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They/Them | 20+ | Personal blog - multifandom with a little bit of everything. 'Multifandom' I say but there is so much Kuroshitsuji.

[oyasumiya]

i made square prints of pokemon and food!!!

you can get them on my etsy ~

[questtneo]

Ive done a complete 180 on Robin Ciel lately. Im obsessed with this dress

[hairbrushed]

trucks for girls

[platonbatonn]

we've successfully reached liveposting guys, here's something im currently working on

[vveonnee98]

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[yufei]

I do studies warm ups everyday for about 45 min - 1 hour before drawing my comic. I have a folder with references that I keep saving photos whenever something piqued my interest, so each day before doing warm up I pick something that I want to study that day: poses, lightning, color, clothes.

Uploading studies here is a nice way to track my progress. I do feel like I'm slowly getting better at coloring.

(some musings below)

Also lately I decided to try changing my mindset to "1% progress a day" as in "Small changes, big impact" or as I call it "baby steps". Like screw the ego of "this is too easy, you should be better than this by now". So I pick the bare minimum of the task that I personally can't fail no matter what. And when I get into the motion and get comfortable with routine I add stuff and make it just a little bit more difficult. Like with studies. First, it was just:

"try to make it look like the reference at least 50%" ->

"try to make it look like the ref - 75%" ->

"try to stylize the studies but keep the color the same as ref" ->

"try to add some color variations" ->

"try to combine 2 refs into one: shapes and lighting from one, color palette from another"

I do tend to set a goal that is above my skills and then get upset at myself that I failed to achieve it. So baby steps.

[iwaihou-log]

前に書いたやつちょっとだけ加筆

[so-many-ocs]

they should let you visit deactivated blogs i want to pay my respects

[saltyfilmmajor]

They were so funny for this actually

[ischleepzzz]

[clone-futon]

"Got you now, detective!"

[penny-anna]

Whenever an artist who makes dark content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so dark and nasty' and whenever an artist who makes wholesome content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so aggressively wholesome' and it's like you know I think maybe you can't tell whether or not someone is a predator based on their artistic output.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The switch from 'this work is well made and fulfilling' to 'this work actually sucks (or if it doesn't suck it was stolen and we all coincidentally didn't notice until right this moment)' the instant someone gets outed as a bad person is also always really disorienting. People just cannot handle the fact that bad people can make good art.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#damn I’m actually reblogging a Derin post#what’s become of me

Mean to me

[dogcircle-scans]

Here’s the PV for the Natsume Yuujinchou video game!!!

[loish]

A painting of some edible flowers ~

[ekneb]

Aquilegia, Marcille🦋

[mintaii]

metamorphosis

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

[Song link] [YouTube link]

[marshmallowgoop]

#thank you for making this i am now off to watch this immediately this seems incredibly CUTE #dcmk#meitantei conan#shinichi kudo#detective boys #update: i have watched it it's SUCH a delightfully creepy ep and also So sweet im#feeling extremely polarised now#dcmk#meitantei conan#shinichi kudo#1089#but damn they should make more eps like these exploring how he feels about the mundane via @potahun

Oh, gosh! I feel like I should more properly warn people that this episode seems to be considered one of the worst Detective Conan episodes of all time 😅

But it really made me think! I instantly found myself attached to the central conflict—this idea that you should be used to an unfavorable situation by now, but all of a sudden, something so little (candy, in Conan's case) bothers you. It felt so raw and real to me.

The episode is very, very strange. I can't say I know exactly what its intended message is, but in the video, I hoped to bring across a message of self-love. @/hexfloog opened me up to the interpretation that Conan's line about a kid's lunch always being "just" a kid's lunch also applies to himself, and that hit me hard. It was a huge inspiration for my clip choices; the line plays over a sequence that tells the story of the episode but also emphasizes Shinichi's self-loathing. No matter how smart Conan is, he's still physically a small child. An adult can pick him up and drag him away like nothing. He's special, but he's "just" a kid.

And yet, being a kid isn't being lesser. At the end of the video, I used more dramatic audio ducking than usual, letting the music volume stay lowered until the very last moment, because I wanted to highlight that those lyrics aren't true. He's not useless as Conan; while we could argue about how good of an influence he really is on the Detective Boys, they enjoy his company and learn a lot from him. A kid's lunch isn't lesser than an omurice lunch, and Conan isn't lesser than Shinichi.

Or maybe I got something out of it that I wasn't meant to! I dunno! But it clearly made me feel things, so I give it credit for that!

[potahun]

that is broadly how i felt about this ep too! the slightly better/renewed self-acceptance (or understanding that being conan, being a kid is not something lesser and he should like himself all the same) is one aspect i really enjoyed in this ep! and another aspect i got was perhaps the subconscious fear he has that he is going to lose something (and that he HAS lost himself as shinichi forever) because of his own arrogance! the last words of the cook in the aquarium really reflect what happened to shinichi when he thought he could handle it in ep1 and got shrunk as a result. the whole ep could have been a subconscious reminder to himself that he has lost things, could lose more things, with that mindset.

full agree that the bit about how one small silly thing can trigger a new wave of self-loathing or negative emotions, felt super real <333 i really wish they’d make more eps of this kind actually. They do not have to be that abstract all the time but it’s sooooo nice to see him DEAL with the mundane parts of his situation on an emotional front. We get the occasional moments of “i wish i could be big again to be with ran in this moment” but it’s refreshing to see the even more mundane bits, dealing with how he feels about himself

Thank YOU for making this beautiful edit and your analysis! Your vid made a spectacular job of highlighting what this ep is about at the core and had me instantly intrigued!