You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I’m glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don’t ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don’t ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
i’d like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!
Bounce light is something I didn’t cover but I adore it!
James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!
I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.
Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There’s a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that’s subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don’t have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they’re more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.
While it’s not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it’s worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.
An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve’s Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!
Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl
I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship
What if Aldera is still a shit school and the teachers pretty much do nothing to stop the blatant bullying and quirk use, but. And this is where it is awful: They don’t encourage it, they don’t stop it, but they DO tell Izuku, tolerate it. You NEED to get used to this, because this is how people will treat a Quirkless out there. And on top of that, the teachers are constantly push-push-pushing Izuku
They don’t help him or tutor him but they push him to get good grades, they give him more work, more challenging work, and they push-push-push him to do WELL to be the BEST to be EXCELLENT because it’s the only way a Quirkless can compete with the Quirked
\Aldera is a shit school, they produced two excellent students, but they onl really believe that the one with the strong flashy quirk will get anywhere, but they PUSHED the quirkless one too, just Push-Push-Push to strive to the top to be the best, because their JOB is to TEACH, and come hell or highwater, they WILL TEACHyes the Quirkless one too, even if he’ll die in the next few years and render all that effort wasted.
Like, imagine how that would fuck up Izuku, because while those teachers won’t say it to his face, he’s probably overheard a few times, that he’s wasted effort, but goddamn it, these teachers are being paid to teach so they will teach, but WTF, that stupid, ungrateful, WORTHLESS quirkless boy is going to die in the next few years anyway and all that effort will have been for nothing.
You know what? Instead of uberdark cringey edgelord abusivebaddad bruce, Give me a Gotham that takes great joy in watching batman get bullied by his kids There
would be a site called Bat Palm counter meant to track and capture
moments where Batman facepalms because of something the batkids do
No one knows who started it (Tim did, he broke his ankle when he was ten and needed a project, okay?!)
And everyone knows that the clips from what looks like the inside of the rumored batcave has to be from one of the birds, but no one can agree whom (It was alfred)
It links to a site dedicated to people shouting “Do a flip!” and various bats doing flips.
There is a secret link to a site for batfam moments (Barbara is sure that it’s either Bruce or Alfred running it) where there’s clips of heartwarming batclan moments both in and out of the cave (Joke’s on her it’s Jason)
There’s a running count of how many people kinda give Batman a commiserating not and a thoroughly sympathetic, “Teenagers….”
Famously,
there’s a clip of Harvey Dent screaming out a window for “Bats! Come
pick your spawn up! They’ve eaten all my PopTarts!”
Another famous clip is Batman looking at a little granny in awe after she corrals an arguing batkid into behaving and the granny patting his cheek. There’s no audio but lip readers swear she told Batman that he’d “get a hang of it, sonny. Dads always eventually do.”
Another link leads to clips of Batman tripping over his cape There’s a section of various bats faceplanting into things
Red Robin features there a lot swinging into walls and in one hilarious case, into a open window only to be chased out by a half naked woman waving a dildo.
There’s another section full of Batman trying and failing to bully his children only to get bullied in return
Listen, Gotham loves her batclan, ok? Sure they beat up people, but they’re just as much the First Family as the Waynes. The only difference is that the Waynes throw money at the city’s problems and the bats beat it up.
Recent upload is a shot of the batclan on a roof, Batman peering through
binoculars. THe batkids are roughhousing behind him. Suddenly, robin
says loudly, “Incorrect! Father doesn’t have friends! He has ChIlDrEn!”
Every single batkid hits the ground laughing. Batman turns his head to
look at the kids, and the camera shakes as the person holding the camera
wheezes with suppressed laughter at the betrayed expression on Batman’s
face.
Cellphone footage of Batman in the women’s sanitary aisle. He has two tampon packages in his hands, visibly confused.
Batman tripping over a curb while chasing down a very high Red Robin
Batman in the Batcave, a test tube in hand. Nightwing dashes toward him. “Hey Batman! Catch!” “Nightwing! No! I’m holding samples!” Nightwing leaps. Batman ducks. Nightwing screams as he flies past the edge of the platform and into the water.
A very brief footage of Batman in full costume, looking very cowed, while a distinguished British voice scolds him about letting the Batkids have fast food right before bedtime.
A brief Audio of Batman giving orders, then going through all the Batkids before sighing in frustration and going, “The fourth Robin!” Spoiler sighs: “I’m Spoiler, B.”
Batman standing at the door of the Batmobile, covered in neon purple glitter.
People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine. If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?” The answer is yes, but there is another way.
The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them. Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve.
If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?
This is so important to mention to all artists. The reason PRACTISE improves drawing ability over time is it increases the literal, technical movement in your hands and arms through /muscle memory/.
THIS IS VERY GOOD, to all the people that like my lines. I do similar but less constructed doodles like these in my sketchbook all the time, it basically just teaches your hand how to move
Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.
1.) Don’t actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you’re omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn’t in the right spot.
2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.
3.) Stuck on the whole scene?Skip it and write the next one.
4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)
5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don’t have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.
6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don’t have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.
7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don’t comment - even if they say they do, they don’t, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don’t, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don’t comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don’t comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you’re reading now, just do it, if you’re ‘shy’ and that’s why you don’t comment the more you comment the better you’ll get at it. Just do it.
8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I’ve seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don’t reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.
9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn’t matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.
10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.
