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okay so theres this little art comp at my school and the theme is "for the love of art" and it has to be no bigger than A3
So, i was like, "okay, what can i do that fits the theme and is good enough to beat everyone else and win this thing for the third year in a row?" (im a sore loser when it comes to this stuff) and BAM i got a wave of motivation that i haven't had in ages and pulled this out of my ass in the span of about 9 hours over two days.
here it is :D
Its A3 in size and i used charcoal with prisma colour pencils and Winsor & Newton's designer titanium white gouache :)
BUT Y'ALL WHEN I TELL YOU I'M NEVER DOING CHARCOAL AGAIN (or at least for a very long time) BECAUSE OF THE MESS IT MADE- GOOD LORD I JUST SPENT THREE HOURS CLEANING MY ROOM BECAUSE OF THE MESS THIS PIECE MADE AAA
i'd better win this fucking thing.
Let’s pretend I know what color theory is
My art block is kicking my ass rn. I wanna draw, I know what i wanna draw, but I can't draw. And when I get motivation I'm in the middle of working!!
I'm sorry that I haven't been drawing much, I promise to draw soon.
Just made my bed. Literally as the mattress and the frame came in the mail today.
Gonna sleep on not an air mattress for the first time in a month. Yay!
Redesigning Garden of BanBan characters part 1
BanBan🎉🎈Ban Baleena👩🏫🤍
So i thought for BanBan and Ban Baleena i would make them both fluffy because i thought it would make them look silly and cute
For Ban Baleena i kept the same shape from the original design but in the lower part of the torso i gave her skirt like fur that matches the color of her belly
Meanwhile for BanBan i gave him more clown like collar and cheeks to make him look clown like
I also added paterns on BanBan's tail to make him silly boy hehee
Instead of horns for Ban Baleena i have her fluffy pointy ears and even a cotton tail
Both BanBan and Ban Baleena have big expressive eye's and big pupil's like in their og design's
I also gave Ban Baleena some glasses to make her look more like a teacher like
Both BanBan and Ban Baleena have hooves and big paw's with pads but BanBan's pads are decorated in colorful dots
STARSCREAM BECAME AN OBJECT HEAD OH NO
First of I absolutely adore your writing prompts, you have really helped me with my writing projects. I do have some questions for you. I have a character in my book, she’s the main villain in the story. The story takes place in there Era’s, medieval, seventh century America (Salem Witch trials) and present time. My main villain was born in Salem Town, her father was a judge. She discovers she has powers and has to end up leaving her family and her town for fear of her being a witch. Her family is part of a ancient prophecy, and she believes that she is the girl it speaks of. Her powers have the ability to influence her choices and thoughts. I often think of it as Mr jeckle and the Hyde. The good vs evil. She ends up giving in to her selfish desires and becomes evil. The hero in my story is her ancestor; and she’s the girl in the prophecy. But I wanted to sort of use her as a sort of “cautionary tale” if that makes sense. My often think of my Villain, Alice her name is as very much like Lord Voldemort. She’s very clever and cunning. Manipulative. I’m on the part where my hero is learning about her, I want to make her infamous (sort of like when Harry asks dumbledore if he knew he had met the most evil wizard when he was just a child. And he replies with, no. If the monster was there it was buried deep within) do you have any dialogue that can help set the tone of how evil she is? ❤️❤️ ❤️
Anon, my love, I truly appreciate you, and you have no idea how much joy it brings that you both like my writing and it’s helped you. Absolutely wild.
Your story sounds absolutely delightful, and I adore the idea of a split timeline world building concept. I’m absolutely intrigued by it. Wether or not it’s simply flashbacks or short scenes that look back on the villain, or dual POV, I think it will be wonderful.
Now to actually answer your question:
I have a few suggestions, and you can shape them to what you want—I don’t know underlying motivations between the characters or actually events/scenes, so I’m going vague here.
“It was like walking into the ocean, surface calm and smooth, sun on your back. Until you step too far, too fast, and the current rips you under. There’s no escaping from that kind of hold—and eventually, you don’t want to, either, surrounded by such power. That was her. She was the sun and the riptide and the victim; and she was willing to drag us all down with her when she went.”
“People didn’t live through her—they survived in the aftermath.”
“It was never about forgiveness, or righteousness. At some point, she was a girl, scared and alone. All she had was herself, and her power, and at some point, one of those things won. And it wasn’t her.”
“Power is a thing you can love. It curls up in your heart, your mind, your soul, and it’s a beautiful thing. It’s easy. It gnaws at your bones until you forget the absence of it. She loved her power to absolution, and at that point, right or wrong didn’t matter to her. It just mattered if she was capable of whatever she wanted to do.”
“She didn’t hurt people because she craved their pain—she hurt people because they were in her way. They were casualties to her. A person who sees human beings as obstacles is no longer a person with humanity. And she saw people as obstacles.”
I hope that helps!
This next stuff is just general advice about dialogue, because I went off on a mini tangent while stuck on an airplane. I want to preface that my advice is based solely on how I write and other advice I’ve received—anything I do may not work for you, or go against something you prefer in your writing style. I’m not a professional, simply an individual who likes typing things.
When I’m writing dialogue, my main goal is to get it to flow well, which is my favorite part. Half the time when I start a scene, I have one very specific line fragment that I want to use, and I’m figuring out how the characters would naturally get there. For example, the lines “I need you to hang up,” “No, love, I’m going to turn you into another me,” and “Your brother isn’t alive, but he is living,” were big drivers for me within those scenes, but I have to get to them for them to make sense.
That being said, to write a good “evil” sounding dialogue/villain, don’t make it too outright, unless you’re going for, on some level, unhinged. Your villain lost the internal battle between good and evil, and is driven by her powers. So essentially, an outside force is pushing her to do these things, think these things, say these things. And since she’s manipulative, when she talks, you’re almost going to agree with her, and that’s what will make it more convincing. For example:
“I finally stood up and did something for myself for once—is that such a horrible thing?”
Which, depending on the situation, can be a gross oversimplification—but that’s what your villain would see it as. She did something she wanted, for herself, after leaving her town in fear. And anyone who has been pushed down by other people will relate to that, and the fact that they relate to it will make them uneasy.
Along with that, power dynamics. Not magic, but the way the characters interact. In improv, you need to have two characters on different levels. You can have a boss and an employee, a king and a joker, a mom and her child. There’s engrained power dynamics between those groups, and they make it interesting. If your main character isn’t at least a little bit afraid of the villain, it won’t be believable. Our main character isn’t afraid, why should we be? If Hagrid/Dumbledore/other adults weren’t at least slightly shaken by Voldemort, it wouldn’t matter. He’d just be a bad wizard—not someone who strikes such fear that people cannot say his name.
However, you can have people on the same level within writing, but it can sometimes make a scene lag. It all depends on the situation. But someone, somehow, will always have an upper hand. More resources, more power, less morality, ancestral sway, etc.
Woah, that got long. Anyways, I hope that helps, and if you need any more ideas, feel free to send me another ask, especially if it’s for a specific scene.
i want him gone actually
(Not-a-)Pro tip: if you tilt your crummy phone cam a certain way, the end result will appear more interesting than just plain sheety.
Again sorry for posting the same pics multiple times, but it irks me when my art looks less than great. (Humor me and my impossible attempts to take a perfect photo with my far-from-perfect camera)
CW, some spoilers if you haven’t caught up with all the currently released episodes /mentions of murder etc
Is it the best idea to stare at a beacon at two in the morning when you have a lesson to teach soon? Probably not.
Nevermore: A dull and gloomy land for the half dead’s. The only bright thing about this place was the giant beacon that you can’t even see unless your near the Nevermore Academy observatory. This particular beacon seemed to be the only thing you could focus on.
The night was quiet yet beautiful, the Nevermore sky was the probably one of the only things that you missed—You defiantly don’t get this type of view in the land of the dead. It was dangerous to be sitting on the roof of observatory that was high above the ground and could potentially lead to a fall if one was not careful but it was hard to be afraid of death when you already experienced it. The only sound to be heard were crickets and a distant sound of a raven.
“Y/N, it’s late. You’re supposed to be in bed.”
You turned your head towards the person who interrupted the silence and found Mourn, one of the deans at Nevermore Academy leaning against the window sill. Usually your first thought would be ‘God, he looks handsome’ but right now it was ‘God, this is horrible timing’
“Hypocritical of you isn’t it? You’re not in bed either.” You responded while crossing your arms.
“I was simply checking on you. A student reported that they saw you sneaking around campus.”
“Aw, you’re worried about me? I would have never expected that from the gloomy twin” Y/N teased, followed by a small chuckle.
“Don’t be ridiculous Y/N. Joking around could get you fired.”
You scoffed. “ You said the same thing when I was a student here.”
You used to be a student at Nevermore Academy, trying endlessly to win a second chance at life but in the end, you failed and were banished to the land of the dead where you were cursed to spend all of eternity wandering as a spectre. So imagine your surprise when you woke up on the train bringing you to Nevermore so you could be recruited as a teacher.
When you came back, Nevermore didn’t change much unless you count the fact your old friend Poppet was now a teacher and those obnoxious twins were now the deans but overall it was still the dreadful graveyard you are now bound to.
“Well then.” Mourn said as he suddenly appeared next to you which is something in your long life you still didn’t understand. “Care to tell me why you’re up here so late?”
You looked at his usual scornful face then back at the beacon and sighed. “ I was thinking about my student years here.”
Mourn looked at you with what seemed like curiosity, you couldn’t tell. “I thought you hated this place, why would you want to spend time reminiscing about a time you hated?”
“I suppose…I wish i’ve done things differently. I was so caught up in surviving I didn’t realise how much I hurt others.” You said while averting your eyes away from Mourn’s.
“That’s how all humans work though, is it not? You have to hurt others to survive.” Mourn replied. You felt slight annoyance towards his apathetic reply. You know he had a very different life than yours but still, how could he say such thing?
“You say that just because you grew up seeing students sabotage others to get what they want.” You said while meeting his gaze. “There’s more to human life than constant rage and selfishness!”
You pause for a moment.
“ I may have been the selfish one but I certainly had good friends who helped me through this game, friends who helped me just because.” You said softly. “And- And I payed them back by killing them…”
The silence followed by that was sad to say the least. You guess you can’t really be not upset when talking about killing your own friends but you took the time to look up at Mourn’s expression. He looked at you with an expression you could only recognise as sympathy though you felt like there was something more to it.
He reached for you then put his hand onto yours and your heart felt like it was about to burst and you could feel your body getting hotter and hotter by the second. “I’m sorry you went through that, Y/N.” At this point, tears were falling down your cheeks and you felt as you suffocating as you tried to speak.
After you calmed down a bit you asked “why do you care anyways? You would would be amused by us ‘merciless humans’ breaking down.” You looked away and buried your head in your knees, hand still under Mourn’s. Then Mourn Used his other hand to pick your chin up and cup your face.
“I’m sorry for my previous comment, I guess I never tried to see things from the a regular human’s perspective.” He said while wiping your tears away with his thumb. “Life just isn’t as precious to beings like me and Merry but I suppose I should have been more careful with my assumptions.”
You were blushing hard.
This was weird, usually the twins would be scheming absolute chaos just for their amusement—they were cruel—but yet, here mourn was: wiping your tears with an expression of longing on a star filled night at two in the mourning on the roof nonetheless. You didn’t understand.
Mourn’s face slowly got closer to yours, inch by inch he got closer with his hand still cupping your face. “Please don’t feel upset, it’s a devastating sight to see tears ruin your beautiful face.” For the first time in forever, you felt as if everything was okay as Mourn slowly got even closer until he kissed your lips.
Oh
Oh
Now you understand.
Mourn pulled away and put his hand over his mouth. “I’m sorry- I don’t know what came over m-” You grabbed hIs collar and pushed him against the roof’s surface and kissed him again to shut him up. Mourn’s White and black eyes widened out of shock.
5 seconds.
It took 5 seconds for Mourn to process what was happening, to process that the kissed they spent nights awake thinking about, to process they were kissing them back, to process that the person he thinks about ever moment he can might like him back, to process such a lively and admired person could like such a dreary and gloomy being like him.
“For the love of God Mourn, i’m literally in love with you and you kiss me after I talked about my dead friends? You really are a man capable of impressively terrible timing.” You said. You and Mourn stared into each other’s eyes for a moment then both of your mouths flicker into a smile.
Ever since then, Nevermore didn’t seem as dull as it was before.
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“Oh my! How adorable!” Poppet said cheerfully while clasping her hands together excitedly. “I’m delighted that both Y/N and Mourn found happiness and love in each other, it’s so sweet! You must be so proud of him, Merry. Aren’t they cute together- Merry?”
Merry’s face was against the window with a face full of disbelief, he looked defeated. “My brother got a partner before me! How could this be?!” Merry said before taking a dramatic exit.
Poppet sighed and continued fawning over the new couple on her way out. “Love is such a beautiful thing, perhaps one day i’ll get to experience it for myself!” She said enthusiastically.
A/N: It's been so long since I actually wrote something and published it. I hope it doesn't disappoint to greatly though I am writing this because of lack of merry and mourn (also last part was merry x poppet foreshadowing?)
Also if anyone could like give me feedback or some writing tips because I feel like I've gone out of character and idk what to do
finally done! haven't drawn any actual thing for a while so my render is quite ugly but who cares
everything made in clip studio btw
sketch
finished product
with random effect because yes
Things I have learned in a car going through America (I have never been to amirca before)
ON ROUTE TO WEST VIRGINIA
- You people have house stores???
- the mountains are big and cursed. Great to go through and beautiful to look at but I am not stopping here
- the back of road signs on one-way highways have ‘Wrong way’ signs stapled to the back of them every few miles, which is nuts
- you guys cut the mountains in half to make way for more highways (like malicious ants)
- it feels like the ground is alive and does not like me
- the trees are malnourished, they are thin and make gaps in an otherwise supposed ‘forest’
- when there are towns, they are little and cramped together and elevate higher and lower because of the bumpy and uneven ground
Working on a lil animation test :P
Edit:I'm going to f#### cry bro I forgot her scar!!!