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Widdle buddy !

Experimenting with India ink and drawing more monsters.

I'm fighting my inner demons except the inner demons are bisexuality

Lee Garbett 🤝 German Peralta

I have a new blorbo

i've had a loki hyperfixation for 10+ years and it's not slowing down

My cat eats moths. She needs us to help her catch them tho.

WHAT?

AAAAAHHHH

I’m so sorry if you’ve already answered this somewhere, but how do you design your characters?

I’ve been trying to make an OC from the prohibition era and it turns out there’s basically nothing to work with for men’s outfits, so I’m curious how you made this many that look unique and fitting to the characters

There is so much to work with, though! You will tend to find more of a focus on variety in women's fashion, but there is still quite a lot of menswear to ogle too. I suppose it's just a matter of searching out ideas and inspiration in the rights corners. Here are a few suggestions:

Old Clothing Catalogues -

Collections from Sears-Roebuck and other popular clothing retailers are pretty easy to find compiled into relatively inexpensive books, or just floating online.

A fair bit of it is in the public domain now.

--Here's an entire 1922 catalogue of stuff to flip through.

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Contemporary Artwork -

Some phenomenal illustrators were working in this field amidst the "Golden Age of Illustration" and featured prominently on the covers of magazines and on the ads inside. There was a lot of emphasis on fashion.

Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post are a couple of the more prominent and easily searchable resources. The costuming on the cover art always has a lot of personality.

There's Rockwell, of course, and it's almost impossible to go wrong with J. C. Leyendecker. He's probably best known for his Arrow Collar ad art, but even his sock ads are like…

There were numerous other amazing and influential illustrators working at the time too. Here's a list of some of them. Here's a bonus Henry Raleigh featuring some of his fabulously-dressed people.

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Blogs and Articles -

There are so many of them! If you want historical accuracy, be wary of write-ups pulling all of their references from film and television. There's nothing wrong with using those for inspiration if you aren't too concerned with historicity, but there are some pretty comprehensive and well-researched things out there with more of an eye on actual fashion history too:

--Gentleman's Gazette - What Men Really Wore in the 1920s

--The Fashionisto - 1920s Men's Fashion

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Digital Collections -

There are numerous digital historic image collections stemming from universities, museums, libraries, and the government that are free to peruse too.

--The Metropolitan Museum has a searchable catalog of exhibits that includes fashion and photos

--Here's some things from the New York Public Library

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Photos at Large -

If you aren't sure where to start, image searching for any of Hollywood's early celebrities will typically turn up a bevy of production stills and promotional photography featuring a variety of fashions. Here's a random Getty images search for Harold Lloyd. A lot of standard 3 piece suits, but a lot of stuff with added character too.

Photography was generally quite accessible by the 1920s, though, and you can find a lot of authentic photos of people from all walks of life, out in the wild wearing all sorts of clothes.

This is by no means the limit to the resources available, but hopefully it'll provide some leaping-off points for designing looks for your characters!

Reminder that Loki is Genderfluid and bisexual and they are absolutely amazing in both the comics and MCU

This clip is from their 2019 live show, a slightly-canon look at everyone's first day working in the Archives! and uh…..nothing bad happens to anyone after this XD

thanks for watching my romantic fluff, I think my next TMA project will be something creepy 🌀🚪.

Drawn in storyboard pro with the charcoal brush from this pack: https://rozlynnwaltz.gumroad.com/l/SBProBrushesStarterPack

Loki #1 - “The Liar” (2023)

written by Dan Watters art by German Peralta & Mike Spicer

Quick little drawing of our favourite queer Spideys 😌

Guys you can use this as a banner or a background or a header or whatever, as long as it’s credited you’re free to do so <333

A little comic about a little creature. I'm starting a new notebook with this !

So much of the 'ai art' tag is filled with cringey harry potter portraits and I think that makes a lot of sense actually. Can hp fans be a bit less predictable please

My friends and I are playing Tears of The Kingdom. We're loving it.

It's a tough choice, really

I've been loving the podcast so far, almost done with season 4 🥲 can't wait for more trauma

Art Help

I redid this list because broken links 💀

General Tips

Stretch your fingers and hands

Art is for fun

Never too late to start/improve

Using a tablet

Editing software: pictures & video

Moodboard resources

Comic pacing

Watercolor

Coloring

Color Theory (not children's hospital)

Resources: coloring things a different color

Gold

Dark Skin undertones

Dark Skin in pastel art

POC Blush tones

Eyes colors

Human Anatomy

POSE REFERENCES

Wizard Battle poses

Shoulders

Tips for practicing anatomy

Proportional Limbs

Skeletons

Hair Directions

Afro, 4C hair

Clothing

Long skirts

Traditional Chinese Hanfu (clothing reference)

CLOTHING REFERENCE

Sewing information

Animals

Horse -> Dragon

Snouts: dogs, cats, wolves, fox

Foot, paw, hoof

More

Drawing references sources

Art tutorial Masterlist

Another art tutorial Masterlist

Inspiration: father recreates son's art

Inspiration: Lights

ART BOOKS

Plants/flowers: North America, Hawaii, Patagonia

Got myself back into BOTW, now Link is one of my favourite doofus. I'm hyped for Tears of the Kingdom !!

Alligator Loki Comic Masterlist

With season 2 of the Alligator Loki Infinity Comic series beginning, I decided to round up all the comics in one place for easy reading :) Enjoy!

Issue #1: Family Bonding (Part 2)

Issue #2: Hammer Time (Part 2)

Issue #3: God of (Butter)flies

Issue #4: World Tour (Part 2) (Part 3)

Issue #5: Zoo Break (Part 2)

Issue #6: Pet Tricks (Part 2)

Issue #7: Joyride

Issue #8: Spa Day

Issue #9: Loki vs. Loki

Issue #10: The Heist

Issue #11: Cold Snap

Issue #12: The Surprise

Issue #13: Cookout

Issue #14: Dragon Envy

Issue #15: Dog Park

Issue #16: Bath Time

Issue #17: Snow Day

Issue #18: Family Feast

CW : Gore and Organs

A little heart painting today !

It's a tough choice, really

I've been loving the podcast so far, almost done with season 4 🥲 can't wait for more trauma

What the past couple days have felt like

Janelle Monáe in GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Dir. Rian Johnson

“It certainly wasn’t meant to skirt anything, but it wasn’t driven by COVID in particular. It was just kind of the way the scene was written. It’s the delight of connecting up that moment, when you come back to it halfway through, with the moment from the beginning was kind of the idea of it. I felt like having Blanc be gay and have a partner just felt like a very natural thing coming out of the first movie. I feel like in general, if you think about Poirot, for example, getting glimpses of the detective’s life outside of the scope of the case is interesting. But I don’t know that I can ever see the movies being more about that. The whole thing is kind of about the mystery itself.”

— Rian Johnson on why Benoit Blanc doesn’t appear onscreen with his lover in Glass Onion

A cute girl for the day, nothing wrong here

Soolian again !

#my favorite blorbo, in case you couldn't tell

Some of my favourite gender-fluid Loki moments to get the bad Disney taste outta my mouth.

Enjoy

Bonus squirrel girl

supergiant games holding the gayass community hostage since 2020

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

As a note, I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still being effective.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

My DnD character, Soolian. He's a fancy lad and also 24/7 stressed out of his mind