Love Begins
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Noah Kahan
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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almost home
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macklin celebrini has autism
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EXPECTATIONS
Claire Keane
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Fieri Frames
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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instructions on caring for your plant:
sing/play “fear not this night” to lull him to sleep
talk about paranormal things on media
water daily
have a healthy discussion about ancient societies and mythologies
do not leave him alone with cats he might be a type of catnip
keep grubs and other pests off, especially the hair foliage (combover recommended)
What I should be doing: I really should advance the HoT story now and get out of Verdant Brink."
What I actually end up doing:
"Hey, an event!"
"Oh, another exotic trinket drop. Might be important later. I guess I'll put it on a mule."
"Which mule was my armor mule and which one is the trinket one again?"
"FLAX!" *harvests flax on 20 alts*
"Cool wyvern pet, my ranger still needs to get to Verdant Brink."
"Oops I haven't logged on my ranger since before HoT."
"I have enough bloodstone dust to do more precursor crafting. Gonna do that now."
*falls off a cliff in Old Tyria*
"Maybe I should work on my revenant a bit."
"How much fucking linseed oil does this take?!"
"[World Boss] is going to pop soon, and I still need the collectible from it."
"GET TO DA CHOPPA."
"I can't remember what I was gonna do so I'm just gonna loaf around the guild hall for a while."
Me: *playing p/d thief dealing with huge hordes of risen, uses Throw Gunk, needle trap, and two forms of caltrops to try to eliminate the majority* Trahearne: *Uses Caladbolg’s knockback skill*
Me: …
Jack: I got something important to ask you.
Jack: LETS GO FLY A KITE! %D
Also I think five year old child Trahearne needs to be brought back
In which Trahearne has a very private moment.
On a scale of 1 to Canach, how weird are you at parties?
This won’t end well (◕‿◕✿)
It has awoken
My little contribution to the Guild Wars2 Tarot card deck!
Bramble fits justice so well it actually hurts. Smoll angry vigil tactician
"FOR GREAT JUSTICE!"
Parks & Rec, Pretty Little Liars and the Fast & Furious films all exist in the same universe
And SCANDAL WTF
Oh jeez, SCANDAL….
….and BATTLESHIP too, apparently. It’s a goddamn conspiracy
Oh god. He’s on REVENGE too. How deep does this rabbit-hole go….
Oh my god. DEXTER.
THE ACTUAL NEWS
ventus with green eyes (´▽`ʃƪ)♡
“My father was a farmer and we had eight siblings. I went to Australia when I was fifteen because my family didn’t have enough to eat. I was on a boat for forty days. When I got there, I couldn’t find a job, I couldn’t speak English, and I had to sleep on the street. I know what it’s like. So everyday I drive the van to the port and hand out bread to the refugees. My son is my business partner. He says, ‘Baba, please. It’s fine to help. But not every day.’ But I still go every day because I know what it feels like to have nothing.” (Kos, Greece)
when u accidently type me instead of my
accidentally typing “yeha” instead of “yeah”
do u think they’re pen pals
I’ve been getting a lot of asks lately about the brushes and textures I use in my work, so here’s a BIG FAT REFERENCE POST for those of you who were curious! Bear in mind that I’m really lazy and don’t know what half the settings do, so don’t be afraid to experiment to figure out what works best for you :>
BRUSHES
Pencil I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. Ink Pen Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Round Brush The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without. Flat Brush A brush tool set to flat bristle is by far my favorite to paint with. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. It’s just GREAT.
Watercolor Best used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects. Cloud Basically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills.
TEXTURE OVERLAY
To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required!
Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. That’s it!
Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Something more subtle? Lower the contrast or reduce the layer opacity. You can also use a tinted overlay to adjust the overall palette and bring a little more color unity to an otherwise disparate piece! Just be aware that too much texture can hurt the readability of the work beneath it, so I’d err on the side of subtlety.
Hope that helps!
-L
