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    it's my 🎂 birthday month 🎂 again so i have a discount code for the shop 💖 code BIRTHDAYBOY2026 for 10% off everything until february, i have a couple of new stickers and a sneaky little keychain preorder happening too 🎉

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    featherspiral

    ‼️ UPDATED BRUSH POST ‼️

    this is very overdue but making these is suchh a chore LMAO so here are my most widely used brushes with random examples of where I've used them!! these are all for clip studio paint :))

    Lineart Brushes!! ->

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    This is actually only my second favorite lineart brush but my favorite ones was deleted from the material catalog </3.. but I use this one all the time anyway lol. For this one (and just about any lineart brush really) I turn any stabilization to 0 and set it to no anti aliasing (the crunchier the better). I also turn the brush density pretty far down for this one, I just like it being more sketchy looking.

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    I'm kind of shocked this drawing was the only example I could find where I used this one for lines, ig I usually use it for rendering on top of the color and lineart layer. That or just for sketches. I'm just a huge fan of the texture of this I love how jank and wriggly it looks LOL. That's about all I have to say, I think I leave all settings alone on this (aside for stabilization which I always turn off)

    Coloring Brushes!! ->

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    I genuinely cannot possibly stress enough how often I use this brush. I'd die for this brush. It's so good for getting everything to look nice and textured.. The default settings for this one have color jitter on pretty high but in this case I always turn that off completely (i like it for getting down flat colors but then i practically always lock the transparency of the layer and go over it with a more textured/color jittery brush). This is also one of those brushes where the secondary color matters, I usually only use the secondary color for this because it makes it uniform, where if you use the main color there will be streaks in it of whatever is selected as the secondary one. if that makes any sense (in the photo the left example of the brush uses the secondary color, the right uses the first color with teal as the secondary color). I use it like that too, just less so. It also goes down a bit transparent and I usually try to keep it that way, because that transparency is what brings out the texture, it kind of makes everything look papery. I like 2 put down a brighter color underneath the drawing before using this brush because that brighter color peeks through and I like how it looks.

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    This one I looove for just filling in sections with color. The first one (chunk jitter) is my favorite because it's more sporadic and fun but they are all pretty much interchangeable. I'm pretty sure this has color jitter on by default but just in case it doesn't it is very important so that all the blocks and the texture they make are individually visible, in most cases I only ever change the hue setting in color jitter (and usually fairly low, like only 5 to 10 for these), and maybe a little bit of saturation jitter as well, but I usually neverr change the luminosity, this brush is like.. the only exception.

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    these are the color jitter settings I have for the first one just for an example, if you download these you should play around with it urself because I'm always changing these lol.

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    This one I have very little to say about but she is very beloved to me. You can probably find this brush in almost every single drawing I've posted on here LOL I realllyyy love throwing it in for a little bit of fun texture. As per usual I turn the anti aliasing to the lowest option and I turn stabilization off, but this is really just for fun accents so that's not even that important.

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    And last but not least my best friend in the whole world. Default charcoal brush. In my older drawings I often used this to color everything in general, but nowadays I usually use it on a low opacity to put textured gradients down on already flat colors, or for blushing and whatnot. Anytime you see that super crunchy grainy texture.. that's her.. This is one of those cases where I think color jitter is like essential to making it look the way it does, because if it's just flat you can't really see any of the texture. Here are my current color jitter settings for it, but I change them all the time depending on what I want to use it for.

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    Yeah that's just about all my main brushes. I don't use these like exclusively or anything, I switch it up a lot and play around a lot. This is kind of why it's hard for me to make rendering tutorials or anything like that because it's usually different every time LOL.. I hope this is helpful anyways. Also if you don't have clip studio and your looking for similar brushes, all the brushes I download are generally ones that look super rough and janky and textured, and ones that try to replicate traditional pencils and paints and whatnot. So look for ones like that! That's the only advice I have on that front because I really only ever use csp. Also from now on when I am asked about brushes I will just link to this post, so I'm going to tag it as an ask for anyone who may be looking.

    cocoa-coated-fish

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    Are there any witches or something on this website who could do some ritual to un curse me bc so far over the last two months I've had

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    Blood clot in my lungs

    IUD side effects

    And now fucking strep throat

    cocoa-coated-fish

    I wanna amend this post to add: Mysterious Hives Everywhere

    cocoa-coated-fish

    While we're at it why not: even MORE strep

    cocoa-coated-fish

    UTIIIIII BAYBEY!!!!

    cocoa-coated-fish

    Unknown cardiovascular issues =)

    And potentially sleep apnea =)

    Maybe anemic too =))

    cocoa-coated-fish

    Not an illness but MULTIPLE dishes keep spontaneously exploding/breaking?

    cocoa-coated-fish

    I got strep again =)

    vanajinn

    A digital Christmas card with a red border. The art depicts an old woman with white hair in a bun standing in front of an old stove. A painting of Jesus is propped on top of the stove along with a red fuzzy Christmas garland. She is standing in an old, green-hued kitchen. In the foreground is a table with a bowl of oranges. Text on the bottom of the border reads "joy to you and yours".ALT
    A digital Christmas card with a green border. The art depicts a still life scene in various blue and green hues with a table next to a windowstill. Light is pouring from the window, where it is snowing outside. A cross is hanging on the wall. On the table is a doily, a small plant in a vase, and an old microwave with a kettle on top. Next to the kettle is a small Christmas tree with tiny lights hung on it. Text on the bottom of the border reads "joy to you and yours".ALT

    Been incredibly busy but had some time to make some Christmas cards for friends and family inspired by days spent at my grandmother's home during the holidays. Hope everyone is staying warm and doing well.

    ID in alt text.

    teaboot

    Idk who has to hear this today but sometimes the devil doesn’t need an advocate. Sometimes the devil is already winning

    teaboot

    Saying this as a recovered devil’s advocate btw, that bitch didn’t need my help he just wanted the exposure

    kubleeka

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    doublefallen

    update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;


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    do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.

    I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.

    venusinverted

    to be clear, the one that is a scam is the one that asks for your Discord login information. there is a legitimate one that does not ask for ANY information and that one is a legitimate qualtrics survey from Discord. make sure you always check sites and links before you click on them fellas!

    akilah12902

    The legit survey has been closed down as of yesterday.

    The phishing scam is taking advantage of the high emotions about AI, but if anything online asks for your login info (that is not on the actual verified website that belongs to that login that you navigated to yourself (not a link from an email or post!)), that is a huge sign to STOP.

    feathernotes

    The Trouble with Hiveworks: an Open Letter

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    It's been a long ten years and I finally get to talk publicly about what happened behind closed doors.

    Please take the time to read this letter linked above and please avoid working with these people. You are more valuable than an opportunity for people like them to use you as cash cow for your work.

    Three years ago, I was approached by many artists at Hiveworks asking if their mistreatment was normal. That their feelings of horrible self worth within the company was really just a 'them' problem.
    Turns out, it was unfortunately normal in that we ALL felt that way.

    Stolen funds, reworked projects without permission, favouritism, opportunity sabotage- These were the common occruances over at Hive. Artists felt used, ignored, and walked all over to pay Hives bills and ego. People didn't know what to do.
    I helped co-found the guild in response to so many artists feeling this way, and we slowly gathered together to make a better Hive. Yeah, that's right- we thought we could help change and save the company if we all colaborated, hurt set aside and transparency deeply needed.
    Unfortunately, that wasn't in the cards. We spent 3 years going back and forth with staff to understand the debt, the mistreatment, the empty promises only to realise that the staff who was left to deal with the mess (because the CEO and COO went hands off or left) couldn't fix what was destroyed.

    Hiveworks was supposed to be a beacon for webcomickers. It was supposed to be an indie opportunity to flourish in the small ways we can. But it became yet another example of a greedy publisher who saw an opportunity to take and take and take.
    It was also a vanity project for Isa and Xel too. They wanted the prestige of working in 'publishing' but didn't care a lick about the artists who brought readers in. If you were someone she thought was an artistic threat, Isa would go out of her way to humble you and put you in your place.
    That happened Many MANY times to me and my fellow creators. Not only was Hive using our work, it also would remind us how worthless we were in the same breath. Everything felt like some sort of competition, and Isa and Xel made sure artists didn't talk to ecahother about it too. So many instances of the two of them going around gossiping in public about 'the real story' when it came to their mismanagment and inability to handle their job. They would use someone else as a scape goat and pretend they did all they could. It was highschool stuff.

    As for my particular case, I was the bane of their existance apparently. I was rumoured to be out for Isas job because artists would go to me for support and she hated that. I was apparently trying to ruin things because I saw those cracks.
    Squeaky wheel and all that. I took the risks I did, i didn't care about being 'everyone's friend' or missed out on 'the connections' because I didn't want to play that game. Artists were feeling used, stolen from, and neglected. I spoke up, and many others started to feel safe to do so too.
    The more we shared stories (and man, there are HORROR stories) the more we realised that the inner workings of Hive were more tangled than we thought. Our years of organising lead us to approach the cartoonist co-op for extra help. We tried our best to do what we could for Hive to survive.

    After we were hit with the 'actually we're in a quarter of a million in debt' and they wanted us to help financially (while owing artists and staff money) it was the curtain call for Hive as a company.
    Isa left the sinking ship previously to avoid responsibility, and Xel ghosted the rest of us.
    All of this is to say that these kinds of people who promise the world with your work and take advantage are such a common and frustrating thing in not only comics, but all creative avenues.
    And speaking up and against them is the only way to make these cycles stop.

    Please support the artists who were affected by this. Please spread the word and speak up against people who use artists like this. Hiveworks is an example in a sea of greedy people who want our work to inflate their ego.
    Don't let them forget we can bite back, and without us, THEY are nothing.

    I am not even 26 yet why is my body so sore all the time

    It couldn’t possibly be the bad posture or the not stretching or the eating poorly or the lack of exercise or

    hurglewurm

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    birds i drew during the last day of class

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