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pocketpurell-deactivated2025022

what the fuck is bangtan and why is it always trending always

chocolatenneko

do u know annyeonghaseyo?

#bangtan

thejoyfool

5 min tutorial for trcelyne, hope it helps!

sushinfood

Tried this out REALLY roughly just for fun and WOAH!?

IT WORKS WELL!!

sushinfood

IT STILL WORKS WELL!

#ref

illesigns

Pixars 22 Rules of Story Telling

duamuteffe

9 is worth the price of admission, holy crap.

pantheonbooks

This is genius. So many great writing tips!

froggy-horntail-archive

And this is why Pixar is a master in their field.

Why do I feel so weird reblogging this… this is the weekend dammit! Anyway, great advice.

cranky-crustaceans

Pixar you have no idea how much this actually helps me.

darklittlestory

These are all fantastic pieces of advice.

leareth-svraiel

For reference

ingridverse

For great reference

flapjackd-deactivated20200118

@letsbloom

cherryaire

Admire characters for attempting more than what their successes have been.

Keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer

Trying for theme is important, however you won’t see what the story is about until you’re at the end of the story. Got it? Now rewrite.

Once upon a time there was ____. Every day, ____. One day, _____. Because of that, _____. Because of that, _____. Until finally, ____.

Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

What is your character good at or comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at him. Challenge him. How does he deal with it?

Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard. Get yours working up front.

Finish your story. Let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.

When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next. More often than not, the material that gets you unstuck appears.

Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in there is a part of you. Recognize it before you use it.

Why must you tell this story in particular? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.

Discount the first thing that comes to mind. And the second, third, fourth, fifth—get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

Give your characters opinions. A character being passive or malleable is easy for you as a writer, but it’s poison to your audience.

What’s the essence of your story? What’s the most economical way of telling it? If you know that, you can build out from there.

If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty leads credibility to unbelievable situations.

What are the stakes? Give a reason to root for the character. What happens if he doesn’t succeed? Stack the odds against him.

No work is ever wasted. And if it’s not working, let go and move on — if it’s useful, it’ll show up again.

You have to know yourself, and know the difference between doing your best and being fussy. Story is testing, not refining.

Coincidences that get characters into trouble are great. Coincidences that get them out of it is cheating.

Excercise. Take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How would you rearrange them into what you DO like?

Identify with your situation/characters. Don’t write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?

Putting it on paper only allows you to start fixing it. If a perfect idea stays in your head, you’ll never share it with anyone.

#ref

bonkalore

Trying to draw buildings

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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.

btmotley

This post makes me feel quite dumb.

I don’t understand the difference between the first two pics that “plop a character down in front of the background” and the third example under #4.The character is still “in front” of the BG with their feet cut off at the bottom. I’m missing something, clearly.

coelasquid

This might make it easier to understand? If we put a grid down we can say maybe the dimensions of the room look something like this;

So if you put a dude at the door, he’d probably be about this size in relation to the other things in the room;

If you look at his height against the horizon line versus where his feet land on the ground plane, you can scale him up in perspective and see what size he would be as well as where his head and feet would be if he were standing at the other side of the room;

So if you wanted a shot of this guy standing at the back of the room, looking at the fireplace, you’d want him to be about this size in the frame based on how big/tall relative to the environment we know he’s supposed to be;

if we scale him up to the size of the dude who was dropped in the scene initially, we know he’d have to be a lot closer to the camera in perspective, he might not even still fit in the dimensions we decided the room could be;

and if you drop him down to the same height compared to the horizon the other guy is, it looks like he’s standing in a knee-deep hole;

Conversely, if you were trying to reverse engineer the size of the guy they were using as an example, keeping him in the room, he’d be something like this

or possibly this;

Which is totally fine if you’re trying to put dwarves or lounging giants or that kinda thing in your room, it’s just about being conscious of the size of your character relative to the ground plane/horizon to make sure they’re telling the story you want them to be.

#ref

ktaebwi

eat jin, never fails you since 1992

#i love jin and this is why #why is he like this #BT's #bangtan

kimdaily

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

From The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories by Ursula Le Guin

With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance. Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights, over the music and the singing. All the processions wound towards the north side of the city, where on the great water-meadow called the Green’ Fields boys and girls, naked in the bright air, with mudstained feet and ankles and long, lithe arms, exercised their restive horses before the race. The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they were vastly excited, the horse being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his own. Far off to the north and west the mountains stood up half encircling Omelas on her bay. The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky. There was just enough wind to make the banners that marked the racecourse snap and flutter now and then. In the silence of the broad green meadows one could hear the music winding through the city streets, farther and nearer and ever approaching, a cheerful faint sweetness of the air that from time to time trembled and gathered together and broke out into the great joyous clanging of the bells.

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#this was rlly interesting to read!#bts #bangtan

hmwhatthehell

do u ever feel like you’ve accidentally tricked certain people into thinking you are smarter and have more potential than you actually do and do you ever think about how disappointed they’ll be when you inevitably crash and burn

legacysam

Fun fact: Impostor Syndrome is ridiculously common among high-achievers, particularly women. If you identify with this post, odds are pretty good that you’re exactly as smart as people think you are, and the failure you’re afraid of isn’t inevitable at all.

masrekaya

Even Maya Angelou stated, “I have written 11 books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’”

and don’t forget this is one of the psychological barriers placed in by thousands years of patriarchy and male supremacy.

elusianknight

My computer science professor actually talked about this on the first day, it was really cool.

vassraptor

Fun brutal fact: in addition to the existence of imposter syndrome, being “twice exceptional” (also known as 2e) is also a thing. That means being intellectually gifted AND ALSO having a disability that affects your ability to succeed at study or work. Such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc etc etc. A lot of people believe that it’s not possible to be both, but it very much is.

Society tends to have very high expectations for how well gifted people will perform. Society tends to have low expectations for how well disabled people will perform. Society tends to attribute invisible disabilities, including mental illness, to a failure of willpower or effort or a bad attitude.

So if you read this post and went “no, but seriously, this is not just low self esteem on my part, people keep thinking I’m smart and then I keep crashing and burning and disappointing them and they can’t understand why I didn’t live up to their expectations, it happens again and again and when I tell someone how I feel and ask for help, they just tell me to stop being so hard on myself and that I’ll succeed if I have more self-confidence,” it is not just you.

(Also, one of the previous posts in this thread buried the lede a little. Imposter syndrome is ridiculously common in people from underrepresented groups in academia and other high pressure/high status fields, particularly women and people of colour. Maya Angelou did not only feel out of place because she was a woman.)