Creepyeverything:

this makes deciding on color schemes a no-brainer! I'll definitely buy when the beta is over.

Coworker introduced me to a really awesome little Photoshop plugin. Took a screenshot of me playing around with it at work that I blurred to hell for NDAs. Gone are the days where I have to open up the color picker window to sample colors!! I definitely recommend at least trying it out.

I needed my own super sentai-inspired hero, so here's Heliolux :D I started a big overly detailed design sheet becase someday IMMA WEAR THIS.

Where do you start when you begin to build a world? With the people, the landscape, the politics, the clothes? (heh) What seed of thought directs you?

Characters, nearly always! I'll have one or two and just build everything up around them. Though some of my favorite ideas have come from dreams which I am less comfortable taking credit for since they happen without my permission :p but it's still my brain I guess, right??

If you want to paint yourself and your friends weird colors for Halloween season (OR if you’re a nerd who cosplays at every opportunity, or even when there aren’t opportunities because you’re obsessed with makeup like meeeee) I would like to reccomend airbrushing :D

Top photo is my airbrush kit which fits in a toiletry bag from ikea. It includes a mini compressor which you can get for about $40 on amazon.

I use a $20 Badger airbrush from Michaels. I honestly use it more often than my nicer double-action professional airbrush because ngl I get tired of cleaning that thing out. Paint doesn’t actually go through the Badger air gun at all so its easy to clean.

BEST of all, if you also make props or paint fabric for costumes, you can stop spending money on spray paint! Seriously, airbrushes are where it’s at.

THE KEY ITEM is the Badger to Master brand adapter! The most annoying thing about airbrushes is there’s no standard sizing and shapes for ANY brush item or accessory between brands. I got mine in a set from Amazon for about $9. This way you have the choice to use any compressor instead of the expensive air cans.

Anyone who’s tried to do white makeup knows how ANNOYING it is no matter what! Creme makeup has good coverage but it’s gross and gets everywhere no matter how much powder you use to set it! Airbrushing lets you get 100% coverage with water-based liquid body paint. I got the best results with two layers of white and two of Ben Nye final seal (a layer of sealer FIRST helps the color stick and adds a small amount of protective barrier from sweat/oil). The key is to get full coverage with the thinnest possible layers, it flakes off more easily the thicker the paint is applied. Diluting liquid makeup with sealer instead of water or mixing liquid helps too, I don’t have a brand preference and have Ben Nye and Mehron colors, and some more expensive alcohol-based brands for experiments.

Examples! My QT frans (and me, whatever lol) :3 I painted em and they did the rest of makeup and powder. Powder pigments for colors and shading seem to work best before paint is entirely dry, if it gets too dry for blush/shading/etc, I’ve had good results with a light spritz of sealer to make it tacky again. Riles glows in the dark because Mehron has glow body paint so I had to try it, NATURALLY! Also used pure glow pigment as ~gremlin blush~, TKB has it I want to buy it by the pound, lol LOOK AT THAT SPOOKY GLOW THO

OK hope that was informative enough, I’m trying not to make this twenty pages long ok? K.

learning how to make things pretty with laser engraving :D (pewpew)

hey sorry I know this is late since u made that post last year but I rEALLY need to know. How did u make your face all skull-like? did you make the skull mask yourself?

Sorry Im so bad about replying to messages! I got the mask from http://www.mostlydead.com/products/skull-makeup-effects-appliance-maskIt was actually kinda small for my face but its really meant to be worn with a hood. I definitely want to sculpt my own someday but this one is great! Theres lots of skull prosthetics out there but that ones my favorite, most of them try to make it look angry/"evil" and I have Opinions about that. ;p

cbt!

What about Character Building Thursday (Thorsday), because question: What type of character is more difficult for you to write convincingly? For me, it’s villains.

- cthonicseraph

Oh sweet I didn't know there was a specific character building day, I'm definitely going to have to switch to this for a while. I have a hard time with grey protagonists, sympathetic villains ok, but heroes with shitty personalities are tough! I think making a villain likeable is easier than giving a hero some really unpleasant traits and still making them likeable. Lots of people take for granted that you're just supposed to like the protagonist by virtue of them being the protagonist and we know how well that works :p Though I haven't really tried it with main characters I do have a few goodguys who kind of suck. Either selfish or cowardly, even have one that is unapologetically racist. There's two characters I really struggle with in my fantasy because I don't LIKE them, and I'm trying to decide if I have to like them. You have to have some empathy for characters to make them three-dimensional and believable right? And it's not like having a villain who gets redeemed thru character growth to become good or at least... less... bad. How do you redeem someone who is already supposedly good? A lot of it is so relative and "good" maybe just means "winning side" but there's a lot of assumptions that come with it. Like... likeability. So hard.

vigilante chic - street ninja by quantumQstar DERP well, since I am entirely out of artfuel for a while now (and I feel like I have been running on fumes all year anyway afkjadfksdf no joke! whenever I try my mind goes how can you draw at a time like this and I can't ignore it anymore, seriously, I'm trying seriously so hard not to turn this tumblr into bitching and flailing about artblock but it is so hard you guys, so hard.), posting to an art blog is uh... tricky?

I was one of those people who had heard of polyvore but had no idea what it actually was and so when I found out I was just HOLY SHIT ITS LIKE THIS SITE WAS MADE FOR ME. So I went nuts and made a bunch of outfits cos that's what I do. Godammit I love clothes.

And of course I wanted to post to be like oh hey, worldbuilding wednesday, I really like it so I would uh, encourage some asks, yes.

cutting, unraveling, gluing, and brushing out yarn to make fur takes FOREVER whodathunkit.

1. numbered list description again. 2. SO PROUD of that pipe wrench! I couldn't decide between vintage or modern styles of wrench so I just designed one that's both (it's called a hybrid) 3. finally confident in my ability to blend graphic design and illustration 4. real people are still too hard to draw hnnng. 5. tumblr is going to butcher this huge image but I couldn't bring myself to post anything smaller, this image is HUUUUUGE 6. did I mention its huge 7. hello favorite band! if you're reading this please know that I have a crush on each and every one of you. it's super annoying! hope y'all enjoy.