The official homestuck site cant be that bad, like how bad can you mess it u-
oh. (use the homestuck unofficial collection)
want to introduce a friend or loved one to homestuck? for the love of god, dont send them to homestuck.com. definitely use the unofficial collection if you can. (tragically for mobile-only internet users, this vastly superior homestuck reading experience does require a computer with mac/windows/linux os.)
get the unofficial homestuck collection at http://bambosh.github.io/unofficial-homestuck-collection; download and installation are quick and easy, the audio and video quality are superb, the games are playable, there are settings you can enable for improved navigation and accessibility, the new reader mode is excellent and spoiler-free, it comes with a huge archive of homestuck-related and homestuck-adjacent material (other mspa adventures, paradox space comics, news posts, snapd8s, hussie juvenalia, etc)—and if thats not enough customization options for you, the whole thing is open source and moddable.
Several mods that improve accessibility by e.g. providing transcripts of the text that appears in flash games and images, improving text contrast, and replacing images of text with plaintext
Mods that translate Morse code and Damara’s dialog
A mod that adds in the author commentary from the books
A mod that replaces the slurs that appeared in the comic with alternative dialog that conveys the same tone
If you’ve seen this hashtag around, feel free to support it! It’s the beginning of Campaign Season in the Philippines and everyone is hopeful for the future. Here’s why.
In the Philippines, we’ve been under horrific, anti-human rights, murderous leadership for the past 6 years.
You all know Rodrigo “I will be Hitler and Drug Addicts will be Jews” Duterte. You know he ran a drug war that killed over 30,000 people in Extra Judicial Killings. That we know of.
That was what we had for the longest time. And he mishandled the pandemic as badly as you’d think for someone who hates human rights.
But then there’s Leni Robredo.
She’s our Vice President. The admin has been trying to push her out for 6 years because she’s an actual good leader.
She’s a grassroots lawyer, she’s ALWAYS there in person during calamities, she’s been running independent pandemic relief, she has 0 record of corruption, the Commission of Audit has been marking her office one of the most reliable in the entire government for the entirety of her Vice Presidency.
She. Is. Amazing. And she’s running for President!
“Kulay Rosas Ang Bukas” stands for “The colour pink is the future”, because pink is her campaign colour. Many people, including perhaps artists you follow on social media, have been showing their support for her campaign.
Now Motzie, you ask, if she’s so beloved, why is everyone going so hard on campaigning for her?
Excellent question.
Enter, BBM or Bongbong Marcos.
SON OF A DICTATOR, LITERALLY HAS A “COURT CASES” SECTION ON WIKIPEDIA, IS USING THE BILLIONS OF PESOS HIS FATHER STOLE FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO FUND HIS CAMPAIGN AND AN ARMY OF INTERNET TROLLS
He also consistently denies, alongside his family, the egregiousness of the long dictatorship and Martial Law his father (and unofficially, his mother) ran for years.
And he’s running for President. The absolute clown is paying big money to erase the crimes of his family and his own harmful actions. His mother is pushing it possibly because she was CONVICTED in 2018 and still hasn’t been imprisoned, and having a President for a son could keep her out of jail.
I won’t stay too long on this criminal idiot. He doesn’t deserve attention. The point is that he’s paid, with the people’s money, to run campaigns to LIE to the people.
And the reason everyone pushes so hard for Leni to win is so that the Marcoses, the family of dictators who stole billions from the Philippines, will lose.
And the reason we want Leni to win is because she’s actually a good leader.
I can’t list EVERYTHING she’s done, but here’s a summary:
Was on the ground for multiple calamities in the Philippines to aid people
Was running pandemic aid consistently better than the actual Philippine government under Duterte, which tried on multiple occasions to push her out
BBM has been holding a grudge on her for years for “stealing” the Vice Presidency from him when he tried this back in 2016
Even if it’s not healthy to place ALL your hopes and dreams onto one person, she’s very clearly interested in making the country better, in contrast with Marcos.
If you see all the love for our Pink Presidential Candidate floating around, feel free to support it for the hope of a better future for the Philippines.
And if you want to do your own research, feel free to!
But here’s a quick glossary of additional terms for context:
1) Rosas = Pink (Filipino), also Rose (Filipino)
2) Kakampink = a play on the word Kakampi (Ally) but with “pink” in the word
3) LeniKiko2022 = I can’t speak much on Kiko Pangilinan, the VP candidate campaigning with Leni. All I can say is that in the Philippines you can vote for Presidents and VPs separately. Kiko was her candidate pick. I need to do more research before I can safely say anything about Kiko, but they’re definitely campaigning together!
Let me know if you have any questions or want to add anything!
Older sibling response is weird like i want to make sure you’ve eaten, i DO want to bully you, i want to protect you, i want to fireman carry and body slam u on the couch and tell u to go to bed, i want to make up bullshit lies about how things work and see how long u believe it, i would kill for you, ur gross, u will forever be an infant to me, stop touching my stuff, chill out ur like 10, im proud of you, etc etc im sorry that even tho i was the test run the adults found New and Interesting ways to fuck up with you
yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.
There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every
time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to
a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of,
but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of
using it.
Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, here’s the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to
that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the
software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of
their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their
environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, here’s the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and
comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and
it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that
polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background
and an environment.
Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine),
people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like
there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they
currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as
any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
reblogging to save a life
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
Not just poses, you can also do this with lighting. Playing with lights in Blender is pretty fun.
Another cool thing: http://www.makehumancommunity.org lets you generate a human model. Like a character creator in a game, but more flexible, and the result is ready to import into a 3d editor like Blender.
This was a lot shorter last time it appeared here. Reblogging for the updated tips and to save a life!
listen, yeah, tumblr is unhinged and full of clowns but it’s unhinged in a way that has coherence. the clownery has continuity. you could reference memes from 6 years ago and people would still get it. you could make jokes from long-dead shows and someone could still understand the weird cryptic hieroglyphic language of internet culture. there’s institutional memory here. where else am i gonna get that? twitter? twitter is just 5-minute rage cycles and blue check marks with too much hubris
Indeed. I think if we all just sat in the ball pit with some hot choclatey milk in this trying time, we might just calm down a lottle.
