Welcome to my lil blog

I own a rp-blog called college-apprentice and a writing/art blog called vanill-tea. German, female with various obsessions that my brain refuses to be normal about; Minors do not interact pls and thank you

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shading colour tips

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!

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If you’re a visual learner…

I made some Balls of Colour to go with Art Mom™’s post:

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Clarification: There are cases where black can be used to shade, but they are rare. Very rare. And even then, you’re probably still going to want to hue shift first.

Black is for areas where absolutely NO light can reach. This doesn’t apply to a large majority of cases.

EDIT: Yes, obviously there’s room for exceptions like stylistic choice. This is just general advice for people starting out who don’t yet know when black is appropriate.

Also, yes, this works with both traditional and digital media.

[baantjer]

an old man with a suspiciously erotic body

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x

[i-suggest-poly]

I have a suggestion

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I also have a suggestion

[i-suggest-poly]

I think I'm in love with you

[vriezennn]

based on a personal experience

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beautiful

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[wilburian-deactivated20221116]

great job everyone lets hit the showers

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Not again

[cool-way-to-die-deactivated2022]

gentle reminder that you can’t get this kind of nonsense from any other site

[flavoracle]

This thread is almost eight years old and it has damn well earned its place among the Tumblr pantheon as a Heritage Post™️

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GAMING NEWS !!

expensive

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[crackedpolishedblackstonebrick]

posts funnier with timestamps on

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🎨 _AzureMei_ on x

…Silence

[neuro-light]

Don’t usually go on Facebook because it’s fucking stupid but this. Was too funny.

[lemondoddle]

[ID. A Facebook post reading, “shower sex is so overrated fuck me in the microwave 😩”. Additionally, the words sex and overrated are in all caps. End ID.]

[ooppo]

AI slop prompters will never feel the exhilaration of drawing fanatically. Time becomes irrelevant. Your body morphs into just a device for devotion. You are devotion. Never blinking. Your heart beat might as well have never began, because you have become a machine for craft. You are every person before you that has ever touched pencil to paper. Your blood sings as you become a singularity. Never blinking. Never breathing. Never hearing. Eyes on paper, hand moving as if pushed and pulled by an unknown force. They will never understand the madness you feel when you enter a state where you do not starve, ache, or think. The moment you snap out of that haze, your hands covered in graphite and your stomach clawing at your insides for sustenance, that's the closest thing to divinity I have ever felt. I chase it even when my body deteriorates. I understand the weakness of my flesh and it does not deter me

[socialorganism]

I have ecstatic seizures that compell me to write for days. I have touched infinity and it's interesting to see how it seeps through the neural nets in my brain out my fingers onto the keys, and it's even interesting to see how that looks fed back through finely and intentionally tuned, trained, and modulated neural networks on my GPU. I'm better than you at knowing and appreciating what art is.

AI slop prompters like me actually draw too. Literally do know what you're talking about, and it does apply to any creative process. I know better than you cause I'm not an anxious reactionary snob who has decided to cling to the losing side of a battle between artists that has been won by "slop" every single time for all of history. You've told yourself a story about the skill ceiling of generative AI, and the value of the artistic process of using it, and I hope it's some small comfort to you. Keep losing.

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[bamsara]

did chatgpt write that response for you too

[ane-doodles]

ARTFIGHT!!

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

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[bigchungo8383-deactivated202208]

this is the money ammy. reblog for blessed funds

[sofuckingblue]

small change chibiterasu to charge!!!

[tiredherethicc]

now THIS is a money spell post I can get behind!

[ironicselfie]

“The concept is simple. Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.”

[idratherbhigh-deactivated202106]

holy FUCK.

[w-for-wumbo]

I’ll probably always reblog this cuz it’s just mind-blowing, holy cow

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

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