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☽ Memory becomes absolute garbage. Like “why am I in the kitchen?” garbage. “What was I saying?” garbage. Their brain is running on buffering screens and regret.

☽ Fine motor skills? Ha. They’re dropping everything. Pens. Phones. Entire moral compass. They’re basically a malfunctioning claw machine.

☽ Hallucinations creep in. That jacket on the chair? Suddenly a person. That noise? Definitely doom. Everything becomes mildly haunted.

☽ Time gets weird. Five minutes feel like a year. A full hour disappears and they swear they blinked wrong.

☽ Irritation skyrockets. They get mad at chairs. At air. At gravity. At the audacity of other humans continuing to exist.

☽ Their voice sounds weird. Slow, scratchy, like they swallowed sand.

☽ They walk like a drunk baby giraffe. Walls suddenly jump closer. Floors rise unexpectedly. Coordination said: “I’m out.”

☽ Zoning out becomes a hobby. They stare at random objects like they’re trying to understand quantum mechanics.

☽ Vision blurs in and out. Like someone smeared Vaseline over their eyeballs out of spite.

☽ Their body just hurts. Not a dramatic pain, just the “why does my skeleton feel like it’s buzzing?” pain.

☽ Food cravings go feral. They’d fight someone for a stale cookie.

☽ Terrible choices. They will absolutely say “I’m fine” while making decisions that end in disaster.

☽ Random emotional implosions. Crying because their sock feels wrong? Yes.

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

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

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

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

Closest match: Ribes nigrum genome assembly, chromosome: 8 Common name: Black Currant

Just a little reminder: This fantasy of some magical “sisterhood between all women” that is now being threatened by including trans women - that is just that, a fantasy. It’s a made up narrative to paint transphobia as feminism. 

There has never been a world where all women were the same. There have always been (and will always be) women’s issues that not all women relate to.

Even if you exclude trans women from your definition of womanhood: A lesbian woman will still have different experiences than a straight woman. A woman who grew up poor will still have different experiences than a woman who grew up rich. A disabled woman will still have different experiences than an able-bodied woman. A black woman will still have different experiences than a white woman. 

Actually, even apart from any systemic injustices that certain women face and others not: even two women growing up in the exact same circumstances can still go on to have vastly different life experiences - because women are human and have their unique wishes and desires and life goals. Some women choose to undergo IVF, some choose to get their tubes tied, just as one example! 

Obviously I’m not saying “women who are different can’t be friends” or “women who have different life goals can’t stand up for each other”. The opposite of that, actually: Differences between women have always existed… and they haven’t erased womanhood. They haven’t killed feminism. 

The fear-mongering idea of “oh no, they are now adding women to our spaces who are Other and Different!!” doesn’t really make sense (and not only because trans women aren’t some new invention or just spawned into existence in 2024) because there has never been just one kind of woman to be. 

It’s actually not very feminist to say otherwise. 

With all my love, 

Man i love jean vicquemare

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

When I saw this image I knew I had to redraw it so fast

(no motion blur/captionless version under the cut)

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