Insodream33779 - Hey, I’m Dreaming Insomniac! Or Insomniac Dream?

Could you design Zim in that Fast Food outfit where he was "sentenced" to work? xD

sorry but that outfit makes him look like a used napkin

So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know. 

Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.

Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!

Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils. Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses. Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)

If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE. 

Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.

Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.

OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS

P.S Take a screenshot of hate/ ignorance in the comments and dm it to me for 10% off a commission 

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

last man standing challenge 2020

 are you trying to write during quarantine but can’t seem to get motivated? do you like friendly competition, active discord servers with fun bots, and a reason to write every day?

well, then, welcome to the last man standing challenge!

how does this work? wtf even is this?

simple! starting on may 10th, you write 500 words a day, until you give up, or fail to write that much. the competition continues indefinitely, until there’s only one person left writing. that’s it!

seriously? that seems almost too simple.

nope, that’s it! 

so i can write anything for this?

here’s what qualifies and what doesn’t:

YOU CAN WRITE:

fanfic

original fiction

original nonfiction (cannot be assigned for school)

essays (cannot be assigned for school)

YOU CAN’T WRITE:

anything that was assigned schoolwork BESIDES assigned creative writing

everyday writing (shopping lists, emails, snail mail)

work related writing 

how do you know that i’ve written the required amount every day? and do i have to post my writing anywhere?

we’re on the honours system here, all you have to do is tell me that you wrote! in our server, we’ll have a channel just for saying ‘hey, i wrote!’ if you’re not in the server, just dm me on tumblr to say ‘hey, i wrote!’ 

as for posting, you’re encouraged to post on here or on ao3, depending on what you write, but it’s not at all required. if you post, please mention @bmc-gift-exchange so I can see your post! 

this sounds great! how do i sign up?

right here! it’s a super simple signup form, and once you sign up you’ll be sent the discord server link, it’s that easy!

make sure you reblog when you sign up, and tell your friends, so we can have as many people as possible!

any questions? send an ask or dm me! 

“Перестать быть падлой”

“Пусть придёт мама”

Six: *eats nome (runaway kid)*

Me: ok i know that's bad but i don't think she meant to do that, she was going insane with hunger and acted whithout thinking, i don't think she is the bad guy here and......

*Little nightmares 2 ending happens*

Also me:

INSOMNIA

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Some concept doodles of Voot 2.0, built by the boys by combining Tak’s ship with the Voot. I can’t draw spaceships or make good blueprints sorry

I imagine their beginning ship to be scrappy, with just enough to get by and not grandeur at all. It’s kinda ugly, but it’s safe. It’ll be their main transportation when going on any space adventures.