Be Discreet Art

Ahem. Sorry, i may be in a mood. Trying to color a draw but having a fight with a white, tshirt and sweater. Nevwr through white would give me nightmares. Ahahah. Aha.ah.ah.

okay first, general notes on shading drapery:

For anything you shade, cast vs form shadows and core darks, bounce light, etc. will make your shading feel for grounded and realistic.

For the most part, shading white clothes is going to be the same as anything else you shade but white is really reflective and will often reflect the other colours around it more.

Nothing is ever truly White, so you can have a lot of fun adding different undertones to your white clothing! I do a lot of warm colour palettes and so often the whites in my drawings have lots red tones to them to fit better with the composition

what have i been doing this past year?? working on my career?? NO READING ABOUT GAY CHINESE WIZARDS

Rarest of the Rare stands for any rarepair that has under 100 fanfiction on ao3. We encourage everyone to create for these pairings for the last day of the fanweek but it also our free day, so it is absolutely not a rule - you can create for any pairing and any prompt that day.

Rules:

SFW only event!!

Tag your posts as #mhararepairweek2025 on here so we'll know to reblog it

You can use more than one prompt for that day, just make sure to use at least one

Accepted forms of art for this event are, including but not limited to, fanfiction, fanart, edits, amvs, web weavings, headcanons, moodboards, playlists, drabbles, cosplay (if there's another form of art you'd like to use that wasn't mentioned, please ask us about it - chances are, it's going to be accepted as well)

We do not condone use of AI for this event

For allowed pairings, please refer to our post about guidelines

Content warnings for works must be tagged properly

Inspo from @rayviolifordinner

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

it's always really hard for me to explain how I draw hands lol, but basically I draw the palm and the basic shapes and build the fingers around that. I go into each hand I draw with an idea of how the pose is gonna look and that informs how I angle the palm and how I incorporate the fingers

One thing I think is important is overall flow. The knuckles should curve along the same line, it feels more realistic to how hands work irl and it makes them feel more dynamic and stuff too