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I'm now taking Pixel Art commissions for Flight Rising Dragons!

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notn advice from a veteran: if there's site lag, refresh more and click harder. this will 100% allow you to get through it more efficiently. remember, you must sell everything instantaneously once the holiday starts, lest you miss out on those sweet sweet first day price spikes. fuck anyone else trying to use the fr servers

Pixel art for my friend prince-liest's "Fire", he's a wonderfully detailed dragon that I had a great time working on!

Okay, I'm going to be taking the final dip and will be opening commissions soon in the future for pixel art FR dragons. I gotta work out exact prices, but stay tuned 👀

Rewatching all of Arcane and is anyone else gonna get on the train with me that Jayce is absolutely autistic or am I the only one who's enlightened

Pixel art I did for my Niki Lauda fan-dragon. Depicted in his pre-1976 unscarred state.

Unanimous

Pixel art I did for my Niki Lauda fan-dragon. Depicted in his pre-1976 unscarred state.

woke up and immediately checked the news to make sure they hadn't caught him

Your boy submitted his first DMCA takedown, I'm finally a real artist

i scratch you, you scratch me 🤝 a pair of warm and cute Eohippus for this cold winter

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

The Nürburgring is my House, I swear to fucking god. Is this how Niki felt.

If you're an American that's capable of voting, and you didn't vote for Harris or didn't vote at all, then the rest of the world thinks you're a fucking idiot, including me. Unfollow <3

gay horse wrestling sequence

there would be a sixth pic where the loser finally lies down but by the time i got there i was so tired i was just so tired

social hierarchy is maintained without violence in most cases, and after the circling stage one of them backs off, knowing they'd lose a fight. but backing off means ceding your ground & movement path to the victor. it is a type of dyadic dominance so isn't relevant in contexts where two stallions aren't likely to ever meet again or associate with one another for more than a few minutes. a quick appraisal is usually enough to establish who walks freely and who moves out of the other person's way, but in the cases where neither party will back down, they're going to fight and make it everyone else's problem. there have been several documented cases of fights breaking out indoors and someone being knocked out by getting too carried away and smashing their head into the ceiling

it's extremely rare for this to result in life-threatening injuries but it does happen; a few deaths a year is the norm. sometimes a guy just doesn't know when to call it quits, or sometimes a stray kick hits the wrong place. the victor of a fight doesn't get a blanket dominant status - this is only in the context of the two participants of that particular fight

chatterbox

everything he touches turns to black

Behold, an angel

some anatomy musings on winged ppl and also clothing furgonomics

Yeah I'm hm uh huh

I originally was trying to decipher the design of his chest but then got distracted lol

It only took 2 days to fix instead of the 1 and half months it took last time 🥳

Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.

Optimus: where did you get this gun??

Gun, in Megatrons voice: it doesn't matter

Prowl: yeah what he said

5 days later, I'm finally free of detailing fucking tarmac

I need to add this is the 5th time this has happened to me over 2 accounts. Like what. Why.

Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.

Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

Are any of my followers fluent in Russian? If you are, would you be willing to translate a few short things (like under 30 words) for a chapter of a fic of mine?

I'm happy to credit you for helping in the notes of the work ^^

Are any of my followers fluent in Russian? If you are, would you be willing to translate a few short things (like under 30 words) for a chapter of a fic of mine?

I'm happy to credit you for helping in the notes of the work ^^

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach

Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.

Some explanation to my process below.

From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:

Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.

The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.

Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.

Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.

Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!

Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.

Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.

Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.

All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.

Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.

Three cool looking species of raptors:

The Harpy Eagle, the Bateleur Eagle and the Bearded Vulture 🦅

Those are some cool looking birds if i say so myself.