Living in Dreams

私の夢を見たノート

[dark-pockets]

*distressed laughter* 

I wanted to make something fun and stupid before I delve deep into hell-month.

There’s really no rhyme or reason. I doodled a kuribohyugi and I was like “omg this is so cute” and couldn’t stop myself as more came plooping out? WHATEVER. Maybe one day I’ll make them buttons or something. =w=;;

[renrink]

I don’t know what anyone else thinks, but wouldn’t fem!Yugi be quite popular with the boys?? Yugi wasn’t popular with the ladies because no girl was interested in dating a a wimpy guy half their size, but fem!Yugi?? She’d just be this tiny, little thing who’d just be sending these overwhelming silent signals for big, strong men to protect her and take her into their big, burly, manly men arms where they can be the knight to her princess. She’d still get bullied by most the girls because she’d be a wallflower and easily picked on, but they were probably jealous because all the boys liked her– and because she would have been close to genderbent!Anzu, who I also imagine to be quite popular.

Gosh dang it the moe.

[renrink]

I headcanon fem!Ryou to have short hair because yes.

[anatoref]

Dynamic Poses by Modelfactory

[piraticoctopus]

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

[dandelionkit]

fuckyeahcabbages

[mibuchireo]

GENERATION OF MIRACLES + flower symbolism

[thehiirablog]

HIIRAREFS: Basic and Intermidiate guide to colouring in

What better day to end the year then with a basic guide to colouring- This is for beginners or intermediate artists. Colouring is a big part to an art piece, whether you decide to use colours or not, that’s up to you, but for the most part, having some knowledge on appliance of colour will really help you out!

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ARTISTS WITH AN INSPIRING KNOWLEDGE OF COLOUR APPLICATION! Please take the time to have a look at other artists work so that you ca research and get inspired!

Gullacass: Uses brights, dulls and pastels to create brilliant guro, pop and macabre pieces| DA + TUMBLR

TinyCalcium: Old friend of mine who explores brights and mustard colours and places them as a foundation for their work | TUMBLR

BeastPop: Talented with opposing and Triwheel colours. Outstanding cell-shading, and knows how to flexibly bend colour form to their will in popart. | DA

H0stel: Fantastic composition of light direction and applies colour to bodies based on ambient occlusion. | TUMBLR

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COLOUR SLANG: I use some strange slang to express colour types and shades as well as groups. Although they may not be canonically correct, I will use these terms to describe colour palates to the best of my ability! Analogous: Colours that are near or adjacent to each other on the colour wheel, EG: Red and Orange

Oppositional/complimentary: Colours that are opposed or opposite from each other on the colour wheel, EG: Cherry and Green

Triadic: Colours that form a triangle on the Colour wheel, EG: Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. These three colours when mixed together will make black.

Arrowtype/Quadcolour: Four colours, that generally form an arrow shape on the colour wheel.

Tetradic: Colours that form a rectangle or square in the colour wheel

Neons: The very brightest you can get a colour, be careful where you use them as they can look ugly together at the most. Try to use neons when you are adding bright glowing objects to your piece. Neons are great for highlights.

Brights: Slightly washed Neons. Appropriate if you have characters that are colourful.

Washed: Very washed brights with a hint of grey. These are also useful for colourful characters.

Pastels: Colour with white in them to make them seem light.

Baby Pastel: Pastel with even more white in them, good for subtle highlights.

Darks: Colour with black added to them. Used mostly for lineart.

Mustards: Colours with dark grey added to them

Earthen: Colours with brown added to them

Warm and Cool colours: Warm colours are colours that range fromMagenta to Yellow. Cool ones range from Lime to Fuchsia.

Straight tones: A greyscale palate. or a straight scale of one colour from black to it’s neon form.

Warm and cool tones: Warm tones are a greyscale mixed with warm colours and cool tones are greyscale mixed with cool colours.

Skintones: Warm washed or pastel colours generally used to colour in skin, but they don’t have to be warm at all! ( I will not show you a palate for this however)

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WHAT TO AVOID WHEN COLOURING: beginner artists, tend to go ahead and start by colouring their line art with neon and mustard colours. Neons are not necessarily good for base colours unless the character has a glow.

I often see lazy attempts to shade, often a beginner artist with use an airbrush and use black and white to shade and highlight their piece. This is not very effective, and I’m sorry to say… It’s kind of gross as well. Try to avoid being lazy. If you have a piece that has bold black lines, avoid using soft shading and airbrushing at this point of time.

Black and white isn’t always the best option when colouring in your piece, but it also depends on the style you are trying to convey. If you plan on only using straight tones to colour in a piece, black and white is good.

A GOOD BASIC WAY TO COLOUR For this basic tutorial I will show you a nice way to colour in a piece with bold lines. I will be using Minty’s Classic character as an example.

Begin with using brights that have been washed down a little and washed skin tones if your character is human based. Avoid using neons or mustards if you are able. If there is white on the character, such as the white on an eyeball or the teeth, consider using baby pastels. For Minty’s eyeballs I have used a baby pastel blue. I have chosen to use a darker and more washed version for her Irises.

With you foundation colours placed down, use a washed warm colour for the skin tone, such as a salmon. If the character’s hair or fur is warm coloured, use a pink or red orange to shade that as well. Use the cell shading technique. This may mean you will have to erase some of your shading so be sure to do this on another layer. For your baby pastels, you can use a regular pastel to shade it. For Minty’s eyes I have used pastel blue and lowered the opacity by a little.

For Highlights, I have chosen to use baby pastel yellow. I wanted the piece to be warm.

Applying a light airbrush over the top of the piece makes it feel a little softer. I have also applied the airbrush over the initial borders to create colour bleed, giving a very subtle reflective approach.

Colouring your line art layer, particularly if you have bold lines, can really make a piece look more interesting! I like to leave the overall outline black. You can gradient and bleed colour in your line art as well

Light tracing is a technique lots of artist’s use, where they run a sharp line of highlight next to line art to divide borders.

This looks a lot nicer than the black and white shading, doesn’t it!? __________________________________________

This is a very very simple guide to applying colour to your piece! If This helped, please reblog and share this guide around!

If you have any questions or feedback, don’t be afraid to send me a message!

[gemsandpinetrees-blog-deactivat]

Gonna need this later, can’t color worth a shit

[ambs-arts]

All of the 16 personality type descriptions together. You can find the complete images and descriptions for each type on my blog here X 

[fannochka]

Doodle with heads X) Some Yōkai | KnB AU  (＾▽＾) [Yōkai  are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore] So  here is Tree Spirit -Sakurai (with little Kodamas),  Kitsune-Momoi and Aomine as Ao-Andon.  Love this trio~♥

[helpfulharrie]

Hey there! Firstly, I really love your blog! You're so kind and the content is great! Now, I have some issues when it comes to creating dynamic poses, and drawing people interacting... Whether they're hugging, kissing or punching each other to death.. I just never seem to get it right! I look at refs and tutorials all the time, but when I sit down and draw, it all looks so stiff. D: Any chance you'd be able to help me out? Thank you so much for being here for our artistic struggles/needs! ; v ;

Take a good look at this cylinder

It’s, well, a little dull right? It’s just not very interesting to look at.

These, on the other hand..

They’re a little more interesting right?

Now.. why is that? There’s a few reasons actually - but it all comes down to line dynamics.

Each of these cylinders are made out of three kinds of line

And these three lines convey three different things!

I lines convey tension

Whilst wiggly S lines convey the opposite!

And C lines (as well as S lines to an extent) convey motion

By combining these lines, you can create dynamic lines. But to do this successfully, you need contrast. That means having two different types of line opposing each other

The more extreme the difference between two opposing lines, the more dynamic they will become.

This particular concept of contrast is also referred to as ‘straights vs curves’ and is illustrated especially well in this post here!

Now, having lots of lines that are relatively straight, and/or very parallel will cause things to look stiff.

To practice drawing more dynamic lines and poses, it does all come down to the gesture of your drawing.

I highly recommend doing gestures of cats to get away from stiffness.

There’s a lot less information to simplify when drawing cats (and if you need help with that i do have a cat tag), which makes finding the gesture a lot easier to do.

Models also are often stiff themselves as they have to hold a pose haha, so they’re not always the best reference. Cats on the other hand are naturally very lithe, so that should help you with finding dynamic lines!

Pixelovely has an animal version of their figure drawing tool so you can use that for reference!

[aimiera]

The Warrior Princess - Momoi Satsuki

[oyakorodesu]

black-supernatural-creature couples~! from here

[hyoudov]

[nagittos]

Kurapika can conjure a unique weapon — five chains that extend from each finger on his right hand. Some of the fingers were specially designed to deal vengeance on the Phantom Troupe members. To increase the effectiveness of his chains against them, Kurapika placed strict Limitations on the usage of his chains. 

requested by kirishimatokaa 

[neorukix]

So I was rewatching Kurobas ending and

they are playing kick the can right…

but that can…isn’t a…

oh my god… they really did it

[yu-photograph]

望みが叶わなくても

笑顔でいられますように * * やっと会えたアネモネ お花畑じゃないけど、会えた瞬間嬉しかったな♡

[alisayamin]

Feline Fate (An AkaKuro Hybrid!AU Fanfic) -Part 2-

Since Sei’s ask got so much feedback, I’m continuing the akakuro hybrid!AU~

I don’t think many of you would like it since I’m implementing an AU that already crosses all in-chara boundaries cuz cuddling is like a normal thing for hybrids lol So fair warning, this is purposely OOC. 

Read on AO3

[alisayamin]

Akashi gulped down the cold tea from the mini fridge. He was still half naked from his morning shower. The lion sighed in relief from quenching his thirst. Eyeing what was left of the fridge’s content, he took out an unopened isotonic drink. Kuroko’s going to need it if Akashi wanted him up and ready in 15 minutes.

He casually closed the fridge and walked to the bed where Kuroko was still hiding in the covers with his body pillow. Miraculously, Kuroko didn’t have morning classes. And it was too early for him to be up.

Akashi sat on the bump of the white blanket. Must have been Kuroko’s butt.

“Kuroko, get up.”

There were groaning noises.

“C’mon the meeting starts in half an hour.”

“…the meeting’s tomorrow…”

“No, it’s today.”

“…get off my butt.” Muffled the voice against the pillow sternly.

“Not until you wake up and shower.”

Kuroko emerged from under the blankets with an unhappy face, “I’m gonna sit on your face someday.”

“Fascinating. Now, get up.”

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[kingmedusa]

Cartoon look alike