Sass & Introversion

Sara attempting to climb up the wall

Marcus and Lucius bickering when Stevie picks them up at the start of the investigation

The extremely confused cabbie in that same scene

“children children”

Lucius being a good shot

Rupert Picton’s personality (please let him be his chaotic self)

Judge Brown being sassy and Not Here For This Shit

Laszlo loving Stevie and treating him like a son

Lucius being really good with baby Ana

Sapphic af

EXCUSE ME—-

If you're having a bad night, need some cheering up with a good dose of period drama or just love Jane Austen. All links are either putlocker, sockshare or youtube playlists.

Adaptions of Original Works:

P r i d e  a n d  P r e j u d i c e  |  [Read]  

Pride and Prejudice (2005), starring Kiera Knightley

Pride and Prejudice (1995), starring Jennifer Ehle

Pride and Prejudice (1980), starring Elizabeth Garvie

Pride and Prejudice (1940), starring Greer Garson

S e n s e  a n d  S e n s i b i l i t y  |  [Read]  

Sense and Sensibility (2008), starring Hattie Morahan: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 

Sense and Sensibility (1995), starring Emma Thompson

Sense and Sensibility (1981), starring Irene Richard

Sense and Sensibility (1971), starring Joanna David

N o r t h a n g e r  A b b e y  |  [Read]  

Northanger Abbey (2007), starring Felicity Jones

Northanger Abbey (1986), starring Katharine Schlesinger

E m m a  |  [Read]  

Emma (2009), starring Romola Garai: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 

Emma (1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow

Emma (1996), starring Kate Beckinsale

Emma (1972), starring Doran Godwin

P e r s u a s i o n  |  [Read] 

Persuasion (2007), starring Sally Hawkins

Persuasion (1995), starring Amanda Root

Persuasion (1971), starring Ann Firbank

M a n s f i e l d  P a r k  |  [Read]  

Mansfield Park (2007), starring Billie Piper

Mansfield Park (1999), starring Frances O'Connor

Mansfield Park (1983), starring Sylvestra Le Touzel

Inspired By and Spinoffs:

Austenland (2013)

Bride and Prejudice (2004)

Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001)

Clueless (1995)

Death Comes to Pemberley (2013): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 

Emma Approved (2013)

Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012)

Lost in Austen (2008)

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Movies About Jane Austen:

Becoming Jane (2007)

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

…And FireAlpaca!  I’m pretty sure there’s already a post like this, but I couldn’t find it. 

As far as I know, both FireAlpaca and Medibang do not have support for .abr (photoshop brush) files and only accept images.  While there are quite a number of places that offer custom brushes for these two programs, there are probably a ton more brushes for Photoshop.  

However you can extract images using ABR viewers! 

For Windows: abrMate (Direct Download)  ||  abrViewer.NET 

For Mac & Linux: ABRview (Direct Download)

Since I’m using a Mac, I don’t know how to use the windows programs, but they shouldn’t be too confusing.  

For ABRview on a Mac, click “Add Another Directory” to pick the folder where the brushes are located.  On the side, you can double click whichever brush you want to view.  

Once you do this, a folder holding all the brush images will appear in the same directory as the .jar file.  

In the folder, you will find the transparent PNG images for each brush right before the preview image.  

Now all you have to do is import the transparent PNG into Medibang/FireAlpaca as a brush and you’re done!  Don’t forget to respect the brush creators’ rules when using them!