Branch of Autumn Poplar

The Laziest artist of all tumblr. The fandom nomad. 19 years old.

[oc-growth-and-development]

OC Outfit Prompts

aka an excuse to draw or write about your OCs wearing clothes that probably aren’t canonically plausible

Their favorite outfit

Flannel

Sleepwear

Your clothes

A sharp suit

Fashion from 50 years ago in their universe

Outfit swap

Red carpet event

Graphic tee

Pirate

Armor, or what they would wear to battle

Ugly sweater

Dressed by another OC

Fandom of your choice

High fantasy 

Steampunk

Onesie

Halloween costume

Uniform of your choice

Date night

Swimsuit

Cosplay of a different character

Lingerie

Gym/workout clothes

Domestic life

Loungewear

Their current outfit

[the-moon-dust-writings]

Send Me a Number and an OC and I’ll Answer

What is their favourite food?

Do they have a fear of an animal? If so, what animal?

What do they wear to bed?

Do they like cuddling?

Do they have a secret handshake with anyone?

What do they look like?

Do they like chocolate?

What are their good and bad traits?

Do they have any artistic talent?

What is their favourite room to be in, in the house they live in?

Do they believe in luck?

Can they do magic?

Do they believe in dragons?

What is a pet peeve of theirs?

What was the last thing they cried about?

What is their sexuality?

Do they have a best friend? If so, who, and what makes them their best friend?

Have they ever been in a romantic relationship?

What does their relationship with their family look like? Are they close? Distant? Ect.

Do they have a pet?

Do they have a familiar?

Are they a supernatural being?

How do they usually wear their hair?

Can they play an instrument? If so, what instrument and what can they play?

What type a high schooler are/were they?

Have they ever been in a physical fight before? If so, with who? Who won?

What is their favourite holiday?

If they could have one wish, what would they wish for?

Do they wants kids? If they already have kids, do they want more?

Do they have a job?

Do they know how to drive?

Do they get stressed out easily?

Did they ever dye their hair before? If so, to what colour? Did they like it?

Have they ever broken the law?

Do they own a plant?

Have they ever rode a horse before?

What is their favorite gif?

Do they get along with others easily?

Do they have any tattoos?

If I wanted to draw them, what would be distinct physical features that I would have to know to draw them correctly?

What is their favourite breed of dog?

Do they live with anyone? If so, who?

Where is their dream vacation?

Do they know more than one language?

Are they a quick learner?

Have they ever won a contest before? If so, what for? What did they win?

If the world were to end in 24 hours, where would they be and who would they be with?

What does their room look like?

If they could have an extinct animal for a pet, what would they have?

If they got called out by someone, what would they do?

Have they ever shot a gun before?

Have they ever been axe throwing?

What is something that they want but can’t have?

Do they know how to fish?

What is something they always wanted to do but too scared?

Do they own their own baby pictures?

What makes them standout among others?

Do they like to show off?

What is their favourite song?

What would be their dream vehicle?

What is their favourite book?

Who, in their opinion, makes the best food?

Are they approachable?

Did they ever change their appearance?

What makes them smile?

Do they like glowsticks?

What is something that is simple, but always makes them smile?

Are they a day or night person?

Are they allergic to anything?

What do you, the creator of this OC, like most about them?

Who is their ride or die?

Do they currently have a significant other? If not, are they going to get one later one?

What attracts them to another person?

Who is one person that can always make them laugh?

Have they ever partied too hard and their friends had to take them home?

Who would be their cuddle buddy?

Who would cheer them up after a long day?

If they had a nightmare, who would they run to?

What object to the care for the most?

Do they like other people’s children?

How would they react if someone broke into their home?

Does anyone make them have butterflies in their stomach?

What is something that they are good at?

What is their neutral expression?

Do they like to cook?

What is something they can’t leave home without?

Who is someone that they rely on?

Do they liked to be tickled?

Have they ever been a sword fight before?

What is a joke that they would find funny?

Do they have a place that can go and turn off their brain?

What was their childhood like?

What are they like as an adult?

Do they take criticism well?

Have they ever jumped out of a plane?

Who do they like to make jokes with?

Have you ever drawn them before? If you are comfortable with it, would you post a picture?

[gallusrostromegalus]

OC questions that helped me with characterization:

On a scale of “is occasionally forced to bathe” to “Instagram model with sponsors to hoe for” how involved is your OC’s Skincare routine?

What are your OC’s food preferences (flavors/textures/spiciness/calories/ when and how they eat) and how did they get that way?

What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?

What’s your OC’s response to being asked for money by a homeless person?

Does your OC get lost easily? What do they do when they do get lost?

What would STOP your OC from Doing The Right Thing in a tense situation?

Realistically, could your OC (in their normal circumstances- i.e. at thier own house/battlecamp/spaceship etc.) keep a small child alive for a week if they had to?  A Dog?  A Houseplant? A rock with a  smiley face painted on?

If your OC had to take the S.A.T. tomorrow with one night to prep, how would they do?  both emotionally and academically.

What would cause your OC to chose to do something petty/pointlessly cruel?

On a scale of “Complete and Justified nervous breakdown” to “Conquer The Entire Galaxy and become an Immortal God-Emperor”, how well would your OC handle being abducted by Aliens?

What song is 100% garunteed to get your OC beyond turnt and will be sung loudly and emabarrasingly, either in public or the shower?

What perfectly-normal-to-them-thing does your OC do that confuses/pisses off/terrifies thier neighbors?

Under what circumstances would your OC appear naked in public?

What thing did your OC’s parents do that your OC wishes they had a better explanation for?

How often does your OC “zone out” or do things on autopilot and how severe have the problems that have arisen from that been?

How strong or weak is your OC’s Impulse control? What’s the worst thing that happened becuase of thier Impulsivity or inability to be so?

How does your OC sabotage themselves? 

What’s the trashiest item in your OC’s wardrobe, when was the last time they wore it and why do they still have it?

How Dehydrated is your OC right now? Are they going to fix this?

What’s your OC smell like?  no, not that “Vanilla and Anxiety” evocative stuff, realistically.  Body odor? what have they been touching all day? When was thier last shower? Did they put on any kind of artificial scent?

[elusetta]

angsty character asks

What would your OC’s last words be/what are they?

What would break your OC beyond repair? Has it happened?

What is your OC’s worst memory?

Does your OC have nightmares? What do they contain?

Your OC is facing their worst enemy. Who/what is it?

What would get your OC to make themselves disappear?

Does your OC have any weaknesses? Have these ever been exploited?

What is the closest your OC has come to death?

What is the greatest sacrifice your OC could ever make? Under what circumstance would they make it?

What is the worst loss your OC has suffered?

Your OC is forced to kill a member of their family or a friend. Who do they choose, and why?

To what extent would your OC go to survive?

Has your OC suffered trauma?

Would your OC let themselves be forced into a loveless marriage?

How far would you OC go to protect their loved ones?

Your OC has exactly 15 minutes to live. What is their last act?

What is your OC’s greatest failure?

What is the worst possible ending for your OC and why?

What is your OC’s preferred method of death?

How does your OC sleep at night?

What is the worst thing your OC has done?

What is your OC the most guilty about?

Would your OC be considered good or bad by an outsider?

Who does your OC hate most?

What does your OC love most, and what would they do to keep it?

Has your OC ever had unrequited feelings of any kind for someone?

How does your OC deal with rejection?

Would your OC ever reject someone?

Why does your OC have the flaws that they have?

Would your OC kill?

Would your OC torture?

Does your OC hate? To what extent?

How does your OC let out anger?

[blindbee]

[avodaco]

me when i get my student loan

[g8dtier]

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

[strikercorbie]

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

[nonespark-blog]

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

[carrionbeast]

extremely lucky cat

[ladynorbert]

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

[sweet-cherry-fairy-deactivated2]

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

[allthenamesilikearetaken]

in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

[mmusclechan]

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

[winjennster]

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

[ohhaijustalex]

This cat is so cute, and that cat information is useful!

[celestictarot]

Okay I could use some $$ pls ♡

[majorofmayhem]

I saw a really cool post but it was out of date and no longer running so I decided why not start my own. If you reblog this before Feb 20th you will receive a newly hatched Pokémon in your submit box inspired by your blog. Let’s have some fun togeather! 🧡

[thesweaterkittycollector]

:3c !!

[princenothinq]

:0!!

[vmprblood]

The cut off date is three days before my birthday! It would be so freaking cool if I just got a funky little pokemon on my birthday

[pitchou8910]

Ooooh I want a ‘mon owo !

[hakki-no-deactivated20240416]

Alright ^^

[lil-devil-mel-deactivated202010]

I wanna try qwq

[travelingwildflowerr-blog]

Enjoy this meme I made instead of writing

[write-it-motherfuckers]

Reblog this meme instead of writing.

[mrevaunit42]

*coughs*

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[teenyweenynotepad]

reblog this because it shows up every blue moon

[taki-sensei]

20 year old beginner: one year of learning flute and butterfly knife skillz :)

[fuckingconversations]

Fun fact: Adults actually learn those “You need to practice!” skills better than children do. 

Kids tend to want to do literally anything aside from learning this skill my parent is forcing me to learn. 

Adults actually can sit down and practice things for hours on end. Adults WANT to practice to get their skills better. Adults deliberately set aside time every day to practice. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, it’s productive growth and not wiggling in your chair mournfully watching birds out the window. 

Anything from Drawing to Weaving to Violin to fuckin flipping bufferfly knives like a pro - choose a skill and LEARN, dammit! None of that ‘Children’s brains are more malleable’ bullshit. Brain squish is not the end-all of learning! 

[wizardshark]

Literally only languages children learn better than adults do, and you know what???? We can do our damn best to match it by practicing

[jimmywavestate]

Imagine if my ADHD ass would let me actually practice for an extended period of time without causing me stress

[taki-sensei]

Hello @complexdilemma :) I’m OP and i have ADHD + anxiety! i actually find that my ADHD helps me pick up skills more easily because of how the brain learns. when i practice something, i do it for 10-15 minutes at a time before switching to something else. do something for 10-15 min, 4 or 5 times a day, and you’ve got an hour of practice in!

Like for flute, I mostly practice while cooking meals (stir noodles, play half a tune, prep onions, play a scale, etc.) or reading a book.

good luck and i’m sure you can do anything you want to do! ADHD is a strength!

[sqoppy]

My brother just called my cat ugly.

Rb if you think she’s a beautiful lady

[sanguineousruby-blog]

Testing

Hell yeah bitch

[zuzartii]

Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:

[spudinacup]

Need this

[anywigwilldo]

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

[vikingserket]

after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me

[whisperrun-blog]

Nothing happened. 

I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE

*throws down gauntlet*

Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.

[whisperrun-blog]

Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture. 

[penandpage]

[dark-ayyyyy-blog]

aight

[sunbeamrobin-deactivated2018073]

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

[thornsword]

DO IT

[20053]

WOW IT REALLY IS SOMETHING FREAKING GOOD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

[warp6]

Okay, if this is a rickroll I swear to…

[warp6]

1) It was not a rickroll

2) It was super awesome!

3) No jumpscare or anything designed to freak you out, so doesn’t need an unreality warning (YMMV, of course).

[captacorn-deactivated20230731]

Suspicious but curious. Curiosity wins!

[agenderraskel-deactivated202303]

attention all writers following me- try this or you will lament.

[viperbranium]

EVERYONE TRY THIS (you gotta go to your on blog to click on it!)

[boopifer]

OK THIS IS THE COOLEST

[ferdisanerd]

The eternal struggle of an artist.

[sanguineousruby-blog]

It actually looks good :3 some kind of concept of my demon gem boi)

[everydaylouie]

happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

[7brooms]

It’s back on my dash ❤️

[sanguineousruby-blog]

First one is a messy one :'3

Okay, we've learned...

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