Ocean Stars Falling

Reference and inspiration blog.

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu in the era of Wu Zetian by 何之洲

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[eskiworks]

Yay for local color and color relativity! I love seeing artists continuing to share and learn from each other!

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, if your colors look too flat/muddy when you use a single color layer filter, use a gradient map layer instead and THEN change the mode of the layer. Adjust the gradient map to have slightly different colors for your shadows, mids, and lights until you're happier with it and things aren't as flat/muddy!

This is just a quick and dirty example, but it gets the point across.

[color-palettes]

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[color-palettes]

Forget That! - Submitted by SeesawSiya

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[themboots]

[werewulfbarbie]

tbh i've always found sewing patterns uncomfy. there's literally no way they can fit most bodies regardless of how you size them. they rely on people not knowing or not being willing to pattern draft themselves, which is a relatively simple thing to get started with even if it takes a while to perfect (i've been pattern drafting since 2023 and i've made a lot of things that fit me really well - it takes time but it's worth it!). buying patterns requires you to have a printer or be able to print them out, money to buy the pattern, and at least one mockup to adjust the fit, whereas pattern drafting just requires paper, a pencil, a ruler and a measuring tape. you can easily make a bodice block/sloper that you can easily adjust for every new project, but buying new patterns means going through the whole process again and again.

if you want to get started pattern drafting, i suggest watching TheClosetHistorian (all of her projects involve pattern drafting), Minji Lee's bunnysuit series, Mariah Pattie's Secret Formula for Drafting Stays, this tutorial on how to draft a bodice or this one or this one like there is a wealth of information on how to pattern draft please please you can do this you can draft patterns yourself i believe in you

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 琴挑汉服

[orcboxer]

wizard college midterms they handed me a death lantern I said what the fuck am I supposed to do with this they said whatever comes natural

[orcboxer]

I said that's stupid and left and they gave me a B+. By what fucking metric

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[backofthebookshelf]

This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World

[missusruin]

outfit design commission for @birbycakes

[fallenoceanstar]

mochipan

[bestiolin]

shu katerina

[hanfugallery]

chinese fashion by 念一个稚年

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[communist-hatsunemiku]

tumblr search function actually came through for me when I searched "hasselback potatoes" and found the exact video i was thinking of

[utilitycaster]

I will say, starting at a festival is one of the best ways I've seen to do like, "you don't meet in a tavern, you're all from around town and something draws you together" in an organic way

[fashion-runways]

MALYAROVA OLGA Dress 2025 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

[iggy-666]

some images i made for my paper titled “How to create artwork in Microsoft Paint with greater skill than that of your 12-year-old self”

[ms-paint-idol-hell]

hwhaat thhe fuck..