why aren't you laughing?

Got a fan art blog here- chick-ah-dee.tumblr.com

[elle-o-l]

just some fan art

[kimodraw]

black sails sketches! been rewatching the show with my friends (who are watching it for the first time and losing their minds)

[sloaners]

wires crossed in summoning

[buboplague]

Yokai Yochi, a fully illustrated tarot deck, will launch on Kickstarter on January 12, 2021!

You can sign up for email notification for when it launches at the prelaunch page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yokaitarot/yokaitarot There will be a few other items offered as well, stay tuned! (they’ll be edited into this post!) 

12.31.21: added the fool pin!

01.05.21: added the multipurpose cloth!

01.08.21: added the 8x10 prints: exclusively during the kickstarter, you can choose to get prints from ANY of the cards! 

0.10.21: revealed the back of the deck design!

[buboplague]

THIS IS NOW LIVE! 

[buboplague]

International countries were updated so a lot that were excluded (like Australia) should be available now - sorry about the oversight on that!

[sanchomps]

An epic drama of teamwork and betrayal

[x0401x]

What other series do you think would be considered lgbt friendly?

As in animes that don’t rely on queerbait for fanservice and actually portray LGBT+ characters as normal people? That’d be a big list. Here are some of the titles that I think deserve recognition in this regard:

Banana Fish

Onii-sama e

Card Captor Sakura (and quite literally anything else by CLAMP)

Yuri!!! on ICE

Versailles no Bara

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Hourou Musuko

No.6

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

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[artmagine]

Top 12 alternatives to Photoshop for digital painters and illustrators

Hello there!

Yes, we haven’t done this in a while… but our inbox and chat are swamped with questions on the subject, so this article was very much needed.

it’s a simple list of art apps, but we know you love those :D

Enough with the intro, here it is, a list of twelve art apps you may want to check out.

ArtRage is an art program for beginners and professionals. With its minimal interface, it’s easy to keep the essential tools at hand without stealing space from the canvas. Panels can be moved around and tools can be customised. We all know how important it is for digital artists to be able to modify brushes!

Pros: easy to use; friendly interface; essential tools from professional apps available; available for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac

Cons: it may get sluggish with big files and when using big brushes, but performances also depend on the running machine; limited selection of editing tools if compared to Photoshop - ArtRage is more of a painting program rather than an editing one.

Paid

ArtRage Lite is a different version at a cheaper price, mostly for beginners, but also for professionals if they need the essential.

Now free, Sketchbook is the famous app created by Autodesk for various platforms.

Pros: clean, friendly interface; easy to use; professional features; autosave feature

Cons: lack of official tutorials; doesn’t offer as many tools as other apps (it’s down to the essential); paid subscription in Adobe style for Enterprise License

Free and paid

Black Ink is a powerful little program few actually know, but there’s a reason: this isn’t your classing drawing app. What’s cool about it is the vast selection of special brushes, completely non-realistic, and definitely able to boost your creativity.

Pros: vast selection of customisable brushes; excellent performance

Cons: not very easy to use; non-intuitive interface

Paid

This is probably the most complete software for painting, drawing and animation. It was originally known as Manga Studio, but with its updates and addition of features, it became Clip Studio Paint. 

This doesn’t say much about the quality of the features themselves considering the affordable price (if you haven’t used the app yet, that is), but among graphic apps, this one is the top seller.

Pros: professional features for illustrators; layout tools for comic/manga artists; 3D reference models; customisable tools; various sales with special prices

Cons: the interface may not appear intuitive at first; the program may lag (again, performance also depends on the running machine)

Paid

GIMP is the famous open source image editor originally created for GNU/Linux and available for OS X and Windows. 

Best known as Photoshop’s main competition, this is a manipulation program for both beginners and professionals who love design.

It offers many professional features, making the program a powerful tool.

Pros: professional editing tools; supports different formats; supported by different platforms; active community

Cons: in spite of the simple design, many options are hidden and it takes time to discover all the features; slow startup

Free

Krita is an open source painting app created by artists for artists.

Pros: easy to use; intuitive interface; great brush workflow; brush stabilizer; customisable brushes; general good performance; very enthusiastic, although small, community

Cons: it may be slow or even crash depending on the running computer and the app’s version; very few editing tools compared to Photoshop

Free

MediBang Paint is a free and light app for drawing and painting, perfect for manga and comic creation.

Pros: vast selection of brushes; cloud sharing; friendly, minimal interface (non-desktop app); also available for iPad, iPhone and Android

Cons: requires an account to use all features; non-intuitive interface (desktop version)

Free

Mischief is a sketching app with essential tools, useful for brainstorming and ideation.

Pros: infinite drawing canvas; friendly interface; easy to use; cheap pro version

Cons: few updates; offers only the essential (but that’s the point); no editing/adjustment tools

Free and paid

Corel’s jewel, Painter is the most famous software that offers digital tools able to give a traditional feel to brushes and canvas.

Pros: different selection of media; many professional features; PS-friendly

Cons: certain brushes may work slow; not easy to use at first; the software may crash (this is the most common report); pricey

Paid

Paintstorm Studio is a professional software for digital painting. It’s focused on the use of brushes and blending, which makes the software a little gem in the digital painting field.

Pros: good brush workflow; brush stabilizer; “close gap” feature; customisable interface and tools; professional features; affordable price

Cons: non-intuitive interface (desktop version)

Paid

Procreate is the powerful drawing app for iOS. 

With the very sensitive Apple Pencil, Procreate is so easy to use that many artists chose the iPad over the most famous graphic tablets.

Pros: friendly interface; makes it easy to organise files; excellent brush workflow; customisable brushes; video recording; affordable price

Cons: hidden features; only available for iPad

Paid

SAI is a simple app for artists who want to focus on painting and drawing. 

It’s well known for its good pressure support and its essential tools for manga artists, but SAI can be used by any kind of artist who wants to paint.

Pros: easy to use; friendly interface; light software; customisable brushes; tons of (non-official) tutorials

Cons: limited selection of tools, even basic ones; limited canvas sizes and uses; it might crash from intensive work, especially with big canvases and brushes; supports only RGB colour mode; lack of support

Paid

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Many call this app an advanced PaintTool SAI, and for a reason. FireAlpaca offers almost everything PTS has and more.

Pros: friendly interface; brush stabilizer; lineart selection; customisable brushes

Cons: no colour slider; limited brush control; although more advanced compared to PTS, the features are quite basic.

Free

We hope you’ll find this list useful. 

If you think there are other apps that should have made this list, don’t hesitate to let us know!

Thank you and peace out,

G&M

Other articles:

10 inspiring and helpful YouTube channels for digital artists

6 inspiring Art Podcasts for digital artists

7 amazing Photoshop extensions and tools for digital artists

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love it when you accidentally meet eyes with a stranger in public and you flash a quick polite smile and they look at you like they wish you were dead in a ditch

[deadmomjokes]

I’ve seen this several times on my dash and always with southerners being confused in the tags why the rest of the US is like this, and as a southerner, I have to say, SAME. Like, there’s plenty to hate about the south, don’t get me wrong, but at least in general we have public courtesy down to a science. I ordered at a Sonic out West once and the guy specifically had someone take over his headset so he could come out and shake my hand because he was from Tennessee and it was the first time since he moved West that he heard anyone say “Yes sir.” And it’s just…. Automatic for me? And this polite smile thing, people will jump and glare and I’m just trying to be friendly not awkward? What else is a socially anxious southern child to do upon accidentally making eye contact? Look down and hurry away? Isn’t that rude??? Someone explain why is smiling met with such anger I am confused and afraid.

[sea-anon]

Exactly!! When I moved to Missouri I was baffled at how rude everyone is! Like I saw someone I knew at Walmart and stopped to chat and they didn’t even stop! They just went ‘hi’ and moved on. Like????

And when I moved here I made cookies for the neighborhood, cuz that’s what you do and the first place I went they said “we don’t eat things with sugar” and shut the door.

Like why do y’all hate everyone so much?

[krystal-prisms]

I’m Canadian and am also confused

[sea-anon]

Well yeah everyone knows Canadians are the friendliest people in the world

[deanismymom]

I’m from Indiana and I’m pretty sure if you don’t talk to someone you know In Wal-Mart for at least 5 minutes you go to jail

[sea-anon]

No but that would still be rude in kentucky

You are expected to talk for at least 15 minutes, say goodbye (like, a “take care y’all, tell me how that knee is doin”) and then you talk for another ten minutes, move a little further apart and say goodbye again (“well I better get going tell your nana I said hi”) and then you talk for a while and say goodbye one more time (“I’ll see y’all at church on Sunday/school/Jo-mart/Nana’s funeral”) and move on to the next person

And don’t even get me started on food etiquette

[weaselle]

It’s not a south v. west thing, it’s a city thing. That’s why New Yorkers are the purest version of this. And it’s why I get both sides. I grew up in a small town in Northern California, and it was proud of all the small town things – “you can leave your door unlocked” and all that. I got a job for a while as a bank teller, and this coworker of mine had moved there from New York. I liked him (I tend to get along with folks) but a lot of people thought he was rude. “short” “impatient” even “brusk” were some descriptions of him, not just from our coworkers, but from the bank customers too. They complained because he always rushed them, never wanted to make small talk, etc. One day I was working next to him, and I heard him verbally pushing yet another customer along, just racing him through the transaction against his will, and I thought, I’m gonna say something to him about it. As soon as the customer left though, before I could say anything, my coworker goes “damn I hate people like that, get to  the front of the line and want to tell me their whole life story. So RUDE!” So I say something like, how is he the one that was rude to you? And goes, like he can’t believe how stupid I’m being, “ not to me, to all those people in line behind him that want to finish up here and get on with the rest of their day! You’re at the bank, you know why you’re here, you step up, you do a polite greeting and get the fuck down to business. Everybody has shit to do, and they can’t do it until you shut up about your life story that zero people drove down here to listen to. It’s so selfish! I can’t stand people like that”   Since then, I’ve lived in San Francisco, and L.A., and Montgomery Alabama, and Germany and Portland and Oakland and a bunch of little ass towns like Suisun Ca, and Kenwood and all kinds of places, Santa Cruz and Rohnert Park. And I’ve thought about the thing that guy started me noticing. It’s true. The closer in to a city (and the larger the city) the more the concept of polite changes from “how you are effecting the person you are communicating with” to “how you are effecting the people packed in around you” In Oakland there are like, zero grocery stores (Oakland is literally documented as a “food desert”) and so the best grocery store in Berkeley is also a favorite grocery store of Oakland residents and it is… full. You’ll spend a full 30 minutes in the snake of cars circling around in the parking lot waiting for somebody to finish shopping and leave so a parking spot opens up. Once inside, it’s more of the same. Shopping carts are cart-front to ass cheek. You literally can’t reach onto a shelf for a box of cereal without waiting for somebody to give you a break in traffic. Sometimes you get stuck standing in a single spot for several minutes, boxed in on all sides.  I’ve only been twice, and I swear to all holy gods that if I saw two people trying to catch up on chit chat while we all tried to maneuver around them, I would been reaching for my murdering stick. It’s called skype motherfuckers, go the fuck home and talk to each other, jfc, the rest of us are trying to make a deadline for some other shit we gotta get done today. Now, going back home, to small town Nor Cal, yeah, I don’t want to be rude, I’m gonna stop and say hi, I’m gonna ask about your family, I’m gonna rack my brain and remember that you had a sick cat or a trip you were trying to take or an interest in boats, and I’m gonna ask about that shit, fuck yeah tell me about how the tomatoes are coming in this year, I hear the birds are worse than ever. Anyway, city folk ain’t rude, they just polite different; suitable for city life.

[juniperpomegranate]

This is such a great explanation, and really important.

[elle-o-l]

As a Minnesotan this also confuses me. But maybe it's cause we are like... Small Canada.

[lauraharrisbooks]

My favourite things about Scrivener

1. Navigation. You can see all your chapters, scenes, character & setting planning at one glance and switch between them very easily - compared to scrolling up and down in one long word processing document. Every file can also be a folder, so you can have collapsible items underneath it.

2. Word count targets. The “Project Targets” are particularly useful for NaNoWriMo so you don’t have to keep looking back at the website to see how you’re doing for the day, but more so outside of it, when you want to keep yourself working to a target but don’t have Nano’s charts and daily word counts. It also gives you a nice ding when you hit your session target.

3. How many pages? I only recently discovered this, but it’s very nice to be able to see in Project Statistics approximately how big your manuscript would be in pages without worrying about formatting. 

4. Outlining. Scrivener has two methods of outlining - one is Corkboard, which is exactly what it sounds like, a digital corkboard with notes pinned on it that represent your chapters/scenes with their summaries. The screenshot above is called ‘outliner’ and lists collapsible chapters/scenes with various statistics you can select as shown in the tick menu. Generally I prefer Corkboard, but Outliner is useful if you just want to see everything in a clear order. 

5. Full screen. I get distracted very easily when writing, so the full-screen writing mode is wonderful for me to avoid that - but you can still choose certain windows from the normal Scrivener view to show up. I have my targets and my summary, so I can stick to my plan when I’m writing and also see what progress I’m making.

6. Notes. No screenshot, but it’s a simple post-it note style box to the side of every document (chapter, scene, character etc.) that allows you to add notes. This may sound very simple, but it’s far more useful than I’d expected. During NaNoWriMo when I’m not meant to be editing at all, but I know something needs fixing, I will jot down something in the side like ‘Take out the horse’ so that when I go through again to edit I know exactly the things to focus on immediately but which would have taken too much time before. It’s linked to the scene so I don’t just have a pile of notes in one document at the end and then have to work out where it needs fixing.

Overall

I downloaded Scrivener for the first time two years ago, and now I can’t imagine working without it. It’s so nice to have the planning and the writing all combined into one place where I can easily switch between the two. I haven’t yet got as far in a novel created in Scrivener to use the compile features so I can’t comment on those, but so far all my experiences of it have been good.

One thing to note is that if transferring project between a Windows and a Mac version of Scrivener, it’s generally best to zip the file first.

[Screenshots from my current novel Kindling Ashes using the Mac version of Scrivener - some features may not be available in Windows yet.]

[pseudinymous]

I use Scrivener religiously. Well worth the money I spent on it, honestly. My drafting and planning style was basically unadulterated chaos before this program.

[icaniwillimust17]

I’ve used Scrivener for years now, and can’t imagine using any other word processor for fiction writing ever again.

You can get Scrivener here.

[iswearimjustshy]

I wrote my thesis using Scrivener and it was SO HANDY at keepinh everything in one place

[seasonedstars]

Use coupon code HAPPYWRITER for 20% off. Works until the 25th of this month! Worked for me, just got it today

[aaustinwrites]

I’ve had this for years now and it’s an amazing program. 10/10 would recommend

It even does screenplay and scripts formats

[belair8201]

Writers, this program will change your life

[gahdamnpunk]

Louder for the people in the back 🗣🗣

[elle-o-l]

icing on the cake is WHO EVEN GOT THE MONEY TO AFFORD A GARAGE???

[elle-o-l]

Sketch #ochakouraraka #bnha #myheroacademia #uraraka #bokunoheroacademia #sketch #drawing https://www.instagram.com/p/Buu7A2pn-pB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=60k1veayntwh

[anna-cattish]

✦ Fellow artists, Nana needs your help! ✦

Help spreading Nana all over cyberspace with the #drawthisinyourstyle challenge! Best pics will be reposted in my IG stories daily!

✦ Please use this hashtag #nanainyourstyle ✦

[elle-o-l]

Hey! Check out our new game! #BeastMastersDuel a head to head 2 player dueling game!!! On #kickstarter now!!! Find it here!- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidlovestigergames/beast-masters-duel-a-dueling-game-with-custom-meep #boardgame #tabletopgame #gaming #gamer #gamers #illustration #art #boardgamedesign #beasts #monsters #cute #creatures #creatureart #custommeeples #meeples #characterdesign #creaturedesign #drawing #digitalart #digitalillustration #characterdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/BtURl0uHDSF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nhtq30ybjvt6

[elle-o-l]

Hey! Check out our new game! #BeastMastersDuel a head to head 2 player dueling game!!! On #kickstarter now!!! Find it here!- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidlovestigergames/beast-masters-duel-a-dueling-game-with-custom-meep #boardgame #tabletopgame #gaming #gamer #gamers #illustration #art #boardgamedesign #beasts #monsters #cute #creatures #creatureart #custommeeples #meeples #characterdesign #creaturedesign #drawing #digitalart #digitalillustration #monkey https://www.instagram.com/p/BtURfwdHZtq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r2wnxe2r8e43

[elle-o-l]

Hey! Check out our new game! #BeastMastersDuel a head to head 2 player dueling game!!! On #kickstarter now!!! Find it here!- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidlovestigergames/beast-masters-duel-a-dueling-game-with-custom-meep #boardgame #tabletopgame #gaming #gamer #gamers #illustration #art #boardgamedesign #beasts #monsters #cute #creatures #creatureart #custommeeples #meeples #characterdesign #creaturedesign #drawing #digitalart #digitalillustration #squirrel https://www.instagram.com/p/BtURctOnrol/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12bdjxtqglihr

[elle-o-l]

Hey! Check out our new game! #BeastMastersDuel a head to head 2 player dueling game!!! On #kickstarter now!!! Find it here!- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidlovestigergames/beast-masters-duel-a-dueling-game-with-custom-meep #boardgame #tabletopgame #gaming #gamer #gamers #illustration #art #boardgamedesign #beasts #monsters #cute #creatures #creatureart #custommeeples #meeples #characterdesign #creaturedesign #drawing #digitalart #digitalillustration #squirrel https://www.instagram.com/p/BtURZxcHa8x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zvvqkp4moynh

[elle-o-l]

Hey! Check out our new game! #BeastMastersDuel a head to head 2 player dueling game!!! On #kickstarter now!!! Find it here!- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidlovestigergames/beast-masters-duel-a-dueling-game-with-custom-meep #boardgame #tabletopgame #gaming #gamer #gamers #illustration #art #boardgamedesign #beasts #monsters #cute #creatures #creatureart #custommeeples #meeples #characterdesign #creaturedesign #drawing #digitalart #digitalillustration #turtle #tortoise #crystals https://www.instagram.com/p/BtURUHknfXY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=elp1rsyjfza5