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lads I need some better, catchier, wittier names for semblances
Prof Hemlockās super strength, currently just calledĀ āDivine Strengthā
Blanche Umberās ability to not feel pain, currently calledĀ āPain Suppressionā
Tawnyās ability to understand how to build anything she can imagine, right now calledĀ āTechnical Intuitionā
A bit on the nose possibly, but Blanche Umber -> Analgesia; quite literally the medical condition of not feeling pain.
Itās that day again, kids.
Facebook PSA
Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone.Ā
With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called āoff-Facebook Activityā which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting adsā¦ which means theyāre selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits.Ā
Ā Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didnāt have to tell us about when they updated the app, itās, of course, automatically turned on.Ā
To turn it off, go into your Facebook app, pull up the menu from the main screen [the button with the three horizontal lines] scroll down to security and privacy, find āOff-Facebook Activityā and hit the button that lets you manage your history to see all the apps itās been collecting from. From there, you can clear the information itās already collected, and there will be a button regarding āFuture activityā where you can turn the āfeatureā off, at which point Facebook with give you an āARE YOU SURE YOU DONāT WANT US COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION TO SELL YOU THINGS???ā screen. Yes, yes you are sure. Because this is disgusting.Ā
Facebook made this super hard to find, so Iāve written up instructions for how I got through it (on my app - I donāt know if there are other versions where itās different):
From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.
Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.
Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).
This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them
Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.
The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.
This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.
This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what theyāre doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.
THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity.Ā
If itās glowing blue with the circle on the right side, itās active, and if itās gray with the circle on the left side, itās off.
Just went and checked this out and yikes on a stick
i would never have this app on my phone to begin with, but if you do, hereās what you can do about this particular privacy violation.
Just did this, and it says it takes up to 48 hours to disconnect fully, so after two days go back and delete your history again!
I really hate facebook gosh
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Happy Luigiās brother day!
Like if youāre a #warhammer40k fan, reblog if youāre a #d&d fan.
this one Iām kinda curious about.
heres a midi of hips dont lie with a banjo as the vocals
i cant believe this
this sounds like it belongs in a legend of zelda game
Iām totally serious when I say I absolutely love this Iāve listened to it like twelve times now itās fantastic 10/10
Click reblog as soon as the banjo came in. That is amazing.
I have missed this post
ā¦.it actually does sound like LoZ musicĀ
just imagineĀ
link dancing to this
I love this so much
OMG WHAT DID I DO!?
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Thatās Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. Thatās because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.
Follow @the-future-now
Reblog if you:
Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs
Have a friend with that problem
Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way
No one will know which is it
Inktober Day 2: Mindless -the following is from an old field guide to monsters written by the late Dr. Emma Quill- Zombies are a common occurrence across the lands, with several points of interest about their behavior and physiological traits. While mostly mindless, oftentimes quite literally, they are relentless in their pursuit of their victims and have the inherent ability to cause a transformation in their victims. Armor and ranged weaponry are the most effective tools to combat this monster, as they lack the intelligence to find ways around such solutions. Unfortunately, there's no cure for infection once it progresses to the final stages, so treatment of any wounds sustained is paramount to survival.
Inktober Day 1: Ring William Hearthstone was not a stranger to trying out new tasks, but the last thing he'd imagine doing was forging something that he associated with vanity. In spite of this, he found very few arguments against the forging of some rings to be enchanted with protection spells, even if he himself had no desire to wear them. All the same, even if he was the butt of this particular joke, he made sure to have the last laugh. Especially since it'd take them ages to realize what the dwarven he etched into them said.
how to draw arms ? ?Ā
holy fuck
holy fuck is rightā¦ butā¦ does it work with legs???
yes !!
but how much extend
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finally. i can be accurate
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Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:
The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!
So if anyoneās wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:
And I wanna stress that when i sayĀ ātop of the legā iām not talking about the crotch (please donāt flag me tumblr itās an anatomical term) iām talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:
Itās easier to see what Iām talking about in this photo of a man squatting:Ā
So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:
But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!
HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG
Licherally in the midst of drawing a guy and crying at how bad the arms are. Thanks Tumbles
Do you have any kind of process for picking colors for the backgrounds? They all seem to have really nice uniformity, and I would love to read up on how colors like that are picked (or if it's more intuition based). I do remember you mentioning that you also had help from another color lead before, so I was wondering how much of that they help out vs the colors you chose?
hey, thanks so much! this might get a lil long (as it always does!!) so bear with me.
firstly i want to say, thereās no right or wrong way to pick colors. every artist has their own palette they prefer and i think itās super delightful to spend time developing your own special sense of color. so even though iām explaining things in aĀ āthis is how you do itā sort of way, itās not the only way! just my way. the best method to develop your own sense of color is to look at a LOT of art, look at a LOT of the world around you, and practice practice pratice.
at this point in my life i pick colors intuitively just because i think itās something iām naturally tuned into, and iāve been doing it for a few years, so i donāt actively plan my palettes. but here are some things that i think about as i pick colors.
firstly, i want to go over hue, value, and saturation. iām sure everyone knows these intuitively but i want to explain them in words. hue, value and saturation are what make up a color, and decide how colors differ from each other.
hue: what color the color actually is. red, purple, green, yellow, and everything in between.
value: how light or dark a color is. if youāre painting traditionally, adding more white or more black to a color lowers or raises its value.
saturation: howĀ āpureā the color is vs how much neutral tone is in it.
hereās an example of all three:
this comes into play because a big mistake i see beginners make is that they pick aĀ ājustā color, and by that i mean they pickĀ ājust blueā orĀ ājust yellowā. imagine buying a set of oil paints and only using paints straight from the tube without ever mixing. it would be impossible! so i try to avoid pickingĀ ājustā colors, except as for a complementary color (more on that in a bit). here are some variations of a red, for example.
so, the biggest thing for me when i pick colors is that i want them all to be friends. i want them all to have something in common so that they get along. i usually lose control of a painting when my colors feel to different from one another. so, i will usually start a painting with one color i know for sure i want, andĀ āsubordinateā other colors to it, meaning every other color i pick has to look good with that color. as to how you figure out what looks good and what doesnāt, that just takes time and lots of observation to build a personal opinion :) hereās an example from one of my paintings. in this case, the main color is the trees.
and hereās another from rick & morty, the main color is the sky this time.
now that thatās out of the way, iām going to give you the Actual Cheat Sheet for color palettes. in color theory, there are 8 basic color schemes that are generally pleasing to look at. here they are.
i usually use an analogous palette or monochrome palette out of preference. the two examples above more or less fall into those categories. however, i also like to use split complementary because the complimentary color adds a LOT of contrast and visual interest. itās great to use if you have a specific thing in a painting you want to draw attention to. hereās an example:
it doesnāt always have to be a perfect split complementary, just one color that differs from the āfamilyā of colors that take up a majority of the piece.Ā
now! you might be wondering whenās the right time to subordinate a color, or where to put it, or how much of it to use, etc. and the answer is: CONTRAST. there is always visual interest in things that are different. i was rifling through my school notes and found these great types of contrast when working with color.
value: things that are light vs things that are dark.
hue: two colors that look different. I.E. yellow vs blue.
saturation: things that are saturated vs things that are desaturated.
proportion: note the example above. a majority of the painting is orange, so the green stands out because there is proportionally less of it.
temperature: things that are warm vs things that are cool.
complementary: red vs green, blue vs orange, yellow vs purple. when in doubt, these colors always contrast against each other because they have nothing in common (there is no red in green, etc).
simultaneous: this is a little advanced and iām bad at explaining it, so please read up on it here.Ā
a super helpful exercise is to look at your favorite illustrations, paintings, photographs, designs, etc and assess which one of the 8 color schemes (linked above) it has, and which types (can be more than one) of contrast it has. we did this in school and it REALLY helped me look at color better. hereās part of the assignment i did, the artist is annette marnat.
so! thatās pretty much how i think about color and how i pick my colors! i hope it was somewhat helpful! thereās so so so so much about color theory i canāt even begin to cover, i highly urge you to watch some videos and read some books and articles to further your study. a great starting place would be this series of videos.Ā these are made by my teacher Richard Keyes, i think he had a dvd or something. everything iāve talked about so far i learned from him and he is an absolute expert in color. these videos are invaluable. if you take anything away from this post, let it be to watch these videos hahaha.
to answer your question about my color leads, every painting was a collaborative effort between the three of us, and sometimes other painters too. it was a very hands-on crew, so i canāt say any of the r&m bgs i did are 100%Ā āmineā. however, i think my personal color sense is waaaay different than jason or philās, which made the process very interesting because we usually had 3 very different opinions hahaa. you can check out their work here and here to see what things they brought to the table in relation to my own contributions.
thank you for the ask! again, i hope this was helpful :)
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The Burning Light of the Sky
Weird question but if yāall were stuck in a time loop where you died and then the day restarted over and over again, what slightly insanity-inducing song would be playing every time you woke up
Time to say goodbye
Lateralus
Raindrops keep fallin in my head
Flower Garden from Yoshiās Island
Shade Academyās initiation ritual
Different academies will have different tests, because their environments are different. Neither Solitas or Vacuoās side of Sanus have much in the way of forests, and landing strategies are harder to perform without lots of trees.
What Vacuoās desert does have in abundance is wide open spaces between the few sources of life-giving water, and plenty of wild, natural beasts roaming around looking to eat, in addition to the man-eating Grimm. The lack of trees also makes it easier for animals and Grimm to spot humans from miles away, and converge in larger numbers for the kill. Therefore, having a landing strategy is far less important than having a very fast mode of transportation and the skill to use it.
So I think Shade Academy hands its initiates the reigns to a horse (if they donāt bring one), or the keys to a motorcycle (if they are one of the few who have never ridden a horse), and then sends them into the desert to locate and retrieve something.
I like to think they need to retrieve livestock: The two pairs who each bring back white cows become a team; the two pairs who each bring back a pair of black sheep become a team. But it could really be just as simple as some chess pieces or other easily carried trinkets.
Just like Beacon, the initiates are expected to complete the test in less than a day, assuming they donāt lose their transportation. Itās not meant to be a test of endurance; the ritual is less about screening out candidates (since the teachers will have four years to make them ready) and more about getting the initiates into the right mindset and also sorting them into pairs and teams. Itās only those who fail to do those two things who get washed out until the next year.
But what I havenāt yet figured out is how partnerships are formed. If everyone is let loose into a wide open desert at roughly the same time, without any catapults and different landing strategies to vary locations, then how do you randomize the process enough while still giving clever initiates a way to end up with exactly the partner they desire?
Any suggestions?
I personally headcanon that they start in a canyon and are told to find locations according to features they have on slips of paper, and teams are formed by the four students who meet up at the same place.
Interesting idea. How do you avoid pre-determining teams, though? Students drawn random slips from a hat?
Why is it important for the teams to be actually random? That strikes me as something that might be a personal flourish not something required by all academies. For instance itās likely that thereās always more students than places and so the four or however many left behind or donāt make it in time then get put into loser team pool. If there are more and the loser pool then needed for one team then if there are any open spots on the current form teams they can head hunt. If there are no open spots then they can form two teams. If this would be greater than four people chances are you could end up with a five or six person team but with this likely come some sort of adjustment in terms of course load and or grading
With the option at all of these and especially at the end if no other compromises are available for simply failing of initiation and saying better luck next year. The likely this will put you and a higher consideration for the next lot if you make initiation or application next year. That or you can attend classes but youāre not on a team which means that youāre only earning half of the requirements in order to get a proper graduation and license. Which likely means that youāll end up having to intern or something with an actual Huntsman or other faculty or staff or something in order to make up for not being on a team
the slips of paper are randomly distributed, and admittedly this initiation procedure was cooked up for the sole purpose of setting up a plot point later on involving twin team members.
that said, I would say that teams are encouraged to seek another unit while going to a landmark that suits their papers.
Shade Academyās initiation ritual
Different academies will have different tests, because their environments are different. Neither Solitas or Vacuoās side of Sanus have much in the way of forests, and landing strategies are harder to perform without lots of trees.
What Vacuoās desert does have in abundance is wide open spaces between the few sources of life-giving water, and plenty of wild, natural beasts roaming around looking to eat, in addition to the man-eating Grimm. The lack of trees also makes it easier for animals and Grimm to spot humans from miles away, and converge in larger numbers for the kill. Therefore, having a landing strategy is far less important than having a very fast mode of transportation and the skill to use it.
So I think Shade Academy hands its initiates the reigns to a horse (if they donāt bring one), or the keys to a motorcycle (if they are one of the few who have never ridden a horse), and then sends them into the desert to locate and retrieve something.
I like to think they need to retrieve livestock: The two pairs who each bring back white cows become a team; the two pairs who each bring back a pair of black sheep become a team. But it could really be just as simple as some chess pieces or other easily carried trinkets.
Just like Beacon, the initiates are expected to complete the test in less than a day, assuming they donāt lose their transportation. Itās not meant to be a test of endurance; the ritual is less about screening out candidates (since the teachers will have four years to make them ready) and more about getting the initiates into the right mindset and also sorting them into pairs and teams. Itās only those who fail to do those two things who get washed out until the next year.
But what I havenāt yet figured out is how partnerships are formed. If everyone is let loose into a wide open desert at roughly the same time, without any catapults and different landing strategies to vary locations, then how do you randomize the process enough while still giving clever initiates a way to end up with exactly the partner they desire?
Any suggestions?
I personally headcanon that they start in a canyon and are told to find locations according to features they have on slips of paper, and teams are formed by the four students who meet up at the same place.
