I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.
(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)
I’ve been seeing an increasingly large amount of people get into fic binding lately, which is fucking amazing! I love each and every one of you guerilla publishers! With the history of fandom takedowns, purges, and the bull shit legislation corporations try and start every few years, it’s so good that fics are being given permanency.
I’ve noticed that fic binders seem to be focused on longer fics, ones in the 50k onward range, which makes sense and is great because these fics absolutely deserve to be put into print! But, the thing is, my favorite fics have almost always been short one-shots, and no one seems to be talking about binding them.
So! I’m gonna show you how to bind short one-shots.
It’s Meg here for TUTOR TUESDAY! Today is part one of drawing trees. I’ll do a tutorial on painting trees next time! This was a recommended tutorial, and if you have any tutorials you’d like to see just send em in here or at my personal! Have fun, keep practicing, and I’ll see you next week!
Looking for a more advanced look at painting materials? Check out our latest tutorial exploring Subsurface Scattering with translucent objects! We cover what SSS is, how objects are affecting by this, how lighting plays a part, and also explains why it will take your material works to the next level!
You can also download the free Exercise to challenge your knowledge and showcase your understanding of Subsurface Scattering!
This costume is my Dungeons and Dragons character, Rue, who is a Kenku (bird person.) The Kenku are a monster race that became playable in 5th edition.
The photos in this post were taken by D. Davalos (flickr, twitter, instagram) at PAX West 2016. Saheeli Rai cosplayer (who is touching my head) is @ladymakeupsiren.
Check out this bird costuming masterpost by my bud, @rah-bop! I personally know that Rah put countless hours into researching, writing, and making these tutorials (especially since she hand illustrated some of them!). She made these for FREE, wow! If you like them, or use them, or they are helpful to you, be sure to say “thanks” (or drop her a little tip so she can pay her bills and keep making THE MOST AMAZING ART HOLY WOW). Even just hearing “thanks!” means a lot to an artist, trust me!!
quickie tutorial time! most of the cosplay bow tutorials i see out there result in a pillowy, unrealistic-looking bow since they usually involve no loops. this is how i make bows that result in one that looks slightly more “tied” in place with no visible seams.
start with a long rectangle that’s double the width of your bow and at least twice the length. if your fabric is too flimsy to hold its shape, you may want to add interfacing. double this over and sew to make a long tube, which you will want to press with the seam centered in the tube.
with the seam on the inside, pin the two ends where you want it to meet in the middle so it is the width you want. cut off any excess because we don’t want extra bulk.
sew that pinned bit together to make your tube into a ring. if you want your bow to have tails, now is the time to make them. you can do so using the same method as the first tube, but then closing off the ends.
tie it together in the middle, being careful to “crimp” the middle in a way that will be visually-pleasing. make a small second tube that’s long enough to fit around the middle and then some. if you have tails, you may wish to tie them onto your bow now.
hand sew the middle tube around the bow, and ta-da! you’re done!
there’s tons of different ways to attach this to your hair or wherever. you can sew/glue on clips or snaps, or if you’re super lazy like me, you can just loop a hairband through that middle part on the back. it’s more likely to sort of rotate that way, but meh. good enough for me!
important note: the first step is optional and only really applies to certain kinds of synthetic fabrics that fray really easily. ALWAYS take care when using fire and test how a fabric will react to a flame separately before attempting to singe the edges on your project. synthetics will generally melt while naturals will burn. some fabrics are highly flammable however (rayon), so be very careful and only use this step on appropriate fabrics.
you can see that there was some experimentation with getting these right, but in the end they were pretty easy and cheap. the total cost was probably around $5/orb? so $25 for all 5, but we already had the wire and the fluff on hand. breakdown below!
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