floot's art for fandom stuff go to flootzavut 😊

I... may start putting art here actually because why not? But also it's a little waystation to point you to my main blog, which is flootzavut. See you there!

[flootdraws]

In theory one of these is a timelapse 🤞🏼 (the abbreviated one because the full one is way too long for tumblr unless I chop it up and I'm lazy)

[flootzavut]

Friendly reminder that writing is a skill and it's okay to practise.

There's absolutely no rule that says every piece of writing needs to be perfect or needs to be part of a story or needs to be polished up and posted on the web for all to see.

Assuming that everything you write (or draw or create in any other way) has to be "good enough" to share can really fuck you up. Do it for fun, do it for practice, do it for the feral friends who will love it even when it's shit. It's okay to make complete bullshit sometimes.

Sometimes you'll write something only to go back later and realise it's not complete bullshit, and actually it's worth polishing up into something worth posting. Sometimes it will be complete tosh you want to make sure no one but you ever sees.

Both those outcomes are okay. Both those outcomes are practice.

Skill takes practice.

[anexperimentallife]

There are two main types of fiction-writing advice:

1. The "rules" that are mostly only intended to be followed to the letter while you're learning your craft, and to serve as a safe starting point.

2. Fashion. No, really, a lot of writing advice comes down to what is currently in style. Example: Right now, the most fashionable POV is tight third person (although first person is also widely accepted).

Mastering the rules and current fashions and writing within them at first will help you hone your chops to the point at which you will have the expertise to know when and how to intentionally break the rules or go against fashion for your desired effect--and you WILL break some rules eventually.

It's like learning to cook, though; you might start off following a recipe to the letter, but eventually you develop the insight to know exactly how adding that extra bit of cumin is going to affect the end result. Or like learning guitar--before you can shred like Hendrix, you've got to learn basic chords and fingering.

(Wrote this up because I know a lot of my followers are fledgling writers who dream if being published, and who get a lot of advice pushed at them.)

[anexperimentallife]

Also: The more you learn about and practice writing, the more you realize you don't know as much as you thought you did.

[rabbitmotifs]

is there a spuffy week in the vein of like. ship week or kink bingo or something. and if not. How do i make it

[flootdraws]

if you build it we will come

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[thevulturesteeth]

711.6k notes? I show 419k!

Did they try and push through a note splitter again???

[flootzavut]

It’s reblogs versus total notes.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[thevulturesteeth]

711.6k notes? I show 419k!

Did they try and push through a note splitter again???

[flootzavut]

It’s reblogs versus total notes.

[flootzavut]

I'm still working on period drama Tilly but I drew a stylised Tilly today.

(@northen-light I thought you might like to see)

[flootzavut]

I'm still working on period drama Tilly but I drew a stylised Tilly today.

(@northen-light I thought you might like to see)

[flootzavut]

I'm still working on period drama Tilly but I drew a stylised Tilly today.

(@northen-light I thought you might like to see)

[cuddlybitch]

[discoverylovers]

This scene 💜

[flootzavut]

Star Trek homies: feel like writing (or arting or podficcing) some last minute gifts for people in a fandom exchange?

startrekholidays | Deadline Passed, Post Deadline Pinch Hits Available

[flootzavut]

ONLY TWO LEFT

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[rainycraze]

Reblogging to check this out later

[flootzavut]

Star Trek homies: feel like writing (or arting or podficcing) some last minute gifts for people in a fandom exchange?

startrekholidays | Deadline Passed, Post Deadline Pinch Hits Available

[flootzavut]

ONLY TWO LEFT

[flootzavut]

Friendly reminder that writing is a skill and it's okay to practise.

There's absolutely no rule that says every piece of writing needs to be perfect or needs to be part of a story or needs to be polished up and posted on the web for all to see.

Assuming that everything you write (or draw or create in any other way) has to be "good enough" to share can really fuck you up. Do it for fun, do it for practice, do it for the feral friends who will love it even when it's shit. It's okay to make complete bullshit sometimes.

Sometimes you'll write something only to go back later and realise it's not complete bullshit, and actually it's worth polishing up into something worth posting. Sometimes it will be complete tosh you want to make sure no one but you ever sees.

Both those outcomes are okay. Both those outcomes are practice.

Skill takes practice.

[flootzavut]

Friendly reminder that writing is a skill and it's okay to practise.

There's absolutely no rule that says every piece of writing needs to be perfect or needs to be part of a story or needs to be polished up and posted on the web for all to see.

Assuming that everything you write (or draw or create in any other way) has to be "good enough" to share can really fuck you up. Do it for fun, do it for practice, do it for the feral friends who will love it even when it's shit. It's okay to make complete bullshit sometimes.

Sometimes you'll write something only to go back later and realise it's not complete bullshit, and actually it's worth polishing up into something worth posting. Sometimes it will be complete tosh you want to make sure no one but you ever sees.

Both those outcomes are okay. Both those outcomes are practice.

Skill takes practice.

[despazito]

Need it to be understood that whenever I have m/f ships I ship them in an explicitly bisexual manner

[despazito]

it’s het to YOU. i know them personally.

[flootzavut]

The notes on this make me happy

Oh mood ☝🏼

You’re so correct! 👏🏼

And lastly I love that this is just one word but so accurate:

[flootzavut]

Ehehehehe

And whoever tagged this as #Spuffy, you are also correct.