more hue variation. like i said, i enjoy eyedropping and brushing in colours afterwards, so this really helps!

layer modes are ur friend! i try not to rely on them too hard during rendering because i like the freedom of painting over but they're very useful when you're blocking in your initial colours

sometimes, when i feel like i want to try something new with my art, i'll keep pieces that inspire me up in front of me. i have two of sui ishida's art books and sometimes i'll just flick to a page that oils the Art Gears in my brain and keep it open while i draw. i don't necessarily reference it, but i like having it there so i can glance over every once in a while. i don't usually make a conscious choice where i'm like "ok i want to render skin the way he does" but it's more like. my brain knows what it likes in his art and it'll try and push that part of my art in a similar direction.

honestly the best advice i have is that art is very much based on vibes. everytime i've tried to think too much about it, to do things 'correctly', to rigidly stick to art theory, my art has not come out nicely. i think the technical parts of art are important to know and understand but i also think it's important to let your knowledge come through naturally when it is needed instead of pressuring yourself to do things 'right'. tbh you probably already know that but it's something i forget a lot so maybe it serves as a helpful reminder?? sedsfhsl

ANYWAY SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG! i hope i covered what you needed and if you need anything else/want me to expand on anything feel free to drop me another ask ! <3

make sure to look after yourself and trust yourself and ENJOY!!! art is about having fun!

#art tutorial #art help #drawing tips #art tips #art advice #long post #ask #anon

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anneangel · 5 months

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Sherlock Holmes explaining, or grumbling, about why John Watson's writing dismays him, canon:

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province."

"And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records."

"You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing."

"It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my friend's singular character.

"No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales."

Sherlock Holmes (...) emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.

"At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, at all. (...) But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial."

"The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest."

"Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, can barely tell the difference (...) They do not care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality”.

And

"I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”

“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.

"I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume".

#sherlock holmes #dr. john watson #arthur conan doyle #acd canon #holmes canon #I'm sorry to tell you Holmes but you'll be more interested in beekeeping later on #Holmes seems angry here but actually encourages Watson to write more in other cases #sherlock holmes/john watson #The Adventure of the Copper Beeches case #The Adventure of the Abbey Grange case

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snakes-in-mirrors · 6 months

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What the fuck was wrong with anon

Your characters are extremely interesting, the number of character asks you get alone is proof of that. They're charismatic and endearing and we all want to learn more about them

Your little comics are cute, but your full pieces are insane /pos. Not only is the anatomy practicaly flawless, but the composition and perspective is mind blowing.

I also don't know what to call it, but the "abstract stylisation" you put in the background of some of your art is such a big inspiration to me. I often go look at your art to observe how you did it because of how good all the stapes and colours theory and shading is, and i still can't figure out how you manage to make such high quality art. Even the line weight looks impossibly good /pos. It makes me think of art nouveau

That asker knows damn well they're in the wrong, or else they wouldn't have hidden behind anon

I know the critiqual voice in our head can get brutal, and some trolls will take adventage of that because they're so desperate for attention. But seriously your art is some of the most gorgeous "i can't even understand how they did it" art i've ever seen, which is a thought i mostly have about classical art pieces in museums.

Your art looks like it comes straight out of a professional book cover or graphic novel /gen

Thank you so much for your kind words. 💛 My art means a lot to me and of course I’ll continue to draw anyway. But sometimes there are such moments like this when you feel yourself pretty bad at everything. And as I see, a lot of people feel the same. I hope things will be better for all of us and we will just enjoy our art. Thank you again 💛

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bobbybutterfly · 6 days

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Oh my goodness! This took me almost 7 hours. I ended up having to re work the perspective. At one point he looked like he was going to fall off the building! I’m satisfied though. Just don’t think about the anatomy much. I’m putting more effort into my composition and colours. I mainly do it by stealing, I mean studying, composition and poses from League of Legends splash art I find on Pinterest

I watched Arcane and my brother played it when I was small all the time. A. K. A. I don’t know much about the video game other than the art (look my relationship to modern digital illustrations is complicated because my art teachers really hate it and I can see why) implements certain art techniques quite well. That was a long sentence! Anyway back to my painting? Drawing of Mulmangcho?

The improving in composition and colour go hand in hand. Different colours got different values. Meaning that if you switch the image to black and white certain colours are going to be darker or lighter. Your job as an artist is to make the piece be readable even if it was switched to black and white. With readability helps out composition! Composition is placing objects and colours in a certain way to guide your eye through the image.

As you can see the image still looks good in black and white. I made the parts I wanted the viewer to focus on the lightest. Like mainly the face, the gun and sort of the rest of the figure. I made the background darker so the lighter parts would stand out even more.

Now this is a piece I done a day or two ago. Um. Ignore the shadow not making much sense. I drew it like that so it goes in the same direction as the hand. I still did the thing of making the parts that are in the front the lightest. But the contrast isn’t… contrasting that much.

Here I added some screen tone. Much better no?

Hope you didn’t mind my monologue about art. I wanted to show off a bit to non artists just how much goes into making art. And trust me. There’s way more you got to keep in mind when doing an art work. If you get a lot of practice in, or just have talent (most people have a mix of both) it comes naturally to you. Kind of how you don’t need to think about how to take a step when walking.

If you’re an artist and I peaked your interest in art fundamentals I would recommend the YouTube channels Sinix Design and Proko. Bet ya they will explain everything far better than I can. Lastly it helps me out to recap what I’m doing. It gets stored in the head better. I never would have realised, just how much I know about the anatomy of an ear, if I didn’t explain it to a kid in a language I’m slowly forgetting all my vocabulary for. Sorry Slovak teachers, you tried your best.

Originally I wanted to talk about how I’m rewatching Squirrel and Hedgehog. It’s far better on a rewatch. The plot is very complicated. I still feel like I have to open up a word document and take notes. But at least I have an idea what is going on. I think I will talk about that more in another post.

#I’m rewatching the show #Mulmangcho is so iconic #his first voice actor is giving hot anime villain and I’m here for it #also #I’m finally using the tags as they were meant to be used #by this i mean for random nonsense #squirrel and hedgehog #my art #fanart #digital art #procreate #furry art

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solar-sparky · 8 months

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Hey your animated stuff is super inspiring! What's your process for animating stuff? (Also I adore your style and how ya draw ppls, your fruit gummy/kid squids are adorable and I love how ya draw Callie she's such a gremlin hehe)

Thank you :D! And well, lets start! Once you know what you want to animate, doing test sketches first of all (characters you want to use, maybe background or scene ideas you have) is a great place to start as it gets you used to drawing said character! Its also a great warm up activity to do every time before you start working.

Storyboarding/Thumbnailing

Once sketches are done and I'm ready to start, it's then time for storyboarding! This is when I really quickly thumbnail out what I want. Technically storyboarding and thumbnailing are different but they are close enough that it's generally the same thing (Clear expressions, poses, layout, timing and staging is what's important at this time. Making it look good happens later, trust me I used to not really do this process and I don't know how I didn't explode.)

Sketching

Once everything is roughly drawn out, its time for more thorough sketching! During this stage it's good to just super roughly sketch out your movements without worrying about how the drawing looks, you just want to get the movements timed and how you want it. Later on you'll do another sketch over where you make the sketch cleaner and clearer! (There's lots of sketching yeah, sometimes if you're confident enough you can go straight to clean sketching but it may be harder to figure out movement!) Here's an example of rough keyframes!

Frames

At this point there's a bunch of different kinds of frames you have to fill in after keyframes (Which are the main poses).

There are a bunch of principals (12 of them) and some other things to think about while animating, its good to keep them in mind while animating. To be honest, most of the time while animating, you don't typically think about these things, they just work their way into your work subconsciously (Especially if you have experience with animating

You'd be doing:

Keyframes - Main poses

Breakdowns - Poses that transition between the main keyframes

Inbetweens - Any other frames that need to be drawn to complete the movement(s)

Other things

Clean-up, backgrounds, colouring, shading, and compositing are all pretty self explanatory but depending on my project, those come last and make the animation look all pretty with colour!

And that's pretty much all, thanks for asking :]!

#solarsparkyasks #solarsparkyart #Animation #splatoon

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rustingcat · 2 months

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Happy birthday!

I'm curious about what's your own art you are most proud of, tell me everything about it. Also what fic of yours is the one you had the most fun with?

And what's is your favorite pokemon design? purely for aesthetics...

Thank you darling♥️

Ahhh so many good questions!

I really don't know which one I'm proudest of! I can probably walk you through every piece I made with great enthusiasm, but picking just one is impossible! I'm first and foremost proud that they exist, that I dared to release them into the wild despite the many problems I have with them. Making that decision was not easy, but I'm so glad that I did.

But let's keep it in theme, so I'll talk about the largest pokemon drawing I made:

The sketch was what took me the longest, trying to figure out how to organise the composition to fit all the characters in an organic way that would feel right was very challenging. The focus was of course Lena and Kara at the front, but I tried to lead your eye through a spiral starting from Flygon and using the arc of its tail to lead you to the other running pokemons and slowly helping you explore the image and its many details. But I also didn't want to let any of them take centre stage, cause I thought it was fun to discover many of the details by yourself. But one way to organise it beside the composition is, of course, the shading.

Lighting and shading really help to create depth and help lead the eye, also make it pretty:)

The most fun I had with a fic was probably Twilight au. It was light, and ridiculous, and I could put in so many references and jokes, yet somehow it was still very wholesome and sweet. Also, I somehow wrote it all in about a month, so the flow of it all was pretty easy (having a script to base it off of helped😂)

That's another tough one, but I'd say I really like Noivern design. It's think it looks pretty cool, I really like the colour schematic and I also think I'd does a really good job explaining the creature though its design; like how the dark colours can tell you it lives in a cave, the large ears with the circles tells you this creature relays on sonic waves and probably inspired by a bat, which can also tell you the kind of attacks it might have, so I think it does just a really good job overall. Also I like it.

#thanks for the lovely questions!#I can continue talking about my drawing process even more #i hasn't even gotten into animations #rustingask #birthday ask

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laurenfoxmakesthings · 10 months

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So, a few days ago I went to a group collage-ing session at the Drop In Care Space (worth donating to by the way: https://www.dropincarespace.com/supportus). I was going to be spontaneous like the last time I went to a similar session, but then I had this collage concept that I decided to go with, there weren't as many materials as the other session (I brought a big chunk of them). There were some useful materials I found in the session outside of my own materials, like the text-filled pages from a Frankie magazine I used for the background. To make sure it wasn't generic, I added editor's notes, some regular, some pedantic, some questionable. They also had the lavender (me being me, I got to add queer subtext at some point), the light bulb, and the scorpion from a damaged zine. I didn't have time to glue it together there, only cut the pieces up and figure out the arrangement/composition.

I waited until Wednesday night to paste everything together, as that was when the new family puppy would go to puppy school. Once the gluing was done, I used highlighters to brighter the lavender and the light bulb. The highlighter beams were going to be smaller, but I added more and made them bigger to make sure the composition wasn't lopsided. Admittedly, the positioning of the beams aren't quite right, I tried drawing them on while the canvas was on an easel. Nevertheless, think this was the quickest analog collage I made so far, only a night. What really surprised me was how flat it turned out, I thought it was going to be stuck with bubbles.

The hardest part was scanning it. Today I went to the nearest library, thinking it would be super quick and easy. Instead, everything that went wrong did go wrong, and I spent a few hours trying to scan it and send it while going through an anxiety attack the whole time. I finally completed the task, but it's only until I got home that I realised even my good final attempt at a scan was zoomed in too much. So I tried to scan it with my phone and take a basic photo, just to be sure all of you got what it properly looked like. The downside is the lighting and the colours varied even with adjustments. I don't think any of these images capture how bright and fluorescent the highlighter parts are.

One of you could see it in person, though. This analog collage is now for sale. You can find it in my ko-fi shop this time, as it isn't NSFW like the last one.

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lepierr0t · 7 months

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Me: I’ll try to be more active on tumblr

Also me: *disappears for 4 months*

Anyway, keeping up in social media has always been a challenge for me so, I1l give myself a break.

Ive been precticind quite a lot with oils recently. It was already something I wanted to do, but I was figuring out how to for a while.

the thing is, painting always scared me, when I was trying digital painting, It was always so overwhelming. I didn't really knew what to do, and I could do anything, there were no rules, no limitations and no easy process, at least not in my head.

But since I started oil painting, everything seems rigth, everything is starting to make sense. why the blocking, and why we aint the way we do, and how color works. Oh GOD! color is finally starting to make some sense to me!

I need paint, I need the need to mix it and pay attention to the saturation, and the pigments and the contrasts, I need to touch it, and to smell it and to feel the texture when it is dry. It is a whole different experience that the digital world can't provide. And a whole understandment that the digital can only replicate very poorly.

Recently I've realized how much of a megalomaniac I am and How my personal projects are always too complex for someone with no experience at anything and that's probably oneof the reasons it's so hard for me to finish anything. so I wanted to start this slowly. I wanted to paint one small object that I liked, so I picked Candles.

I also have bookbinding as a hobbie of mine, so I also bind a book just for studiyng painting. I used my very first painting of a candle I did during the pandemic when I was first trying out oils as a detail for the cover.

after that I started practicing painting just candles. Simple. with some notes to each just so I can orient myself

"paint the glowing around the candle before doing the flame"

"try blocking the whole candle in one color only"

but recently I got a commission from a friend, and I wanted to try and do it on oils. At first I tried doing it by observation alone. But I had many structural problems I should have solved in the drawing phase and the colours would not save it..

So I started over and decided to actually break the portrait apart and... you know... do things correctly...

I separated her face in more simple shapes and tried working out on a composition that would work better. after some editing on ClipStudio, I used Adobe color wheel to produce a pallete, which I used to guide me

This is the result so far... Although this is still the "ugly stage" I'm already pretty happy with it.

I just wanted to share my experience with painting so far. I don't know if other artists can relate, but painting seems less scary now that it is physical. I can touch it and bend it and it is actually pretty fun!

#study #arts and crafts #craft #painting #oil painting #digital painting #artists on tumblr #small artist

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radellama · 6 months

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10, 14, 16, 22, and 25 for the art asks! :)

10. What’s that one thing that inspired you to make drawing your consistant hobby?

It's hard to say cause I've been drawing since I was a baby, but I definitely know that I loved art classes in school and was glad to have encouraging teachers, and I was glad that my parents were supportive of that for a hobby. I think digital art being consistent for me is when I saved up to get my very first drawing tablet, there was barely anything on the market at that point and they were all super expensive but I saved up for aaaaages and dad helped me... Acquire some adobe programs so I could draw in Photoshop (and edit in premiere!!) And I just thought it was soooo interesting trying to figure out how far I could push the program and how to make drawings look epic cause it was all digital. Once I got over the initial frustration of my art looking crappy cause skill and understanding of the program+tablet was tricky, it was game on. Back then I didn't have internet either so I couldn't look up how to use Photoshop, I just had to play around for HOURS figuring out what to do. Once that Wacom broke for good (but it lasted nearly a decade!) I asked my dad if we could split payment and get me an iPad for my bday, he ended up getting the iPad and pencil and I got all the other accessories. I'm not an apple fan at all but I love the portability and that's helped increase my habit too, cause I can draw in bed or on the couch or at my desk, and it's not as clunky as setting up my laptop and wacom

14. How has your art changed over the years?

God, so much. I don't have any of my REALLY old art from when I was a little kid, but I have some from when I first started digital art. Compared to recent years... Yeah it's a lot 🤠👍

16. What’s the most daunting part of your process? Ex, planning, sketching, lineart, rendering etc

Depends on what I'm working on... For bigger pieces getting the right poses and composition and perspective can be huge, for others it's the rendering and especially picking the right colours. Maybe the most daunting thing for me is making sure everything looks consistent within the piece haha, I've got one that I've been working on and off for over a year so I had to redraw the base sketches to match my style changes lmao

22. When is your prime time to work on your art?

Usually in the evening or at night, when it's easiest to just sit and chill with some music or something on the TV while I draw

25. Based on your recent reference searches, what would the FBI assume about you?

That I like ladies holding guns in their knickers (and they're not even holding the guns correctly) or that I'm a huge homo (I am)

Send art asks from here

#rads asks #darksideofthemamon #THANK YOUUUUU THESE WERE FUN #it's such a throwback seeing those old pics like... i dunno you can tell i know what i want to do just don't know the program #and struggling with the hand eye coordination FGHJJKJGFFFF #i don't think i even used layers cause i know it took me a while to figure that out #but my recent stuff? esp the Harland one? soooo many layers FHHKKKHGFFF

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