#laudofthedeep

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per the ask game, 25. this is a callout post

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

hey im getting better!!! i actually do use references now. but unfortunately not super interesting ones the fbi would just think i'm really into dance photography and staring at half-dressed men

artist ask game

#splashasks #laudofthedeep #hotguy calendar forcing me to learn anatomy :pensive:

[businesstiramisu]

you’ve got the order backwards in Japanese, it should be キーウィの金曜日

Thank you!

#anime titles have led me astray on whether word order matters when using の as a possessive particle #japanese #grammar #h/t to shacklesburst and laudofthedeep too who pointed this out in reblogs

[theforumcat]

You have a second account. Do you know how to ask questions from it? I have created one but can't figure out how to and I have already been discovered! (https://www.tumblr.com/laudofthedeep/721737315050995712/one-of-you-gets-it)

I don’t think I do have a second account. I have sideblogs, but that’s different, and you can’t send asks from them.

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this one’s just for me, do tma’s resident weasel-man elias bouchard

well would u look at that. another bingo

#(solemnly) this goddamn bitch #what a guy #splashasks #laudofthedeep #tma spoilers

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wait can you explain what you mean by being a marine biologist magnet. is there evidence for this

it’s mostly a joke but also i keep becoming friends with them. it’s happened too much to be a coincidence. at this point if i really hit it off with someone i just assume they watch nautilus live streams in their free time.

#tumblr users @laudofthedeep and @exopelagic do u care to comment on the phenomenon 🎤 #clearly there’s some kind of common denominator between the appeal of me and the appeal of fish #splashasks #anonymous

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tma entities as old chat screenshots i apparently collected in an album on my phone for some reason

the flesh:

the slaughter:

the hunt:

the desolation:

the buried:

the dark:

the end:

the lonely:

the vast:

the corruption:

the eye:

the spiral:

the web:

the stranger:

#tma #top ten signs topsy is supposed to be doing tasks #tma spoilers #also i need everyone to know credit for that last one goes to tumblr user @laudofthedeep #i can’t let that one go unsigned it’s one of the funniest things someones ever said to me

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This is an old conversation I know, but I'm curious: do you also get annoyed with epithets in published works? Or is it just the flippant and repetitive use of them in fanfic that's frustrating beyond belief?

referring to this post

i actually ended up getting in a fairly in-depth conversation with @laudofthedeep about this because he doesn’t read fanfiction and had no idea what i was talking about, the conclusion we came to was that it’s possible to use epithets unobtrusively (which is more likely to be the case in published works), but also because i do read fanfiction my threshold for ‘unobtrusive’ is WAY lower than it would be otherwise.

so basically flippant and repetitive use of epithets in fanfiction have raised my baseline frustration with them across the board, even in some cases where it’s not really fair.

#splashasks #amaraudermind

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What is the Askewniverse? It looks very cool. Is it yours?

it is mine, yeah! askewniverse is, as of now, mostly a large and elaborately interwoven pile of lore that me and @laudofthedeep like to rotate in our minds and occasionally write or draw for when the mood strikes. i have a tag for it on here you can scroll through if you’d like, but i haven’t been very consistent with posting about it since it’s pretty much just a thing i work on for fun

#splashasks #anonymous #askewniverse #always happy to answer questions but i genuinely don’t think i’ve posted enough information for people to even HAVE questions yet #i am literally just vibing

[theforumcat]

Hi! How does one make side blogs? I want to send laudofthedeep.tumblr.com pictures of crabs very sporadically. And then maybe links. (tumblr.com/laudofthedeep/715801831188643840)

Excellent plan. Dunno why you’re doing this but 10/10

I don’t remember. I do know it isn’t very hard though? I made my last sideblog like five or six years ago I think so I am not much help

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okay this has no relevance to anything but im fixating on it right now: how the HELL does any artist do clothing folds and creases. do they just put those things wherever they feel like and hope it looks right? do clothes crinkle in a consistent pattern i have yet to notice? this has baffled me for years

well as with a lot of art things the Correct answer is ‘observe, practice, do photo studies’ but you know full well i don’t do that. i am consequently not The Greatest at clothing folds, but i HAVE spent a greater than average proportion of my life thinking about how cloth moves, so i have some thoughts and can elaborate a bit. however my most useful advice probably boils down to ‘if you get stumped try to find an artist that did something similar to what you’re going for and try to emulate their style’

again, i’m not claiming to be an expert here, but speaking for myself the short answer to your question is ‘i mentally simulate the material i’m drawing and approximate the effect of the movement i’m imagining on the folds of the cloth’. the cool thing is that different types of fabric move differently, and you need to account for that when drawing it. i can already tell i’m not going to be able to put this into words very well, so i’ll include a bunch of examples like i did with the shoe tutorial

obviously stretchy, tight clothes are the easiest (think leggings, superhero costumes, etc) but second place probably goes to well-fitted button-ups and slacks with little to no stretch in them. with this cloth it’s just a matter of figuring out points of tension and moving out from there

these types of clothes are basically just 2 dimensional planes cut into specific shapes and manipulated through the third dimension. all you have to account for in figuring out how they fold is gravity and the position of the person wearing them, and you don’t really have to conceptualize them with any thickness or stretch.

looser fitting things like tunics and dresses are harder, but you still don’t have to account for stretch or thickness most of the time. zoe’s dress here, for example: it’s structured and folds almost geometrically when she moves, with lots of thin straight lines. (also you can see here how i really am sorta making things up, all the lines i’ve made are just suggesting folds and movement, nothing too exact)

because you now have more environmental factors to account for flowier cloth can be tricky, but if you get good instincts for how it moves it’s really good for communicating dynamic action, like how here the wind is plastering his tunic to the front of him and billowing it out behind him:

this drawing is actually a pretty good example of several different types of clothes. jason’s shirt is form-fitting and has stretch, it barely folds at all. his pants aren’t as tight, the fabric in those folds according to the way he moves, but the fabric still doesn’t have much thickness to it. his jacket has no significant stretch to it, but it’s both thick and soft, so on someone with a frame too small to properly fit it bunches up with a lot of softer shapes and almost ‘loops’ at joints, and the little girl’s dress has a lot of fabric to it but is just draping, because she’s not really moving much here

the same leather jacket on jason has a lot less drape to it and is honestly way easier to draw lmao

a good thing to remember with this is if you have a more abstract/cartoonish art style like mine its usually better to aim for ‘doesn’t look wrong’ than ‘technically correct’, which i myself could stand to keep in mind more if i’m being honest. people don’t tend to really Look at things unless they look wrong

…and as usual when i try to explain how i draw things i can’t tell if any of this is even the slightest bit useful, but hopefully getting some insight into how i think about stuff is at least kinda interesting. if anyone has specific follow up questions feel free to hmu 

#given that i’ve been into superheroes recently i’ve been getting kind of a break from having to put much critical thought into clothing fold #s in exchange for suddenly needing to get much better at anatomy #splashasks #laudofthedeep #long post #mumbling #someone remind me later to make a tutorial tag

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history of undiagnosed adhd and authority figures keen on making that everyone’s problem

dude that was like instantaneous leave some armchair psychology for the rest of my followers jfc

#splashasks #laudofthedeep #Guy Who Knows Too Much #kidding i’m kidding i know how much you really know this is nothing

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callout post @laudofthedeep i send him a song out of friendship and the goodness of my heart and what does he do. he murders me in cold blood

#this would not be nearly as devastating if he wasn’t right #something something what is a king to a god what is spotify wrapped to a priest #also for anyone curious #the blank section in the worship corner is because i lose the ability to enjoy any song that explicitly mentions The Lord #mumbling

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I don't know laudofthedeep but I know they're a priest and I think that's context enough to make the cosmic romance post funnier

^^^

#splashasks #anonymous