#non ship stuff

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do you have any advice for someone who can't go to art school or take art classes (because i'm majoring in a completely different feild) but wants to improve on their art? lke any books or digital tutorial packages?

whew, I hope I can answer this in a non jumbled way. In my opinion anon, the key to improving one’s art can totally be found outside of classes/school. To me the biggest factors that affect change in art are references and studies, exploration, and practice.( Also tumblr user names will be bolded instead of @’ed cuz I’m too embarrassed of having people who’s blogs I’ve followed/lurked on see me haha )

Refs and Studies

Doing studies and using references are great way to learn more about what you are drawing and how to render it. Luckily we are in an age where we can easily find models for what we want to produce (tho, of course there’s advantages to real live models but that’s another thing) and Tumblr is full of art masterposts of references for stuff like anatomy, color, shading, etc. Not exactly a blog dedicated soley stuff like that but safetytank is wonderful and is where I find a great deal of material I work with. PLUS they have handy dandy art reference tags (plus they’re a pretty neat person imo so should def follow them)

Also books! http://qinni.tumblr.com/post/86620809097/heres-the-list-with-complete-photos-and-reviews

also timed figure studies to help with like gestures and stuff! http://senshistock.com/sketch/#

Exploration/Experimentation

One of my instructors once mentioned that the greatest thing to do to stimulate your creativity and improve is to see what the world has to offer, and by that he meant opening yourself up to influences that are different from what you’re used to. Seeing different forms/movements of art or even just watching a new show or reading a different book can give you new ideas or techniques you can implement in your own work. Myself, one of my major influences came from gosh dang Baroque art, but the bright color choices I try to use? Internet influence. Eh, I’m rambling but POINT IS looking at different media can help build up your artistic viewpoint.

Idk if the blog is still active at this point but I used to follow and view resources-for-a-rainy-day often to just see new creative stuff. Def would say to follow people’s inspiration blogs!

Aaaaaaand of course, practicing

practicing suck because it means having to do stuff (nothing sounds so much more relaxing y’know?) BUT it is necessary. Whether its doing still-lifes over and over to understand volume, shape, and dimensions or drawing body parts over and over to get them right (feet still continue to be the bane of my existence :/) it’s all going toward something.

Oh boy, this is all probably a lot of just nonsense rambling but I sincerely hope some of this stuff can be of benefit to you anon and I hope you make amazing things!

[dogmafives]

another for the wip game!!! 4: Fox Goated off The Sauce, Freakin It In An Existential Crisis always love a good dose of existentialism thank you so much <3

WOOPS I've been having some technical issues w tumblr lately so I missed this buT Aksjdhf ok I've been DYING to talk more abt this one but I am. So sorry for what I'm about to do with poor Foxy. Also I'm about to spill almost the entire plot here bc this likely won't be written for a v long time bc I have so many other things on the go rn and this was a very recent idea so this is gonna get long oops.

CW bc Im about to very openly and objectively talk abt heavy drug use and addiction, both within the story and the IRL parallels from my knowledge and experiences w it. Also heads up, this is like all hurt and very very little comfort.

This was sparked by a conversation I had with my friend about my hometown and how prevalent drug use and addiction is, and also about how it's a well known thing that even the cops there have a big problem w using amongst themselves. Then I read this quote from George Lucas abt how spice is basically space heroin, and during all this I was absolutely twacked on opioid pain killers (for short term pain management, they were taken as prescribed but boy I was ZOOTED) So all that combined left me looking over at Foxy like 👀 what if-

So basically this story starts with the Corries busting some guy who was carrying spice, and later that night they're like, "Well maybe we should see what all the fuss is about. Y'know. Research or whatever." So they all take a little hit (Ik spice is supposed to be smoked but I had them snorting it bc it seemed more discreet that way, and I knew people who used to snort H so I'm gonna pretend spice works that way too woop) and yeah they all get super fucked up but at the end of it they're like "ok yeah that's too much, we know what it does now and we can't be that impaired bc it would interfere with our duties."

But Fox. Fox kinda liked it a little more than he'd expected. And in the days that follow he can't seem to stop thinking about how fuckin relaxed he felt for once in his life. I definitely latched onto the "over worked, ever-stressed" Fox headcanon here, and also this kinda went hand in hand with how a lot of what we see of him in canon is him fucking something up but sincerely thinking he's doing the right thing.

So yeah he winds up finishing off the rest of what they'd confiscated, just in small amounts at first and never while he's on active duty. He tries to only take it when he's positive it'll wear off in time for him to be present when he's needed. But like, if you've had any experience with addiction at all, then you know exactly where this leads.

He runs out and the withdrawal is NASTY, so eventually he starts looking into the guy they arrested and traces him back to some small time dealers known to be hanging around the lower levels. He swaps his armor for some civvies, and next thing he knows he's back in his office with a bag of spice he bought with his own credits. And he fucking hates himself for it but he is absolutely convinced that the withdrawals would have taken him out and he's like "I'm gonna use this to ween myself off I swear."

Bro. This is just the beginning of a very long and fucked up downward spiral for poor Foxy. Some of the other Corries catch on eventually and they try to help/keep it under the radar so he doesn't get in trouble. And it almost works a couple times but his responsibilities just keep piling up, and those never ending tragedies the clones have to live through make it really fucking hard to keep himself sober.

And then the whole thing with Ahsoka happens. Oof. People are pissed at him, especially after it comes out that she was framed and she leaves. Plus, he lost some friends throughout that whole ordeal so there's A Lot for him to unpack there. So the cycle starts again, but he manages to keep it a little more under wraps this time around.

And then he kills Fives.

That's it man, that's the beginning of the end. He is absolutely doomed from there on out and it gets so fucking dark and depressing. Like I said I am so sorry for what I do to poor Foxy here. This follows him right till the bitter end too. It is like all hurt very little comfort and no happy ending for our boy :( I don't often write stories without a happy ending, and even when I do there's usually some silver lining or an aspect of bittersweetness there but no, this one is just disgustingly sad.

Ig it's in part a vent piece bc substance abuse and addiction is a topic I unfortunately have pretty intimate knowledge and experience with. It's also like a personal reminder that even though shit sucks right now and the world is in a pretty scary state, it's rly not worth it to open that door again. Also to all my fellow autistic bitches who got the chronic need for escapism flavor, active hobbies like this (fandom shit, fic/art making ect) is such a gd life saver and it's so fuckin deeply underestimated the positive impact it can have on our mental state and how we process/cope with The Horrors™️.

So there you have it, one of the the saddest fic plots my brain has shat out so far. I Rly hope I get the motivation to write this eventually because hhhhh boy. There are some scenes I have in mind I really wanna see come to life.

Tysm for the ask tho, I hope I didn't freak you out bc this is so much darker than the title suggests 😭 ❤️

[eepz]

I would very much like to thank you for contributing so many wonderful fanarts to the gingerpilot community. I absolutely adore them,especially the fake-dating AU ones. Your art style is really sweet and if you ever have any more gingerpilot content stored away somewhere please do share. (No pressure, of course!) Have a great day!

Thank you lovely! That’s very sweet of you to say <3 Nowadays my SW content, including the shippy stuff, is primarily over on mine Twitter. There’s a couple of gingerpilot stuff there and a few more I plan to put up in the future. Hope that’s helpful!^^

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did you solve the problem of your posts not showing up on the tumblr taggs

Yes and no!

When it comes to posts with links in them there’s a lil workaround that gets posts to reappear in tags. However my posts with @’s in them still wont show, unfortunately. 

aaaaand the only solution I can come up with for posts that don’t have links/@’s in them is to delete and reupload the post until it shows up in tags (which can be very...tedious) 

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Apparently my posts won’t appear in tags or the Tumblr search function if I put in some sort of hyperlink or an @ in the description….which kinda sucks. Does anyone else have this problem or know of a solution?