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Just a bit of crazy with some psychotic tendencies

[beardedmrbean]

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[eliotbaum]

If you could recommend any of Max Ulichney's brush packs for someone who's trying to achieve a similar amount of texture as the one in your art, which one would it be?

Hello! Funnily enough I don't actually use much of Max's brushes anymore, I could never quite the hang of them... I mostly use Joe's sets. Crunchy.

I do the get question about brushes a bunch though so I'll use this space to point out the eventual outcome can be quite different. The way you use brushes, the way you work, canvas size, pen pressure... it all makes a tremendous difference! Fun example below of my inks and my bestie's @vivtanner 's lines with the same brush.

Same goes for textured flatting/shading brushes ofc!

[danekez]

I'd be interested in seeing a comparison to your brush settings as well. I love both inking styles, but I usually have to switch brushes to get such distinct looking lines!

[eliotbaum]

no brush settings from either of us, I'm afraid! Though Viv uses the streamline function sometimes, mine is always 0. I execute very light pressure on the pen and do quick lines, while Viv has quite the firm pressure but pulls slower lines. However, my pen pressure setting is different from Viv's too, if that is what you mean?

[unmutedlark-blog]

medically accurate muscle chart:

[shutframe]

As someone who works in therapy for a living, I can confirm this is 100% accurate

[nineprotons]

@cosmicdwarf

[stele3]

For Traitor: neck retraction exercise. While lying in bed with your head flat against the mattress, give yourself the biggest double chin you can. Repeat 10 times.

For Jackass: stop hiking your shoulders up to your ears. This is pretty much a stress thing, it’s human instinct to protect our neck when we’re under stress so that predators can’t get at it. Easiest way to do that is be elevating the shoulders, so. Periodically take not of where your shoulders are at.

Absolute Fuckwaffle: stretch out your chest. The rhomboids on the back work to keep our shoulder blades back, so when we’re hunched forward they are constantly straining to do their job. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as telling you to stand up straight, since our pectorals get chronically tight and prevent us from doing so. Step one: pectoral stretches. Hold for at least 20 seconds.

Asshole: Superman exercises. Like the rhomboids, the ESGs are straining against the slump. Stretching the chest will help them, too, but then you e got to strengthen your back. Do 20 of those per day.

[curlicuecal]

traitor tried to murder me last night and fuckwaffle is always up on my shit

I’m gonna try these tips

[enbyofdionysos]

The Fellowship movie did Bilbo so dirty ☠️ I know they didn’t make the hobbit movies yet so they were trying to keep the focus on Frodo but:

Bilbo is friends with Aragorn and comes to his defense over Boromir rather than Legolas

Bilbo volunteers to take the ring to Mordor first so nonchalantly like an old queer professor on sabbatical volunteering to cover a 101 course and everyone at the council is honored by his offer

Literally not even scared or sad about it or anything — just straight up “yeah okay I see what you’re getting at, Lord Elrond, I’ll do it 💅 guess I’ll have to rewrite the ending of my book”

Bilbo doesn’t ask to see the ring again or make a go at Frodo but instead sings a sad little song out the window after giving him Sting and his mithril shirt

“it is my dwarf-mail that Thorin gave me” AAAH

Bilbo’s there when they leave Rivendell in the winter and tells them good luck like a worried little peepaw

Also the movie makes it sound like he never got to Erebor but HE DID and was traveling with some of the original company including Gloin who’s the only one who smiles when Bilbo volunteers to take the ring to Mordor

[zevampirex]

Smoochy kiss 💋

[mercining]

[aubsnin68]

FINALLY DONNEEE~! took me damn weeks to finish because work always in the way sdjhfgalsjfh will add more in the futureeee

[smolmilkyways]

discussion…

[officialprydonchapter-deactivat]

How do you write healthy parent-child relationships?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this might be more response than you want, but interesting (and kinda depressing when you think about it) fact: there’ve been a bunch of research studies where parents have been asked what they think makes a healthy parent-child relationship, and they tend to like…not answer the actual question because they think they’re being asked what good parenting is, which is not the same. so they talk about things like helping kids with homework and making sure they eat well. children, on the other hand, usually respond to the same question with stuff that’s literally just the definition of healthy relationships generally. affection, honesty, respect, spending time together, sharing interests. and the real kicker is, objectively, we know that’s the kind of stuff that actually has a much better impact not only on whether or not the relationship is strong and positive but also the kid’s overall happiness and psychological health.

so, if you want to write a character who’s really intent on being a Good Parent you’d have them putting massive effort into making their kid Grow Up Right, worrying about shit like if they have The Right Friends and they’re spending Enough Time Outside. but if you want to write a good relationship, just make parent and kid laugh together and respect boundaries and be emotionally supportive, like you would when writing a solid pair of friends or romantic couple.

[officialprydonchapter-deactivat]

No that was actually really helpful and I’m glad you took the time to give a serious response

[maturina]

wanna see something that drives me up the walls insane

[maturina]

the creation..............of adam.............................

[luimnigh]

[id: A trans man lifting his shirt above his head, displaying his chest. His chest is tattooed with the hands of God and Adam from the Michaelangelo painting "The Creation of Adam", which reach out to each other but don't quite touch. The tattoo covers the faint scar from the man's top surgery. end id.]

[testosteronetwunk]

[cadavercrafts]

First of all huge thanks again to @madelezabeth for letting me steal the pose from their art *link* because my god. I would've not been able to pose this guy. He is emitting lethal levels of cunt at all times so i couldn't just make him stand around you know?

Anyway this is Valentino from Hazbin Hotel and while im typing this there's only season 1 out so i'm just gonna prophesize that he will die an agonizing horrible death, he's certainly putting in the work. BUT i like him a lot, sorry. After the finale i really gotta add the other Vees to this now... don't want him to be lonely. And i love all the Vees, can't wait to see more of them in season 2 <3 Sculpted him super tiny in between other things, this style is SO hard for me. If you saw my WIP you might be able to tell i made his feather feeler thing bigger! Just thought that would be more fun.

[snuffysbox]

just another tuesday in Pelican Town 🐔

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[knishy-deactivated20230216]

from Drum: Sex in Perspective pub. 1966

[berrycobbler]

[ID: New York. New York City: Scrawled on a poster in the subway: “My mother made me a homosexual.” Comment scribbled underneath: “If I sent her the wool, would your mother make one for me?” /end ID.]

[knishy-deactivated20230216]

finally someone has something worthwhile to say

[daylightsavingcrime]

[Image description: a tumblr tag reading #this is what simon & garfunkel meant when they said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

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[mistgardens]

Sinclair comes out

[thelostpretzel]

keep dreaming don quixote