please reblog this post if you can! i’m genuinely doing some research :-)
Rockweed gunnel (Apodichthys fucorum)
“String Theory says that all the notes on a vibrating string correspond to a particle. That to an electron is actually a rubber band; a very tiny rubber band. but if you twang this rubber band and the rubber band vibrates at a different frequency, it turns into a quark. And you twang it again and it turns into a neutrino. So, how many musical notes are there? An infinite. How many musical notes are there on a string? An infinite number. And that may explain why we have so many subatomic particles. They are nothing but musical notes. So, physics are nothing but the laws of harmonies on a string. Chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can play on vibrating strings. And the mind of God, the mind of God that Einstein worked on for the last 30 years of his life, the mind of God would be cosmic music. Cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.”
— — Micho Kaku, Theoretical Physicist
are you still wearing a mask?
yes, a reusable fabric (non-medical) mask
yes, a disposable surgical (blue pleated) mask
yes, a disposable n-95 mask
no
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if there's a complicating factor (immunocompromised, existing copd, etc.) feel free to add it in the tags
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Quick tutorial on how to paint still water?
Whatever idk i just gotta document what i have learned recently before i forget and the best way is to explain it.
What you will need:
- Any art software that have layers and especially some sort of layer mask feature. (i use clip studio paint)
1: (first image) You can start by first adding the core objects of the artworks before adding any water. You can start on a gray or dull brown canvas if thats your thing. The rock here is going to be half-submerged in the water so thats why only the top part is more rendered here. But depending on the setting and your own style you pribably can render the lower half too, just remember to have the submerged part in a separate layer since the reflection of the water will be placed between the top-rock layer and above the bottom-rock layer.
2: (second image) Now you add the color of what the bottom of the river is. Most rivers where i live have muddy bottoms so im going with a brown color. Depending on how deep or shallow the river is, the more objects is visible. Note how i added a darker shade close to the grass but also at the bottom of the canvas. It’s not mandatory but i’ve noticed that it helps to give more depth.
3:
Now i make a new layer (or in my case a layer folder because i never end up using just one layer) and just add a sky! You can make it daylight or evening or lit up by the moonlight probably. Use either your favourite brushes, the default round brush, or some weird custom brushes for the clouds - whatever suits your style and fancy! Just keep in mind that the angle of the clouds should match the angle the overall painting has - but you can also just give the cloud an unspecific shape that works in any angle.
4 and 5:
Okay so this is where the layer masks are your friend. You can probably be brave and just use the eraser but that method is quite unforgiving imo.
In the first image i used a big soft airbrush eraser (you can use a gradient tool as well) to lower the opacity on the bottom part of the water. I have noticed that, in certain angles, the sky reflection on water is more faint the closer it is to the viewer.
This isn’t necessary but i used two layer masks here, the first gradient one is on the layer folder. The second layer mask is on the blue sky layer. I know that not all art programs might have this, so you can just do all of this on one layer mask if thats all you got.
Now technically these are reflections of the rock and the grass that i am masking away. But since theyre so close to the water we dont get much visible details and mostly just the silhouette. If i had just added a 100% mirror-like reflection here it probably would make the water look like liquid metal or something. However, reflections in water can vary a lot depending on the setting, so look up references that match the setting you wanna go for and take notes.
And this is essentially it!! Yes i know the example image isnt a masterpiece, but i didnt wanna expand this post even further and wanted to keep this simple. You can absolutely go further with this and add more vegetation or animals or droplets or rim light or 50000 overlay layers. I hope this made sense and is of any use or help for y’all out there!
J'ai mis 3 jours à tout lire mais c'était trop bien
"Enjoying anime and manga has a high learning curve: you need to invest time learning their visual vocabulary, and many of the best works depend on knowing earlier tropes and patterns. But anyone can enjoy the history of anime and manga, how these media have shaped science, medicine, genre fiction, gender, and how—as twentieth century English was rising to dominance through music and TV around the globe—anime and manga managed to become the biggest body of modern media that gets translated into English instead of the other way around.
For readers of fantasy and science fiction, this makes anime and manga a precious point of global access: every year hundreds of English SFF works are translated into other languages, but only a trickle gets translated from other languages into English, so we’re stuck in a one-way conversation. Only rare treats like Ken Liu’s 2014 translation of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem let us see what other parts of the world are doing … except Japan, since hundreds of Japanese SFF works have been coming out in English every year; they just happen to be comics or animation. Only a small portion of them are SFF, but any SFF reader can enjoy hearing a summary of some of the innovative things Japanese SFF is doing, especially with its favorite topics: robots/AI, reincarnation, supersoldier/military tech, gender bending/flipping, ESP, and fantasy or horror based on the ethical logics of Shinto, Buddhism, and East-Asian folklore and philosophy."
how often do you smoke weed (or hit a cart or take an edible etc)?
never
less than once a month
maybe 1-4 times per year
a couple times a month
1-2 times a week
3-4 times a week
5-6 times a week
7+ times a week
based on the alcohol poll i just saw