『Pencil And Bracelety』

Making fun of bi women married to men and het trans people makes you a loser btw and it's not going to get you any pussy or clout, it just makes you look like an asshole. Pride month PSA

My only argument I'll ever bring to the Mephone4 age discourse is that I want everyone to realize how BAD it would make AE look. What do I mean by this? You. You guys know that AE is pretty aware of Mephone4 being shipped with the contestants, right. Taylor used to have beef with Mephone4 x OJ when he was still a member of the crew. You guys realize that if Mephone4 was ACTUALLY meant to be a kid, it would make AE look horrible? Like, they WOULD'VE said it if they didn't want people to ship him with anyone. But they have not.

Since I posted this on tiktok I'll post it here too

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

here's an artfight attack I did for @circusclowne !! it's of their Cabby and Lifering gjinkas :D I highly recommend checking out their designs. all of their art is stunning! this took me around 7 hours but it was worth it

could you please draw silver spoon?

sure thing!!!!!i love him :3c

( btw if ur seeing this pls suggest more characters, im goibg thru horrible art block rn and i hqve no idea on what or who to draw AAAAAWKKK )

the coolest duo hanging out ‼️‼️

Emmy Cicierega’s backgrounds for Fionna and Cake’s Winter Wonder World sequence are absolutely stunning

Special painting I did after facing a lot of change in my life inspired by the wildflowers and grass blooming in California after the heavy rain.