People NEED To Stop Gatekeeping Making Music Like Ohhhh I Don’t Have An Instrument Ohhhhh I Don’t

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

How do you do pixel art animation? What program do you use? These are so beautiful and I really wanna learn! Thank you!

I wrote a free post about my process here, hope you find it useful 🙏

i know this means absolutely nothing to most people but basically all of the little web game things I've made recently (angels in automata, hex plant growing game, d.a.n.m.a.k.u., life music, sudoku land, the metroidvania style map editor, etc etc etc) are all entirely self-contained individual client-side html files that can be downloaded and run offline and have literally no libraries or frameworks or dependencies, because i'm an insane woman who enjoys hand coding my input handling and display code from scratch in vanilla js and having it all live in one single html file with the game logic and the page structure and the page style all just living and loving together side by side in a universal format that can be run by any web browser on any devixe. i'll even include image files as base64 data-uri strings just to keep every single asset inside the one file.

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

There’s a reason lots of good parents say to babies stuff like

“You’re excited to go to the park!”

“Oh, it makes you mad that we can’t go outside.”

And then when the babies get a little bit older the parents can say

“You seem upset. Are you sad?”

“Are you excited that gramma is coming over today?”

Which lets the kid (who is learning to utilize speech) respond with yes or no, which may prompt more questions, like

“So you aren’t sad, are you angry?”

“Yes, does it make you happy when gramma is here?”

And then, finally, when the child is learning to use language in a more complex way, the parents can say,

“How does it make you feel?”

“Why are you feeling like that?”

And it’s all about teaching emotional awareness. I really reccomend using the process on yourself. Learn to ask, “am I happy?” “Am I sad?” “Am I anxious?”

Then practice identifying, out loud or on paper if you can, “I’m happy.” “I’m upset.” “I’m sad.” “I’m anxious.”

Final step: “Why am I feeling anxious? I’m still thinking about that awkward conversation earlier.” “Why am I happy? It’s such a beautiful day outside.” “Why am I sad? None of my friends are responding to my messages.”

It really helps you notice patterns (“I’m more likely to be happy when I’m around this person.” “When I haven’t eaten, I often feel angry.” “If I don’t plan ahead, I get anxious.”) which is the first step in avoiding things and people that are bad for you and encouraging things and people that are good.

my guide to getting started on firefox is the only one you need

step 1: download firefox from the official website

step 2: import your passwords and such from your browser. this sounds complicated, but it should take no time at all

step 3: download ublock origin from the firefox add-on website

thats literally all you need to do in terms of out of the box setup. you may wish to do more, such as downloading more add-ons (see under the cut for some i recommend), but this is all that is needed for most people

my recommended add-ons:

sponsorblock & her sister dearrow. sponsorblock allows you to skip sponsors in youtube videos, dearrow changes clickbait titles and thumbnails

dark reader. forces all websites to have a dark mode

the wayback machines official extension. allows you to archive and see archived versions of websites with 2 clicks

right-click borescope. allows you to view and save images, even on websites that disable it

search by image. what it says on the tin, including like a billion different image search engines, and you can customize which ones it uses

ruffle. a new flash player that is supposedly safer?? idc i use it because i have nostalgia for flash

xkit rewritten, my beloved. a suite of tumblr features you can toggle on the fly, including one-click reblogs with tags, blocking entire posts, loading the vanilla versions of audio and video, and much, much more

dont accept webp. does what it says on the tin, kills webps FOREVER

wikipedia vector skin and old reddit redirect. forces the old, better layout for those two websites

tampermonkey. allows you to write and use scripts for any website. examples include the dashboard unfucker, youtube no rounded video, and disable safesearch

redirector. make websites redirect to any other website, like forcing fandom wikis to go to breezewiki, forcing youtube to display shorts as videos, or forcing tumblr to display images in full quality (plaintext of these rules)

GRAPHICS/EDITING RESOURCES

Color Scheme

CSS Drive - upload an image to generate a color palette

Colorhunter - same function as above

Palette Generator - same function as above (can upload multiple images)

Colorhunt - four color scheme

Coolors - five color scheme

Colormind - five color scheme (can upload image)

ColorSpace - 3 to 6 color scheme and gradient generator

Design Seeds - color palettes

@royalspalettes - 3 to 9 color palettes and gradient

Free Stock photos

Unsplash / Pexels / Pixabay / Lifeofpix / Picspree / Foodiesfeed (geared toward food pics) / New old stock (vintage pics from public archives) / ISO Republic

Fonts

Fontsquirrel / Dafont / Fontfabric / Losttype

Font Identifier - 1 / 2

Fonts in use -  tells you what fonts to use in designs

PNGs, Vectors

Pngtree - free & premium / 2 free download per day / attribution required for free download   

Freepik - free & premium / attribution required for free download

Deviantart - few of my favs : x / x and x  (celebs png) / x and x (kpop png)

Mix of everything ( textures,fonts,mockups,brushes etc) *all links redirected to freebies

Pixelbuddha - free & premium / free content every month / email subscription to download

Designest - free & premium / free content every month / email subscription to download

Creative market - free & premium / 6 new freebies every week

Graphicburger -  an open use license where all freebies can be used in  commercial or personal projects with no required attribution

Graphic delivery - all content are free

Beapanda - I love her megapacks (brushes,textures, png etc)

Ziggypixels - free & premium / content every week / geared towards product and print designer (a.k.a mockups)

Dribble - free & premium / free content every month / limits searching past a certain number of pages

Behance - free & premium

DB Freebies - a gallery of Dribbble and Behance freebies together on one website

Vecteezy - free & premium / attribution required for free download

Others

Downloader - free download / remove watermark from getty images, shutterstock etc

Tumblr gradient text - here’s a tutorial on how to 

Sharemania - download HD mv, live, tv shows (sign up to download)

AnimeRaws - raws anime for amv editors & gif makers

a/n: message me if there are any problems with links!

does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man's neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for "curly hair in medieval paintings". it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it's so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don't wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

Too many artists are held back by outdated and bad color theory rules, or even rules that are fine but have built in limitations that you should know and I want to set everyone free.