Deena @constandinami - Tumblr Blog

YO I just found your blog and instantly fell in love with your style. Any tips for nailing that balance between realistic and stylized?

<3 Awwwww. Thank you!! :) And… Yep.It’s all about that. Balance. More focused, and rendered areas that contrast the sketchy parts. I also think that “style” is overrated. It’s something that stresses younger artists out because they haven’t found it yet, but it’s honestly something that happens naturally over time. It’s basically a consistant, visual shortcut. (I work in Photoshop btw)

Step 1 Sketch & linework – keep the sketch on a separate layer so you can trash it afterwords. Work as quick and fast as you can, and keep it LOOSE. I swear to God this is at least half of where the effort is spent.

Step 2 I set the linework to multiply & lay in the flat color and 2 sets of shadows with a hard-ish brush, then use a suuuuper soft one to add in the blushing – most opaque where the blush is most obvious, but really, it goes practically every where. Then I set the blush layer to linear light (or overlay, or soft light, whichever looks best) and knock it waaaay back. Do not fear hard-edged shadows, cast shadows should be pretty sharp, where form-shadows are much softer.

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I saw it. Chisaki succeeded in his escape and Midoriya lost his life. That’s the immutable future I saw. I did not see this future. Does that mean… it can be changed?

kataara

the sweetest part about katara telling toph she’s pretty is that toph believes her because she can tell when people lie.. so toph could tell that katara was telling the truth. my heart.

doodleladi

How has it been 10 years and I didn’t realize this

monochrome-no-oozora

Felix raised $239,000 for a charity and I have only read two small news article on it.

Huh, where did those hungry-for-clicks news websites go when Felix is doing good? Just care for degrading and bringing people down, huh?

bemmies

YouTube rewind was already doomed when pewdipie stopped coming

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G u y s

The end is near

cammiegoodes

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ya lit tumblr alignment chart

#depressed bitch

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ya lit tumblr alignment chart

mirarelle

Want to know what I need in my life?

I picture of Kaz Brekker meeting Kell Maresh. Just this awkward stare down as they size each other up. Then in the background it’s Lila on Inej’s pretty new boat like, “OOooooooooooOOOh!” Running around, touching everything as Inej stands there smug.

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INTERNET. MAKETH IT HAPPEN.

veldenmire

He would never admit it, but Kell is definitely stretching up on those tippy toes.

Meanwhile on the boat a beautiful friendship is being born.

truthofherdreams

someone: *threatens Lito*

Wolfie, showing up out of nowhere like an angry vengeful German fairy: my time has come

4zygous

Drew some fanart of Felix for Inktober! I’ve been watching him since 2013-2014, and I’d like to thank him for everything he’s done, all the laughs and more. Once a 9 year old, forever a 9 year old <3

blurchur

First day of life up until 6th grade

Jumped all the way to Freshman year of High School

Then I cut my hair Junior year, why did I do that

Slowly it started growing back and then….

I finally felt comfortable to express myself (the picture on the left was my debut)

At this point in my transition I am 6 months into HRT

A year on HRT

Over a year and a half on hormones. My transition hasn’t been the clearest path but I am so happy that I am on it.

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Update:

2 years since my coming out

2 years on hrt

2.3 years on hrt

2 and a half years on hormones

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Its been a while since I’ve done an update so here it goes

At this point I am 3 years into my Hormone Replacement Therapy. I’m thriving.

These pictures were taken days apart and I am 3 and a half years into my medical transition (The picture on the right was also posted by Instagram on all their major social media handles attached with an interview I did with them for International Women’s Month)

During this time I was 4 years into HRT. Clearly living for it.

I am currently 4 and a half years into HRT, 5 years into socially transitioning, 6 years into when i first came out to my community around me and I’m loving life more than I ever thought I would.

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Lil mini update!! It’s my 5 years on hormones and I think that’s quite the milestone to be proud of so here’s some pics since the last update.