Swimming - Tumblr Posts

All photos by Khalil Goodman for SugaApple Swimwear, Barbados

Photography: Khalil Goodman Creative Director: Kimberley Angoy Models: Emilee, Leah Emilomo, Nadia and Hilary.

*TW Scars*

I did this back in February and jeez did it take me ages, I felt like I was in the painting by the end of it because of how long I was staring at Vesper's hair to make sure it was perfect. It also took ages for me to figure out how to draw his scars so that they blended in with the rest of her. I love drawing them because of the hair but it can be a blessing and a curse sometimes

"Michael Phelps" watercolor illustration by Christian Cimoroni.

A Free! Collage I made

Teachers

I mean, I was terrified of teachers, terrified ever since a swimming teacher forced me to jump into the deep-end even as I screamed and wailed, snot dribbling down my face, my parents hurriedly wiping my face and apologising in their broken english. She promised to catch me, but instead, she just let me drown, she laughed as the chlorinated water filled my sinuses and throat, as I flailed wildly until she finally grabbed a hold of my thrashing arms and shoved me onto the side of the pool.

“You didn’t catch me”

I had said, within gasping breaths, my brain struggling to string together the sentence. I still remember her smile, yellow and wide,

“You needed to learn”

Ever since then, I wasn't afraid of water, I loved the way it felt, and my dad spent time with me before class, teaching me to float, and conserve energy. No, I wasn't afraid of the water;

I was afraid of the teachers.

The swimmer

Water gorilla.

Sakura Ogami headcanons (omg omg omg hehehehe)

-She watches Sailour Moon with Maizono

-Protien shake addict

-Lesbian (or maybe pansexual?) <-(edited)

-She's pretty insecure about her hair and how buff she is

-Likes wearing work out outfits

-Swims with Aoi a lot

-Doesn't really like shopping but goes with Aoi anyways and has a bit of fun

-amazing handwriting

Contemporary Pool - Fountain Inspiration for a large, modern backyard remodel with stamped concrete and a specially shaped natural pool fountain

Pool in Dallas

Hot tub - mid-sized modern backyard concrete and rectangular hot tub idea

no swimming

What if I moved my hands? ;)

Come on in, the water's fine ✨🌞💦

Fun in the Sun!

Houston Pool

Picture of a large rectangular hot tub in a tuscan backyard with lap tiles

Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Yknow that trippy feeling where you swim for a really long time and even when you’re out of the water, when your mind wanders you find yourself thinking about the water and you just get a sudden bit of vertigo and feeling like you’ve been sucked into the water and then suddenly snapping back to reality and being like “huh, that was weird”. Yknow like the Tetris effect but with swimming maybe? Just me?

Newly designed swim trunks available at DMHartforms.com

No this isn't an ad. I swear! Well, it's not like I'm advertising anything, but it is a copy of an ad I got.

I was going though my emails and had a promotional one from Swim Outlet with this absolutely awesome pose underwater. I was suddenly infected by a bug that told me to remake it with Civil! (Plus an excuse to try and make better water stuff is always a good reason) Then it was an excuse to open Photoshop, which I haven't done in a while, and found out that I still know that program quite well, even though they've made some changes over the years.

More like the original below!

Here's a version without the text. Honestly, it's just an awesome pose!

Learning Log: learned some better techniques for making a water surface, as well as how to add caustics shading for that underwater-shadow look. Then it was just fun to try and use the skill's I've learned so far to make most of this, so I think this is a good sign of some major improvements in my learning journey! Only looked up one more tutorial on how to make the particles make a bubble effect, and while I already knew the basics of particle systems, it was a great help. Plus the tutorial suggested a super simple water shader using only the principle BSDF and was quite happy with it for the bubbles!

Also, while not really a new thing, I figured out that I still know how to use Photoshop, its adjustments, and how to search for fonts and use them in PS. I use to do a ton of PS stuff in high school, and have used it much less over the years, but I'm glad I still got it and it was extremely easy to use again.

And just for reference, here's the original ad from Swim Outlet. Tell me how well you think I did in replicating it!