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ineffableigh · 2 months
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Darling, there's a part of me I'm afraid will always be Trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life The weeds up through the concrete The traffic picking up speed All my love and terror balanced there between those eyes
See how it shines. See how it shines.
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It's done!
Been working on this since the last chapter of "There is a Light & it Never Goes Out" was posted by @phoen1xr0se - the latter part of the chapter was so striking and I immediately had to do arts about it. It's such a lovely heartfelt story that feels so authentic and is such a fascinating approach to Aziraphale and Crowley. I love it.
Our two lads sit on either side of a door, discussing puffins. Because puffins are great. <3
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Tried to experiment with more painterly brushes and had a ton of fun! I gotta get some better ones though, as the watercolour brushes included with CSP are pretty low res so it ends up quite choppy. I do like the clip mask effect as well, to make a sort of negative space frame I can paint behind. =)
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angelicguy · 7 months
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was talking about it the other day but its sad how we are never going to get really big budget games w/ funky artstyles again. like if you look at the majority of big budget releases lately, they are all kind of going for the same thing as far as actual modeling goes- hi fi, super detailed complex models that try to portray as much detail as possible. which is fine for certain games, but it makes me miss the big swings devs used to take.
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take street fighter 4 for instance- despite being over 10 years old at this point, it still looks REALLY good. great art direction, has a weird painterly look so everything has a cool watercolor style to it, models are expressive, etc. and this was a BIG release, its not some indie game (where most big stylistic swings tend to be made nowadays).
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compared to street fighter 6, which is going for photorealism (with strong choices made as far as animation and color goes) it looks dated in the context of graphics generally, but looks WAY better than its contemporaries from the same time period. my fear is that street fighter 6 wont look that great in 10 years time.
side note, its also why street fighter 5 was really only loved by hardcore fans. it does nothing particularly well! its a halfway point between realistic and artistic to the point where it feels like a side-grade rather than an improvement or even its own original idea!
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whatever leaps were made in lighting and texture quality are essentially irrelevant here. fucking gross!
the thing is, i dont think this is a deliberate choice that devs are making right now. from what i can tell, recent rendering tech has made it way easier to achieve a handful of lately- hi fi LIGHTING, increased TEXTURE DETAIL and HI POLY COUNTS come to mind. these are cool, but if youre a dev who wants to make a triple A product, you kind of have to use whatever tech is on the table to make a product look cutting edge. none of those encourage taking wild stabs at cool art directions. devs used to use those cool art directions because it was the ONLY OPTION THEY HAD.
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classic case being windwaker right. the gamecube was a huge graphical leap from the n64, where even getting a model to look like something was a challenge. compared to ocarina of time, windwaker looks absolutely fucking incredible. it got a lot of pushback at the time for being too kiddy, but really the strength of its style is a result of doing as much as they possibly could with the platform they were working on. no high poly counts, the shading tech was relatively simple, and the textures (while a huge improvement over the n64!) are still basic compared to what we have today. windwaker still looks impeccable to this day, and even the HD remaster they made which, ahaha, improved WHAT
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LIGHTING and TEXTURE DETAIL. but without a real consideration for the original artstyle (or why it even existed... which was the gamecubes limitations) it just looks worse.
in response to this pushback (i think, idk i didnt work at nintendo at the time) they gave twilight princess a way more "realistic" look. but given the rendering restrictions of the time, it still has a fairly robust artstyle
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proportions are more realistic obviously, but in order to achieve that realism without the kind of lighting tech we have now the "lighting" is BUILT Into the textures. look at links sword, how it kind of darkens near the hilt, or how the shadow on the keese's wings is just kind of painted in specific areas. i would argue that twilight princess looks a LOT like street fighter 4 in that area-
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damn! they almost look like theyre from the same game! but twilight princess was celebrated for being "realistic" while sf4 was noted for having a funky watercolor style (thats built into the focus attacks even!). its so so smart, because the devs knew they couldnt go for photorealism (like so many games of the era tried at and completely failed at!) so they went for a mix of cool stylistic decisions that allowed a game to look GOOD in a subjective, artistic way.
Not that games don't try and apply artistic principles now, but its a lot less unique. look at mario odyssey
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its just a beach. and it looks great, its well rendered, but its just a beach. colors are clearly intentional and very pretty, but it's nothin that special right now, probably will look even less special in 10 years even compared to levels in the same game.
what im curious about is when are we gonna get back to that kind of artstyle meets rendering tech! if ever! current tech makes it so devs are kind of forced to go down the same boring path. look at mortal kombat 1:
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im sure there are some leaps in texture and lighting, but they keep taking shortcuts. all the faces are modeled after REAL peoples faces and they mocap for expressions/conversation, which gives a really boring look to it. the fact that mk11 and mk1 look so similar so many years apart (4 i guess isnt that much but there have been leaps!) is disappointing to me.
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then you have tekken 8, which is like the best looking game ive ever seen. for a while i found it hard to put my finger on why, but my brother said something really smart i feel- they made all of these models by hand. theyre essentially digital statues. they didnt pull actual face models, they just worked on their features until it looked correct. on top of the lighting and texture work, it creates a look not unlike the renders tekken has been using for years. which is convenient for them, because they can finally match the kind of real-time fidelity they've been chasing for like 30 years
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hell it looks BETTER than that. so what im trying to say is im hopeful that art direction will catch up with the kind of rendering tricks/strengths we have.
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i think tekken 8 feels like how soul calibur 2 probably felt at launch. does a lot of the same things given the time period
i still think hi fi rendering doesnt make for a good looking game, but rather where the focus lies for the player. for tekken it makes sense that they would focus their horsepower on detailed models and stages- youre gonna be lookin at that forever. look at elden ring
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texture wise, SUPER low res for 2022. maybe even 2020. but what they do with the horsepower is genius- they focus on scale to translate locations of objectives to a player while also reinforcing the feeling of adventure, on top of extremely strong choices in color and lighting. i hope, going forward, games focus on how they can use this kind of tech to reinforce a games "gameplay mission statement" while keeping strong artistic choices present rather than focusing on being able to wow someone with a couple of screenshots at the cost of BOTH of those things. im just ranting though french press got my ass
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stagefoureddiediaz · 2 years
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Thank you all for the likes reblogs and comments - I’ve loved reading your responses to the finished piece so I thought I’d show you the piece as it was in progress so you can see the full process I went through to make it happen!
Starting with - a reference picture!
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I made a outline drawing from the reference picture (I did this one while I was at the cricket here you can see it in progress) 😎
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Then I use a light box to transfer the outline onto my fabric. I like to embroider on a fairly fine but medium weight linen - it holds together well but has distinct holes so you don’t end up ripping through threads as you work!
Once the outline is drawn I started outlining areas with back stitch before beginning to infill with a single colour. Below you can see my progress on Oliver’s arm - I tend to change colours as I’m working to stop me getting annoyed or bored - hence the white and black and not of grey you can see having been done.
I have several different sized hoops, but this small one is my favourite as I like the tension I can get on the fabric!
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I did find sewing with white on white frustrating so the shirt sleeve got left for a bit - that’s the beauty of embroidery like this though - you can move around and do different sections depending on your mood!
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I really enjoyed being able to play with texture as well - I chose to use satin stitch on the sleeves and ground - using different angles to create depth.
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While the flesh of Oliver’s arm and hand and Ryan’s hand I went with a more textured look using ‘random’ stitch placement. This gave me the texture and the ability to build up the shading in more detail than satin stitch would’ve allowed - giving me the more painterly look I was after.
I’ve included a picture of the back of the work so you can see is similar to the front - I live looking at the back of pieces!!
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Once some of you helped me decide on the text - I added that - it’s my handwriting for this one - I wrote on paper first then transferred it the same way I did the outline of the arms!
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Then I just carried on stitching, and stitching, and stitching! Sometimes at the cricket (good light!!) and sometimes at home - I brought a 6000k white light lightbulb for one of my lamps so I could continue seeing in the evenings when it got dark!
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When finally finished I washed the embroidery - in Luke warm water with a tiny amount of washing up liquid- to remove the grease and sweat that would’ve transferred from my hands onto the fabric and threads - this needs removing before mounting as it will start to discolour the fabric over time!
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And then I mounted the final piece so it looks like this!! - this was the first time I tried mounting anything myself and it’s not perfect (the ‘yeah’ is a bit wonky) but I’m happy with it 😎
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Hopefully this is interesting! I’ve just started my second piece - the sister piece to this one and I’ll share pictures as I go - starting tomorrow with my terrible sketch!
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wraithsoutlaws · 10 months
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💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕
okay i did VP on my last one, i'm gonna do digital art for this one, which is generally a little harder for me, especially recently as i've been in a big art funk and have really been struggling with doing it and also just appreciating it.
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the first one is maybe the last time i was really happy with something i made (its a couple months old). i just really like the colors and lighting and it was the first time going back to a more painterly style in a while. i did the one on the right for halloween and i was so happy with the overall vibe of it, kind of an old 90s anime on vhs you rented from blockbuster knd of deal.
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these are a bit older, but i'm still happy with them. i don't usually like doing full body so its a challenge for me especially with other elements, but of course i had to do this homage to a nightmare on elm street. i'm also extremely bad with mech/maelstrom but i like this dum dum one despite its flaws.
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another movie reference, but i looove this one, it's one of my favorite pieces actually, and i'm still pretty proud of it. and the one on the right has a lot of issues, but it is to this day the most elaborate piece i've done (full background!! wow!!! can you tell i don't do that a lot lol) and i spent a lot of time on it and tried to put a lot of personality into it too. it was made with lots and lots of love and i will not be pointing out the things i don't like about it because its still very special to me regardless :3
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beej-hunnicutt · 8 months
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Okayyy, I grabbed a bunch of this year's (plus one from December, technically two) actually like "finished drawings" and ramble abt the good, the bad, and the ugly. I just watched an artists tier their art. So yeah lol maybe I'm in the mood to ramble abt mine lol. Below the cut because...so many pictures lol.
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Like, don't get me wrong, I loooooove this Frances drawing, but like. It's kinda just there. Like I feel good when I see it. But I WANT IT TO FEEL MORE AAAAA. Like I'm sure abt almost all of these, I just wish I had given it an atmosphere. I actually think this has a cute light palette it actually kinda works. But I wish I had actual lighting in it <3. Where is the vibe and scene?! I think I should go old photograph. Which is what I wanted to do, but I have no idea how. I still plan on expanding out this drawing, maybe changing it slightly, so hopefully, I will do that better!! I also kinda put this Andy with it. Because I feel kinda the same abt it. I think both lack shadows too, which goes with lack of environment. But I think the soft feel of Andy's is nice! I'm glad I colored it. And actually think I like how undefined the background it on this one. It does something for me! Oh didn't mean it, but love the contrast of the complimentary book cover! Didn't intend that, just picked a book I enjoy and think Andy would enjoy. But like that affect.
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Despite really feeling like Andy is still not mixed with the background, I actually really like this one! I think toneally it has a vibe. And it's just like a portrait so I cannot complain too much!
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I really enjoy this Mary and Frank piece! I love the colors and like how its kinda painterly but still heavily influenced by the sketch and it can still be seen. I like that I attempted more usage of different hues, not sticking to the main color. Like Mary's sleeve? LOVE THAT. Same with the sweater detail on Frank! I put the Kik one with it because for a quick sketch turned painting I think it is good. I like the vibe. I think I should either heavily fix it or redo it. I think if I keep going at it, I can make it a piece I am really proud of!
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Okay, admittedly, I put these together because they're kinda the same size but lol. Andy; tried something new, think I heavily failed. But I DO like the colors and like I tried texture, though you can tell I didn't know what to do with it lol. The Lincoln, this piece is rlly old, AND IT WAS BADDDD. I think the half assed fixed version is 1000% better. It's by no means perfect. I rEALLY like the shadow of his head on the pillow. But aha, just wish there was more. But overall not terrible! I like it for what it is. And has a special place for being like my first Lincoln piece that wasn't just his fatigues one. :")
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LOVE THE VIBE, I like Grayscale, like the intense shadow. I think the shadows on him could be a but nicer of course. And I do think his hair was kinda poorly done but oh well. I am not the biggest fan of his face? It's not bad, but I think I have done better John faces. I do know; I detailed his face in color and I think I like that better lol.
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Lincoln, like, I like the face and coloring of that but it's just so meh. It's a figure like I always do. I like the coloring a lot more when I went back and added deeper shadows. But idk. It's okay </3. And oh!! I group a different Lincoln picture with this one, it has no background but the shadows on his uniform are SO good. It made me loooovve the drawing. And is still a fave. It is what inspired me to add deeper shadows here.
And I've never shared this version of this John drawing. It's a shaving cream prank. Dear God. Help me. I love how John's body turned out. I think his face is nice; its okay. I think I sucked at again giving him a shadow. I couldn't commit to the main shadow and I think it just kinda sucked all life from it. With the Lincoln drawing I don't like the background. With the John one I am torn. I think I should have detailed the ground more? Maybe? Idk. These two, Frank by the water and Andy reading, were all close together and done in January, and they all kinda have the same bckgrnd theme. Idk how I feel abt that choice. For the guys' anyways.
Actually seeing all of these were nice! Because I actually do like nearly all of these pieces! And I feel nervous but very inspired to keep trying to motivate myself to finally take that final step. And maybe try to play into that for the entire piece, not just adding it at the end...and not adding it. I rlly want to try to get a bit more creative too, like interesting things not just person standing there. But idk.
If you read all of this. Omg thank you sorry for rambling your ear off!!! 🫂💗
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bujorulgalben · 11 months
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if your muse drives a car, have they personalized it in any way? + does your muse stay up to date with the latest fashion trends? describe their style + what are your muse's favorite scents, and what do they associate them with? :3c
IN-DEPTH HEADCANON QUESTIONS - accepting!
ooooohohoho ty saf >:3c
if your muse drives a car, have they personalized it in any way?
she certainly has! anica drives a 1989 dacia 1310 tx, in 'mamaia bleu' (named after the famous beach resort on the black sea coast) and she has painted leafy, yellow flowers in acrylics onto the trunk. so something like this! she also used to have a printed ad for her florist's shop tacked onto the back window, but after a few calls into the store about her questionable (if not downright dangerous) driving... that ad has since disappeared.
asides that, a couple of pocket-sized orthodox icons hang from her rear view mirror (her namesake saint michael, and the classic, most holy theotokos), along with a wooden rosary which clatters about on the bumpier roads. notable items in her glove compartment are: a flashlight, a couple of reusable shopping bags, a bottle of water (or moonshine? who knows), a pink plastic lighter, and a paper national road map.
does your muse stay up to date with the latest fashion trends? describe their style
i wouldn't say anica buys into the latest trends, but she definitely uses what she already has to style something to the tune of current trends. she is very much about keeping up appearances (and has family who are global giants in the fashion world, whom she is very eager to impress and accept the odd gift from).
she'd be disowned if she didn't at least know what was in style, and especially if she dared to use fast fashion to appear trendy, thank god. the romance family will destroy shein one day.
all of this being said, her fashion sense stays pretty dang traditional and old-fashioned, and she tries more to keep up to date with what colours and complementary styles are 'in'. don't expect her to go very far outside of her comfort zone at all. skirts (either pencil, circle, or accordion) will still rarely stray above her knees and her shirts will only give a glimpse of cleavage. it still needs to give femininity, as well as an ongoing clash of formality and whimsy. lots of lace, wool, and tulle. quirky prints such as polka dots, paisleys, florals, and other painterly patterns. cute, colourful heels. something undeniably elegant, but also very playful and fanciful. just like her! :)
what are your muse's favorite scents, and what do they associate them with?
with anica's fondness and centuries of found sanctuary in the depth of the forest, fresh scents of oakmoss, pine, and cypress provide a great deal of familiar comfort for her. in that same vein, along with it's sacred properties, she also loves the scent of white sage, of rosemary, and earthy scents of church incense.
continuing with natural scents, i need to also mention her country's vibrant array of alpine meadows and the pungent flowers. small, but intense in colour and scent, sparkling with dew in the first light of the dawn. lady’s bedstraw, balkan peonies (ofc), bellflowers and edelweiss.
yeah, not classic bouquet flowers at all; much too small. well, except the booming bloom of the peony. that isn't to say that anica doesn't like conventional scents such as orchid or rose or anything like that! she loves them! but there's something so special about those particular little wildflowers. a beauty not everyone is aware of, the conflict between wanting to proudly boast it, but also to keep it all for herself. there's something sacred in that, too.
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mars1pb · 1 year
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My two characters that I will animate, I drew a cute little hell hound and thought of a idea to make him fascinated with light so I did a firefly as a little creature it tries to catch and eat. I tested out a few poses and tried to do some perspective practice as I struggle a lot with perspective angles in drawings, I might try to use different angles to add more motion and movement to the animation. I also used a different style for this one, I normally draw creepy things in a painterly style but that would be really hard to animate so I tried my best to draw it in a simple sketchy way with detail but not added too much and actually really love how it looks.
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captainsensible0 · 2 years
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Personal Statement
I have been a keen photographer since I was in my early teens when my mother bought me a 126 Kodak camera. I was forever snapping away but apart from some record shots never really tried to use the camera as an artistic tool. It wasn’t until I purchased my first SLR when in my early 20s that I tried to introduce a more artistic theme in my photography. However, due to other commitments, over the years most of my photos were of my children and family members at special occasions or holidays. When digital cameras arrived on the scene I was an early adopter and rekindled my love of photography. I purchased my first proper DSLR around 12 years ago and primarily used it to take team photos for the local football league for use in the local paper but alongside that I started to get more interested in other areas of photography but just couldn’t find the time to do it properly. 
I joined a local camera club a few years ago and for my sins I am now chief cook and bottlewasher virtually running the small club single handedly. As we have decided to limit membership to a dozen or so members it doesn’t really impact on my time. Being a member of the camera club has introduced me to many photographic genres and as a result I am much more aware of other’s styles. One of the positives of the influence of my activities at the club is that I have been able to fully develop a style of my own. An additional benefit is that I have been able to try new things.
My wife also enjoys photography and we often make special trips specifically to take photographs. This allows me to get out and about a lot more than I otherwise would be able to.
I retired from work in early 2018 and decided to follow up my interest in photography by starting on my path towards my final goal of achieving a degree by signing up for a photography qualification at Dumfries and Galloway College. I have learned a lot from the courses I have completed so far and have also thoroughly enjoyed working in the dark room even if I struggle sometimes to get the 120 film onto the spool. Over the past 10 years or so I have put together a small collection of old medium format and 35mm cameras to add to my original 35mm SLRs. 
I particularly like fine art photography especially in the old painterly style and am developing my skills using a dark box that I have made. By pursuing this avenue I believe I will learn a lot about control of light and composition. I also like making monochrome portraits and I plan to pursue this path alongside the fine art work. I plan to use my Mamiya TLR to shoot these on film in the future. 
Eventually I would like to be in the position to pass any knowledge I have acquired through my experiences to others and hope to undertake some form of teaching after my degree course is finished. This may involve obtaining a teaching qualification after hopefully achieving my target of a photography degree. 
As the saying goes you are never too old to learn and I look forward to attending Cumbria University to continue on that path if I am lucky enough to be accepted for the course. 
I have added some recent work to this blog and to be honest I have had to cull many other images that I would have like to have shared. The images I have posted have a broad range. This has been done on purpose to hopefully show the stage I’m at. I have many action, nature and others from different genres that I have not posted.
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saeiken · 3 years
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[ID: A digital drawing of Caduceus from Critical Role. He is drawn from the shoulders up, and is wearing a blue winter coat over a green shirt. His hair is cut short, with one side shaved. He is looking off with a content expression.]
I had to draw the new hair, I love the bob so much
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some fan art for merch that i desperately want but cannot have
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Hi :) Your face ups are wonderful! Do you have any tips for ag doll face ups? I notice yours seem to have additional coloring over the nose, upper cheeks, and forehead, and the smaller, more painterly freckles and detailed brows also lend to the lifelike look. Do you use any specific techniques or references to get these effects?
From, @doll-princesse
I'm so sorry I haven't responded to this until now @doll-princesse! Life has been getting in the way.
My tips for face ups:
Look at a lot of pictures of people who have the features you want for your doll. I went through a lot of pics of young girls to study their coloring, and tons of people with freckles to try to get the patterns right.
I do blushing (hand applied watercolor, no brush) on the nose and upper cheeks, and a bit more lightly on the forehead, bridge of nose, chin and center of the upper lip. I also like to do similar blushing on elbows and knees so the body matches the face better.
The freckles are a mix of techniques because most people don't have freckles all the same size, shape, and shade. I use a toothpick dipped in a warm brown shade of acrylic paint (nutmeg brown) because I've found it looks best. I've tried cooler colors and they don't look quite right. The amount of paint you have on the end of the toothpick will determine the size of the freckle. Generally, I'll tap the end of the toothpick on the face until there’s no more paint (starting with the nose and upper cheeks because that's where people get the most sun, and therefore freckles) and lightly tap with my fingers to blend them. Then I'll add some that I don't touch, for contrast.
The brows are just done with a basic feathering technique, short strokes starting from the root going to the tip of each hair. In a lot of cases (like Safira's below), I'll leave the original eyebrows in place as a guide and sketch over them. It helps to use more than one color and, unless I'm working on a doll with very light blonde coloring, I use a mix of watercolor pencils in black, warm brown, and white. I start with brown or black first, and just a few lines of white for highlights.
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shatouto · 3 years
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Yo!! I recently got into obikin, and I love your blog!! Do you have any recommendations for obikin blogs/writers/artists I could follow?
thank you, and welcome!! ah shit, this is gonna be difficult to compile but i hope i can at least give you a starting point! in no particular order because my brain is goldfish
okay so, obikin starter pack: check out the obikin server tumblr blog right here @obikins and get your discord invite! everybody is super nice and friendly and so so so creative 💕
RIGHT SO, i’ll be reccing tumblr blogs and ao3 accounts a handful of people whose tumblr i dont know or am not sure if i can reveal!
star wars blog: @gffa - gen star wars stuff, VERY COOL META especially if you’re pro-jedi and or wanna read more on interpretations of the Force and stuff, lots of reference materials too; and yes they are also obikin. this was probably one of the first blogs i follow on here i think!
writers:
@obiwanobi amazing senator kenobi content, also just, amazing writing in general
@tree-scapes (ao3) honestly one of my favorite authors ever, her writing style just hits different ya know
@unspuncreature (ao3) they write lesbian obikin and such vivid sensual thoughtful writing hgngn it is imperative that you check out their fics!!!
@glimmerglanger (ao3) the most delicious top notch bottom obi content i honestly just- aaahh
@himboskywalker (ao3) plEASE check out her obikin tag and FICS!! SUCH VIVID SEXY WRITING
@intermundia (ao3) a lot of obikin content and classics too if you’re interested in that!!!
@xeniaraven (ao3) loooots of great nsfw fics
cataclysm_dialogue writes lots of wonderful smut too but i don’t know if they’d wanna reveal their tumblr name
same for is0lde - who writes really pretty flowery smut and makes the best analogies
ghostwriterofthemachine i am currently DYING FOR her poet obikin fic, gorgeous writer really
@professorkenobi this ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE GEM run by @luckee (ao3) and @theseptemberist (ao3) who also write fics separately!
@jasontoddiefor (ao3) amazing talented writer with lots of wonderful gen fics and such great great great concepts. check out @dai-bendu-conlang too if you’re into constructed languages!!
ghost_owl still the writer who wrote the best kiss i’ve ever read and i will never shut up about this
wanderlove PLEASE CHECK EM OUT god i love their fic
@shywhitemoose (ao3) amazing writer who is also a great artist!!
@jamesttiberius (ao3) GOD AMAZING WRITING LHSDKJ I HONESTLY WILL NEVER GET OVER THEIR SOFT CANONVERSE SLICE OF LIFE
@maragny (ao3) aaahh really really sweet soft fics i love <3
@sonderwalker (ao3) lots of soft hurt/comfort fics too <33
@izazov (ao3) such great ideas, i love them <3
@anakinspraisekink (ao3) writes really sweet smut!
artists:
@new-anon i think they draw more than just obikin but their art style is really to die for!
@quiet-oracle really really sweet painterly style
@daisanfar you’ve gotta check em out, i love their art style so much, i adore <33
@coldishcasecreates (ao3) wait he’s also a writer so he belongs to the other category too- man im bad at this. but yeah, really witty content creator!
@kuzuyu427 is an amazing artist with a very sweet art style
@iamurako is also a super great artist with such a great art style and humorous scenarios
@jswander (ao3) another amazing artist AND writer pls check em out!! also writes the softest squick content i am not kidding
@raijikaru ohhh soft art and great lighting <33
@tomicaleto their mini AU keeps me ALIVE- oh wait i think they also write! (sorry, again im terrible at this)
@mashimero (ao3) another super talented artist-writer combo!!
@a-smiling-travesty her art style is so so soft and i just- adore <333
@unpheenix (ao3) yet another double menace artist-writer!! their art style is so recognizable, i love it, and mmm many delicious AUs
okay i think i’ve exhausted my brain capacity for the day. im sorry if i missed anyone, i tried my best to include every content creator that i know is active!! i hope you have a good time in the fandom anon!! you’re gonna be here forever
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parkkennypark · 4 years
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The evolution of my personal style:
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The evolution of my personal style:
I was organizing my office and came across some older artwork of mine. It occurred to me how much my personal style has evolved over the years.
For the record, I don’t think styles usually evolve in a tidy narrative like the one you’ll read below. But I did see real shifts in my thinking and wanted to map them for you here.
2003 - Concept art for “Class of the Titans”: These were part of a larger pitch package that landed me the job as lead character designer on an animated series. It was one of my first jobs out of school. I was always interested in how I could bring western animation and anime sensibilities together — and characters with big feet were in at the time.
2005 - Production art for “Class of the Titans”: A refinement of the previous aesthetic. I’m streamlining shapes and getting a lot more confident in my posing. (Not shown: feet were definitely getting smaller at this point).
2007 - Personal work: This was the height of my “angular” style. I was strangely obsessed with the hipster/American Apparel aesthetic and drawing people in their underwear. Also, every character needed to have heavy eyelids — a result of all the imaginary late-night partying and forced irony.
2008 to 2012 - Not shown: Sort of a fallow period in my personal art journey. I was doing lots of professional storyboarding work in animation but basically stopped producing personal work.
2013 - Personal work: I took half a year off from animation to get back into producing my own art. This period was somewhat painful. I could see how large the gap was between the kind of work I wanted to produce and what my skills allowed. This piece was one of the first full-colour illustrations I attempted after years of only doing rough storyboards. Looking at this now I can see that I didn’t understand the importance of line weight, considered shapes, and the use of color and detail to draw the viewer’s focus.
2014 - Personal work: In these three works I was trying to use more colour and light while exploring new aesthetics. In the third image from 2014, part of my “Hermès” series, I tried to take a Tadahiro Uesugi style of painting and marry it with the shapes and compositions I was developing. In the second, “Man on the Train,” I was trying to understand how concept and symbols raise the editorial quality of one’s illustration.
2015 - Arts&Style cover for the Washington Post: This was around the time I discovered the work of Tomer Hanuka, which blew my mind. It’s had a lasting influence on the way I approach figures and shapes.
2016 to 2018: A continuation of the exploration I started in 2014.
2019 - Personal work: This best represents where I am today. Having experimented with more painterly styles in the past I’m now more interested in creating the same illusion of depth and light with flat colours and subtle gradients. The angular shapes and big feet are all but gone.
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deebrisbyfish · 2 years
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The rendered colors for the next cover to Finding Dee. I'm not really much of a colorist, all things considered, but I tried to do something fun here by using the rendering styles I've used with color for all the different characters here. Marjorie has the faux-printing dots as shadowing as I did in her strips. The Dandy & Company characters are more cartoon shaded. In the background, Giant Girl has the duotone style lines for her shadowing to capture the style I use for that comic. Zoe and Sebastian, Apparition and cartoon ME all share the same slightly painterly rendering approach with a little rim lighting. Hopefully it pushes the visual of the different styles I work in for different projects, as that was a theme in the strips that will be in this collection. Hope you enjoy. :)
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bulkhummus · 2 years
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5, 9, 19, 21 for the artist asks!
5. favorite little detail in a drawing you did!
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estebans reactions in this ENTIRE comic
9. any new art mediums youve tried (or overall styles if you havent tried new mediums)
ive been fooling around with how to color/paint my drawings. ive been leaning toward a more painterly style, but i hope to keep experimenting. i dont like feeling locked into styles.
19. any collabs youve done/would want to do?
i didn’t do any this year i dont think? I did some loose art trades which were fun! and i am doing a cecil/carlos book cover drawing rn thats part of a shared idea. id be down to collab with someone in the future! Id love to draw scenes from a fic or something if i have the time
21. what do you want to work on the most next?
id love to find a balance between color and light, and how i can use color to convey light. i am also trying to work on grounds (bgs) and not just putting characters in empty spaces on more labor intensive pieces. even if its more graphic/mark making as opposed to an environment or setting. i have comic strips coming, so i will have lots of practice with that too which is v exciting!
thank you💕
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pacific-rimbaud · 3 years
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45 and narcissa x remus (recissa? black wolf? blupin?)
Drabble #45: “Tell me a secret.”
Asylum Seekers
by PacificRimbaud
Pairing: Remus Lupin x Narcissa Black Malfoy
Tags: Angst, infidelity, brief blood, suggestions of violence, swearing, mild sexual content (Rated M) 
On AO3
Fall, 1978
The line to fucking another man’s wife is neither a straight nor a moral one. Would it help if I told you that of the two of us, I might be the werewolf, but the monster, unequivocally, is him?
Fucking is the furthest thing from my mind when I see her for the first time since she left school—four, maybe five years before I did. Hollow-boned and apprehensive as a hedgerow bird, she sits with one white hand splayed open on the surface of the table and the other one in her lap, like she’s waiting for one of us to serve her.
Sirius rounds the corner from Andromeda’s kitchen carrying three fingers of Ogden’s, no ice, in a cut crystal glass and sets it down, slow and noiseless, as though she’ll bolt at the sound of the contact.
She picks up the glass with the hand she’s keeping out in the open, drains it, and does it again the moment Sirius refills it.
She smells like whiskey and blood.
Arms looped around her own waist, Andromeda leans in the door frame, Moody talking close at her ear.
The sisters are representative works by the same artist, in two different moods. Andromeda is taller and more substantial: dark, warm and still, a heavy-canopied forest in an abundant summer. Narcissa is hard daylight and the sharp, mythical line of a distant peak, white-capped in perennial snow.
Her eyes are her sole submission to softness; between hers and Andromeda’s, Narcissa’s are the warmer iteration of blue.
Moody mumbles, his face erased of everything but formless intensity, and Andromeda’s vision fixes on Narcissa’s pale, restless hand, the pads of her fingers lighting on the table again, preparing themselves to take flight.
Andromeda mutters, and then she moves, palming something from Moody and taking a seat beside her sister at the scrubbed dining table.
“They’d like you to take this." Her voice comes in at a crawling crescendo, pianissimo to mezzo-piano, then retreats.
She places a vial on the table: Veritaserum, in olive green glass with a tiny cork.
Narcissa pulls in a breath, filling her belly and then her chest, and then she bends away in violent submission toward the floor, her gut belatedly rejecting what I identify as several days of nothing but booze.
Ted arrives at her elbow before she’s finished, carrying a glass of water.
Two glasses, one wet cloth to her mouth, and a full minute later, and Narcissa tips the cork from the top of the vial with her thumb, and drinks it down.
“What do you want to know?”
Her voice is scraped and austere, wounded with whiskey and sick and some other interior, mechanical insult: crying, or screaming, or both.
“Tell the rest of us what you told your sister,” says Moody, turning a chair around at the table and straddling the seat.
Narcissa’s right hand rises from her lap.
For a moment I think she’s wearing an elbow-length glove, like she’s come from a formal ball.
But she’s dressed in nothing more than a thin satin slip, lace-edged, with narrow strings for straps, skating over her unrelenting leanness, either black or dark, dark green.
It's not a glove.
She’s slicked from her fingertips to the curve of her inner elbow with dried and drying blood, a lavish, painterly layer, thick and congealed. It’s an opaque garment of gore, covering everything but a row of four lines where her weakly pigmented skin shows through, like someone has grasped her arm, then drawn their fingers away.
I don’t understand why she looks at me. Between her sister, her cousin, her brother by a hated marriage, Moody and Alice Longbottom nipping at her thumbnail by the window, she settles her wide warm eyes on me.
I watch the tide rise inside her.
I watch it breach the barrier.
I watch her flood.
She closes her glazed fist loosely, fingertips touching her thumb, in the way you would make a compassionate cage of your fingers to carry an injured bird.
“I tried to help.”
*
She has a flat in Muggle London that her husband knows nothing about.
It’s small, purchased with her private money in another name. She only has two rooms and a bath, but she’s cleaned it with magic, repaired it, made it sharp and neat and softened it with pale fabrics, made it private, and made it her own.
“Why me?”
It’s the first thing I say, after I’ve come through the door, and just before she closes it behind me.
She doesn’t answer straight away. Instead she pours herself a gin from a cupboard in the galley kitchen, and asks me whether I’d like one. I would, but I tell her no, thank you, and she sits on her sofa, ankles crossed underneath her thighs, and tells me why I’m here.
“Because of the way that Sirius looks at you.”
“And how is that?”
There is so little in the way of the unintentional to her that it’s unnerving.
The tilt of her head isn’t a tick or a quirk. It’s a communication.
I could press the issue, but she and I would both understand the deflection.
Call it what you will in another language, in English there’s only one word for love.
For Sirius, and for me, I believe it’s enough.
“Why not him? Andromeda?”
She’s amused by me.
I can’t help but wonder what else she delights in.
Her hair falls over her shoulder, iced gold against the fabric of her white wool jumper, while I draw a plan of Malfoy Manor to her specifications.
The entry. Staircase. Ballroom. Drawing room. The room where she sleeps. The one Lucius keeps for himself.
Where Tom Riddle lays his head down on the nights he stays.
Where else he might be found.
I don’t push for more than she gives me.
When it’s time to go, I roll the diagram, shrink it down, and shove it into the bottom of my trouser pocket next to my wand.
“Thank you,” I say. “For your honesty.”
It makes her laugh.
*
The next time I meet her in her flat, it’s uncomfortably close to a full moon, and I half gag on the smells of two different men clinging to her body.
She’s washed with an intensely herbal soap, but underneath that is a tinge of nervous sweat, and every unctuous, enzymatic marker of sex.
We cover things the Order already knows, and that she knows we know, but we both understand the nature and necessity of what we’re doing.
It’s safer for her, I think, to start slow, without fully understanding why I would care.
“Good luck to you,” she says while my hand finds the doorknob.
She doesn’t bite her lip. There is never a twist to her mouth.
She’s practiced to rote. Her performance of herself is without error.
I turn halfway around.
“Thank you.”
“Of course.”
*
I spend the hours of my turning in a vast, borderless desert of physical suffering.
I map it with my own blood, and by the time I wake, it’s a void I can’t recall.
*
“Try this next time.”
She sets a pot of ointment that I can’t afford on the table in front of me.
I leave it behind when I go.
*
She keeps rare and beautiful wines that I refuse to drink.
When I arrive at night on a Wednesday, two months into our regular, irregular meetings, she’s so glassy with ethanol that I nearly leave.
I don’t think about what she wears at home.
When she’s here, she dresses down, in satin trousers and jumpers that fall away from her lustrous white shoulders.
I wonder if this is home.
The surface of her wine rolls and coats the interior of her glass as she lowers herself to sit.
My gut pings with anxiety at the unnecessary closeness, but then she leans away, and rests her head on the leather arm of the sofa while her knees fold against the back.
“I’m going to tell you about death,” she says.
I hear the wine on her breath, and lick my own lips.
I take names, where she recalls them. Where she doesn’t, I make ticks beside dates and locations.
She finishes a bottle, and opens another, her thin arms flexing with the turn of a Muggle bottle opener.
Does she feel safe here? With her magical signature tucked away with her wand? It’s folded between the pages of a day-old newspaper, on the table beside a wingback chair neither of us ever sits in. She never so much as glances in its direction.
Half the new bottle disappears inside her.
“He smells like blood when he comes to my bed.” Her performance falters. “Every time.”
I realize, too late, that the curtain has lowered, and that the house lights have come on.
I’m not prepared to see her this way.
“Which one?” I ask.
She smiles, her mouth a narrow bow.
“All of them.”
*
I walk home in the dark, staring at my hands.
I feel an urge, sharp and angular and immediate, that can I only explain as the opposite of sexual hunger.
What I want is for my palm against her flesh to cancel and negate every other hand that arrived there before it.
I would smooth my skin against every inch of her.
Outside, and in.
I’m not angry. I don’t know what I am.
I won’t touch her for the world.
I’m desperate for her to ask me to.
*
“I can’t be her handler anymore.” I can’t look at Moody when I say it.
*
A week later, Moody glares at me over the rim of a soup spoon. “She won’t speak to anyone else.”
*
I emerge from my next change three kilos lighter.
I couldn’t afford one of them.
In the mirror in the bath, I run my fingertips through the bloody trenches of my ribs.
*
“Oh,” I say, dumbly. “You’ve cooked.”
I haven’t seen her since her last drop a month ago, and I’m grateful for the smell of garlic and onions, seeped into everything and overwhelming whatever secrets her body keeps failing to keep from me.
Standing at the Muggle range, she holds a spoon out over her cupped palm.
It’s more shocking than anything she’s ever done.
I open my mouth, and think, briefly, about the weight of a pomegranate seed.
My mouth blooms.
*
I don’t know what I need. I look for it inside the cunts of the women I meet in the discos of Muggle London.
They’re sweet, and warm, and smell like cocaine and strong perfume and laboratory hormones, and they feel fine.
They feel fine.
Sometimes when I’m inside them, I think about white-blonde hair and narrow hips.
I think about the time I saw her wearing a single red glove, ending at the inside of her elbow. 
When I’m looking for what I need inside of other women, I think about her.
I’m looking for her.
*
“You’re moving too fucking much,” says Moody, never once looking up from his parchment. “Go out.”
He doesn’t make suggestions.
So I go.
The gleaming street reeks of urban petrichor, and the steady incursion of moisture tells me about a new hole in the right side of my left boot.
I’m waxing gibbous inside, something I’ve never tried to explain, but it encompasses something like an unreachable itch, and an ache in the marrow, and a skin-crawling restlessness that I’ve tried exorcising through bone-jarring movement and gallons of liquor, by screaming in train yards and flattening the cilia inside my ears with catastrophic decibels of music, through aggressive sex that turns me into someone I no longer know.
I dance, curled into the form of a brunette with silver eye shadow and no knickers under her shining nylon dress.
I’m stretching my own skin, ready to hurry up the inevitability of what I can already smell between us, when I see her.
She’s wearing a tight silver dress and a glamour that would fool nine out of ten wizards.
Dark hair, dark lips, dark eyes. She’s left her breasts unchanged. Left the unpadded divots of her ribs beneath her constricting dress. Left the perfect lines of her long, long legs.
I follow her out when she goes, and at the mouth of an alleyway I stop five paces behind her, and call out her name.
*
She’s already pulling at the frame of my belt buckle, but she does ask.
When I fuck her for the first time, against a brick wall behind a bin full of wet newspaper, she’s wearing a face that doesn’t belong to her.
I smooth my hands up her thighs.
I slide my fingers through the pulse of damp between her legs.
I erase anything she needs me to.
*
“Was it—”
I’m barely through the door.
An hour later, I wonder if I’ve ever been naked next to a woman.
I have.
I never have.
She lets me in again.
And then again.
Then again.
“Don’t come here if you smell like another man.”
I say it while I’m inside.
She takes shallow, open-mouthed breaths.
“That’s not fair.”
“I know. But I don’t care.”
I extract promises she can’t keep from her flesh while it quivers below mine.
*
While my bones construct a wolf from the materials of a man, I leave my body behind me, howling in a voice that isn’t mine.
I find my way into a dream about the scent of her hair, soaked through with both of our sweat.
“Tell me a secret.” Her open mouth lands against the skin of my belly and then slides closed, a gorging, formless kiss. She skirts my aching cock with a generous deliberation. “I’ve told you all of mine.”
“Not all of them,” I say.
I’m panting like a dog, sweating through sheets we ruined three hours ago.
She looks up at me, hair draped over one warm blue eye, the perfect proportions of her mouth still sliding beside my cock, her legs wrapped around my calf, her knickers slipping against my thigh.
*
I wrap her secrets in a bow, and pass them along to those who can use them.
I keep my hands buried in her hair.
I keep her secrets for myself.
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