Inspo

[littleyellowleaves]

quarantine diary & pastel experiments

[magpiefngrl]

sitting down to write and reminding myself that the best way to write BIG emotion is restraint

[magpiefngrl]

The darling @laurisophi asked for elaboration, so here we are: 

(I realise I said I’d do this ages ago but ugh—procrastination is my middle name.)

I hope this won’t be too incoherent, sorry!

Now, one way to affect your reader emotionally is to put your characters in emotional scenes, to have them confront their feelings (even if they don’t express them), and not to pull any punches (no quick forgiveness, for instance, or easy reconcilliations). That’s the content, the what of your scene. As to the how:

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[potteresque-ire]

❤️ Restraint is probably among the most important of what makes a fic memorable for me. Thank you @magpiefngrl for breaking down it’s elements so nicely! If I must explain what I’m looking for, feelz wise, with regards to emotions … I’d say, as a reader, I prefer to feel the emotions of the character * way * before I read about their physical effect and downstream actions in words. (Or see them visually for other media). My physical reactions do not need to be the same as the characters (and for the most part they won’t be—not a teary person at all in general ) , but I’d like to get a sense—not an explicit explanation—that a character is already a walking crockpot of tears before the tears actually explode onto the pages, and I’d like the crockpot phase to last as long as the story can get away with.

It doesn’t mean the fic has to be an origins story—the plot doesn’t have to start from the beginning, the characters do not have to begin as strangers. But personally speaking, I don’t mind if the aesthetics is sparse and I don’t have details of what any character looks like (the latter I actually prefer), but I’d like each major emotion to have a clear arc from absence to presence, and restraint is allowing this absence to exist, allowing it to build in a measured pace. The story’s length is dictated by how long this arc requires.

As a writer, I actually find the release of restraint the most difficult part to write, possibly reflecting my strong preference for restraint when reading. The single tear roll of Lan Zhan in The Untamed is about the extent of emotions I’m comfortable with writing down — the rest I kind of have to force my way through, trying to convince myself that the tears / quarrel / fight / sex / declarations of love have earned their place, which becomes a bit of an interesting issue when writing an explosive pairing like Drarry. (Declarations of love, in particular, is difficult: I tend to think they weaken the fic by either stating the obvious, or putting out a sign on my incompetence if by that point, my readers are not feeling it). I may like the result but but that’s the part I edit and edit and throw myself onto my desk in dramatic despair. 😊

[fanny-hs]

Sasha working @sashakrechman

[captainmwai]

A study in panel borders: Inspired by this awesome post about making comics quickly, I took a look at some comics I own to get some sense of different kinds of panel design choices.

I came away feeling like I’d learned a little less than I’d hoped, but here are some takeaways:

* You can get away with smaller panels than you think * Extremely weird comic panels CAN work, but when it fails it looks painful and forced. * Simple is not bad. * There are actually a LOT of possible combinations.

Specific notes:

Scott McCloud uses a 4x3 sliceup of the page, and it’s four VERTICAL slices and three HORIZONTAL ones, which is weird because it makes the panels, on average, LESS square. This works with the particular comic really WELL though, because he draws himself in closeup, talking, a LOT.

DAR and Narbonic both are webcomics mashed into book format, but both worked surprisingly well as page layout in the end.

Blacksad is REALLY variable and the page layouts are hand-crafted on a per-page basis. No speed gains here, but perhaps a message that full custom has its place.

The Resonator is fairly formal but never *too* rigid with panel choices. Lots of narrow or tall panels, which works as a way to alternate between big establishing shots and dense dialog. Very tall panels for single speaker, long ones for two-person dialog or to combine a lot of text and visuals. In general, Resonator is print-native and has TINY text…

Ultimate X-Men is a fun read but the panel design is a disaster. Almost none of the choices of graphic design work at all. Occasionally an establishing shot hits home, but in general the layout is trying WAY too hard.

Watchmen. Formalism raised to the ultimate. It’s precise, it’s a 3x3 grid, it’s piss-on-a-plate-with-no-spills precise and that’s fine, for two reasons: one, everything is about time, and two, it gets the panels the hell out of the way of the story.

Augustus is an example of what Ultimate X-Men was trying to do, except it succeeds. Lots of variation, but on average very orderly. Kind of strikes me as the sort of thing you “have to be GOOD” to pull off well.

Update: I’ve also added: Part 2 and All 72 Possible 2x3 Panel Grids

[destiny-aesthetics]

Destiny 2 [Bungie] | Mercury

[§§ WATCH §§]

[dockvincent]

Trees.

https://www.instagram.com/dock.vincent/

[nobrashfestivity]

Max Ernst

Silence Through the Ages, 1967

Max Ernst - La Terre à travers les âges, 1961

Configuration No 16, 1974 .

Birth of a galaxy, 1969

[galacticidiots]

GUUUUYS. There’s a new twitfic called DEAR PRINCESS that is told via letters from Ben, Prince of Alderaan to Rey, Princess of Exegol and it is so incredibly funny and charming and witty and wonderful.

Read it now!

[weirdlandtv]

Folk tale illustrations by Russian artist, Natalia Trepenok (b. 1953). 1990s.

[internationalemeteorologie]

Mirko Hanák

illustrations (1963) from The Wandering Hunter: A novel from the fox’s life by Karel Nový, Albatros Publishing, 1973

[annicelric]

Sailor mercury!🎀

[yumbles]

Your illustrations are phenomenal! I just can't get over how well your colors mesh together- do you have a specific process you use when choosing palettes?

ahhh thank you!! coloring is the most fun but also the hardest part of the process to explain bc a lot of it is instinct…so ill try my best! 

when choosing, i always start out thinking abt the mood of the piece first! which ones will help me convey a feeling or push the narrative of the piece 

after that, it’s incorporating colors that i just personally like (warm colors, hot bright colors, true black, yellow-tinged hues), and thinking abt which ones will help compliment/make the focal colors pop. because i don’t really shade or render lighting very often, the flat colors need to be strong to help distinguish what’s happening in the image. i rely on that, really.it’s a malleable process and it always comes back to mood and readability, ig - if the feeling gets muddied or it’s hard to distinguish a visual, i’ll change things. also i try to stick to limited color (less so these days, but having like, max 3-4 main colors really helps keep me oriented) and choose those in the beginning as a way to root the palette. also, doing wild things in curves adjustment layers help push things further before manually adjusting more… i love curves..lately i’ve been forcing myself to pick colors i hadn’t typically used in the past, like grey or green or orange, and combining ones i don’t usually expect for myself personally.i also have a color tag on my inspiration blog that has become an irreplaceable resource..usually give it a scroll to ground my ideashope that helps! if you have any more q’s feel free to hmu!

[celialowenthal]

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st ‘tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

One of my final few pieces for my spring thesis! This one is from Hamlet, styled as if it were a 1980s soap opera a la Dynasty!

[nobrashfestivity]

[nobrashfestivity]

Max Ernst, Humboldt Current, 1951

[huariqueje]

Beastie Boys   -   Till Gerhard, 2011.

German,b.1971-

Oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm.

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

“Dark skinned and I’m stuck up (yup)”  

[evilrashida]

I love that you included me in this cause I’m def stuck up lmao @surra-de-bunda

[destiny-islanders]

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”

[history-student-against-antis]

Freeloader Comin’ through!

[moonlight-fox]

We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).

And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.

[bramblepatch]

Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.

[pocosun]

Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker. 

Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

[eggfucker1]

Reblogging to save my life