Gabby ✏ aspiring comic artist & writer 👩🏽‍💻

I draw OCs, fanarts, and comic strips | she/her | ♓ | traditional artist who is currently learning how to do digital art 🎨🖼 | ⚠️🚫 DO NOT EDIT, USE, SELL & MAKE ANY UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF MY WORKS! ⚠️🚫 |

[gabrielakrist11]

Motivational Quotes Speech Bubbles - WIP process

These are the steps-by-steps process of my Motivational Quote drawing (I mean, dialogue bubbles, LOL). I started easy by drawing some diagonal and vertical lines

Since I noticed there were some gaps in between the lines, I added some uzumaki (what is the correct English terms for it? is it 'spirals'? or maybe 'squirls'? OR maybe it is 'swirls'?!) to fill out the gaps. Then I added another layer on top of it and made some dots in uzumaki pattern by using the spray-paint brush. I decided not to cover up the little uzumakis in blue hue and 'walked over' it so that you can still see the blue uzumakis in this drawing.

I added another layer where I can draw some dialogue bubbles that has spiky and could shapes. The cloud shaped dialogue bubble one was drawn by using green shade hue and the spiky dialogue bubble was drawn by using green tint hue. I zoomed it out to check if there are some 'uneven' shape that will make my shaped and drawing look kinda weird in a way

 I realized that the overall looks of the drawing looks quite dull. So I added some stitching lines at the edge of the dialogue bubbles to decorate it. Once I am done drawing the stitching lines, I proceed to write in cursives the motivational quotes: "hey you! stop worrying too much!".

In the end I changed the color used to write the second phrase ("stop worrying too much") on the spiky dialogue bubble from white to dark brown instead. It is way easier to read the phrase if it is written in darker shade anyway. That's all. I am done explaining the WIP process.

I am still a beginner when it comes to digital drawing or digital painting in general. SOoooo, i would appreciate it very much if you guys can give me some feedback to improve my digital drawing skills 💻🖌

[gabrielakrist11]

Motivational Quote Speech Bubbles - final product

I made this drawing on 15th of June 2025. It was personally my 13th day of being unemployed after getting laid off on 2nd of June 2025. I was trying to ease my nerves from being worried and overthinking on how my future will unfolds if I got stuck in unemployment for quite sometime. FYI, I was working as an English Live Chat - L1 Customer Service Agent for around a month and 2 days (April 28 - June 2, I think I did the counting of days wrong here). Although I complained on how frustrating it was to work as a Customer Service because we were told to strive for good customer satisfaction and being expected to multi-task, I actually liked this job that I was having (Aheem! it was for a short period of time TBH). Drawing this helped me to feel calmer and not to overly gloom about my employment situation. I originally wanted to put it out as a CC-licensed art on Pixabay so that people can also use it as a background for their tablets or a BG of the home screen display for their PC screen, but then I held myself back from doing so since this art felt somewhat personal to me.

This drawing was basically made by using basic drawing techniques, e.g. diagonal hatching, spirals, dots arranged in spiral shape, and slight shading that I made by using spray-paint brush at its biggest size with very low opacity. I was adding layers on top of another to help me focus on which parts that I need to work on next. So yeah, this is the final look of my Motivational Quote digital art 😁 The kind of emotional relief I felt after drawing and making art when I feel anxious or stressed kind of motivated me to keep making art and not to give up on digital art.

[not-xpr-art]

Art Advice #4 - A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Art

Hi all!

This weeks entry into my Art Advice tag, where I offer various advice for artists of any skill level, is about digital art! Now, I am by no means an expert at digital (I’ve been doing it for nearly 8 years at this point and that is almost entirely self taught), but I have picked up a few pointers in that time which will hopefully help anyone just starting out!

(this blogpost is a little over 2000 words long btw)

Keep reading

[gabrielakrist11]

I found this blog very useful since I am a beginner in digital arts & want to get my skills better from practicing more of it 🥰

[gabrielakrist11]

Drawing Practice (001-004) : Art Fundamentals

I have been watching some art tutorial videos made by Marc Brunet on YouTube in the past 2 or 3 months, and I have finally decided to follow his step-by-step guidance on How To Draw in 30 Days tutorial video since I am fully aware of my below adequate knowledge and skills regarding art fundamentals. No matter how much I want to improve really fast and to be able to draw characters and fanart digitally, I still need to "walk on the right path" and not to take shortcuts (I am referring to jump directly into drawing characters by skipping the fundamentals).

Over here I would like to share what I have been drawing in a week by following the list of practices that I follow based on Marc Brunet's teachings: (1) Draw Spheres, (2) Draw Two Spheres Close To One Another, (3) Draw Spheres in a Row in Perspective, (4) Draw Spheres with Light Source and Simple Shades,

I am fully committed to continue art fundamentals lesson and I will keep posting my development over here 😄 cheers! P.S. I have just realized that the first and fourth image has no color for the background, therefore you can't really see the outlines that I drew over there in my drawing. I decided to reupload these two over here 👇🏽 this is the first image:

and this one right here is the fourth image:

[gabrielakrist11]

Drawing Practice (Warm Up)

I officially started taking Marc Brunet's YouTube art school lesson on December 24, 2024 and before I started, I did these lines, cross-hatching, wavy squiggles, and drew basic 2D shapes, e.g. circles, rectangles, triangle, before I started drawing. Well,... you know, "the machine needs to warm up before it starts driving". I was trying to get the muscles and joints on my hands get used to drawing digitally (especially when it comes to using stylus pen on my drawing tablet!) before doing the art fundamentals lesson.

So, these are the warm up I did. I drew two pages on sketchpad (on their website, not the app downloaded in my device) before I officially draw the first four lessons. These are the details on my drawing: (1) Lines, Cross-Hatchings, Squiggles (2) Basic 2D Shapes (Triangles, Rectangles, Circles)

I will keep posting other drawings after I am done with the next practice 😉

[joethehoeee]

WHAT IS THAT?! TWO POSTS?!

Don't think that this is normal.

Just an apologie. And because I can't wait to show it. You won't expect this. Like real talk you just won't. I hope you think this is funny. Well at least I do...

I mean you know Waltolomew Stricklander..

But do you know..

Bald-tolomew Stricklander?!

Well, now you know him.

If you want to ask what's wrong with my brain then...idk. It just needed to be done and I was the one to do it.

Yeah and I had to think of that meme:

Anyways, have a nice day.

Just think about this picture for a while. :)

[gabrielakrist11]

Stricklander still looks cute with that shiny bald head over there 😉

[emptymasks]

Elisabeth das Musical: The Japanese Productions, Takarazuka and Toho

Plot Summary: The musical opens with Luigi Lucheni, our narrator, being judged in the underworld for killing Elisabeth, the empress of Austria. He says that Death wanted him to do it, and that she wanted to die because she was in love with Death. The musical goes back in time and Lucheni narrates Elisabeth’s life and we see her from age 16 to 60. Her obsession with death grows as her mental health declines, as Death falls in love with her and tries to convince her to kill herself so they can be together. The musical deals with mental health issues and also has multiple main LGBT+ characters.

For anyone not familiar with the musical, above is the summary of the plot. The summary of the life of the musical is it premiered in 1992 in Austria in the German language. There have been two Austrian revivals since in 2003 and 2012, and constant new productions in Germany, Hungary, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Czechia, Switzerland and South Korea.

I would highly recommend watching the original 1992 Vienna production and the 2006 Vienna revival, both are on Youtube with English subtitles.

In Japan there are two different theatre troupes who have been performing productions of Elisabeth for over 20 years. Takarazuka is a theatre troupe of only female performers who play both the female and male roles. They don’t change the male characters into women, they essentially crossdress and perform as men, just as the female character of Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray is always played by a man. They had their first production of Elisabeth in 1996 and a few new songs were added for that production. There are the main casts but also every production has one night where junior stars of the troupe perform in the lead roles. These are called shinjin kouen or ‘Shinko’ casts. Toho is a mixed-gender theatre troupe who first performed the musical in 2000. It’s common in Japan for musicals to have pro-shots and DVDs so all the links to videos below are the official videos, not bootlegs. There are no official English subtitles provided for Takarazuka or Toho’s DVD releases, but some fans make their own subtitles that you can download and to play you’ll need video playing program like VLC in that can separately load up videos and subtitle files to play at the same time. You can also look on CastAlbums which is a great website that documents all musical albums and videos you can see lists of every CD and DVD release for Elisabeth here. 

Please support the musicals! You can purchase the DVDs and CDs new from https://www.soundofmusic-shop.de/ and you can find them new and second-hand on Ebay and Yahoo Auctions Japan (there’s a lot of other Takarazuka and Toho merch on Yahoo Auctions, but you will need to use a proxy shipping server. I personally use ZenMarket).

Under the read more is links to info on each production as well as links to where you can watch them and download audios and English subtitles. 

For @ladysapphire928​

Keep reading

[gabrielakrist11]

🙆🏻‍♀️ getting started in Takarazuka fandom here #theatricalperformance #theatre #Takarazuka #otokoyaku #musumeyaku

[gabrielleragusi]

Animation-inspired brushes

Hey guys!

My new set of Golden Age-inspired brushes is on Etsy!

You’ll find the brushes from the first set, now retired, and new ones I’ve created in the last few years. As my style changed, so did the material I use. I started needing shapes to make quick compositions and more traditional brushes to render my fantasy illustrations. This set of +100 brushes includes everything I use and it’s for Photoshop CC and above - you can use it in Procreate but you may have to adjust the settings.

Here are some old videos where I use the first set of brushes. I’ll make a new one soon!

Instagram  - ArtStation - Website - Inprnt - Etsy - TikTok

[gabrielakrist11]

Photoship CC+ brushes here 🖌 #digitalart #digitaldrawing #brushes #brushpack

[gabrielakrist11]

Title: A Warm Embrace

Made on: August 26, 2010

DO NOT EDIT, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT SELL, DO NOT MAKE ANY UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF MY WORKS!

Just imagine yourself standing on a balcony, receiving a surprise hug from your crush. It happened in a warm evening right under the light of a full moon. You couldn't be more blessed than that! At least that is how that young lady with wavy black hair in the drawing feels... 😇😇 🎩👒👢I am so in love with Victorian-style manga & anime!! Or perhaps I just simply love anything related to Victorian style. Their outfit, their etiquettes, their culture, their manners, their music, their art, the architecture, etc...etc... 👛🎀💐

I love any works, e.g. Novels, Plays, Movies, Short Films, TV series, Comics, Graphic Novels, Posters, Phamplets, Fliers, Black and White film strips, etc, that have Historical (or Historical Fiction) contents in them. I also love anything Vintage, be it Vintage fashion/dress/outfits, Vintage hardwares/kitchenwares, Vintage lamps, Vintage furnitures, Vintage cars, bikes, or any vehicles, etc. There are somekind of "touch, emotions, feelings" that I really love from Vintage & Historical tags which I cannot explain or put into words. One thing for sure is that I can feel the presence familiar feelings each time I see anything Vintage or Historical. Maybe it is because I was born in the mid 1990 and have live through the later half of 90s to the first half of 2000s. I guess I can't completely forget and let go of the 90s vibe because it has become part of my childhood memories & sweet memories. I dunno maaann! 😅 I hope I am not the only one here who loves anything Vintage & Historical! Hahahaha... 🤣 Is there anyone like me out there somewhere? If yes, please do tell me so won't be fangirling alone... 🤣

Here are some side-by-side pictures of my drawing, just in case if you wanna see them closely 👀 👇🏾👇🏾

I hope you guys like it as much as I enjoyed drawing it! 😘❤

P.S. This drawing first appeared on Instagram 📷

[callistomist-deactivated2020091]

I decided to create a masterpost that would help you with what you are struggling with. Hopefully any of the links below will help you! Reminder; You’re going to be okay. What you are going through will pass, just remember to breathe. 

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Distractions;

Here are some distractions to help keep your mind occupied so you aren’t too focused on your thoughts. 

-Draw something

-This website translates the time into colours.

-Create your own galaxy.

-Play flowing.

-Make a 3D line travel where ever you like. 

-Listen to music.

-Calm.

-Ocean mood, do nothing for two minutes.

Sleep issues; 

- 8 hour sleep music.

-Rainy mood. 

-Meditation.

-Coping with nightmares.

-How to cope with nightmares, 11 steps.

-Calm

-Foods that can affect your sleeping, both positive and negatively. 

 Uncomfortable with silence; 

-Rainy mood.

-10 hours of rain and thunder.

-3 hours of rain and thunder.

-Human heartbeat.

-Rainforest.

-Sound of rain on a tin roof.

-Autumn wind.

-Rain on a tent

-Traffic in the rain.

-Soft traffic. 

-Fan.

-Train.

-Simply noise.

-My noise.

-Rainy cafe.

Anxiety; 

-How to stop worrying. 

-Tips to manage anxiety and stress.

-The 10 best ever anxiety management techniques. 

-Self-help strategies for anxiety. 

-Helping a friend with anxiety. 

-All about worrying.

-8 myths about anxiety. 

Sad, angry and depressed/depression; 

-“I’m always sad”

-Feeling sad.

-Going through trauma.

-“I’m always angry”.

-Anger management. 

-All about anger.

-National helplines and websites.

-Self-help strategies for depression.

-Dealing with depression at work.

-Dealing with depression at school.

Isolation and loneliness; 

-Pets and mental health.

-All about loneliness. 

-“I feel so alone”

-10 more ideas to help with loneliness. 

-How to deal with loneliness.

 Self-harm;

-Alternatives to self-harm and distraction techniques.

-146 things to do besides self-harm.

-More alternatives to self-harm.

-Self-harm alternatives.

-How to take care of self-harm wounds/injuries.

-Getting rid of scars.  

Addiction; 

-How to help a friend with a drug addiction.

-What is addiction?

-All about alcohol and addiction.

-The facts about drug addiction.

 Eating disorders; 

-Helping a friend with an eating disorder.

-Eating disorder treatments. 

-Support services for eating disorders. 

-Self-help tips with eating disorders.

-Eating disorder recovery. 

-Recovering from an eating disorder. 

-100+ reasons to recover. 

-Understanding and managing eating disorders. 

 Dealing with self-hatred;  

-3 ways to ease self-loathing. 

-How to turn self-hatred into self-compassion.

-Self-hatred resources.

-10 step plan to deal with self-hate. 

 Suicidal; 

-International suicide hotlines (1)  (2)

-Preventing suicide. 

-Reasons to stay alive.

-Dealing with suicidal thoughts and feelings.

-Coping with suicidal ideation.  

 Schizophrenia;

-All about schizophrenia.  

-Helping a person with schizophrenia.  

-Understanding and dealing with schizophrenia.  

-Delusions and hallucinations.  

OCD;

-Managing your OCD at home. 

-Overcoming OCD.

-How to cope with OCD. 

-Strategies for dealing with the anxious moments. 

Borderline personality disorder; 

-Helping someone with BPD. 

-All about personality disorders.

-Treatment for BPD.

Abuse; 

-Healthy relationships VS abusive relationships. 

-Emotional abuse

-Overcoming sexual abuse. 

-Hotlines services. 

-5 ways to escape an abusive relationship. 

-Domestic violence support. 

-Signs of an abusive relationship. 

-What do to if you’re in an abusive relationship. 

-Surviving abuse. 

-What you can do if you’re sexual harassed. 

-Sexual assault support.

-What to do if you’ve been sexually assaulted or abused. 

 Bullying;

-How to stand up against bullying.

-How to protect yourself when it comes to cyber bullying.

-How to help stop people bullying you. 

 Loss and grief; 

-How to cope with a suicide of a loved one.

-Grieving for a stranger. 

-Common reactions to death. 

-Working through grief.

(Other loss and grief)

-Moving away from friends and family. 

-Coping with a breakup.

 Getting help; 

-Seeking help early. 

-All about psychological treatments. 

-Types of help.

-All about age and confidentiality. 

Things you need to remember; 

- Don’t stress about being fixed because you’re not broken.

-Remember to remind yourself of your accomplishments. Tell yourself that you’re proud of yourself, even if you’re not. 

- This is temporary. You won’t always feel like this. 

-You are not alone. 

-You are enough. 

-You are important. 

-You are worth it. 

-You are strong. 

-You are not a failure, 

-Good people exist. 

-Reaching out shows strength. 

-Breathe. 

-Don’t listen to the thoughts that are not helping you. 

-Give yourself credit. 

-Don’t be ashamed of your emotions, for the good or bad ones. 

-Treat yourself the same way as you would treat a good friend. 

-Focus on the things you can change. 

-Let go of toxic people. 

-You don’t need to hide, you’re allowed to feel the way you do. 

-Try not to beat yourself up. 

-Something is always happening, you don’t want to miss out on what’s going to happen next. 

-You are not a bother.

-Your existence is more than your appearance. 

-You are smart. 

-You are loved. 

-You are wanted. 

-You are needed. 

-Better days are coming. 

-Just because your past is dark, doesn’t mean your future isn’t bright. 

-You have more potential than you think. 

- Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

Please remember to look after yourself and know that you are more than worth it and you deserve to be happy. Keep smiling butterflies x

[gabrielakrist11]

I hope it helps 👆🏾👆🏾

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

Heya, I love the work you do, the cheer up posts are amazing. I was wondering if you had an animals with/in flowers post, and if not, could I request it please? Thanks for the great work you do <3

Hi anon! I do! And a few more you might like:

Animals with Flowers

Dogs and Foxes in Flower Crowns

Cats with Flowers 

Dogs with Flowers 

My Nature/Animals Masterpost

Enjoy!

[gabrielakrist11]

definitely need to reblog this! 😍 they are just too cute to ignore!

[asexualityresources]

[palavenblues-blog]

holy shit there is a name for it

[queensimia-deactivated20181215]

Well damn. Explains a lot.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Suddenly I understand some of my fan base a LOT better.  That is Awesome. 

[obsessionisaperfume]

“holy shit there is a name for it” was my reaction before I even scrolled down to the comments.

[clucku]

I just need to keep reblogging this because I cannot even begin to tell you how profound a feeling of YES and THIS and THERE IS A WORD FOR ME OMG I get every time I see this, and I hope it helps others too.

[astronomifier]

seriously, anytime you see a post with a comment saying “theres a name for it?!” reblog that post because even if it doesnt apply to you any of your followers could be waiting for that revelation.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Always reblog, because I never knew there was a word for this. 

[supervillainny]

it me

[dani-dandelino]

There’s a name for it! Holy shit, there’s a name for it. Feeling so validated right now.

[gabrielakrist11]

I'm reblogging this because I just learned something new today 😉 feels like I'm today-years-old 😳

[gabrielakrist11]

First Pages of My Sketch Books

[DO NOT EDIT, USE & MAKE UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF MY WORKS!]

I made a graffiti of my name here. This one is very old. It is probably more than 10 years old now. I made this when I was a student in Middle School, probably I made this some where in 2007/2008/2009-ish? Not sure tho, it has been such a long time since I have drawn or produce anything artsy. This graffiti over here was meant to look as if they were made of silver. I tried my best to work on the shading to create this shining silver looks of it. I was already a big fan of fantasy genre when I was little, that is why I added one single sword under the GABBY graffiti there. I wanted to draw a badass-looking sword but... I guess I kinda failed because this one looked pretty lame? You know, not intimidating enough... 🤣🤣 hahaha!

(ALT description: A graffiti of my name that spells G-A-B-B-Y. This graffiti has the a kind of typography that has sharp edges on the outer parts of each letter. The graffiti is made to look silverish & shinning, there are some star-shaped sparkles around it to add the shinning effect. Right under the graffiti there is a sword with small grates shape on one side near the edge of the sword. There are some scales-looking engravings on the inner side of the sword, quite close to the handle. The are two sparkles on the sword. I add them there to give the idea that the sword is sharp.)

The next one doesn't look quite like a graffiti nor a sketch. I guess this one is very basic. Just a written typography of my full name and a cartoon head of myself. I need to cover up my address & phone numbers over there with some stickers for safety and security purpose. I initially added my address and phone numbers on my sketch books just so when I lost this one day the person/people who found it would return it to me by following the address written over there. That cartoon head over there is way too small, isn't it? I should have made it bigger when I drew it. This one here is also pretty old. I don't really remember whether I made this in my Middle School years or High School years. Maybe I made this in 2010? So that means this was made when I was in Middle School? Not sure tho... 🤔🤔

(ALT descriptions: A typography of my fullname that says "Gabriela Kristiani Sudianto". The shape of the typography is curvy and resembles plant sprouts. I was inspired by Tim Burton's style of typography. They always succeed in making a typography that looks haunting, gothic and yet it looks pretty. On the bottom right corner of the page you will find a cartoon face of myself. There is a balloon dialogue on her left side that says "Ni Hao!" in Chinese Mandarin. The letters are written in hanzi and it means "Hello/Hey, there!")

(ALT description: The second picture is exactly a close up picture of that cartoon face. The cartoon face: a girl with round face and chubby cheeks. She wears glasses and has a messy lion-mane-like hair. The hair has split bangs that has a small gap in the middle of the the head. She is smilling and is waving her left hand.)

The next one here looks very overboard & quite over the top. At the time when I made this I was really in the mood for drawing and was feeling artsy. So I drew a lot on this page alone. If you guys have read my previous post called "What Is On My Profile Picture?". Then you guys must have known the story behind this particular drawing over here. If you haven't, you can carry on reading.

(ALT description: To sum it up in short, I drew myself (again) here in cartoon style. This time I drew myself waist-up. The place where I am standing at is a garden with some wild flowers grow over there and scattered randomly here and there. The flowers that you can see are sunflowers & roses. There is a small pond located behind me. On the way up to the hill you can see a huge wooden sign board that says "this sketch book belongs to Gabriela Kristiani Sudianto [GABBY]". There are two little sparrows standing on top of the sign board. On the header part of the page you will see a sun with smilling face on the top right corner of the page. There is a flying angel carrying a long horn trumpet in his hand on the top left side of the page.)

Here is a close-up picture on my cartoon self 👇🏾👇🏾

(ALT description: A drawing in cartoon style of myself in waist-up size. For the top I am wearing a striped shirt with long sleeves that folded up above my elbows. As for the bottom I am wearing a jeans. I added some hatchings over there to make it look denim enough. I am wearing a watch around my left wrist and my right hand is clicking my fingers in the air. I wear a glasses with thick and round lenses. As usual, my hair looks messy. My hair looks a little wavy at the end. On my right side there is a balloon dialogue that says, "Hey yo, Wazzup?". The background of this close-up picture is a pond right behind me, bushes with roses on it. The fore ground is two sunflowers on the bottom left side).

I will try my best to post more frequently next time. That is not a promise tho, just a thought! 😝 I hope you like these simple drawings on the first pages of my sketch books.

Cheers,

Gabby 🤓

[dededddddd]

You bored, or feeling artsy but don’t have any inspiration...? *updated!*

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

create pixel art

Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!

Totally free transparent textures

make a cute chibi

draw some cool generative art

be a graffiti creator

create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)

paint online

another awsome site to create pixel art on

and another one

create your own mandala

or color one

create an avatar

or you can try creating your own superhero

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here

Want to build your own planet

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)

create next hit comic

make a city which looks like something from 90′s games

draw a mandala like design

jig saw puzzles

more jig saw puzzles to solve

create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!

make a movie

create and dress up dolls

play a piano

you can also play a guitar

create sounds

another sound creator

create a logo

design your dream home

sketch rooms

explore fashion trends and create your own sets

build a website

try this app for building a website

Or maybe start learning how to code!

design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them

design your own phone case

pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool

Make your own Glitch art

Here’s another glitch art maker

And another!

Holy hell, here’s a third!

make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64

freaking cool text generator!

Easy to use word processor

Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)

Write an essay on anything with no hassle

Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?

Make pictures out of text

ASCII word generator

Need an idea for some fanart-here :D

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

watch a documentary

learn to code

do something yourself

workout with the help of this great youtube channels

learn things

play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games

waste your time on miniclip

play games at additing games

or try games at agame

calm your thoughts

the quiet place

it will be okay

vent or listen to someone

pour out your soul

explore the sky

look at art from around the world

virtually visit museum of iraq

explore world with arounder

create a music playlist

list through rare books

scroll useful science website

create sand art

brain games

try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book

interactive 3D anatomy

random street view

post a secret

create a family tree

find our what’s the difference between x and y

help scientists and become volunteer researcher

create your own font

read a classic short story

In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?

scribble on maps

listen to letters

play with acrobots

listen to podcasts

make a bucket list

Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?

Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!

Zone out watching the colors drip down

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Need an Appearance idea?

Humanoid generator? check

Here’s another one

and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work

Need Monsterpeople?

Well, then here ya’ go

Maybe you need Cats?

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

Clothing generator

Another clothing generator

More clothing generator

Aaaand even more

Steam punk clothing

Char Style preference

Dress Generator

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

Oh shit someone died

Backgrounds and stuff? yep

Quirks

Personality. you need that shit

Need something fandom related?

City generator hell yeah

location? got ya

World-building?

make your own god damn laws

Landscape.

Need Item names?

Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names

Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.

Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators

How did your characters meet?

Fanfic plots. you bet your ass.

[writersblockbecomesunblocked]

This is a great list! I saw it and couldn’t help but re-blog. Hopefully it helps any of you that are experiencing writers block

[im-god-now-fight-me-deactivated]

GUYS I DESIGNED A PLANET IT’S SO FRIGGIN COOL

[serronrising]

Reblogging for the oc&character creation stuff!

[nimrook-fr]

Dude this is a gold mine.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

We’re in the middle of a global crisis where nearly the entirely population is confined. Damn right we’re going to create.

[gabrielakrist11]

I definitely need to reblog this because this is so freaking cool! 😱😱

[gabrielakrist11]

What's On My Banner?

[DO NOT USE, EDIT & MAKE ANY UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF MY WORKS!]

This post first appeared on Pixiv.

I made this logo design on August 31, 2013 I was in 2nd grade of High School at that time. This logo over here was an assignment for our IT class. The task was this: "Imagine that you will have or establish a company of your own in the future. To run your business you will need a logo that will represent your company & products you are selling. Design a logo that you will use as an identity for your company that will give some hints to your potential customer on what products you are selling!" We were given 7 days to complete the task before we could submit it to our teacher. Within a week, this is what I made: my logo design & my very first digital art that I made using Microsoft Paint.

(ALT description: a logo design in which you will see a rose that has 2 green leaves on its left & right sides. The rose has 2 wings that is put diagonally and tilted. There are 2 ribbon tails painted in yellow underneath the rose. On the center of the rose you will see capitalized "G" that stands for my nick name, Gabby. Behind the flower there are some paint splatters put randomly around the logo.)

As I said before, I used Microsoft Paint to design and draw this logo. This logo has three elements: roses, ribbons, and paint splatters. So why did I include those three in my design?

Ribbons. I see ribbons used quite a lot in Lolita fashion and clothing style. I really love this kind of outfit and I see that ribbon doesn't always function as accents or accessories in this fashion style alone. It could be regarded as special items as well, depends on how you see it. You can see it used as a chocker around your neck or a top knot on your hat. In classic and vintage images, ribbons are found easily in posters, decorations, attire, and logo or even simple drawings. So I guess ribbon is an artsy item that could be used for basically any purpose in the old times! I like that idea, so I include ribbons in my design underneath my rose. I initially wanted to type down my name over there, e.g. "Gabriela Kristiani Sudianto, or Art Made By Gabriela K.S." But since this logo was supposed to be an assignment for my IT class and I was literally running out of time back then (talking about deadlines here! Ouch...) so I have to leave those gold ribbons bare without any letters or words on it and submit it to my IT class teacher right away! Hahaha...🤣🤣 hasty works will turn out as something far or less from our expectations.

The paint splatters around my rose are quite symbolic, it means that I really wanna work with color and paints and become an illustrator or a comic artist in the future. So those paint splatters really carry some messages that say "I wanna be an Illustrator, I wanna be an Artist and produce art works," The last element over here is rose. I personally think that rose is a beautiful flower and it is somehow romantic. I can proudly say that I am a romantic person if you could get the chance to get to know me better irl! 😉 hahaha~ and I guess being (and wanting to be!) a romantic person and rose as a flower have somewhat a connection, so I just use it, lol! Another reason why I use rose is that it holds a special & deeper meaning for myself personally, it is a dashing flower that everyone would easily admire but it requires some efforts to get it because it has thorns as its defense mechanism. If you are not careful enough you will bleed yourself when you try to get one for yourself. I guess as a person I wanna be like a rose, it doesn't necessarily mean that I wanna "play hard to get" but I just wanna be a classy lady with values and virtues.

I forgot to tell you that in the center of the rose you will see capitalized letter "G" over there and it stands for my nickname: Gabby 🤓

Yeah, so those are the meanings behind my logo design. It could tell you who I am and what I am aspiring to be. Hello, world! My name is Gabby and I am an Illustrator and aspiring comic artist! Nice to meet you, I am looking forward for a chance where we could work together! 🥳🤗 yaayyy~ \(^w^)/ I really hope that I could create more digital artworks in the future~

These parts bellow are the step-by-step process of creating my logo design 👇🏾

STEP 1: Draw the outlines.

STEP 2: Paint the background in black.

STEP 3: Add some base colors. Over here I have started shadding the leaves using spray paint brush in Microsoft Paint.

STEP 4: Add another layer for the rose for shading.

STEP 6: Start painting the rose using spray paint brush, calligraphy brush, paint brush & crayon brush on Microsoft Paint. I paint the logo by using gradient that starts from the lightest hue and move on to the darker hues. Since I am using a mouse and not graphic drawing pen & tablet it is super hard and very tricky for me to color the edges & small parts. If you pay attention on the left wing, I made some mistakes over there by accidentaly spraying magenta hue on it. As for the background, I added extra paint splatters but this time they are just outlines with no color in it.

STEP 7: Add some shading on the ribbons. I made sure to color it based on where the dark and light parts are. The ones needing shadows will be given the darkest hue of orange & red. I used spray paint brush (again) to color the ribbons. As for the wings, I just add some hatchings & cross hatchings using white hue done with calligraphy brush. I was quite lazy to add shaddings on the wings. My hand were already tired and felt like a noodle and I just wanna finish this assignment ASAP. As for highlighting, I add some white strokes using flat brush on the outer part of the rose petals.

Alright. That is more than enough talking (I mean, typing) from me. Being a keyboard warrior sure is exhausting, especially when you are using your mobile phone instead of your laptop/PC! I will exit myself now.

Cheers,

Gabby

[gabrielakrist11]

hello the movie is called 'earwig and the witch' (アーヤと魔女) it's ghibli's recent film. i hope you enjoy it, it was very sweet <3

@bronzecauldron thank you for the reply! I will check it out later 👍🏾

[gabrielakrist11]

What Is On My Profile Picture?

[DO NOT USE, EDIT & MAKE ANY UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF MY WORKS!]

The picture I use for my profile picture is actually a self portrait of mine that I made many years ago when I was a student in Middle School. I made this somewhere in 2009 or 2010, perhaps? I can't really remember. One thing is for certain is that these drawings are over 10 years old now. I'm using the cartoon style of my face here as my profile pictures on Instagram, Pixiv, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook Page. I like having some kind of introductory first page on every sketchbook that I have with vivid and crowded drawing. Just in case when the worst scenario happens where I lost my sketchbooks one day and people who happen to have found it accidentally could return it to me after following the address I wrote down on this very first page. Well, I expect them to do so anyway! hahaha! 😛 The part where you can see emoticons in the picture is where I wrote down my address, phone number, and email addresses that I need to cover for security matters & safety.

I drew that self portrait of myself in cartoon style as you can see over here. I used ball-point pen with black ink. If you guys pay closer attention on my front teeth over there I made it to look like a bunny's teeth. If you ask me, do I have bunny teeth irl? The answer is "No, I don't have them," 🤣🤣 I drew them there with a single purpose which was to fill in the emptiness and gap on my mouth over there. I thought that my widely-open-smiling mouth looked lifeless if I just drew it blank with nothing in it, so I added bunny teeth at the front row and tongue over there. Originally I have straight black hair irl, but in my cartoon self-portrait I made it to look a bit wavy & messy. Straight hair sounds and looks boring to me so I tried to make my hair over here looks more interesting. That glasses isn't jusy for the look btw I do have and always wear a glasses every single day. It has become a part of me ever since I was young, I started wearing it when I was a kindergarten student in year 2000. It has been 21 years I am wearing glasses, wow! 😬 I simply can't live without it. Haha... quite obvious, right? Let's continue with my drawing. I tried my best to draw my jeans look denim enough. I guess it turned out quite alright? I want it to look more neat by including a belt to fasten my jeans. Realistic enough, I guess? Uh-huh, looking quite realistic for real outfit... 🤔 When I was younger I never liked the idea of me wearing/putting on a striped shirt that had long sleeves. The place where I am from, Indonesia, is a super humid, scorching hot, tropical country that certainly make you feel uncomfy if you wear shirt with long sleeves. You will get sweaty relatively easily with that kind of outfit. No kidding! Back then when I was drawing this in Middle School, I want my cartoon self portrait to look good enough with nice outfit. So I just draw it anyway. Haha... 🤣🤣 Hey, guess what? When I get older, I don't know why but I somehow could get myself comfy and get used to wearing shirt with long sleeves! 😆 pfft~ I grew up to start liking this kind of outfit. In my mid twenties, I would put this kind of outfit whenever I am going out for shopping or just eatting-out with some friends. It has become my favorite outfit! 🤗

(ALT description: A picture depicting a girl wearing stryped shirt with long sleeves that are folded upwards up to her elbow. She also wears denim trouser fasten by a belt. Her hair looks messy & a bit wavy. She has a watch on her left wrist and also wears glasses. The girl is standing at a garden where there are flowers around that place. A dialogue balloon floating near her says "Hey, yo! Wazzup?")

The self portrait is actually a small part of my drawing that is put on the very first page of my drawing book. The whole picture is an introductory page depicting cartoon-style self portrait of me on the bottom right side of the page. Basically located in the footer. I was standing on a garden where you can see bushes, some flowers that grow here-and-there scattered around the garden. These are wild flower. ALAS, there are only sunflowers and roses in my drawing. On the slightly middle part of the page there is a small pond located behind me. On its edges I added some stones over there, surrounding the small pond in hope to make it look less boring. Above that you will find thorny bushes with roses on it. Right on the middle part I drew a line of grasses horrizontally to separate which part of the drawing belongs to the sky and which one belongs to the ground/garden. A huge wooden sign board was erected on top of a hill. On this wooden board there is a line written in cursive that says "this sketch book belongs to Gabriela Kristiani Sudianto [GABBY]". On top of this board there is one little sparrow standing on the middle. These also another sparrow on top of a left timber that is used to support the wooden board. Poor little birds, I didn't draw you well to look like proper little sparrows! 😅 oops, my bad! Let us move on to the upper part, the header, of this page. On the sky there is a sun with friendly face smilling brightly on top right corner of the page, while on the left side there is an angel flying to the East dirrection. He has curly hair and a long white gown. This young angel is blowing a horn to let out some melodic sound. On top of his head there is a halo circle, giving us a sign that he is a supernatural being. As he flies, there are glittering stars that falls down from his angel wings, outfit & long horn. This angel over here is actually a small symbolism of my first name, Gabriela. Well, in the Bible it is described that Gabriel is one of the angels. If I am not mistaken Gabriel is an arch angel. I kinda forgot what job that he does or partake according to the Bible. But all that I can remember is that my parents named me 'Gabriela' since I was born a girl and they were inspired by this arch angel's name.

(ALT description: A full-page drawing for the very first page in my sketch book. There is a girl standing on the bottom part. She stand at a garden where there are flowers around that place. In the middle a huge wooden board sign was erected, on that board there is a line written in cursive that says "this sketch book belongs to Gabriela Kristiani Sudianto [GABBY]". On the top part of the page there are an angel flying and a sun shining brightly on both corners of the page)

I guess that is more than enough talking on my profile picture for my Tumblr account. I tend to talk a lot when I feel like doing it. I find it hard to restrain and controll myself from talking (aheem, typing in this case!). If you find this obnoxious, you can just jump to the ALT descriptions of each picture I post for my blog and skip the wall of texts to avoid a long & boring talks.

I hope you will like the story behind my profile picture here! 😉

Cheers,

Gabby