Smoking Mirror

frequent tastes of your own medicine can get poisonous real quick

[420moshdad]

[the-knights-who-say-book]

every time Nietzsche’s “god is dead” thing is mentioned all i can think of is that meme

nietzsche: god is dead

god: no im not

nietzsche: sometimes i can still hear his voice

[wealthyhugepenis-deactivated201]

i really like stickers but at the same time i don’t because once you stick them somewhere that’s it, it’s finished, and i’m just not emotionally stable enough for that responsibility

[diabadass]

I have been waiting for this post my whole life.

[baby-revenge]

I was trying to explain this to someone one day and they basically told me I was crazy.

[mayahan]

Japanese Goldfish Bags Handcrafted By Atelier Iwakiri

[sosuperawesome]

Rings by AroshaTaglia on Etsy

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[dollsahoy]

Beautiful, but i would get them caught on everything.

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[skarchomp]

Talented people doing art: lol just trying out some new techniques with this advanced program I downloaded, I think it’ll really help with my use of colors and composition! :)

Me doing art:

[corycatte]

Surprise

[somethingnotobscenefunnystuff]

the lil baby sound they make

[unclefather]

Let them sleep

[jackhoward]

For Louise

[miyuliart]

I’ve been studying the classic black tie dress code (mainly from here) so I thought I could share my notes. Maybe they can be helpful to someone else, too. If I made any mistakes or things are really confusing please tell me.  I also have some notes on white tie which I could share as well…

[ogerpon]

coming out of the closet? no. i’m coming out of my cage and i’ve been doing just fine gotta gotta be down because i want it all

[itachismokesweed]

BDSM

being dead sounds magnificent

[ghostbri]

Hi Bri! I just discovered your blog and am in love with your artwork, particularly your latest piece. I saw you said in your FAQ that you use a lot of kyle webster brushes. I was wondering how you blended with his brushes as a lot of them are really opaque, are you meant to change the size of them as they're tool presets? I see loads of artists mentioning his brushes but I have no idea how to use them, but you seem to have nailed it! Any advice you could share would be awesome. Take care!

hello! thanks so much!! i dont actually do much manual blending…i mostly try to combine hard edged lines and shapes with soft edges, so i only really use two tools…a hard edged ink brush and an airbrush. and i also think that, when it comes to painting, blocking in major shadow shapes and managing your edges is more important than blending. and even when it comes to blending colors or getting soft edges i prefer to use the circular gradient tool or the aforementioned airbrush! but, here’s what i can offer you!

this was done with kyle’s big wide softy brush, which i believe is in the megapack. the key to blending is to use the eyedropper tool to select the color that was made by using light pressure on the tablet pen.

this color!! this one right here!!

then you just paint on and keep eyedropping colors nearby the color you’re trying to blend. it’s the equivalent of mixing yellow and blue paint and then dabbing the green you made onto your brush.

but this is how i normally work. this was done with shiyoon kim’s ink brushes and the 300px airbrush from this brush pack. my favorite airbrush ever!

this is a close up from the last thing i painted using kyle’s brushes…from my tarot cards. this was done with shiyoon’s brushes, kyle’s kid crayon brush, and the airbrush from above. you can see there are a lot of hard edges! all the soft edges were created with the airbrush or the kid crayon brush on lower opacity/flow.

all in all, my advice is to focus on large shapes and hard edges, then soften them as needed as you go. i approach it as putting down a shape with a brush, then carving into the shape rather than blending it out if that makes sense. over-blending is an easy mistake to make! but if you’re interested in how to get really really good at digital painting, there are great tutorials and resources out there. i am not a great digital painter in the traditional sense :8) hope this was helpful!!!!

[rcah]

stay woke pony boy

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[pegsie-art]

Scheme sheets I made (I’m still working on more), I’ll be doing these, feel free to repost and do them yourself (uwu) have fun💕

[hacked-account-follow-my-twitter]

do not repost, thank you ^^

[cloudvelundr]