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[luffys]

Chuuya is a vampire 😱

[luffys]

Hey there! Hope you don't mind me asking but I've recently gotten into graphic making but have no idea how to do the things I want haha (right now I'm thinking about that neon line art look) do you have any advise on where to find tutorials and what not? Thanks!

hello hello! i don’t mind at all bud and i’m honoured that you thought to ask me for advice! i’ve only been doing graphics for like a year now so this ask surprised me in such a good way! sorry for the delay! i was dealing with things💛  

as for tutorials, i’m afraid i don’t have any i can pass on to you. a lot of what i’ve learnt is through trial and error and taking certain techniques i’ve learnt like overlays and textures from gif making and applying it to graphics.

for advice, shapes and colours are your best friends! there’s a lot you can do with graphics when you limit yourself to certain palettes or even when you add shapes by different overlay methods. 

for a lot of my graphics, i tend to stick with 5 or less colours for the palette because more than that can make it too messy. finding colours that work well with one another and offer good contrast while keeping things cohesive can be hard. if you ever get stuck with a palette, i find adding black as one of the 5 colours can work wonders! it adds a deepness to the lines that might be missing or even offer a nice contrast to bright colours so it isn’t as hard on the eyes. 

in this dabi one i made, my palette was 3 colours only: black, yellow, and red. as you can see even if you have yellow and black as the main screencap colour, like i did with the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th panel, adding the red string on those panels tied those three panels back to the other three so it was cohesive. the orange that pops through on the lines is because I had added my colours using a gradient map so the change from red to yellow featured an orange. by playing around with the gradient map feature, you choose which colour is more prominent by how much of it you put in using the little scale/bar. i used this method of black + 2 other colours a lot (ishigami senkuu, sherlock holmes, bakugou katsuki, and soukoku + genshin au).

this victor nikiforov edit i made was another example of 3 main palette colours: blue, yellow, and black. however instead of using the colours through gradient maps, i focused on using the selective colour, colour balance, and hue/saturation features. i used them to make the colours i chose, stand out from the rest. the black was the colour that tied all six together, whether through the typography or through background colours (like viktor’s scarf). 

one colour palette that i love using is a red, black, and white one! i’ve used it so many times and I never get tired of it (portgas d. ace, donquixote rosinante, bam, and nakahara chuuya). as you can see it’s very simple but you can do so much with it, whether applying it to a gif or a screenshot. 

the other thing with graphics that i’ve learned through trial and error is typography! sometimes finding a good font can just make a graphic. for typography the two things i pay attention to is 1) not overloading a panel with too many fonts and 2) size. in one panel i never use more than two fonts together. two is my max because then it becomes too clunky and messy. i also never do two cursive fonts together. one cursive and one standard are my go to because it’s less straining on the eyes no matter which pairings you do. with size, you can use the same font in one panel but make different words or lines bigger or smaller to add affect/emphasis. the first panel of my nanami kento edit shows what i mean. this aizawa shouta one also shows the differences in font size but because they’re the same two fonts despite the size difference, the set still flows.

you can also play to the character’s aesthetic. take colours from their clothes and run with them for the colour palettes if you’re stuck. or if you want, do the opposite of the character’s aesthetic. that’s what i did for the dabi edit from before. dabi’s aesthetic in canon is blues and blacks, cold colours. i flipped it for that edit and took warm colours as his palette which made for an interesting and jarring change because that’s not normal for him.

last thing i will add is really just have fun and go wild! the fun thing about graphics is that you can literally experiment and try so many things! 

hopefully this made sense, but if not feel free to send me another ask🌻💛

[luffys]

Do you take edit requests?

yes i do! as long as it’s a fandom, character, or ship that i’m comfortable with, i don’t mind filling any. i have a right to refuse any that make me uncomfortable. depending on what request it is, i might post it on a sideblog. any narnia requests will be posted on my @narniadynasty blog and any animanga requests go to my animanga sideblog @strmbringer! any other requests get posted here on my main! thanks for asking!

[luffys]

✨🌹💖 the person sending you this wishes for you to have a great week! to spread some positivity, list 5 things that you've done recently that made you happy. spread the love to your favorite mutuals! 💖🌹✨

alfjdslafjs aww thanks zebra! your one of my favourite mutuals too!!!

1) started outlining my chuuya fic

2) finished my animangasecret santa way ahead of schedule so it was all ready to go for when i posted it

3) watched jujutsu kaisen and caught up to all the animes/mangas i was watching/reading

4) ordered the last book online for the diviners series

5) i haven’t done this yet but i will be watching the new wonder woman movie in an hour or two

[luffys]

Do you have any recommendations for narnia fics you consider must reads?

ahh so i tend to stay away from narnia fics because i’ve pretty much been scarred for life with all the inc*st and p*dophilia some people write about. i don’t really read narnia stuff anymore unless it’s from people i absolutely trust.

@quecksilvereyes - anything and everything by larissa kills me. seriously, everything!

@highqueen - if you’re into character x reader fics, zebra has some really good stuff! she also wrote a supernatual crossover for susan and sam!

@historyofnarnia - charl has a fic she’s been working on that centres around her oc elena and from the edits i’ve seen it’s really good!

@raging-violets - this account is run by two writers. the night witch centres around an oc, brielle, and even though i’ve only read the prologue so far it’s really interesting!

[luffys]

Anon who was on Nat’s blog. My point was that since English isn’t her first language, she sometimes misreads things and misphrases things. It was nothing about you, I just wish people wouldn’t always jump to bad faith

There was NO WAY to mis-read the original post. It literally states ‘white Narnia fandom throw fits over a lack of blonde haired Lucy but then stay silent over the treatment of Calormen and calormene characters’. 

At no point did it ever mention fan creations. So tell me how she could mis-read that? There is no way and you trying to EXCUSE it, when I pointed it out to her, is really shitty. Especially in the wake of her shitty response and ‘apology’.

People don’t always jump to bad faith. They jump to it when they feel as if they have been wronged and as someone who is Indian-Canadian, who’s culture she chose to use for her depictions while at the same time saying ‘Honestly it’s really hard finding content’ despite admitting she knows what Bollywood is, I have a right to jump to my conclusion. I have a right to get angry and defensive or ‘jump to bad faith’ when she implies that we, coloured people, are not worth the extra effort. There was nothing in what she said that I misinterpreted so again, thanks for nothing.

[luffys]

what characters dont get enough attention in narnia fandom

oh i could easily say anyone who isn’t a pevensie but the one i’m most bitter about is aravis (which is why i’ve started speaking up more about her in the fandom).

she’s one of the only (if not only) MAIN characters in the series that is a CANON ESTABLISHED person of colour but the fandom really sleeps on her. and if they do talk about her, it’s only her in regards to her relationship with cor. 

and while i love cor, it’s a really shitty thing to do to define her only by her relationship with a guy. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE FANDOM DEPICTS HIM AS WHITE!!!!!! that just takes away from HER and HER STORY and HER CULTURE (can you tell yet, anon, that i’m so so bitter about aravis’ treatment/depiction by the fandom?).

i would say it goes both ways in the fandom for cor and aravis being defined by their relationship with each other but that’s a lie. the fandom gives cor substance. they allow him to have his own story outside of aravis. the fandom allows him to be his own person. they write fics about his struggles and headcanon pieces of his reunion with his brother and father. and while this isn’t necessarily wrong because ‘yay! more cor content!’ when it is still severely lacking in comparison to the pevensies, it is wrong when the fandom refuses to do the same for aravis. 

ALSO, even though you specifically asked for characters, i have to talk about how Calormen doesn’t get enough attention. and when it does, it’s in such a racist or derogatory way that it would be better to not give it attention. what really angers me about one specific side of the fandom is that they treat lewis’ word as law and in doing so they accept his racist portrayal of a culture that is not Christian in origin. this is extremely harmful and hurtful for people who are not Christian in the fandom because Calormen is suppose to be a way for us to connect more to the series, but with the way the fandom and lewis showcase them, we’d be better off without it.

[luffys]

hey! so i have been directed to you. to make a long story short, i thought that the network that dorian/calormen started, narnianexus, was still up and running and the url had just been changed to narnianetwork. then i found out from dorian directly that it had been disbanded due to creative differences? or something? the last time i saw the network was a couple months ago. i wanted to follow some of the members and reblog some content but idk what happened or who was in it

Hi anon!

Okay so first, yes, narnianetwork and narnianexus are completely different! While there are/were overlapping members in both networks they are actually separate networks. Narnianetwork is the network I run with @stormbreaker​, @alwaysinnarnia​, & @bilbos​! Narnianexus, on the other hand, was created/run by @calormen​ and @quecksilvereyes​!

I knew that narnianexus was on hiatus because the creators did ask all the members if they still wanted to be part of the discord chat while it was on hiatus. Unfortunately I had to choose to leave it since I knew I would be very busy this summer with personal stuff. I didn’t actually know narnianexus itself was completely gone since the last time I checked the blog was still up and running (I just actually looked today and saw that the blog itself is gone). 

As for members, I talked with @quecksilvereyes​ and @dryadsofnarnia a lot since I was under the Gentle Banner. If you’re looking for more members you should go through the #nexuschat tag they had been tracking since most/all of the members used that tag when posting their creations for the challenges and stuff.