Can You Take My White Ass To Funkytown

It’s a sunny day and it’s also Gon’s birthday!

over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs

mixer brush cloud painting mini tutorial

not a replacement for actual painting!!!

Brush: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iNOQmtBqiU1K3MnnUH4fmciUYGjv6Hcm

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

How to recreate the mp100 psychic power effect

If you’re like me (not very creative) you’ve probably considered figuring out if you can decently recreate the effect they use in mp100 whenever anyone uses psychic powers. If you don’t know what the fuck a mob psycho is, here are some examples of what that is.

it’s funky and cool

Disclaimer! This is probably not the most intuitive way to do this. There’s probably some photoshop thingy that can generate these sort of textures or something. I’m just using firealpaca, so this can probably be used in a lot of different programs. All you really need is clipping.

STEP ONE

Get yourself some textures. I did this by looking up “holographic foil texture” but uh. the results aren’t amazing. Please tell me if there’s a better way to find these sorts of textures because. yeah.

I’ll also put some textures I’ve made beforehand under the cut because this is just outrageous.

STEP TWO (skip if using my textures)

Find a way to make it usable as a texture. No idea how this works in other programs but in firealpaca there’s a thing called extracting lines under the filter tab, mess with that a bit. You want there to be a lot of contrast between the transparent and black parts.

Here’s the first texture I made that’ll also be at the bottom of the post for redundancy.

STEP THREE

Get your drawing and put a fuzzy aura with an airbrush around the character doing the psychicing. You may want to use a bright color just so you can see it if there’s a white background, but you’ll eventually need to make it white.

for example, here’s a mob.

STEP FOUR

Take the texture and put it over your drawing, just enough so it covers the aura. Then, either turn on protect alpha or make another layer with clipping and color the texture. You may want to play around with the colors a bit, but you can do this at any stage so. ya.

STEP FIVE

Alright now you can clip the texture onto the aura and make it white. This is all pretty simple stuff uhh… If you don’t know how to clip things and use protect alpha, look in your layer settings. Keep in mind it may be called something different in your program, also you may have to merge the color layer onto the texture layer if your program can’t clip over clipped layers.

And that’s pretty much it! You can play around with colors and maybe put a slightly off center layer of the filter that’s another color under the main layer… etc etc.

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I can’t stop screaming

First thing I want to say is that it is not necessary for fiction to be good for people’s mental health.  Art for art’s sake has value, so does individual autonomy, and people can create and consume fiction based on what they want and what they value without having to make it medicinal so they can justify it as a social good.

Second thing I want to say is that it is not possible to create fiction that is universally good for people’s mental health.  Tumblr fandom tends to treat certain mental health needs as implicitly the most legitimate, and inherent universal needs, but it’s way more complicated than that.  Many people will absolutely thrive on stories of loving, supportive families, while some people will need to avoid them due to their specific family history.  Some people are helped by reading about characters they enjoy practicing healthy communication and getting positive results, while other people might come away hearing, “Everyone can do healthy communication and get helpful responses if they try hard enough, so therefore the problem must be you screwing it up!”   Some people might find “Destroy the evil abuser” revenge fantasies a helpful way to process anger, while other people might find they do more harm than good.    A lot of people find stories of a character being gently nurtured by someone else, while some people have negative associations with other people trying to take care of them and have bad psychological reactions to these stories.  (And let me tell you, if you have a bad associations with soft pastel nurturing that mean it can put you in a bad headspace, Tumblr can be pure hell.)

Mental health needs differ.  They’re not always soft.  They’re not always predictable based on a diagnosis, or a few details of someone’s history.  They’re diverse, individual, and sometimes mesh poorly with stuff that most people would consider healthy and wholesome.   Your story might be helpful for a specific person, or for a number of people, but there’s no such thing as the universally healthy story or the universally unhealthy story.  It is literally not possible to write something for the general public and ensure it’s healthy for everyone who reads it.