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@chibmib
"You are on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world."
How to make exterior backgrounds - by Thomas Romain, who work for japanese animation industry (Space Dandy, Basquash, Oban Star-Racers âŠ)
Month 12 - Prince Edin
WE DID IT!! I DID IT!! I FINISHED THE CHALLENGE AND I'M PROUD WITH MY PROCESS!!! Ă^Ă
This month's character is the newest version of "Lunaris" (who is now called "Edin"), the character that stayed with me for more than a decade and grew with me as a writer as well as a reflection of my personality.
This month was rather drawing and see how much I have improved in one year. At first, I thought that I reached a plateau with my drawing skills, but after drawing each month for a whole year, I can't believe that I improved!! This month's drawing hits me.... in so many way. After hearing the BS with AI-""""artists", I was dedicated to give it my all for this drawing. I have to admit... I ran out of time, so I KNOW that I can do better. But I dare to say that I put so much more effort and love into my art and passion than what AI will ever be able to produce.
Anyway, if you want to know more, check out my Instagram!!
https://www.instagram.com/chibmib/
Hope you like it <333
Month 11 - Nora and Ivan
Phew!! I'm not disastrously late this time!! XD
This month's characters are⊠mysterious Owl Lady and her husband (2013). I think I never gave them proper names. If I did, then I forgot. xD
The challenge for this month was trying to replicate tenebrism/chiaroscuro (think of Caravaggio). ⊠I'm not sure whether I did it, because I think I can (as always) do better xDDD Let's just say⊠It felt so easy to draw that it felt like I didn't do my best⊠This style was at the same time very satisfying and unsatisfying to draw⊠""">.> It sure was an experience
Anyway, if you want to know more, check out my Instagram!!
https://instagram.com/chibmib/
Hope you like it <333
What happens when the worldâs knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?
Jesus, I hadnât even thought of this, but of course.
This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.
Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We arenât even writing letters. Iâm as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I havenât printed and mailed one in over a decade. Itâs all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.
So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.
That is not good.
In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the âdigital dark ageâ, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but canât find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).
Itâs thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this â archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.
This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.
@xkcd-for-that
My collection of clothing references for writing.Â
Ya know what , Iâm adding. Here are more useful references that I use;
Happy Halloweeeeeen!! I MADE IT!!! XDDD BARELY!!! XDDD This took me way too much time, but at the same time surprisingly little XDDD
Anyway, this month's character is the Evil Prince (name redacted) from my comic "The Crystal Sword" (2013) I absolutely hate his old design because it's such a boring one xDDD
Anyway, this month's character is the Evil Prince (name redacted) from my comic "The Crystal Sword" (2013) I absolutely hate his old design because it's such a boring one xDDD
So this month I primarily focused on giving him a cool design while also being very colourful (instead of the cliché red + black = evil) I also really wanted to try a more painterly style from Early Modern Europe. (I only managed to mimick that style through some colour adjustments :,D Definitely could improve more on that aspect!!
I will tell you more about the process later on my story/highlights!! So see you soon!!
Hope you liiiiiike it!!
https://www.instagram.com/chibmib/
Whoaaaaa I think I don't have an artblock anymore??? I am more experimental with this month's challenge so idk xD
This month's character is The Goddess of Chaos from my comic "Lives in Aramire" (2015). ... She never appeared every again after the prologue xDDDD
I primarily focussed on the dynamic pose and contrasting colour combination in this month's illustration. I also wanted to do something different with the shading (cel-shading) than my "more realistic that is actually not very realistic" approach. xD
But ye!! I will tell you more about my process in my highlights on Instagram that WILL be posted much later this time ^^"
Hope you like iiiiit! <3
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Month 8 - The Glacial King, Egus
Who would have thought that a new game would be so much fun that I almost did not want to work on my challenge anymore?! And who would have thought an art block would be sooo unmotivating :,DDD
Anyway!! This month's character is "Egeus" from my comic "Lives in Aramire" (2015).
This month's challenge.... is... OK, tbh I didn't really do anything special this month >...> I guess I returned to drawing water again??? And I guess I kinda tried to draw wet clothes????
If you want to see more process, you can find it on my instagram!! >:D
Hope you like it!!
Month 7 - Lindy and the Gang
HAHA I am NOT late this time!! >:D And I am genuinely happy with how this month's drawing turned out!! :DD
So this month's characters are "Lindy", "Bent", "Rose" and "Pine" from my comic "Lindy and the Seeds of Hope" (2016-2017).
This month's challenge is primarily on a new method of shading and on colour theory. And... I guess I challenged myself to draw a tank... I can add a new thing on the list that I hate to draw now xD
If you want to see more process, you can find it on my instagram!! >:D
Hope you like it!!
Month 6 - Nimuel and Licia
WOAAHHHH I MADE IT
This drawing actually didn't take TOO much time to draw... it's just... that I was busy with other stuff xD
Anyway!! This month's characters are "Prince Frederick" and "Princess Luna/Elianne???" from my comic, "The Crystal Sword" (2013).
I challenged myself to draw more stained glass. Not only is this challenging me to draw that "dreamy effect" of stained glass, but also how light interact with its environment. ....Every time when I draw stained glass, I remind myself how much time and energy it takes out from me :,D
You can read more of my process and (struggle with hair) in the highlights >:D
Hope you like it~!!
A long ass beginner level tutorial for all of you comic folks who want to start using sketchup for your backgrounds but donât know how to get started.
http://www.genkigirl.com/finesometimesrain/?p=771
This is thorough, easy to follow, and funny as hell. If you donât know where to start on Sketchup and want to use it for comics or illustration, READ THIS.
THANK YOU
Month 5 - Kaoru Kurokawa
FEW that was close!! I thought I wouldn't make it for this month's challenge xD (Busy with the final exams ^^") Luckily this month's character is not that heavy on rewriting xD
So this month's character is "Mr. Black", a mary-sue high school teacher from my comic "Dragon High School" (2013), made when I was 10.
This month I wanted to try to draw more natural lighting XD ... And more background... ... And I wanted to draw a cat...
... ... I have found a new thing that I hate to draw xD
So ye, have a far more wholesome drawing, compared to last two month's illustration!! XD
For more process, you can read it on my highlight on insta!! :)) https://www.instagram.com/chibmib/
Month 4 - Damien and Celia
GOSH this is probably the edgiest drawing that I have drawn in a while xD
This month's characters are Luna and.... Lord Black >////> (I nicknamed him Edgelord throughout this month xD). They're characters from when I was 9 years old (so, 2012). Their origin story is way too complicated to explain here, so if you want to know more about their history, go read it in the highlights. XD
For this month's challenge, I have chosen to... draw background Orz... I still have no courage to draw plants 100% myself :,D Viva la Brushes :,DDD
Anyway! Hope you enjoy this edgy drawing from your local edgelord!! :D
As usual, you can read my whole process in the highlights ^^
I think it is hilarious that Wild Link is the first and only Link to be able to absolutely demolish the freaking Master Sword XD
MASTERPOST Gender in Kuroshitsuji
Dear everyone,
At last I have composed a masterpost about Grellâs gender, and gender in general in âKuroshitsujiâ. I am not sure whether I caught all of my posts on this topic, so if you find anything that I missed, please do nudge me ( âą_âą) Ï (ĂwĂ)
The following is categorised into sections. I do realise the categorising is not perfect, but many posts really do overlap in categories⊠so my apologies here.
ăUpdated: 27/03/2022ă made possible by the kind contribution of @delicate-transformation
Canon Content
ăNewă Man!Greller Debunking Series - 12 Myths Debunked
             âȘ Myth 13: âGrell is a man cuz YumeâŠ???â
ăNewă Sebastianese - Keigo and Genderneutrality
ăNewă Demon Sociology - NB/Agender Sebastian
ăUpdatedă Multilanguage Mistranslations: âGrellâs own wordsâ
Japanese
Argentinian
German
Finnish
French
Turkish
Dutch
Russian
Italian
Explanation Japanese âotoko tte dake deâ
ăNewă Mistranslation ch. 57 and 125: âbe good boysâ
ăNewă Yanaâs personal claim 2: âNot woman, but WOMANâ.
Multilanguage Mistranslations: âGrellâs own wordsâ
Yanaâs personal claim, and Grellâs self identification
Gender pronouns for Grell used by other characters
Grellâs confessional and Akuma 6 Bonus chapter Explained
Grells âoutbursts of masculine speechâ and scale of gendered language use by Kuroshitsuji characters
âHow would you have translated the pronouns?â
Grell is a transgender binary woman. (Underneath the post in âappendixâ)
Saschaâs first person pronoun: Boku
Saschaâs gender pronoun in the manga?
Chibimyumiâs Analyses
ăNewă Transwomen in media - Acknowledgement vs Stereotypes?
ăNewă OVA - Short haired Grell and the writersâ transphobia
ăNewă Why the Ciels are 99.9% certainly cisgender male            âȘ Why is nobody talking the Cielsâ gender?
Gender, Sexuality and Sex explained through a Pizza and Kuroshitsuji
âȘ âWhat about Asexuality?â
Yana and Grell - Owning up to Mistakes
Most gender ambiguous character? Not Grell
O!Ciel âmisgenderingâ Grell?
Kuromyu2: Transphobia and Grellâs self defense
Kuromyu2: Crossdressing as laughing stock (2 follow up posts)
âȘ Kuromyu2: Sebasâ transphobia cannot be justified
âȘ Kuromyu2: Grell portrayed as âa walking humiliationâ
Answer to: âGrellâs sex is male, but gender is female?â
Peopleâs Reactions
âAre there any hints about Saschaâs assigned gender at birth?â
Bullshittese Translator - Why fiction matters
Confusion caused by the English dub
âWhy would a Victorian woman self-identify as a Japanese stereotype??â
âRespect each otherâ, âthe power of translationâ, and âis bad rep!â
Sweet sweet words from @grelleswifeâ and @thotleviathanâ
âAre you from the LGBT community too?â
âI was sure Ciel would be played by a girl in Kuromyuâ
âGrell as a reference to real life transwomen Ikko and Kaba-Chan?â
Meaning of Okama explained: âI want to contribute: Grell the okamaâ
ââUnique-ly Japaneseâ really not that âunique-ly Japaneseâ indeedâ
âDo you think the use of male pronouns in English had been added for time period accuracy?â
âȘ Same Anonâs reaction to âperiod accuracy postâ
Grellâs pronoun in eastern European language translation
Transphobia in Japanese society, and âYana using âheâ for Grellâ
âThe anime made everyone think Grellâs a man!â
Grellâs gendered speech and pronoun in Serbo-Croatian
âThat post about Grell being binary trans was not cool.â
âCan we stop fighting about Grell online? Youâre just wasting your timeâ
Other
ăNewă Academia Night G - Kuromyu Sebas and Grell - Subbed
ăNewă Metamorphosis - Uehara Grell - From joke to lady
ăNewă âGrell doubting her gender because she likes women?â Sexuality â Gender, Easily obtainable hormones??? and social taboo
Grellâs popularity as a powerful reaper who transcends traditional gender
My explanation and apology: why âtheyâ as a pronoun better be avoided for Grell
Reblog for update. Thank you, @delicate-transformation !
Month 3: Rayhan
This time I chose to rewrite my My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic rip off :D These characters are from my comic "Adinia" (2011-2012)
When I rewrote this, escalated very quickly :DDD Who would have thought that a story about friendship became a story about war and colonisation :,)) So this month is more... Writing than drawing xD BUT!! I tried a lot of new stuff like underlighting and weird shading methods >:D
Originally, I have only planned to rewrite/redesign the "Twilight Sparkle" rip-off.
But I wanted to spice some stuff more, so I redesigned and rewrote the "Princess-Celestia" rip-off xD "Princess-Celestia" rip-off has become the antagonist in this story now :,D
Anyway,
if you want more information, go to my Instagram account for a full breakdown!! :D
https://www.instagram.com/chibmib/
Hope you like it~!