roachpatrol:

megumiovvo:

chuck-charles:

i made a makeup tutorial for all my fellow feminists out there bye

jfc

watch it

the only makeup tutorial anyone will ever need

omg bless

(Source: chibigordonramsay)

eschergirls:

soozarts:

karenhealey:

bisexual candycorn: thoughts on skintones

princessneeshydoomcuddles:

mulattafury:

people ask me a lot about drawing poc, more specifically “how” to do it. my kneejerk reaction is to get frustrated by it, because the answer is “just like you’d draw anything else.” it’s like the main excuse artists and writers use to not include poc in their art and in their worlds — they “don’t know how,” implying that we somehow operate by a separate set of rules, that while white characters don’t require a special set of considerations to be varied and textured and interesting, non-white characters are just an elusive series of step-by-step instructions that most creators just can’t be assed to learn or to include

i still feel that way

but

i guess i can understand that most instructive media focuses specifically on white aesthetics, proportions, skintones, and features, so there really is a need for more instructive material that is more inclusive

i can dig it

that said, there is a lot that i don’t know and am not good at and i don’t really feel comfortable trying to instruct other artists, but i’m fine with taking you through my thought processes a little

SO here’s some stuff about skintones. it’s not perfect, and there will never be a better teacher than the world around you for showing you what things look like and how to express them

first off, if you’ve ever seen me stream you know i don’t usually block in my shading with hard lines like this. i like to paint and sample colors as i go, but i’m trying to communicate my ideas about color a little better

but i’ve always used the same basic process for coloring skintones, any skintones, forever and always:

this is going to change up a little bit with directional lighting, colored lighting, environmental lighting, shit like that, but this is your basic procedure. the biggest mistake i think artists make is using skintone+black for shadows and skintone + white for highlights, and that results in pretty dull looking skintones

in the former image, i only varied the value of the main skin color, but in the latter i also varied the hue and saturation. doing so gives you more of an opportunity to add warmth and depth to your colors, as well as bring in environmental colors if you need to

you want to sample around the palette, use reds and purples and oranges, don’t just stay within the range of your base tone!

this applies for all colors, not just skin, but especially skin! you want skin to look alive, not plastic and dull

these same rules apply for most skintones

though it’s always going to be incredibly helpful to just look at references of the skintone you’re trying to draw, for little details like (for example), very dark skin, because there is a more extreme light/dark variation, will often look much more reflective than very light skin under the same lighting conditions

like so

because of this, you’ll want to work on using light more than shadow to describe form on dark skin

again, this is true of all colors, but especially skin, because you don’t want skin to look flat and lifeless!

the same rules can apply to fantasy skin tones. start with a base tone, then use warm, saturated colors to add light and shadow. sampling around the palette becomes really important for fantasy skintones if you are trying to make them look realistic/believable

this is especially true if, for whatever reason, you wanted to make a character with grey skin that looks alive and believable

OKAY THAT’S THE END OF OUR SHOW

LOOK AT THIS GOOD ASS RESOURCE MOTHERFUCKERS

Another helpful note is that darker skin tends to be shinier, which is especially easy to see on the super-dark people in the pics above. My rule of thumb is to use larger swaths of highlights on light skin, and more focused, smaller ones on darker skin.

(Though this is no more a hard-and-fast rule than anything else in art, but it’s a decent shortcut.)

Sharing another drawing tutorial for any interested. :)

that said i can usually get through gunjou rain without crying these days

ayano no koufuku riron tho nope

i don’t usually make it past kyou mo onee-chan butte

its really frustrating i would love to cover this song i dont even have to go into fucking falsetto for it/drop things an octave like a lot of other kagepro stuff

feralphoenix:

kagepro more like fruitlessly trying to sing ayano no koufuku riron through my tears

#singing any kagepro song is challenging

basically wow yes this

all the songs that aren’t very fast and/or don’t require a pretty big vocal range are the ones where it is a terrible battle to not just break down and cry your face off halfway through (see: ayano, gunjou rain)

kagepro more like fruitlessly trying to sing ayano no koufuku riron through my tears

roachpatrol:

So THIS is my new favorite internet toy. 

oh we finally have gulcasa art in the first-tier award tag (25 bookmarks), thank science

actually it seems like there are nearly 100 pictures in the tag now (!!!)

(here is your token reminder that if you have a pixiv account, you should go bookmark the source image if you see and like stuff from pixiv floating around on tumblr! it helps the artist get award tags like these, which can help them get more attention!)

dodostad:

playerprophet:

OKAY SO things are exceptionally tight for me at the moment and thanks to last month being full of surprise fees I need a little help getting food and a little money to make prints for Animaritime at the end of the month.

So, for the first time in a long while I’m doing icons by donation! So, for whatever you can spare I will happily draw you an icon of whatever you like. Please send me an ask or fanmail for more info, or e-mail me directly at playerprophet@gmail.com! (This is also my paypal address if you would just like to donate.)

If icons aren’t your bag please visit my storenvy to purchase prints! Anything helps!

Help my honey! ;w;

roachpatrol:

i need all of these

yes

yagirams:

I started this a few days ago when people were bashing xion and I just wanted to draw out how wrong they were

like

on top of the existential crisis of being a failed clone of someone “actually useful” and being cruelly reminded of it by her coworkers at every turn, she just powers on through. she also finds out on top of the normal nobody levels of not-supposed-to-exist that by existing at all she is actually causing harm to the person she was supposed to be a clone of. for her to not hurt someone through her very being (and by extension, all the people who need him), she has to die. cease existing and on top of that, any and all memories anyone ever had of her will be erased.

she gets called upon, at the mental age of about fourteen, to make a more adult decision than most adults will ever have to make

and she chooses to do the selfless thing

she is not an overly-tragic mary sue plot device and if you think so then you have a very one-dimensional view of days and should maybe reevaluate how much feeling is written into a story about characters who have no hearts

thank

i stumbled across some nasty xion wank earlier this evening so i really needed to see this post?? basically wow this thank u for being a great