I’m Most Likely Going To Get A Mobility Aid In The Near Future So I Drew Melanie To Cope :)

fitting for the current times ...

i love all of shakespeares gay little subplots. like yes bae give hamlet that line about kissing men. give him that close homoerotic relationship with horatio. give ophelia that bisexual girlboss energy. give mercutio that relationship with benvolio and then make him die tragically in his boyfriends arms. give macbeth that bi wife energy. give those three witches so much fucking gender

Started listening to Malevolent and I gotta say, the tumblr posts were right, this show fucks hard

Favorite trope in ‘John has his own body’ fics: graphically describing how he wants to crawl back in Arthur’s skin and generally Doesn’t Like when they’re not touching

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

fun little scetch

oh you need a tutorial on splatters by a non-expert? then this is for you!

I have a little bit of experience with splatters both from painting a lot and from nosebleed-related health issues. So I know a little bit more about splatters than the average person.

anyways

if you’re not sure how a splatter will… well splatter then I recommend flicking paint from a brush onto paper. But not everyone can do that for various reasons. So I used both acrylic paint and watercolors for this.

I call these “side splatters”. So, the more liquid-y the splatter is the further the “tail” goes (as shown in the image). As you can notice, the splatters with acrylic paint stick together more because it’s less of a water-texture and more of a blob.

drops

basically, the middle (the “mother splat” in the image) has the most liquid in it. And it trails off into smaller drops, which have “arms” lead to them. It’s pretty common that drops and side splatters can be combined, so the mini-drops can have tails similar to side splatters.

warning: talking about bl00d in the rest

Now, specific red bodily liquids can have different textures. Nosebleeds are often more liquid-y than for example gore-related liquids (judging from gore that I’ve seen in movies). And the solution here is to google it! Because I’m not a doctor and I don’t know why the texture can change. But please, even if nosebleeds are more liquid-y the flow can still be slow. Liquid-y splatters are more sensitive to movement than other splatters. So if someone who is having a nosebleed (without anything stopping the flow) for example nods, the “liquid” will run down faster.

there are a lot of different types of splatters, but these are ones that even I struggle with sometimes. There are probably better tutorials out there.

hope this helps!

#artists

E. M. Forster said “fuck the bury your gays trope” in 1913 (x)

John Doe is a really great eldritch horror monster, he really is, but I cannot take him seriously as one because he sounds like he’s talking through a Pringles can.