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Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

SO SOME ASSHOLE GOT HOLD OF MY PHONE AND CHANGE ALL MY CONTACT NAMES, ICONS AND RINGTONES TO THIS FUCKING THING

SO NOW WHENEVER I GET A CALL MY PHONE THINKS IT’S BEING ALL CUTE LIKE “it is a mystery >O>” FUCK YOU MAN

see you later, star kiddo

every time I think I’ve moved on from this show it drops an absolute banger

A quick Jasper from Steven Universe. New episode murdered me.

“I’m so sorry, Jasper....”

Tried out a frame redraw for the first time!

For future reference.

Cara Dune 🥰

reblog if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

I’d like to offer one (1) commission giveaway of a 4-5″ diameter comic portrait embroidery, like one of the embroideries above, because it’s real darn neat to have hit the 10k followers milestone. 🤗🥰

If you’re interested:  (1) Gotta follow me bc that’s the whole point (2) Like and/or reblog this post, and reblogs count as 2 entries (meaning you could enter your name up to three times by both liking and reblogging ❤️✅ 🔁✅✅)

On Saturday, 21 March 2020, I’ll create a numbered list from all the likes & reblogs and use a random number generator to choose a winner. I’ll reach out to the winner via tumblr messages. 

Thanks again for following me. I’m glad you enjoy my comics embroidery 💖

I can feel…the serotonin and dopamine dropping…i need to make…Crafts

i must make…

b e a d l i z a r d

I'm kind of a beginner when it comes to poses and uh, dinamism, how do you come out with your poses? It just comes to mind or do you find some pose and use it in your drawings? I feel like I have no imagination when it comes to it, and when I do, I cant find the right reference so I'm lost at anatomy

it’s part of imagination and part reference. without getting too long winded, it helps to have a general understanding of anatomy and how the body can look in perspective. but for dynamic poses it’s important to just capture the gesture of the pose so you can really feel movement i guess… like try drawing with your whole arm and doing your first sketch in a minute or less! the more your refine a piece, you’ll be tightening it up and losing some of the strong gesture so don’t be afraid to really push it at first

the soulburner drawing was mostly from imagination (i started with a photo ref but ditched it immediately) but like you can see in the process video i did a bunch of really fast, exaggerated sketches of the pose before reeling it in to something more tight and toned down

alternatively- i’ve been wanting to experiment more with dynamic poses which has led me to a bad habit of impulse buying pose collection books from a japanese bookstore near me

i only have fighting pose collections but they’re really good to pull from! i don’t usually copy the poses exactly and just use them for reference so it’s pretty handy and versatile. most of them include both clothed and semi-clothed reference of the same actions which is also neat

these books can be kind of expensive but there are a lot of free pose sites and collections around the internet as well (for example off the top of my head, senshistock) 

but yeah i’m kinda talking out of my ass so i hope this gives you a couple ideas (´ . .̫ . `)

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

An iconic look that no one can rival.

i had to

a computer dreams of being a cowboy

I have a brush tail possum if that’s close enough.

Anyone out there with a Rat fursona?

I just have a question

🐛💎🐛 wormy boi 🐛⭐🐛

“the kind of white people white people dont fuck with” lmaoo

when u have so many things u want to draw that it becomes overwhelming so u just do nothing

Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

do you ever think about how the series of events that lead to Dumbledore’s death in HBP was literally set into motion by Oliver Wood’s passion for Quidditch

alright kids let’s break this down one last fuckin time (and this is a breakdown of just aesthetics)-

goth: all black, often very elaborate, gothically inspired (obviously), not branded

emo: still lots of black but much more casual, skinny jeans, certain brand shirts (usually music-themed), converse/vans, jewelry, specific hairstyles, think 2000’s hot topic kids

punk: lots of black again, very elaborate but in a completely different way, studs, chains, patches, piercings, leather, another set of specific hairstyles and bright hair colors, really rooted in anarchical themes

grunge: old clothes, flannels, oversized, layers, ripped jeans, distressed **if you’re buying “grunge” clothes new, you’re a fucking sham, the entire grunge aesthetic arose from garage bands too poor to afford clothes that weren’t thrifted, poorly sized, and already worn out**

additionally, all of these include elements of gender non-conformity and prioritize self-expression as well as identification as belonging to a group

and remember!!! all of these are actual subcultures, not just aesthetics, so when you say you’re “being goth/etc” remember to specify that you mean aesthetically, because its not fair to boil an entire subgroup of people down to just their aesthetic trends

Cowards won’t Reblog

tfw your understanding of animating just kinda clicks a notch higher outta nowhere

boys that are valid:

🍃 skinny boys

🍃 chubby boys

🍃 muscular boys

🌲 tall boys

🌲 short boys

🌲 average-height boys

🐸 trans boys

🐸 cis boys

and most importantly:

the boy reading this

Tintin remembers what comes after 15.

Wimpod

Almost every gay person I’ve met likes pokemon

Minor Map-Making Tips

I’m super not an expert, but here’s some stuff I bear in mind while designing maps for our RPG setting.

Rivers run away from the nearest high ground/mountain range towards the ocean. As they approach the ocean they usually (but not always) get wider and slower.

Deserts are usually not near large bodies of water unless something (possibly divine or human intervention) has catastrophically affected the soil or there is a mountain range in between keeping the clouds away

Ocean currents can justify some pretty weird temperature effects, e.g. why Hawaii is very close to the equator but is not miserably hot; it’s surrounded by hundreds of miles of cool open ocean that sucks up the heat.

Colder temps = coniferous forests (pine and fir), not deciduous (leafy green boys). They handle the cold better. Forest takes more humidity than grassland to survive, but also creates humidity once it’s established, so an area can lose its forest and be unable to bounce back.

Cities are usually built near sources of transportation or freshwater. A big river is both, even inland, a place where two rivers meet is even better (e.g. Pittsburgh), and the place where a large river meets the ocean is everyone’s first choice for a city even to some extent in modern times and definitely in pre-industrial times.

That said, Tolkien’s maps make no sense and Lord of the Rings was still wildly popular anyway, so… don’t stress too much.

I made a generator to find out about your supernatural partner because human partners are out of fashion now