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22 - IT - Somethin' human

[criticalsorcery]

I guess i’ll eat this stamp

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

Three things that make a good book cover! I’ve got a text version of the post on my website.

Authors don’t necessarily need to know all the ins and outs of book cover design if they’re not making their own cover, but indie authors should know enough to be able to tell when a cover works or not. So my goal here is to give authors an introduction to some of the most important fundamentals, as well as anyone else interested in getting into book cover design.

You don’t have to like a cover for it to be a good cover. I don’t particularly care for shirtless dudes, but Her Dragon Daddy has a great cover. Be more like Her Dragon Daddy.

Useful Links

“How to Suck at Typography” by Courtney Milan

“Making a Book Cover: Everything Before Opening Photoshop”

The Cover Designer Directory’s Pinterest (great for studying genres)

If you want to see more of my work, you can follow my Instagram where I post art daily.

[readlistenplay]

This is a great and helpful post for new authors.

[themummersfolly]

As someone who prefers to make my own book covers (because I’m cheap), this is an invaluable resource.

[babyanimalgifs]

Anybody else think he looks exactly like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch? Even his little growls are cute! 

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[youraveragebogman-deactivated20]

[boigameista]

i dont think i posted these but here i made a little frog pattern to make tiny frog toys with my grandma

this is the first lil guy I made while still learning how i should sew it

[boigameista]

AAA ok so a lot of people have been asking for the pattern to this, tho I’ve been using just these two little papers to do the cut outs lol

i tried my best to translate it into digital so that people get a bit more accurate look at them. Tho bear with me I’ve never done an actual pattern design sheet before!

so basically my hope is that anyone could print these out to any size of their choosing and get the same result, but ive never tried anything larger than approx. 3 inches with these sooo idk if you try it tag me!

the goal is to sew the backs together to the lines at the tip of the head to the middle of the butt. then leaving a space along the belly piece near the butt end and sewing from one side of the butt including all the legs and the “mouth” to the other side with its legs to get back to the butt. if that makes sense

i usually pause sewing up the body once the head is fully sewn together,, usually after ive sewn both arms and ill yank it inside out where ill start sewing on the little poofball eyes so i know theyre in a good place, then resuming the body, and then pulling the whole thing inside out and pushing out the tips of the limbs with a skinny blunt object like a dull pencil until i can see the stitches. if you attempt this piece definitely make sure you stitch up the arm and leg crevices very well!!!!

then just stuff the lad and sew up his back end and its done :)

one suggestion for fabric is always try to use a stretchy soft fleecy fabric with these because its much easier if mistakes are made during sewing and to hold the ROUND shape better

Overall its a very good use of scraps if you’ve accumulated a lot and don’t know what to do with them 👍👍

[atomicelixir]

So I made a frog (huge)

[boigameista]

I literally can’t I’m losing my mind over the sheer girth of this frog.

Absolutely incredible.

11/10 and godspeed.

[teathattast]

[armedandgayngerous]

anti-surveillance-state hero

[chudchad-deactivated20200101]

coke fiend

[im-the-batmann]

it’s what they deserved

[javisfreckles]

the dyatlov pass incident

[soberscientistlife]

[yunhokun-deactivated20161115]

I feel like we need some clarification

[fortunatossoliloquy-archive-blog]

This is a Kimono (Japanese):

This is a Hanfu (Chinese):

This is a Cheongsam (Chinese):

This is a Hanbok (Korean):

Any questions? 

ao dai (vietnamese)

[hellotailor]

THIS POST IS IMPORTANT.

[aliastrench]

It’s interesting to note that that the garments that have a cross over style when worn correctly are all worn with the left breast over the right.

[fulcrumstoried]

That is because these countries tend to wrap right over left when they are wrapping the dead.

[aetheroi-deactivated20221218]

Here are what some men’s fashion looks like if anyone is interested.

Kimono:

Hanfu/Zhiju:

Cheongsam:

Hanbok:

Ao Dai:

[minakittengaming]

These are very nice. :)

[angieartness]

NO

But also...

Yes x'D

[bleekay]

look at this AI background building site!!! you doodle a very basic arrangement of landscape items, click a color reference, and then presto-change-o, it makes a nice photographic bg!!

this could help so much when i need a reference for a bg but can't find the right image :OOO

[norwayspruce]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[89n]

[darksber]

—I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones. The first time, I tied sheets together and tried to climb the side of my house after I saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSÉ PEDRO BALMACEDA PASCAL! APRIL 2, 1975

[songofsoma]

Wayhaven Characters as “I’m at the Hospital” texts

Ava/Adam:

Nat/Nate:

Farah/Felix:

Morgan/Mason:

Elidor:

Tina:

Verda:

Bobby:

[thecollectibles]

Five of Swords by Marie Magny

Color Tarot Project

[raedmagdon]

Do you like fanfiction? Stories about sapphic women?

Cyberpunk? Space operas? Fairytales?

You should really check out my books!

The Second Sister (aka. Cinderella With Lesbians) is absolutely free! That’s right: $0.00 to read this full-length novel! Warning: lots of sapphic yearning. 😳

Lucky 7 (cyberpunk adventure about queer & trans found family pulling heists on evil corporate overlords) won the 2019 Goldie Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy, as well as a 2019 Rainbow Award!

Eclipse is my newest release, but I suggest you start with the first book in the series: Dark Horizons. Fans of Mass Effect and space operas will find this book very familiar and enjoyable. The space ships are gyroscopes and the aliens are dtf.

I’m a full time author. This is my main source of income, so please reblog this if you can!

[vintagerpg]

Feretory is the first zine from the Mörk Borg Cult, collecting material created by the Mörk Borg community. Not entirely, though – Mörk Borg writer Pelle Nilsson penned a handful of things here, including a very good monster generator and the forlorn philosopher class. Johan Nohr handles all the art and layout as well, so it matches the look and feel of the Mörk Borg hardcover. They even managed to get a couple pages, including the front cover, to have metallic ink, something that feels particularly novel for the zine format.

As is only appropriate for a blackened doom metal RPG, there is no middle ground with Mörk Borg. You’re either all in or cashed out already and Feretory isn’t going to change you mind either way. I’m all in. I love the look of it, the attitude, even while acknowledging it is way over the top; any danger here is thoroughly doused in camp and I find it very appealing, like Halloween.

The main criticism I saw of the core book was that there was no there there, that the system was thin and mainly a justification for the outlandish artwork and design. Hipster art book with RPG flavoring, basically. I think Feretory should begin to dispel that misconception – there is a sturdy, flexible system under all that delightfully Satanic art and bright colors. Feretory’s community origin is proof of that, as is the frankly astounding amount of community material NOT collected in Feretory. People like making stuff for this game. It is an easy game to make stuff for. It’s hard to scoff at a community submission project that has to close periodically because of so many submissions.

Also included in my copy (which I think is the Kickstarter edition, but it is hard to keep track of stuff like that) is a fun, stripped down solo version of the game called Dark Fort. Worth the price of admission right there.

Oh, and a feretory, by the way, is a portable case for the transportation of the bones of a saint.