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matbenetti17

Friendship...

...and trust

A little scene I wanted to draw: the Winx are consoling Flora, who was sad because of homesickness

And Tecna? You might be wondering She’s watching them from afar while she’s studying. She never liked physical contact, so she didn’t join in the hug

Who knows what she’s thinking 👀

anima-nostrae

I imagine she’s like a cat in that way.

She won’t come up for a hug or do anything too feely, but she will show up in every room you’re in, you know, by happenstance.

#winx #winx club #techna

galvanizedfriend

Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for best director, writes fanfiction.

That's the kind of validation I needed in my life. Thank you, ma'am.

absurdthirst

To all those that think there is an age limit to fanfiction or you “have to be this” to write fanfiction — fuck off.

fadinggalaxysalad

I hope this reaches every author on this site. If they haven’t written a word in years, only are writing in their head and haven’t put it down yet, are hip deep in their own War and Peace wordcount fic.

endrega23

Image ID: first picture: a post, text zhao (sic) has been writing fanfic since she was a teenager - and yes, she still writes. End text, and an image under it with the text: Zhao also still finds time to write fan fiction. Which canon? She won't reveal. She does admit she used to write on Livejournal, an old blogging site, and has dabbled in fanfiction.net. But, she cautions, "Never reveal your pen name. Many people ask me, but you will never find out." End text.

Second picture: a photograph of Chloé Zhao with her two oscar statuettes.

tashacee

hmmm

stewdoesthings

Fanfiction exists for TWO reasons:

Dealing with complex thoughts and emotions I can't work through in therapy, like grief, despair, a complicated relationship with pain and addiction

Seeing the same characters fuck over amd over again

evilwriter37

And they can be both at the same time if you want!

chimaerakitten

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

jupitermelichios

I hope you don't mind me adding to this very good post, but in general i think the financial supremecy of movies and (more recently) tv has lead a lot of people to assume that the best stories can be interchanged between mediums. That every book can be adapted into a movie, every light novel into an anime, every movie into a video game etc etc

and that's the same attitude that underlies all the 'the goal of fanfic is to file of the serial numbers and publish it' or 'fanfic isn't real writing because real writing is novels and fanfic is usually structurally so different from a novel' type of takes come from.

this assumption that the medium is largely coincidental to the story being told

when that's just not true.

the very best adaptations always change things, because mediums are not interchangeable, and they fundamentally shape the stories told in them.

there are things you can do in fanfic that are simply not possible in a traditional novel, because you're starting from that possition of love and knowledge, and because you aren't bound by the need to be canon compliant, so you can ask questions like 'if these characters met in other lives, under different circumstances, what would they be like? how different would they be? how much of what makes them them is tied to the circumstances they found themselves in?' or 'what was it like to not be the heroes, to not be actively involved in the cool exciting bits? what was it like to be a minor character, left behind to deal with the consequences' because your audience is already invested, they'll show up for questions like that in a way a movie or novel or tv audience wouldn't.

there are things you can do in a podcast or radio play that are not possible in visual mediums like film or tv, because you're relying on the audiences imagination. there's a reason the best radio comedy tends to be surreal, and the best podcasts tend to be horror, those are both genres that thrive when the audience's imagination is allowed to fill in blanks.

there are things you can do on TV that are not possible in a novel or a movie. the way WandaVision completely changed its visual style with each episode is something that would not work in any other genre, but it's essential to the story. TV usually exists in very defined seasons, but cannot traditionally be consumed all in one go, which is not true of almost any other medium, and that dictates a specific type of pacing. combine that with the fact that it's a visual medium, and you get something like the overarching stories of the 9th Doctor's season of Doctor Who. No other medium could have delivered the resolution to that storyline as effectively.

Video games can force the audience to consider their own part in events. No movie could do what Spec Ops did, when it gives you a button prompt to commit a war crime, and then turns around and asks you why? why did you do that? was it too easy? do you think it felt like this when the US government committed the exact same war crime within living memory? Was it easy then too? A novel or a movie could show you walker doing this terrible thing, but it could never convey the point with the same effective simplicity, and it could never make you the audience feel culpable. only the author is responsible for the actions of the characters in a novel, but in a game, it's the audience who bears that responsibility, and that allows for moral questions other mediums struggle to effectively convey.

Comics can tell stories that take three decades and ten different writers to tell. Movies can use silence more effectively than any other medium because cinemas give you a captive audience and close-ups means you can reliably assume they can see everything that's happening (unlike theatre, which can use silence, but can't assume everyone has a good view). Theatre provides real time audience interactivity and a very special and unique kind of suspension of disbelief. Professional wrestling can tell ongoing stories in real time over years or decades, and walk the line between fiction and reality. Novels can immerse you more fully in one person's view of the world than any other medium (which also allows for information to be hidden from the reader without it feeling cheap the way it can when a movie does the same thing). Live oral storytelling allows the story to be adapted on the fly to fit audience reactions, allows for infinite variations of the same story, because no two tellings will ever be identical.

Fanfic isn't a genre, not really. Fanfic has genres, but it isn't a genre in and of itself. Fanfic is a medium, and like all mediums, it offers storytelling tools that are unique to it, that it does better than any other medium. and as OP pointed out, one of the big ones is that it can assume both familiarity and love from the audience to the characters depicted. We can stray far further afield from where we started in fanfic than the original creator ever could, because our anchors are not the narrative, but the characters.

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Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.

As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.

anima-nostrae

Yes I AM on an Anti- AI crusade, fuck you very much

unnervinglyferal

Stinkbug is starting to talk well enough to have real conversations, even if I have to help out a bit here and there when she doesn't know how to say something right. I sometimes have to suggest five different things she could be trying to say, and we go yes-and-no until we either reach the one she meant, or she gets so frustrated that she'll have to go do a handstand about it.

This morning she was once again annoyed about great-grandma calling me and her mother "children". I tried to explain to her (again) that age is relative, and just like she's a big girl compared to her little sister, but still way more little than many of her cousins, sometimes big grownups get so old that as far as they are concerned, youngest grownups still count as children to them.

Stinkbug thought about this for a moment, and then said "no." She disagrees with this concept, this definition of adulthood as a relative term and subjective matter that depends on perspective. It took a lot of circling to figure out how to word things in a way where she understood what I was saying and I understood what she was saying. As far as she's concerned, adulthood is an objective, clearly defined thing that doesn't vary.

I asked her what defines an adult, what's the absolute rule that draws the line of who is and who is not a grownup. She looked around the kitchen for a moment and had an answer: Operating the microwave. Adults can do that, children cannot. Anyone who can use the machine counts as an adult, and anyone who can't, isn't one. I asked her if she would be a grownup if I picked her up and taught her how to use the microwave buttons.

She looked at me like that was the stupidest question she had ever heard, which is an achievement since I ask a lot of stupid questions. Of course not. She's too little to reach the microwave on her own. An adult is someone who is both capable of reaching the microwave, and also operating it. Being taught how to operate it wouldn't make her an adult since she's not tall enough to reach it, and someone who is tall enough to reach the microwave but can't operate it is also just a very tall child.

Can't really argue with that.

A sneak peak of a winx wip I'm working on

because I'd rather post something instead of nothing at all (I promised myself not to post any chapters on the ye old Ao3 before I actually finish ch4):

"The only things she could see for a couple of moments were stars. Myriad of stars, small and bigger ones, gold and silver plated, were dancing before Bloom’s eyes and only after they stopped dancing did she understand that they weren’t imagined by an apparent concussion. Rather, the girl she collided with was covered whole with them. Her whole orange top, the grand - actually quite fantastical - shoes, her shorts and even the belt, all spattered with shining little stars. Her almost translucent, dragon-fly like wings shone every bit as much, even if their shimmer came from the sun reflecting in the crystal from which they were made of, rather than the material itself.

Wait.

This girl had wings.

“Oh. My head,” the girl mumbled under her breath.

“Are you okay?” asked Bloom, coming up to her.

“Me? Oh, I’m fine. It’s the troll you should be asking,” she said, giggling, before furrowing her brows. “Who are you anyway?”

Bloom stood up without answering. The ground shook under her rhythmically.

“You were fighting a troll, huh? I don’t think you finished him.”

“What? No, of course I did— oh-oh,” she stood up, holding herself up by the bricked wall. “I don’t think I finished him either.” "

#fanfic #writing #winx club #winx bloom #ao3 fanfic #winx fandom #sparxshipping #well #sparxshipping eventually #yesitisarewrite #someone's got to make sense of this damn universe and it might as well be me #let me tell you the way they absolutely changed the lore with every episode #so much to choose from #so much drama to make up #anyway I'll keep ya updated

ellipsus-writes

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

alicentsgf

no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

alicentsgf

anima-nostrae

Furthermore,

you do not need to hold the authors responsible for the actions of their characters, when they're *explicitly* the villain!

"Well, yeah, I don't like x author because their characters are awful people, like the *undeniably the bad guy of the whole series, who did something akin to a whole as massacre*"

Fandom these days makes me want to murder people sometimes, yk?

#fanfic #writing #authors #books and reading

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Masterpost of Reylo Fanfic Recommendations

I’ve finally been able to compose a list of my favorite Reylo fanfics. Some are still WIPs (those that are will have a ** after the title). I’ll continue adding to this list in the future. Please note that almost all fics are rated M or E.

AUTHORS: if you recognize your fic and I don’t have you tagged please let me know so that I can add you!

See Part 2 of my master list of Reylo fic recs HERE

Modern AU

The Hypnotist **by @pandoraspocksao3

Fire Away ** by @reylolujah

Bedroom Hymns ** by @drnucleus

Effloresce **by @greyofjakku (modern AU Kylo is a tattoo artist/Rey is a floralist)

Father Knows Best (modern AU with daddy Ben Solo)

Conscience and Unconsciousness (modern AU) by pontmercy44

Respite by @waterlilyrose (modern AU)

A Proposal By Any Other Name by @lucidlucy (a modern AU where Rey is in a relationship with Finn, but then she ends up on an adventure with Kylo which sets her on a completely different path)

Disconnect by @reyloday (modern AU where Reylo are YouTubers)

The Escort by grliegirl (Pretty Woman AU)

Serotonin & Dopamine (modern AU) by pontmercy44

Epithumia (modern Professor Ren AU) by pontmercy44

Unexpected (modern Reylo baby AU) by pontmercy44

A Matter of Honor by @adoctoraday24

Stranger Than Fiction by @daxwashere

When We Were Young **by pontmercy44 (Sweet Home Alabama AU)

Play to Win by @commandercait

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by @wewantreylo

We Could Plant A House, We Could Build A Tree by @likeadove

Country Roads by @waterlilyrose (Logan Lucky AU)

Remedy by @nite0wl29 (Catch and Release AU)

Ohio Blue Tip by @stargirlshalo (Paterson AU)

Parallel Lines **by @nite0wl29 (HS Teacher Plaidam/Student AU)

in omnia paratus **by @stargirlshalo (Gilmore Girls AU)

In His Element **by @loveofescapism

For Better or Worse **by @loveofescapism

Make A Splash by @reylocalligraphy

This Is Where You Left Me **by @wewantreylo (TIWILY AU)

KAGTSRTHR by @reyofdarkness

Canon Compliant

Crossroads by @gizkasparadise

Snare by @carasstarwarsmusings

Something to Love ** by @carasstarwarsmusings

The Island ** by @renandrey

Sword of the Jedi by @kylorenvevo

Within Monsters by @anonymousmink

Disparate Pieces by space_trash_princess

A Collision of Stars by dustoftheancients

The Way to Tomorrow by @the-reylo-void

Translucence by @reylo-solo (Senator Ren fic)

Mirrorbright by @kylorenvevo (Senator Ren fic)

Commemoration by charlottecagain

Landscape With A Blur of Conquers ** by @kylorenvevo (arranged marriage fic)

Sunless Shadows by cypris

Thwarted by @perrydowning (the original Renperor fic 😉)

Resist (arranged marriage fic) by @alicecantescape

Interstellar Transmissions by ricca_riot and LovelyThings

Your Reclamation, Then and Gravitational Lensing (no longer available on AO3, but I do have the PDFs available upon request)

Caved the Reylo series by riot3672

The Descendants by @waterlilyrose (Beauty and the Beast AU)

Powerless **by @perrydowning

Across the Stars by @nite0wl29 (Beauty & the Beast AU)

Historical AU

The Vows They Made by @hauscrashburn (medieval AU)

She Who Would Be Queen by @mygrandmathinksimsassy (an arranged marriage fic, but please note that Reylo are cousins in this fic to go with the historical accuracy among royals)

Post-TLJ

Sparks ** by @reylolujah (rated G)

Wieder **by @ridingbensolo

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Wisdom ** by @cosmo-gonika

Permanence by @faithren (even the KoR ship Reylo!)

Unbidden ** by @perrydowning

Exile by Ernzo

Reydar

It’s Better If We Just Pretend ** by @ellensama

Variations On A Theme of You by @kylorenvevo

Reylo AU

Nocturnal Studies and Other Peculiar Magic by @waterlilyrose (Harry Potter AU)

Lubido Lunares **by @27vampyresinhermind (Reylo witch AU)

Perfect Illusion **by @winglessone (Vampire/Witch AU)

Creature of Darkness by @bunilicious (Sleepy Hollow AU)

The Witch King **by @nite0wl29 (LOTR AU)

anima-nostrae

Bringing back this bad boy because thanks to the acolyte we’re in our Reylo renaissance era

mistressaugury

anima-nostrae

Maybe reblogging because maybe something is cooking up and I need the reminder. Maybe

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

jae-felidae

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

winterofherdiscontent

. Only the Bones Remain

- work in progress inspired by @senlinyu ' s book Alchemised

midwinterhunt

Hot Writers Don't Gatekeep

the writers REALLY liked my artist resource post, so I thought i'd give y'all my dragon hoard of things i use for writing

Reverse Dictionary, you type in the meaning of a word, and it gives you a bunch of words that mean that. (MY MOST IMPORTANT OFFERING IN THIS LIST)

Slang Dictionary, what it says on the tin.

Anglish Translator, Anglish is if English evolved without borrowing from other languages and it really itches my brain (Anglish is if english grown without borrowing from other languages and it truly itches my brain)

Incorrect Quotes Generator, Put character names in, and incorrect quotes come out. Really fun way to goof around with your characters' dynamics.

Handspeak, an ASL dictionary

Library of Babel, Odds are, the finished version of your wip is in here somewhere

The best fantasy map maker i have ever used

Glitch Text Generator is one I use A Lot, does ť̷̨̢͓̤͔̤̤̝̺̯̄̔̄̌̄͗͒͋͂͋͝ḩ̵̼̜͍͚͕̏̓͊̈̉̆̄͐́͗͒̈̃̊̚͜i̵̻̐̇̎̏̀̋̌̃̇̿͘̚s̴̮̔̂̇͒͑͝͝ͅ to your text

Totally not bootleg microsoft office

Emotions Thesaurus a guide for writing emotions and their associated body language

Mythcreants, has a whole bunch of stuff you can read to learn more about the technical aspects of writing

A decent article talking about what to think about when creating a language

Trope Talks, particularly good for beginner and younger writers or people who have a hard time reading. Honestly this whole channel is a fantastic format to get information into my adhd rattled brain.

FOR MY AO3 BESTIES! Postimages will host your image forever so you can embed it into your work

Ambient Chaos, sometimes the only thing in the world that can kick your brain into writing mode is nuclear sirens and lofi beats

Radioooooo, play a station from any place and year. Particularly helpful for period pieces.

midwinterhunt

Food timeline, when foods were invented

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kotori-mochi

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)

Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)

BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)

Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)

Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)

Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)

Pikat (art advice and critiques)

Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)

Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)

Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)

Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)

IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)

Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)

NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"

animalphotorefs

Boosting this in case any of the programs and books suggested are useful.

All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!

As long as you’re not using AI to create your art, you can reference / trace / draw / recombine / make any sort of art you want, with any of the photos, for free.

reo-speeddragon

There's also MORPHO, a really good book series on anatomy by Michel Lauricella, with very clear explanations and sketches!

And for pose references, there's @adorkastock who shares a ton of them for free, with different models and props, and her website is amazing <3 you can also buy pose packs from her.

thecolorblockcurator

And the best thing for learning how to create art in any medium is practice.

100 rough gestural sketches are better than 1 meticulous drawing where you spent months (and eventually gave up) trying to get everything perfect

It’s going to look bad until it doesn’t- and when it doesn’t look bad anymore- you’re going to feel so proud.

It’s about being able to translate what you see & think in reality & developing muscle memory so you don’t even have to think about how to draw that hand- you just know

thesunoficaruss

big fan of romance horror. big fan of terrible people still being loved. big fan of bending morality and turning the grotesque into something beautiful.

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