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Thank you to all of you beautiful and divine individuals out there who are participating in life with me. It’s a pleasure to be creating this world alongside you.
This is your reminder...
Guilt is temporary but shame lasts as long as you hold on to it. Be strong, grow, and gently let go.
Ashes to ashes We don't clean the dust But we do what we can And we do what we must....
There is a rose trapped in a cracked mirror which has been screaming our names at 3 am for days and days…
Sincere thank you to everyone who's been listening, sharing, and supporting my music! I'm about to renovate this whole house to be one giant music and art studio!
A quick reminder that Cravity had their comeback with the song “Groovy” today and it’s a 10/10
Your phone battery percentage determines what year of the 1900s you'll live in.
How screwed are you?
Blondes have more fun 💛✨ With a touch of sunshine in our hair and a sparkle in our eyes, blondes live life with an open heart, finding excitement in every moment. Whether it’s through laughter or dance, we inspire those around us to let loose and celebrate the beauty of living.
“Hey guys! I just saw a memory of Stan roller skating and wearing short shorts. It didn’t look half bad.”
DONE 🛼🕺🏼✨
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I messed around with some of the coloring. Which is your favorite? Let me know!
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Tonight was the demo class with @chipsnsaza repointing #groov3 and it was a very fun class. It’s been so long since I’ve taken a Saza class. #makememoveinmay #groovy #fitness #dance #perfectclass https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxv6BJhJamZ/?igshid=z4qnw2a1xn0r
Having a muse sucks. How do you tell someone that they are pretty much the love of your life but like, platonically? Now I know why so many renaissance poets got so heavy into ye olde vagueposting.
"Hey I know we don't talk that much and I don't mean to be intimidating or anything but I thought you should know that but yours is a beauty which burns in my heart undimmed by the wear of years."
"You are the sole pattern of my passions, but like, in a chill way."
"Your very presence in this world redeems all my fallen hopes for joy, not that I like you or anything."
"Like hey, no romo but u are the song my soul would sing.
...U make my heart go ringy ding ding."
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
