#ira rambles

[idkmanimreallysleepy]

I'm gonna ride this man's face (he was wiping my cum off his face in that one scene)

[nakaira]

just a question do you think that fyodor's popular with women?🤔🤔 what do you think they thought of him🫣🫣

YES. fyodor is popular with women, like really popular. but it's not the same kind of popularity dazai has (ira try not to mention dazai in every post challenge : impossible) because while dazai has this seductive and flirty reputation, the kind of guy u want in your bed, fyodor is the opposite. of course we know he's well mannered and educated by the way he behaves so I feel like women would definitely fantasize about him as a husband. cause he LOOKS like he would be the perfect husband yk? and he's js as playful as dazai. he doesn't ACTIVELY flirt but it's there subtly if u pay enough attention to him and his eyes.

[leviraaaaaa]

There's this guy who found out I like Levi (as if I'm subtle about it) and now he's always sending me like aot/Levi related reels and it's so cute help 😋

[snowdreamr]

he’s an adult but he loves with the intensity of a teenager. he had a high-school crush at twenty-two and his life was forcibly put on hold as he learned how to deal with it. he couldn’t act on it for years, and even if he could, it wasn’t reciprocated. now it is. how his life isn’t on hold anymore, but he still loves purely, like a kid. he loves innocently and not so much. openly and not so much. he loves like it’s his first time doing it but like it’s his last love too and deep down he knows it’s both. he knows it’s forever and since always. he knows it’s soulmate love and meant to be love and not-sure-what-it’s-called-but-it’s-definitely-right love. what’s mine is yours and what’s yours is ours. i want a family with you and our honeymoon phase won’t end until well after our honeymoon because we have a lot to make up for. because we were on hold—our lives were on hold, on hold on the phone. and now there’s here and there’s now and there’s you and i’m an adult but i love you with the intensity of a teenager.

[ira-fae]

me: why do i never finish anything i start writing? 

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me: *photoshopping floorplans for apartments that appear for one scene* 

me: *drawing actual diagrams with pencil and paper* 

me: *looking up the meaning of word i definitely know the meaning of* 

me: *finding out if there's a real world version of the outfit i've created for a character* 

me: *finding out if there's a real world version of the object i just created in my head* 

me: *stops to make a playlist for a character that’s seen only twice*

me: *stops to change the song and gets distracted for an hour by music*

me: *stops to get a snack*

me: *stops to get a drink*

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 me: i just don't get it!

[iraguiltblog]

akaashi wasn’t a favorite of mine, then fandom said, bitch you will love him, you will love him with all your heart

so i guess now i stan every fucking character from haikyuu

[irageneveart]

hello! i was wondering what program&brush settings you use for your artwork? im new to digital art and i really like the way you colour! Especially those light effects they're so extra cool!

omg Anony you’re such a wonderful being, thank you for liking my art enough to ask me that!

now watch me failing trying to explain things to you lmao. I’m self taught and I’m in no way the best at this, so what I’m going to tell you might still be flawed but this is how I do things o/

hmm it’s gonna be long so I’ll put it under a cut!

1) I’m using Paint Tool Sai for everything in my art but if I still feel the need to, I’ll use Photoshop to correct colors and lighting. for example in this progress gif:

you can see where I decided “no, I don’t like this cold blue feeling” so I went to Photoshop (because it allows changes much easier than Sai when it comes to colors) and I changed it to a warmer purple! you can always play in Photoshop and try to see different versions of your art, different colors will give off different feelings

most of my artworks don’t look the way they do at the end because while drawing I tend to be focused on other things (line, where to place shades, lighting, etc) while when the picture is done I can focus on the feeling I initially wanted it to have!

2) My usual brushes are really basic. also ignore my ugly writing.

Sketch: I use this to sketch because it has a nice and easy flow, I can get messy lines that look good (the latest Brahms Heelshire drawing I did is entirely drawn with this one!)

you can always switch between your brushes depending on what feeling you want your art to have

Lineart: this one has nice, smooth and bold lines. I like to play around with it’s size. I believe it’s the basic one Sai has

little advice: if you’re not happy with your lineart try to alternate heavy lines with tiny ones. for example:

you can see how bold her hair is, but adding thinner lines to the glasses, the folds of her clothes, hair etc. it will create a better dynamic of your picture and will leave the eye of the viewer to run around it! I’m honestly awful at explaining stuff fdkjsnjkfds ofc this is a personal preference but my linework improved since I started to think like this

Base color: this is the color tool sai gives you, I changed my names so I can’t remember its default name. I like it to be bold because when I was little I used to color entire coloring books, so even now digitally I like to color every bit like I’m using crayons haha. time consuming and useless but shhh. basically I put down every base color with this one

Acrylic: now this one is tricky, when I got it the first time I wanted to use it to shade, but using it I discovered it’s much better for blending. after I put down the main colors and shades I just use this one to blend them together and I sometimes paint with it too

Blending: it’s literally the blur brush Sai provides you xDD

now keep in mind that using its settings (the things near the “Normal” option!) you can get different types of blur! always play around to see what looks good in your art. also remember that not every shadow has to be blurred or blended out, there are many ways shadows can look, using both blurred and heavy (cast) shadows in your art will definitely improve it. using real life references might help

Airbrush: the very brush Sai gives you. I’m using this one mainly for lighting. what I do is basically put down a hard light, like literally take a light color and place it where I see fit on the character, then I give it a bit of glow with the airbrush. one thing I noticed is that depending on the surface, the glow will change!

in this one you can clearly see the light on his cheekbone, but then there is a much weaker light on his face, that’s made with the airbrush and then blended into the structure of the face.the glow on the cheekbone and the ear is made with airbrush, using orange and playing around with the layer modes (overlay and luminosity, these are your best friends when it comes to lighting!)

lastly I want to present another best friend for us artists, the eraser

you can make highlights with the eraser too! you can cut the light in different shapes to give different feels and many other things, the eraser is definitely your best friend and not only in erasing mistakes. try to play around with it sometimes

Other things I learned:

try to use a different color for shading, using the exact color but darker will only make your art look dull, lifeless. the same goes for lighting! there are lots of tutorials on color theories and practices out there to help you with it

don’t be afraid to get wild, use oranges, reds, blues, purples in your skin and play around with the layer modes, you’ll see how much more alive it will feel. also don’t be afraid to try different styles, constancy is not the friend of a creative mind. experiment, try things, go out of your comfort zone. make it fun, make it personal. if you like drawing dogs then keep drawing dogs and enjoy it! don’t let labels and others to influence you and your spirit

ik this is obvious but never compare yourself with others. your journey is yours, you have a different hand, a different brain and a different being. this also goes to drawing things others did already! who cares there’s 0284e4895 other pictures with Kitbull already? draw yours, it will be unique and special because it has something from YOU in it, and no one can replicate that not even with tracing

watch people online! of course when you sit down to draw it will be completely different, but involuntarily you’ll learn and exercising you’ll find your own way of doing things. there might be much better ways for drawing lighting than I do, but this is how I feel good and I like to do it!

I know you hear this everywhere but really, practice, daily if you can! in October 2017 I tried to to the inktober challenge for the first time, I haven’t finished it and I was late anyway but I can tell you that trying to draw daily definitely improved my art. now I’m able to draw a picture per day with not much effort (yesterday I was able to draw three pictures with pretty good quality! o/ always start small and be proud of every step!!)

lastly, don’t be hard on yourself. every picture is a lesson, doesn’t matter how it came out. maybe the anatomy is wonky af, but you learned and your brain will remember what not to do next time. try and try and try and never say “my art sucks”, say “this pic doesn’t look how I wanted, but I still like it. I’ll do better next time!”. the moment you start to like your art you’ll see how much it will start to shine hehe

I might come out with more stuff but this is already really really long xD  just be yourself, love your art and enjoy it!! lots of luck for you Anony, I hope I didn’t bore you and this will be helpful for you and others! :D

[kinnporsche-n-chill]

The one thing that 13 Reasons Why got perfectly right, is the way it portrays how much sexual objectivication affects women. A lot of people seem to think that women like it when they’re seen as sexy so much to the point that men (and even other women) shamelessly call them out on it or think they can just casually touch them in a sexual manner. Sexual objectivication is so glorified in everyday life. Not a single day goes by when women aren’t confronted by it. And in a lot of cases, it can seriously affect us so deeply to the point where we feel like crying. No matter what you think of the show, 13 Reasons Why really portrays that extremely well, and they deserve a lot of kudos for that.