set me free. we are sisters, you and I

icon from 💫 Read the Dauntless Path by Intisar Khanani ✨ •● sources: i was there, i made it up, it came to me in a vision ●• -- Dragons, Knights, Elves, Wizards -- 🐊🦖🐉I adore dragons ▪︎ water dragons too 🐋🦈

[traversety]

the spirit is willing but the flesh is so fucking out of it rn. actually the flesh would like to pack it up and leave. it's done with the horrors.

[backfliips]

A lot of people on twitter wanted me to explain how I draw expressions, so here you go

Unless you're drawing explicit realism, in my opinion, expressions should be exaggerated to some degree. If you aren't doing a 1:1 recreation, the point is to get the FEELING across. Try making the expression you want to draw and feeling how your face pinches and stretches.

Skin doesn't just "disappear" when your face moves it around --- that's where wrinkles come from! Pay attention to where your skin creases when you emote, and use it to your benefit. It's a fine line between overdoing it and underdoing it -- find your own balance.

Ultimately, every expression has a little bit of push and pull, unless your face is completely neutral (and even then, there are still some wrinkles...). Learning to think of expressions as actions and reactions is VERY helpful in learning to draw them without needing a reference, and in learning how to stylize and push expressions based on references as well!

I think a lot of people end up with stiff or unexpressive emotions in their art because they're just trying to recreate a picture instead of understanding WHY and HOW the face is moving --- and it's a tough thing that takes a while to really pick up and learn. Hopefully is helpful in showing a way of thinking about it that can influence your process and approach to emotions!!!

Also, bonus: even without the lines, the planes alone still show a LOT of emotion.

[nighttimepatrons]

Back again with more art from the beloved fic's discord server :)

Wolfie :)

Wolfie normally vs Wolfie after three years with Wild

a korok

Time and Vio based on Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan

the original sketch of Sky's sage advice

Sky and Sun after the "sometimes the pussy eats you"

A sketch of Four in a nice outfit

I was so sad after drawing Vio in the Vio and Time piece, that I wanted to draw Four alive and well, so I put them in the outfit that the son was wearing in the original painting

And then! I wanted some linkshipping in my life so the last two are of Four and Time :)))

[xanaxfarts]

ソース

[okaysuredotbiz]

bestiary Deluxe ... anytime i do the bestiary series (one i hope to go back to frequently) i'll pick one to do a High Detail version of. i love this goat snake locked in a duel... i made this during the high point of a certain tv show so it's actually not called bestiary deluxe it's called heated rivalry

[rthwrms]

turned most of these into quilts already!!!! but here's ur reminder to draw on fabric :-)

[ferncrafts]

Just finished the last tassels on this belt. I’m still considering adding some sort of reinforcement via embroidery along the edges, but I’m not sure of the best way to go about it. Very much open to suggestions or advice.

More of the process under the cut.

This piece was done through backstrap weaving. My “loom” consisted of two sticks + my heddle. Here you can see me working the heddle to change the shed.

I highly recommend NOT doing your first ever backstrap weaving using very thin singles consisting of some of the first thread you ever spun and dyed. Toward the end of the process, I had threads in the warp break a couple of times, some of the heddle strings were almost completely worn through.

The ends were done in two different ways. On the far ends I gradually decreased the width, then braided the threads of the warp (adding in some extra threads to give them slightly more volume). Then I twined the braids, with every other twist being twined once again (you can see the smaller ones are Z twists while the bigger ones are S twists).

The closer end I simply slipped off my stick, and twisted the ends together. This was pretty good for having a loop at the end, through which I could secure tassels.

[holespoles]

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My only previous experience with Ben McKenzie before this post was watching him play Jim Gordon in the show Gotham. I had no idea he'd made a documentary or co-wrote an investigative journalism book on the subject of cryptocurrency until I googled him after watching the video. Turns out he's been interested in the subject since his time working on his undergraduate economics degree.

Sharing to hopefully spread this information to anyone else who would be interested but had no idea his book or documentary existed

[some-stars]

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

[nijinokanatani]

Averil Mary Burleigh (1883-1949) 

Illustration for “Imitation Of Spenser” by John Keats

[julijbee]

keep moving

[butterclaw]

Sun-Headed Deity of Tamgaly, which dates back 3,400 years

[glassshine]

[retrik]

just messing around with a bull / carnotaurus concept

[setdeco]

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, The Rookery Building Oriel Staircase, Chicago, 1905

[weepingwidar]

Lena Keller (German, 1980) - OOBF (2023)

[alexandriaellisart]

all the stars