I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.
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TMA oc!!!! This is the Hidewithin and they’re an avatar of the stranger! They’re a taxidermist but they also enjoy sewing toys, will wood, fursuit making, vulture culture, and calico critters. They have no solid name or pronouns. Anything and everything goes. When asked why the Stranger of all things to be an avatar of, they just say it’s because they’re trans and a therian and part of a system, ofc they’d be a shapeshifter
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Felt so much joy about seeing Charlie (oh my god, my daughter) drawn by you for the wtf au that I threw my anon cloak dramatically into the wind. Do you have anything to share about her with the class! Any facts! Any funny little things! Saying this with gritted teeth and the biggest shark-toothed smile ever <--- normal and level-headed about her
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i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!
I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.
Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.
While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.
An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!
Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl
incidentally, this is also why simply color picking directly from a source and then applying said color to an image with different lighting looks so weird.
I really should translate to you all the extra pages from the Phoenix of Destiny because there is so much lore it's crazy.
And it fucks up half of what I had in mind for the fic because there are two pages about the Secrets of the Witches that literally say:
- Cackle has only one white hair in her thick red hair. Whoever manages to find it and tear it, they would take all the evil power from her
- If they get hurt, the witches don't lose a single drop of blood. And they don't feel pain if they get hit. And if they cut a finger, the finger grows back, like the tail of a lizard
- Here is how to recognize a disguised witch: make her walk in front of a mirror. If the mirror doesn't show her reflection, then it's a witch!
- There is a Secret Witch's Lair where they bring together to study their plans. It's in the Neverfound Island, in the Witches Sea
- You should eat a lot of garlic and onion, so the witches won't get near to you: they can't stand their food tasting like this!
Thank god I haven't done anything Cackle yet I guess? Even if the white hair thing is surely interesting.
The funniest thing is that there is an actual family tree of both Blossom and Cackle's families and the wizards in Cackle's tree look all the same, they change only the colour of the robes 😭 women supremacy indeed
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Can you tell me about the stars academy series? Like, how much Thea sisters content is there that wasn’t translated into English?
Oh god for the second question you have no idea what rabbit hole you're getting yourself into
But the first question is far simpler so I'll cover that first:
Stars Academy is a spin-off where the premise is this: Violet, Colette and Pamela are accepted to do a summer Master's degree in Stars Academy, a very prestigious performing arts academy situated in Broadway, New York. Think of it like uh, the Curtis Institute of Music for music nerds, or Totsuki Culinary Academy for the weebs. The selection process is extremely selective and so is the master's degree itself-- less than 50% of entrants actually make it to the end and receive their master's degree. What happens to the other 50%? Well, you know what happens when a student just can't keep up with the curriculum and is only flunking harder and harder with each exam.
Oh yeah, Nicky and Paulina? Yeah they applied/auditioned with the girls but they didn't make the cut so they're chilling in Mouseford :'D
Anyway so one other interesting thing about the curriculum is that uh... you don't get to choose what you're majoring in for the master's degree :D everyone's doing something along the lines of performing arts, from acting to dancing to singing to music stuff. The way the school works is they look at you and your credentials, and give you a master's degree that'll either enhance your current skillset or pad things out and give you another tool in your belt. How does that apply to the girls? Well uh, Colette is very fond of dance (specifically ballet), Pam is good at acting and would probably make the next member of Starkid Productions (/j), and as we all know Violet is planning to be a violinist so she'd want to go in that route.
The academy chose an Acting degree for Colette, a Dance degree for Pam, and a Music Composition degree for Violet. And they have no way of changing the academy's decision :D soooo shenanigans :DDD
Anyway yeah so that's Star's Academy in a nutshell, it's basically a taste of the girls experiencing stuff in a different school, different environment (look Mouseford is cool and all and hella prestigious but the vibe is the student body is full of Max Jägerman-certified nerdy prudes), different classes and of course, having to adapt to courses they think don't suit them :D Vi in particular is Family Guy deathposing at every step of the way because uh, learning music theory and composition, while a part of a lot of musicians' repertoire, is something very different from musical performance and Vi can't even use her violin as something to lean on for most of it :DDD she eventually gets through it tho without dropping out! It just takes a loootttt of floundering and dealing with the five stages of grief before she gets to that point. Oh yeah and the course has mandatory singing classes. Vi's shy ass is having a lot of fun with that one.
Okay so that's Stars Academy, hope that answers your question ^^
Violet had a phase where she wanted to learn the pipa. She spent a couple years trying it out until she realized her one true love really was violin. She's out of practice in pipa now, but she can play some beginner's songs :]
She likes attempting to compose virtuosic arrangements of classical pieces, though she never finishes them because she's never satisfied. The Sibelius energy is awakening
Ironically, she isn't the biggest Sibelius fan. Weird since both of them are perfectionists at heart, but I guess the perfectionism was bleeding so much from Sibelius's work that it makes Vi uncomfortable or be unable to see it the same way as say, a Mozart.
She can sleep anywhere and everywhere, just give her time and not too much noise. Actually even the noise is negotiable, woman was canonically able to conk out in a plane in the middle of a conversation with the other girls, she’s hella built different.
Her ability to psychoanalyze people comes from her background in China, where social politics is complicated enough that people are using the smallest clues to hint at their true intents between layers and layers of polite lip service (seriously Chinese people can roast you with even the politest sounding sentences it’s kinda terrifying :D). She’s capable of doing the polite lip service thing, but she’s either really good at it or she’s really bad at it. There is no in between :D
She giggles like a little girl when she laughs, but if you make her laugh really hard, she will expose her secret half-kettle lineage /j
She accidentally got Nicky into classical guitar casually. She has no idea how it happened, but it did.
I dunno if I mentioned this headcanon already, but she has purpur contact lenses :3 she’s blind as a bat without them and has a spare pair of glasses somewhere. The girls haven’t seen them and have yet to find where she puts them in their quest.
And my absolute favorite… (TW: arachnid)
It’s a guilty pleasure of hers that she satiates every time she goes back to China :]
Yes those are scorpion skewers. For those who don’t know, it’s a street food in China that’s sold in open markets. Vi likes them fried <3
To answer Paulina’s question, the poison in their stingers is neutralized through the heat that comes with frying them.
Nicky is curious about what it tastes like, and before you know it Vi bought her a skewer and now the two of them are enjoying themselves. Little dorks, I love them
“Where’s Pam?” you may be wondering.
I mean, where else would she be besides one entire block away from the stall? :D