ophelia!!

an old writing blog turned inspo archive for my stories and i

[risingingemini]

If I could be an artwork it would be a Hiroshi Nagai painting

[y2kaestheticinstitute]

Spice Girls Christmas Photoshoot (1997)

[zoneofwaiting]

The interior design aesthetic is called 'Unsettling 90s Mall Rave' and honestly, I'm kind of into it. But where's the oxygen?

[nyaa]

Big fan of candid shots of maid cafe employees going through it.

[macrolit]

Room scenes by Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

[retrocall]

Gregory S. Martin 1993

[miamaimania]

[fetusmonkey]

kerouac, vol. 16 (1999)

[hellenhighwater]

hey you're doing a great job, just remember: a semicolon can be used to combine two sentences where you might otherwise use a period; this allows you to create longer and longer run-on sentences

[hellenhighwater]

Quick update, babes: semicolons are also for if you want to make a list of things but items in the list contain commas. You can divide your list items with semicolons.

As proof of gratitude please send a lawn-white shirt; a braided, beaded, bronze and leather belt; a pair of boots that strides the sea; and a new iphone.

[study-coffee-chicago]

I need this for when I’m tutoring kids…so many college students have no idea how to use semicolons

[sabertoothwalrus]

Someone has probably already asked you this but do you have any tips on studying/understanding perspective? I keep trying to find resources to learn but none of them really stick or are actually useful

so I'm hoping that your issue isn't just figuring out the difference between 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point perspective and how it works, because there are tons and tons of resources available for that, and I'm guessing what people tend to get tripped up on is what you're supposed to be doing with your grid.

I'm definitely far from being an expert on understanding perspective, but I'll share some of the things that helped ME finally Get It.

Things like eye level and different camera angles can be a GREAT tool to use when doing a comic or storyboard between multiple characters of different heights!! I actually drew an example of this exact thing for a friend about a month ago (I used adventure time characters bc they're easy to draw and have a good height variety):

You can use camera angles like this to add variety to your shots, and even use it to help convey something emotional (using a down-shot on a character to show that they FEEL small, use an up-shot on a character to make them look more intimidating, etc etc)

hope this helps!

[sabertoothwalrus]

You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

[jca-archive]

Koji Kuroda - Water in the Sky, 1984

[silentoatmeal]

JOKR-TV (1988)

[duct-taped-shoes]

[oh-bother-stickers]

[necronatural]

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

[powerofthestruggle]

The Art Deco Lobby of the Bacardi Building in Havana, Cuba