Art, Anime and Games

Does any of you know of online libraries, so to speak, that provide access to academic essays and the like? Because I’m pretty fed up with the one I usually use for papers - however helpful it has been until now, half the time I find something I could actually use for this particular paper I cannot read it because my university doesn’t have the authorization or whatever. And, honestly, I’m not finding that many academic sources about cosmic horror.

Hi everyone!! ^^ I hope you’re all having a great day!!

After talking to a few of you, I have decided to somewhat duplicate the giveaway I put together when Sun and Moon were coming out. If I can help even two people play a pokemon game this year, that would make me very happy! ;w;

How it works:

 There will be two winners – each can choose one copy of either Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon!

This giveaway will extend worldwide! (If you live outside of the US, I will be purchasing a digital copy for you – I only ask that you have a paypal account or another money-sharing service so I may transfer the funds to you. If you live inside the US, I will pre-order a hard copy for you).

Giveaway ends on Monday, November 13th.

How to Enter:

You must reblog this post (so I can keep track of who wants to “enter”!). Likes don’t count as an entry.

This giveaway will be hosted on both tumblr and twitter, so you may enter more than once! (here is a link to the twitter post!)

No need to follow me, but followers will be given an additional entry into this giveaway, because I love my followers!!! :>

aka you can have up to 3 entries total to win!

Requirements

Must be 18 years or older or have your parent’s/guardians permission to enter!

Must be willing to share your shipping address with me.

Please have your ask box open, or enable non-mutuals to send you IMs.

Hi everyone!! ^^ I hope you’re all having a great day!!

After talking to a few of you, I have decided to somewhat duplicate the giveaway I put together when Sun and Moon were coming out. If I can help even two people play a pokemon game this year, that would make me very happy! ;w;

How it works:

 There will be two winners – each can choose one copy of either Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon!

This giveaway will extend worldwide! (If you live outside of the US, I will be purchasing a digital copy for you – I only ask that you have a paypal account or another money-sharing service so I may transfer the funds to you. If you live inside the US, I will pre-order a hard copy for you).

Giveaway ends on Monday, November 13th.

How to Enter:

You must reblog this post (so I can keep track of who wants to “enter”!). Likes don’t count as an entry.

This giveaway will be hosted on both tumblr and twitter, so you may enter more than once! (here is a link to the twitter post!)

No need to follow me, but followers will be given an additional entry into this giveaway, because I love my followers!!! :>

aka you can have up to 3 entries total to win!

Requirements

Must be 18 years or older or have your parent’s/guardians permission to enter!

Must be willing to share your shipping address with me.

Please have your ask box open, or enable non-mutuals to send you IMs.

Hi everyone!! ^^ I hope you’re all having a great day!!

After talking to a few of you, I have decided to somewhat duplicate the giveaway I put together when Sun and Moon were coming out. If I can help even two people play a pokemon game this year, that would make me very happy! ;w;

How it works:

 There will be two winners – each can choose one copy of either Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon!

This giveaway will extend worldwide! (If you live outside of the US, I will be purchasing a digital copy for you – I only ask that you have a paypal account or another money-sharing service so I may transfer the funds to you. If you live inside the US, I will pre-order a hard copy for you).

Giveaway ends on Monday, November 13th.

How to Enter:

You must reblog this post (so I can keep track of who wants to “enter”!). Likes don’t count as an entry.

This giveaway will be hosted on both tumblr and twitter, so you may enter more than once! (here is a link to the twitter post!)

No need to follow me, but followers will be given an additional entry into this giveaway, because I love my followers!!! :>

aka you can have up to 3 entries total to win!

Requirements

Must be 18 years or older or have your parent’s/guardians permission to enter!

Must be willing to share your shipping address with me.

Please have your ask box open, or enable non-mutuals to send you IMs.

This needs no explanation.

Of course I should have been watching the UK one… (I didn’t know they had separate directs I feel dumb)

https://youtu.be/WTXWfbGRqZM?t=32m10s

Midori (美鳥) my first rescue budgie.

I work at a pet store, and one day last April a wonderful lady with two young children came in to the store wondering if someone would take her budgie off her hands.

“Gary”s story was this:

He was found in the yard of the lady’s next door neighbour, and her husband caught him. They quickly found a cage from kijiji and started looking for his owners, but nobody turned up. They wanted to keep him, but unfortunately she was very allergic and this affected her ability to care for him properly. Not wanting “Gary” to suffer, she turned to us.

I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Prior to meeting this lady, I was contemplating buying a budgie or two and the whole setup, but she was offering him to me free of charge! We arranged a meeting time for a few days later, and she brought “Gary” and his cage to my house. Her kids were upset, but she explained that “Gary” would be very happy with me and I assured them of it!

I changed his name to Midori. It’s a Japanese word that means green, but I spell it with the characters for “beautiful” and “bird”!

Midori wasn’t hand tame at all, but within a few days I was able to get him to sit in my hand. And we’ve progressed a lot from there.

Krita is a painting program that has been around for a while, and in the last few years, underwent major changes and improvements.  Because of these improvements, many artists are using it not just because it is free, but because it offers amazing features.  These are by no means all of the great things Krita has to offer, but simply some of my favorite features of the program.

1. The Brush Engines.

Yes, engines.  As in plural.  There are many.  And they all do different things.  There is no way you could possibly capture all of its possibilities with one screen shot, but here are just some of the possibilities. Along side standard round, square, and shape, and textured brushes, there are brushes that smear, blend, and create interesting abstract strokes.  There are brushes for filters, and one of my favorites, the Experiment Brush, which is basically a pre-filled lasso tool. 

Brushes also support weighted smoothing, or brush stabilizers.

This is incredibly useful for line art.  And while I do not usually use this feature, it is something that I feel many programs are lacking, such as Photoshop.

But its brushes aren’t the only thing about Krita with variety.

2. Color Selector Customization. 

Whether you prefer something basic, or something more complicated, Krita will likely have what youre looking for.  You are not likely to find yourself missing your other program’s color wheels.  There are even more options than this, and other color selectors.

Gotta love that customization.

Krita also has some great naviation tools.

3. On the fly rotation, zoom, and brush sizing.

With krita, zooming, rotating, and brush size scaling are all smooth, and dynamic with the use of hot keys.  These are features I miss when in other programs.  To zoom, Ctrl+Middle mouse button, hover over the screen to zoom in and out.  The same with shift rotates (press the ‘5’ key to reset rotation).  Holding down shift and draging your brush on the canvas dynamically changes its size, allowing you to see the change, and get the exact size you want without brackets. Brackets also work, if that’s what you are used to.  Krita also has highly customizable hot keys.

4. The Pop Up Pallet

The pop up pallet is a set of your 10 favorite brushes (which you can edit), and a built in color wheel that appears when you right click on the canvas.  It is incredibly useful for switching between those few brushes that you use in almost every picture.

5.  Real time, seamless tiles creation.

Pressing the W key in Krita will infinitely tile your canvas, and allow you to work real time on simple to complex tiled images.  You can zoom in and out to see how your tiles work form a distance, and paint freely to create seamless artwork easily, without having to check using filters and manually tiling. Very usefull for patterns, backgrounds, and games.

6. The Symmetry Tool

This one goes without saying, Krita supports both horizontal and vertical symmetry, along with a brush that is capable of radial symmtry with as many directions as you like.

Go nuts, kid.

There are many more reasons why this program is awesome.  And it is only going to get more awesome.  And the coolest thing about it, is that it is 100% free.  So go check it out!  There’s nothing to lose. Krita isn’t for everyone, it can be hard to get the hang of, and it is not meant for photo editing, it is a program completely focused on digital painting from start to finish. 

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.