Dawn Quixote

Dawn, 20yrs, just chillin'. I live and breathe board games and my 83 different fandoms on rotation.

[girlmuppet]

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yeah hang on

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo

this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it

this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion

bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro

also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!

oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it

don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.

this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.

[dragonforsale]

These are my two favorite comfort foods. They're very easy to make and dont take long to cook.

Garlic butter rice

Orzo mac and cheese (comes out a little bit soupy)

[shadowblinder]

this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing

[jenroses]

Up front, the cooking is about an hour for the basic bird, but it's actually like, five minutes of actual work and then waiting for an hour, and if you're just one person, you can then make about 6 more fast meals out of it.

Basic chicken roasting (with roast potatoes) which can become chicken potato salad later, or a curry, or pretty much anything you toss already cooked chicken into. The instructions are long and presume zero previous experience with cooking, it literally takes longer to read through them than it actually does for me to get a chicken into the oven.

[kaijuno]

[kicks down door] HEY COSPLAYERS

Extensive Resource of Free Historical Costume Patterns Online

Cosplayer Artemisia Moltabocca has pulled together an extensive resource of free sewing patterns for historical costumes, all available onli

[wuntrum]

keep your boots tight, keep your gun close, and die with your mask on if you’ve got to

[obsob]

love and soup on the planet earth

[diioonysus]

frederick richardson (1862-1937) was an american illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

[diioonysus]

edmund dulac (1882-1953) was a french british naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator, and stamp designer

[thecollectibles]

Art by Dominik Mayer

[sosuperawesome]

Stephanie Rew on Instagram

[transwitcher]

you don't understand, i'm obsessed with these covers.

[kf1n3]

Wanted to compile all my 1 hour teacup painting studies together ☕

[syrva]

You are SUCH a huge inspiration to me! I have been drawing for years but I feel like my colors are pretty flat and lifeless, I wanted to ask what kind of brushes you use? As well as any tips when it comes to picking a color palette and making everything harmonious? Tysm!

AHH thanks so much! (: I find I usually like one (1) brush and use it for an entire piece. like this painting was done with the one brush below (and on procreate I've been loving Shiyoon Kim's Ink brush)

its just how you go using it? like I would do big fill in's with the brush and then add color by hatching it in!

I find hatching helps meld the colour's together, your eyes just put two and two together, so it does the job of colouring just fine.

Like if you look at Barcelonas jersey. It has hatches of blue in the red of the jersey... but to our eyes, especially when at a distance, it appears more purple than anything!

so same kinda applies here! when using this method while applying colours with a huge saturation or tone disparity the hatches will pop out alot more - the orange and grey/purplish hatches. so you can really experiment and get the texture/colour to pop!

but to get back on track! one thing I do to try to keep a painting harmonious is picking an overall base colour!

So in the early stages of this piece I used a light beige as Beatrice's base, and you can see I plan to make this a warmer piece.

I then applied some colours over the base on a different layer, more saturated than normal for her palette!

And then I reduced the opacity of that saturated layer, so it would meld into the warm beige of the base

and then add details on afterwards, hatching them on to keep it consistent. While we know her dress is blue, it's really just desaturated and grey leaning.

But because the desaturated warm-blue contrasts with the red/orange warm tones in the final piece, it still pops out while being harmonious!

and voila! you can still see the base colour with hatches applied so it retains its warmer quality!

This was a bit long but hopefully it helped! (:

[sabertoothwalrus]

'Scusie, I have a question about digital art. How do you do your coloring? If you have a previous post or resource you talked about already then that'd be appreciated. But if not; I've just started getting back into digital art and can't remember how people did their fancy selection methods to color in their lineart. I managed somewhat myself but what would be a simple sketch irl took like an hour or two of trying to work the tablet/program. I want to enjoy it again and use it to start commissions in the future, and I don't want to be easily burned out because of the complexity. For reference, I'm using Krita.

ok I wasn't really sure how to explain it so I made a timelapse? let's see if this helps

so first of all, I'm predominantly using CSP nowadays (which I love and highly recommend), which has this nifty little feature in the bucket tool:

it can close gaps!! Now, I tend to draw pretty loose and my lines have a lot of gaps between them that are too big to close automatically, so I'll manually close them on my color layer with whichever color I'm using. I find this method works best when my pen and bucket tool have anti-aliasing turned off. I think other programs like Medibang and even Aggie.io have some sort of "smart" bucket tool, so I wouldn't be surprised if krita has something similar too.

the second method is simply Not Giving A Fuck and coloring sloppily without caring if the colors stay in the lines. I do this more for stupider comics where looking pretty doesn't matter so much

the third method is the same as the first but using a nice, textured brush so it looks Intentional and Pretty

I also tend to throw gradient maps on everything because they're so fun :)

the fourth method (which I did not demonstrate) is the good ol' polygonal lasso tool. I mostly used it when I used Photoshop. It's a really good and fast way to get all your colors blocked in without requiring so much precision, but it can still be a little tedious.

Bear in mind, I am not the kind of person that has each color on its own layer. A basic drawing like this one is lines, colors, and bg, with maybe a gradient map or adjustment layer. There are tons more ways than this to color (look into CSP's reference layers! pretty neat stuff), but these are just the ways that I like to use because I am very very lazy and am only willing to put in the absolute bare minimum effort

[valarhalla]

Ok so there’s these tidal islands in Northern Germany that are connected by little tiny trains that you have to drive yourself, which is already delightfully ghibli-esque.

But then I found out UNTIL THE 196OS, THE TRAINS HAD LITTLE SAILS AND WERE WIND-POWERED?

THAT’S THE MOST GHIBLI THING TO EVER EXIST ON THIS PLANET, BRING IT BACK YOU MONSTERS.

[valarhalla]

Ok clearly, we just need a ghibli movie set in a world inspired by East Frisia, because in addition to the Sail-Wagons, they also have:

Windmills

Lighthouses

The world’s highest per capita tea consumption, with adorably ghibliesque tea ceremonies

Houses that look like this

Farms that look like this

Heart-shaped waffles (ok that’s everywhere in Northern Germany, but our adorable waffles deserve a ghibli cameo).

SEALS

[dawnquixote]

Art For RaineyDay’s “still that much is fair” over on AO3 as a part of the 2021 Star Wars Big Bang!

Check it out!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31081727

[new-anon]

crèche master kenobi

alternatively: jedi masters are like celebrities to younglings!

[swbigbang]

SWBB 2021 Announcement

Hi everyone!

The Star Wars Big Bang 2021 edition is just about ready to kick off and we’re so excited!

There’ll be a few changes this year:

For authors, there’ll be a requirement to submit the draft at several points throughout the event

Authors will submit story details in December

They will submit either a draft with worth a minimum of 30% or an outline by January 10th to be in the event

              5k category: Draft of 1500 words

              10k category: Draft of 3k

              20k+ category: Draft of minimum 6k

To clarify, it’s supposed to be a draft, not a finished, polished story yet. The important thing is that you’ve gotten started.

Beta reading will also be different.

Beta matching will be rolling - Lily will be pairing up authors and betas as we get them, and betas will be able to bow out and be replaced if they feel they can’t work on a fic (due to rating change, added TWs, etc)

 Artist signups will largely remain the same

On February 18 you’ll receive the story details and will be asked to select your top 3. We can’t guarantee that you’ll get you no. 1 priority, but trust that Lily will do her best to make sure that everyone ends up with something they’re happy with!

Another significant change is that the collection will close on May 3rd. It’ll be revealed on May 4th as per usual.

As usual, it’s mandatory to list the trigger warnings in the story details and in the final publishing of the content. A failure to do so will result in you being banned next year. Check the FAQ for the full list of warnings.

The (revised) schedule:

November: Event start, beta & artist signups will open very soon!

December 10: Authors submit initial story details

December 11: Beta matching starts - continues throughout the event.

January 10: Author check in 1 - Authors are required to send EITHER a draft worth 30% of the minimum length requirement (1500 words, 3k, or 6k) OR an outline

February 15: Beta/artist signups close, authors submit the final story details (with tags as specified in the FAQ)

February 18: Story details are sent out for artist/beta claims

February 24:  Artist claims are due (top 3)

March 1: Author check in 2 - Authors are 75% done writing. (3750 words, 7500 words, or 15k). This is also the last day for authors to drop out without being banned next year. Soon after this, pairings will be sent out.

April 1: Author check in 3 - Authors has finished writing, everyone submits their unpolished draft (5k, 10k, or 20k)

April 24: Last day for betas/artists to drop out, pinch hitting begins

May 3: Posting to the collection will be closed

May 4: Collection is revealed!

All of the changes have been implemented to make the event smoother and more enjoyable for everyone involved.

We’re looking forward to seeing your creations once again! <3

[catasters]