#lyrics pic

[shazzbaa]

ever since finishing Light Fingers and looking at the options Sam didn't take, I've been lowkey obsessed with the concept of a Silverer who marries Edward just to keep him under their thumb, bound to a nightmare and never truly able to refuse or escape his beloved.

Anyway recently I was listening to Choke by IDKhow and this exploded out of my brain when I meant to be drawing other things, so, I'm inflicting it on everyone else now!!

[edenlyricsss]

and I've got nothing to say to you

crash – EDEN

[drsnipes-blog1]

I miss those blue eyes and how you kiss me at night. I miss the way we sleep. Like there's no sunrise like the taste of  your smile. I miss the way we breath. But I've never told you what I should have said. No I never told you, I just held it in. I miss everything about you. I can't believe that I still want you. After all the things we've been through, I miss everything about you. come back to me Cas.... (here comes Dr.Sniper to hit ya right in the fucking feel goods)

[shazzbaa]

a friend had zydrate anatomy lyrics in her discord status aND I COULDNT GET THIS OUT OF MY HEAD until i drew and coloured it in a fevered rush. JUST TAKE HIM.

[shazzbaa]

discovered the song "stalker's tango" by autoheart the other day and knew what i had to do

[shazzbaa]

Hi Shazz, hope you're doing well and keeping safe! I've been following you for years now, I love how expressive and detailed your art is! I was wondering if you had any advice on incorporating text into art. I see a lot of your stuff with lyrics or quotes in the piece, and it always looks so natural and complementary, when I think words in art can have a tendency to look very stuck-on and superfluous. Is there anything you keep in mind when you're doing this?

Oh gosh!! Thank you so much!! Putting text into images is oNE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS so I'm always really delighted when people like them, I just.... like words a lot and have A LOT OF FEELINGS,

General Disclaimer that IDK WHAT IM DOING REALLY.... I'm not familiar with the like, relevant Graphic Design Standards for these sorts of things; like, I'm sure there's some helpful rules about how many fonts is too many fonts and what ratio the different sizes of text should be to each other -- I don't know any of those things off the top of my head and am generally just fussing around until things look nice to me.

But, hmm, I guess the main things I do think about are:

>> The Text is Part of the Art

Usually when I'm sketching something that I'm planning to be a lyrics picture or have a quote in it or whatever, I’ll sketch out the words as if they're a piece of the image!

I wanted to scribble up something real quick to show how this looks when I'm first pondering an idea but uhhhhhhhh y'all all know where my brain is right now and the song stuck in my head today was a BATIM song so,,,

(lyrics from Recording Gold by CK9C, hilighted the bits that are text since it’s not super readable at this stage. Just an example; I would probably shift these around a bunch as I cleaned up the sketch if I were to finish this)

I use those boxy shapes a lot while fussing with where I want the text to go and the space I want it to take up -- I usually start scribbling the words I want and then making a rough box shape around them that’s closer to the shape I want. I can rework the spacing and such of letters inside the box afterwards, but I'll often just shift that shape around at first to see how itll look.

>> Placing Words

The main things I'm thinking about when I do art-with-words is rhythm and like, how the text makes you look at certain parts of the drawing. The size and the spacing of the text is mostly me thinking of rhythm; bits that are the same size or in the same "block" will be read as one piece, words that are larger will break that and have a heavier beat to them, sometimes changing the font will also get this effect of making one word more intense than the others, words being mushed close together or stretched out will affect the rhythm of how they're read, and obviously literal space on the page can put space between words.

A lot of my word placement is simultaneously thinking about framing the image in a way that looks interesting but also making your eye run into the image (and words) at a good time -- I find that people's eyes will often look for and follow text first, so writing within an image is a really easy way to take control of the viewer's eye. And also thinking about just.... generally making sure people read things in the right order, whiCH LIKE, SOUNDS OBVIOUS, but once you start trying to artistically balance words around in the image it can be easy to forget or accidentally fling people's eyes off in a weird direction.

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I’m not sure if this answers your question, since a lot of making this kind of drawing is just me making pretty-looking patterns out of words, or having a whole bunch of emotions and just needing the words to be there in the picture, but this is at least kinda how I approach it?? I HOPE THIS IS SLIGHTLY HELPFUL, pls feel free to ask if there’s something i can explain better!!

[shazzbaa]

Manny’s player introduced me to “No Light, No Light” by Florence and the Machine as an Ada/Manny ship song and like....... first of all, it’s EXTREMELY perfect, and second of all I ended up with so many feelings that I had to make multiple lyrics pictures.....

I haven’t talked much about the other masquerade attendees on here, but Manny actually changed disguises after his first disguise strained to breaking -- he’s normally a detective, and he knows everyone here, so keeping his thoughts and words muddled enough to keep him from recognising the other masquerade attendees has put a lot of stress on his magical disguise.

Ada/Turing and Retrograde/Manny had a great time trying to solve the mysteries of the masquerade so nATURALLY we’ve started shipping them, despite the slight obstacle that Ada is a robot who doesn’t really understand romance and Manny is a human who doesn’t really understand robots.

Ada/Turing belongs to me Manny/Retrograde/Yesterday belongs to @lookinlikeaking​​

[shazzbaa]

Every vow you break... every smile you fake...

I believe this is what the kids call “being back on my bullshit”

so Chase Holfelder’s minor key cover of Every Breath You Take is definitely a Vanessa song, right?