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Just a warning for this blog: I will interact with cloneship media and I practically live in the dead dove area of fandom so! Expect anything. I’ll do my best to tag but my twt will be my nsfw account if you’re looking for explicit dead doves <3

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eggdrawsthings

Okay, this might be the dumbest question ever but... can you talk about the brushes you use? And like what size you use? /like what you look for in a good sketching/lining brush? I always try to figure out how to use the brushes people recommend but then I always hate them.

i uhhh, i used to be pretty picky about the brush i use. i still do actually, if i think about that now lmao. i have a huge folder of brushes i collected like pokemon cards but i ended up only using 2-3 brushes most of the time hahaha.

hmmm are you on Photoshop or CSP? I used to use PS and my brush back then was a custom brush my friend made then shared it w me. But now i'm using CSP and even tho u can technically import your PS brushes to CSP, i found myself using a total diff brush hahah.

For sketching and lining, i have this brush from a friend from work called Perfect Pencil. Size wise it depends but i tend to go for around 6-7px. It really is the perfect pencil haha i love the feel of it, i also noticed i moved my hand more freely and the weight i put on my arm is much lighter somehow. idk if that makes sense, but yeh diff drawing materials will change the way i draw things, and i love it xD (like i can tell the diff from the old stuff i made in PS vs now w CSP)

For painting, i found this random oil brush that can blend colors and i just use it for almost everything cos i cant paint and it helps me bullshitting my way thru the coloring part lmaooo. I tried to find the link for it but the creator deleted the brush so like???? i guess u can just look for an oil brush and get sth similar to play w??? Sorry about that pal 😔

Even tho most of my brushes are from online, i still go into the brush setting and adjust the brush to fit what i want, it's pretty fun and sometimes u get a cool new brush to use as well xD

U can also have a look thru this blog, they have a lot of fun brushes for PS and CSP u can just play around and see which one u like the most: @digitalbrushes

also thankssss Brush Anon ashjdgjsad and pls dont be sorry u can always yell in my inbox if u want to xD

oreolesbian

everyone screaming about bi obi-wan being canon now as if matthew stover didn’t already give us bi obi-wan 17 years ago in the revenge of the sith novelization with this gem of a scene where anakin assumes that obi-wan was secretly seeing and seducing a male senator for information:

merrysithmas

also don't forget

swtrashbin

Rex has a... strained opinion on Cody.

swtrashbin

Sgt Razor

swtrashbin

OK BUT what if i gave him a boyfriend/brother.

stranded-ziggy

I've been watching the prequels for the first time!

So, good news Star Wars fans here's another Obi-wan for y'all, hope people out there enjoy it~

merkstreet

5 editor’s secrets to help you write like a pro

1. Sentences can only do one thing at a time.

Have you ever heard a four-year-old run out of breath before she can finish her thought? I edit a lot of sentences that work the same way. You need a noun, you need a verb, you might need an object. Give some serious thought to stopping right there.

Sentences are building blocks, not bungee cords; they’re not meant to be stretched to the limit. I’m not saying you necessarily want a Hemingway-esque series of clipped short sentences, but most writers benefit from dividing their longest sentences into shorter, more muscular ones.

2. Paragraphs can only do one thing at a time.

A paragraph supports a single idea. Construct complex arguments by combining simple ideas that follow logically. Every time you address a new idea, add a line break. Short paragraphs are the most readable; few should be more than three or four sentences long. This is more important if you’re writing for the Web.

3. Look closely at -ing

Nouns ending in -ing are fine. (Strong writing, IT consulting, great fishing.) But constructions like “I am running,” “a forum for building consensus,” or “The new team will be managing” are inherently weak. Rewrite them to “I run,” “a forum to build consensus,” and “the team will manage.” You’re on the right track when the rewrite has fewer words (see below).

(If for some insane reason you want to get all geeky about this, you can read the Wikipedia article on gerunds and present participles. But you don’t have to know the underlying grammatical rules to make this work. Rewrite -ing when you can, and your writing will grow muscles you didn’t know it had.)

4. Omit unnecessary words.

I know we all heard this in high school, but we weren’t listening. (Mostly because it’s hard.) It’s doubly hard when you’re editing your own writing—we put all that work into getting words onto the page, and by god we need a damned good reason to get rid of them.

Here’s your damned good reason: extra words drain life from your work. The fewer words used to express an idea, the more punch it has. Therefore:

Summer months Regional level The entire country On a daily basis (usually best rewritten to “every day”) She knew that it was good. Very (I just caught one above: four-year-old little girl)

You can nearly always improve sentences by rewriting them in fewer words.

5. Reframe 90% of the passive voice.

French speakers consider an elegantly managed passive voice to be the height of refinement. But here in the good old U.S. (or Australia, Great Britain, etc.), we value action. We do things is inherently more interesting than Things are done by us. Passive voicemuddies your writing; when the actor is hidden, the action makes less sense.

Bonus: Use spell-check

There’s no excuse for teh in anything more formal than a Twitter tweet.

Also, “a lot” and “all right” are always spelled as two words. You can trust me, I’m an editor.

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne