The First Cartoon LGBT Representation That No One Talks About

broship bonding time

guess who just got invested into these characters more :DDDDDDDD

Here’s a wip of @notedchampagne and @thatneoncrisis ocs because I won’t be able to finish it in awhile :”3 (so like this is humanstuck of witch AU of anhemaquest ??? Wow so many in one, also yeah I’ve been reading A Home in a Void, very good dude)

I know we are getting more and more LGBTQ rep in animation but more shows need to be as blunt and ballsy as Kipo and the Hollow 

hhi i like carmen here are some initial thoughts 

“IN THE BOX HOUSE” COMING OCTOBER 31ST!!!!!!!!

Hi hi! I’m here to announce that a short comic I’ve been working on since July is finally coming this October! And I’m also here to announce that this will be the first comic in my new series: Animal Glass, that is based on emotions/events such as: isolation and derealization, toxic relationships, saying no, gender expression, and being encaged or feeling trapped in a situation.

I hope you come along for the ride!

look i know we all love to make fun of amity for being a flustered idiot around luz but after sitting on wilw for a while i just want to take a moment to appreciate that those scenes simply exist in the first place. for the longest time, all of the representation for wlw relationships in media was either oversexualized, full of conflict and melodrama, or forced to remain non-explicit and hidden in subtext until the show’s finale. now, we have a 14-year-old girl, explicitly confirmed to have a crush on her friend, another girl, in season one, and she acts just the way you’d expect any other 14-year-old to act around their crush: like a flustered idiot. amity and luz are just two dumb kids who both happen to be girls that are able to navigate their feelings and develop their relationship in a relatively natural and healthy environment and i am so happy for the kids that will now be able to grow up seeing this normalized in a tv show that they love.

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

7 amazing Photoshop extensions and tools for digital artists

Hello!

After a period of silence on the articles’ side of the blog, we are back! And this time with a new great list of PS extensions and tools that designers and painters will love!

1. Colour Constructor

Colour Constructor is a brilliant little program that helps you design colour and values in a very simple way. Especially for painters, this program demonstrates how colours, shadows, and lights of your choice interact on a 3D object.

Colour Constructor is a study and workflow tool that is designed to help you design the colours and values for a painting or image you are making according to a light source and ambient term.

Ahmed Aldoori made a test video of the program and you can watch it here.

2. Coolorus

Coolorus is an amazing colour weel plug-in made for Photoshop.

Coolorus is the right choice for creative people willing to improve their painting workflow. It saves time, and helps you choose better colors thanks to Color Schemes, Gamut Lock and the power of triangle HSV representation.

3. Chameleon Adaptive Palette

Chameleon Adaptive Palette is a flexible - and very pretty - palette panel designed for the love and happiness of concept artists and digital painters.

Chameleon Palette is a single panel that changes according to your needs. Each of the strips provides a different color function, but they all have the same principle.  They automatically and intelligently generate ranged colors swatches or palettes based on the one you just selected. From whatever source, canvas included.

4. Prisma Palette

Prisma Palette is a particular Photoshop plug-in that generates different colour palettes for areas in shadow and areas in light.

Prisma Palette generates individual gamut masks for any number of light sources; mapping exact local colours to lit colours within the colour space.

5. Lazy Nezumi

One of the most popular applications used by designers and digital artists, Lazy Nezumi lets you take control of your lines. This powerful Windows app helps artists draw smooth lines with different features and options, such as Position Smoothing, Pressure Processing, Scripting, a set of rulers, and more. 

Lazy Nezumi works with Photoshop and many other art programs, 2D and 3D. You can check the list of supported products here.

6. AD Brutus Symmetry

AD Brutus Symmetry is a Photoshop CC panel that helps artists work with almost realtime symmetry.

AD Brutus Symmetry uses Photoshop guides (vertical and horizontal) as Axis for the symmetry, but it’s not limited to guides, it also works with selections and for fastest use we can assign shorcuts to the main functions.

Note though that while Photoshop still doesn’t have any mirror painting tool, other softwares such as Corel Painter, Krita, and CLIP Studio Paint do.

7. BrushBox

There are many Photoshop extensions and panels that help artists organise their brushes in folders, but we’ve found that BrushBox really outshines them all. Though a bit pricey ($15), especially considering that similar products can be found on Gumroad for less or even for free, BrushBox can do everything and more when it comes to managing brushes. 

Like with a layer panel, artists can organise brushes and tool presets into groups, colour code them, search through presets by name and type, and much more.

Note that the brush preset panel in the new Photoshop CC 2018, however, has this same management feature.

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Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are fine, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. And this is just if you managed to get all the way to the end. If you finished the story and you actually liked it? Comment and reblog. 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

i like her shoelaces