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[aedyre]

i just think hes neat

[succubusboyfriend]

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

[succubusboyfriend]

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

[suave-eddboy]

[thepioden]

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

[sparksel]

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much. 

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential. 

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’ 

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust! 

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it! 

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support. 

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me! 

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics. 

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper. 

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more. 

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc. 

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah. 

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks. 

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings! 

[concerningwolves]

[t-c-art-inspiration]

How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense

[justpickupthatpen]

https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk

:3

[stupidlittlesideblog]

Reblogging to save a wrist

[justpickupthatpen]

[briarbramble]

Hi I have a literal animation degree and I learned fucking ✨none✨ of this

[aedyre]

@vaynglories guess who finally picked up the gay elf game how long has it been since you first recced it now lolsob

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[aedyre]

Heinrix admits, in the chaos on the bridge, the freshly minted officers of the von Valancius flagship thrust into a trial by fire that could shake even a seasoned crew, he has not paid much attention to what the Rogue Trader and Magos are doing with the cogitator of the warp sextant. There are so many other things to take care of -- the weapon systems, and the people operating the weapon systems, lest they lose their nerves -- so it is only when Bellamy stumbles on the stairs and all but falls on his throne that his attention snaps back to the Rogue Trader.

The Rogue Trader, who is shaking, shivering, choking- no, gasping for breath. The cacophony on the bridge breaks as more and more people notice their leader’s fall, and is replaced by a horrified silence.

Abelard is the first to break it, crying out, “Lord Captain!” and sprinting up the stairs, Heinrix hot on his heels. The Rogue Trader had been fine when he went to check on Magos Haneumann and the Warp engine, so why-

The white cuff of Bellamy’s right sleeve is drenched with blood. Heinrix knows for a fact that blood had not been there earlier. He made sure to check the Rogue Trader for injuries during the shuttle ride back to the ship, but as a man more adept at fighting from a good range then getting up close and personal, Bellamy had the good sense to stay in cover against the traitor Astartes.

Which begs the question -- just what did the Magos do that needed so much of the Rogue Trader’s blood?

He takes Bellamy by the shoulders, Abelard on the other side, and together they settle his lean frame on the bridge’s command throne. He’s still gasping, the rhythm of his breathing far too fast, too uncontrolled -- dyspnea, likely causing hyperventilation as well. 

He recalls seeing Bellamy pull out a small breathing mask, with some kind of medicinal spray built into it. Abelard seems to have had the same thought, already going for the Rogue Trader’s pockets with little thought for decorum, and Heinrix presses a hand flat on Bellamy’s heaving chest and focuses.

Slow down. Deep, even breaths. Bellamy’s green eyes, wide with panic, fix on Heinrix’s face. He can feel the Rogue Trader’s body try to rebel against the foreign control at first, then settle in the rhythm he forces on it. The blood -- there’s a lot missing, enough to cause symptoms of blood loss. Again he wonders what they did at that cogitator while he wasn’t looking, but he forces the thought aside. Focus. Close the wounds, just enough to stop more red liquid from dripping out of the- bite wounds? Punctures? On Bellamy’s wrist.

Then the lungs- and ah. Some scarring, perhaps from a severe infection -- that explains the rebreather, even if it appears a comparatively mild form of the disease. And the inflammation of the airways explains the spray built into it. Add to that the blood loss and stress of the situation-

Abelard finally retrieves the mask from one of Bellamy’s coat pockets -- perhaps he should suggest to the Rogue Trader wearing it on a chain, the way Achilleas does -- and dutifully fixes it over Bellamy’s mouth and nose. The Rogue Trader manages to reach up, and a press of the button applies the asthma medicine, another press the oxygen. Still Heinrix leaves his hand squarely on Bellamy’s chest, without applying pressure. He can feel the Rogue Trader’s chest expand and deflate and slowly, carefully, withdraws his control, until Bellamy’s breath is his own once more, and a stable, healthy rhythm. 

When he draws his hand back, Bellamy reaches up to grasp it. “Thank you,” he whispers, voice raw. 

Heinrix stills for a moment, then gives the tiniest bow, accounting for the way his hand is being held, before finally withdrawing it. Bellamy takes another two breaths from the mask, then claps his hands, finally breaking the spell that has befallen the bridge, and Heinrix steps back, creating a respectful distance to the throne to let the Rogue Trader work.

[aedyre]

meanwhile pasqal is registering a 35% decrease in efficiency on the bridge since the lord captain tied his hair back earlier

[aedyre]

One thing I'm curious about:

So from what I've seen it looks like the RT is from the Calixis Sector (at least a couple of backgrounds outright say as much), but Argenta came in on one of, if not the last ship to arrive before the Maw closed, and she's been in the Expanse for a while. Which begs the question of why the RT went to the Expanse, since if Theodora had sent for them to be brought there, wouldn't they have likely arrived around the same time as Argenta?

So how did your RT end up in the Expanse? c:

Since mine is a Navy Officer, I'm considering if he wasn't sent to the Expanse as reinforcements for the Navy there (and possibly in the running for a promotion) and then Kunrad and Theodora noticed this new guy was a distant relative and snagged him up just in time for the game.

[aedyre]

i genuinely wonder what heinrix thinks in that moment, especially since he's the one who suggests entering footfall incognito and would love to have a look at his reports sometime

it's also so funny to me that bell is famed for his intelligence, and my friend's reaction to this cap was "i'm a bell-himbo believer"

[aedyre]

i love how every time you're polite or friendly towards heinrix in the early game, he implies that's unusual :') and then bell is just like. are you doing all right? do you need something? it's so nice to have you back on the ship :)

[aedyre]

its like abelard somehow foresaw bell would fall for the surprisingly cute interrogator and was like "my new son lord captain deserves better, i must bully the inquisition toady away from him >:("

[aedyre]

did they just reuse the name,,,

since no one says anything if you're a navy officer

[aedyre]

well that sure hits differently on a replay :')

[aedyre]

other games have meet cutes, rogue trader has ptsd flashbacks upon meeting your future partner and barely having the presence of mind to shout out a customary greeting

[theglitchywriterboi]

If you had the choice what would you pick ? [Both are tax free***]

$1,000 a day for life

One time payment of $10,000,000

Voting ended onMay 12, 2024

Explain your reasoning plzzz

[weaselle]

listen. the lump sum gives you more options. Even if you just want daily money, if you invest it in a diversified mutual fund you can expect a 5% return on that investment which is 500,000 a year which comes out to 1,370 per day. So the REAL question becomes: is the interest earned on the investment ALSO tax free? But even if it isn't, at 30% income tax on your 1,370 dividend pay out, you're making 950 dollars a day AND you have 10 mil in the bank

and since the actual ROI in a stock portfolio can be as high as 15% some years, you're lowballing at 5% and rolling any extra back in to increase the 10 mil, which allows your daily income to grow and let your buying power keep up with inflation.

what you want to do is keep your job for a couple years while you put about a million in a nice safe high interest CD savings account that the stock market doesn't effect, so that if the stock market takes a dive you've got some money set aside so you can not touch your principle investment while it builds back up, but diversifying your stock portfolio and prioritizing low-risk investments, while keeping your ROI down closer to 5% (you'll probably never see any 15% years doing that) basically protects you against everything but a full economy crash, so that million (which is also earning like a 2% interest and growing) is just there as a personal insurance policy.

To review: You take the 10 mil, you invest it, you earn 500k a year on it (when 1k a day = 365k a year) while also keeping your entire 10 mil, which actually grows because many years you'll actually earn more like 9% on it, which means after ten years your 500k a year will turn into something more like 700k a year

Additionally, you can do things like borrow against your 10 mil, or whatever. The bank that handles your accounts will love that you have so much money and will offer you crazy deals, lines of credit, waive banking fees, etc. If you have a lot of money, you can use it to make a lot of money without necessarily having to spend much of it.

And if you, idk, discover you've only got 5 years to live, you've got your entire 10 million to spend wildly or leave to family or whatever, whereas 5 years at 1k a day is only about 2 million. Even if you live a long life, this allows you to spend more than 1k a day AND leave many millions of dollars to your family.

SO. YOU TAKE THE 10 MILLION. That's how you get access to the most money and have the best life.

[aedyre]

the greatest flaw of this game is clearly the fact that i cant just kick this guy out and replace him asap when he says this

it's less awkward now that i switched bell from voidborn to hive worlder, but considering that part of his stick is that he thinks the lower deck clans should [gasp!] be treated like people, he would not have any trust in this guy running anything.

[aedyre]

sure, abelard, it wasn't very romantic, but at least they got to do something fun in commorragh, y'know?

[aedyre]

some rogue trader scribbles, brought to you by my inability to keep characters consistent looking or to settle on what kind of haircut bellamy has

[aedyre]

I love how the different origins almost all get their own last names, with the lack of one for the Sanctioned Psyker also nicely tying into Heinrix mentioning that van Calox isn't actually his birth name.

How often do you think the RT accidentally introduces themselves with their old name and needs to correct to "von Valancius"?

And I didn't notice it the first time around, since I had no idea what was going on, but Bellamy's old ship being the Drusus's Blessing really fits with him constantly reminding the Drusus cult that their Saint also preached mercy :D