For a working RSS feed, copy and paste https://kradeelav.com/diary/tegalog.cgi?mode=rss& amp; into your feed reader (delete the space). Enjoy!
2024年9月 この範囲を時系列順で読む この範囲をファイルに出力する
a very, very happy birthday to the incredible @glassshard ! hats off to the dear @forumkedis for instigating this; we figured your boys from unsounded would be a treat for you, especially in such … compromising … positions ~
notes on drawing old people:
* morpho’s skin + fat book is an invaluable reader for an easily-digested anatomy study. here’s that book plus a few others. please support the author if you can.
* like other naturalistic carbon life forms in nature, lines don’t have to be perfect. (personally i find tiktok-standard young people the hardest ones to draw because if you draw a line with the eye a smidge off, it looks weird. old people, you got a lot of forgiveness in them lines. hell, multiple lines just look good as wrinkles.)
*fleshy things sag, and they always sag towards gravity (down). if you had to pick three major areas to draw, the bit under people’s chin, the tits (unisex), and the belly are generally the main three.
* a cluster of wrinkles tend to pop up in joints that bend a lot, notably knuckles, elbows, and knees. those same joints have a habit of enlarging, whether due to inflammation, or the surrounding muscle wasting away a bit.
* you move real slowly and your range of motion is a lot more limited because joints hurt in particular. (aka your hands/elbows/neck/shoulders can’t reach shit they used to.) old people’ll often have canes/back-scratchers/etc discretely within range to help with this, to almost act as a limb-extender.
* with necks in particular, you tend to move your whole upper body in one piece rather than your neck twisting independently from the shoulders.
* … and you really don’t want to fall, and maybe your eyesight’s going too. so you’re always double checking whether or not your surroundings are stable. old people sit down gingerly (hands might grasp a table or railing several times for the best position), and gravity is not your friend getting up either.
* backs tend to hunch over and stay in the bent position. because of this, and the muscles wasting a way, old people often tend to look like they “shrink” slightly versus an adult in their prime. a notable exception is people who’ve had military training, and the difference is striking.
* lastly, when in doubt, watch some videos of some old people even just for a few seconds, and mentally sketch out how you’d draw the freeze-frames. which bits move, and which bits stay stationary?
* morpho’s skin + fat book is an invaluable reader for an easily-digested anatomy study. here’s that book plus a few others. please support the author if you can.
* like other naturalistic carbon life forms in nature, lines don’t have to be perfect. (personally i find tiktok-standard young people the hardest ones to draw because if you draw a line with the eye a smidge off, it looks weird. old people, you got a lot of forgiveness in them lines. hell, multiple lines just look good as wrinkles.)
*fleshy things sag, and they always sag towards gravity (down). if you had to pick three major areas to draw, the bit under people’s chin, the tits (unisex), and the belly are generally the main three.
* a cluster of wrinkles tend to pop up in joints that bend a lot, notably knuckles, elbows, and knees. those same joints have a habit of enlarging, whether due to inflammation, or the surrounding muscle wasting away a bit.
* you move real slowly and your range of motion is a lot more limited because joints hurt in particular. (aka your hands/elbows/neck/shoulders can’t reach shit they used to.) old people’ll often have canes/back-scratchers/etc discretely within range to help with this, to almost act as a limb-extender.
* with necks in particular, you tend to move your whole upper body in one piece rather than your neck twisting independently from the shoulders.
* … and you really don’t want to fall, and maybe your eyesight’s going too. so you’re always double checking whether or not your surroundings are stable. old people sit down gingerly (hands might grasp a table or railing several times for the best position), and gravity is not your friend getting up either.
* backs tend to hunch over and stay in the bent position. because of this, and the muscles wasting a way, old people often tend to look like they “shrink” slightly versus an adult in their prime. a notable exception is people who’ve had military training, and the difference is striking.
* lastly, when in doubt, watch some videos of some old people even just for a few seconds, and mentally sketch out how you’d draw the freeze-frames. which bits move, and which bits stay stationary?
drawing tip! when i clean up a gestural sketch straight into a clean line work (I don’t sketch on different layers), there’s some lines that if you erase these specific lines, the picture immediately looks pretty fugly.
I joke these lines should be called “load bearing lines’ - borrowing a term from building construction (load bearing beam) where if you remove the beam, the house becomes structurally unstable.
these load bearing lines are different than outlines around the form, or even invisible skeletal lines. these can be as subtle as curving around the waist as a belt and transforming into a cloth fold, and back into hair. the key is the load bearing line keeps the eye moving in an arc.
below you can see the few lines in the torso that i’d say fit the description, and a before/after.
the red line is the key since it wraps around the form in 3 axis (left/right, towards you/behind the guy, and from bottom/up, and also is a guide-line for your eye to follow along. there’s other "echoes” of the load bearing line particularly in the hair; always a good idea to have to keep that one smooth motion going.
see what I mean?
these load bearing lines “can” be briefly broken up (see blue line around left shoulder) but should still attempt to use negative space as part of the continuation. try it! :>
I joke these lines should be called “load bearing lines’ - borrowing a term from building construction (load bearing beam) where if you remove the beam, the house becomes structurally unstable.
these load bearing lines are different than outlines around the form, or even invisible skeletal lines. these can be as subtle as curving around the waist as a belt and transforming into a cloth fold, and back into hair. the key is the load bearing line keeps the eye moving in an arc.
below you can see the few lines in the torso that i’d say fit the description, and a before/after.
the red line is the key since it wraps around the form in 3 axis (left/right, towards you/behind the guy, and from bottom/up, and also is a guide-line for your eye to follow along. there’s other "echoes” of the load bearing line particularly in the hair; always a good idea to have to keep that one smooth motion going.
see what I mean?
these load bearing lines “can” be briefly broken up (see blue line around left shoulder) but should still attempt to use negative space as part of the continuation. try it! :>
even late blooms need a good watering - for jonphaedrus
crossposted on Ao3
tags: #fefates
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
COLLAPSE
crossposted on Ao3
tags: #fefates
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
COLLAPSE
title: first time
It’s the only time Corrin feels the old veteran’s hands tremble.
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
crossposted on Ao3
COLLAPSE
It’s the only time Corrin feels the old veteran’s hands tremble.
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
crossposted on Ao3
COLLAPSE
some illustrated scenes from my recent #fetellius Muarim/ #zihark fic, sweet dreams (are made of this), posted on Ao3
bonus, an accurate representation of the writing process…
COLLAPSE
bonus, an accurate representation of the writing process…
COLLAPSE
2024.09.02 02:55:18 編集
title: FEALTY - #hellsing illustrated fic
Ao3 mirror
summary: a gift Sir Integra Hellsing gets for her sixteenth birthday, and what bootblacking means.
Ao3 mirror
summary: a gift Sir Integra Hellsing gets for her sixteenth birthday, and what bootblacking means.
2024.09.02 02:36:59 編集
no art in this post, but i’d like to share a little about how i organize files! (i’ve intentionally kept this on one image so you can easily save it on your desktop, or repost elsewhere; just keep the signature if you do.)
I started the “Artchives” folder back in college a decade ago when I needed one place to dump every final work i drew, whether it be taking pictures of a sketchbook, screenshots to the now-deleted twitter, or meme-art to share to friends. it’s been a wonderful way to have an organized set of yearly time capsules for my work, and to track improvements over time. if I remember vaguely what season and what year I drew something, it also makes it very easy to hunt for old art.
The $kradeelav (root folder for projects) system was actually borrowed from my dayjob’s server, naming scheme and all. (I manage an international household-name brand at work, with a need to organize tons of mini-projects within). when i started doing larger and more ambitious zines, comic projects, and freelance work – this is a secondary system that helps to house these in a similarly-ordered set of folders without invoices and reference images and who knows what else getting absolutely blasted all over my desktop. usually i’ll have 2-3 active projects going on at one time, with the folders on the desktop; they get moved into this root folder when they’re closed.
happy to answer questions about these!
I started the “Artchives” folder back in college a decade ago when I needed one place to dump every final work i drew, whether it be taking pictures of a sketchbook, screenshots to the now-deleted twitter, or meme-art to share to friends. it’s been a wonderful way to have an organized set of yearly time capsules for my work, and to track improvements over time. if I remember vaguely what season and what year I drew something, it also makes it very easy to hunt for old art.
The $kradeelav (root folder for projects) system was actually borrowed from my dayjob’s server, naming scheme and all. (I manage an international household-name brand at work, with a need to organize tons of mini-projects within). when i started doing larger and more ambitious zines, comic projects, and freelance work – this is a secondary system that helps to house these in a similarly-ordered set of folders without invoices and reference images and who knows what else getting absolutely blasted all over my desktop. usually i’ll have 2-3 active projects going on at one time, with the folders on the desktop; they get moved into this root folder when they’re closed.
happy to answer questions about these!
After Sothe narrowly misses death by Tibarn’s talons (and Micaiah’s orders), he offers a lie to the one he loves most. Sometimes lies are easier than the truth, after all.
(or are they?)
2022 #fetellius nagamas gift for seasaltmemories 🙂 crossposted on Ao3
plowed through a bunch of amazing sanaki/sephiran fics recently and remembered why i loved these two so much…
also remembered my fondness for the Kiesha‘ra Series and how the shapeshifters and magic system there gives me SO many heron magic headcanons and this happened. god i need to reread those.
#fetellius
also remembered my fondness for the Kiesha‘ra Series and how the shapeshifters and magic system there gives me SO many heron magic headcanons and this happened. god i need to reread those.
#fetellius
2024.09.02 02:17:34 編集
joining in canon x oc week which made me get off my arse and actually nail down my avatar-stand in for tellius. 😛 turns out designing with the mindset of ‘can you tell the characters apart if they were in gloriously polygonal n64/gamecube graphics’ is a good philosophy.
plus a contribution to canon x oc week that i redrew from last jan ~ longer privateish-locked dreamwidth about it here
#zihark
AT THE MERCY OF - For 2023’s prisoner exchange.
ao3 mirror
website mirror
There is a companion drawing with all of the scenes, and 500 word drabbles for each.
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
#fetellius & #zihark NSFW under the cut
Captor!Naesala+(begnion senator) / Prisoner!Leanne, Prisoner!Stefan / Prisoner!Vika, Prisoner!Leanne / Rescuer!Volug, Captor!Izuka / Prisoner!Micaiah, Captor!Zihark / Prisoner!Lethe
COLLAPSE
ao3 mirror
website mirror
There is a companion drawing with all of the scenes, and 500 word drabbles for each.
Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings
#fetellius & #zihark NSFW under the cut
Captor!Naesala+(begnion senator) / Prisoner!Leanne, Prisoner!Stefan / Prisoner!Vika, Prisoner!Leanne / Rescuer!Volug, Captor!Izuka / Prisoner!Micaiah, Captor!Zihark / Prisoner!Lethe
COLLAPSE
i had the absolutely brilliant idea of doing a whump spread based off of how much HP #zihark had and uh yeah
yeah
#fetellius i guess
yeah
#fetellius i guess
2024.09.02 01:58:17 編集
no intimacy like that of pain / (and no trust like that of torture)
nsfw liquid/solid snake for FaggotTapedeck in the 2022 MGS Exchange, ao3 post here #mscfanart
COLLAPSE
nsfw liquid/solid snake for FaggotTapedeck in the 2022 MGS Exchange, ao3 post here #mscfanart
COLLAPSE
FALKE - 2022 is an #original comic that JD wrote and I drew. physical & digital copies are still available to buy on itch.io
we had been talking about making something like this for a while. tl;dr of the …. plot … is a beautiful man killin’ nazis messily. not a bad zine at all to pick up these days.
Not gonna lie, the recent book-banning culture zeitgeist was a big motivation for both of us; we’ve both been hit directly and indirectly by pressure and harassment to make “safer” creations (JD moreso than me), and wanted to push back on that idea, especially as persons that are typically targeted during fascist regimes.
It’s still one of the creations I’m proudest of, not only of last year and the chaos during multiple eye surgeries but in terms of my whole creative career and pushing me to the envelope craft-and-thematic-wise. JD was a darling to work with; the absolute best kind of zine co-collaborator and writer one could ask for, and is in the process of making more.
we had been talking about making something like this for a while. tl;dr of the …. plot … is a beautiful man killin’ nazis messily. not a bad zine at all to pick up these days.
Not gonna lie, the recent book-banning culture zeitgeist was a big motivation for both of us; we’ve both been hit directly and indirectly by pressure and harassment to make “safer” creations (JD moreso than me), and wanted to push back on that idea, especially as persons that are typically targeted during fascist regimes.
It’s still one of the creations I’m proudest of, not only of last year and the chaos during multiple eye surgeries but in terms of my whole creative career and pushing me to the envelope craft-and-thematic-wise. JD was a darling to work with; the absolute best kind of zine co-collaborator and writer one could ask for, and is in the process of making more.
hellooo officer ~~ /shot
(making falke means uniforms are easy mode for me now lul) #ironcrown throwback to diane/hardin
(making falke means uniforms are easy mode for me now lul) #ironcrown throwback to diane/hardin
2024.09.02 00:57:18 編集
Powered by てがろぐ Ver 4.2.0.
my, what sharp teeth you have.
little corrin touches his scars. #fefates