Casting a spell on you that makes you happy, by the way. Your day tomorrow will be pretty good. Something nice will happen, maybe.
went from “KITTY” to “That is a grown ass man.” real quick.
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
“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit
ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like
with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing
is it too much to ask
gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that
This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones
Cohesion within compositions/lighting
"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!
This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!
Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process
With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)
thanks this is super helpful! /gen
If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.
If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:
James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)
Small(er) Gods
We sit to praise our pantheon, Hands clasped in thread and steel. For powers deftly laid upon, The needle, hook or wheel.
Benevolent though some may be, More love to steer astray. They’ll gift your pins to gravity, Or keep fused threads at bay.
Some take their tithe in first cloth cut, The smoothest, cleanest snip. Yet others drink the pin-prick blood, From scars on fingertips.
The brave may seek their council still, For pins lost or purls dropped. They’ll not shy from uneven quilts, Or loops that come unlocked.
Though guidance they will offer plain, With payment clear as glass, Be wary of the terms explained, Lest tangled knots stay fast.
But still their songs are heard and felt, In heartbeats punched and sewn. Machine beat drowning prayers that tell, You’ll not create, alone.
someone on my discord made a joke about a guy named fab rick which sounds like a house god for fabrics and then this happened ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
haven’t done a bump in a while but here’s the usual reminder that a) i have a poetry sideblog and b)
Holy SHIT holy shit as soon as I start making money again I'm getting this. I'm bookmarking this.
a little bunny looking at the stars in case you're having a bad day.
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Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So
All the letters, large and small case. Quartz veins in stone. Molly Montgomery collects natural unedited rocks on the beach creating an alphabet that took years.
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very specific but reblog and put in the tags a video game and a food you associate with each other if there is any
its just theres something i really like about like. mentally associating media youve enjoyed with totally unrelated things. like associating games i played with specific music and vice versa, not because its from the soundtrack but because i just happened to listen to it at the same time or something, i have a lot of those. i think its just like, getting a glimpse of a personal story, the improbability of these things being related only fulfilled by where and when youve been
The Mario Brothers super Nintendo game and Enya's Memory of Trees album. Over and over again.
Listen, if you are on Twitter and you haven’t recently downloaded your data, you really need to. Like, now.
With the recent layoffs, I am willing to bet money that Twitter is going to implode very soon. Maybe not permanently, but dramatically, and very, very soon. Like “Liz Truss vs a head of lettuce” soon.
I base this quite simply on knowing the kind of shit my wife deals with every day, and listening to people on the news who have talked to Twitter employees about the site at all. Not only do I think there’s some Thing that will cause Twitter to puke all over itself like a 19yo who just discovered wine coolers, but I think there are multiple Things, and they are not in the future. They are occurring right now.
They fired the people who know which software licenses are up for renewal next. They fired the people who know that this cache needs to be manually emptied, and yeah they should have written a script for it but there were so many other projects that it was easier for Bob to just manually do it on Friday mornings while on his 2nd cup of coffee. They fired the people who know to not poke this thing in that way bc this thing works in a non-standard fashion, but it works, so even though the software manual says “poke it,” don’t do that. They fired the people that know that this queue getting up over X number of tickets means it starts eating tickets and erasing half the data you need to fix issues, so you have to compress the ticket numbers at least every 2 days with an ad hoc utility script that Jane wrote after your team discovered this issue. Not all of the institutional knowledge is gone, but a lot of it is, and once that knowledge is gone, it’s not coming back. Once that knowledge is gone, things unravel quickly at an institution that size.
Whatever happens on the social end of things - and that’s a fucking mess - make your contingency plans for not losing touch with people now, and get downloads of your shit. Now. Not later. This will not fizzle out like LiveJournal. I’m willing to bet that it will simply cease to be one day soon. It might come back once it disappears.
I’m just not counting on it, and neither should you.
Fun thing: downloading an archive of your data from Twitter requires… Twitter to be working, and they say it’s going to take at least 24 hours for the zip file to become available (and I have NO doubt that this specification was made back when they had the full staffing load, rather than Jason the Intern, Eric the Crawler and Timmy the (actual) Dog who are probably all that remains of the previous staff… because all the good people who didn’t get sacked have almost certainly expedited their resignations).
Get your data early, folks. It will almost certainly take longer than advertised.
In case you’re like me and didn’t know how to download your Twitter data.
SREs and Ops people are the ones who keep sites up and running (naming convention for the job depends on the company and time period).
I worked in Ops for a company years ago that laid off about ½ the staff. Our team was the only one to only lose 1 person. Out of a team of about 15.
Because we kept the site running.
We were the ones who got woken up in the middle of the night when stuff went wrong. Not even for stuff that directly impacted users - at least right away. If it didn’t get fixed, it would impact users at some point, depending on the severity.
But we were protected from that layoff because we were essential to the site continuing to operate.
And Twitter just gutted the team that does that for them.
This is such a typical “the capitalist who bought the company doesn’t understand how the product works, so he cut costs in a way that’s going to destroy the product and therefore the company” fatality.
Thank God I got off Twitter when it first looked like he was gonna buy it. Enjoy your imploding empire you sack of shit
Latest news: the company is now apparently reaching out in panic and trying to to rehire people they’ve suddenly realized they desperately need.
Also: senior engineers are resigning in solidarity with the fired.
(cite for #2: follows, gotta find it)
Someone give me a mic and an event to sing at, I want to sing the book of love and make people cry
There's something so weird in this
I've seen this face in my dreams. Heard this babbling voice before. This cry wakes something so old in me, it must have been here before I was.
I know these eyes. My eyes. His lips. His toes. My hair. His hairline.
My ears. Sorry about that one, bud. Goblin blood runs strong.
I see a picture of us smiling at each other and it's uncanny, that squint of eye, the wide open mouth.
I've been waiting for you. It took you a long time to get here, but I've been waiting. I've got so much to show you.
One of the easiest ways to abort covertly, is to take a specific chemotherapy drug also used for psoriasis and arthritis: methotrexate. It finds and kills rapidly replicating cells. However, it also suppresses your immune system for a while, so it is not a mainline abortifacient for this reason. All I'm saying is that if you have arthritis or psoriasis and cannot access an abortion, well, there's options.
From Wikipedia:
Seriously, I was asked like fifteen times if I was possibly even in the presence of someone pregnant who could accidentally take it. It's that powerful.
Do I predict a black market trade in this drug? Absolutely.
Misuse can kill. But in this age, so can preventing a person accessing an abortion. Weigh your own risks. Let others weigh theirs. It is still less risky to take this, than risks associated with giving birth.
The point is that I have had a legal, safe abortion and I will fight like hell for others to access the safest possible way of getting around this law and this is a good contender.
This has been your local psoriasis sufferer's PSA.
Please boost this. This is sadly now needed more than ever.
funnytwittertweets
Put your lazy meal in the tags
My go-to lazy meal is leftovers
Ensure
I sat up too fast and pulled s stitch
For real though three days of labor and all I have to show for it is
Oh my god. I've never felt like this about anything before. I think I remember Patton Oswalt dating something in a stand up bit like "that baby is your new Xbox" and I thought, that's adorable, how sweet, he sounds like he's enjoying being a dad. Okay but I spent almost every minute yesterday that I wasn't feeding him, just starting at him. Holy shit, little buddy, hi. Hi there. Hello.
Also, if anybody ever needs to hear about how choosing to have (and I chose against my plan, out of my actual mind, after the days of nearly zero rest and the absolute shattering of my hippie concept of what a focused zen labor "could be" (in quotes because it absolutely can be, but mine this time was never going to be. Accepting that as an inevitable fact of nature and not a personal failing was HARD anyway)) choosing to have an epidural actually saved my birth plan, possibly saved me from needing a c section, and instead of removing my ability to control the situation actually gave me control back that I had lost after three days of agony and not knowing why he just wasn't descending, PLEASE ask. Like, I felt like a failure and cried bitter scared tears about choosing "the easy way" when people I thought I was the physical equal to had gone without one (and being pretty sure something was actually terribly wrong and I was going to end up in surgery) UNTIL we found out WHY he was physically stuck in place, realized what we needed to do to fix it, and I got to SLEEP for a single hour to regain my strength and regroup to start thing on my own again. And it was a little annoying to have to stay in the bed when I wanted to try standing to push but being in the bed didn't mean I had to be on my back (and actually my only breakthrough pain being my sciatic nerve and the fact that I retained control of at least one leg meant I *couldnt* be made to stay on my back).
And the final stage where it's just you in your head learning to use your body to do something it's never had to do before managed to be was *exactly* my idea of what I wanted it to be. It was a quiet, meditative, focused physical trial. That feeling of having the sheer audacity to walk down into the labyrinth to knock on the door of the otherworld and ask to borrow a cup of sugar. The slight annoyance of the doctor when she came in and asked why I was pushing in an advanced sidelie instead of the standard on my back.
I didn't get to hold him right away, my partner didn't get to cut the cord. We had minor complications and he had to be immediately whisked to the NICU table on the other side of the room to get him breathing. But after that he was fine. Better than fine. He's beautiful and here and *alive* and it's everything.
He also chomps my nipples like a fucking alligator but we're working on that as a team
So it actually shouldn't surprise me so much that after all that time I spent meditating on the labyrinth as a symbol for the journey to the underworld (and subsequently retrieving a soul and bringing it to earth, ie birth) that my child decided to come two full weeks late just to be a Taurus.
#I was so sure it'd be an Aries lmao#The due date was the 9th#Although my cycle charting app said my doctor was wrong and my 40th week from conconception was actually the 14.#Taurus#It's a bull#Get it#No for real though I have a lot of feelings about the labyrinth#Also it still hasn't really started yet officially but I am having contractions#It's exciting in a dreadful 'let's get this shit over with' kind of way
Dawn knows the best time to break. Bide the night and tend your flames; the day will come when it needs to.