#well as flat as my usual art goes lol

[blue-unifox]

#follow for more silly doodles #spoilers for pyre and transistor i guess? #pyre #pyre supergiant #transistor #supergiant games #red transistor #sandra pyre #the reader #reader (pyre) #my art #reader isnt rly silent but i see them as being pretty quiet overall so it still counts #its been a while since ive done something so simple and flat #well as flat as my usual art goes lol #ive been listening to sgg songs nonstop for these past few days and something just occured to me and yeah

[exocynraku]

Hullo! Do you have any tips on just coming up with designs and markings and how to colour those designs/lines without making stuff clash? You're always able to make such creative and nicely made designs and I'm curious if you have anything you get inspiration off of and how you're able to colour your marking lines so smoothly?

i would make a nice image tutorial like i did yesterday but i do Not have the time to Sadly so you get words instead colouring lineart: colouring the lineart is easy peasy lemon squeezy. you gotta wait until youve FINISHED the colouring to do this part. okay, so, for the characters ACTUAL LINEART, when i draw their legs & tail & face & whatnot, i colourpick the DARKEST colour on the character, whether it be in their markings, eyes, accessories, or whatever. and then i take that colour and make it just... a LOT darker! and maybe shift the hue around aswell (ex: if the character was mostly yellow/cream i'd give them orange or red lines)! and then for the MARKING LINES i take the darkest MARKING. ignore the accessories and characters eyes they dont matter JUST pick the darkest coloured marking. and then make THAT darker, but not as much as you did the actual lineart!! you can also change the hue on this :3 how i come up with designs + inspirations: hmm well i'm going to be honest with you i don't exactly know how i come up with my designs? a lot of it just comes from how i picture the character in my head! especially if its a warrior cat design! i don't tend to stray away from those thoughts unless i picture them as like stupidly boring LOL ! inspirations is a biiit tricky, but i guess i kind of just look at a LOAD of other warrior cats animations & art, and uh! anime! lol! looking at how other people draw cats has gotten me better at drawing anatomy & whatnot, and watching various animes is why i started giving my cats hair lol! it's kind of hard for me to explain like, my EXACT process on why & how i design certain characters im sorryyyy x'''P i would if i could but literally 90& of is me drawing whatever and then thinking 'does this look good' and then saying yes or no LOL how i colour my designs: similarly to how i DO my designs, it's a lot of my just asking myself if it Looks Good or not, but there are a few things i do! a lot of designs i do i jump around the colour wheel a LOT! hue wise, i mean. i think i've managed to find different ways to use every single colour on the colour wheel lol! blues and greens and purples are good for greys & blacks, blues & yellows & oranges are good for white/ light markings, red & orange & yellow & purple are good for brown cats, etc etc etc! the other main thing is layer effects! sooo like if i draw a character but i'm not super happy with their colours, i find it hard & annoying to fiddle around and change each colour individually, so instead i make layer above the colouring, set it to one flat colour, and go through all/most of the layer options (like multiply, linear burn, lighten, glow dodge, difference, subtract, the list goes on) and find something i like! and then i usually do that a BUNCH of times with ALL sorts of different colours until the character ends up looking good!

also hi mossy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope this helps maybe? if you wanna get specific with another question, or maybe send some images (u can here on tumblr or message me where ever) then id love 2 help more!!!! this goes for anyone, i'll always accept art-help/tips/how i do things questions lol!

#ray talk

[kiisaes]

Hey, i’d like to hear some of your bakudeku/katsudeku headcannons since i saw some and they’re so cute😭💞i love your art so much, it’s amazingg keep it up!!

ty !!! 🙏

I'll be honest I don't really have any headcanons off the top of my head. I have to think really hard about those I like but usually I can point at a preexisting one and go "haha yes I like this one" without thinking of it myself =v=

I think my biggest hc rn - and it's kind of controversial bc ik ppl have different opinions on it - is that deku is just flat out gay. like that's his sexuality, he only likes men. I used to hc him as bi and I campaigned pretty hard for it, and regarding fandom ships I still don't mind shipping him with girls. (tbh with fandom ships, I kind of just disregard a character's sexuality hc entirely bc I'm a multishipper who thinks crack ships are fucking great.)

but vibe wise, as well as putting canon into perspective, he just feels so gay to me. he screams comphet. he's got some vague internalized homophobia where he's totally supportive if u're gay, but HE'S not gay. and there's no way he can be even though he very well could be. like just think about it. he was really only so shy and nervous around girls bc he's literally never interacted with one casually before high school. and after he got close to 1A and could, you know, talk to women, he lost any deeper attraction in them. literally what happened with him and ochako. that's just how I feel anyway, but he won't admit his natural drift towards men (bkg) and his emotional hangups on men (bkg). he hangs out with men (bkg) way too much for him to have any serious interest in women imo

anyway this is just my take, you can hc deku as whatever sexuality you want!!! I still think bi deku has so much flavor like yass be the disaster bi u were meant to be!!! but gay deku just speaks more to me nowadays, I guess

ok upon thinking long and hard, I have come up with these silly hcs as well:

they are both bad at verbalizing their feelings. dk is overall horrible with emotions that pertain to himself so he just doesn't dwell on his very obvious crush on bkg. he just thinks that it's normal to be obsessed with another man. like lol hes been doing it since he was a baby. it's not anything more. he is NOT gay. straight men can appreciate everything about another man and more! just bestie things! and bkg has accepted in his heart that he is gay for dk but u are NOT going to hear him say it. sorry but that man does not know how to even start a convo about this. he'd probably want to, but knows he'd fuck it up and dk would miss the point. he'd probably just tell dk to fight him and then make out somewhere down the line bc it's easier and less embarrassing to him. little does he know, HE'S embarrassing and I hate him.

so u know the whole "bkg is an early bird and dk is a night owl" hc? and how it's technically canonically wrong? yeah. I'm obsessed with how wrong it is. bkg going to bed early and waking up late is so real of him. he just really fucking loves to sleep, and dk is the exact opposite. man goes to bed late and wakes up at 5 in the morning. he gets like 3 hours of sleep maximum and he's functioning perfectly. god I wish I were him

that one adhd vs autism meme but it's bkdk. u get to choose which ones which. maybe they're both

dk has dimples, one on each cheek! maybe bkg has one too. who knows

this is one I just thought of right now but it's like. part of the fandom bible that bkg can cook and dk cannot. however. I think dk can cook ok - fine enough to sustain himself - but bake REALLY WELL. bkg can cook bc he's "a natural" who can easily figure out exactly how to cook and spice foods. he doesnt need to follow a recipe to a T, he can just figure it out himself. dk can bake bc I'd imagine baking, with their meticulous recipe requirements, are easier to comprehend for him. he takes a shitton of notes on the daily, u can't tell me he'll eagerly read and jot down shit so his pastries turn out well. he'd prefer following step by step than winging it. does this make sense. words are hard

I always like drawing bkdk pretty close in height. ik lots of bkdks like a height difference but I prefer when rivals are pretty equal, and that includes how tall they are

dk's hands are coarser than bkg's, except around the palms, where bkg canonically has thick skin (so I'd assume there's some callouses there)

I like to think that bkg is good at basically anything, considering how he's a perfectionist. give him something to do and one week to do it, and he'll have a new skill under his belt. but there's a few things he can't do that trip him up so bad and make him so angry. like to me he definitely doesn't know how to whistle or roll his Rs. he just physically cannot. they're such pointless abilities but he hates how he can't do them. especially bc dk can definitely do both

dk keeps calling bkg "kacchan" bc it reminds him of a simpler time :') it makes him feel more connected to bkg than he initially is, and tacitly tells the class that he knows bkg best. also bc bkg never told him to stop so like ... why should he stop now. lol. and ALSO bc he's waiting to see how far he can go before bkg snaps. little does he know, bkg never snaps about "kacchan" bc that's dk's name for him. it reminds him that dk is always there, always calling out for him. and recently, it's a reassurance that he's still here, against all odds

ending this list with a classic but dk's favorite food is katsudon bc it reminds him of kacchan's name (KATSUdon vs KATSUki)

hope this is a good enough hc list anon!

#asks for becki #there are probably some really obvious ones im missing #bakudeku #bkdk #becki rambles about stuff

[tedlebred]

if youre comfortable sharing, whats your rendering process? what are some ways you learned? your art is very yummy

HSHSHHSHS hello!!!!!!!!!! first off omg,,,, thank you so much,,,,🤭🤭

secondly!!!! heres my attempt at a rendering process explanation. uhm. warning ive never really been asked to explain it before please bare with me

BUT. here goes. this'll probably be ungodly long apologies

so when i render my biggest rule is basically Do Not Blend Ever. what i do is do my sketch, then flats, then basic placement of blush/shadows+darkest parts/etc and then i go in and just colourpick the inbetweens+place them between colours in small strokes until the changes in colour don't look too sharp/jarring

here's some examples of the process;;;

(still a wip but HSHSHHS) so i work on 3 layers primarily (sometimes i do the hair+items that cover the face on another layer, too, though they might end up getting merged):

^ with just the sketch layer n flats / and then with the render layer added

i go in with a bigger brush to block in colour variation on the face on the flats layer and then paint over that, as well as over the sketch, with smaller strokes on a render layer- i never do lineart lol, and any "lineart" thats visible is just the sketch peeking through. I try to rely on colour and shadow to create shapes and boundaries instead of lines though this isn’t a hard and fast rule.

i also try to stick to the same pallette the entire drawing- once the flats and shadows are first roughly blocked in all the other tones/midshades/colours are basically just inbetweens picked directly from the drawing. Just me zooming in real close till I can see the pixels and colour picking where they sort of mix. (any smaller shifts in hue/tones are just colours with saturation slightly turned up or down, usually) im also not sure if this helps but i use the Sol brush from the clip studio assets store for literally everything from sketch to render, which is basically just a slightly soft opacity brush which ive deluded myself into thinking helps give my art a softer look. idfk if it does or not.:)

I like to use really saturated blush and for shadows I usually use two base colours; a warmer one and a colder one- a warmer one for smaller shadows and shadows near light and then colder ones for planes more in darkness. Also, usually, at the very end of the drawing I’ll add a layer that’s just fully yellow with colour burn or linear burn or multiply turned on and the opacity turned low just to make everything warmer. (a little thing I like doing for shadows sometimes is never making them reach the edge of the plane; the actual edge is usually a slightly lighter shade and it sort of looks like stylised bounce light that would probably not be there but anyhoo)

but yeah,,,, Never Blend But Make It Look Almost Blended. I’ve been doing it forever,,,,,, and I really like the almost shiny feeling it gives things:)))

And where did I learn. Ough. A lot of what I do I figured out through trial and error and just drawing a bunch (IM SORRY THATS REALLY NOT HELPFUL) but some sources I looked towards were sinix design and bluebiscuits on YouTube!!!!! Sinix has a really good video on rendering skin which is where I sort of took my principles from and ran. And bluebiscuits was a huge inspiration for me when I started trying to render things beyond flats!!!!!!! They’re also where I found the sol brush, lol. Also just,,, the impressionist movement as a whole is a massive inspiration. The use of light and shapes to create form is just,,, omg. Especially Claude Monet in particular. (and for the basics of drawing I learnt from my aunt!)

and honestly, just observing people. A lot of the time when I’m watching a movie or on a walk or even just talking with someone I tend to start looking at their face, and the different planes, how light hits it and how shadow interacts with it, where the shadows are harsher/softer……….people are wild man

I really hope that made sense!!!!!! I’ve never tried explaining it before and honestly, I’m not even really sure how I do it. I just sorta. Switch off and start drawing, yk? BUT I HOPE IT HELPED!!!!🫶🫶💞💖

in case that was all utter nonsense here’s a speedpaint that’ll hopefully demonstrate my process;;

I also have straight up screen recordings of me drawing but. I don’t think anyone wants to sit though that

thank you for the ask!!!!!have a nice day/night and SORRY THAT ENDED UP THAT LONG

#:)))))))))) #my process #Asher art #ask #fw #<- for the speed paint

[pansy-picnics]

Okay hi! I first want to apologize for how long this will be, but I just found your page and am sort of new to tumblr.

For one, your art is amazzingggg! Every fandom you're in is heavily blessed. It's especially awesome for myself as a tts geek, to see so many dedicated to creating content. As far as the unknighted ship goes, from what I can tell, and this may be totally wrong so please correct me if it is, you want more people to be in the ship? I 100% agree that the division in this fandom is honestly detrimental to its growth, however, I feel like it keeps the peace in a way.

I myself like new dream and am fine with the poly ship, but, i was speaking with a friend who doesn't ship unkighted and cassunzel at all. They were explaining to me how it seems like most of the unknighted shippers do prefer cassunzel, which is again fine. I'm not sure if that's a fact through and through but the sentiment is there. But it got me thinking about how that perception in itself could disuade newcomers who are more into the Eugene/Rapunzel relationship? As far as division goes, I mean.

Again it's no problem to have favorites, in fact it's actually great that this fandom has so many spaces to include people who have a particular liking to any one thing, but it's rare to see anyone here really neutral on pairings if that makes sense? I know those people exist, but even beyond ships, our favorite characters, platonic relationships, and much more are pushed usually, very individually.

Love Cass? Great there's a ton of blogs for that! Rapunzel? Eugene? Varian? So many blogs for them too with art, concepts, etc! But with this fandom being so tiny- and that other weird anon we shall not mention by name, I think as long as people aren't flat out rude to each other, maybe a little separation is alright. Not everyone mingles well together. Maybe it's for the better?

I hope this wasn't annoying to read oops- but I am interested to hear your thoughts, if you feel comfortable responding.

oh no absolutely and i really enjoy these kinds of discussions!! i 100% agree lol and i’ve never meant to make it seem like i don’t. the distance between the fandom is absolutely what keeps the peace and as much as i SAY i want people to branch out more i know if it actually happened it would probably just leave us with even more division and infighting LOL😭

the neutrality is VERY rare and it’s honestly the only reason i’m so passionate about it, because i’ve never fallen into any of those divisions and it makes it really hard to find likeminded people!!! it’s why i put so much effort into my characterizations and how i portray all the dynamics, it tends to cater to everyone because i’ve never been able to pick and choose favorites myself haha

i would love for more people to find enjoyment in uknighted dream especially, since the dynamic is so important to me, but i totally understand it’s just not everyones thing and thats cool too!! :) i’m a bit surprised about the idea that most of us prefer cassunzel though, i never thought about it that way especially since i’ve never had a preference myself. i do sometimes find myself drawing cassunzel more, but that’s less because i prefer them over new dream and moreso because i feel the need to be super upfront about it…💀 i’ve had a lot of new dream fans comment on my uknighted dream art who seem to COMPLETELY miss the point and/or just disregard cass entirely. when i try to be subtle abt it most people don’t acknowledge it so most of my art is just me like violently pointing to them like LOOK!! she’s in love with BOTH of them!!! THEY’RE KISSING!!!!

as someone who’s been super involved with the uknighted dream community i’ve never felt like any of us really have a “preference”, a lot of us are hardcore cassunzel fans but that’s a given cuz that’s usually what drives us to the polyam ship in the first place. i have seen a lot of people argue that like “its just an excuse to ship new dream and cassunzel at the same time” and like….Yeah???? thats kind of the point??? 😭 i really don’t understand how people make it out to be a BAD thing bc like. the point of fandom is just to do whatever and have fun. so what if we wanna ship two pairings at the same time. why NOT just shove them into a polycule

it’s not like cass and eugene don’t have chemistry either???? they obviously care about each other and they don’t get along solely for rapunzel!!! i can’t speak for all ukd fans obviously but i think in my experience most of us did just start off “shipping two things at the same time” but with all the substance involved they VERY quickly become a set. cass and eugene’s dynamic whether platonic or romantic is really fun to explore and they all bounce so well off of each other i think it’s perfect!! they all just mean so much to me ok. they’re all equals and at the end of the day that’s really what i try to portray most in my work :3

#pansy rambling again #ask #tangled ask #uknighted dream #new dream #cassunzel #tangled the series #rapunzels tangled adventure

[kidflashimpulse]

i'd like to shout out Chris Jones, the artist for YJ Targets, for not drawing Bart weirdly skinny. Chris drew him to basically be on par with Tim, and his legs are the most muscular part of him (he has thigh muscle. i salute Chris). and the comics are more on model than the show so i'm just glad to see that's what he's SUPPOSED to look like (also: love the confirmation that Bart's built heavier than Ed. personally i don't think Ed is THAT skinny, but i still take the win)

for real, shout-out Chris Jones!! MVP

i totally get you anon, like HOW do you have a hero who’s whole thing is LITERALLY running and not have their thighs built/toned/thick af, it’s literally illogical otherwise. like i get their speed relies on their metagene but… they literally need to use their muscles for it and speed-metabolism or not, their legs get worked tf out lol

the same goes for ass too like when i read fics and my guy gets described as flat i’m like… are we talking about the same character here?? sdfghjkl /j /srs

in terms of him in animation, i think S4 generally has superiority with more consistency though not by a huge margin, S3 also had its good moments . (New Genesis episode, Illusion of control, Fighting Granny episode) His scene in his backyard with the legion is personally gold also because he generally looks great there in a way that it looks like how he’s SUPPOSED to (this is more in terms of face and in general lol) so that singlehandedly carries the season for me my only thing for both 3 and 4 are when his upper body feels a bit disproportionate to the rest of him (like u said, the legs should be and ARE his strongest muscle, anything else just doesn’t make sense). But whenever that happens it’s usually cause u can tell he hasn’t been drawn with as much care as when he’s a bit more of the focus. So i don’t get too fussed over it. When he’s in civvies he’s also generally drawn better so it could also just be the build of his suit, who knows. Point is, animators r doing their best with the time/money they’ve been given, so this all isn’t at all on them and just on us being crazy lol It’s nice though to see him and all the other characters drawn in a more consistently balanced way in the comics !

id tag chris to express our gratitude but maybe it’s not best to tag him under the context of a thicc thighs appreciation post LOL

but in the meantime, let’s enjoy a collage of our guy (who might I add is getting nerfed like crazy here, literally all his falls shouldn’t be happening but i’ll just pretend bro isn’t even trying too hard and taking it easy lmfao)

ALSO in general, his bart art is SO GOOD like look at these, amazing:

I love how he draws his smile in these lmfao

So if possible, please support Chris by buying some copies, they’re great to have as a collection and reasonably priced as well, here’s a link for those who may be interested:

(u can change the location i believe it should have global availability idk why it’s set to canada lol)

i also totally get you about Ed like… i’ve mentioned this ages ago but for Ed’s own sake he better have gotten way stronger by now (and considering how he ate that fight with Tim and Looker it’s pretty promising) so i also don’t think he’s supposed to be as crazy skinny as some of his animated moments might have him but yeah, Barts been in the game for so long now so it makes sense .

#YJ asks #young justice #bart allen #impulse #kid flash #yj #eduardo dorado jr #el dorado #zetaflash

[aimer-arts]

What’s your drawing process like? everything’s so cute, id love to see how you put everything tgt

AH thank you <3 My drawing process really isn't anything special, but I can try to give a brief explanation on it!

Basically, my process can be summed up in a few steps, the first step being a sketch. This step is VERY messy and not supposed to be perfect!! It’s basically just laying out the groundwork for what I want the drawing to look like.

And after I have a basic sketch that I’m satisfied with, I clean up the sketch and make it neater! I make the lines look sharper and erase any unneeded sketch lines while also adding some extra details (lineart is very tedious and stressful so I skip it lol). I often use a soft textured brush for this step!

Next I add flat colors to each character (there’s not much else to say about this step- but sometimes I add a texture to the flat colors to make it look softer)

And then I usually add some sort of shading (I use the regular ‘Brush’ tool on Sai with a Multiply layer and often play around with the colors until I like the way it looks. Sometimes I smooth out parts of the shading with the ‘Airbrush’ tool to make it look even softer)! I often add some subtle highlights to the characters in this step as well by using a ‘Shine’ layer

...And last is the final touches (I add the background, tweak any mistakes, etc.) I usually add overlay layers on top to make the colors pop more and turn up the saturation to make it look brighter! Sai also has some really nice filters to make it look extra soft :D

So yeah, that’s basically the gist of it!! Sometimes I do steps a bit differently but this is almost always how it goes (I use Sai for basically all of my art because I like the textures and filters it has and plus I’m too used to it to switch to anything else at this point)

(and here’s an example of slightly softer shading! Not the best example, but hopefully it still makes sense) ^^

#WOW okay this is a really long post #my drawing process is super generic but I hope you enjoy anyways anon! #and I have to say ditching the lineart step is something I don't regret at all #its just way less stressful oh my gosh- #ANYWAY I hope this answers your question! #ask #anonymous #thanks for the ask :] #I hope this all makes sense somehow asmdnwjmdssdm

[katanaski]

ANI MY LOVEEEEEEEEE HIIIII<333 how are you? i kith u in this fine monday mornin<3

and im here to ask about your art process!!! how do you usually go about it? what are your fav brushes!! and also what's your way to coloring??

im in AWE at your art every time bb, ur super talented and i hope u know that<333 ILY TONS !!

Cherrry!!! HIIIIII<33333 Happy Tuesday! Sorry I’m so late answering this, I didn’t really have time to sit down and answer this properly lol

First of all is finding the will to draw lol, when i do find it the first step for me is finding reference photos. I can draw somehow without a reference but it is 10000% easier when i do use one. It helps me get my proportions right. Also if I’m drawing a character in particular the reference has to give me the same vibe the character does when i think about them LOL.

Next i just start doodling wich is mostly what i do. I don’t think much about it at first,just do what feels right , i usually start with the eyes nose mouth then move on to the face and so on. I also use my pen as sort of a rule to measure the distance between the eyes,the sides of the face and jaw.

I don’t really have a process i think….i just draw?? I have my good days and my bad days but that’s what makes it fun.

As far as coloring goes, i color over the sketch. I never do line-art. I use a smooth pencil like brush with a grey color( never a black) lol i do rough lines and clean up afterwards with the eraser but not at full opacity. I keep my sketch brush around 18% and my eraser around 60% but that’s just my preference since i like things someone messy. I like when you’re still able to see the sketch lines underneath the piece here and there. It adds more depth to me.

After i have cleaned the sketch enough i go on another layer in ‘multiply’ under the sketch and put down the flat colors. Another layer above that goes a ‘clipping mask’ where i start putting down my shadows. I work on this layer a bit before adding another layer above that one at ‘normal’ and i start to render in this one layer. For highlights i use either an ‘add’ layer or a ‘hard light’ and of top of it all i add a ‘overlay’ layer and play around with colors until it looks right. I forgot to mention for my smudging brush i use a bristle brush to give everything a bit of stubble texture

I forgot to mention that i use procreate, playing around with the curves and gradient maps it’s also fun!

Here’s the brushes i use. As well as a Timelapse of yesterday sketch. It’s a MESS!!! I LOVE love sketching with the sharp clean brush

Thank you for asking!!! Ily

So..

Sketching : gouache detail sharp v2

Shadows and coloring : gouache wet soft & wet clean

Smudge tool : gouache shader v2 & bristle gritty

Highlights and detail : detail sharp

#— 𝙼𝙰𝙸𝙻⊂( ･∀･) 彡 =͟͟͞͞ ⌧ #i also use a s quare brush but not as often lol #Cherry baby i hope this answers your question <333 #MWAHHHH! #— Cherry¹♡

[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

(Note: All of these asks are before episode 206 (Season 2 finale) so some may be dated.) 1. it's always privileged ppl who are LO's biggest fans because they can see themselves in persephone's shoes :/ meanwhile nymphs are actively looked down upon and its written off as "funny" or "deserved" (minthe deserved better)

this comic sucks lol

2. I see a lot of people say the early art was more detailed but tbh it really wasn't? the quality was very loose and inconsistent, but what made it interesting was it was more fantasy like with strong composition and use of color/contrast (which LBR here, it's a few more swipes of a brush, it not that much more work if at all) which makes it's decline into such flat, static poses and colors all the more jarring. Her style has if anything become more complicated technical-wise and its worse for it.

3. What’s confusing to me about Eris’ design (wow she really only showed up for two episodes huh) is why does she look like a off brand harpy? Why do the rest of her family just look like people but she’s the random one out? Hell, why in general does it seem Rachel’s only extent into anything beyond boxy man/tiny and curvy woman is at best wings and maybe some horns? She clearly struggles with same faces/bodies yet does nothing to tell anyone apart. It’s so weird and lazy.

4. See it's funny because Rachel is framing Apollo as bad for loving his mother and being loyal to her, but Hades is framed as good for being so loyal to his mother who quite literally gave up trying to protect him and happily had TWO MORE kids with his father while he was imprisoned in his stomach. I get their situations are different and all but Rhea has done nothing to deserve such unquestioned loyalty and love while we're supposed to hate Leto because Rachel said so.

5. So with the new episodes - canonically 10 yrs have passed right? So Persephone should be 30 now (cause I think the last time we saw her she was 20?) - but she looks and acts the same? (Actually I take it back she seems to have regressed character wise) And yes, I know there's that thing RS set up where Persephone stops aging so she looks the same (so she doesnt have to draw Persephone any different / older I guess) but after 10 yrs we see her.. Basically mope around, talk to a tree of Hades and act like the same teen she was yrs ago. She does start to take ownership of her actions then Immediately pulls back on the statement with a very haunty look on her face as she states "well its not All my fault" which semes to imply she doesnt think she should be punished for the murder she commited?? And then she goes on to talk about how she thinks her green hands are a turn off as though this is her biggest concern? And later we see her mope about then act excited about her ears getting pierced so it doesnt seem like shes taking her job of regulating spring very seriously. And she asks zeus to send a letter to Hades but doesn't ask to see her aging mortal mother? Not even the nymphs seem concerned about Demeters whereabouts cause their too busy fawning over the idea of persephone having sex with Hades At Last (which is implied when they give her a condom - like props for trying to promote safe sex but still).

Things that seemed to be big deals also no longer seem to hold weight? Like minthe and Daphne are fixed no problem? As far as I know (I haven't seen the fp chapters) We don't even get to see persephones reaction to Daphne being turned into a tree nor minthes reaction to being non-plantified? Shes just chilling and is her usual sassy self?? Shes not complaining to Zeus that shes stuck with the woman who almost killed her??

Aside from that we have Apollo and Artemis being crowned and Hebe looks lile a carbon copy of her mother...

And I'm gonna actually push back on that earlier anon ask - yes techncially Artemis could have asked for anything but I doubt Zeus would've followed through with Artemis' request if she had asked for persephones banishment to be lifted. Like it would be too easy an out for Persephone plot wise so I guess she banished herself? (Idk maybe Artemis knows he wouldn't do it and her self esteem is so low that this is the next best thing in her mind.) Like I think its the same reason why Apollo asked for Leto to... Be unbanished .... but didnt ask for Persephone to be made into his wife because I don't think that's something Zeus would have budged on despite saying they Could ask for anything, he means within limits that he set. Could he do it? Sure. Would he do it? Doubtful.

#anti lore olympus #anti lo #lore olympus critical #lo critical

[comedyloser]

I do not like my current idea for Alagadda so I'm rewriting it lol

Edit: this is my take on Alagadda and it’s LENGTHY

So the entirely of Alagadda thinks it's ruled by the king (and so does the king)

The Ambassador thinks they're the one ruling Alagadda, they're "controlling" the king behind the stage

The real rulers of Alagadda are the Masked Lords of Alagadda. Yes I looked up what "lords" meant. They pretend to be in a lower status that the king, they "work" for him, and thus they got that title.

Alagadda strains to be a secret from Earth, but they constantly make things that go wrong. They know very well of the foundation so sometimes they send their creations to the foundation in hopes they will protect Earth and Alagadda. As well to protect Earth from discovering Alagadda they use magic so that when executed to Earth they lose all memories of Alagadda that are replaced with fake “believable” stories. Believable for an SCP at least.

As well in case an Alagaddian were to bring Earth resources to Alagadda, they practiced to be able to break most Earth resources. Not all, so that one’s sent to the foundation had a way to be trapped. They tested thousands of Marie rials and under the pressure glass could not be brought between Alagadda and Earth so they left it be, but practiced among many others,

As well as the strength training Alagadda focused on art and music. Drama, singing, sculptures, and stories. Anything to do with creation. Sometimes even alchemy (although, this is usually when things went wrong)

So as far as the main characters (not the folk living in Alagadda but the rulers)

The Hanged King, he was just the Supreme King until deemed the Unruly King and executed (by hanging)

They erased his name from history once Ambassador took power

The Queen, Misery, who was sadly died of a “heart attack”. If she was alive, she was strong and ruthless, there would have been no way the Ambassador would’ve taken control.

They erased her name from history once Ambassador took power

Of course, the Ambassador, who slowly took control over the kingdom of Alagadda by spreading nasty rumors about the king, this way the king would be executed and so would anyone that was deemed working for him, then the Ambassador took control and unbalanced the hierarchy.

The the Four Masked Lords of Alagadda

The ones that truly ruled, they each has their own tower, but no one knew why. (Ex, Alagadda spread far and wide but somewhere in the center was the colosseum and on long paths in the four different directions was each of the towers) Each lord pretended to work for the king with a simple, yet powerful roll

Dyo Polonoi, representing Anguished, was the wearer of the Black Mask

Served as a jester, the fool to the king, sometimes seen with a mace and chain

Arceus Remelis, representing Diligent, was the wearer of the White Mask

Served as the Righteous Leader of the Knights and often used magic unlike his physical fighters

Ruberto Morilis, representing Mirthful, was the wearer of the Red Mask

He was the king’s right-hand man and a part time blacksmith, fought and served with flaming swords that burned with the passion of his heart

Isidoros Markellis, representing Odious, was the wearer of the Yellow Mask

A watchman and priest with mighty hammers and pure strength that could kill with a snap

…

All four were deemed guilty and executed not long after the king by Ambassador command

Death by Guillotine

As the story goes, as their heads fell the masks fell further, passing Alagadda down to Earth. Memories gone only to be retrieved by a stroke of luck, the chance to break the magic, yet no one knew where they went,

Their physical embodiment now the mask, which relied on a host to act, With no Alagadda magic on earth they could not take a form themself. They needed a host,

Falling to four different corners of the Earth they split paths. Diligent landed in water, caught between debris and rocks, lost to sea. Odious landed on a flat mountain side, that soon enough levels of land went up and trapped them between. Mirthful landed near active volcanos, lava gushing out causing the area too dangerous for someone to ever go find him. And Anguished was found be the Greeks, eventually ditched into Rome and found by the foundation where he was deemed SCP-035 and separated from the world where he could possibly see the others again.

Two would need to cross paths to have a chance of being strong enough to break the magic barrier Alagadda had cursed them with, but with two trapped in land in sea there was no chance for them. Meanwhile the other was kept within danger, and the other became known as it.

———————

ANYWAY in my story (the one I just started writing on Ao3 and now I have to redo the intro)

The Foundation finds Ruberto and when carrying him through the foundation they pass Dyo’s containment cell, which then sparks their Alagaddian Origins and reminds them of where they’re truly from

So during a containment break Dyo and Ruberto take 4 D-Class as hosts and escape to find their fellow lords - if you’re wondering why they took 4, 2 for them and 2 for the others

They find Isidoros in the stone and Ruberto’s PURE STRENGTH breaks open the mountain so they grab him give him the host and get out of there

Then they travel to the sea, and same thing, find Arceus get him the host and get out of there

On their escape they’re found by the foundation and brought back and each out in cells (each in four different areas of the foundation sort of how they were separated accross Earth) but they’ve all crossed paths and remember everything they need to know about Alagadda

So during the next breach they try to rip a portal to get to Alagadda but they find they’ve been connection blocked which means that the Ambassador knew they were alive this whole time (because other wise they wouldn’t have gone though the effort to block them because it’s a lengthy Magic process)

Reminder the lords are still trying to keep Alagadda a secret

But now they know they’re alive, and they got the notice of them trying to come back,

And now it’s time for war on Earth

——

Here’s the ao3 story btw :)

#scp rambles #scp alagadda

[sarasa-cat]

Hopeful without being too hopeful.

Maybe some good news for the computer desk area!

Found an "infinitely" positionable freestanding pneumatic arm vesa-mount thinger designed for SMALL light-weight touch screen monitors. This sounds perfect because the 16" cintiq is definitely small as monitors go, and obviously is a pen screen with touch capabilities and needs to be closer to one's body but also needs infinite positioning as a drawing surface.

What i really like about this one is that it is free standing -- no grommet mounting or clamp mounting to the desk. The base of the stand is very low profile and flat. One could probably slide their keyboard over it when stowing it away. (this is the manufacturer and while they are out of stock, I was -- annoying and disappointingly -- able to get it for the same price via, well, yeah, amazon).

I also have a replacement for that broken/stuck clamp-to-desk mounted infinitely positionable (but far more bulky -- booo! plus that ugly clamp will be on the front of my desk -- blerg) that will arrive on saturday. This new item I found looks better and like a more hopeful solution. It should be arriving on sunday.

May the better small-monitor vesa-mount pneumatic arm win! My RSI-crippled limbs need a solution that is perfect.

(and then all the losers go back into boxes and into the car and off to the return processing).

Meanwhile, a little while ago I ordered a splurge item that is actually CHEAPER than the "executive" equivalents that spam up the Nice Looking monitor riser desk shelf market.

The carpenter who is building my massive (very long, deeper than usual, custom sized) desk shelf is going to send me update pix over the weekend as he makes it from his personal woodshop. OMG! That will hide all of the clutter of 10,000 cables for 10,000 peripherals and will also look really beautiful. I hope.

It will be a little work of art that is honestly very reasonably priced given what is out there as more mass-marketed things.

Trying not to get too excited.

Have a few more small "clutter begone" items to finish selecting for the computer desk and then on to the task of decorating the patch of wall behind the computer desk (bookcase shelves are above it -- so the patch of wall is very cozy feeling and very "contained in a bookcase" feeling too!!).

I think I will hang a self-made collage lots of very little demo/exercise paintings or drawings of mine that are either botanical art or sort of classically inspired things. Plus meaningful quotes, although that requires me to improve my lettering skills. >_<

Although, rather than rummage through old demo art or small painting studies of mine from the past, I think I want to fill this space slowly with entirely new stuff. For reasons. ;)

(hm-- maybe the quotes will be done really nicely with digital tools and printed. My calligraphy skills are HORRRRRRIBLE despite my high levels of competence with dip-pen and a pot of ink for art. idk. lol. my handwriting is awful too. orz.)

Still to be decided is whether or not I replace the small desk lamp with something more Aesthetic(tm) and if I hang fairy lights or some other soft ambient lighting in this area. It needs some more cheer because a significant portion of the year is very dark. Hm.

This area should look a lot better and be far more functional (ergonomics) within two weeks or less. (decoration that involves me doing new small paintings will take time but that's part of the fun -- saving little studies and mini demos for my own decor ;)

OKAY.

Next four areas to think about (all immediately adjacent to this computing zone) are:

Bookshelves above the desk and on the side of the desk. OMFG THE MESS AND NONSENSICAL CHAOS! WHat goEs THeRe and WHY? WHAT THE HELL IS CURRENTLY THERE? Why is it such a mess? One of these shelves needs to become a display area that is full of epic good feels.

My little rolling file cabinet and crap holder is bursting with crap. Needs organization that makes sense for the computer desk area.

The L-bump out and the corner dead zone. So much possibility for the corner dead zone. Plants? A little cabinet of curiosities of some of my nature items? But it must be cat friendly. Hm. HM!

DEEEEP storage space under one portion of the desk needs my attention. It's a good place for storing certain art studio items. Might be punted for a few weeks as I clear through and (re)organize other areas.

[trinrose3]

The one universal tip(s) that goes for every artist that I NEVER see get mentioned when people ask for advice:

Do life drawing. Go sit down somewhere outside(if you can) and draw people, animals, trees, rocks, landscapes whatever. Just...dont be weird about it like those tiktokers that sit on the subway AND THEN GIVE THAT PERSON THEIR ART OH MY GOD THATS CREEPY DONT DO THAT!!!!!

Draw what you observe. If you cant afford to go to any actual life drawing sessions or none are provided; draw yourself study yourself and what you can with your eyes cause mirrors can flatten but use them when necessary!

There are many sites out there dedicated to help artists do life drawing but camera ALWAYS warp no matter how good they are so its always best to study from life first but its never a bad idea to go to them if you cant.

Study the way the old masters did it, anything from like 1920s- to the present isnt gonna give you a good idea of how artists SHOULD draw structure in the body. DO NOT look at the “minimalistic” and stylized versions of a figure drawing. Those are good if you know what theyre doing and why but they wont help you understand anything.

Learn the difference between a study, and a gesture drawing. A gesture is capturing the flow and dynamic position and movement of the body, usually with a shorter time span on it. Studies are meant to help understand more of the anatomical features presented in the figure and how they appear in that specific posing.

Draw the surface area. Dont focus on the “outline” or the “shading”. Its best to pay attention to the surface to help give an idea of how the volume on the body is presented, with that will naturally come “shadow” (shadow should not actually be drawn unless doing a value study, but can be presented/seem present if passages* are created). It helps give a sense of bone, muscle, and fat structure in the body. IF you focus too much on outline or silhouette of the body it might end up looking flat.

DRAW DIFFERENT BODY TYPES!! It never hurts to study different body type! Everyone carries muscle and fat on their body differently and just having general knowledge of their placements might not be helpful enough, when drawing diverse body types.

Dont be afraid to draw nude art! You dont have to draw the genitals or whatever but if you draw people in bodysuits/underwear/unitards youre not gonna see the more detailed and subtle areas of places on the body. Theres also nothing inherently sexual about it and the embarrassment wears of quickly lmao.

*passages are a series of lines in a parallel direction created in a figure drawing to denote volume and surface area as well as flow, structure, anatomy, of specific parts of the body. Passages CAN over lap but should always follow the form and not be used as shading or crosshatching.

Thats all I got for now I think lol

#art tips #figure drawing #life drawing

[colorful-horses]

💐 ?

💐 - who’s your favourite mlp blog?

I don't know if I have a Single favorite blogger, so heres a list of some of my absolute favorite pony bloggers:

🎨 MLP Art Blogs

@cassettepony - Such a unique art style. Cannot stress enough how unique her art style is! It's very stylistic and the colors are POPPIN- they're so saturated and pretty! Her art reminds me of jolly ranchers,, I also absolutely love the exaggerated expressions and how she draws EYES (when the corner of the mouth slightly clips over the bottom of the eye.........immaculate) + She does something really special that I never see any other pony artists doing, which is giving the ponies little chin hairs or 5 o'clock shadows (I. i don't know what it's called please forgive me). It is so special and cool to see, and it's so recognizable! I ADORE Cassettes art and I've always been too shy to say hi so uhhh. Hi! 👋

@msponies - ponies drawn in mspaint. HIGH QUALITY posts here. I am so inspired by their use of colors- the RANGE in some of these posts is crazy. Some of these drawings have such extremely unique color combos that you wouldn't think would work so well together, but msponies is just a master at using a color palette to its full potential its actually crazy! Their Trixie drawings are some of the best, and I cant help but admire how bold their backgrounds are (yea I know that kinda goes hand in hand with the whole color palette thing but i just really like their art); the bold colors and the dark outlines are so scrumptious

@celebrationcastle - They don't update extremely often, but when they do, you kno its gonna be a top tier post. They have a very flexible artstyle, and they post fanart for every generation. They were the ones who made that Valentines Pinkie Pie design that popped off a while ago, and for good reason; they are extremely good at drawing and designing. Like, they've completely mastered the artstyle of g3 and g4 (and probably every other gen. its nuts), and their g5 fanarts art probably my favorite I've ever seen (sunny starscout, my beloved). Everything they post is a banger. Their blog is just such a big inspiration to me :,)

📖 General MLP Blogs

@yodawgiheardyoulikeponies - absolute FAVORITE pony collecting blog. OP is SO sweet and her collection is AMAZING! I absolutely adore her photos and her posts, and her enthusiasm about collecting is so infectious. The positive energy on her blog is absolutely pure sugar, and I just really cannot stress enough how much effort she puts into her posts. She makes little pony photo shoots! And makes little stories out of them!!! It's so fun to just sit and read through. I always check her blog after new merch is released just because it's it's interesting to read about a Pony Veteran giving their input on modern toys. 1000/10 I love this blog

@ahorseofeverycolor - I only have notifications on for like. 5 or 6 blogs? And this is definitely one of them. They regularly post about ponies and horses (okay, they mostly focus on Breyers, but thats not a negative to me at all- I got my first Breyer the other day BECAUSE of this blog, lol), and their blog is just so clean and organized! They post about so many different kinds of ponies, whether it be comparing flat-footed release to concave foot releases, or custom ponies they made themselves, or just really cool pony finds that aren't necessarily obtainable (prototypes, special custom ponies commissioned by hasbro by professional artists, etc) but are really cool to look at!!! I really like this blog!!!

@mustcollecthorses - This is a blog that I have a super bad habit of opening and then scrolling through for like. 2 hours straight, lol. It's a mix of reblogs and original posts, so it's really my Ideal pony blog; usually when I hear about pony news, it's because he reblogged it! It's a very focused blog, so it's definitely a good one to follow if you need some more horses on your dash! He recently made an edit of Hitch from the new 5 pack to give him brushable hair, which I absolutely love (why did they gotta give him sculpted hair umu) I also like that OP leaves tags on the posts he reblogs! I don't know if it's just me, but I always like a blog more if they add tags with input about the toys and news and things like that. It adds some personality and a Vibe to the blog and I just really like it!!!

ok thats all! i of course follow a bunch of other pony themed blogs, but those are some of my top favorites, and ill limit it to 3 per category for the sake of simplicity. please consider following them! They're all so cool and talented!!!

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send me pony themed asks

#if i tagged anyone on this and they want to be taken off i can totally do that for you! #these are just some of my favorite pony blogs #its definitely not all of them #I just didnt want the post to be a million miles long. lol #ask game #not art #if i got anyones pronouns wrong im super sorry #ill fix them if aby of them are wrong #i used they for some of these because sometimes i wasnt sure or maybe i forgot? sorry about that

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

WHOMST IS THIS OC BAKER BOY ELF I SEE YOU SPEAKING ABOUT!???! DO TELL!!

~vaya

GAH YES I LOVE MY SOFT BAKER ELF BOY!!

He is one of my most favourite OC’s, because he is quite literally a cinnamon roll.

(him on the top left, not my art but my faceclaim, as found on Pinterest with no other link)

His name is “Oranor” (it means “Sunday” in Elvish—the day he was begetted on)

He’s from another one of my main stories, “Phony Matrimony”

Basically, he’s about the elven equivalent of 18 years old, and developed a strong childhood crush on Legolas after the war against Sauron, upon seeing him ride to Aragorn’s coronation atop a white steed (very swoon-worthy for a 6 year old gay-to-be)

When Legolas took over Ithilien, I headcanon he built his town in Emyn Arnen—a canon place which looks like the Shire, but more yellow.

(Emyn Arnen, Ithilien)

He’s a baker’s boy (originally born in mirkwood) who Legolas regularly orders from, and the story follows one big lie that Oranor accidentally orchestrated with his scheming older brother.

So, his parents perished in the war, so he and his brother are both taken in by their aunt, Bronwe.

His older brother, Remmirath (means “constellation”), is an...eccentric “El Dorado” type of fellow, always chasing one big adventure after another, or selling snake oil as “cures” to people—a total charlatan.

Remmi comes back one day to find his little brother heartbroken over Legolas being forced to choose a Sindar-blooded partner soon by Thranduil (Oranor himself is just a lowly silvan), and sees an opportunity to be set for life.

The brothers are both naturally brunette, but Remmi returns as a blonde, explaining that he found this “amazing flower” which can change your hair colour for a short amount of time (like polyjuice potion, but just for your hair), depending on which hued flower you pick.

After being coerced (Remmirath just wants his brother to marry a royal so he can mooch off of them both), Oranor agrees to take the flower and turn blonde, as to convince Legolas and Thranduil that he, “Alfirin” (his new alias, quite literally means “white flower”), is actually Glorfindel’s illegitimate son, making him of noble blood, and consequently allowed to marry Legolas.

Big antics ensue with a “suitor competition”, as Thranduil calls in potential elves for Legolas to court, and now Oranor, under the guise of the blonde “Alfirin” has to make Legolas fall in love with him.

However, Legolas has actually been in love with the simple baker’s boy all along, and isn’t interested in any of the suitors, until “Alfirin” starts to remind him of Oranor, who has mysteriously skipped town.

An extract of chapter 2 underneath the cut!

I’ll get around to posting the story eventually lol

Also don’t mind Legolas being a little bit scandalous, he’s doing it to piss his father off (and rightfully so, too)

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Blowing a stray strand of his fringe out from his eyes, Oranor readied himself under his breath. Readjusting the crate underarm, he shifted his weight to one hip.

Muttering quietly to himself, the young elf further pushed the letter down behind the sticky buns. “You can do this, Oran. He will never know it’s you unless you reveal so to him. Don’t be a coward, for once in your life, don’t be just a little baker’s boy. All you have to do is—”

Halting his nervous tongue, Oranor heard voices on the other side of the door. They sounded heated and tense, clearly two males.

It was only with quite some strain on Oranor’s elven ears, that he recognised both Thranduil and Legolas’ voices.

The Elvenking was here, in Emyn Arnen?

Frightened out of his idea immediately, but still curious, Oranor pressed his ear flat against the wood, and listened closely.

“I ask this of you because I care about you, Legolas!”

“Ada, please! You only wish for me to court so you can have an heir begotten for you!”

“That is NOT true, and I resent your thoughts regarding so! Just study the list of names, Legolas. Some are male, too! I know you and your preferences.”

“My preference is to NOT get married right now! Especially to your presumptuous list! I’ll be sailing soon after Aragorn’s departure from our world, so what does it matter, Ada?”

“You will be lonely by yourself overseas! I want to ensure my son is spoken for before he goes.”

“Your son is speaking; you’re just not listening.”

“I could be a lot meaner, Legolas. I am allowing you to choose whom you marry freely, so long as they’re from my list. There are many names on there! You will see—love will find you swiftly.”

There was a short silence on the other side of the door, and Oranor imagined it was his usually reserved lord taking a moment to roll his eyes at his father. Once those few seconds had passed, Thranduil spoke up again—sterner this time, too.

“I am not being unreasonable, Legolas. I only ask two things of you; that you see to yourself being betrothed in the next few months, and that they be of Sindar lineage. There are many to choose from. I won’t hear another word about it—you are still my subject and heir, therefore I have the right to ask this of you.”

Oranor gulped down the nerves that rose in his throat, and made quick moves to retrieve the letter. Hastily, for he heard footsteps approaching from the other side of the door (most likely Legolas seeking to leave his father’s presence in a furious state), Oranor began to rip the letter in two.

He was blushing madly in humiliation. Of course he could never court Legolas. Legolas was a prince, and Sindar at that. Oranor himself was just a lowly Silvan of bakery origins. It was simply not meant to be.

Perhaps it hadn’t moved past a childish crush after all.

Feeling the tips of his ears turning red, Oranor anxiously glanced between the letter he was tearing in half, as well as the door.

He knew he could not hide both himself and the crate in time, for the angered steps were upon him. Glancing all around, Oranor spun on his heel a few times, as he hastily thought of where to flee and stash the crate.

There was a pot of fern to his right, but before he could throw the crate inside and finish tearing the letter, the door to Legolas’ large reading room opened.

A roaring fireplace soon met Oranor with its warmth, as it fought to fend off the winter snow’s cold, just outside the large windows of light running along one side of the room.

Oranor, shorter than his lord by at least a head, was soon met face-to-face with Legolas. They blinked at each other in shock for a moment, before Thranduil spoke up again.

Oranor peeked over the prince’s soldier, and saw the king rise from the long couch before the fire to chase after his son.

“Legolas, do not be such a child, it is very unbecoming of you to storm away—”

Thranduil, too, was stunned to find someone there. If he didn’t possess all the class in the world, Thranduil perhaps would have been embarrassed over someone having heard his conversation.

Formally, Oranor bowed his head to both Thranduil and Legolas, and greeted them by their respective titles. At the same time, he tucked the one half of the letter he’d managed to rip into his winter cloak’s pocket—partially grateful the rest was hidden down the side of the buns.

At least most of it was unintelligible now.

“Your majesty.” He moved his eyes away from Thranduil’s, and nervously met Legolas’. “My lord.”

“My delivery?” Legolas repeated back, offering a mustered smile to the baker’s boy. He also gave a brief nod down at the buns in gesture.

“Yes, my lord,” Oranor meekly replied, shifting the crate under his arm again, so that he brought it forwards with both hands.

“Amazing timing,” Legolas sincerely commended. He took the order and practically drooled over the scent of cinnamon and icing.

Turning on his heel, and ignoring his unimpressed father, Legolas walked over to the table set before the fire. He placed the crate down promptly, planning on curling up with a good book later on and divulging himself in the treats.

The crate was slightly messy, and icing soon covered the lord’s fingers. Extracting a low, quiet whine from the back of Oranor’s throat, he watched as Legolas licked the icing from his fingers, one by one.

Thranduil caught this, and narrowed his eyes in Oranor’s direction. The younger elf noticed the king’s scrutiny quickly, and averted his eyes from the blonde, who seemed to be cleaning each finger very slowly, almost aware of his audience.

“Legolas,” Thranduil ordered, pausing the lord’s tongue as he looked at his father innocently with blinking eyes. “Pay the baker, and then we shall discuss your betrothal plans further.”

With one finger still in his mouth, Legolas flickered his eyes on over at Oranor. The brunette could’ve sworn he spotted mischief behind the blue, and the slightest of smirks upon his lips.

Oranor shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, wishing more than anything to run upstairs in the bakery to his bedroom. It’d been a blessing since his older brother had left on another adventure, for privacy was entirely his in the shared room and bunk beds, and his alone.

“Of course, Ada,” Legolas replied, popping his finger from his mouth. “I was just about to.”

#lord of the rings #lotrdaily #lotr movies #the hobbit #elves #hobbit #mirkwood #legolas #Ithilien #lotr fanfic #lotr x oc #Legolas x oc

[hatake]

Art Updates Pt. 1 ☆

In my last post, I talked abt early bday presents I had gotten and mentioned making an art update post. So here we are!!

I didn't intend for this to be split into parts, but due to tumblr's photo limit, I think I'm gonna make another update next week 🤔 (We'll see!)

As u may know, I recently made an art blog (@dreampollens) and have been creating phone bgs 💗 I've been focusing on Sanrio lately, but I'm also working on a sketch to start FFIX ones!

Along with that, I've been working on some OC stuff.

The first two don't have names yet (if you have suggestions pls let me know 💕), but the second two are OCs that are very near and dear to me named Allison and Bunni 💖 As you might have guessed, both pairs are gfs lol 💘

I've been sketching Alli & Bunni frequently lately 🤔

What can I say, they're my top OTP 😆❤💕

Bunni (wearing bows and frilly style) has a colder personality and finds dealing with people to be obnoxious, while Allison (the buff one) has a sly personality and likes to be obnoxious 😂💕 (Can you guess who pursues whom? 🤔😆) For Allison, it's always love at first sight 💓 Bunni, on the other hand, usually finds Allison to be as obnoxious as the rest of them (maybe even more so), but eventually warms up to her due to her strong sense of compassion 💕 (Plus she's a buff woman, hello 😩💘💘💘)

As you can see, I've been doing a water color style with them, but I want to do smth more detailed eventually!! (Maybe with one of the other two sketches 🤔)

Along with these, I've been trying a new way of painting! Usually I do sketch > lineart > color. This one, I've been doing coloring then lineart! 😮 I'm liking it for this type of style so far. I also like that I get to paint the faces first, it makes me feel better somehow 😂💕

I have a fun/tropical color palette picked out for them, I hope I can incorporate it well 😅 Wish me luck 😆💪💖

Lastly, I finally started lining a sketch I did months ago ❤

I'm hoping to try a more flat coloring style for this one (with pastel colors), but I suck at that, so we'll see how it goes 😩💨

If you made it this far, thanks for reading!! ❤💕 I hope all of your art turns out amazing this week 💖

♡ lala

#eh.txt #blogs #a: blogs #long post

[haleigh-sloth]

How do you come to the conclusion that you do about BNHA or any story. I'm just wondering. I find it fascinating how Meta writers like yourself and others determine what is going to happen. I know it's not a guess nor is it just what you hope will happen. It seems to be a very detective way of reading and seeing clues for how a story will play out. Something I could never do. How do you keep your wishes separate from how you want it to play out and what is likely. Please let this make sense. I think what you do is so interesting

Oh gosh 😭😭

Okay hold on, let me make a couple of disclaimers. Because I feel like I’m being complimented on something I’m really not all that good at.

Two things I wanna clarify:

1. I am wrong, a lot. There are BIG things I’ve been right about but I’ll get to that. But just a disclaimer, I am wrong a lot when it comes to predicting specific things or events in the story. For example, right now with Shigaraki I’m guessing that he’s struggling mentally for his agency against AFO. And I AM basing that off of what he said in the text, but it’s still nothing more than a guess. Seeing as how we hardly have any information at all. THAT—is a guess, not necessarily a well-thought out prediction. And I am fully prepared to be wrong, because it happens a lot. I continue to make specific guesses because it’s FUN! I love doing it, and I really don’t care at all about being wrong because if the author surprises me (in a good way), then, NICE! What I really care about is being happy with the result, not necessarily about being right. In BNHA’s case, I’m usually happy with the result, even if not what I expected.

2. My opinion DOES interfere with my guesses/predictions at times. However I will say that there is a difference between my actual meta posts (objective) and my personal preference posts (opinion). Example: Personally, I want the kids and villains to all remain friends and in each other’s lives in the end! That is a preference, not an objective prediction based on what we’ve seen. It’s VERY possible, and given the genre I think pretty likely that they do all stay friends in the end, which is what I want. BUT, I am fully aware that it could very much go differently. There’s not really any evidence to suggest whether I’ll get this ^^ ending or not, but I talk about it A LOT in my posts because it’s what I personally want. My meta posts where I’m not talking about my preference but am interpreting what’s going on—I use a LOT of panels. Basically, I’m citing my sources to back up what I’m saying. Those are less my preference for things to go a certain way, and more what I legitimately THINK is going on in canon. So, for my posts specifically, if there’s a lot of panels in the post—it’s most likely an actual meta and not me just rambling on and on and on about something I want.

NOW! As for how? Well, first let me stay that kudos to story tellers and writers because..I could never do it. There’s so much detail that goes into stories that are obviously well thought-out that if I myself were writing a story, well, it’d be super flat lol. I’m not a writer by any means.

But anyway, analyzing manga is easier than other content. Mangakas use shading in very specific ways to tell you things that dialogue can’t. So for me, as an artist, I pay a lot more attention to the art in manga than anything. Usually facial expressions and the panel as a whole. Basically I ask myself: what is the author trying to convey with this picture? And then the dialogue adds a whole other level of material to analyze.

For me personally I started by reading other meta blogs. I came across blogs that I absolutely loved, and blogs that I absolutely hated. Seeing BOTH made it easier for me to get the hang of organizing my thoughts to say what I think is going on in this manga. Because man, when I first got into BNHA I had NOBODY to talk to about it in depth. It was a struggle, so when I realized tumblr is The Place™️ to go for stuff like this, I just let loose what I’d been wanting to do since I started the story lol.

I will say for BNHA specifically, when Shigaraki first got introduced he became my favorite instantly. I hadn’t gotten very far in the story yet, and I hadn’t gotten back on tumblr yet, but I had this gut feeling that Shigaraki was not a basic bitch villain that was gonna get killed in the end. I couldn’t put into words why I thought that though. But like, immediately I thought “this guys gonna switch to the side of the heroes at some point”. And, low and behold that’s the set up we’re going with lol. I had that same gut feeling about Toga and Dabi too, but I didn’t pay as much attention to them until I got back on tumblr and saw all the meta blogs rooting for their redemptions too. So, my gut feeling WAS right. Just from the get go I was right about the LOV trio. I knew there was something off with them compared to the rest and I was right lol. And that was just a feeling, I didn’t know meta tumblr existed at that point 😭😭

But anyway, pay attention to the art in manga. It’s the biggest give away of what the author is trying to portray or say.

Here is a couple of examples of when I talk about artistic choices mattering.

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