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I rise from the grave because my financials are Not Good and I would love to work for you. If you want ALL these designs, you get 20% off the total cost. :> These are YCH (Your Character Here) style; they're easier for me to do because I already have the poses that I can pull from; however, if you want custom poses it will be a slight upcharge. (My trash rat OC Kieran is the model for these Discord stickers. Be nice to him, he's not as mean as he looks. ;;)

aeolian-mode

I just launched my Youtube Art Tutorial channel, starting with a live2D tutorial about something I learned while I was learning the program. I hope it helps someone out there, and thanks for your support!

#live2D #noses

devinellekurtz

Here is a round-up of all eight of the free digital brush packs that I’ve released so far for Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, and Procreate!

You can download them on this page (click) Type in “0″ for a free download or tip any amount you so desire!

All my brush packs are totally free (tips optional but always very appreciated!) and can be used freely in any work, including commercial work that you profit off of, with no license or credit required. My goal with these brush packs is to make digital painting feel more achievable and accessible - especially painting environments, something I now LOVE but that used to intimidate me, & felt much more approachable with the right tools! Many of the packs also come with tutorial video content. I hope you enjoy!

#brushes #ps

euroblog

Would you look at this masterpiece

Via @alexrybakofficial on TikTok

palominocorn

For context:

The violinist is Alexander Rybak, a Belorussian violinist whose family defected from the USSR to Norway. One of the songs he’s mashing up is his own “Fairytale”, Norway’s entry that won the 2009 Eurovision.

The other song, which is the one playing on the amp, is “Stefania” by the Kalush Orchestra, Ukraine’s entry that won the 2022 Eurovision. The song is about the writer’s own mother, and also about mothers who protect their children from war. Once Russia invaded, the song became a war anthem.

So this isn’t just a gorgeous piece of music. It’s a political piece about unity between people who have been oppressed by the same empire.

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rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:

inkwingart

This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.

TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)

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what

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pococurantina

shaaknaa

Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue

pyrrhiccomedy

Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.

The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.

Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.

You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.

“Sorry, what the fuck?”

What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.

Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:

We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.

Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”

That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.

So how does magenta factor into this?

Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.

What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?

Fucking green.

Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.

So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.

And so it made up magenta.

So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”

No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:

Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.

Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?

Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.

The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.

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humanpersonface

So I googled Stygian Blue and…

Yall.

FORBIDDEN.

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HOW TO SEE THE FORBIDDEN COLOURS

rubykgrant

Maybe the real Shrimp Colors were the Magenta and Yellow and Stygian Blue we made along the way…

foone

Fun fact! This is literally what the shrimp colors are! It turns out shrimp don’t have the brains to merge colors together, like we do.

As explained above, when you see yellow, your eyes are really seeing red and green and merging them into what we see as yellow.

Shrimp can’t, so they instead just have more cones that are sensitive to a bunch of other wavelengths. No merging needed.

So instead of red/green/blue their eyes are more like red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet. So yeah. They can probably just see yellow and pink and so on, directly.

srnear

Color out of space by h.P Lovecraft I’m pretty sure it’s inspired by the magenta debate

daisywords

can't believe it's 2022 and we still have posts around about not overusing "said" like seriously? Imagine if I made a list of words to use instead of "and." wouldn't that be stupid?

daisywords

Gail Carson Levine was RIGHT

aeoliansrefs

The source of this is "Writing Magic" and it is, to date, one of the most memorable books about writing that I have ever had the pleasure to read. If I got anything from my high school creative writing class, it was reading this book.

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly [Levine, Gail Carson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Writing Magic: Creating

#writing #writing tips

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sparkledragons

I see a lot of folks confused about step one in the tags and to explain: what they're doing is just a color wash. Typically it's done with a color opposite on the color wheel to the primary color in a piece (though can be other tones for various reasons). It helps to make the final colors pop a lot more than they would if painted directly on a white canvas as the wash will show up in tiny spaces between the paint/in thinner areas and create contrast.

#painting

heikala

Process of Usva ✍️ Artwork done in collaboration with Kuretake with their Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors ✨ Really just loving how smooth and nice these colors are, the colors allowed me to make multiple passes of wet on wet technique without the already dry bottom layer shifting. Really happy with this piece!

Music composed by Ryan Camus http://www.ryancamus.com/

#painting

aeolian-mode

Some Art Tips for ya, hope it helps someone! it is worth it even if I need to show a parade of my own failure. LOL In this house i am honest about how hard art is for me

#advice #tips

heikala

Process of Shortcut 🍂 Music composed by Ryan Camus http://www.ryancamus.com/

thecollectibles

LUSH Series - Gouache by Madeleine Bellwoar

#environment

natsukusa-mikan

✎🎦

#video #gesture #composition

catchymemes

Disney Facial Expressions

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modmad

this person was animated by someone on too much caffeine with a huge love of lip sync, teeth, and a healthy disregard for how real peoples move because life is better exaggerated especially when you’re dropping facts

so what I’m saying is you’re all wrong this woman is a Don Bluth character

martascabreras

emily is also hard of hearing! she over-exaggerates everything from the way her mouth moves to her facial expressions because she herself had to learn to pick up these cues and lip-read from a young age.

she’s openly expressed that she knows people find this uncomfortable, but she doesn’t give two shits because honestly? who’s at the disadvantage? no one! not only do her tiktoks always have closed captions, but she exudes a very magnetic aura that makes anyone feel happy, and she’s a good laugh at that. she’s one of my favourite creators specifically because of her integrity and transparency - she’s unapologetic about who she is, what she likes and what she cares about.

modmad

re-reblogging because this is so interesting and to confirm that this is one of my favourite human beings to watch forever now <3

thedragonflywarrior

The Body Shapes of the World’s Best Athletes Compared Side By Side

thedragonflywarrior

Health and fitness comes in all shapes and sizes. Every single one of these athletes is a certified bad-ass.

yamino

I’ve posted this before but it’s worth reblogging!

schweizercomics

Just a reminder - if you’re drawing a team superhero book and more than one of your characters has the same build YOU’RE DOING IT ALL WRONG

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Always reblog

abowtieandtwohearts

This is excellent.

baixueagain

It’s also important to note that often (though not always!) physique is associated with one’s strength. Bodybuilders have defined muscles. Weightlifters and wrestlers have bulk. Gymnasts and boxers are small but muscular. Volleyball and basketball players are tall and lean. Runners and bikers are skinny with muscular legs. Hockey players and skiiers have powerful core muscles and thighs. Those who do field sports (discus, shot-putting, etc) have powerful chests and arms.

Obviously, there are exceptions, but athletes often have physiques that match their area. Not everyone is good at the same thing, nor is everyone’s body necessarily built for the same thing. Humans come in a lot of different shapes, and that’s a good thing, because not every shape is ideal for every activity.

jenniferrpovey

I see this is back and as awesome as ever.

fluffygif

What a magical painting by Laurasbeatingart

aeolian-mode

Hello! I have started my first Kickstarter project! Pro hero enamel pins, starting with All Might, Present Mic and Aizawa with more planned. I’m so nervous but this is the best way I could think of to start such a project. Thanks for looking! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aeolian/self-care-heroes-enamel-pins

#bnha #mha #signal boost #self signal boost