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lorelai in lolita fashion!

( like what you see? i've got commissions open! )

Every January I check in on which emulators are currently #1 🏆

I reviewed Emulation Wiki and updated my "Top Emulators" guide with the latest & greatest emulators.

So are there any updates from 2023? SameBoy is now #1 for GB/GBC. Other than that, there are no changes in the top emulator for every other system.

Note that the graphic I attached is simplified for social media. If you check out my guide, I offer different recommendations for advanced users and people with old/slow machines.

I put (*) for RetroArch since it's a multi-system emulator. Different cores power its video game emulators. And my guide states which core is recommended per system.

frailfangs

addendum:

it might not be true anymore, but pokémon games have historically ran very poorly on desmume due to intentional programming. a good ds emulator alternative, with also great internal resolution upscaling is MelonDS. please correct me if this is not true anymore!

mGBA is indeed a great emulator, but if you want to have more accurate colors you should consider using the retroarch core for it, same as you should consider emulating SNES on it as well for CRT shaders, should your pc be strong enough to handle them (though you can use lighter effects).

this doubles for other systems, although it might be possible to set up shaders in each one natively. mess around with settings! it's nice to experience games like that, now that i've gotten to use the crt-royale filter (and color correction on GBA makes it so much easier to look at the games)

also don't ever pay for yuzu. if you do a little bit of digging you'll find workarounds and you should.

moonkitty

WHY IS DRAWING HANDS SO FUCKING HARD

moonkitty

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

rubykgrant

you just gotta figure out how to do the mitten thing! (everybody does it differently, so whatever works for you)

make a little mitten shape, a bump for the big thumb muscle, a line for where you want to knuckles to be (and where the fingers end), and you can work out how the hand does hand things~

you can make them more simple or more real, however you want! hands are weird, so don’t worry if they keep looking wrong for a while, once you figure out what works for you, it’ll click. If you practice like 10 or-so basic hand shapes, you can make slight variations on all those, and 10 turns into 20 different hand poses~

Good luck, you can do it, practice until you find your groove, hands are stupid, don’t worry if they don’t look right!

moonkitty

you are a fucking saint x2

xladyg228x-deactivated20240818

I haven’t got a single speck of artistic skill in me but I will reblog for any artist that might find this useful

toonimated

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Russian dachas by Fyodor Savintsev

youre-dreaming-302

2000s anime angels

yumykon

namphoria

✿ CARRD INSPO // © cafehyes

like or reblog if saveㅤ⿻ㅤᐢ..ᐢㅤ♡ㅤ2021.

❛ please, credit me as "namphoria on tumblr" if you remake! ⁾⁾

nsk96

Art Help

I redid this list because broken links 💀

General Tips

Stretch your fingers and hands

Art is for fun

Never too late to start/improve

Using a tablet

Editing software: pictures & video

Moodboard resources

Comic pacing

Watercolor

Coloring

Color Theory (not children's hospital)

Resources: coloring things a different color

Gold

Dark Skin undertones

Dark Skin in pastel art

POC Blush tones

Eyes colors

Cohesive Color Palette

Lights and Colors

Human Anatomy

POSE REFERENCES

Wizard Battle poses

Romance poses

Shoulders

Tips for practicing anatomy

Proportional Limbs

Skeletons

Hair Directions

Afro, 4C hair

Cane use

Clothing

Long skirts

Traditional Chinese Hanfu (clothing reference)

CLOTHING REFERENCE

Sewing information

Animals

Horse -> Dragon

Snouts: dogs, cats, wolves, fox

Foot, paw, hoof

More

Drawing references sources

Art tutorial Masterlist

Another art tutorial Masterlist

Inspiration: father recreates son's art

Inspiration: Lights

ART BOOKS

Plants/flowers: North America, Hawaii, Patagonia

Art Cheats

yamujiburo

I'm a digital character artist and I wanna build an audience one day with my art. However, I'm terrible at social media management and struggle with it quite a bit. Besides just posting more, do you have any advice on this side of digital art stuff online? Thanks in advance!!