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[tosquinha]

[fenkko]

i love you art HHHH can you give tips on how you choose ur color for your art?? it’s so pretty

thank you so much!! :’) here’s a tutorial of my process:

1) i like sketching on off-white backgrounds (*´∇｀*) for this softer style i avoid black lines because they can blend into muddy colors or stand out too much (but for bold, poppy art i think crisp black lines look really great!!) 

i usually choose a warm color and make it darker/less saturated so that it’s less likely to clash

2) on a layer below the sketch, i use the lasso tool to create a quick base. (it’s better to color manually because paint bucket can leave some white lines, especially if you’re using chalkier brushes.) then i can just lock transparency and color without worrying about missing edges or leaving gaps!

3) i start coloring the skin! there are some hard edges (like the eyes) but i’ll also use a soft brush to add a darker gradient to areas like the cheeks and fingers. it’s a simple way to add some life to a character

the image on the left is for photoshop users! i marked the tools i’ll talk about later

4) the color choosing part is mostly just a lot of intuitive trial-and-error but i have a few tips! when i shade, i make the color darker but also move it towards a different hue to prevent things getting dull/flat. my coloring is pretty subtle (orange -> red, blue -> purple) but some artists make really exciting shading using combos like complimentary colors! the techniques will depend on the mood of your piece

you can use a white-black gradient map to check your color values. it should be readable both ways!

also, solid color (the “color fill” layer in the image) is great for photoshop users that resize the canvas a lot!

5) gradient map is one of my favorite techniques!! it’s on a layer above the drawing. i think it makes things look a little more cohesive. sometimes there’s a reason to make it 100%, but i usually tone it down

6) finishing touches: i make a copy of all the layers except the background, merge, and then render/clean up! make sure to preserve some textures though

then i’ll tweak it with vibrance and curves and some other neat photoshop techniques i’ve talked about here :D

i hope this helped!! link to finished piece ✨

[fenkko]

is it better to use a base colour when colouring characters? i notice other artists do this but im not sure why?

i just think it makes it more convenient!

first: just using brush to color under lineart

second: using lasso tool to create base layer and then locking transparency to color (i also mostly used lasso tool to block out the inside colors)

using a base layer i can’t accidentally leave gaps, and using the lasso tool the outlines are neater, so if say i wanted to transition into a lineless painting it’s a lot easier!

these brushes! i mostly use erodible point 1 for lineart ( ᐛ )و

[fenkko]

i love your art so much!! i really like the slight 3D blue-red effect you have on some of your art!! how do you do it??

it’s really simple! 

first hide the layers of everything you don’t want to put the effect on and make a new, blank layer over everything else

then press command+alt+shift+E to make a merged copy of those visible layers. double clicking that layer will make the “layer style” window pop up, and you can deselect the G and B channels

use the command+T hotkey and your arrow buttons/mouse to move the top layer and get the effect! you can move it as much as you want (here i moved it farther to the right)

[lovl-y]

My neck, my back, my anxiety attack

[aroseforno-one-deactivated20221]

sorry i stopped talking to you my anxiety convinced me that you hated me, whoops

[miyakuli]

** Permission to post & translate was granted by the artist Don’t remove credits & don’t repost/edit the art Please, rate and/or bookmark their works on Pixiv too **

* Note : “solicitor" or “tout” is a person who attracts customers on the streets to go to clubs or cabarets.

Translation and typeset by me (thank you Phoebe for proofreading!) Do NOT repost/edit it on tumblr or any other websites!!!

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[thisiselliz]

mood

[buddhabrand]

god jr

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is being the ‘relationship expert’ when your friends are going through relationship issues and you got no experience with romantic relationships

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is knowing your partner likes you cuz you goofy and your personality is a 10/10 and not for your looks

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is being used to rejection because yo ugly ass aint surprised, given the odds

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is not being hit on all the time and not having random people slide into your DMs while you tryna mind yo own business

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is having a longer battery life, since ya know… nobody’s sliding into your DMs and blowin’ up your phone cuz you posted a selfie

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is saving that money and spending that money on yourself and nobody else cuz yo ass forever single

[blackpoeticinjustice]

Ugly Privilege is having your partner not worry about you cheatin’ because who else wants yo goofy ugly ass besides your partner?

[blackpoeticinjustice]

half of yall pretty af and shouldnt be reblogging this.

for yall average-lookin folks, yall can reblog this but you on thin ice, ya hear me?? THIN. ICE.

[starrycove]

“Thank you” 

[salemwitchhunterofficial]

Alternative responses to “I love you”

Who doesn’t

I know

Thanks

A horrible decision, really

Why

*laughs nervously*

*laughs hysterically*

YEET

I’m sorry

*finger guns*

If only there was someone out there who loved you

[kittehkats]

     “Cats are cold, detached & unloving.”

     “Cats are not loyal.”

     “A cat will not greet you at the door.”

     “You can not train a cat”

     “Cats aren’t that smart.”

     “Cats aren’t that good with children.”

     “Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone.”

     “Cats don’t comfort you when you’re feeling down.”

What a load of crap !!!  One thing for certain… cats don’t give a rat’s ass what B.S. you tell about them. They refuse to care less, either about what you think of them, or about the people they love.

[mystisnykoto]

“Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone” is a ton of bs. Whenever I leave to go anywhere, I can hear my cats meowing at the door within moments trying to find me. They sit in the window watching for me to come home and they are at the door to greet me almost every single time.

[keelime-art]

Cats also grieve. This cat watches a video of their owner who had passed away and he tries to cuddle up with the phone. The look on his face when they zoom in on him brings me to tears every time.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 Cats are soft and gentle souls <3

[001001001001001001]

@dulcetlips

[hungrylikeashark]

Sharks can be cute ! By @mahoukarp

[zack-a-snack]

@pinkc0bra

[ephilog]

I don’t know about you but I’m so sick of that omnipresent association of sports/fitness with weight loss as the ultimate goal.

(PS: I’m not sure how efficient punching people is for building muscle mass but I’m afraid she’s had a lot of opportunities so I guess four pounds is probably realistic?)

[eskiworks]

I wish… I WISH I could somehow reblog this HARDER and with MORE LOVE.  Sorry to put more non-art stuff in my main tumblr here, but goddamn I feel this so hard.  I’ve been hitting the gym with the goal of making a good habit, so that when winter comes around and the inevitable S.A.D. creeps back into my life, I’m more likely to get some exercise as a coping mechanism just out of habit.  I’m also weightlifting because I want to get strong (like ox, you might say). 

I do not care if I lose weight, I’m not keeping track of my pounds, and if I stay chubby but get stronger I will be just as fucking happy.  So glad I found this comic, and so glad I found your art Ephi!  New watcher ahoy!  <3

[systlin]

This is a Good Comic. 

[healthytoheal]

Do it because it feels good!

[fenkko]

when my little brother was even littler my mom came up with the 小兔子 bunny game to get him to eat

(it took forever for him to finish meals)

[sirobvious]

Avoid video games that use extrinsic motivation. A video game should at least mostly rely on intrinsic motivation, meaning that the playing of the game itself is the fun part, not the reward you get for playing the game. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay, but you want to earn lootboxes, you’ve fallen into the intentionally exploitative system operating within so many games nowadays, and you need to find another game, because you’re not having fun.

It doesn’t sound serious, but this kind of thing can make depression way worse if you’ve already got depression.

[trilllizard666]

this is also bad if you’ve got an addictive personality/gambling addiction or poor impulse control

[infiniteglitterfall]

this is true and i never thought about it. It’s that feeling of needing to check off all the boxes, without any actual enjoyment of it. It’s a very autistic problem for me; i crave pattern completion, but it can come at too high a cost.

[thechanelmuse]

“Ballet embraces the soft, ethereal and majestic side to women, and yet we often don’t see the media portray black women in this light. My project aims to reveal that women of color possess these qualities. We too are capable of portraying the princess, fairy and swan.”

 —Aesha Ash

Aesha Ash’s prestigious career has included world class roles. Yet she’s now on to a different mission, with three big goals. She wishes to see ballet become more diverse. She hopes to inspire youth from rough areas to pursue their dreams. And she wants to show the world that tough environments can’t hold back talented people, especially those with ambition.

Aesha performed professionally for 13 years. She attended the legendary School of American Ballet; joined the New York City Ballet at age 18; and has danced solo and principal roles for companies like the Béjart Ballet in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco. Now she’s focused on The Swan Dreams Project, in which she uses imagery to tackle stereotypes placed on black women. Aesha commissions photographers to snap her as a ballerina in her hometown of rugged Rochester, New York, and in Richmond, California, and then donates proceeds from photo sales to organizations helping advance inner city youth. She also donates images to organizations for their fundraisers and to people seeking more positive imagery for their children or groups.

The dancer points out that black women have always existed in ballet, yet few become principals, the highest tier of dancers. When Misty Copeland became the first black female principal with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre last summer, Aesha found the milestone a moment to celebrate, yet sad and troubling that in 2016, we’re still celebrating a first. She hopes The Swan Dreams project will give more dancers — and youths in general — the chance to be celebrated for their own talents.

Rochester has one of America’s highest crime rates. But Aesha hits the streets to prove that her hometown is more than violence and gangs. That’s where her Swan Dreams Project comes in. “My community saw that out of our environment came a ballerina, not just negativity — a little black girl from inner city Rochester actually went on to become a professional ballet dancer in a top-tiered company,” Aesha said in a one-on-one interview for this report. “Youth followed me on the street saying, ‘This is what we need. This lifts us up.’”

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