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moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

By Talos this cannot be happening

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shelandsorcery

New blog post on my experience colouring other artists' work for Swords Without Master! Featuring work by @mapcrow and @simon-roy :

shelandsorcery

So this Saturday I'll be tabling in front of the Arts Market on Danforth, in Toronto! I'm going to bring my easel to do some live painting (weather permitting) and I'll have originals, prints, comics, games, zines, and more! 11-6pm, come say hi and talk shop!

starlightxraven

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

appalachian-werewolf

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

mrsjdavis

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

my0clonic-jerk

cardassiangoodreads

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

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danielkahndyke

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

danielkahndyke

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

shelandsorcery

Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

shelandsorcery

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

shelandsorcery

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

shelandsorcery

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

shelandsorcery

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

shelandsorcery

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

shelandsorcery

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

shelandsorcery

Painting progress!

Over the course of this project, I learned to focus on subject matter that I felt I could bring to life more robustly with gouache on paper than via my digital painting approach. The pearls in the walls on this one are definitely in that category!

myselfandsomeotherbeing

"Lesbian welders, San Francisco", n.d. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)

bunjywunjy

how was chicago??? i can’t believe i was within goldfish radius and didn’t even know

It was fun! The big onion never disappoints

bunjywunjy

Chicago, lit. "place of the wild onion", Algonquin language groups

bunjywunjy

also. it's got Layers

oodles-of-reblogs

Why is there a car in that oddly empty industrial warehouse?

bunjywunjy

That's not a warehouse, that's lower lower wacker.

LAYERS

mammalianmammals

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fibro-memes

juneiper-art

real talk i have become a problem recently. the hospital wanted my fingerprint and i said no. the receptionist was like: but its such a convenient way to check in! and i said ok i dont want you to have my biometric data. and she was so baffled. i said, can you not check me in using an id card?

well of course but dont you want to provide your biometric data for your convenience?

nope thanks!

juneiper-art

fuck this happened again i was buying some LPs and the clerk was like: can i have your email? and i was like no.

she full on stared at me. she was like: but i need to put you into the system.

and i was like: need to? you NEED to? i don't want to give my email

and she was like: but...how are you going to return items without an account?

and i was like, with a fucking receipt??? wtf is going on right now. if i can't return them i guess i'll die??whatever

megacarapa

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

megacarapa

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

kosmogrl

lunarriviera

transfemmbeatrice

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

romanceyourdemons

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

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shelandsorcery

Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

shelandsorcery

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

shelandsorcery

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

shelandsorcery

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

shelandsorcery

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

shelandsorcery

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

shelandsorcery

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

blue0909

Please stop being nonbinary too. God only created one gender. You must conform to that.

THERES ONLY ONE NOW?????

miketon

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