I'm putting together a bootleg slime tutorial of the musical, if you have footage please read!
PSA: This is my proper post regarding this, I have went through and compiled most of the London clips of Death Note the Musical available online. I still need to sort through some audio, but I'm hoping to put together some kind of bootleg slime tutorial!
More yapping info under the cut.
If someone with extra clips that they've never published *somehow* finds me please dont be afraid to contact. I likely won't put this together fully until i have more footage/audio.
99% of the clips I have access to are from tiktok with text plastered all over, and all the footage I have is in 360p. So it definitely won't be an ideal way to view it. This is intended to be consumed as supplementary material to enjoy the musical and is being put together for archival purposes.
The colors in the sheet represent the sources i gathered the clips from. I have went through what I believe to be all the available clips online.
I still need to sort through several curtain call clips + audio i found last minute. I also need to compile together listings people have made regarding selling/trading clips and see if anyone is up to kindly give clips of portions that im at the very least missing.
I have access to 2 semi-complete scripts made by other fans to track what is missing from the clips i've found, but i'm taking caution in guessing what is missing so basically im overestimating what I'm missing.
The musical itself is a really well made adaption, and although I don't personally enjoy how the london adaptation went I believe its still worth putting together to make an archival of. Hoping this may bring in more people to enjoy this piece of media!
Note: I haven't personally seen the musical live so I don't have my own clips. Hell, I only properly watched death note itself a bit over a month ago, but i really want to contribute to the fandom's archival work in some way with what I can. I do hope this can progress somewhat from the help of others in order to put this together for more people to enjoy it!
Thank you for reading. I'd appreciate any clip or audio, or sharing this around to someone who might. Cheers!
Yes, for sure!
Okay so I took this down initially to gather up some resources but I’ve come to realize I don’t actually have that many specific ones on hand. I always want to caveat that this is just the way I learned/write and it won't work for everyone -- I was/am a slow learner who needed a lot of guidance and so this is all targeted towards that.
My suggestions are:
Strunk & White: The Elements of Style for grammar. There are other grammar books out there but I like this one because it’s really stuffy and strict and I trust the reader to figure out what is/isn’t worth taking into account.
Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le. Guin: I’m going to be so honest, I have not actually read this but I’ve paged through it and it seems really good
How Not To Write a Novel by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittelmark
The Masterclass writers series is incredibly expensive but some of the courses are available through libraries or other methods
Also this is for children but Gonna Bake me a Rainbow Poem was foundational for me at ten & I don’t see why it couldn’t help someone older.
More broadly, I listen to writers when they talk and try to pick and choose what’s useful to me. I prefer the advice of genre writers because I feel most of them really understand their craft as a craft; imo a lot of literary writers are so good at what they do they have no idea how they’re doing it. YMMV on this. I would highly recommend reading the forwards and afterwards of novels. I also like the director's commentaries of movies.
I also find instructional art resources extremely useful! Visual artists know how to describe things and imo they’re better at it than most writers. Like, here, I’ve just googled ‘How to draw light’ and this is a better description of how light affects an object than you’ll find in 99% of writer’s resources.
I would also check your local community. If there are writer’s events, take advantage of them. Libraries and bookstores are good places to look. Head down to some book launches and listen to the authors talk.
Also ok this tends to be a bit of a sensitive topic online, but: if you want to improve it’s generally a good idea to seek out critique and negative feedback. A critique circle is a good way to do this. You can find them organized by communities (ex. a library, a university) or you can make one with your friends. If you’ve got people you trust, you can ask them directly to tell you what they didn’t like. I don’t know how far along you are in your writing journey — 'I did not like this' or 'I found this boring' etc might not be useful information at first but eventually it will be because you’ll learn how to identify points of friction in your own work; if you're earlier on you might need to seek out more guided critique and that is 100% fine. You will eventually get to the point where you can diagnose your own writing.
(On this note: if you are posting your writing online I would highly recommend differentiating comments from critique -- I'm talking about directly solicited feedback from people who personally know you and want the best for you.)
One of my main pieces of advice is that it takes time to improve your writing skills. There are ways to improve more or less efficiently but at the end of the day time and practise is the key. It is normal to go through up and downs and it is normal to sometimes feel stuck but if you keep working at it you WILL get better. I am not a quick learner and it took me upwards of ten years before I was writing anything people consistently wanted to read BUT I see people improve exponentially faster than that all the time. Probably you will improve faster than I did. But maybe we will improve at the same speed and that is OK too.
Other random tips:
Do exercises that target specific skills which you are weak at
Carry around a notebook and write down things you see as accurately as you can & transcribe conversations. In regards to the latter, would recommend developing really bad handwriting to prevent people from reading over your shoulder.
Write things, including completed stories, that are above your current skill level. Get them as good as you can then let them go. They are unlikely to meet your standards. Figure out what didn’t work and try them again later. You do not need to publish these
Any tips for drawing hands from both reference and memory?
I mostly draw hands from my memory but for starter I’m imagining fingers on hand as tiny legs with 3 joints so it’s easier to picture how the fingers bend and where the joints meet.
Also I made a tutorial a long time ago but I still keep these in mind. It might be hard at first but through thorough observation drawing hands can be easy by breaking down the shapes, in the end practice is the key 😅
Hello~love your art so much!! Would love to know how you present volume in your art? Your art always feel so real in a way that you can imagine seeing it from many angles, mine tends to look flat even after looking through references
Thank you very much for the question and I'm SO sorry for answering it so late 😭 I hope you'll still see this and even if you don't I hope the others will find it helpful :')
My little trick is just to add perspective when drawing the figures no matter how simple the pose is! You don't have to make perspective lines for it but you can still imagine the overall space of the drawing, like how the object that's far from the eyes tends to get smaller and stuff.
Ethan Becker made a good video about it, you should check it out too!
aaand it's finished! An artist's guide to custom rigid frame wheelchairs! This is completely free to use, reference, and save. Reblogs are welcome but please do not repost without permission and credit. Have fun, lovelies!
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