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Compilation of references, inspiration, tutorials and other useful things. Shared with the hope that someone else will also find them useful. Feel free to ask anything or submit anything that you think I could find interesting or useful. And of course, if you ever use anything found here as reference or a source of inspiration, it would make me very happy to see it; I could share it here if you want. Find me elsewhere on the Internet, including some of the stuff I use this for on am1vf.gitlab.io/index

[lux-scriptum]

No, you see, I wish to be an author. Not in marketing. Or an influencer. I wish to tell my stories, be told I did a fantastic job, and then go back to my hovel to scribble some more. I am delicate of constitution and awkward in crowds.

[briarplant]

Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.

[kirby97]

two points of view on math fish

[perplexingly]

Commission for @sn4ggle2th , thank you very much!

(Commissions on Ko-fi)

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

Writing Advice #1: The 90% project completion Dark Night of the Soul | Marie Blanchet

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[onebadnoodle]

some composition notes i guess

[jayebat]

bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing off the southern coast of Australia

[ltwilliammowett]

Sailor's needle case, mid 19th century

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[lui-the-cute-snek]

Based on this scene from Columbo 👇

[mortuary9]

gn

[possumcollege]

Shout out to one of the last military vehicles I still think is cool, the M274 mule.

-there's no way it didn't ride like it wanted you dead

-looks like they forgot to add a seat until 10min after the design was due

-being thrown clear is its only safety feature

-terribly charming somehow

Armed versions are hilarious.

The Devil's Picnic Table

Don't care what it does to the gas mileage, the suspension, or my eardrums, it needs an M45 quad turret.

[lamus-dworski]

17th-century Polish Hussars. Images © Marcin Lipiński / StudioA.

[bob-artist]

Thinking about this one day when I was in Chicago and it was so foggy that the buildings turned 2D

[bob-artist]

I mean... you're not wrong

[doctordune]

[ohcorny]

it turns out i really enjoy making educational posts about the comics making process and ways of thinking. here's another one featuring characters from my graphic novel in a very anachronistic art museum.

[black-0bsession]

The Barber of Suez by Léon Bonnat, 1876