Genuinely Going Insane

Flight Rising [And Not Flight Rising] Commissions!

Finished Work Examples ^^^ All animated comms come with still versions

My Flight Rising account with my art shop forum post can be found in my Tumblr bio!

More details copy-pasted from there are below the cut.

Open to doing commissions outside of FR dragons. Good with most animals (canines, felines, equines, etc). The pricing will be discussed and will follow the above guides as close as possible.

Open to doing simple backgrounds that may increase cost, but I don't currently have art examples for it.

Why on earth is the announcer now attached to the header... actually i can't even remember where i attached the header. this skin is now to the point i'm forgetting what i've jury-rigged to where,,,

I'm gonna have to yoink it from the flow of the page but god knows how I'm gonna fix the layout after that, welp.

My Twitter has been officially WIPED. It was good while it lasted, now for more time on Tumblr and Bluesky.

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach

Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.

Some explanation to my process below.

From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:

Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.

The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.

Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.

Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.

Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!

Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.

Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.

Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.

All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.

Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.

Pixel art for my friend prince-liest's "Fire", he's a wonderfully detailed dragon that I had a great time working on!

Ao3 default icon replacements by ferager

Example images:

Killing this element in particular for having a dumb, unadjustable width.

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

i love playing flight rising bc i get to experience runaway inflation in real time