Process of my latest rookanis piece!
Original piece and thoughts under the cut ✨
As usual I've struggled with faces, it took a ton of attempts to get either of them right (all not included lmao, trust me, I struggled). Sometimes I overworked the rendering - most notably her hair. Chiara's hair is straight and the woman in the ref has curly hair, I kept overdoing the details in ways that didn't make sense. I wish the final result was closer to his style but alas, I can try that again in a new piece!
When I overwork pieces of a painting, I rather paint the area flat and try again from scratch than trying to fix the existing rendering. By doing it a second time I try to make each brushstroke more deliberate so that I need fewer moves to show what I want. Treat that first attempt as a test run, trust yourself that you'll do better the second time around.
Sound on!
Obsessed with this Progeny interview posted by @exdeputysonso (here) and gif'd by @tallaxia (here). He is. intolerably cute
This man was forty eight whole years old but he acts like a shy kid giving a book report — the sidelong gaze, the interlaced fingers, the halting speech, the mm-hmms, the look up and deep inhale while assembling a response, the politeness (in the original you can see where he stopped himself from saying scared the shit out of me)...
wrapped up in a deep, sedate tone of voice that's incredibly calming and warm and cozy, like a cream-colored, cable-knit sweater vest. 💞
nerd
this tiktok video of the two volleyball players but the one keeps offering her hand to the other when she step off the bus….why am i blushing
Got into Death Note, and for once I'm watching the dub because L has a sexier voice :V
so I go to look up who did this, and it's ALESSANDRO JULIANI!
MR FELIX GAETA VON BATTLESTAR HIMSELF!
SWOOOOOOONNN 😳
Look at him, he's about 31, and during the same time period he's playing this beautiful tragic mess of a spaceman. Love him!!!!! ♡
Our little disaster darling... Also canonically bi. AND he sings.
(dreamy sigh)
Was watching rules of acquisition today (the episode with Pel) and when Julian Bashir showed up at the very end of the episode I was actually stunned by his beauty because I had seen so many ferengi for 45 minutes. I forgot he was kind of gorgeous. Ferengi fuckers do not come for me. I am on your side
I had this idea in my head for a while of Jack welding with cute little goggles and his hair messily pulled back into a bun 🥰
I also really like how the lighting and sparks turned out.
...I put the protagonist guy in and it's so much better.
Ouf, I had to actually draw someone I'm not attracted to... is this what they meant about suffering for one's art 😔
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when bae is so beautiful you have to immediately TKO them on the pool table 🥵
Still wringing every drop of creative energy from this Dourif fixation 💞
Tried my hand at rotoscoping this mesmerizing Miami Vice gif (from this set by @exdeputysonso):
The scornful, slouchy staredown here really gets me thinking some special thoughts. And he's doing the thing where he gets all up in someone's face, eyes drilling into theirs from inches away — which by all reports is very truly menacing, but even so...
Then there's that beautifully sleazy little outfit with the shirt and chains... I'm so weak for a well-formed neck and décolletage. (The clothes they put him in really are second to none, including ridiculous loungewear and an iconic courtroom ensemble; see this other gifset for more)
There's an added air of threat from the tiny pupils, which really brings out the cold blue in his eyes, amped up by the matching shirt.
Dropping a few individual frames below the cut...
(He looks a bit cross-eyed because he's focusing on the guy's face like 6 inches away)
Tim Curry with his GameBoy on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993)