#colour!

Hope Rises - Aka The Blue Dream

I've always wondered this. Early in the novel Darcy looks down on the Gardiners because they are engaged in trade - I think that is one of his objections to Elizabeth's family during the first proposal? But he is literally best friends with Bingley who is also from trade - and has no problem marrying his sister to him! Is this because Bingley is richer than the Gardiners so it doesn't matter any more?

The whole difference is "in trade" vs. "from trade". Bingely has never worked a day in his life, Mr. Gardiner works, he even has to plan his vacation to Derbyshire around work while Bingley can do whatever he pleases.

Let me show you the quotes:

We are told that the Bingleys have a habit of “associating with people of rank”. Which means that people of rank have agreed to associate with them.

Mrs. Gardiner admits, “We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different.” They are not associating with the same people as the Bingleys.

The Bingleys live as if they are gentry class, “but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor“

The Gardiners live as people who work “lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses”

All of the Bingleys have a gentleman/woman’s education, the sisters “had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town”

Mr. Gardiner might be able to put his children in a similar position, but Mr. Gardiner is in trade right now.

Bingley himself has never worked a day in his life, he lives off the income of his inheritance. “Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it. 

So to sum up, the Gardiners might be able to put their children in a similar position as the Bingleys, but currently they are people who are in trade. The Bingley's fortune is from trade, but they no longer associate with it.

Jade is the other mf that has my metaphorical balls in a vice grip, the other being Lilia. Stupid sexy eel man and stupid sexy bat dilf keep fighting over who gets the most amount of space in my brain.

Okay. This is quite tricky. I think red, blue, yellow, turquoise-teal shades are all better than green (which I consider to be in this case representative of more foresty grass greens that are both dark up to a beigey kind of green).

This is colouring practice take two-

I really wanted to try out this skin tutorial I found, along with some hair shading too.

If you're wondering why she's crying?

Feel free to come up with whatever reason you feel like.

I was just feeling very... Tired today. I managed to forget that I had a headache while drawing this, but yeah... My inspiration tends to lean towards however I'm feeling at the time so make of that what you will.

Though a good sleep should deal with my headache.

Hopefully.

ANyhoO

What better way to vent your frustrations than through art?

On a totally unrelated note, I discovered- the day before I had to leave for camp two weeks ago- that stress is wonderful fuel for disturbingly morbid inspiration!

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And before I stop, I just want to say that I am SO proud of this thing-

Like. It turned out almost exactly how I wanted it to!

Alright, so I am actually pretty pleased with this one.

Was messing about with different brushes on Alpaca and found the blending function. Ended up with Azkaellon looking moody. His hairband more than makes up for it though. Turns out being able to paint Non-Metallic metal is a transferable skill!