Janelle Monáe In GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Dir. Rian Johnson

Let's FUCKING GOOO

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I UPLOADED AND PUBLISHED THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF MY WEBCOMIC, DAUGHTER OF THE LILIES!

I cannot believe that I have been working on this title for so long, nor the incredible connections and friends I have made because of it and along the way. Thank you all SO MUCH for reading!!

This artwork will soon be available as a print in the DotL Hivemill store!

Read the entire comic, all ten years of it, here on its website!

#my favorite blorbo, in case you couldn't tell

Some of my favourite gender-fluid Loki moments to get the bad Disney taste outta my mouth.

Enjoy

Bonus squirrel girl

This clip is from their 2019 live show, a slightly-canon look at everyone's first day working in the Archives! and uh…..nothing bad happens to anyone after this XD

thanks for watching my romantic fluff, I think my next TMA project will be something creepy 🌀🚪.

Drawn in storyboard pro with the charcoal brush from this pack: https://rozlynnwaltz.gumroad.com/l/SBProBrushesStarterPack

This is what happens in Blue Eye Samurai right ??

Made a movie poster in class. It was fun !

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

the hawkshaw concept art where she has a riding crop. you agree.

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

As a note, I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still being effective.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

Some Izutsumi Fanart (based on various cat pictures)

hello, brother.