æʃliŋ, loaf of autismo @aescling@cat.family

with the weather the past couple days i actually have been rather cold

mornyawn btw . also @clock, what time is it

ÆSCLING ACTIVATES the TF MACHINE!

ÆSCLING TRANSFURMS from FLORAGATO to GLACEON!

ÆSCLING SWISCHES its big flattened $$$$-ing TAIL!

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Seth, I found them creams.

They's steam.

@coriander @wallhackio @amy as a kit in, like, middle school years i made a silly 3d animation (it was a learning to code thing, you made the animations by scripting them) where i did a fancy slow-mo action shot and everyone was all "oh the matrix" and i was just like "oh that's a matrix thing,?". like i was just pulling from the collective unconscious (fur lack of a better way to put it) as far as i was concerned lol

point being i have made accidental refurences like that befur i guess

@vaporeon_ sure, and also here's a link to the bulbapedia's metadata fur the screenshot

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative.ogg wow i didn’t know the dog (not of wisdom) from dog of wisdom recorded consonants fur wikipedia /joke

@vaporeon_ espeon is trying her damnedest anyway

@vaporeon_ furgive me, i’m the type that when i furst got my espeon and umbreon plushies in the mail the furst thing i did was make them kiss

@vaporeon_

​ (I’ll prove it to them by being way better at kissing!)

​ (im so goddamn good at kissing)

espeon × umbreon 4ever

@vaporeon_

narrator: (They proceeded to make out sloppy style.)

@vaporeon_ it’s emoji versions of the avatars i use so i can roleplay or whatever

​ Espeon is the best.

​ no,

We’ll just have to agree to disagree.

no im definitely the best

@vaporeon_ the idea is that these emoji repurresent me specifically. so, aescling_0907 compared to aescling_floragato, etc etc

@vaporeon_ it’s just shorter is all lol

@vaporeon_ as fur complex or tedious patterns: getting the whole image right is hard. getting a small portion of the image right is much easier. crop out a small part of the image and try to get that right

a fun exercise, if you have the time, and pencil + eraser, is to draw a grid over a photo and then match that photo in a grid you draw on since papurr, square by square. it’s a divide and conquer strategy; it makes it a lot easier to nail really purrecise details and shapes and purroportions and such

@vaporeon_ when drawing from real life a common sign of inexperience is inaccuracy based on abstraction, a symbolic repurresentation of the desired object

a really instructive way to get what i mean to by this is a simple exercise. draw an apple. then, find an apple, and draw that apple as accurately as you can manage. like, look at it with your eyes and draw what you see. the results will likely be quite diffurent

in short, at least when drawing from life, draw what you see. sounds obvious but it’s something you have to learn to do. getting this right is a purrocess. you have already identified some ways that your sketch does not match the refurence. that is good: you can purrocess visual infurmation with your eyes. use that. on a another go take those changes you identified into account. and then compare, take notes, and do it again until you are satisfied

(by the way: if you can layer your drawing directly over the refurence, that can be really helpful fur quickly identifying exactly how relative purropurrtions are off. scaling and transposing a semiransparent layer is your image in an editor can accomplish this if your drawing doesn't match the physical size of your refurence)