Eylime's Personal Journal

I'm back from the deep to fangirl, rant, and lurk

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[habken]

do you have any tips on how you colour or how to learn? ive just come across some of your art and the colours are gorgeous! sorry if youve already had a question like this </3 ive only just discovered your account

I think I've talked about it before but I'm happy to talk about it again! For learning, personally studying from other artists was the most helpful when learning colour theory and trying to get better with colour palettes/lighting! I also like doing studies based on photos, I have a pinterest board dedicated to photos with fun lighting for inspiration

The way I colour specifically is pretty loose and painterly, I did a lot of painting before I got into digital art so I use similar methods to how I worked as a traditional artist!

I made a little timelapse to show how I work, I start with filling everything in with one colour and work in sections to fill out and render skin, hair, clothes, etc! Then I set the sketch layer as a multiply layer, colour the lineart and add any final details.

The brush I use does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to colour choice, I mainly use the tiger brush pack brushes from the csp asset store, they're soft and have a lot of hue variation which helps me add colours to my work I might've not thought to add otherwise!

Other little colouring notes:

I try to avoid purely white eyes! Nobody has entirely white sclera and I've found it can look scary in art especially if the rest is fairly well rendered lol

For shadows and highlights, I don't just change the value but also the hue! How I change it depends on the piece but because I like colouring warmer toned stuff, generally I go for warmer shadows. Lots of reds and oranges!

I also really like adding reflective light! Super easy way to do it is to take your drawing, draw some blue (or whatever colour you want) in it, colour pick from that, and then add it where it feels right! Maybe doesn't always make sense but I think it looks good and I like doing it lol

I hope this all made sense and answered your question properly! :'D

[iskander-tm]

sacrificial lamb and a scapegoat

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[afincf-tirwer]

Something I don’t think I’ll ever be over, is how Yao and Ilyukhina died for nothing, and yet at the same time, *didn’t.*

Because they both volunteered to board the Project Hail Mary to search for a solution to astrophage, they were both willing to die in order to give the rest of humanity a fighting chance of making it.

And they both died before ever even seeing Tau Ceti.

And it feels so unfair, because they went all that way for nothing, they died without even getting to try and save the people they were going for.

So they died for nothing.

Except they DIDN’T.

Because their deaths saved Grace, and in turn, saved Rocky and Erid. Without the surplus coma slurry, Grace wouldn’t have been able to go back and take Rocky home, and Erid would have had a much harder time with astrophage.

This isn’t particularly coherent, but I can’t stop thinking about these two people who were willing to die for their world, died before getting the chance to fight for their species survival, and yet their deaths meant the sole survivor of their crew could save both their home, and another.

There’s just something so devastating about that to me.

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[s-u-w-i]

Normally, I wouldn't share photos of myself, but I was sewing a bit, so here you go. Old duvet cover transformed into a frilly shirt, haha.

[s-u-w-i]

For those who are interested - for the shirt I was pretty much following the instructions here and here. It's very nicely described and because it's basically only made out of rectangles the pattern is very simple to make and in general it's not difficult to sew at all. I had to make it quite a bit smaller though and the sleeves are still rather too long for me, which may look stylish on photos but it's a bit too much. :'^)

The first link also has instructions for the neckcloth and other 18th century items ✨

[blignick]

[teaboot]

BESPOKE

[eylime]

Cat owners are truly so powerful

[owly-lumi]

My Transformers version of Hail Mary and Blip A 🌟

OK LISTEN the first time I saw them I was like "oh my, I ship the ships" so I had to draw them a Transformers version✨

(Just want to do an AU with them ahhh) Click for better quality!

Extra Silly video I did for fun:

Extra 1

[eylime]

Such a cool idea!

[were--ralph]

they slayed

[crappycheese]

[preserving-tiktok]

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[an-jieru]

Twisted doodles

[eylime]

Absolutely gorgeous art!

[pryvatecourt]

Charlie playing Fruit Merge and crying over K-Pop Demon Hunters while watching it with his kids 🥹 Why is he the most precious man on earth

[curioscurio]

Time-Travel Fuck-Up Fic: character goes back in time to avoid a negative outcome that usually results in one or more characters getting killed- however, instead of knowing things in advance and using that knowlege to manipulate situations to their advantage, they somehow end up making the future even worse than it was before. Bonus points if their meddling causes a butterfly effect ripple so strong that it completely changes the timeline. Any previous knowlege of how the timeline was supposed to go is rendered useless as new and unpredictable consequences result from said meddling.

[curioscurio]

fate picks me to go back in time to save my friends from dying but im so dogshit at it that they still end up dying the same way and also like 5 more people than before and a dog die as well and also I have no idea what will happen next because I hand jived the timeline #failure #didntwork #oopsididitagain

[eylime]

This is such a brilliant and terrifying concept