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Whenever I have an idea of something, I usually go on Pinterest or Google to search up poses. Once I find something that's pretty close to what I'm thinking of in my head, I put down my references onto the canvas. As for a palette, sometimes I just say whatever and go for it, but most of the time I do a unifying palette. I do this by coloring the piece (different layers for hair, clothes, skin, etc) with colors that are close enough, then I use the square shape tool and fill that in with any color that I want, lower the opacity, and use the color pick tool/paint bucket to replace the old colors with the new ones. I've done that for several pieces like this:

Or even telling us what type of research or studying goes into it?

With compositions, honestly I just fuck around on the canvas until it looks right. I physically move limbs with the cutout tool and push poses/make corrections to sizes before moving onto the next sketch. Honestly I usually go through about 2-3 sketches to make everything perfect. As for hair, hmmm. Well I primarily drew straight/wavy/curly hair for the majority of my life, seen here:

For these, I normally pick 2-4 colors. I first line out the hair and leave the space inside blank, so no line art other than the outline of the hair. Then I fill it in with a base color, isolate the layer so I can only paint on that, and go for it. Typically I put the medium color down first, then the darkest color to shade, and then highlights. Afterwards I add a layer on top of that to add the fray hairs.

Only recently did I start drawing protective styles/coiled hair. I realized pretty quick that I had no clue how to draw it in my style and make it look good, though. This was one of my earlier attempts with coily hair vs a recent attempt (sort of, just a tuft poking out)

Just learned how to adapt things to fit my art style. Primarily, tho, I've been drawing locs and have slowly been getting more and more comfortable with it, shown here in rough order:

Honestly with grid based hairstyles, it's helpful to look up hair guidelines online to see where things should be laying and to then recreate that grid onto the scalp. The last image is the first time that I have done that and I think it looks a lot more cohesive.

is a time lapse ok. i drew this just for you..

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• accurate depictions of neurodiversity and nonbinary experiences

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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

ko-fi req for @aurosoky of a genderbend vriska w/ emo stuff... so it's kinda 00s inspired which was super fun. im rlly happy with the colour palette on this, i hope u like it, ty for rqing this 🙂

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