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Listen up you fucks because I’m not wasting thousands of dollars on an art degree to watch y’all fuck up basic color theory.

Red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors

If you’re using p i g m e n t.

Do you hear me? When you’re using traditional media, fucking actual goddamn paint, Bob Ross style, your primary colors are!

When you use paint, your primary colors are red yellow and blue and don’t forget it.

NOW THAT CHANGES COMPLETELY WHEN YOU GO FUCKING DIGITAL.

THE DIGITAL PRIMARY COLORS ARE RED BLUE AND GREEN IF AND ONLY IF YOUR WORK IS GOING TO STAY DIGITAL, ON THE SCREEN, AND NEVER LEAVE THE SCREEN, AND OF COURSE IF YOUR WORK IS GOING TO BE PRINTED. ON A PRINTER. WITH INK. THEN. AND O N L Y  T H E N.

ARE YOUR PRIMARY COLORS.

CYAN. 

MAGENTA.

AND YELLOW.

So say it with me folks!

Red yellow and blue, are the primary colors for traditional pigment that’s mostly used in paints and shit. You use red yellow and blue when you’re painting traditionally, Bob Ross style. 

Red blue and green is light, which is what you’re painting with when you pick up your tablet and go digital.

CMYK is ink, and ink only. You could use cyan, magenta, and yellow as your primary colors in paint if you wanted to be a complete dick, but they’re not your primary colors unless your work is going to be printed using. i n k. The only time they could be considered the primary colors in a traditional medium is if you’re using ink.

Is my icon. I painted this using RED. GREEN. AND BLUE. AS MY PRIMARY COLORS and they turned out fine. Of course, I used the finger smudge tool first and then the color mixing tool and then the blur tool, but hey what do I know.

Clearly using the blur tool only doesn’t cut it.

“Oh but Leo!” You say. “You used cyan and magenta in that color wheel!”

Well bitch guess what.

this is the digital color wheel. I’d say I mimicked that pretty well, don’t you think?

Oh and one other thing, notice how Blue and Yellow are directly opposite each other on this color wheel? That’s because we’re dealing with light, and with light, yellow and blue are complimentary colors.

Which is why when you mix them, it looks like this:

Which is a pretty neutral gray tone: They cancel each other out on the rgb color wheel when you mix them together.

BUT WITH PIGMENT THE PLACEMENT IS DIFFERENT

If you’ll notice, yellow and violet are now opposite each other, meaning they’re complimentary colors and if you mix  them, they’ll make a neutral gray.

But if you mix yellow and blue, same colors as before, YOU GET THIS:

Now keep in mind that the person in the video uses a darker blue, so they get a darker green, but the point is that it doesn’t make that neutral gray.

Now what happens when we mix yellow and violet paint?

Ah yes, you get a bunch of muted colors the more evenly you mix them.

What happens when you mix yellow light and purple light?

The reason the primary colors for light are so dramatically different from the primary colors for paint and ink is because your eye only receives combinations of red light, blue light, and green light. Our eyes do not have a sensor (cone cell) for yellow light. So when we paint with light, red green and blue are our primary colors. Because of our eyes.

Furthermore, paint primary colors are colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors together. For paint, they are red yellow and blue, because you cannot mix orange and green to get yellow. Mixing orange and purple paint does not make red. And mixing green and purple paint does not make blue.

Mixing blue and green paints will make cyan. Mixing red and blue paints will make magenta.

That’s why cyan and magenta aren’t primary paint colors.

However, you can’t mix yellow and blue ink and get cyan. You can’t mix red and blue ink to get magenta.

And that’s why cyan and magenta are the primary ink colors.

Brighter and stronger paints are created through tints and shades, through a thorough understanding of color theory and a few quality paint recipes. Not by bullshit posts on tumblr designed to mislead you.

1. set the panels

the first version is the easier but also boring for the eye, the sequence rectangular-square-square and repetitive, try to use diagonal cut, open space and vertical cut to help the movement of the story and action.2. use movement to tell the story

3. Pose, Perspective and Line density

4. Framing and Silhouettebeing the file too big it’s a link format

“Mother tongues” by Alberto Lucas López

“There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people.”

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you both grab for the last pint of ice cream at the supermarket and end up arguing over it au

i keep setting my kitchen stove on fire and you’re the long suffering firefighter on call au

my dog won’t stop barking at your cat in the waiting room at the vets au

you got stood up on a date at the coffee shop i work in here let me get you a drink on the house au

your mail keeps coming to my house even though you don’t live there anymore how the fuck do i return it to you au

we get the same train to work every morning and you always take the good seat so i glare at you until you let me sit there au

i’m scared to walk home in the dark and its really late so i called a random number and got you au

you left one of your shirts in the washer and it got mixed up with my stuff and i didn’t realise until you shouted at me from across the street au

i desperately need a birthday cake and my friend told me you could bake really well au

i hit you in the balls in a paintball match i’m so sorry oh my god au

the walls are really thin and i can hear everything you’re saying could you please shut the fuck up new neighbour au

you jog shirtless past my house every morning au

i walk in on you correcting people’s misspelled bathroom graffiti au

you write me a bad restaurant review and i force myself into your kitchen so i can cook you my food until you admit it’s good au

you live across the hall and hide in my apartment when you want to avoid your one night stands au

we’re the only single people at this wedding table lets get drunk and bitch about everyone au

someone in the dorms makes amazing cookies and you’re trying to figure it out and walk in on me baking at four in the morning au

my best friend has a popular youtube channel and drags me into their videos and people comment on how we seem like a couple isn’t that awkward au

we both get lost at disneyworld and somehow stumble across each other and decide to be lost together au

my kite got tangled in your kite at the park au

you’re sitting in my spot in the library what the fuck dude get out of my seat au

you’re gesticulating violently and accidentally hit me in the face au

we’re both desperately trying to buy something for our relatives in the airport shops because we forgot to when we were on holiday maybe we could help each other out au

you fell over in the subway car and landed in my lap au

you sit behind me and poke me every time i fall asleep during 9am lectures thank you can i buy you a coffee? au

our suitcases look the same and we accidentally picked up the wrong one at the airport au

you’re in the hospital bed next to me and we fight over what to watch on the shared tv au

we never talk but we make eye contact whenever anyone says something incredibly stupid during class au

awkward teenage seven-minutes-in-heaven au

you’re shouting in my face about your society at the freshman fair so i sign my name just to shut you up au

we’re on the same ‘travel-across-a-continent’ holiday plan why don’t we just stick together for the whole trip au

foreign exchange student au

i always see you in the library and i think you’re really cute so i leave you little post it notes on your work whenever you go and get a book just to see you blush au

you’ve-got-mail au

my mum knows your mum and they’re trying to set us up but all i can remember of you is that time you stuck gum in my hair when we were seven so i automatically don’t like you au

i accidentally open the door right before you knock and smack you in the face au

there’s a really cute new intern at your place of work and your friends bully you into talking to them au

our school is doing a secret-santa and i got you au

the-princess-diaries au

“your country’s trying to take over/annex my country and you’re making it difficult to hate you because you’re so nice and attractive stop it” au

“we’ve been engaged to be married since we were three but this is the first time we’ve met and your portraits really don’t do you justice” au

“i’m a prince/ss and you’re a servant and we’re not supposed to hang out but we’re gonna fall in love anyways” au

“i’m a prince/ss and you’re my bodyguard and we’re so not supposed to bang but we kind of did anyways” au (bonus: limo sex is great sex)

princess diaries style “i grew up not knowing i was royal and suddenly my royal grandparent showed up out of nowhere and told me i was so now i guess i’m the heir to the throne and you’re my crush from my pre-royal days but i still have a crush on you” au

alternately, “i grew up not knowing i was royal and now i guess i’m heir to a throne and you’re the guy who’s supposed to be teaching me how to be royal bc i suck at it and oops we made out” au

“i’m a prince/ss from a small country nobody’s heard of and i’m in college pretending not to be royal and you’re another student who’s always calling me out on my bs” au

you got ditched at a carnival & i work there so i’m giving you free rides on the ferris wheel until you lighten up

you want to take me out to dinner b/c you feel bad for repeatedly hitting the target & dunking me in the dunk tank

we’re both taking shits in the stalls next to each other & im out of toilet paper, so i ask you for some but you don’t have any either and now we’re both freaking out b/c we need toilet paper

we have to meet up at least once a week to trade mail b/c someone keeps messing up our addresses

i’m a flower deliverer and you live on top of this big ass hill & i hate you and the person who keeps sending you flowers

there’s one copy of the biology textbook in the library and you always have it checked out when i need it the most

i work at a hardware store and you come in wanting rope and duct tape for bdsm play and i have to educate you on actual bdsm culture

we auditioned for the same role and neither of us got it but we’re both cast as extras

you’re acting for a character that was based off of me and i’m giving you tips on how to portray me properly

i’m an author and you’re a screenwriter & i disagree with the way you’re rewriting the movie adaption of my book

our flight was delayed due to bad weather so now we’re having to stay overnight at the airport & somehow, we end up sleeping next to each other

you kind of disapprove of lgbt and you catch me at a pride parade

i hate falling in love and you hate being single but you won’t give up on me & i don’t want to let you go

i don’t know how to tell you this, but i have a twin and we change places a lot and you kinda fell for us both while thinking we’re the same person

you tried to pickpocket me but jokes on you, i used to be the master at pickpocketing so i know all the tricks

i’m your optometrist and you’re my dentist; small world, hey?

Teachers tell us commas allow us to pause for breath. This is not strictly true. Commas are there to help us avoid confusion

These are the four most common ways to use commas:

To list items: We need cheese, bread, coffee and biscuits. (Many people still use the Oxford comma after the word, coffee, but this is not necessary.)

To distinguish a name from the rest of the sentence: Tell me, Holly, why were you early today?

To enclose additional thoughts: He was, without doubt, the worst boyfriend my daughter ever had.

To separate adjectives:

Example 1: Sipho’s beautiful, snobbish, dangerous girlfriend. You need commas if the adjectives are separate descriptions for an object or person. However, a list of adjectives does not always require commas.

Example 2: Sarah’s blue silk skirt. You don’t need commas if the adjectives are part of the same object.

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In response to the Anon earlier, I sent in an ask to thelegalizeddeafies, and here for you all is their reply!

thelegalizeddeafies: Hi, I’m Evvy, and I coadmin a tumblr call Fuck Yeah Character Development, in which we work with writers on developing characters in their writing. One follower was wondering about how to describe D/deaf people conversing in sign- specifically, whether it was fine to simply replace “said” with “signed” after a sentence. I told them not necessarily, because ASL does not simply translate to written English exactly. However (cont…)  farleythew0lf

I’m not totally sure how one would go about writing ASL dialogue without simply making the reader infer that you’ve translated to English as close as possible. Do you have any advice, recommendations or examples of ways to write something including ASL-based dialogue?

Hmmmm, well, considering I’ve seen very, very few dialog written of d/Deaf folks in literature, I think the best thing to do is remind people that not all of ASL is communicated through the hands — a lot of emphasis is on body language and facial expressions.

So, instead of simply saying, “‘Well, then, Mr. Smarty-pants,’ John snarked, ‘Why don’t you tell me how it’s done?’”, you add the facial and body dimensions into it (which ultimately makes for more descriptive prose as-is), such as, “‘Well then, Smarty-Pants’ John offered, leaning forward with palms out, ‘Why don’t you tell me how it’s done?’ He leaned back again as he let his fingers fall into palms-out skepticism as his hands slowly descended to his hips, contrary to his rising smile and eyebrow.”

I would absolutely recommend (almost require) that your writers refrain from writing Deaf characters signing unless they’re comfortable with ASL and the mannerisms that come with signing the language, because being able to sign the dialog yourself (as I did writing what I did) to accurately portray the motions and body-language. Otherwise, you end up with stiff, wooden and inaccurate Deaf signers (who tend to be emotionally expressive out the wazzoo).

But this is just my opinion, and the others might disagree!

- Love and bunnies!

In addition, Thank you! I’ve created a post with your reply and added it to FYCD for future reference. Also, from curiosity, have you read anything that does have d/Deaf signers described (well) in the dialogue? - Evvy  farleythew0lf

I personally haven’t, but come back in a tad? Maybe the others will have. The only characters I’ve ever seen in literature who were deaf were used as plot devices or strategically mute, so I’ve literally never seen described in fiction. And most fan-fics tend to infantilize or fetishize deafness or makes us a “very special character lesson”. So…I apologize. Come back later, since there’s 3 others who can (and probably will) respond to either one of these asks!

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(Evvy): In case it’s helpful to anyone, there are some great tumblr blogs about Deafness and ASL! Here’s a sampler:

http://thelegalizeddeafies.tumblr.com/

http://lifeofaterp.tumblr.com/

http://weloveasl.tumblr.com/

http://aslstudents.tumblr.com/

They all have an Ask button, be polite and I’m sure they’ll field some questions that you might have. 

AND…

Okay! Any additional advice/suggestions/all that would be excellent, I will check in later. I also very much want to write something with a developed Deaf character now. I’ve only got one year of ASL/Deaf Culture at present, but perhaps with review from others I could pull it off. And, as always, I will encourage all the followers of FYCD to do their research properly. :)  farleythew0lf

Regarding to your pervious ask, said is typically used and not signed. However, to write in ASL-based dialogue, you can gloss into ASL. But since ASL has no true written form then its best to translate it into English written form.

For example:

“Me pass class! How? Study-hard”, said Alex. 

Please let me know it helps.

Many writers worry about developing the middle of their novel or they simply lose motivation when they start thinking about what to write about. Even if you know the beginning and end of your novel, it can be difficult to connect the two and build an exciting plot inbetween. The best way to begin tackling this issue is to understand pacing and how your novel should be structured.

The basic structure is as follows:

Stasis

This includes the introduction, the description of the everyday life of your main character, and an explanation of your world. During this time you can focus on showing your audience what your world is like and how your characters interact with it on a daily basis. You can start to set things up.

Inciting Incident

This is your protagonist’s call-to-action. What forces your character to change their usual behavior? This is when your character decides to get in the action OR they are forced to get in on the action. I’ve written a longer post about this here.

The Quest

There’s something your protagonist needs to do or there’s a journey they must embark on. This doesn’t always mean an actual physical journey; it can be an emotional one depending on your story. The point is that they must set out to learn something as a result of the inciting incident. There’s some knowledge, item, etc. they must acquire.

Surprise

There should be obstacles, problems, trouble, conflict, etc. for your protagonist. This will make up most of the middle of your novel. What stands in your character’s way? What is preventing them from finishing their quest and returning to normal?

Critical Choice

What your character has learned or how they have developed over the course of your novel is often revealed during the critical choice. They should have to choose between two paths and their choices should reveal something about them. These choices will change the course of the novel.

Climax

This is the highest point of tension in your story, when your character has to deal with the critical choice they have made. Your story generally builds up to this point.

Reversal

The reversal is a result of the critical choice and the climax. The story is lead in a new direction because of these things. The events leading up to the climax begin to cool down and something happens that helps lead to the resolution. This is usually when your protagonist reverses the situation and finds a way out of the problem (or doesn’t).

Resolution

The resolution should lead into a new stasis for your characters. This doesn’t mean that everything ends up good for your characters; it just means that things have come full circle in a way. The story arc for his particular story is closed and lessons have been learned.

Once you begin to understand the structure of a story, you can begin focusing on the middle chunks of your novel, specifically the inciting incident-reversal stages. 

Here are a few tips to prevent your novel from failing in the middle:

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