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ABOUT THIS BLOG

I use my main blog @bolognamayhem117 as primary dumping ground for every original post and then I disseminate everything into Appropriately themed blogs via the reblog button.

This way if somebody only wants to see, for example Cult of The Lamb content, then they can exclusively follow @cult-of-the-bologna for only what I do and say for the COTL fandom. People who want to see EVERYTHING I do can follow my main blog @bolognamayhem117. Make sense?

The following is a list of my blogs and what you'll find on them. I'm still in the process of populating some of these blogs with posts. Thank you for your patience.

@bologna-gate-3 BALDUR'S GATE 3 content only

@burn-your-face-upon-the-chrome MAD MAX + DYSTOPIA content only

@trials-by-blood PREDATOR (the alien) content only

@bolognas-funnies MEMES + HUMOR

@cult-of-the-bologna CULT OF THE LAMB content only

@bologna-arts MY ART AND ART I LIKE

@the-x-filing-cabinet THE X-FILES content only

@the-six-realms MY ORC NOVEL blog

@bologna-loves-your-bg3-art EXCLUSIVELY REBLOGS OF BG3 ART please follow and give these artists buckets of love (and reblogs)

@bologna-miniatures TTRPG TERRAIN AND MINIATURES

[bolognamayhem117]

Furiosa enforced break from Maker Hell.

[bonkalore]

Trying to draw buildings

[archive7481465]

yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!

[moorecolinart-deactivated201810]

Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.

There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.

[vanjestic-deactivated20160131]

reblog to save a life

[bludragongal]

This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.

[shatterstag]

Great comments and tutorials!

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!

[askoursquad]

reblogging to save a life

[bludragongal]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

[bolognamayhem117]

Well. That's finally done.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ll achieve the most you can if you go at your own pace

[tired-stressed-trying-my-best]

[bolognamayhem117]

The most boring part is over. Now to cut and glue lots of cardboard and get some topography.

[bolognamayhem117]

It was not my intention to sound like a disembodied spirit when I called him out.

(they're just postureing and getting fussy about a high value area where I've been working on a project. It's mostly play)

[bolognamayhem117]

I hate the phrase "There's no platonic explanation for this."

Like?? I have a few friends, if we are in the same room, we may indeed appear to be husband and wife owners of the most intense BDSM Brothel on either coast and objectively appear to be both the horniest things in the room and ESPECIALLY horny for literally anything the other says.... And have zero desire whatsoever to fuck eachother. As a matter of fact one of us is probably ACE. (I have a really high Ace Bestie count for some reason???)

So yes, there is a platonic explanation. You're just not wrapping your head around friendships not exactly fitting into the caricature of friendship that is shown in media.

[bolognamayhem117]

Planning out the terrain tiles and sorting out the topography.

[bolognamayhem117]

I'm doing miniatures again for the first time since moving.

I've masked off desired windows, primed, and I'm starting the process of base coating the buildings in that nauseating coral-eggshell color that everything was in the 90s.

Apocalypse gas station, anyone?

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[meanao3thoughts]

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[bolognamayhem117]

I had to hang a bug zapper inside my house because I need to have a fan running in the bathroom window to push out hot air from cooking, but the world's dumbest flies keep getting in.

I know flies have a brain the size of a pinhead, but somehow these ones are extra stupid and efforts to shepherd them outside again fail because they are that dumb.

I open the top of the window and they all gather under the little lip and cry that they can smell the outdoors but cannot reach it! If only it were possible to fly one inch around this impassable barrier!

Darwinism is not my favorite pop theory, more like my last resort at this point...

[beemovieerotica]

please say sike

[hot-lesbian-knight]

[bolognamayhem117]

We live in an era where people would rather be confused and come up with their own and often incorrect conclusions rather than do anything at all that requires sitting down and paying attention... God. People are fucking stupid now.

Instant gratification (Amazon, door dash, constant cellular phone use, streaming services, AND YES A.I.) did this to us.

[canichangemyblogname]

This June, I need Gen Z queers to understand that some people are closeted.

[canichangemyblogname]

I am saying this as a Gen Z queer, before y’all get your guns out to fucking shoot me.

But I need y’all to understand that if someone doesn’t give you their government name in a queer space, it’s not because they’re “mysterious,” and you do not have permission to take it upon yourself to figure out their “real identity” and go digging for them online like a private investigator. First, that’s creepy and a violation of privacy and reasonable boundaries. Second, some of us keep our private and professional lives very separate because we need to keep food on the fucking table and a roof over our heads, and our private life could jeopardize that.

[canichangemyblogname]

“Why won’t you tell me about your parents?” “Why can’t I know your real name?” “Where do you work?”

1.) Not all our parents would bake us a fucking cake when we come out. Some of us are closeted. Surely you understand this? You also do not need to know my parent’s names or occupations; we are both adults. I do not need nor want to mix you and my private life with my parents and my public life.

2.) Trans people do not owe you their dead name or government name

3.) I’m not telling you for the sake of job security. I am a government fucking caseworker working amidst a fucking lavender panic!

“There’s no way you’re a different person outside this; you’re still you at your core. What harm is there—”

No, I am a completely different person. A different person with a different personality and different interests and a different name and presentation. I am a completely different person because I keep this life and my public life private to avoid fracturing 90% of my interpersonal relationships and 100% of my professional ones.

“You’re not out? But you’re so confident.”

See— that’s part of the issue. Y’all assume someone is in the closet because they hate themselves or lack self-identity. Some of us know exactly who we are, but need to prioritize financial stability or else our entire life gets exponentially harder immediately.

[canichangemyblogname]

You meet queer people over the age of 40 and one of the first/earliest questions is “who knows?”

I need y’all to start bringing that energy. Because it’s not always safe for someone to be out and not everyone is safe to be out around.

There is a misnomer that “the closet” inherently means “doesn’t know they’re queer” and not “isn’t out widely and publicly.” “Outness” is often a patchwork.

[monsterbrush]

I've been watching way too many combat sports lately...

Anybody want Magni's autograph?

[tamvmat]

Only one is not a mimic.

Faberge Eggs. They're neat