around the world around the world

July 18, 2008

March 20, 2020

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke 🌷🌿

I’m not sure what specific part you’re wondering about, so here’s a run-through of my process from sketching to painting!

1) The first thing I do is simplify the nose into a few basic shapes to get a prism-like block, like so:

2) I can now easily draw the prism shape in three-dimensional space depending on the angle and rotation of the head.

3) Using the guidelines/planes I can draw a proper nose in any angle! There aren’t many tricks or shortcuts for this step, unfortunately (other than practicing lots). I recommend using references, they’re always helpful :)

4) Really important to note: all noses vary greatly, especially from different ethnicities! A high-bridge “aristocratic” sort of nose or a ski-slope button nose might be accurate for some people, but definitely not everyone. Compare differences in size, width, a hooked or button nose tip, high or low nose bridge, and so on:

5) Then I paint! I have a skin tone tutorial here, if it helps. Take note of the lighting, skin tone, etc. Here are some things I keep in mind:

For pale skin tones, the nose sometimes has a redder colouration than the rest of the face because of increased blood flow.

The nose also usually has highlights (due to oil). These are located on the tip of the nose, the nostril groove, and where the base of the nose meets the flat area of skin around it!

SAGAL: No. I mean, for example, your incredibly successful young adult novel “Coraline” is about a young girl in house in which there’s a hole in the wall that leads to a very mysterious and very evil world. So when you were a kid, is that what you imagined?

GAIMAN: When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: And it was always a brick wall.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: But it was one of those things that as I grew older, I carried it with me and I thought, I want to send somebody through that door. And when I came to write a story for my daughter Holly, at the time she was a 4 or 5-year-old girl. She’d come home from nursery. She’d seen me writing all day. So she’d come and climb on my lap and dictate stories to me. And it’d always be about small girls named Holly.

SAGAL: Right.

Hey tumblr!

So I hate to make this post because I don’t feel like my situation or problems are as bad as others I’ve seen on here, but I could really use some help and I’m here to offer my services of FanFiction(or OC fiction) writing to try and get money that I really need!

Long story short, I studied in Italy this past month for study abroad and its was INSANELY expensive and my parents have been paying it off but I’d really like to be able to help them and show that I appreciate everything they’ve done for me!

So! If anyone wants a fic done I will do up to a 2000 word fanfic about anyone or anything (as long as it’s NOT anything to do with M.A.P stuff or anything associated with that sort of thing. I will refuse anything like that) and the cost is 5$!

DM me of you are interested and I will give you my PayPal and we can discuss what you want/don’t want in the fic!

(Story sample will be delivered and full story will be given after payment is made.)

Thanks so much everyone!!

Love your lesbian writer ❤️😘🙏🏻

1. Hilda - Coming to Netflix September 21, 2018 - I love the graphic novels, so this announcement makes me really excited.

2. The Owl House arrives on the Disney channel in early 2019.

3. Amphibia also launches on the Disney channel in 2019.

4. Boku No Hero Academia: Two Heroes (My Hero Academia: The Movie) releases August 3rd in Japan, and in other countries at a later date.

5. Close Enough by Regular Show creator J. G. Quintel, airs on TBS at an unspecified date.

6. Bojack Horseman Season 5 has been announced for September 14th.