Valentine’s Day Is Approaching 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! It's the most wonderful time of the year~! ✨🎄🎀💕 --(excuse me for my bad watercoloring);-;

tell us about the typing styles please,, i need to know ;o;

ahem… thank u for letting me indulge like a nerd

mika & narumi type with proper punctuation and usually reply short as if they would irl. when they type “I’m fine.” they don’t understand the anxiety the receiving end gets because that’s a clear sign that they aren’t fine right—

shinoa and yuu both use twitter slang and keyboard smash. u really cant change my mind

mitsuba doesn’t capitalize, but she uses periods and commas. she likes to be hip but also seem formal and collected

yoichi does whatever his phone tells him to. he uses emojis a Lot, keeps autocorrect on, auto capitalization, and when his phone highlights the word to show an emoji counterpart he often presses it bc its fun

kimizuki has auto capitalization on but he turned off autocorrect because it has no idea how to type any of their names and he gets annoyed. 

also me and my friends decided shinya would overuse emojis, learn how to keyboard smash from yuu and spam guren with keyboard smashes if guren had a ‘funny text’ and it’s the purest thing actually

Redrew that scene from Cardcaptor Sakura because these guys would so do this.

… our love that’s like playing with fire …

(now burn baby burn)

COME ON BREAK IT DOWN FOR ME

THE RIVER WILL FLOW

scapegoat is the best owari no seraph ost and there’s no arguing with me on that

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*Mikaela is staring*  (Note of the artist) - Hm? You want me to pat you too?

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Finals week [tutors.] (Shinoa Squad Edition)

Yuu, the kind and caring one: "Well, it wouldn't hurt to take a break at least once in a while, right? So one hour break is good, yes?"

Mika, the professional: "Do you get it? I will repeat how I managed to come up with that conclusion if you still don't understand."

Shinoa, the sneaky one since she's too lazy lmfao: "I heard that the answer key is hidden under sensei's desk. Wanna check it out~?"

Mitsuba, the embarrassed and tries her best (she just wants to be proud, okay?!) : "D-does my solutions... help you understand? Because I'm willing to elaborate, if you... want to."

Yoichi, the supporter: "You can do it! You can answer it, just remember my tips and techniques that I taught to you!"

Kimizuki, that one tutor who thinks everything is easy and wonders why you can't do it at all: "Basic. So damn basic that all you have to do is this, this, and this, and then find these factors. So basic."

Tutorial and or tips in color studies?

Hi there! Sorry to keep you waiting on this ask!

I do have another post about landscape painting which overlaps slightly with this. But here I’ll talk specifically about the observational color studies I like to do. Other artists might have different ways of approaching them (and I still have a lot to learn myself), but these are some of the ideas I’ve found useful.

1. Don’t seek perfectionObservational color studies are just that – studies. Sketches. Note-taking to reference later. They’re not supposed to be complete paintings, so you shouldn’t feel pressured to make them “perfect”. I like posting them sometimes (and hopefully you like seeing them) but there are TONS of messy, scribbly studies I haven’t posted anywhere. They’re primarily a tool to help me learn, and if messy studies help me learn, so be it!

2. Simplify your shapesSo how do you avoid getting overwhelmed and lost in the details? Focus on the BIG IDEA. Decide what is most important to include in the study and leave out everything else. Start with big shapes, and add details at the very end, if you have time. Personally, I’m often interested in the sky and the color clouds become when light passes through. So I might make the study about the clouds and ignore buildings/details on the ground. or I’ll add only a very simple ground plane. Other times, I’ll rearrange a composition to include all the important information (like making an object bigger or smaller, or bringing two objects closer together).

3. Step by stepIt helps to find a good workflow, especially when you have to quickly prioritize what information to include. This is relevant especially when you’re painting something like a sunset, when the light changes RAPIDLY and you’ll have only 3, 4, 5 minutes to put your colors down. For me, this usually means I build my study from background to foreground: sky, clouds, ground plane, background shapes, foreground shapes. Since I work on iPad Pro, I also keep those parts separated out into layers. In the case of those quick sunset studies, I also observe the parts I haven’t painted yet in case the lighting changes enough that I’ll need to work from memory.

4. Some fundamentals to keep in mind:

Value structure: Even though these are color studies, value plays a major role in the colors you’re observing. Pay attention to the difference in value between subjects. Sometimes this can solve color-related problems when your study seems “off” somehow. (For example, maybe that sky isn’t as light as you think it is? A darker value might mean painting a more vibrant color.)

Lighting setup: Identify the different light sources in the environment. Is it cloudy and overcast? Sunny? Are you indoors, with multiple different light sources? A little study about lighting theory can really help you know what colors to look for in different lighting conditions. For example, in overcast light, you’ll see more of the objects’ local color, while in bright sunlight you’ll see a strong direct light (the sun), blue diffused light on shadows and top-facing planes (from the blue sky), and a warm bounce light (from sunlight reflecting off the ground). Will forever recommend James Gurney’s book “Color and Light” for help learning this.

Materials: Different materials reflect light sources in different ways. Being aware of how light passes through or reflects off different materials can help you understand the colors you’re seeing.

5. Going beyondAs you become more comfortable making observational studies, the more you might wish to push them even further by not just copying from life but communicating a feeling. A few ways you might accomplish this:

Exaggerate your colors. Suppose you see a hint of color you wouldn’t normally expect to find, such as notes of purpose or red near the horizon of an otherwise blue sky. Try making it brighter/bolder than you really see it. Bump up the saturation, maybe. This is a delicate balance, as you don’t want to exaggerate to the point where the colors become garish. But putting emphasis in certain places can remind yourself, or show whoever’s looking at your study, that you found certain details interesting.

Think about mood. A color script from an animated film follows the emotional beats of the story. As you’re making your studies, consider: how does this moment feel to me? Take a cloudy scene, for instance. Is it cold and miserable? Windy, full of movement and energy? Calm? Dark and ominous? A moment of anticipation or hope with the clouds about the break apart? Each of those conveys a completely different mood. So you might decide upon one and push your color palette to support that idea.

Don’t just copy: communicate. This last one is a bit of an abstract idea I need an example to explain:

This sunset study here gave me difficulty because it involved not just color but the properties of light. The sun didn’t actually appear white to me - it appeared a bright red/pink color, glowing brighter than the sky around it. But that wasn’t something I could reproduce, because if I only painted the color, it wouldn’t appear glowing and would blend into the rest of the sky. Instead, I had to think critically: how do I communicate the brightness of this sun? In the end, I opted to make the sun white, with the color I actually observed the sun to be surrounding it.

On my Instagram, I’ve posted a lot of process videos to accompany my studies, if that interests anyone! They’re always second image on the studies’ posts.

I hope you find these thoughts helpful! 

i hradcanon that in an au, yuu loves watching emotional romantic movies. he's a hopeless romantic!!!

YOU ARE SO RIGHT. yuu loves romantic movies sm and he loves the cheesy tropes and believes in soulmates and horoscopes andnsjanksnd

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