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How To Wow Too: Passepartout
So you've spent the last half of eternity on that beautiful drawing/painting of yours, or did you just raided your very own bank account to lay hands on a piece of your favorite artists, and, all alone on its own hanging on the wall, it simply doesn't want to stand out? A wallflower indeed.
But maybe all it lacks is the proper device to attract all eyes toward its beauty - not just a frame, but a passepartout. Which, in simple terms, is broad frame of usually white cardboard - a kind of visual palate cleaner - around the artwork to guide the audience's glance toward its center.
What do you need? Of course The Artwork, a big enough picture frame and some cardboard - to up our game, something bolder than just white; the dark blue is a nice complementary contrast to the butterfly's orange dominating the drawing [by @theweeowlart].
Tools you need: a sharp knife (preferably an artist's scalpel or a cutter knife), some smooth, clean, hard cutting surface (some leftover shelf board here), a cutting edge, measuring tool & window cleaner.
Measure & Mark
Usually, you let the passepartout overlap the artwork by some extent. So for the next step, you need three measures that you will mark on the cardboard's backside - we really don't want any pencil marks on the front, even erasing will leave some telltale signs:
size of the frame. If it doesn't tell you right away, measure the back-plate
size of the artwork, mark the corners for easy fitting later on
size of the cutout, size of artwork minus the margin you like
Mark the frame size first, then add center lines which will be the reference for the inner lines, corner markings and cutout lines. You should end up with something like this:
This is an example for a drawing shifted to the upper right section of the canvas. In order to center it in the cutout, shift the corner markings to the bottom and the right (since we mark on the backside).
Cut & Stick
See the dashes I used for the corner markings? They are a reminder which lines to cut, only the solid ones! Press both the cutting edge and the knife tightly when cutting, more than one slice or a slipping cut-guide can ruin all the work. Try to cut only from corner to corner, a pointed knife helps a lot.
Almost done! Erase any leftover marks, before placing the drawing on your cut frame within the corner markings and fix it with painter's tape - there are also types that won't hurt the artwork's paper if removed later on.
Final Polish
[Optional] You like it fully-fledged classy? Add some ink lines equidistant to the cutout (left). Or are you of the playful kind? Well, turn that cardboard frame into your own canvas (right).
Clean the glass pane from both sides - window cleaner/microfiber cloth help to get rid of any fingerprints and production residues - then assemble the frame.
Picture-perfect result, isn't it?
Experimentation XP
I wanted to mess around with sky colouring cause I’m a lil week there! I do like it I think it’s funky the bloated look is pretty cute! Plus I love using Taz for anything XD
The images that I used as Inspo (they’re gorgouse!!!) v
Deck - Uncovered An illustration of a medium-sized, modern deck without a cover
Tokyo, 1950 // Ken Domon
Houston Outdoor Kitchen
Large modern backyard patio kitchen idea in stamped concrete with an addition to the roof
Exterior Siding Inspiration for a large craftsman multicolored two-story mixed siding exterior home remodel with a shingle roof
This is a perfect example of framing done right in writing.
We are first shown that Shoto got abused, but not enough to see the full picture. For all we know at the beginning Endevour seemed to just have trained with Shoto too much, but because Shoto does want to become a hero it doesn’t show as horrible as the actuality of it is.
Then we see him noticing his bad behaviour and wanting to better himself. We see through Natsuo that there is more to it, than just overtraining Shoto, but again we don’t get a clear picture of what that means.
We see him after that in a light of a man who is trying to better himself and does want to be worthy of the title of Hero No. 1. And then we get the real hit of the Toya backstory. Dabi was heavily forshaddowed to be Toya and so was Endevour being more abusive than we already knew.
But we couldn’t fanthom how bad it would be, because we saw his victims starting to cope with it in a going forward and forgiving manner, especially Fuyumi. And since Shoto so far doesn’t even notice himself that he is a victim of abuse we didn’t see how bad Endevour really was.
And then we get this.
If we got this at the beginning we would have just straight up hated Endevour with no nuiance whatsoever, he wouldn’t be seen as a layered character and just as a horrible abuser (which he was to all of his family) and the focus would just be on this one family, instead of the overall picture that the No. 2 Hero can just get away with this.
Because of this excellent done framing we get to see that bigger picture while simultaniously getting important backstory for multiple characters and seeing Endevour just as what he is: an abuser who still hasn’t learned that he can’t seem to grasp that not everything is about him.
Watch me! They have been watching for years and it was a very different picture than what the public and the readers saw and now we finally get the full story.
bnha manga: *tries to make us feel sympathy for enji*
also bnha manga:
Yes to everything, BUT I wanted to point out the framing for this. I already made a post about the framing of Endevour before. But I do not think that is was unintentional or morally grey either, I think it was very much done on purpose with the reader in mind (a reader that is smart enough to see everything you pointed out and if anyone can’t see how horrible Endevour was after the Toya flashbacks they are seriously delirious or Best Jeanist).
The framing in the early chapters with every other big topic in bnha was always framed, this is how the series became so complex that we have discussions this long about it. I have gone into this topic before aswell.
But to cut it short:
we start the series with a kid who’s only dream is to be a hero BUT he doesn’t have a quirk (first showing of the quirk/quirkless based discrimination) but he’s a shonen protagonist so of course he gets the OP power and goes to hero school and it’s all great, we see our evil-for-evils-sake villain Shigaraki, a bunch of kids who want to become heros too (Uraraka showing the issue with quirk regulations).
But the further we go down we see cracks in this perfect word as the story progresses.
First encounter with Stain is pretty much the fact that he is some villain killing heros and surely he is complety wrong with his assessment, because he injured Ida’s brother.
Endevour overtrained Shoto and his mother had mental issues, but he is a great hero and it obviously made Shoto stronger, so it’s not that bad, right?
But then the LoV gets backstorys that show that they are humans with very good reason to go down their paths we see getting deeper into the issues of society.
And the fact that while they merge with Re-Destro and his men they clearly do not share the same sentiment about quirk surpremacy (you can see that perfectly with how they value Spinner they quirk wise weakest member as much as any other member) shows that they see issues in the society that some others do not.
Toga’s parents told her to ignore her quirk, her body and just do what told until she burst, showing that the quirk supressing society isn’t working.
Twice was left on the streets, no heros to come rescure a middle schooled orphan, let alone a mentally disabled man to the point where he went insane.
Tenko got ignored because heros are there to save people, so why help.
And then Dabi comes in and we all figured out through the well done forshaddowing that he was Toya, but that was never what it was about. It was about how he became Dabi.
And then we get the chapters and any kind of apologism for Endevour should go out of the window (if you have any reading skills at least) and we are shown how bad he really was and at the press right after we see that he didn’t change.
We experience the issues of the world as it is explored, we are slightly ahead of the main protagonists and antagonists so we get to see those cracks in society earlier, that are forshaddowed extremly early (Kamui calling a pickpocket the bane of society, Deku getting bullied for being quirkless, Tsuyu getting bullied for her looks, Uraraka stating she’s getting a hero license to help her family, Aoyama having stomach cramps, Uraraka noting her costume wasn’t so sexy when she ordered it) but the LoV just are a representation of exactly these issues and the more we get from them the more we see what is wrong.
From a writing perspective that is brilliantly done We get sucked up into this world that seems beautiful and well functioning at first but the more time we spend there we see that the whole system is wrong and full of mistakes that need to be fixed.
We learn it a bit earlier than Deku (and the rest of the kids), because we get more viewpoints and aren’t stuck in that system but we can see that these issues need to be resolved.
And the framing is there to support that, because it shows that the system is so established that people can’t see what is wrong with it anymore.
But I can see why people who assumed this was about a kid becoming the hero no 1 and nothing else have bigger issues to see through this exact issue, where it might take longer to see the system is bad.
On the other hand I am sure from all the framing we had so far it is going to get stronger and the cracks will get bigger and bigger as the story progesses until Deku will see the problem isn’t the fact that there are villains but the fact that society created these villains with the systems that allowed for their lives to happen the way they did.
But just like some people saw from the get go that Endevour was a horrible abuser that didn’t really change, some only saw it after the flashbacks and as mentioned some readers do need these things spelled out (for a number of reasons people have issues with reading between the lines or even taking on things that are said when they contridict a previous believe) but the story so far clearly takes us into a direction where Deku (who is starting to see issues albeit slowly) will see the full picture and therefore all the reader will too.
A lot of “you’s” and a lot of “he’s” in here. A lot of shifting the blame onto his child with the language he uses, both in the most recent flashbacks and in previous ones.
Obviously, there’s a reason Endeavor does this, whether consciously or not – he’s distancing the blame from himself by placing that burden on Touya.
If only Touya didn’t have a defective quirk, Touya could’ve “smashed the ugliness in [his] heart” and made his father’s dream come true. If only Touya wasn’t born with his mother’s constitution, Endeavor wouldn’t have had to create more kids to find a new successor. If only Touya understood that he had to stop using his quirk, even though he was created solely to become a hero, but since that can’t happen now he has to look elsewhere for meaning in his existence?
As reprehensible as it is, it makes sense that Endeavor does this to justify his own actions. My main issue is that with the framing and prioritizing of his viewpoint, it runs the risk of readers inferring that Touya is to blame.
To be fair, everything in the chapter aside from Endeavor’s words show that he’s wrong and at fault, so it only takes a minimum level of critical thinking skills to see this. A doctors advises him to stop recklessly engineering his children, since it’s taboo and potentially dangerous to the child, but he has Natsuo and Shouto in spite of this. Rei expresses her reservations, since Touya has already caught on to what he’s doing and it doesn’t seem like she’s enthused to have more children, either. He disregards her concern and pressures her into it, anyway.
And it doesn’t matter what he said to Touya or how caring it sounded when all of his actions directly contradict this. If he cared for Touya, why not spend his free time with him, even if they can’t train anymore? Because he spent time with Touya not to bond with him as a son, but to train him as his legacy. If he was concerned for Touya’s safety, why did he have 2 more children, knowing they could be born with the same detrimental quirks? Because it was never to protect Touya, it was to replace the child who was supposed to be his successor.
Everything Endeavor did as a father taught Touya that he was not good enough and thus he was not worthy of his father’s attention. His language places the burden of that on his son and that’s how he internalized it a as a child. Telling Touya to stop without providing the unconditional love he’s vying for is useless and shows a blatant lack of awareness for his child’s needs. Endeavor created an environment where he pays attention to his kids based on their ability to be a hero that could surpass All Might – no amount of talk was going to convince Touya to cease his self-harming behavior unless Endeavor changed his behavior as a parent first.
Now compare the more recent flashbacks to the last one listed above, which is from Shouto’s perspective. There’s no denying the way Endeavor treats his children as objects for his own gain is wrong when he makes this remark about Touya while he’s literally beating down his five-year-old. And he does this for the same reason he abandoned his firstborn. The point of this scene is to show that Endeavor holds his ambition above all else — even his family.
And there’s no issue per se with giving nuance to his character. He should have regrets and he should be remorseful for what he’s done, but that doesn’t automatically mean he’s deserving of forgiveness or sympathy.
The problem is when this “nuance” is prioritized above the not-so-subtle and far more important suffering that his victims endured, and are still enduring, particularly in the case of Dabi. And it shouldn’t be obscuring the unequivocal truth here, which is this: Touya’s self-harming tendencies and inability to regulate his emotions as a child doesn’t negate the fact that he was neglected to the point of self-harm and his father is as culpable in that as he would be if he had burned his son with his own flames.
superhero action and cute puppies; this post has it all
I can’t hold it in anymore ok
In that Super Comic Book moneyshot from the aou trailer, the Hulk reminds me of that gif of pug puppies running with that little black pug suddenly happening in the bottom of the gif
Living Room Open Inspiration for remodeling a mid-sized open concept living room from the 1950s with carpeted gray floors, gray walls, and no fireplace or television.
Uncovered Deck in Philadelphia Example of a large minimalist backyard outdoor kitchen deck design with no cover
Milwaukee Deck Uncovered Deck - large craftsman backyard deck idea with no cover
Hampshire Large Garage Ideas for a substantial, traditional, detached, three-car carport renovation
Cedar Rapids Uncovered Deck
Traditional Deck An illustration of a traditional backyard deck design with a fire pit and an addition to the roof
Milwaukee Deck Uncovered
Basement - Underground Inspiration for a large modern underground vinyl floor basement remodel with purple walls