MarbeCreative

Mia here (she/her), hobby painter, writer and crafty. This blog is a mess of a little bit of everything. Just like me! For longer writing I'm marber312 on Ao3 and Maria-ber0312 on dA for more art. I'm also socially awkward, as in: I don't really dare start talking to people, but love talking to new people about interests... Great. Send me an ask? Happy scrolling!

[marbe-creative]

Disney Guardian: Aurora [2]

Guardian of the Forest

[1],

I went pink for the rose theme I saw in my head.

And also, I’m working on my background work, I thought it would look nicer than a green gradient ^^;

[marbe-creative]

Disney Guardian: Ariel [1]

Guardian of the sea

I wanted a badass princess version and also practice, my more ambitious drawing series. And also each princess I’ll do have her own kind of weapon.

Ofc I went for the trident.

[2]

[trashforhogwarts]

Headcanon where Draco writes home to his father about Potter and his stupid face, and Lucius is annoyed at first by the constant flood of letters, but eventually finds it amusing.

Jump forward to when Draco brings Harry, now his boyfriend, home to meet Lucius and Lucius just goes, “This father has been hearing a lot about you, I heard you like to have extra cream with treacle tart on Tuesdays after Quiddich practise?”

All the while, Draco is getting redder and redder, and Harry just beams, because who knew his boyfriend was obsessed with him way before he was?

[doodldan]

what if , they had capes ..

[wordsnstuff]

Useful Writing Resources

This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)

{ *** } Indicate a Highly Reccommended Resource

Planning/outlining Your Work

How To Outline ***

Zigzag Method : Creating Plots

How to Plot a Romance Novel 

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances 

Let’s talk about brainstorming

Writing Something With Meaning ***

Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide

Writing Your Work

How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story 

The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy 

Romance Writing Tips ***

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes

7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing *** 

80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High 

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid 

Removing the Creeps From Romance

19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***

50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***

How To Write Action And Fight Scenes

10 Steps To Write Arguments

9 Ways To Write Body Language

Writing Good Kissing Scenes

Writing Murders

Create And Control Tone ***

Tips for Writing Ghost Stories

Incorporating Flashbacks

12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***

Characters

Behind the Name

Top Baby Names

Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***

7 Rules of Picking Names

Most Common Surnames ***

Minor Character Development

Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains

Characters With Enhanced Senses

5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters

How Do You Describe a Character?

How To Write Child Characters

36 Core Values For Building Character

Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

Character Archetypes

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters

Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language 

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion 

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***

Describing Clothing And Appearance ***

Career Masterpost ***

Creating Your Character’s Personality ***

Character Flaws ***

Editing

DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST

Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***

Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***

Grammar and Punctuation ***

How To Write A Captivating First Sentence

10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***

Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong

How To Condense Without Losing Anything

The Stages Of Editing

Dialogue/Description Balance

3 Proofreading Tips

The Short Story Form

Chapter & Novel Lengths

Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***

How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***

Where Chapter #2 Should Start

Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft

Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***

How To Kill A Character

25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story

5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***

Setting

{Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***

20 Questions To Enhance Setting

How To Bring Your Setting To Life

Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between

How to Write from a Guy’s POV 

The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus

Text To Speech Reader

Compare Character Heights 

A Visual Dictionary of Tops

Writers Helping Writers

7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight

Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***

Most Important Writing Tips ***

Let’s talk about diversity in novels

Letting Go Of Your Story

Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***

How To Create A Good Book Cover

Write or Die

Tip of my Tongue

Character Traits Form

Online Thesaurus

Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law

Coma: Types, Causes, etc

Tips for writing blood loss

Gunshot Wound Care

Examples of Hospital Forms

Common Legal Questions

The Writer’s Forensics Blog

Brain Injury Legal Guide

Types of Surgical Operations

Types of Mental Health Problems

A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient

Global Black Market Information ***

Crime Scene Science

Examining Mob Mentality

How Street Gangs Work

Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity

Story Plot Generator

@aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***

50 Romance Plot Ideas

Reading Like A Writer ***

Defeat Writers’ Block

Writing In A Bad Mood ***

Writers Block

When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***

What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***

9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer

“I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***

Real Writing Advice ***

Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of

A Writer’s Thesaurus ***

Words To Describe… ***

Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***

Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)

List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***

List Of Elemental Abilities

inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting

Body Language Phrases

List Of Legendary Creatures

How To Write Magic

Hairstyle References

Hemingway : Writing Checker

Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around

Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***

The Psychology of Color

The Meaning behind Rose color

Types of Swords

Color Symbolism

How a handgun works

How to Write a Eulogy

Types of Crying

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***

Superstitions and More

The 12 Common Archetypes

Language of Flowers

12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes

Using Feedback And Reviews

Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***

Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***

Authonomy Teen Ink Figment Fiction Press ReviewFuse

These Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)

[writing-prompt-s]

For all the writers out there. Please reblog this!

[marbe-creative]

A little ficlet of Lucius cuddling and loving his little baby Draco with a small sidedish of angsty forshadowing!

I’ve had this image in my head forever and decided to write it out. I can’t really decide if I like the flow of it but aaanywaay.. I  needed some warm cuddly family time.

Narcissa entered the room in which she had last seen her husband. Lucius head snapped up and a heated glare was directed over his shoulder towards the steps entering the room. The heat faded from his eyes the second he saw her, but the sharp snap of his head had been sign enough to tell her to slow her steps and move forwards quietly. It had been a clear warning of: do not disturb. Lucius was sitting on the sofa facing the big window in little library right next to Draco’s nursery. As she rounded the back-rest she saw a little bundle of soft clothes and hair so fair it seemed white in her husband’s arms. She placed her hand on her husband’s shoulder, but he wasn’t looking at her. He had returned his gaze to the small sleeping baby in his embrace. A warm and gentle smile played on his lips; one he had only ever directed towards her before. A smile so small she doubted he knew he was doing it. His eyes were ever softer than his smile could ever be as they took in the sight of his sleeping son in his arms. Narcissa saw how Draco’s little cheek pouted out as it lay resting on his father’s chest, how his small hand gripped at Lucius shirt the best his small fingers could hold. She wanted the moment to last forever, just the three of them in the soft afternoon light, warm and adoring. She knew this little bundle wouldn’t stay so little forever but she could wish.

She glanced to her husband’s face. He still hadn’t taken his eyes off Draco. His thumb going ever so slowly back and forth in soft pats where he could reach as he held his son in his arms. Her smile grew wider as she stared at the two. Incredibly happy that after so many struggles they too could have such a moment. They could be a family. Her gaze soon retreated to her lovely boy. His soft cheeks, hair softer than any material, and so small.

 She watched as his small chest moved as he slept, safe and secure in his father’s arms. Draco usually falls asleep like that. She doesn’t know if it’s because Lucius can’t help but pick him up the second he gets home from his duties at the ministry, or if Draco just calms by and feels safe in his father’s arms. It wasn’t the first time she had found them like this. It also wasn’t the first time Lucius had directed the harsh and poisonous look her way by accident. Lucius was as fiercely protective of Draco as he was loving. The look Lucius got in his eyes when anyone ever came near to hurt a hair on their son’s head told her that he’d tear men to shreds with his bare hands; he’d kill anyone who’d hurt his child. Draco were to be protected, from everything, always, at all costs. A feeling she shared.

As Draco grew this sentiment, the care, and the piercing focus on anyone nearing his child never faded from Lucius eyes, but the way of expressing them changed. They turned into discipline exercises and critique. They turned into etiquette lessons and stern looks. She didn’t particularly agree with all her husband’s stern words, but she always understood what he was doing. He would do everything in his power to make sure Draco would be safe even when they weren’t around. He would teach Draco how to protect himself. He would try to protect Draco from the world, and the people in it, the best he could by teaching him how to handle the world and what to expect from it. It would often make Lucius seem harsher than he is as other’s only hear the words. They never understand that his scolding’s are never cruel, never ill intended, but no one has seen him as she has; hasn’t seen him with his warm adoring eyes staring at the soft bundle held close and safe in his arms; hasn’t see how he looks at his son with the same warm gaze, adoration shining when Draco succeeds, when he’s sad, when he’s not doing anything in particular. Narcissa do and she knows. She knows that no matter how old Draco grows, when he comes to his father in the privacy of their own home or with hurt or sadness on his features, his father will melt all the same. He’ll hold his precious baby in his arms and promise to make the hurt go away; promise to make sure it’ll never happen again. Lucius can’t help it. He’ll burn down worlds to keep Draco safe; he can’t help the words of promise from leaving his lips in whispers of comfort. Promising him the perfect world he feels his son deserves, where no one can hurt him. Promising it will get better. Dad will make it better. - The same promises he’s told ever since he held that small bundle in his arms for the very first time.

 The torment on Lucius’ face they day he can’t help; when his son is hurting but he can’t reach him to comfort him, will break Narcissa’s heart. It will be subtle, just like it has always been, but it will there. A raging, furious fire blazing beneath the cool surface, ready to explode. Lucius loves his son beyond anything he’s ever loved, loves him more than life itself. It hurts him worse than any physical pain ever could to not be able to reach him. No one outside their family will see it, but Narcissa will know. She’ll see it. She’ll sees it as clearly then as now when Lucius is making sure his son sleeps undisturbed in his arms, holding him gently and just watches him. A small smile firm on his lips, silently promising to protect him for the world – even though it’s a promise he won’t be able to keep. The way Lucius holds his son and looks down at him tells her all she needs to know to see it all those other times no one else does.

  And Draco loves his father just as much. She sees it in the small hand clutching his father’s shirt; in how he’ll bolt towards the door on wobbly legs with feet that has barely learnt to walk. How he’ll reach his arms up to be lifted at the sight of his father. How he’ll turn to his father in frustration, in pride, in hurt and find shelter in his arms. She’ll see it in how his eyes will slowly slide towards them, seeking their comfort in a situation where they can’t do anything else than merely look at each other. She’ll see it in the way he takes the stupid mark to keep them safe. Lucius will be furious and hopeless knowing he can’t help his son, can’t keep him safe, can’t protect him from the hurt they’re enduring. Her husband’s pain of broken promises will hurt almost as much as the look on Draco face; that he knows not even his father can protect him from this, that it’s his time to keep them safe.

Narcissa doesn’t know this will come as she stares at them, eyes bright and smile gentle, but she tucks away this piece of serenity and the image of love in her heart to keep forever all the same.

[scrubsterart]

You know what? While everyone is struggling with anatomy (which I am too but whatever) I cant draw boys’ hair for shit. Like, wow teach me your secret.... you’re awesome and I love your art

i kinda just mess around with hair but here’s some quick hairdos 4 u <33

[marbe-creative]

In my babycraze (as my BBF has now a baby) I wrote a quick de-aging fic, and this scene just stuck in my brain and I really wanted to draw it. So here we are.

[piraticoctopus]

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

[thebookskeeper]

I just wanted to add a little more to this. If you have trouble figuring out how light sources work in your drawings this also allows you to choose where to have a light source.

That shaded ball on the left is your light source. You can see how moving the point changed the shadow cast.

Oh and all those other nifty looking things in that bottom bar there, yeah it’s what you think. You can change the model color to one of these presets or even customize your own palette.

Plus for all you lovely people who want something a little more simplified to use as a pose reference

You can turn your model into the classic wire frame.

[nick-nocturne]

Why reblog this? Because for more visual creators, this will be like the lumberjack discovering chainsaws. “Reblog to save lives” as the saying goes.

[princesscupcakecarnage]

@ravesinthesky

[ravesinthesky]

Yesssssssss thank you @cupcakesandfucks

[gilove2dance]

@incaseyouart I have no idea if this is something you would be interested in but I’m over here freaking out!

[caswatchesoveryou]

Where have you been all my life? °^° ❤️

[marbe-creative]

You know what Voltron AU i adore? The braid AU -  *especially* the: Lance is great at braiding and it calms him down + Lance is annoyed as hell at Keith’s bangs AU. Most or everything is the same as the real one but  there are just a lot fabulous braids and hairstyles! 

And Yes I made Pidge’s hair longer. It gives Lance more to work with!

[marbe-creative]

I do a 100% believe that Lucius Malfoy loves and cuddled his baby boy Draco. My headcanon is that he cuddled that boy the second he got home from work. 

[blueboyluca]

Bob Ross gets it.

[baawri]