Kinda Sorta Worldbuilding Wednesday Related, Why Not

kinda sorta worldbuilding wednesday related, why not

I made one of those sets of character questions because of reasons (reasons like “I think many of the question sets circulating are kind of irrelevant, and I’m just snotty enough to think I can do better”). If anybody would find it fun or useful, feel free to reblog it as an askbox meme or just fill it out like a questionnaire or whatever.

What makes them happy? What do they think would make them happy?

How do they feel about their appearance?

What would their ideal friend be like? (Have they had any luck finding such a person?)

What kind of people do they hate? 

What offenses do they think are unforgivable? (Or IS anything guaranteed unforgivable)

How well do they keep promises or commitments? Do they expect the same of others?

How long does it take them to warm up to people?

Do they keep any important rituals or routines?

When distressed, do they seek solitude or support from others?

If someone comes to them with a problem, how do they respond? (Advice? Sympathy? Taking it into their own hands? Blowing it off completely?) How does this it vary based on who’s asking?

How do they feel about physical contact? What are their personal space requirements?

What do they do to relax? (What if they’re prevented from doing that thing?)

What do they get excited about?

What do they consider the area of their expertise? (Are they right about that?)

What are their blind spots or biases? (Do they know about them?)

How active is their imagination? (Do they use it to advantage? Does it tend to run off with them?)

How good are they at reading other people?

How easy or difficult is it for other people to read them?

How comfortable are they with animals (pets, other domesticated beasts, wild animals)?

To what extent are they concerned with other people? Do they tend to serve others, protect their own, or only look out for number one? (In other words, is their priority “you,” “us,” or “me”?)

Do they enjoy challenges or avoid them? In what areas?

How well do they deal with injuries or ailments?

What qualities do they most want to be associated with? What’s the highest compliment anyone could pay them? The gravest insult?

How comfortable are they with being the center of attention? Do they want recognition for their works? (Can they even take a compliment in the first place?)

How willing are they to take risks? What factors might affect their decisions on that front?

How competitive are they? Do they expect to win or think they’re going to lose? Can they take either outcome gracefully?

How much do they care about etiquette, politesse, propriety? Do they have the same standards for themself as for other people?

Do they guard personal information closely, or is it all free for the asking? Is there something they would never tell anyone?

Do they assign more weight to actions or words?

How decisive are they? What do they do if they have trouble making a decision?

i hope its not to much trouble to ask, but how did you make your OC page???

oh it’s no trouble at all! 

FIRST YOU GO HERE FOR THE HTML CODING FOR THE PAGE, copy the code from either pastebin/freetexthost

Next, go to your customize page and scroll down to the bottom where you see an ‘ADD A PAGE’ option

A POP UP WILL OPEN LIKE SO

SELECT CUSTOM LAYOUT

and paste the HTML CODE THERE! 

then you can just edit the html code to your liking IT’s marked out in the HTML where you’re supposed to edit the character info/ insert character pictures and stuff(NEAR THE BOTTOM) SO YEAH! 

and hopefull you’ll get something like this

You can add more pages for other char info too! IF you use the standard layout you’ll p much just get whatever you type into the text box, LIKE A NORMAL TEXT POST

the page URL will basically be whatever you filled in HERE:

SO JUST USE THAT URL WHEN You wanna add links to that page and stuff

 I HPOPE THAT HELPS AND IF YOU have more questions feel free to ask! I’ll try my best to help you out though my HTML knowledge is really limited LIES DOWN BC HTML IS SO DIFFICULT

miss emi! i dont believe you got my ask unless you just didnt want to answer it, but in any case; id like to ask how you print your uhhhh well prints? i made a poster for my friend on sai and id like to print it for her but idk if i can print using my normal printer? when youre not mass producing prints like for a con do you still go to a print shop? also if you were to create a poster on the larger side what size would you make the canvas? sorry for all the questions im an amateur nd thank :U

heyoooo i prefer most of these questions to be answered privately so that’s prob why i missed it… but either way i make the canvas 300dpi of whatever print size i want! 8.5x11in is standard for a normal home printer but if u want anything bigger (11x17) you can go to a staples. i really like the chain minuteman press too but that’s more for mass production. if it’s just one print i think staples will be fine!

UPDATE: All broken links are now, fixed!!!

*i separated the download & watch links like you guys requested*

10 Things I Hate About You Watch

13 Going On 30 Watch

21 Jump Street Watch ✔ 

500 Days Of Summer Watch ✔ 

27 Dresses Watch

8 Mile Watch

Alice In Wonderland Watch ✔ 

The Avengers Watch

The Amazing SpidermanWatch ✔ 

A Knight’s Tale Watch

American Beauty Watch

A Walk To Remember Watch

American Psycho Watch

Angels & Demons Watch

Across The Universe Watch

Aquamarine Watch

Burlesque Watch

Black Swan Watch ✔ 

Bridesmaids Watch

The Blue Lagoon Watch

Bring It On Watch ✔ 

Bad Teacher Watch

Baby Mama Watch

Brokeback Mountain Watch

The Breakfast Club Watch

Bride Wars Watch

Bridget Jones’s Diary  Download

Bridget Jones’s Diary 2: The Edge Of Reason Watch

Brave Watch - Download ✔ 

The Boy In Stripped Pyjamas Watch

Corpse Bride Watch

Confessions Of A Shopaholic Watch

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Watch

Cry-Baby Watch - Download ✔ 

Casanova Watch

Confessions Of A Teenage Dramaqueen Watch

Captain America: The First Avenger Watch

Contagion Watch

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Watch

Chicago Watch

The Dreamers Watch

Dear John Watch

The Dark Knight Watch

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The Devil Wears Prada Watch

Dracula Watch

Dark Shadows Watch

Don Juan DeMarco Watch

Edward Scissorhands Watch ✔ 

Easy A Watch - Download

Ella Enchanted Watch

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Friends With Kids Download

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Grease Watch

Harry Potter &:

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The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Watch /Part 2 Watch ✔ 

The Hangover Watch ✔ 

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Home Alone Watch

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He’s Not That Into You Watch

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Hugo Watch ✔ 

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Inception Watch - Download ✔ 

The Illusionist Watch

Interview With The Vampire Watch

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Watch

Iron Man Download

Iron Man 2 Download

Jennifer’s Body Watch

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John Tucker Must Die Watch

Juno Watch

Just Married Watch ✔ 

Knocked Up Watch

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Little Miss Sunshine Watch

Lost In Translation Watch

LOL Download

Love Actually Watch ✔ 

Legally Blonde Watch

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Little WomenWatch

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Lord Of The Rings:

The Fellowship Of The Ring Watch

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Mean Girls Watch

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith Watch

Mona Lisa Smile Watch

New Year’s Eve Watch

Never Let Me Go Watch

The Notebook Watch

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Pride & Prejudice Download

Princess Diaries Watch

Princess Diaries 2 Watch

The Phantom Of The Opera Watch

Pirates Of The Caribbean:

The Curse Of The Black Pearl Watch

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At World’s End Watch

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The Parent Trap Watch

Pineapple Express Watch

The Prestige Watch

Penelope Watch

Public Enemies Watch

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Remember Me Watch

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Sherlock Holmes Watch - Download

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Step Up Watch

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She’s The Man Watch

Some Like It Hot Watch

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Twilight Download ✔ 

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Breakin’ Dawn part 1 Download ✔ 

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Thor Watch -Download ✔ 

Titanic Watch 

Top Gun Watch - Download ✔ 

Tangled Watch ✔ 

The Tourist Watch

The Time Traveler’s Wife Watch

Up Watch

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Yes Man Watch

How I Afford Travel

Badass trips on a not-so-badass budget. 

Many travel blogs are written by people who’ve sold all their possessions and have taken a huge plunge into the world of long-term travel. This can sound expensive at first, but when you consider that you don’t have rent or a car payment in this lifestyle (or much room to carry any possessions), it can actually be very cheap to live this way, provided you can work a little along the way, or do some kind of virtual freelancing or contract work.

I’m not one of those people.

I do have rent to pay, and a car payment, and bills, and the trappings of a fairly typical middle class young urban professional life. I have a cat. I work in a cubicle. I like some amount of routine, and sleeping in my own bed. I have a ladder to climb, that I want to climb. 

I also don’t have a ton of free income to spend on travel.

Despite all this, in the past 2 years I’ve managed to visit 9 cities in 4 countries (Colombia, Jordan, Egypt, Spain) and very soon I’ll be off to visit 7 more cities in 3 countries (Italy, Croatia, and Spain again — I love Spain), a 17 day trip; a few weeks after I return, I’m off again on a small trip to Mexico for a wedding. When I’m done, that’s 16 cities, 7 countries, in just 2 years. Not much for the permanent nomad, but a lot for someone who’s expected to be at work by 9am every weekday.

When people find out how much I travel, some imagine I must have a lot of spare income or be a trust fund baby. I keep encountering this perception — especially among Americans — that travel is this huge undertaking that is incredibly expensive. Well, it sure can be, if you choose to make it that way. But if you step outside this perception, and do some research, you’ll find that it really doesn’t have to be that way. Travel can be affordable, if you plan for it and prioritize it in your life.

Here’s how I do it:

1. Flights. By far, this can be the single most expensive purchase of your trip. A coach round trip ticket from the US to Europe usually runs anywhere from $700-1200 on average, depending on the season. The trick is: don’t buy your ticket with actual money. Buy it with fake money called points or miles. A few years ago, I strategically opened 2 different credit cards (one an AmEx, one a British Airways Visa) with unusually crazy high enrollment bonuses. Within just a few months’ time I went from 0 miles to 50,000 AmEx points (redeemable for airline miles on at least a 1:1 basis) and 100,000 British Airways miles. Keep in mind, BA is part of the OneWorld alliance, so I can book with other airlines using these miles. In just a few months’ time, with 2 credit cards (that didn’t hurt my credit, by the way) I earned enough miles to take 3 international round trip flights — without ever stepping on an airplane. I got the AmEx points simply for opening the card, and I earned the BA miles after spending $2500 in 3 months, which wasn’t that hard for me because I strategically put ALL my expenses on the card for 3 months. 

The trick is knowing which cards to open. These cards usually aren’t well advertised, so you’ll have to do your research. A few good resources to get you started:  Unconventional Guides: Frequent Flyer Master by Chris Guillebeau. This is actually the first resource I used to learn more about travel hacking. If you’re a total newb, as I was, this is the best introduction to the world of frequent flyer miles that exists. But it’s not overly simplistic; there are a ton of insider tricks and tools in here that I haven’t even taken advantage of yet. This guide is the reason I earned 150,000 miles without stepping foot on an airplane. FrugalTravelGuy.com This is a great blog for those interested in staying up to date on the latest frequent flyer news and credit card offers.

FlyerTalk.com This is a forum for the serious hardcore travel hackers — the credit card “churners” who sometimes earn up to 1 million miles a year doing this. FlyerTalk can be intimidating at first if you’re new to all this, so I’d recommend starting from the top and working your way down.

2. Rooms. Very rarely do I stay in what most Americans think of as a “hotel” when I travel abroad. Many travel hackers and frequent business travelers are loyal to a certain brand of hotel, especially those with their own reward points systems, which earn them free stays (and yes, there are credit cards for this too). These can be a great value and I do participate in a few programs like Hilton HHonors for stateside bookings. For my international trips, however, I prefer everyday price flexibility, so I book a variety of inexpensive, off the beaten path accommodation types — and none of them involve splitting a room with strangers, camping (not counting the bedouin camp I stayed with in Petra, which I did for the experience and not the savings), or couchsurfing. A lot of people associate budget travel with roughing it, but it is possible to be comfortable. In fact, by avoiding the beaten path, I usually have a less expensive, equally as comfortable, and more interesting cultural experience. Most of my international trips have involved staying at a combination of private rooms at hostels, small independently owned hotels, bed & breakfasts, and private apartments.

Hostelworld.com This room search and booking site will expand your idea of what a hostel can be. Often you’ll find that smaller, inexpensive and independent hotels will list rooms on Hostelworld even if they have a website and brand themselves as a hotel or bed & breakfast. You can search for rooms nearly anywhere in the world, filter by room type (most hostels have private bedrooms, some with private bathrooms and some with shared bathrooms), location (there’s a handy map view), price and more. It’s also low risk - you just pay a small 10% down payment when you book and the rest when you check in. I’ve stayed in some very nice hostels for a fraction of the cost of an equal quality hotel and it’s one of the first places I look when I start planning a trip.

Booking.com This is a rising star in the online travel booking world for hotels. Based in Amsterdam, they are one of my top sources for rooms in Europe (though they offer rooms in several other parts of the world too). Booking.com’s strength is their breadth of rooms available; you can find a variety of low-cost, tiny, independently owned hotels that will be difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. They even offer free cancellation on many rooms. Their pricing also cannot be beat — sometimes I even find rooms that are less expensive than hostels!

Airbnb.com I am a huge fan of this service. A major disruptor to the online travel booking industry, Airbnb offers you the ability to reserve a room in a private apartment directly through someone who lives and is local to the place you’re going. You can book entire apartments or just spare bedrooms, allowing you the choice between having a cozy place all to yourself or staying with — and getting to know— a local, something that may not have happened otherwise (and my most memorable trips have been those in which I connected with locals while I was there). A few other perks can involve more amenities than a budget hostel or hotel may offer, such as the ability to wash your own laundry or cook your own food if you need to (it is an apartment, after all). I travel for 2 weeks at a time when possible (more on that later), and I pack only a carry-on. After a week like that, a washing machine is an unexpectedly welcome blessing. You’ll also get to feel more like a local, even if you never meet your host. You’re staying in a neighborhood, not a commercial, touristy zone. There’s a lot to be said for that. Finally, I love their website. Not only very easy to use and socially integrated, the design is beautiful. I love flipping through the home slideshow of gorgeous apartments on offer. It’s interior design porn at its most authentic — these are real peoples’ homes!

3. Timing and trip length. I would be remiss to say that the above 2 factors are the only methods I use to travel to so many places affordably. The fact is, I can say I fit in 16 cities and 7 countries in 2 years because of how many of those cities and countries I manage to pack into a single trip. In 2011, I did only a 1-week trip to Colombia. In 2012, I did a 17-day trip to Jordan, Egypt, and Spain. This year, I’ll do another 17-day trip (that’s essentially 12 vacation days) to Italy, Croatia, and Spain. Considering all the places within those countries I travel to in each trip, I typically pack up and move on every 2-3 days. That’s not a lot of time in each place! Just enough to visit the major sites, take in the atmosphere, and decide if I’m intrigued enough to return someday to make a longer trip of it.

This pace is not for everyone, but it works for me. I’m restless, and like squeezing every drop out of my precious vacation days. Plus, nothing’s worse than booking 5 days in a place you’ve never been, only to arrive and find out you’re bored after 1 day and it’s too late to make any changes. I intend to see the world, and I have to do it in 2 weeks per year. So, I compromise. It can be a little tiring, but I don’t take these trips necessarily to relax — I take them to recharge in other ways. Travel is my passion and I crave new cultural experiences. My worldview has expanded a little more each time I set foot on US soil again; this is creative fuel to the fire of everything I do, from painting to marketing strategy. That’s why I’m determined to prioritize it, even with a limited budget. For those who’ve also been bitten by the travel bug, you get it. The rest of the world will go on thinking that we’re rich, and I suppose that’s fine.

At the Hotel Oriental Rivoli in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Somewhat fancy, resort-style digs. About $60/night.

face/expressions tutorials & references masterpost

okay so i made a masterpost of art references/tutorials for my own future reference but they might be helpful to some of you guys too idk

EYES

head and eyes tutorial

fantasy eyes tutorial (semi-realistic)

eyes + eyebrows tutorial

cute eyes tutorial

another cute eyes tutorial

semi-realistic anime eyes tutorial

eyes tutorial

another (semi-realistic) eye tutorial

semi-realistic eye process

another eye process

it’s another eye process

different eye shapes

NOSES

nose tutorial

skulls, noses and lips tutorial

semi-realistic nose process

noses tutorial/reference

another nose process

MOUTHS & EARS

fantasy lips tutorial (semi-realistic)

mouths tutorial

ears tutorial

another ears tutorial

lips tutorial

semi-realistic lips process

FACE

face tutorial

unique male faces tutorial

unique female faces tutorial

another face tutorial

profile view proportions

profile view tutorial

yet another profile view tutorial

the human head from different angles and perspectives

the human head from more angles

head proportions from different angles

EXPRESSIONS

facial expression tutorial

another facial expression tutorial

yeah you guessed it it’s another expressions tutorial

expressions photo dump

OTHER

body language

tips on drawing glasses

skin tutorial

another skin colouring tutorial

skin tone palettes

hair and necks tutorial

braids tutorial

how to draw hair

hair + hairlines tutorial

hair process

jawline + kissing tips

kissing tutorial

couples poses reference

portrait lighting reference

lineart tutorial