Me Explaining Why Evie And Doug Aren’t A Good Couple For The Millionth Time:

the trick to avoiding plotholes is to make sure there’s not enough plot to poke holes in

different au, same idiots

me fantasizing about making a thing but not actually making it but I’m having a great time just fantasizing about it so it’s ok

Generalizing is so much fun.

https://imgur.com/gallery/04qigzy

Why don't you darken your clothes and strike a violent pose and maybe you'll calm down

Public elementary school gen z things:

Songs about killing barney the dinosaur

Abcdefg gummy bears are chasing me

Gross pizza but its better than no pizza

Red ribbon/say no to drugs week

Pajama day

Chewy tortillas

Pizzas and grilled cheeses and pb&js in plastic packages

Gendered and/or assigned bus seating

Party in the usa during gym

Treasure chest/prize boxes with cheap erasers and pencils in them and maybe a toothbrush if youre lucky

Off-key singing happy birthday and grocery store cupcakes on your birthday

Bunching up/twisting the swings to set them higher

After school program with going outside + watching Netflix later

60 second times tables

5 finger rule for books (more than 5 words you can't recognize on a page = too advanced for you)

The first school day after Halloween being a MESS of trading candy and being little shits

Very low quality education about non Christian holidays during December in the first few years, then never learning it again

Zapping each other after going down the slides

The 100th day of school being VERY important

Silent reading time

Instead of As and Bs amd Cs, it was E (exceeds standards), M (meets standards), P (progressing), I (insufficient)

Oh I'm a gummy bear yes I'm a gummy bear

FUCK teletubbies, FUCK cailou, FUCK frozen, and most of all, FUCK BARNEY THE DINOSAUR

Field day being insane and everyone getting covered in water

Being too loud at lunch and making the teachers have to clap a rhythm and you repeat it to get your attention

Silent lunch

Foldables that you fill in for notes

No movies over the rating of G

*laces hands together* open the gate *other person "chops" them open* who do you hate

Shame, lemonade, concentration, among other hand clap games

Cheese touch

Bone, babymouse, dear dumb diary, diary of a wimpy kid, dork diaries, etc

That awful lined paper with pink lines and blue dashes in the middle to help your handwriting

Use your finger to size your spaces between words

Kahoot

Those awful "plays" that were standing on risers and singing off key and weird dancing and crappy dialogue

*makes weird hand shape* if you looked at this you're gay

Sharing takis at recess

Show and tell

Being jealous of the kids who got the newest iphone despite them being 9

Being the line leader was very very important and kids would push and shove each other to get to be the front

Playing either horses (pretending to own and ride horses), cats, or wolves depending on if you were a horse girl, a warrior cats nerd, or furry in training (yes I know there are cat furries)

Monthly or weekly assinged classroom jobs like line leader, paper passer outer, school lunch or home lunch counter

Scholastic book fair

Asdfmovie

you know im really going through it when i start making discombobulated catradora dialogues in my notes app again

If you’re one of those public speakers that say “Goodmorning….Oh come on we can do better than that, GOODMORNING” I automatically do not like you from that moment on.

you've probably already gotten some questions about this, but can I inquire as to your drawing process? i recently discovered that i may have been working against my own thought process in drawing and that it was hurting my ability to create, and your own work seems somewhat similar to the way i naturally go about making things, so i was curious. thank you for your time!

alright *cracks knuckles* lets give this a go

My process changes pretty much every 2 milliseconds so im just gonna try to sum it up as of right now (and i doubt it will be helpful but dammit i am gonna try)

I work from some really ugly sketches, especially now that im trying to get the hang of composition. More than anything, I think I just try to find some potentially interesting shapes from the very start, because there’s no way for me to spend actual time on a thing without it. I latch onto well-defined areas of light and dark like my life depends on it.

Here’s some of my recent sketches and thumbnails just to really drive home the point that I just don’t give a shit

Lineart is my mortal enemy (surprise), and so I take any kind of lines I put down more as a friendly suggestion than anything else. Sketching is really just a mapping tool to slap color on top of.

In the rare cases I do refine a sketch, it is only to better figure out what it is im doing. Then I promptly proceed to ignore it, and go straight to filling in a silhouette that feels good with my most recent love: the polygon lasso tool in photoshop. Then I lock that baby down and uhhh improvise

Here’s some hopefully slightly more helpful examples of my background study process:

It hopskips over the parts where I try to figure out shapes (because I tend to work on a single layer im sorry making process gifs of finished pieces is hard), but regarding my process in terms of planning out composition, light and color, it is pretty representative.

I start with the chicken scratch thumbnail, map out the major values and refine them into some interesting shapes. Then I go over with lines to figure out the 3-dimensional space, complete with some gosh dang perspective lines. I get some base colors going, and then I just go wild overpainting that using square and triangular brushes, and the polygon lasso tool.

The most important realisation for me the last year was that I don’t actually have to render stuff. The goal of my final overpainting is to reduce everything into seperate, well defined parts, because that is what fascinates me the most with visual art: abstraction and stylisation of light.

So yeah, I hope this was at least a little bit what you were looking for. If you’re stuck, go embrace what is most enticing to you in your actual art process technically speaking. It has completely changed the way I approach mine.

Here’s some bonus gifs bc why not:

Things I've heard in my first days of High School

"it's okay bee!! You can go on MY hand"

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"you guys all got coffee? is there something IN the coffee?"

"WEED FOR LIFE"

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"do you buy lunch or bring it?"

"yes."

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"I wanna eat my piece of fucking chocolate"

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"you need to walk a little faster." "sorry, I'm making out with my boyfriend at the IMC!"