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No, Yuuichiro Hyakuya is not a great man. He’s stupid. Change my mind (PLEASE)

{ post made 1/21/19 }

Honestly, after reading the most recent chapter, I can wholeheartedly say that Yuu is just as greedy, blinded, selfish, and stupid as everyone calls him.

He doesn’t care about Mika any more than Shinoa. He doesn’t care about Kimizuki’s sister any more than he cares about Akane, and that’s a serious issue.

At this point, no one is more important to him than anyone else.

He’s willing to give his life and soul for anyone to make them happy and piece them back together, declaring them all as friends or family to justify it and even declaring he’d kill for their justice. He makes everyone’s problem his problem.

He lets anyone use him if it’s for “the greater good” of someone else’s situation, as long as he counts them as family.

But again, he throws those terms around so loosely.

Everyone is more important to him than he is important to himself but after that fact, everyone is on the same level of cared for by him, and humans don’t think that way. In its own way, it’s evil. It’s careless. It’s heartless. It’s above all, selfish and unnatural and I hate it more than anything.

It completely disregards the natural favoritism creatures have torwards those they can connect with deeper, and usually by the means of a longer history together. A harder history together. A person/people they can share their most personal selves with.

It’s disgustingly greedy and selfish to act that way in front of Mika.

Hell, I’ll even say it’s the same with the Shinoa squad on the occasions that Yuu decides to bind himself with strangers.

Please, someone tell me a different perspective and prove my line of thinking wrong. I really want to believe otherwise but I just don’t see a different way.

Maybe I’m just upset but then again, It’s just so clear to me.

Please at least tell me if you agree or disgaree! Please !! I want a discussion!

MikaYuu, Yuu accidentally shares something from their private life with the squad and Mika suffers for it (teasing from Shinoa).

I mean uh….i really like the idea of mika just like cuddling things, especially a teddy bear…. 

(also currently cackling to myself like a madwoman rn)

yuu would definitely accidentally overshare when rambling on about how great Mika is and Mika would definitely end up suffering for it at the hands of Shinoa (who actually lives for those moments)

Thank you for your request!! <3

Tutorial and or tips in color studies?

Hi there! Sorry to keep you waiting on this ask!

I do have another post about landscape painting which overlaps slightly with this. But here I’ll talk specifically about the observational color studies I like to do. Other artists might have different ways of approaching them (and I still have a lot to learn myself), but these are some of the ideas I’ve found useful.

1. Don’t seek perfectionObservational color studies are just that – studies. Sketches. Note-taking to reference later. They’re not supposed to be complete paintings, so you shouldn’t feel pressured to make them “perfect”. I like posting them sometimes (and hopefully you like seeing them) but there are TONS of messy, scribbly studies I haven’t posted anywhere. They’re primarily a tool to help me learn, and if messy studies help me learn, so be it!

2. Simplify your shapesSo how do you avoid getting overwhelmed and lost in the details? Focus on the BIG IDEA. Decide what is most important to include in the study and leave out everything else. Start with big shapes, and add details at the very end, if you have time. Personally, I’m often interested in the sky and the color clouds become when light passes through. So I might make the study about the clouds and ignore buildings/details on the ground. or I’ll add only a very simple ground plane. Other times, I’ll rearrange a composition to include all the important information (like making an object bigger or smaller, or bringing two objects closer together).

3. Step by stepIt helps to find a good workflow, especially when you have to quickly prioritize what information to include. This is relevant especially when you’re painting something like a sunset, when the light changes RAPIDLY and you’ll have only 3, 4, 5 minutes to put your colors down. For me, this usually means I build my study from background to foreground: sky, clouds, ground plane, background shapes, foreground shapes. Since I work on iPad Pro, I also keep those parts separated out into layers. In the case of those quick sunset studies, I also observe the parts I haven’t painted yet in case the lighting changes enough that I’ll need to work from memory.

4. Some fundamentals to keep in mind:

Value structure: Even though these are color studies, value plays a major role in the colors you’re observing. Pay attention to the difference in value between subjects. Sometimes this can solve color-related problems when your study seems “off” somehow. (For example, maybe that sky isn’t as light as you think it is? A darker value might mean painting a more vibrant color.)

Lighting setup: Identify the different light sources in the environment. Is it cloudy and overcast? Sunny? Are you indoors, with multiple different light sources? A little study about lighting theory can really help you know what colors to look for in different lighting conditions. For example, in overcast light, you’ll see more of the objects’ local color, while in bright sunlight you’ll see a strong direct light (the sun), blue diffused light on shadows and top-facing planes (from the blue sky), and a warm bounce light (from sunlight reflecting off the ground). Will forever recommend James Gurney’s book “Color and Light” for help learning this.

Materials: Different materials reflect light sources in different ways. Being aware of how light passes through or reflects off different materials can help you understand the colors you’re seeing.

5. Going beyondAs you become more comfortable making observational studies, the more you might wish to push them even further by not just copying from life but communicating a feeling. A few ways you might accomplish this:

Exaggerate your colors. Suppose you see a hint of color you wouldn’t normally expect to find, such as notes of purpose or red near the horizon of an otherwise blue sky. Try making it brighter/bolder than you really see it. Bump up the saturation, maybe. This is a delicate balance, as you don’t want to exaggerate to the point where the colors become garish. But putting emphasis in certain places can remind yourself, or show whoever’s looking at your study, that you found certain details interesting.

Think about mood. A color script from an animated film follows the emotional beats of the story. As you’re making your studies, consider: how does this moment feel to me? Take a cloudy scene, for instance. Is it cold and miserable? Windy, full of movement and energy? Calm? Dark and ominous? A moment of anticipation or hope with the clouds about the break apart? Each of those conveys a completely different mood. So you might decide upon one and push your color palette to support that idea.

Don’t just copy: communicate. This last one is a bit of an abstract idea I need an example to explain:

This sunset study here gave me difficulty because it involved not just color but the properties of light. The sun didn’t actually appear white to me - it appeared a bright red/pink color, glowing brighter than the sky around it. But that wasn’t something I could reproduce, because if I only painted the color, it wouldn’t appear glowing and would blend into the rest of the sky. Instead, I had to think critically: how do I communicate the brightness of this sun? In the end, I opted to make the sun white, with the color I actually observed the sun to be surrounding it.

On my Instagram, I’ve posted a lot of process videos to accompany my studies, if that interests anyone! They’re always second image on the studies’ posts.

I hope you find these thoughts helpful! 

studying for exams isn’t fun, but drawing shinoa’s soft hair is much more fun! uhm- uh… a detective! au, i guess… (u can see the lines, i didn’t erase them because yeah)

happy birthday mika

Yuu: YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS!!!

Mika: Like what?

Yuu: *soft* gay

Please reblog. I wish I could add more details atm but I'm genuinely In tears as I dunno what to do.

Please consider helping out. I love my dad and mom and my sister is only 14

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Yuu: I don't want to lie anymore

Yoichi: Yuu-kun...

Kimizuki: lie about what?

Yuu: it's Mika. I've been dating Mika.

Everyone: Mika?!

Shinoa: Yuu is not the only one!

Narumi: you're dating Mika too?

Shinoa: what? No- I... Mitsuba's always been my best pal, but now I love her.

Kimizuki: wait a minute... Yuu and Mika... Shinoa and Mitsuba? You mean... I've been keeping my relationship with Yoichi a secret this whole time for nothing?!

Yoichi: babe-

Narumi: I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

Crowley: wait you have a boyfriend?

Narumi: yeah... he's a member of my squad, Shuusaku...

Yoichi: wait a second! Is there anyone else who's going to come out?

Everyone: ...

Crowley: I don't like anyone