let-me-eat-cake
Part-time artist full-time idiot
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So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
As someone who watched mcyt during the pandemic but never got into the dream smp I'm forever grateful for dodging that bullet.
I don't even go here but forget Tesla this is Joel's symbol to me
So I’ve been hearing some people want Joel’s winner symbol to be a car. Now this leads to a bigger question: what kind of car should it be? I’m proposing the car that went to space in the 9th Fast and Furious movie:
Hi! I made this! Please watch, I worked really hard on it!
Oof i shared the wrong link last post, very embarrassing. Here's the music video you should ACTUALLY watch
New ship just dropped.
If he's due another marriage I guess what happened between Colin and FR3-D1 was sort of like a marriage.
Was kind of liking the beat until the singing actually started....
was clicking through instagram stories and heard genuinely the worst song i think i’ve ever heard. however you imagine these words being put to music they’re actually being scream rapped over drift phonk
I've seen this post a couple of times, and I've already liked and downloaded the images, so I guess all that's left is rebloging.
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free resources to write a novel in 2024
hello hello! it's me, rach!
as the new year approaches, many of us set goals and resolutions - myself included. one of my goals for 2024 is to write a novel (I've been procrastinating on this for quite a long time now). i assume that some of you might have the same goal, that's why I'm writing this post today.
over 2023 i've been releasing some freebies for authors just like me, so I thought I could compile my favorites in this post. hope you find this useful :)
1) the writer's workbook
this workbook has over 60 exercises to help you develop characters, scenarios, etc. if you're ever stuck, I'm pretty sure this workbook will be your best friend.
2) author's corner (notion template)
this is the most downloaded freebie in my shop! it is a notion dashboard with everything you need to organize your writing and has some templates included (like scrivener)!!
3) another notion template
this one has two themes you can choose from: cottage-core and dark academia. they're very similar to the previous template, but this one is more recent and I added some new features. feel free to explore both and pick the one you like the most.
4) the author's journal
this is a cute printable with 20 pages that will help you stay on track and manage your social media accounts as a writer who shares their work online. you can also register what you're currently writing and your personal research and resources.
5) plan your book printable
this is a 6-page printable for you to fill out and plan your book easily and effectively.
6) excel sheet to organize tasks & word-count
this is a simple excel sheet, but it is very effective for keeping track of your tasks & word-count of your novels. also, it is 100% customizable to your liking!
that's all for now! feel free to explore my gumroad shop where I have plenty of freebies to grab! also, don't forget to subscribe so that you never miss any opportunity to get a goodie for free :)
hope this post was useful!
have a nice day,
rach
color studies! i didn’t use the eyedropper, these were all done by eye! i learned this exercise in college, it really works your brain :>
People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine. If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?” The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them. Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?
I hope ao3 is back to normal when I wake up.
More religious trauma based vocaloid songs.
Lose your Head by Vane
On the note of """"fandom colors"""", I just want all you artists to know that you don't have to come up with color designs out of your head in order for things to be valid. Referencing design, photos, etc for color pallets is an IMPORTANT part of character and graphic design. (Just like using references for poses!!!) I like to find photos of landscapes or flowers and mosaic blur them- then pick the colors I like out of those. Great way to make cohesive and we'll balanced pallets.
real and true!!!
⠀⠀⠀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑. ♡
below you will find 20 random and creative questions designed to deepen your character building. such questions can also be used as ask meme or pov starters.
If the character could travel back in time, which time would they go to and why?
What is the smell that most evokes memories in the character's life?
If your character could change into an animal, which animal would they choose and why?
What is the character's favorite song and what memory does it bring up?
If your character could have a superpower, which one would they choose and how would you use it?
What is the book that most influenced the character's world view?
Does the character collect anything? If so, what is the collection and why do they keep it?
If your character could live in a fictional world from a book or movie, what would they choose?
What is the most exotic or unusual place the character has ever been?
What is the food that the character likes the most and what is the story behind this preference?
Does the character have any strange habits or unusual rituals?
If the character could talk to a historical person, who would they choose and what would they ask?
What is the character's biggest regret and how does it affect them?
If the character had to face their greatest fear, how would they react?
What did the character used to do as a child that still influences their adult life?
What is the strangest or most vivid dream the character has ever had?
If your character could change professions at any time, which career would they choose?
What is the color that best represents the character's personality and why?
Does the character believe in supernatural or paranormal things? Why?
If the character had to write a letter to their younger self, what would it say?
⠀⠀⠀𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑-𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. ♡
below you will find 20 random and creative questions to help develop a well-rounded personality for your character. such questions can also be used as ask meme or pov starters.
What are the character's core values and beliefs?
How does the character handle stress or adversity?
What are the character's strengths and weaknesses?
What motivates the character in their daily life?
How does the character interact with others in social situations?
What are the character's hobbies and interests?
How does the character respond to change?
What is the character's approach to problem-solving?
Describe the character's sense of humor.
How does the character express and handle emotions?
Is the character more introverted or extroverted?
What is the character's attitude towards risk and uncertainty?
What past experiences have shaped the character's personality?
How does the character view authority and rules?
Does the character have any unique quirks or habits?
What are the character's long-term goals and aspirations?
How does the character react to failure or mistakes?
What kind of relationships does the character value most?
Describe the character's typical daily routine.
How does the character view their role in society or a larger community?
Hlavco presents:
How To Grass
"It's as tedious as you want it to be!"
Basically, you want to hide the flat lines at the bottom of each section to make the transition vague. The more overlap there is between each grass color, the better it tends to look.
You may want to split the grass between different work layers if you're considering adding characters or objects after the fact, because this stuff is a real pain to mess with once it's down.
While the random darks and lights of the grass look fine, you should also consider where the environmental light is when planning them out. See this drawing for example, there are more dark areas near the trees.
Bonus:
Quick'n'Dirty Treelines
"It gets the job done."
In case you missed it, here’s a #TutorialTuesday someone requested on Twitter to go with last week’s process video on how to create a perspective grid from a photo (from Tomomi Sato) which you can use for studies, drawings, paintings, etc. Hope this helps with drawing/painting in perspective!!
How I save time on backgrounds as a full-time webcomic artist
Hi! I make webcomics for a living, and I have to be able to draw a panel extremely fast to keep up with my deadlines. I draw about 50 panels a week, which gives me about 45 minutes per panel if I want any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.
Most webtoon artists save time on backgrounds by using 3d models, which works for them and is great! but personally I hate working in 3d... I went to school for it for a year and hated it so much I completely changed career paths and vowed never to do it again! So, this is how I save time without using any 3d, for those of you out there who don't like it either!
This tactic has also saved me money (3d models are expensive) and it has helped me converting my comic from scroll format into page format for print, because I have much more art to work with than what's actually in the panels. (I'll touch on this later)
So, first, I make my backgrounds huge. my default starting size is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. My panels are 2,500 pixels wide, so my backgrounds are 4x that, minimum. Because of this, I make them less detailed than I could or that you might expect so it doesn't look weird against my character art when I shrink portions of it down.
I personally find it much easier to add in detail than to make "removing" details look natural at smaller sizes, but you might have different preferences than I do.
I also make sure to keep all of my elements on separate layers so that I can easily remove or replace them, I can move them to simulate different camera angles more easily, and it's simple to adjust the lighting to imply different times of day.
Then I can go ahead and copy/paste them into my episodes. I move the background around until it feels like it's properly fitting how I want.
Once I've done that in every panel, I'll go back through the episode and clean up anything that looks weird, and add in solid blacks (for my art style) Here's a quick before and after of what that looks like!
This makes 90% of my backgrounds take me just a few hours. This is my tactic when I'm working in an environment that an entire scene, or multiple scenes, will take place.
But many panels will inevitably have a location that's used exactly once, and it would waste time and effort to draw a massive background for those. So in 10% of cases, I just draw the single panel background in the episode. I save all of these, just in case I can re-use it later (this happens more often with outdoor locations, but I save them all nonetheless!)
I generally have to draw about 2 big backgrounds per episode, and 3-5 single-panel backgrounds per episode! At the beginning of an arc/book the number is higher, but as the series is continuing and I'm building up an asset library of indoor and outdoor elements to re-use for the book, the number generally goes down and I save more time.
My series involves time travel and mysteries, so there's a lot of new locations in it and we're constantly moving around. If I were working on a series that was more consistent in this aspect, this process would save me even more time!
Like I said earlier, this also saves me a lot of pain and gives me a lot more options as I'm converting from scroll format to print format!
panels that look like this in scroll format...
can look like this in print!
because I drew the background like this, so I didn't need to go through the additional effort to add in the extra detail to expand it outwards at all.
Anyways, I hope this helps someone! As always if it doesn't help, just go ahead and disregard. This is what I do and what works for me, and I feel like I only ever see time-saving tips for comics that involve 3d models and workflows, which don't work for me at all! I know there's more people like me out there, so this is for you!
Enjoy!
Also obligatory "my webcomic" if you want to see this in action or check it out!
