S-Senpai? Is That Y-You?

Overshoots and Mini Anticipations lecture from my Complete Introduction to 2D animation package.

Disclaimer: I’m completely self taught so my art is not necessarily anatomically correct nor realistic. This is just how I personally draw shoes.

I forgot to post this here. 

I made a tutorial!! :> this time I used my laptop instead of my phone so I can show what my actual art style looks like!

[Tutorial] Draw A Tree Easily by Meryosie

Art by  K0MiXhhEtjWEAmN

「 鬼人幻燈抄 江戸編 幸福の庭 」

New art! Also my shop is open with some Halloween stuff! :D

New video series I’m gonna make: CLIP STUDIO PAINT material reviews!

The idea is to make videos showing the materials I use (brushes, actions, textures, etc.) with links to Assets to download them if you’re interested (the links are in the video description on YouTube).

I’m making these videos only in English for now because I don’t have time to make them in Spanish too (and I’d rather find time to make them in an at least one langague than no videos at all).

Made a prompt list

You gotta

Pick a person/ship

Pick one or multiple prompts

Pick either fluff, angst, or smut

Pick whether it’s a ‘getting together’ story, or if it’s and ‘established relationship’ story, or if it’s a ‘breaking up story’.

And if you have anything else specific you want in it, send that as well

“Yes! I wanna play!”

“You can’t solve your problems by hiding in bed all day.”

“Okay, but first, kiss me.”

“This is going to sound cheesy but… I love when you’re half asleep and talking nonsense.”

“You know who I’m hot for?”

“I know when you’re lying.”  “Yeah, how’s that?”

“I don’t like the dark.”

“Can I hold your hand?”

“Is that my hoodie?”

“I don’t like to be tickled.”

“Bite me.”

“I forgot to mention that I’m… I’m completely in love with you.”

“What are you doing in here?”

“I’m sorry. I can’t help but stare.”

“I can’t sleep when you’re not beside me.”

“You hurt me.”

“Will you make me coffee?”  “What do I get if I do?”

“I can’t do that!”

“Will you stay?”

“Do you love her/him?”  “Yes.”

“Turn the lights out.”

“Just go along with it, please”

“I promise I will never let anything bad happen to you.”

“God, stop doing that.”  “Doing what?”

“I don’t trust myself around you.”

“All I wanted was you.”

“Do you still love me?”    “I don’t know anymore.”

“Please get over me, we can’t get back together.”    “How can I get over you when you’re my entire world?

“I don’t think I can do this anymore, I know I told you it was enough but it isn’t.”

“I don’t know why you get so jealous when I tell you everyday that I love you.”    “I’m just scared that one day you’ll see how much better you are than me and leave me.”

“I’m so goddamn in love with you.”

“Are you leaving me?”    “Do you want me to leave you?”

“Are you trying to seduce me?”

“That’s my ex. Makeout with me and make him jealous.”

“It wasn’t supposed to happen this way”

“I don’t think anyone’s ever said that to be me before”

“Spin the bottle is such a cliché. I’m in”

“You’ve never seen Harry Potter”

“Can we just lie here for a moment”

“We have to stop running in to each other like this”

“I know it’s 2am but can we meet up”

“I don’t know how we ended up sleeping together, but I know I’m mad about it”

“Whatever you do, just don’t tell anyone”

“I don’t come here often, it brings back unwanted memories”

“They told me I’d forget about you; that I’d move on but it’s been three years and here I am”

“I’ve waited to so long for this moment, but now it’s here and I don’t know how to feel”

“You can’t just say that and disappear!”

“I don’t want to be your partner either, but we have to get this assignment done.”

“I’ve never hated you, you just make me feel things I don’t understand.”

“It’s your fault and I don’t think this is something you can fix.”

“This isn’t easy for me either”

“I would never do this to you if I didn’t have to. You know that right?”

“Can you at least promise me that” “I don’t think I can, not this time”

“I’m sorry but it’s very hard to focus when you’re dressed like that”

“On a scale of 1 to 10, how hard you want me to hit you”

“I’d be scared if I were you”

“You can’t go in there alone”

“You didn’t go through my photos did you?”

“I really want to kiss you right now. I know I shouldn’t, and somehow that makes me want it more”

“I’ll give you fifty bucks if I can take you to Christmas dinner and tell my family we’re together. They always ask if I’m dating and I can’t have that conversation again”

“Fuck you” “Not with that attitude”

“You know my house has a door?” You don’t always have to use the window”

“The truth is, my friends dared me to ask you out, but I’m really glad they did”

“I didn’t realise it meant so much to you”

“I wish I was sorry, but I don’t regret any of it”

“I could lie here with you forever. I wish I didn’t have to leave”

“Everything’s changing an I hate it” I liked the way things were”

“You look so incredible, if that didn’t look so good on you I’d properly tear it off”

“Do you think they notice we left?”

“The funny thing is, you could have fixed this and you didn’t even try”

“Are you staring at me or are you staring past me”

“If you were a guy/girl would you go out with me?” “I am a guy/girl”

“Can we tell my parents that I’m at your house, just in case they get suspicious”

“It’s just a blind date! What’s the worst that could happen?” “I could literally die”

“I had a really weird sex dream about you and I’m not sure how I feel about it, honestly.”

“All I know is that if you don’t tell me to stop I’m going to kiss you.”

“I’m not sure when it happened, but I fell in love with you, and it was the best thing I’ve ever done”

“We always share blankets on the couch, I’m sure sharing the bed for the night is fine too.”

“Your lips are getting really close to mine.”

“I’m not jealous, but, like, come on, movie night is just for me and you only.”

“You’ve been pouting ever since I went out on that date, what’s up?”

“You can share my jacket with me, since you’re shivering.”

“Shit, how’d you make me blush like this?”

“Are you trying to turn me on?”

“Let’s hang out, but I’ll pay for everything, and we can go to this fancy restaurant– No, not a date.”

“Okay, I guess this is a date, actually.”

“Stop with the tongue thing, it’s strangely attractive.”

“I keep telling them we’re not dating, but they keep telling me friends don’t normally make out when drunk.”

“When did you get so beautiful?”

“If you’re going to dress like that, I’m not going to let you out of my sight.”

“I accidentally called you my girlfriend/boyfriend today.”

“I had this dream where we were dating.”

“Why do you always call me when I’m on a date?”

“Okay, maybe I am a bit jealous

“It’s weird how we’ve been friends for so long, but never went through that ‘crushing’ phase.”

“I say this a lot, but, look, they’re not good enough for you.”

“You know this voucher only works for couples, right?”

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Right… Well… I’m not sure how we ended up kissing like that…”

“We would make a pretty good couple.”

“How come I always end up calling you when I can’t fall asleep?”

“You can share my jacket with me, since you’re shivering.”

“You’ve been pouting ever since I went out on that date, what’s up?”

And other ‘hate to love’ relationships.

These types of relationships can be some of the most interesting and enjoyable, both to read and write, because they show us many sides of the same characters and the growth from a hatred to mixed feelings and finally to genuine love and acceptance is often heartwarming to experience. But relationships like also require finesse to portray in a believable, healthy manner.

Before we begin, some ground rules: 

1. Stay away from abuse.

A hate to love relationship is not an “abuse to love” relationship, and none of these tips are aimed toward writing such a thing. Check this list for things to keep out of your healthy end-game relationships.

2. These characters need to be ‘ship-able’ already!

If your character would not naturally end up in the end-game relationship, you’ve got a problem. The character’s ability to be friends – shared interests, enjoyment of each other’s company, comparability in communication – is crucial for the transition from hate to love.

Now then, how do we set up this hate to love relationship? 

1. Examine why the characters hate each other.

There’s a slew of different reasons two characters might start out hating each other, including (but certainly not limited to):

They come from opposing sides of a war, feud, or have some other group-oriented dislike.

They have very bad first impressions of each other.

They already hold distasteful misconceptions about each other based on what trusted companions have told them.

One (or both) of them are acting or believing something the other has good reason to hate. 

In order to pull off the first part of the relationship – the hate – you have to both have a reason for the characters to hate each other and convince the reader that the reason is a good reason. 

Unless you’re writing in omnipresent, you’re telling the story through your character’s eyes. No matter how good their current ‘enemy’ may be on the inside, the pov character won’t be looking for that goodness. They’ll see all the flaws and turn offs they anticipate the character to have, and this will likely (hopefully) effect them on an emotional level the reader can connect with.

2. What needs to change for this hate to be repealed?

I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D

Various Light by Jyundee