whomst among us is not truly day to day

moon. 30s. pronouns optional. posts inconsistently but tries to use tags consistently. most posts are queued. // art blog / art tag

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[iwantsweetrevenge]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

[halorvic]

how have you been?

[halorvic]

Update:

[halorvic]

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🎉

[nim-lock]

shrimp tree!!! 🦐🌲

[starstruckodysseys]

i think somewhere along the way the phrase “fanfiction can be just as good as published writing” got conflated with the idea that “fanfiction should be just as good as published writing” and that’s a shame because i think it’s changed the way people view writing fic. like you’re supposed to have fun with it!! i see people talking about how they’re scared their work isn’t very good, but the only way to get better is practice!! get silly with it!! just write!! make it the freakiest or most self indulgent or most horrifying or stupidest thing you’ve ever written!! have fun!!!!!

do whatever you want forever, but by god, do it yourself

[gooberscollage]

From Creative Soft Toys to Sew (2005)

She’s perfect, she’s adorable, and I hope one of you can bring her to life :)

[lorebird]

I made Belinda!!!

I’ve never sewn before (except for joining crochet, if that even counts) and don’t have a machine, so she’s really rough around the edges…….. but I love her <3

[goobersplat]

OH WOW THIS CAME OUT SO GOOD! <333

[thatgirlonstage]

Are you ever typing something that your phone autocapitalizes and you go back and re-type it just to force uncapitalize it. Like no sorry mcdonalds doesn’t deserve that level of respect from me

[vincentbriggs]

Finally finished another sewing video! This one's 52 minutes.

[detectivehole]

to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

[forthegothicheroine]

#also try as you might ‘bad people can’t make good art’ accustoms you to a way of thinking that’s risky#‘i know x’s art is good therefore x cannot be bad’ is a line of reasoning it’s easy to back into without meaning to

via @titleleaf

[bogleech]

I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???

This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.

They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.

[bettalbimarginata]

This thing is one of the most successful hunters on the planet. Because their mouth is fused shut, except for the tip, they can create a powerful suction force in front of that one little opening in order to draw in prey. 

Lions have a 20-30% success rate on their hunts, depending on daytime and if they’re in a group. Great white sharks, anywhere from 40% to 80%, depending on the size and skill of the individual. Dragonflies, which are one of the most successful terrestrial hunters, can hit about 80-85%. Seahorses? 90% success rate, sometimes more. Only a fraction of their prey escapes that powerful vacuum. They’re incredibly precise. 

If you touch them, they feel hard, because of the skeleton underneath their skin. Their tails are being studied to make coiling bridges, because of how strong that interlocked structure is. Different species range in size from over a foot long, to barely an inch. 

Behold: not just a fish, but a wildly successful predator! 

[argumate]

horsey

[sharksauce]

don’t forget their majestic cousins the sea dragons! these are the leafy and weedy sea dragons

and the newest seahorse family member, discovered in 2015, the ruby sea dragon ❤️

[bogleech]

Yeah that’s when someone tried to straighten the seahorse back out and it still didn’t look right. The more they bent and mushed it in their hands to look like a fish again the worse they fucked it up until finally they just left it and walked off and hoped nobody would ask who did this

(I love them so much)

[thesustainedworldatransverse]

If you want a straight seahorse you’ll be delighted to discover the existance of the pipefish, the third cousin of seahorses and sea dragons, and worm-on-a-string lookalike:

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[possessedpasm]

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

[possessedpasm]

Comic History: Color and Print

Learn how to simulate retro artwork in this three-part series dedicated to the history of printing methods and how to recreate them digitall

A Brief and Broad History of Post Golden Age-Pre-Digital Comic Book Coloring

If I told you to think of a Silver Age comic book, what image does your mind conjure? Chances are, you’re picturing a comic with bold lines…

Dang y'all like old art!! Here's a couple resources too for those who wanna learn some more :]

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ADDITION: I KEEP MEANING TO MENTION THIS-- YOU CAN SET YOUR CANVAS TO CMYK INSTEAD OF RGB FOR BETTER COLORS! :D

CMYK is meant for printing, while RBG is a light spectrum color setting.

You can look up how to do this for whichever drawing program you use since it can change from program-to-program!

[coughloop]

gods greatest punishment was putting 1 trillion cool rocks on earth and no one with eyes big enough to see them all

[coughloop]

..ive been such a fool

[thyrell]

thats okay ^-^ the wise man is blessed with knowledge once but the fool is blessed to learn every day

[coughloop]

*gets scared and throws one of my cool rocks at your fourhead*

[thyrell]

ow what the hell

[jncoes]

there r real teens out there who think discovering nirvana is a special achievement 

[seekers-whoarelovers-deactivate]

isnt that kinda the whole point of buddhism

[noxx-notions]

Sometimes, ya just gotta make do with what you have

I decided I wanted to give bobbin lace a try but didn't want to invest a ton of money in case I didn't like it so here has been my solution. I've drawn all the patterns by hand on regular notebook paper, and am pinning into my laptop case. The only money I've spent was on one pack of pencils for $1 (which I'll use anyway), an enormous spool of yarn $5 (bought at a thrift shop), and one pack of pins $6 (which I'll also use anyway).

I'm enjoying it so far, but still undecided if I want to spend more money on it. Real bobbins and a pillow would be soooo helpful though. But its been encouraging how much I've been able to learn already with just these materials!

[fishthegenderwiz]

"*Start where you are, *Use what you have,*Do what you can"

This is AWESOME

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[dangerphd]

💞🌺

Bell flower coaster pattern by Nga Hoang

Skill level: Beginner

[slfcare]

It’s okay to let things go simply because you find they’re not worth your energy. Whether it’s a craft you no longer enjoy, a relationship you’re getting tired of saving on your own or an argument you’ve tried and failed to resolve. Walking away, and knowing when you should, is very valuable.

[mercurialbadger]

[virtualgirladvance]

autistic experience simulator