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BACKUP: @hiya-aceass

My name is Haiyah and I use they/them and neopronouns, and I am an adult in my 20s

I am a plural GNC transfem who is AroAce and agender

I am ethnically South Asian and was born + live in the UK, if you assume I am from the USA I will explode you into a million pieces with my mind

I have been on E for years now, send me an ask or DM if you want to learn about or need help with DIY HRT or just estrogen/progesterone in general

I will probably disappear at some point, keep this in mind, @hiya-aceass is my backup!!!

My discord is hiya_90998, I am less likely to disappear from there, DM me for my Discord server if ur a mutual 😁

I am light-skinned, straight-sized and gentile, these are all the privileges I have off the top of my head, other than the ones that are already obvious. lmk if I missed any

Block if disagree:

I support the terms TME/TMA and don't think transandrophobia is a real or coherent thing, trans women aren't biologically male and being AFAB doesn't inherently mean you will understand women's experiences, it will give you something to weaponise against TMA people though. GENITALIA ≠ GENDER/SEXUALITY. NO EXCUSE FOR NOT PUTTING A SPACE BETWEEN TRANS AND WOMEN, NONE AT ALL!!!

I am no expert on communism or anything like that, but I will side with countries like the DPRK or PRC over the USA

Free Palestine as in destroy Israel, no two state solution or anything like that, IDC if genocide victims are being a little guilt trippy in your inbox, go fuck yourself if you make it about yourself

Children should be legally allowed to ditch their parents no matter what, trans children should be given HRT no matter what, no exceptions

No such thing as a thought crime, no such thing as an immoral/unethical kink

The "science" behind weight loss and fatness being inherently bad or unhealthy is BS. Fat people also don't owe you their health for basic consideration, if you use/see the word fat as a pejorative kys

Intellectual property isn't a thing. Fuck copyright. AI isn't the evil bad machine.

And finally:

i got a similar ask about this a while back and i've been working on something to better explain what i mean because i'm not too happy with that guide anymore so i'm just gonna address both here!

in my original post i talk about choosing analogous colors rather than using layer settings, but you guys are asking about multiply layers so let's talk about that since frankly they do save up a lot of time and headaches AND they can help understand color more easily so we can pick the palette from scratch next time.

right, so we have our guy.

in the sunset example, a deep orange multiply layer would look something like this:

however, in my previous guide i said that usually warm lighting means cool shadows. this isn't always the case, however, because the color of your shadows are determined by your environment and bounce lighting. shadows on their own have no color because they're just absence of light, so the color we perceive them to be is what's being projected onto the subject.

this same sunset with cool shadows would look a bit like this:

if that looks more natural even though it doesn't match the orange of the background, it's because sunsets only look orange around the area the sun is in the sky, so the color of the sky that's facing our character here would not be projecting an orange glow onto him.

while it's not a hard rule, like i said, usually warm lighting comes with cool shadows. i think it's also worth keeping in mind that reference photos can look very different from one another because of editing, exposure levels, filters, weather and time of day, etc. so also take your own outdoors observations into account. always observe colors when you go outside if ever (don't be like me)

here's another sunset example except the sunset is now behind our viewpoint and facing the character from the front. he's not fully lit up, perhaps he's standing under something where the sun light doesn't reach him directly. i used a red glow to indicate sun this time only because i think it looks cool with the teal sky:

now addressing the ask with the "pikachu in a green house" example: yes, i suppose using a multiply layer that matches the color of the environment works. after all, like i said up there, shadows will usually reflect the color of the surroundings the subject is in.

this was a lot of blabbing about colors and i didn't even touch on values which is also super important!!! but i'd like to do some studies before i talk about that to make sure i'm not talking out of my ass. hope this helps though!!

i got a similar ask about this a while back and i've been working on something to better explain what i mean because i'm not too happy with that guide anymore so i'm just gonna address both here!

in my original post i talk about choosing analogous colors rather than using layer settings, but you guys are asking about multiply layers so let's talk about that since frankly they do save up a lot of time and headaches AND they can help understand color more easily so we can pick the palette from scratch next time.

right, so we have our guy.

in the sunset example, a deep orange multiply layer would look something like this:

however, in my previous guide i said that usually warm lighting means cool shadows. this isn't always the case, however, because the color of your shadows are determined by your environment and bounce lighting. shadows on their own have no color because they're just absence of light, so the color we perceive them to be is what's being projected onto the subject.

this same sunset with cool shadows would look a bit like this:

if that looks more natural even though it doesn't match the orange of the background, it's because sunsets only look orange around the area the sun is in the sky, so the color of the sky that's facing our character here would not be projecting an orange glow onto him.

while it's not a hard rule, like i said, usually warm lighting comes with cool shadows. i think it's also worth keeping in mind that reference photos can look very different from one another because of editing, exposure levels, filters, weather and time of day, etc. so also take your own outdoors observations into account. always observe colors when you go outside if ever (don't be like me)

here's another sunset example except the sunset is now behind our viewpoint and facing the character from the front. he's not fully lit up, perhaps he's standing under something where the sun light doesn't reach him directly. i used a red glow to indicate sun this time only because i think it looks cool with the teal sky:

now addressing the ask with the "pikachu in a green house" example: yes, i suppose using a multiply layer that matches the color of the environment works. after all, like i said up there, shadows will usually reflect the color of the surroundings the subject is in.

this was a lot of blabbing about colors and i didn't even touch on values which is also super important!!! but i'd like to do some studies before i talk about that to make sure i'm not talking out of my ass. hope this helps though!!