So...noodles anyone?

🪴 ♍ / Cottage core / Hi! My name is Alyss and I'm a social Demi bisexual, I really love to express myself in writing and art, but I can be very shy to show it off.I ship hard& love my caffeine. If you ever want to chat about something, I'm open! /Multi-fandom / 1# Twigbranch fan! 🍄

[dailycatsblog]

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[mossbear-minese]

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[mossbear-minese]

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[musubiarte]

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller

[coldau]

What's your favorite color (by general shades)

Blue

Red

Yellow

Pink

Purple

Orange

Green

Brown

White

Black

Voting ended onMay 26

just curious tbh, please reblog to get lots of votes

[keferon]

We are the Keferonlings- FEED US

This you

[sillysiluriforme]

The smoking and drinking brothers………..

[corvusapis]

Shadowmilk and PureVanilla Shimejis!

hi!! i made shadowmilk and pure vanilla shimejis! if you downloaded my old shadowmilk shimeji before consider this an updated rerelease! A lot of the issues that the last version had have been fixed so please check it out!

Ok a few things about these guys!

On the drive folder you'll see four files, two for the individual versions of the shimejis, one for the couple version and one for the troubleshooting guide! please check the guide out even if you don't run into any issues, there's some helpful tips about these guys in there too!

Unlike the old version these work on both windows 10 and 11, you still need java for them to run though! any version before java8 will Not work

Ineteractions between the couple shimeji can happen on their own, but if you want to know how to trigger them yourself that's on the guide dock along w instructions for messing with the settings

If you run into any issues Not covered in the troubleshooting guide please lmk and i'll do my best to figure them out!

[cossackia]

The Timeless Trilogy

[pebleeee-deactivated20151227]

im happy they worked it out

[the-rom-man]

I need updates on this 

are they still bffs?

[cossackia]

[valtsv]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[k00kyc00kie]

Okay, so Shadow Milk hates ALL the food gifts, with the sole exception of Panna Cotta. Never had a Panna Cotta before, wonder what it's made of?

...So.

You're telling me the ONLY THING this overdramatic clown is willing to eat

IS THE DISH WHERE THE PRIMARY INGREDIENTS ARE MILK AND VANILLA.

[miyuliart]

I collected my art tips on hands over the years. It ended up being 54 pages of notes I took and some guides I tried to create for myself. Maybe some of these can be useful to others as well. You can buy the pdf here or join my Patreon to get it for free.

[mrtuklz]

FINALLY FINISHED THIS ONE🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[hobnob-moth]

Wow has this been difficult to not talk about. I got the chance to work with the monstrously talented team at Knights of the Light Table and DoigSwift as a clean-up artist for an Avantris music video! The finished video was such a labor of love from the team so please give it a watch!

Man is it hard to pick my favorite shots that I had a clean-up* hand in for this music video project, but here's two. *(lineart and hl/sh) Here's the kickstarter link for those dnd inclined -

Neon Odyssey: Space Opera in D&D by Legends of Avantris

A 1,400+ page Space Opera trilogy for D&D. Blast off to the stars, explore the galaxy, and chart your own cosmic destiny.

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk