The Paint Mines, an archeological district located on the eastern plains of Colorado in El Paso County.
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Things associated with the Signs
Aries - Healing scabs. Dirty nails from gardening. Sunlight through stained glass. Sunflower gardens. Cheap tobacco. Unfinished house plans for someday.
Taurus - Sour candy. Horror movie marathons. Sand leftover from the beach. Frilled dresses. Forgotten iced coffee. Well kept secrets.
Gemini - Checker patterns. Banana milkshakes. The anticipation before a storm. Tapping fingers. Partial songs stuck in your head for weeks.
Cancer - Broken china. Neatly folded dish towels. The scent of bleach. Unused stationary. The calm after a panic attack.
Leo - The strain of muscle. Loud bass you can feel in your chest. Wet salt air. The warmth of a creeping blush. Feeling lonely in a room full of friends. Chai tea.
Virgo - The smell of home cooking. Liquid concealer to hide the dark circles under your eyes. Knowing smiles. Black coffee. Late night breakdowns.
Libra - Craft beer. Sunburnt skin. When you know you’re winning an argument. Strong cologne. Impulse vacations.
Scorpio - Once soft skin roughened by time. Jazz music. Camera shyness. Skeptical looks. Car rides to nowhere at 100mph
Sagittarius - That’s what she said jokes. Car grease. The hollow feeling you allow when you think no one is paying attention. Skull splitting hangovers.
Capricorn - The dreamy state of a misremembered past. Breakfast for dinner. Paint in your hair. Watching the rain fall. Old brick buildings.
Aquarius - Mismatched socks. Nails bitten to nothing. Wanderlust. Boiling hot baths to forget. Watching people to guess their life stories.
Pisces - Too many rescued animals. Dream journals. Excessive drinking. Purple eyeshadow. The new flower buds in Spring.
20 ways to draw a more consistent character
TAKEN FROM HERE: https://sites.google.com/site/houseotwisted/junk/20drawings
1. Draw the most common appearance for your character. This is your comfort zone. (Color)
2. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back. This is something called a ‘turn sheet’. It’s a little boring to do, but will be very helpful to you in the future to have on hand.
3. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back, but have them in nothing but their undies at most. This is to show off how your character is built. Drawing nothing but a straight pant-leg with no structure under it is no way to learn! (Skip this if your character doesn’t wear clothes)
4. Draw your character at three different ages than they currently are. (Must be noticeably different. No ages: 4, 5, and 6, etc.) Color one of them.
5. BANG! Your character just heard a loud noise right behind them. Draw their reaction!
6. Draw a bird’s eye view of your character.
7. Draw your character feeling very happy. Show body language.
8. Draw your character feeling very angry. Ditto.
9. Draw your character feeling very sad. You know the drill.
10. Draw your character with a different body type than they usually have. This helps you map distinguishing features onto different ‘templates’.
11. Draw your character if they were the opposite gender.
12. Draw your character as a different species than they normally are.
13. Somebody has just handed your character a live duck. Draw their reaction. Keep them in character.
14. Mary Sue the HELL out of your character. (Due to being asked “What is Mary Sue?” several times, I have included a link to the evil that is Sue: [Click if you dare.]
15. Draw your character lifting something heavy. (no magic allowed!)
16. Draw your character in an opposite role than they appear in your story/continuity.
17. Draw your character doing something they enjoy.
18. Draw your character doing something they do NOT enjoy.
19. Draw your character in a dynamic pose that is not a profile shot (from the side).
20. Draw the most common appearance for your character. Color it. (Pssst! See if it improved from the first one you drew. I bet it did!)
A quick video to show how I color beard :D… Sorry for the deformation I couldn’t get a good camera angle. I couldn’t make a longer video, my ipodtouch is already full T_T.
I spam a lot the eyedropper :D
We see it better in 1080HD.
Some ideas for bad things that are white/light:
- lightning, very hot fire
- snow storms, ice, frost on crops
- some types of fungus/mold
- corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person
- clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person
- fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster
- bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places
- poison
Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:
- rich earth/soil
- chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat
- friendly animals/pets/creatures
- a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.
- a pleasant night
- hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person
- undisturbed water of a lake
- the case/container of something important
- valued wood, furniture, art
- velvet
Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.
*slams reblog like the fist of an angry god*
the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural
“The truth finds more comfort in the dark”
there are two endings to this story.
the first: a forest fire.
let’s not talk about that one.
i have fire in me,
a whole stretch of pine, resistant,
whole libraries of un-burnable
books. i wrote them all myself
with ink from my tongue and
these heart-stained hands.
i built all of these sculptures,
cast in sun and
unbreakable -
my own strength built in each.
i am a museum - i have stories
to tell and
this one is the best:
a daring child once opened
her fist
and a hawk flew out.
TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS
I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
Thank you!
