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some explorations of traditional garments/costume designs of different cultures and looking forward to exploring more.

I wrote a tutorial on how to set up a deviantArt-like art gallery on a neocities (or other static site) come check it out:

It was a lot of work to put my art gallery together and get it working, but because I didn't see literally anything on creating such a gallery (other than ready-made templates) I decided to write up a tutorial hoping it will help others who want to code a more robust art gallery that goes beyond just using a simple slideshow/lightbox. Each image is its own post, like how deviantArt works.

This is a draft of the page where I copied my existing posts just to fill up the gallery and see how it fits:

and this is what my individual post looks like:

moramew

A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:

Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics

Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi”

This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters

A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly

McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it

A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs

moramew

Adding to this since I’m working on a shifter au one-shot:

Canine Body Language

Feline Body Language

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Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.

Tie-A-Tie: a site centered around ties, obviously. I stumbled upon it while researching tie fabrics but there’s a lot more to look at. It offers insight into dress code for events, tells you how to tie your ties, and has a section on the often forgotten about tie accessories

moramew

Even more:

Types of High Heels: A page describing twenty five different types of high heels. It gives a description and pictures. Shake it up from just “stilettos and kitten heels”

Random Job Generator: Exactly as it says. The site offer more generators like characters, plots, or town names.

Glossary of Hosiery Terms: Figure out what is what on a pair of stockings.

Men’s Dress Shoe Guide: A quick guide describing the eight most common types of men’s dress shoes. Pics included.

Types of Women’s Coats: Descriptions and pics of various different types of coats.

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WRITING REFERENCES

bludragongal

Look, that thing you want to do? Stop being a weenie and just do it.

Bottom images are from here.

bludragongal

Hey, kids - I see this post making the rounds again, and I’d like to add some additional thoughts that I’ve gained in the 5+ years since originally making this post:

When I originally made this dumb comic in 2013, I was a Graphic Designer for a Radio Station in Ohio. As of this writing in 2018, I am a Storyboard Artist at Warner Bros. Animation. I am now one of “””the professionals””” referenced in the third image. And let me tell you:

…I am still making things up as I go.

…I still don’t have character turnarounds.

… I have… some worldbuilding done. Not all of it, though. That’s going to be a permanent work in progress.

…Making the comic is the character study/studies.

…I am still convinced I’m not working hard enough.

…You will never, no matter what you do or how far you go, ever feel like you’re completely ready to do something until you actually do it.

Trust me. I’m a professional.

bludragongal

Coming at you again from the year of 2022 and working for Disney with an update: it’s all still true. I still have no idea what I’m doing. This is getting ridiculous.

But seriously: the second you free yourself from the expectations of perfection you will suddenly be overleveled for many of life’s challenges.

bludragongal

Its 2025 now. No changes to report. As you were.

nelc

Objects as spaceships, by Eric Geusz

cloudfreed

My favorite is the fidget spinner space station. It almost feels like someone designed it first and then fidget spinners came out and now everyone laughs at it… instead of the other way around.

nny11writes

It’s Eric! He was one of my best friends in highschool!

He also does series of space cats, and one of the ones floating upside down and looking at you is based on my cat Ginger :D

The kitty herself, Ginger!

He’s a super cool dude and seeing his art on tumblr is nuts!

Check out his website, which includes an area to buy prints

You can see more of his work in general on Instagram

And buy T-Shirts too!

God yeah I will hype him every chance I get lol!

callmebliss-got-swamped

O love how the one based on the sriracha bottle is still very clearly that but now with FIRE

orokothe

Free Brushes

I've been practicing making textures for brushes :) I'm giving them out for free if anyone wants to play with them on Kofi! ✨ ko-fi.com/s/b743a3e265

nkim-illustrates

How I paint strawberries! 🍓

undasura

consulting the krislet.... how hard would you say it was for you to learn blender, especially for your lowpoly models.... i really wanna try bc i love lowpoly but <- scared

its not too hard!! honestly for me it was like learning a new art program. bc i mean dats what it is really

this isnt low poly but is a good starting point. i reccomend this vtuber/3d artist's video tutorials. they go through their process and even how to work the model into vrc/any vtubing software if thats of interest as well ^_^

kianamaiart

feel free to ignore if youve answered this already, i didnt see it in the faq so i thought id ask ÷) do you have any tips on writing scripts or like how to make a script more concise and put together? ive been trying to write a script for my pilot for YEARS but im not sure how exactly to get started. Also i adored your pilot, it has a really charming style and i hope you get to do more with it one day!!

Give yourself a deadline, don't be precious with what you've written, cut cut cut cut cut, take out stuff that isn't moving the story forward, run it by friends you trust, take notes, cut cut cut some more and once you hit your deadline, commit

💬 0 🔁 102 ❤️ 635 · Hi, Kiana! I really liked your pilot episode! The writing was so funny and charming. I am having a hard time inserting

💬 0 🔁 63 ❤️ 531 · im not sure if this has been asked before but i gotta know this for idwtbamg; did you ever struggle with runtime for the

and thank you so much <3

saszor

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

buntong-h1ninga

Yoooooo!!!!

FilmCow Royalty Free Sound Effects Library by FilmCow

rivriderart

I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

babezoi

how to draw horses(for the discerning horse girl)

i spent two years working in barns to give you this information. use it wisely

view all 16 parts under the cut!

noisyghost

The way you draw chest hair is soo 🤌❤️‍🔥 man i want to kiss them! It's inspiring me to draw my own beefy hairy men haha

thank you!!! and you should! here i updated my body hair drawing tips because the world could always use more bears :)

noisyghost

if any of these little tips helped u at all and you'd like to support my endeavors to draw more bears, consider throwing some change at me, a trans artist struggling financially this holiday season <3

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