Art and Writting

My creative side blog. I reblog tutorials, prompts, challenges, and references. I also post my own art and writing, but right now, I'm still moving stuff over here.

[ikimaru]

I really love the lighting in your pieces, specifically some of the neon ones! Could you share a trick or two on lighting?

thanks a lot! <3  I think as far as neon stuff goes there’s usually a darker background that makes the bright colors stand out aand if it’s blue it’s cool if you highlight in pink and viceversa

anyway if the background is dark enough most bright colors on it will kinda look like neon haha (they’re usually the colors at the top right of the color selection thingy)

[destiny-islanders]

If you’re unhappy with how mouths look when you’re drawing characters’ faces, try tweaking the rest of the face along with it. The whole face works together to make expressions. You can completely change the nuance of a character’s expression just by crinkling an eye or tweaking the corner of the lips.

(AKA Destiny jumps on the chance to draw Prompto making a bunch of different faces hahahaha)

[color-palettes]

Magnolia - Submitted by Stormofdarkness

#FF8CA4 #FFA7B9 #FFB8C6 #FFD5DE #FFF6F8

[imabeliva]

That fire tho. How do you paint fire like that? It's a struggle for me 😭😭

i use this tutorial. tumblr likes to ruin pics, but you can find it on pinterest

[imabeliva]

That fire tho. How do you paint fire like that? It's a struggle for me 😭😭

i use this tutorial. tumblr likes to ruin pics, but you can find it on pinterest

[runawaymarbles]

Linguistic thought of the day

native English speakers don’t tend to say “yes.” 

My clients are about 50/50 native and non-native English speakers, and non-native English speakers are pretty much the only ones who say “yes” when I ask them a question.

Native English speakers almost always say “yeah” or “sure”, unless it’s for emphasis. (“Is now a good time?” “Sure” vs “Is this your first baby?” “Yes he is!!”) 

[datasoong47]

I’ve noticed that with yes and no. Both of those sound abrupt by themselves (“no” to a lesser extent than “yes”). “Did you do it?” “Yes”. To me, that would sound like someone who’s annoyed by the question, perhaps because it’s been asked repeatedly. For yes/no to work, they have to be followed by something else, like your example, or by a word like sir or ma'am.

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

I’ve reblogged a post like this before but I suspect this is an indication that the meanings of yes (and yeah) and no are actually changing - that English is undergoing a shift from a two-form affirmative-negative system to something else, such as an echo system (like Irish or Chinese uses) (except that in English we don’t have to repeat the whole verb, we can just use the auxiliary do).

I.e. this is why, I think, it’s so common for people to use “yeah, no” to deny something and “no, yeah, totally” to affirm something - “yeah” and “no” by themselves are too ambiguous, so we have to reinforce them by, for example, when we deny something, affirming the negative (“Yeah…”) and then denying the positive (“…no”), or when we affirm something, by denying the negative (“No…”) and then affirming the positive (“…yeah, totally!”). Maybe this kind of thing will stick around, or maybe it’ll shift to more of an echo system - I find myself saying “Yeah, I do” and “No, I don’t” a lot more than just the words “Yeah” and “No” by themselves.

This situation reminds me of how, when the Latin demonstratives were turning into articles, writers had to add additional decitic words to ille, illa, and illud in order to make their reference sufficiently specific - e.g. just “that man” by itself was starting to mean “the man”, so to mean “that man” they had to say things like “that aforementioned man” or “that particular man”.

[theinkstainsblog]

Good tips for if your dialogue isn’t sounding realistic to your ear!

[tenoni-references]

Library books art hack by @danarune on Twitter

[ghostlyapivorous]

:eyes:

[sammyscosplay-blog]

Cosplay (and general sewing) life hack- easy pleats with a fork! For all those school girl uniform cosplays and more :) 

[croxovergoddess]

My “draw the squad” memes so far

[croxovergoddess]

Also you can buy my Ref folder here 

Patreon

[croxovergoddess]

If you like my DTS please help me move by donating here! 

[croxovergoddess]

I haven’t seen this post in a while and WHAT THE FUCK

[voidify333]

Character outfit meme

Three different casual outfits 

Night out at a club 

Night out at a fancy restaurant 

Pajamas 

Underwear 

Swimming 

Exercising 

At a wedding (whether their own or a friend’s) 

A very cold day 

A very hot day 

Fantasy AU (or college AU if that doesn’t apply)

Free space!

[doomface]

couples with visible size differences

(◡‿◡✿)

couples where one has to stand on tippy toes to kiss the other

(◕‿◕✿)

couples where one has to bend down to kiss the other

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ

[feistyvagabond-deactivated20200]

Ship vs OTP

ship: i visually enjoy this couple, they’re cute together

otp: I would walk through the fiery depths of hell to make sure you guys end up together

[kururuyakku]

im so pleased with this fucking circle i just did????

[kururuyakku]

this circle is a friend and will help you

[kururuyakku]

reblog for the circle of good luck in your art

[moldyjunk]

I just tried to zoom in on my sketchbook paper, pfff

[floweryomi]

I always try to hit an undo button on my sketch book

[vanillavalerian-blog]

[spacerage]

vanillavalerian:

Again, not mine. But omg this is so good aaaaaaaaaah

ALL THE RESOURCES

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends!

Sorry for the late TUTOR TUESDAY, but here it is! Today is on clothing folds and was a recommendation from @kitemist, thanks! If you have any recommendations you’d like to see send ‘em in here or my personal! Hopefully I can expand on clothes more soon! Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

[idahlrillion]

This is how I draw hands. I simplify the shape and then later I will add the necessary details. It makes it easier to get them right. But the only way to learn how to draw hands is to just keep drawing them.