Call Me Fruit Hat

So I made this account just so I can post my art or sketches on the internet!!

[echinoderma]

how do good braids?

i just learned this which is MUCH easier than what i used to do

and its fun!!!! BRAIDS!

[fluffygif]

“ Runners “ - from mc__monster

[dpsmainprivilege]

TWITCH STAFF MUST CONDEMN 

[mechahiggs]

#why did they make me watch limmy experience a microaggression

[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

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Push play and just trust me

[leaper182]

This sounds like something that would be playing in a story set in Victorian London slums or something? I DON’T KNOW.

[the-cones-of-dunshire]

ITS A GODDAMN SHANTY

[brunhiddensmusings]

its appropriate anywhere from the wild west to a pirate ship to imperial russia a jaunty steampunk adventure to one impressive bard

[flutejesus]

ok this shit FUCKS

[lvsifer]

@jamlocked

[hallownest-archive-deactivated2]

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

[itscolossal]

WATCH: Ingenious Hack for Sketching with Two Point Perspective Using an Elastic String [video]

[lunariagold-deactivated20230802]

Oh look… MORE AWESOME SHIT NOBODY TOLD ME IN ART SCHOOL

[teaboot]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[phemiec]

a concept:

Shapeshifters who have entirely blank featureless faces and bodies who can look like anyone, but it takes a lot of concentrated effort, time and skill, to mold their features into a realistic human face, similar to putting on a full face of makeup in the morning 

so there are shapeshifters who just go “screw it, I’m hungover, too tired, don’t want to bother today” and just go out with a very basic like smiley face thing going on, or really asymmetrical, or only do the eyes very elaborately and leave the rest of the face blank and wear surgical masks, or wear eyepatches so they don’t have to bother doing the other eye etc.

[gauzemer]

Shapeshifters who don’t even bother putting on a face, just grab a masquerade mask off the nightstand and head to Starbucks

Ooh formal masquerade shapeshifter balls vs informal shapeshifter masquerade parties

[phemiec]

“Ahh man I forgot the chips at the store, hold on I’ll just put on my balaclava and my groucho glasses and run back, I’m sure the clerk has seen weirder.”

[kaijuno]

In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.

In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.

In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.

And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.

When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.

But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.

You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.

[thenaebyrd777]

OP please publish this book 

[ghibli-collector]

Yasuo Ōtsuka (mentor to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata) short lecture clip on character design

courtesy of @AnimeGolem on twitter

[amroyounes]

8 vegetables that you can regrow again and again.

Scallions

You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room.

Garlic

When garlic begins to sprout, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a mild flavor than garlic and can be added to salads, pasta and other dishes.

Bok Choy

Bok choy can be regrown by placing the root end in water in a well-lit area. In 1-2 weeks , you can transplant it to a pot with soil and grow a full new head.

Carrots

Put carrot tops in a dish with a little water. Set the dish in a well-lit room or a window sill.  You’ll have carrot tops to use in salads. 

Basil

Put clippings from basil with 3 to 4-inch stems in a glass of water and place it in direct sunlight. When the roots are about 2 inches long, plant them in pots to and in time it will grow a full basil plant.

Celery

Cut off the base of the celery and place it in a saucer or shallow bowl of warm water in the sun. Leaves will begin to thicken and grow in the middle of the base, then transfer the celery to soil. 

Romaine Lettuce

Put romaine lettuce stumps in a ½ inch of water. Re-water to keep water level at ½ inch. After a few days, roots and new leaves will appear and you can transplant it into soil.

Cilantro

The stems of cilantro will grown when placed in a glass of water. Once the roots are long enough, plant them in a pot in a well-lit room. You will have a full plant in a few months.

[robosnotart]

Get your infinite food exploit out of here you cheater. People like you ruin the survival horror experience.

[tetrabriku]

Quick sketch before going to sleep! ! ✨✨✨

[hellenhighwater]

So this blanket I was crocheting? It’s done. It’s three feet by five, and it weighs fifteen pounds. It’s nearly an inch thick. I hope my brother and his wife appreciate this monstrosity.  

[hellenhighwater]

It is a very simple, very dense, very warm blanket. 

[hellenhighwater]

Guys, chochet is not hard. I learned how to crochet in the bed of a moving pickup truck. You can do this. If you want to make a big heavy blanket, just get some bulky yarn and go to work. You don’t have to count stitches or anything, so you can marathon netflix while you do. I made you a very basic tutorial on how to do this stitch. It’s super easy. Pardon my everything, I’m eating a cough drop and it’s 2 am. 

[hellenhighwater]

The blanket was well received! My brother’s wife apparently hasn’t slept in bed since they got it because she keeps accidentally taking 10+ hour “naps” under the blanket on the couch after ER shifts. My brother says it feels both extremely warm and also ballistic-proof.

[alwaysatomicconniseur]

I started with knitting and for some reason, despite multiple attempts, crochet still hasn’t clocked for me. So I vicariously enjoy other people’s crochet.

[hellenhighwater]

I’ve tried to knit and it hasn’t worked out super well for me. What I like most about crochet is that a lot of stitches don’t require any sort of counting (or at least not beyond one-loop two-loop) so you don’t have to be thinking much about you’re doing. You mostly just match yourself to the work you’ve already done, which makes it easy to do while watching a movie or talking to someone. That’s a big bonus for my easily distracted brain!

[writing-prompt-s]

It’s common knowledge that when it’s foggy outside all the so-called mythical creatures are moving and finding a new place to stay. Everyone knows that it is wise to stay out of the fog, because if you enter it is hard to get out, and even harder to get out where you went in.

But one day you are out walking and a fog suddenly appears around you. You are welcomed into the fog by the creatures in there, and they say “Welcome, you are now old enough to learn about our world”

[writing-prompt-s]

Saying the cheesy pick up line, “Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?” to an actual fallen angel. Not that you knew that they were anything but human.

[writing-prompt-s]

While walking along a beach under the cloudless night sky, you hear a deep voice reprimanding you for littering. Upon turning to respond that you weren’t, you find a massive sea creature’s head poking out of the waves, looking at you disapprovingly.

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re on trial for witchcraft when you turn to see yourself in an unfamiliar place. Shocked, you see that an actual witch has saved you.

[maxladcomics]

Do you have any advice for beginners about making a series of comics?

Oof- well.. I’m not sure if I have advice that will actually help since I’ve been drawing comics for a long time.. but finishing them was another story lol.

I found researching how to make comics, and figuring out what helps the story being told (panel positions, character placement, speech bubbles) does make it easier to write the story and guide the characters.

This tutorial is one of my favourites to link, and whenever I felt stuck I’d refer back to it

There’s also the 180 rule, which I learned about very late into drawing comics.. and admittedly broke that rule a few times through my comics after I learned about it anyway xD, this one mostly helps with your readers and it’s hard to explain so-

Here’s one post about it, and another, I can try explain it more if needed though!

(There’s this, but I’ll be honest I haven’t read it- but it might be helpful lol)

Here’s another one on story boarding being important and whilst I don’t do this- it might help others :D, I tend to write out every important detail and store it aside for later (and wing a lot of details that end up changing said story BUT ANYWAY). The beauty of creating things is that you don’t HAVE to follow these things to create, but if it helps then yay!

I do have one piece of advice- if you need to portray a characters emotions, make sure to show as much of their body as possible and show it through their body language, it helps! It also makes it more fun because a characters face and body language can tell two different things.

LAST THING-

Make sure to pace yourself, set a goal, one page a week or month if you’re busy. Sometimes when I struggle a lot, I get on a game I like and do a short quest or mission, then pause and make myself sketch at least 1 panel before I can play again.

…And another last thing because this has become a ramble: Pick out some music for when you’re in a huge drawing moods. Motivational, emotional, anything that suits the mood of what you’re drawing. Some days you have to force yourself- and sometimes you even have to fight through art block, BUT YOU CAN DO IT!!

(It’s also 100% okay to take breaks, your mental and physical health is important so make sure to sit up straight when drawing and do stretches for your back/neck xD //maxdad)