punkrockjesus:

towritecomicsonherarms:

You do NOT fuck with Wakanda

Black Panther #41

i just want to bring this back to illustrate the fact that while the skrulls successfully infiltrated america and were only defeated by the avengers, the secret warriors, the thunderbolts and the initiative banding together

when they invaded wakanda they were slaughtered on their ship that was sent back to the skrull homeworld as a message

because you just don’t fuck with wakanda

mana-sputachu:

mana-sputachu:

Sketch commission sheet by =Martina-G

Finally i’ve decided to do a proper info sheet for my sketch commission! :)
You can find there all the info, but note me for any questions!
Note me if you’re interested :)

Sketch commission info: [link] - Tumblr: [link] - FB Page: [link]ypal

Reblog because i’m actually really in need of money, with some bills to pay, so i hope someone could be interested in commission me (or at least help me spreading the word)!
Thanks in advance! >_<

Signal boosting - I follow her ask blog with Jin Kazama from Tekken, and her artwork is fantastic! Also these are great prices for artworks, so please feel free to commission her!

nellasaur:

emilianadarling:

When you encounter the same little detail in fanfic after fanfic and you realize you genuinely can’t remember if that thing is actually canon or if it’s just something fandom made up.

I like to refer to this phenomenon as One True Fanon.

and now that I’ve actually remembered to link this -

Ladies and gentlemen, as a bit of compensation for waiting for a while for the next episode (DISC 1 FINALE, BITCHES ), we at FFVII: Abridged have decided to do our first Q&A special!

I encourage people to reblog this for their friends to look at and if they were interested in leaving questions for us to please do so through the video’s YT page or by PM’ing cloudstrife_8 @ YT.

I also encourage people to look through the current comments to see if your question’s already been asked - if we don’t get to it during this session don’t worry - we’re probably going to be doing more in the future.

SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, GO FORTH AND ASK CHARACTERS (AND THE CAST) STUFF. We’ll stop taking questions in July with the results coming up some time after that!

LEAVE A MESSAGE IN MY INBOX SAYING WHO YOU THINK I SHOULD COSPLAY

skittzipoo:

miss-kiyotaka:

Give me at least one character and the reason you chose them. It can be based on looks or personality.

義波紋シャボンランチャー！！！

newtypezaku:

Because we have to chase him.  He’s the hero Vol City deserves, but no one needs right now.  So we’ll hunt him because he can take it.  Because he’s not our hero.  He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector… a Makai Knight.

theconjuredking:

snafflebithumptywink:

mrotiski:

international cut your hair like your icon day how screwed are you 

i literally got my hair cut like alan cumming’s two days ago i’m good

My hair has pretty consistently looked like Cas’s (or a dark brown Hawkeye’s depending on the time of day).  So yeah.  I’m good.

… getting a mullet done like Sol’s when my hair is this short is next to impossible. Plus my hair isn’t that anime unless I have major bedhead. 8|

gear-project:

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Part 3 of Ishiwatari Daisuke’s “Method of Illustration”
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WORK 09
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Work 09 Copics

SHADING

I’ve moved on from the colored pencil contours in Work 08 (>Pg. 157), and using a Light Copic Marker to follow the same color contour paths with some shading now.

Shadows naturally develop from deeper color hues, so I stopped when I reached this degree of coating.

For this section, again, I chose a carefully considered Highlighter.*

*(Using a light copic marker with multiple coats/cross-hatches will deepen the color, giving it that ideal darker hue for shadows. When working with soft brush colors in Photoshop, using Multiply/Additive/Overlay brush effects with a low Opacity and Flow produces a similar effect.)

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WORK 10
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Work 10 Copics

COLOR FOUNDATION FOR THE SKIN

Once I’m sure there are no more sections from Work 09 left to for the Highlighter, I begin to coat the rest of this section with a full skin color.

To be more specific about what sections I highlighted: the under-arm and shoulder, the frame (of the skin), the back of the hands, the pisa*, and the tip of the nose and lips.

We make an exception hereafter to not highlight the deeper shaded sections, the best Copic of choice being the thin, flesh-colored E-0000 marker to work on the top sections (of skin).

*(Pisa is probably an art anatomical term for parts of the body or skin that are bent, pressed, or being leaned on to cause it to wrinkle, curve, or flex outwards, affecting light contours on the surface. So in this case, the kneecap, legs, or parts of May’s right arm near her elbow.)

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WORK 11
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Work 11 Copics

COLOR FOUNDATION FOR EVERYTHING ELSE

Once I have chosen a good sense of color for everything from my Overlap*, I begin laying a key foundation of flat, balanced colors across the hair, clothing, and background.

*(Atari: Color Palette Layer.)

This time, I spread the colors together in a grouping of various brown colors for the image.

Using a system of brown colors alongside May’s original Orange clothing color scheme gave it a rather depressing impression with the last result, so this time, I chose a stronger yellow (amber) outfit to make it stand out more.

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WORK 12
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Work 12 Copics

TEXTURING THE HAIR

After laying Work 11’s groundwork, I begin coloring the upper portions of the head of hair with various brown colors I chose to give it a sense of texture.

In my case, giving the hair a beveled (dimensional, pointed, or sticking-out) texture is not limited to just this character.*

*(Beveling the hair shading to give it volume is a personal style preference of his.)

For coloring this foundation (though a natural blonde hair color is just fine for some highlights), I couldn’t go with blonde because various other white colors conflicted with the result in spite of what I wanted to take advantage of, so this time the hair colors were these (various shades of brown/tea/auburn/beige).

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Translator’s Notes
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These four steps involve an intricate understanding and use of blending light values (highlights and shading with a chosen light source), color choice (complimentary colors for a color palette), and familiarity with copic markers or overlayed brushwork.

I suggest practicing shading with objects like a ball or a cube or observing how shadows fall across the human body when looking at a live subject.

Of course, understanding how light and shadow interact is just one part of it. The other part is knowing how colors blend and mix to give it a natural hue and color depth.

The way Daisuke bevels his characters’ hair isn’t the natural way to paint hair, but more an illustration style choice. Hair doesn’t naturally look like a piece of chiseled out wood-work, but if you want to achieve that effect…take a look at some wooden sculptures or glazed furniture or plastic sculpts and see how the material’s surface is treated and how light affects and interacts with it.

Hair is, of course, naturally much softer, so treating the shadows and highlights with a softer brush or soft edged copic marker might be a good idea.

For skin tones, natural skin is also much much softer and subtle in texture. Though if I were to make a comparison between this anime-like style of illustrating skin tones… It would be similar to coloring the contours of a cooked hot-dog or something with a shiny plastic-like (but soft) skin surface.

For shading this kind of skin, you need to understand how skin stretches and takes shape across the body and where the light will hit it during certain poses.

As said before, shadows are just a deeper version of the same skin color you use, while highlights might be a complimentary lighter tone.

In general it’s not that hard to find a decent skin tutorial, but I do recommend checking these two out, just to get a better idea of how tones work.

Overall though, having a good grasp of how light interacts with shadow and how colors blend and impose on one another on different surfaces would serve you well.  You might want to work in black and white first and then choose which skin tone colors you want to work with, so that you have a stronger idea of what you want to choose for tones and colors from other light sources.

cinnanie:

The Writers Helpers: Tip: Women Are Not Weaker Than Men

howtofightwrite:

Divorce yourself from this idea right now, author. While I’m sure it is the narrative you’ve been presented with your entire life, I’m here to tell you that it isn’t true. Women do find building up muscles in the upper body more difficult than men, but since power does not come from the arms, it’s actually a superfluous distinction. Women build up muscles in the lower body and in the core muscles (abdominal) very rapidly.

Skill in combat is not a matter of biology, but in training and dedication. Remember, if your female character fights, she’s neither unique nor special. In my experience as a martial artist and a martial arts instructor, there are on average per class 2 girls to every 10 boys, with the female number either remaining constant or doubling as the class goes up in age. While there are fewer female combatants around than male, it’s not hard to find 20 women to every 100 men. Extrapolate that out and think about it, women who fight are not as rare as you might have previously imagined.

Here are a few things to consider:

1) Power comes from the hips.

I will harp on this until the end of time until everyone shakes the myth of punch strength being decided by arm muscle strength out of their heads. The strength of the strike comes from the pivot of the hips and guess what? Women have wider hips than men, thus a greater opportunity to generate more power and hit their opponents harder. Combine this advantage with a low-center of gravity and the ability to push that center even lower  and you have a fighter capable, not just in power, but able to topple much larger opponents.

2) Women have a lower center of gravity.

This is the advantage of the short fighter, it’s the same for short men and short women, a tall woman fighting a shorter woman will encounter the same resistance as a tall man fighting a short one. I list this as a female advantage because most women will always find themselves facing larger opponents. So, it’s important for an author to keep in mind.

So, how does this work? A center of gravity is the height difference from the ground to your core, around the belly button. The shorter the fighter, the lower their center of gravity, the lower the center of gravity the closer they are to the earth, the closer they are to the earth the better their ability to generate a stable base and the harder they are to knock over. A fighter who knows where to put their feet and weight to make use of their center is a hard one to take to the ground. This is one way for women to overcome the height and weight disadvantage.

3) Women are naturally more resistant to pain and fatigue than men, have a greater potential for stamina, and can fight harder for longer.

It’s important to note: it’s not just that men cannot biologically carry a child to term and survive the birth, but if they did with their current make-up, they would die. So, you may call it the miracle of childbirth, but a woman’s body is gifted with a much greater level of resilience than their male counterparts. While these abilities must be honed and improved through training, the natural talent is already present in every woman’s body.

4) The only combatants who ever actively terrified me were women.

I’ve met a great many master martial artists from a great many different styles, all of whom I deeply respect, and can trust in their ability to utterly annihilate me. But the female black belt sparring division, my first thought on encountering those women as a teenager was: “I want to spar with the boys.”

Women live in a very different world than men do, they live in a world that is comprised of dangers even in places that are supposed to be safe. A woman cannot walk down a street alone, never mind if it’s at night, without wondering if an attack will happen. Rape and other acts of violence are very real, every day threats, and women live with the knowledge that the places they have been told to go to for protection will disregard them, laugh at them, and judge them on their worth for “allowing” these acts to happen to them. Every woman, even the ones like me who began at a young age, will eventually be faced with the realization that they may have to use what they know against another person one day. This is not fantasy assessment full of wishful thinking, but a cold reality. What if one day I have to hurt someone else? What if one day I have to kill them? The women who practice and prepare through forms of combat do so with that in mind, with the knowledge that they are the underdogs and that one day, they may have to use that training to fight for their lives.

The ferocity with which they beat on each other in sparring matches is a reflection of that. Remember, these are women who have shaken off the socially ingrained idea of ‘I can’t hurt anyone’ and moved on to ‘I will break you if you hurt me’. They follow that up with: you will never walk right again.

Unless your character comes from a very different society, this attitude will be part of who they are. Women who are trained and dedicated have the capacity to be terrifying, especially in a patriarchal society. Why? It’s not the behavior that most men expect.

failarious:

kh3 is announced nostalgia hits everyone in the gut fans cheer grown men cry and I’m reminded of all my godawful OCs

and the awful crossover fics.

all. the horrible. crossover fics.

I’ve seen two copies of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (PS1 and Dreamcast), one of MvC1 (PS1), an original copy of Killer Instinct for the SNES, and one of Gauntlet: Legends for the Dreamcast come in the last week since I started working at the local video game shop.

… god I love my job.

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