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Attention ALL artists!
You sure have seen this post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.
The magic word is Metadata.
Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.
There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!
“Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop” on PhotoshopEssentials.com
I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.
Adding the Metadata will not stop idiots from taking and reposting your art. It also won’t make them stop editing out your signature. It WILL however, help you prove that you are the original artist whenever you have to. Always remember my friends. You, the artist, are protected by law. No one has the right to take your intellectual property and hard work and repost, use or edit it without your permission. Ever.
If the Disney Princesses were manga characters...
By Myriam aka Mari945
My God these are gorgeous
Drawing Legs Row 1: Left, Right Row 2 Row 3 Row 4 (Source Unknown) Row 5 Row 6 Row 7
Anti-villain motivations besides "tragic past"
They do bad things because they’re scared.
They’re gullible or misinformed. Example: somebody who has been told the heroes are out to hurt them.
They are desperate for interaction, validation, kindness, or attention, and the dark side gives them those things.
They want to change their allegiance, but are pressured by people close to them to stay evil.
They have an otherwise noble goal that they will do literally anything to achieve. Example: somebody who wants to protect their child, even if it means throwing other children into danger.
Since I’ve been getting questions about making cartoony drawings look more 3D / less flat! These are just some really basic tips. For more in-depth explanations of all these concepts I recommend checking these out:
Explanations of Posing and mixing straights with curves: [ONE] [TWO] [THREE] [FOUR] [FIVE] [SIX]
References for figure drawing practice: [ONE] [TWO]
Also I should acknowledge the fact that I don’t always follow these guidelines! I’m still learning too, but these are some good things to start with!
Writing Characters with Enhanced Senses
Characters with extraordinary senses come up a lot. Maybe your character is of supernatural or alien origin, or maybe they were just born with a genetic quirk. Maybe they have a sensory disorder that only makes their hearing seem extraordinary. There are lots of reasons why a character might have extraordinary senses and a lot of different ways those senses might be put to use, but here are some of the drawbacks you might consider when writing a character who has a super sniffer, excellent eyesight, or high-quality hearing!
Sight: If your character has super sight, chances are that they can see farther and more clearly than anybody else, which is pretty cool except that the human eye can still only really focus on one thing at a time…so your character might want to be careful not to get distracted when they’re, say, crossing the street. If they’re watching a burglary occur a thousand yards away, they might not notice the car that just whipped around the corner behind them. Other super-drawbacks might include heightened sensitivity to light, color, or movement - and you have to remember that nobody can see three-hundred-sixty degrees at all times, so your character is probably going to have a blind spot (unless they’re an owl). Also, they may frequently look like they’re staring off into space when they’re really just watching something very intently.
Hearing: Have you ever been standing in a crowd of people who are all talking at the same time? Now imagine if you had super hearing! It can be hard to pick out individual pieces of information or even follow a single conversation when you can hear everyone in a six-block radius…and it’s not just conversations. You can also hear every car, every pet moving around, every jingle of a key, the air moving through the vents, and so on and so forth. This is another one of those abilities that may make it look like your character is just really easily distracted - it’s not that they don’t want to pay attention to their friends, it’s just that they’re playing “name that tune” with a radio four blocks to the southeast!
Smell: Think about your shower routine, whatever it might be. How many scented products do you layer on your skin? Soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, deoderant, maybe perfume or cologne, shaving cream or aftershave - the list goes on and on. If you had a super nose, you might be able to smell every single layer a person was wearing, and that kind of assault on the nose could be eye-wateringly overwhelming. Consider your reaction to someone wearing strong perfume! There are a lot of other types of smells in the world too, from cut grass and shoe polish to rotting garbage…and a lot of bodily functions have smells too: passing gas, excrement, or urine, menstruation, or sweating, for example. Your character might even be able to smell disease. This type of character might have to wear a mask or a scarf over their face to dull their super-sense, which might give them an odd appearance, but just imagine how much weirder it would look to be standing on a street corner sniffing at the air when all anyone else can smell is car fumes.
Taste: What’s the strongest flavor you’ve ever tasted? Maybe it was something fishy, or spicy, or sour. Everyone’s answer is bound to be different, but imagine if every single thing you ever ate or drank tasted that strong. Eventually you might get kind of tired of it and start preparing food that is more bland, right? Alternately, imagine if nothing ever just tasted like itself to you: you’re eating a french fry, but instead of tasting “french fry” you’re tasting potato, salt, oil, the metal of the fryer, the latex in the gloves used to scoop them into the paper tray, the paper tray itself…that would be pretty overwhelming! The major drawback to super taste is that your character might have trouble eating out or eating in front of other people. When you taste a lemon, your face puckers up…just think of how much more sour it would taste with a super tongue!
Touch: Did you know that every day you suffer a million tiny hurts and your brain just ignores them so that you can keep on functioning normally? If you had an enhanced nervous system, that might not be the case. Think about the number of tiny things we ignore every day: actions like walking, scratching, accidentally biting your tongue, or blinking could hurt pretty bad if you were super sensitive to touch! People with super touch might have a hard time getting comfortable all the time, and they might have to deal with not liking the feeling of clothes, being annoyed with air moving over their skin, or being extra-sensitive to physical contact. If a hug felt to me like someone was trying to break my ribs, I’d avoid them too!
So what are some things to keep in mind when writing about characters with extraordinary senses, other than drawbacks? Here are some things to consider:
Set limits. Your character shouldn’t be able to see past the curve of the earth - that’s just silly! Likewise, if they can hear something happening through the entire planet, you may want to rethink. Consider things like range and clarity when you’re setting limits on super senses: how far away can they see things and how clearly can they see them, for example. When it comes to touch, this is a little more tricky, and you might want to think more about the direct effects of pressure on the character: how much pressure does it take before it hurts?
Enhanced senses require enhanced brainpower. I don’t mean that they raise your character’s IQ level, but consider how much effort it takes to sort through and process sensory information. If your character’s brain can’t handle it, they might be in a constant state of sensory overload.
Speaking of sensory overload, that might happen to your character sometimes anyway! Everyone faces extreme situations in their lives where their brains just can’t keep up with the workload, and the threshold for that point is probably lower for people with super senses. If you’ve got a character with super hearing and four people are trying to talk to them at once, they might experience sensory overload and have to go recover for a while, so do your research into sensory overload and what to do to help them.
Finally, their super sense is going to impact how they experience and relate to other people. Maybe your character doesn’t remember a person’s name or face but they’ll never forget her voice. Maybe they just can’t even be in the house with Great-Aunt Helen because she always wears the same musty old perfume and it gives your character a headache. Maybe your character appears to be constantly zoning out when really they’re just looking closely at peoples’ jewelry. How your character perceives others, and how others view your character, is going to be impacted by their ability - count on it.
If you’re writing about a character with super senses, I hope that this has been helpful and maybe even inspiring to you, and I’d love to hear your thoughts too! Thanks for reading, and good luck!
-Kyo
Heroic Traits and Their Faults
Accepting – too accepting; willing to excuse extreme behavior
Adaptable – used to traveling from situation to situation; may not be able to fully adapt/live in a permanent situation
Affable – accidentally befriends the wrong sort of people; pushes to befriend everyone
Affectionate –inappropriate affection
Alert – constantly on edge; paranoid
Altruistic – self-destructive behavior for the sake of their Cause
Apologetic – apologizes too much; is a doormat; guilt-ridden
Aspiring – becomes very ambitious; ruthless in their attempts to reach goals
Assertive – misunderstood as aggressive; actually aggressive; others react negatively when they take command all the time
Athletic – joints weakened from exercise; performance-enhancing drug abuse; competitive
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Fun ways for characters to be wrong
-Being intentionally mislead
-Naively thinking something won’t be that bad
-Ignoring facts so they don’t have to change their opinions
-Assuming something will always be the same
-Putting too much trust in something or someone
-Assuming everybody else holds a certain belief
-Assuming everybody else acts a certain way
-Not knowing all the facts and extrapolating
(via Basic Plot Structure - The Five Plotting Moments That Matter - Writers Write)
Just a timelapse of a painting. I turn the paper around a lot lol.
I’m using Windsor & Newton gouache here, and finished off with gold ink.
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“Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour… you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.”
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World Building
Sometimes writers find it necessary to add more depth to the world surrounding their characters. Here, I’ve collected a few links that should be helpful in this process. Some of these are better for a fantasy stories but could prove useful for all writers in one way or another.
MAP GENERATION If you have decided to create your own land mass for the sake of your story, you may be grateful to have this link. Users should read the description below before using, but it is easy to use and helpful for anyone unsure of how to go about creating a new island or continent. I prefer using this tool over any others I’ve seen online. This is just the demo, the full version has more ways to edit the map, but getting the full version requires downloading and having proper software. It’s linked to on the page so you can get it if you understand how to and want it. However the demo on its own should be enough for anyone who can’t get the full version for one reason or another.
WEATHER AROUND THE WORLD Knowing weather details of areas can be helpful when writing about an area, especially if it’s one your don’t live in. This website has the weather of pretty much everywhere on earth recorded, and even provides averages for the past year in specific areas. It’s great for writers who want an understanding of how the weather in their story might affect the characters. For instance if the summer heat is consistently over 100 degrees, the characters might be less willing to go outside, and in need of constant hydration.
FANTASY JOBS THAT AREN’T KNIGHT OR PEASANT Alright so anyone who is writing a story that takes place in a less developed civilization, be it medieval times, or a fantasy world that hasn’t quite hit its industrial revolution, should probably have this list. Its a simple list of a 100 jobs that you might consider giving to the people in your story to make them seem like real people. The creator of the list even adds a few at the end for younger characters. Choosing any of them for your story may take some added research but it will be worth the depth added to your story.
FAMILY TREE TOOL If you’ve ever read Lord of the Rings you may know that pretty much everyone in the books has a long list of ancestors. I would never suggest such an endeavor, however, if you feel inclined to come up with a lineage for your character, this is a tool you could use. Its easy to use and allows for adding information beyond name and year of birth/death. Your able to change what information shows up on the table and when finished you can even print it out.
HOME DESIGNER So this is pretty much only good for if you have time to kill and wanna do some in depth building. That said, this tool will let you designer the home of your characters. You’ll get out what you put into it, so it your character lives in a three story 10 bedroom home, you may have to put in a bit more effort to make this worth anything to you. You could also just create individual rooms if that’s more what you want to do. Over all this tool may take a bit of time to learn, but isn’t very complicated. I suggest it to everyone who wants to explore how the home of their characters looks.
LANGUAGE CREATION This link will cause you to either decide you are going to create your own language, or give up on the idea entirely. It’s a long process but is complete spelled out in this link and the additional pages it links too. You could also buy the book this writer wrote for $0.99, but all the information is available for free. Either way it should be an easy choice to make after reading through what he has to offer. I think creating a language is for people with more time, patience, and understanding of their own language than me, but it is certainly fun to think about. This is by far the best resource for creating a language in my opinion, since he even discusses different methods people use to create languages and what is wrong with those methods.
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