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DIY - candle holder 🕯
Let’s get crafty! ✂️
You’ll need:
x branches
x string
x scissors
Step 1
Break the branches to the right length (according on how big your candle is) and connect them in a row
Step 2
Tie the branches together with a tripod node from two sides (in my case not so accurate 😂)
You’re all done! As simple as that!
REMEMBER! 🚩
Do not leave your candles unattended!
Enjoy and stay safe witches! ✂️❣
Sending good vibes, Julia
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The bravest woman on Earth.
I love her. Forever reblog.
I have the utmost respect for this woman.
please reblog. reblog the way you would reblog a picture of a hot singer, a pretty girl, a tasty meal or some nice stationary. Because this will not make your blog ‘less aesthetic’ or anything. This is important, far more important than anything I’ve mentioned before.
how to draw arms ? ?
holy fuck
holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???
yes !!
but how much extend
^^^^^^^^^^
I NEARLY CHOKED
ENJFDFNFATFVFDF
finally. i can be accurate
This is too fucking great to not reblog
I give it MASCLES
BIG MACHO
LMAOOOOOO
Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:
The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!
So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:
And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:
It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting:
So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:
But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!
HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG
How to Create Fog in Photoshop [Photoshopdesire.com]
Made this for a friend who needed some help with fire animation, figured it might be useful to someone else
this is how I approach any fire animation I do timing-wise and design wise. if I am doing something more cartoony I will use shapes that are suited to more flowing smooth transitions and a nice graphic look, if I am animating more realistically I will use more chaotic timing and a design that works better with the slight motion blur I always apply to realistic fire. real fire doent flow nice and smooth like water or smoke when viewed at real-time
I almost always animate fire on 1′s, though the cartoony fire can work on 2′s, you just have to be more careful of pops.
you can also animate more realistic fire with a slower timing, you wouldn’t want the above fire in the background of a calm scene. this is just an example using an extreme case.
Hope this helps someone who is struggling to rough animate fire that fits their specific style and scene timing.
I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D
[EDIT] this is in Adobe Photoshop, sorry for forgetting to mention that!
week 5
I've started my moodboard for the wisp race. Worked alongside nick in creating the significant characters and started working on documents to write them into. I focused a lot more into the narrative this week to help accommodate the change in staff. Alongside the work in the narrative I have now really started to work more on my essay. I have played all of god of war and annotated areas of interest, as well as mafia 3. I have also been to the UEA library to research more on the Vietnam war and its impact on social america, look at museumography and its links to gaming.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
Most likely naming conventions. I still name things, wisp iteration and wisp iteration cont. A lot of similar names and it does get confusing. I just don't realise I’m making more iterations but then the group throws in ideas and i start a new canvas. Obviously the best thing to do is call files something like Wisp_iteration_1 or Wisp race design a. Just something to differentiate from previous files. My mistakes don't go on in files or public documents. I do rename them for other peoples purposes but for me personally it would decrease time wasted finding the right file.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
It would definitely be going to a different library and experiencing a new place and coming to terms that I will have to go to different areas to get more information than just the internet. This will help me because it will show that I can explore wider ranging sources, this helps both my essay as well as show competence to my future employers.
Have you improved upon or used a new process? Evidence how it’s relevant to your project and/or career.
I'd say I've improved on my naming conventions. Its paramount in games to be able to understand what files mean what. Maybe a lot more in coding and 3D assets but people still need to know what my actual final iteration on something is quickly and effectively.
week 4
Well my part in narrative has increased. Morgan has left the narrative team. Dropping their main part onto me and nick. So that 30/70 split is now a 50/50 between my jobs in narrative and concept art. Oh well. I’m going to make the most of this!
Here is the link to the rough ideas document that the narrative team and other members of the group have worked on.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
One mistake this week has to be the sudden re balancing problems. I went deep into the narrative, to aid with the workload change. I unfortunately haven't been able to do a lot of work on the race designs we were supposed to be starting this week. To remedy this I need to start to dedicate specific days to doing one type of work. This daily should help even the work load out. Another mistake i have been making would definitely be my out of uni workload. I have been doing 12 hour shifts Saturday and 6 hour shifts Sunday at subway since starting back at uni. This has exhausted me as i have been working, every week since starting back at uni, the equivalent of a week and a half's worth of work hours, in a week, back to back. To say it's been exhausting is definitely accurate. I have remedied this by letting Simon know and i now have been getting Saturdays off and just working 6 hours Sunday.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
I have learnt a lot of story writing techniques and practices from Nick, such as when writing a mystery you've got to work from the end backwards to explain the motives and how the crime happened. These techniques will really help when communicating to the audience what the character is all about. Using linear and nonlinear narrative structures. In the context of our game we are making a linear game with nonlinear player experience. Another technique that I've picked up is Chekhov's gun. To summarise it, One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.
'Chekhov's Gun' is a concept that describes how every element of a story should contribute to the whole. It comes from Anton Chekhov's famous book writing advice: 'If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.
Have you improved upon or used a new process? Evidence how it’s relevant to your project and/or career.
I worked with nick in making some characters so I feel I’ve improved in my character story development as well as working between one another and being able to brainstorm and come up with ideas. this is quite crucial as i do like inventing stories and creating worlds, my own passion project at the moment is a Dungeons and Dragons world that is all home brew and works of an alternate reality of the canon D&D world. I would love to work in narrative in the games industry at some point and the overlap of Narrative and concept in industry is quite close, so being able to understand both sides, I Hope, will ease any starting tensions between the professions.
Honest question: how much of what modern heathens believe is actually accurate to what Viking age norsemen believed? I'm not as educated about this as I'd like to be, but doesn't most of the source material we use come from after the christianization of those countries? So how much can we really know about what an average farmer or warrior from that period really believed or practiced?
Easy and oversimplified answer:
First off, I’m not a practising neopagan, so I don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth. But from what I’ve seen, modern heathenry is not any more “historically accurate” as religions in general, if such a thing can even be measured.
It’s a religion strongly based on literature studies and modern/romanticist interpretations. It’s based on several layers of modern influences: the European romantic esoteric rune-craze, other new age religions, centuries of literary history and interpretations of post-conversion text sources. The Eddas certainly are medieval, from the 1200s, and not contemporary Viking texts.
Nordic archaeology tries to study the actual pre-christian “everyday culture” and religious practices, basing its picture of viking religion, among other things, more on physical non-literature sources. The archaeological field of study was, too, long hindered by romanticism, race studies and poorly founded guesswork theories that are now proving untrue with new testing methods.
That’s science, it’s a constant progress and theories evolve and are proven untrue. But it takes time, because we’re all human, trying to solve the tangles in this mess we’ve created and call “history”.
A bit more in-depth thought excercise:
What would you say if you dug open a viking woman’s grave in Birka/Björkö and found as grave goods an amethyst ring with “God”, Allah, engraved on the stone in Arabic? One like this:
(Photo courtesy of Stockholm’s Historical Museum)
Is it a weird thing to find? Not really.
We know that the Viking Eastern trade route extended all the way to the Caspian Sea. Vikings and medieval muslim traders have told us this. Maybe the ring was simply jewelry she didn’t think much of, possibly bought somewhere in Karelia from a Slavic trader. Just a way to show off her wealth?
Then again, we know from Arabic sources that at the time such rings were common gifts from muslim merchant men to women. Maybe the Swedish Viking womanhad been to Bagdad herself. Perhaps she knew of Islam. Maybe she received the ring from someone, either for being a good business associate or as a token of personal admiration. And then she got back home?
This is all speculation. We don’t know who she was, how the ring got to Sweden, or who gave it to her and why. We only know that it was there and so was she, laid to the grave in Birka, somewhere between years 800-1000. And so even archaeology is biased by the very nature of us humans and our existence in time.
A bit more speculative and personal answer:
I just realised what bothers me with these questions. Not you, and not that someone asks, but just that the question itself skirts around the answer I feel is best. This is a quote from a pop history youtube series hosted by John Green. Bear with me, it’s a good summary of my following rambles:
When I was eleven - - my dad made my brother and I turn off the Cosby show and watch people climbing on the Berlin Wall so we could “see history”. But no one, like, woke up their kids in a Tuscan village in 1512 like “MARIO, LUIGI, come outside, the RENAISSANCE is here!” (The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22)
I don’t think there is a border between what was “authentically Viking” and what was “tainted by Christianity”. There’s no magical switch or event horizon we could find when the first Viking abandoned all of his vikingness and then everything around him was Not Viking anymore.
There were “true pagan Vikings” who practised their family pagan ways with fully pagan intentions, while their beliefs were already influenced by christianity. There were also centuries’ worth of baptised christian Nordic people, who definitely practised their religion in very very pagan ways. Can we say either were “untrue” in living their lives?
They were people. They liked having tidy hair. Here’s a comb from Birka just to break the wall of text:
I’m also 100% sure that American neopaganism in all its forms is very different from Nordic neopaganism. Religion in general is so much more visible in the US culture than it is in the Nordic countries.
I think it might sometimes make the US interpretation of neopaganism too… big? Too thorough?
I feel like some American people, no matter how much they like the idea of paganism, still see nature-bound gods through a biblical filter. That the gods are omniscient, deeply invested in you, and all-commanding in society and personal life.
Nature deities, in a sense of historical paganism, don’t require all people of the world to believe in them to exist. They’re natural phenomena. And they sure as hell wouldn’t be interested in whether you wank in the woods with a man or a woman or by yourself. Frankly, my dear, they don’t give a damn. (Your neighbours might care, though, if you wank in their woods.)
The thunder won’t stop even if you don’t really believe that Thor will walk through your door tomorrow. Gods didn’t really care for you specifically from all the people on the earth (apart from few saga-worthy exceptions). That’s why you’d offer and pray - so this once they might notice you from the crowd.
Thunder will come, whether you prayed or not. But it’s hard to say what that thunder really meant to a Viking lady in the South-Swedish town of Birka around year 900, with her amethyst ring that reads “Allah”.
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Mermaid oc!! She protects sharks from poachers and other mer-creatures, and falls in love with a human girl she saved from drowning~
Some Photoshop Tips
I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.
Firstly, what you need are
— CUSTOM BRUSHES —
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:
- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%
- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
— PATHS —
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:
Real, pressure-responsive halftone painting is now possible in Photoshop, with my new Halftone brushes.
week 3
Well the guys are back from the game jam and I’ve written a whole 16 page research journal which they are VERY happy about. I had it open to anyone to drop something they want researched more or if they heard about something they can put it at the bottom of the doc and I’d follow it up.
here is the read only version of that research regurgitation doc
alongside this I made a couple mood boards for the warehouse as well as a look at the deign idea to use retro wave elements.
the retro wave mood board was more a dissection of the differences of it and cyberpunk and looking at Scandinavian architecture for reference.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
I’d say my mistake this week has been not doing enough iterations on the warehouse concepts that have been directed at me. I am currently drawing a couple more angles and different styles for them to give a variety of different feels for the area. I will strive to make more thumbnails and iterations in the future.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
Personally. I hate drawing environments, but this stems from never really drawing them and so am not confident in drawing them and when I ever do try they always look wrong or somethings perspectives wrong, and when it is it always looks too artificial and inorganic. But so far I’m enjoying the warehouse. I like industrial themed art, so I’m incorporating that so when I finally draw an environment I like I can compare it to industrial environment art that I like and weep at the fact its no where as good as it.
Have you improved upon or used a new process? Evidence how it’s relevant to your project and/or career.
I’ve tried to better myself at environment design which has been a weak link for a while. I’ve used some of the tutorials I’ve reblogged to this blog, such as using two radial grids to make a perspective grid, this has really helped make sure my perspectives are at least believable and consistent.
week 2
Although it slightly feels like accepting defeat. Me and James are joining our other friends group. they invited us to join their group. Me as a concept artist and narrative and James as head blueprinter. I definitely believe its the best thing to do. it spreads the workload out between 11 people and were all good friends so its not like were joining complete strangers.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
I think the biggest mistake has been waiting a week till jumping ship almost. luckily the group is still currently working on the rainbow games jam, so I’ve been proving myself to everyone by doing a mini research report on all the mythical creatures and some folklore that are interesting and relevant to the game were making. were trying to give the game a Scandinavian feel and by doing so were also making it a fantasy world inhabited by a lot of the Scandinavian mythical creatures such as dwarfs, trolls, fossegrimmen, huldra and more. My jobs been looking up all the different creatures and writing down rough descriptions of them and adding them to it.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
besides looking up and now learning about a larger group of mythical creatures I can use as reference for future creature design, I have learnt how to work in a larger group than what i have before. this is by far the largest group I’ve worked for. and I’m glad I still have a little nook i can work in.
Have you improved upon or used a new process? Evidence how it’s relevant to your project and/or career.
Id definitely say my researching speed has gone up. In a week I’ve managed to write a very large 16 page research book for the rest of the team to look at when they get back from the games jam. its filled with interesting facts and tidbits that the head narrators can grab and play with.
Week 1
well the summer holidays have been a lovely break, granted I’ve worked half of it... but that means I don’t have to worry too much about money worries going into year 3! i decided at the idea of making a game to work with my close friend James Wilson as just the two of us. working as a 2D game that would show of my artistic skills and his mechanics building and blueprinting.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
I’d definitely say my biggest mistake has been not picking a game and just starting to make it. We got very bogged down on wanting to make a really good game that was original and interesting and would be fantastic, we wanted to also make a game wed enjoy to play and make. Unfortunately we just couldn't come up with anything that we could make and enjoy within a week that we could feasibly make within the time frame we have to make the game.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
I’d say the idea development that me and James did was very good for industry. being able to critically say, no this games not good or there’s just something missing in that, leave that one and maybe come back to it later if an idea comes up. We still have all the ideas on our drive in a shared folder so if we ever get a good idea we are putting them in there.
Have you improved upon or used a new process? Evidence how it’s relevant to your project and/or career.
I definitely improved on my idea development and even while writing this I’m also writing up more game ideas I’ve been having. Its very relevent in what i want to do further in my career. although I’m specialising in concept art, the whole process of understanding and critically saying no that concept/idea is bad and not investing any more resources into it is very important when it comes to time management.
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if you’re using an older version of Photoshop, you may have to convert the .abr file using abrMate. you can also use abrMate to export the brush tips as .png files for use in different programs, but you’ll have to fine-tune all the brush settings yourself, and many programs, like Clip Studio Paint, lack some features such as Dual Brush so they won’t behave quite the same as they do in Photoshop.
A good tip! ^^^^
