i know people are calling picrews cringe and all but i can not hate the simple joy of making and dressing up a little cartoon person and then looking at it and going “it’s me! :D”
i also will fault nobody for making one their profile picture i will not deny anyone the joy of making a cartoon person, saying “it’s me! :D” and then showing it to other people.
So for this campaign my sister said “think Victorian London but it’s DnD, the nobles are hoarding all the magic” so I made a halfling fighter who is an ex-naval soldier called Emily Benjamin Moore (like her maternal grandfather and her paternal grandmother). She always wanted to be at sea so she joined the navy to see more of the world and learn how to handle a boat. But seeing what she saw during the wars (they were conquering other places to hoard the magic in those lands) radicalized her and she’s on a quest to remove the main lord of her town and kick some ghoul ass.
She is an alcoholic, very sadly, and she drinks to self-medicate for the phantom pain in her right leg (she has a wooden prosthetic, too). She has a boat that she loves that is also her house, and she brings fish to the main town as her dayjob. She also learned in her travels some giant magic, so she can spell a couple of runes for protection, even if she didn’t learn well how the magic works and she hopes she can one day understand it better. She is right now organizing a watch among her neighbors to protect themselves against the lord and trying (and failing) at learning magic, but she is succeeding amazingly at making new friends, so she’s winning :)
Tell us your favourite word (any language you choose) and why
THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION. I’m sorry I don’t have a good answer 😭😭 I love “hug” and “squelch” in English, I love “diey” (an interjection like “well”) and “chunche” (“stuff”) in Spanish.
(I call this one “the astronaut one”, I think all the album features the astronaut)
(aka the one about cunnilingus)
I still need to listen to whole albums by him!!! the latest is a cover album called Roots, where he covers songs from the musicians that inspire him, so THANK YOU FOR ASKING. What are YOUR Juanes faves?
I’m deep in the 19th century art hole and every time I think I’ve seen them all I find another painting that makes me go !!!!
?? you cant just say this and then not share the painting in question!!
you are absolutely right!!
Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1887 - Captives
Honestly where do I start? The movement? The composition? The lighting?
Look how much more it seems like she’s leaning forward because the tree and the man curve away and around her? Like Tantalos who reached for fruit but the tree would bend away from him? That’s what this feels like. And then there are these other two, pulling her away into the opposite direction. So there’s a lot of movement! But what makes it even better is how he still stabilized the image with a lot of hidden vertical lines!
Also the contrasts? Fantastic! Like the one between the metal of his armor and her flowly dress or her light face vs the other faces kept in darkness or the light foreground vs the dark background,…
Also the edges are amazing! Everyone tells you corners are not important but here? Wrong! Her foot is like an anchor that stop the eye from falling out of the image so it’s a lot more rendered than the flower petals.
And don’t even get me started on the rendering…
Ok I’ll stop here tl;dr: BEAUTIFUL 10/10
you know what I’m not done, I found something else:
The reason why it doesn’t look like they’re senselessly pulling at her? Because the action is actually built up like a spiral, whoa! There’s a lot going on behind her back, but because of the spiral your eyes don’t linger there and instead are lead towards her body and then towards her head.
It’s not just the spiral, though, there’s another line of movement hidden in those hands:
And not only that, they’re grouped together in the shape of a pentagon! Simple shapes are easy to recognize, so it tells your eye where to go immediately.
