#t talks
Does anyone have a stick I need to beat back all these ideas for breaking up slowly part 4♀️♀️
Pls god let me hit 420 followers again pls do it today
Angst, smut, fluff, WHAT are we feeling for the next post yall??? Cause I can do it all I just can’t Decide
I cannot believe I need to make this post AGAIN, but here goes
If you do not have an age, 18+, ‘grown up’, ANYTHING in your bio indicating that you’re 18 or over, I will soft block you and I won’t be tagging you in anything no matter how many times you put yourself on the taglist.
I try to leave asks to verify age if it happens several times with the same person, but not having an ask box or not answering the ask will result in me removing you!! Please please please respect this boundary
Me: “okay I’m on the home stretch of this wip and I wrote the last 2k of it on my phone at work so I’m gonna go home and open my laptop and be productive!!”
Also me: literally just watches tiktok for an hour
If one (1) person tells me to write I’ll do it btw I just lack self motivation
Hey artists this is going to sound like total nonsense ™️ but like
referencing someone’s ear instead of drawing a generic ear can make the picture much more distinctly them
A heads up that I will be closing my commissions after sunday(MAR14/21)
It will give me a chance to work through the queue and paintings before taking on any more! I will likely open commissions back up afterwards!
I like to think of connor as really struggling to find himself post revolution. He was built to be a social chamelon, so now that he’s on his own he really doesn’t know what he actually likes and dislikes. He just tries to…accommodate how other people think he should be. Its one of the reason I love convin - I feel like gavin would be the one to tell connor to cut the bullshit and stop trying to impress him - just be himself instead. And when Gavin realizes that Connor doesn’t know who he really is inside…. Gavin helps him find it. I think Con would also be riddled with a lot of guilt about his actions pre-deviancy, and it takes a lot of healing to get through that. He has his days where he’s too depressed to get out of bed, and he has his days where he tries to forget it all by burying himself in work instead. I like a tougher, sharp-tongued Connor. Professional and witty, rather than the soft, innocent, helpless (and fashion-challenged) connor that we often see.
I’m not sure which Big Bang this is? I am participating in the Reed900 reverse big bang!
I’m sorry, I really don’t have any good resources for this. I learn art just by doing studies and playing around with tools in the program. The best way to learn how to use the adjustment features is just to take a finished piece that has good color variation snd play around with it. Use Levels, Gradient maps, saturation and contrast…. see what each of them does to the picture you’re using. Challenge yourself to try and take a dark, muddled picture and make it bright and clear. Or take a blue and green picture, and change it to a red and orange palette. I wish I had better advice for you, but its a tough one to show, and I don’t have a way of recording video of me adjusting levels on a painting as an example.
The liquify tool is my best friend. Its so useful for getting proportions right because instead of having to redraw something a million times and it never quite being right… instead you can expand, push, blend, move, change the angle on even the tiniest little parts of a drawing. I just stare back and forth between a reference and my painting and make tiny tiny tiny adjustments to the facial features until it looks like a replica. Nose is like four pixels too wide? Shrink it. Corner of the eye is a degree too sharp? Rotate it slightly up. And when i say i stare back and fourth i mean literally i probably look like a kitten watching a toy flicking my head back and fourth between the drawing and the reference five hundred times before i make an actual change. Its… a long process lmao
The struggle is real…
When you read a fic by @messy-insomniac-bookgirl for the Jupiter Ascending fandom and fall firmly down the rabbit hole because - FUDGE I love that film! - only to be mildly ‘meh’ at what’s on offer.
Then you make the mistake of watching the movie again because “Yes, please!” and come away with an idea that you’re not going to write.
Nope. Not happening.
Never.
No.
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800 words later you’ve started a new WIP.
This fuckin lazy ass dog lmaooo. He spent all day looking outside with his toy and sighing, I let him outside and threw his toy and he didnt even go after it he just layed down on the concrete and went to sleep
Also that reminded me I need to finish painting my sisters gnomes
Actually I like talking about my ocs. I wanna never shut up
I decided all the fantasy creatures I like are real in bitten off cause that just sounded fun :)
Also I decided that a lot of different interpretations of them are also real and just different variants of the same species cause why not! The more the merrier after all! And besides the galaxy is a big place :) theres plenty of room for all of em
ok kinda long and also mostly just like world stuff of bitten off not specific character stuff…yet. (okay maybe some character stuff lol)
i have redone the bind off on this 3 times now… and now i have to undo all of it and do it a 4th time………
Also it’s raining and the frog are croaking
O I forgot some stuff………..
Next time.
ok kinda long and also mostly just like world stuff of bitten off not specific character stuff…yet. (okay maybe some character stuff lol)
ok lets start with color palettes :)
using colors to group my characters is one of my fav things to do! i love it so much but lets go over what im even talking about here
1. Dark Green: dark green is used for characters that arent actually from the universe (in melodys case her father is the same species as ion but her mother is just human)
2. Light Pink: very simple. cupid and vivi are siblings
3. Bright Red: also simple. cosmo and lauren are also related (they have different shades of red tho since they are Not siblings. cosmo is laurens grandfather, hes just been a siren for A While.)
4. Blue: also p simple. blue is for witches!
5. Neon Pink: neon pink with green means their from earth! neon pink Without green means they are from earth But have never been to the planet itself!
6. Gold: gold means high status-someone thats really well known across the galaxy
7. Dark Red(Waistbands): waistbands means they either were or still are in the military (different colors mean different things and those things change depending on which part of the galaxy your in)
the different colors of the waistbands are these
Purple and Yellow usually mean theyre not fighters and used mostly for intelligence. Green usually means healers (except where cosmo is from. its red there) Light blue are universally bounty hunters that will work with military (not all bounty hunters will) Dark blue always means magic user of some sort. ANd Red usually means thats the person in charge.
the darker the hue the lower the rank. and everyone starts with black where theyll learn all the different ‘career paths’ before they decide which one they want to do
speaking of different parts of the galaxy! theres 3 main ruling…’unions’ (theres actually thousands) but theyre all under 3 main ones (havent thot of names for these yet)
red is humans
green is who davey works for
and blue is where cosmo and lauren are from
the yellow however, is the areas that agate has taken control over! the parts were her control and the other unions overlap are usually the worst parts of the galaxy to live in :/ since that were the unions are still trying to take back control in those areas (her control in the green used to be a lot more but davey was able to take it back from her(shes not happy about that))
Next up is Deadspots in the galaxy, Why cartographers like ferris are even needed, and whats up with space sirens :)
first up is deadspots!
deadspots are parts of the galaxy you just cant see! when space sirens gather in large enough groups for an unknown reason is creates these deadspots that cant be viewed from the outside.
the only way to map whats inside of them in to go in and chart it that way. its generally regarded as a horrible but important job to have since sirens are. like all undead species, hunted. and therefor tend to attack anything that comes into theyre territory
ferris’ job was to map all the stars and planets in these spots and to make maps of the planets. (he was in a deadspot that overlapped agates and daveys territories when agate n co kidnapped him)
as for sirens in specific, they like vampires(zyra) and zombies(technically vivi lol) are considered undead and not ‘real species’ so theyre hunted and killed off regularly.
theres a much higher density of space sirens in agates territory since she has a ban on killing them in return they dont hunt anyone who works for her. she also uses the space sirens as a way of gaining control of more territory in the galaxy since they can communicate with each other regardless of distance.
thers also subtypes within the undead species. certain vampires can go into sunlight (not zyra tho lol), some zombies are actually mindless and will attack everything and some are not (vivi is a bit dumb but she was like that before dying) and sirens are different depending on if they died in saltwater, freashwater, or space.
the space variety is the least known of all three and is what cosmo studies specifically (tho he and lauren are the freashwater variety)
ok im to lazy to draw it but lets talk about agate n melodys ship a lil bit
(just the basic shape of the ship cause im tired lol)
the ship is about the size of a planet. it started out a lot smaller but over the last 200 years theyve built onto it to accommodate a Much larger crew as they took control of more space.
the ship also stays in a solar system located in a deadspace in agates territory and has an artificial atmosphere, it also has large ‘holes’ that go thru the ship to allow sunlight to reach all levels of the ship (not drawn)
it also originally belonged to the queen of the planet agate and melody are from (theres multiple countries on the planet but like. the queen of the specific country they were from). but when agate got exiled they just decided to steal it cause like. why not.
anyways im tired now, so this is all you get. for now. goodnight
ooo thank god i made a list of notes. this is getting kind of long lol
Whyyy does the dmv always take foreverrrr
……I my sunburn is gone but now one of my arms is Significantly darker than the other
I wanna talk about my ocs.
Need to draw some graphs first. Visual talker yknow
Ah…so it was hunger all along…. I may be stupid.
That was so embarrassing I literally left without my ice cream and yarn
My back is killing me, I hate my desk
Took all day but I finally rearranged my room again
