Reblogged from jelevs
acorns double fluh
that's a line from chicken little
This is mostly for fiction. But most things are effective for nonfiction. Please be aware that I am not a writer’sblockologist, and therefore none of these techniques are scientifically proven.
Do:
- Shower
- Go on a walk
- Interrogate yourself about what you need to accomplish
- Visualize the scene in your head
- Go back and read it from the beginning
- Sing
- Go for a drive
- Cook something
- Eat something
- Call a friend
- Read the news
- Google something you’ve always wanted to know
- Change the settings on your computer
- Talk out loud
- Pace
- Yell
- Take a step back and see if there’s a fix
- Work on something else
- Expand on other parts of the project
-Refer to your outline (because you should have made one)
- If you haven’t made an outline, make one.
- Read something you’ve read a bunch of times
- Imagine you’re a speaker at an event and someone asks you a question about this particular aspect of your work. Respond.
- Write a poem about your frustration.
- Dance
- Close your eyes and listen to music.
- Go outside.
- Watch a video by the Vlogbrothers or ZeFrank.
- Target the feeling you’re trying to achieve in the writing. Get it yourself, somehow.- Lie on the floor, facedown.- Look at your collection of books. Think about all the times those writers felt it.
- Hatch an idea. If you think it’s stupid, ask someone who is smarter than you.
Don’t:
- Go on tumblr/facebook/twitter/other social media sites. You will lose time and hate the fact that it was wasted once you look at the clock.
- Watch television. Your characters will inevitably end up sounding like the ones you saw onscreen.
- Sit there and stare and panic. You’ll just freak the fuck out.
- Think about a deadline. See above.
- Eat. I’m not saying don’t ever eat, just don’t eat when you’re stuck. It’s too much of a distracting process.
- Do anything without a time limit.
- Do something boring and logistical, like answering emails or booking plane flights. That’s a waste of brainpower that you’re trying to build up.
- Take a nap. Ten times out of ten you will wake up groggy and unwilling to do anything, much less write a great (or average) piece of literature.
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I’m always leaving out feet because I really suck at drawing feet and shoes… So here some studies.
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(Source: hanjeehyun, via draayder)
Every time I’m asked technical questions, I answer that I’ll do an explanatory post and then forget about it. But now behold, here is a step by step of sorts:
1. Super messy doodle on my pocket sketchbook after having carefully thought about what I want to do. In this case there’s just one but usually I do a couple of these, sometimes quick colour thumbnails.
2. “Clean” sketch on proper watercolour paper.
3. Redraw the lines with a pencil that doesn’t get erased easily (in this case random red one), then erase all this mess so that I can actually see what I’m doing. The paper looks very dirty but actually isn’t.
4. Main colour layer. I use whatever paintbrush I fancy and the same box of watercolour I’ve been using for years (pans not tubes). Fill the shapes and don’t bother about details for the moment.
5. Add lines, either with a regular pencil or I also like brown ones. Last minute adjustments and colour touch-ups.
6. Scan the thing, then photoshop magic because my scanner doesn’t get the warm tones I so painfully tried to achieve. Photoshop magic is basically levels/curves and a bit of colour correction. Then slap on a plain boring background colour, and you’re done!This is roughly my current technique but I change every once in a while. I don’t use specific brands and I’m not fussy about the material I use as long as it works as I want it to, but anything else you’d like me to add just say so.
(Source: hyenabonz, via propertyofrainbowdash)
I drew a newer/cleaner version of this in English for the anon who asked for an English version a month ago or so? Sorry for taking so long orz
This has the same info in it as before except for one extra point.
Anyways, again, these are all self-observed notes! I don’t study art or whatever! And I highly suggest you look at different pictures of faces and practice this to have a better understanding.
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Hey guys! Sorry its been so inactive around here. I’m slowly but surely getting finished with my finals.
Anyway, I found this and thought I had to share. The way body language can tell how a person is really feeling is something that I consider very interesting. I think it would be a great way to show, in a subtle way, how a character is really feeing.
Hope its useful! And good luck with finals! Hopefully, this place will be a bit more active once summer kicks in.
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME
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Here’s a list of some fonts I find aesthetically pleasing. Enjoy! ↴
Belta | Dusseldorf | Orator Std | Print Clearly | Roboto | Claire Hand | Clip | Bebas Neue | Holmes | Mossy | Lead | Salamandre
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