#morningtalks

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I got an order that arrived woth art made by @jun-hug

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Felt like doing that game where you post your favorite datables and see what it means about your taste. As you can see I am very much a lesbian <3

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alright, I am plotting stuff again and I need to know which font looks best for this

(this is the first line of Catullus poem 5 and in translation it reads "let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love")

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acrylic on canvas 30x40 cm

it is very evil of Belladonna to not bite women when she probably has the entire lesbian community on their knees now

anyways, Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend was so fucking good and despite my hatred of drawing (let alone painting) humans it compelled me to create something.

I'm just going to leave a wall of commentary on the process under the cut because I need to chatter about all of this real quick

I chose this scene at the end because 1. it was super hard to find one still where Bella and Fay are both properly visible (yet somehow Fay's still facing the other direction) and 2. this scene just hits a bit different to me.

the discussion of smoking, a thing that's bad, but it being life, right as Bella drank that bartender dry made me think of a few things I experienced and while I personally will still keep on going against what Fay said here, I still got to see things in a somewhat different light I guess.

Fay's care is also so present here. Bella is self-destructing massively, but Fay still comforts her, even after she "fell back" on her bad habits (she never quit) and this hug just hit me personally quite a lot. the silent care, the "you're warm". I can't fully describe everything it makes me feel, but this scene was good.

on a more technical level. I had to take some creative liberties with the lighting and such because it was DARK and my painting skills aren't ready to make such minute details with extremely dark colors. It would get ugly and muddied, so I had to adapt. the harsh shading on Bella's face is less striking, but I don't know if I could make it better with my current skills.

This was also one of the first times I've really rendered a human face; Last time I "tried" it was 1. without a ref (unwise) and 2. when I was even worse at drawing humans and I ended up so mad at this painting that I Could Not Go Paint Again for a while because of how mad I was lol, so I'm honestly really impressed with how I managed to do this without making a huge mess.

At least until I got to add the blood. It still looks good now, but I had to fiddle a lot with the reds I used and the skintones to mitigate the damage of a few first strokes that got too grandiose.

I also decided that Fangs. I am a bit of a vampire researcher and seeing the different traits they get in different media is always fun and here the fangs seem a bit retractable, but Bella's a vampire and I am a sucker for fangs, so I had to include them.

my handwriting also didn't fail me too horribly, even if I had a few accidents and had to clean them up before I got this "clean" little text. I really don't have good brushes for very thin and precise strokes (nor the capacity to not tremble the entire time honestly)

This was honestly quite fun too. Four hours of listening to some music, having a weird moment with my mother on the phone and just painting. I did really not want to draw Bella's face at first and drew nearly everything else before I began, but once I did I got into the groove and it went fine, so I'm pleased with this.

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this is the first line of Catullus poem 5 and in translation it reads "let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love"

I want to make stickers with some Latin quotes and need to choose a font, but there are a fair few good options, so I'm kinda struggling

which font looks the best?

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Feeling a bit petty, but I wonder how often people forget that

a) friendship exists and two people who are close to one another (even if it's closer than what one would expect from a stereotypical friendship) don't have to have a romantic or familial bond to care this much and

b) that found family doesn't imply nuclear family dynamics.

Stop telling me people are siblings or cousins or whatever. They are FRIENDS and they care for each other as friends (and if they really are a found family, they don't need to fit the mold of the daddy + mommy + 2,5 children and a dog)

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why

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and here's the last one. it's a quote from an obscure work called De reditu suo by some guy named Rutillius Namatianus in the 4th century. he wrote two books about his journey from Rome to his home in Gaul (we only have one book and some lines of the second one left unfortunately though)

translated it reads "a bitter storms leads to sweet delay"

which font do you prefer

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