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Chibi foliage guide: hyacinth
some eldritch blasts
everyone making nut jokes on this post, if yours or your partner’s looks like this you might want to see a doctor about it
Chibi foliage guide: Hydrangea
Starting with these with hydrangea flower! 🥰It's part 1 of multi-entry step by step guides to how I chibify flowers in my artstyle.
Next in queue is rose, it's a two-parter! Both parts are available on my kofi already for monthly supporters in early access 💕🌹
Here you go!!! 🥰 This is my biggest tutorial yet - long and detailed guide attempting to explain how I approach technical aspects of lineart (lines weight and coloring/ color choosing!)
In a fit of uncharacteristic completionism, I plowed on and made the second glove. I took some snapshots while I was working. This is not the gospel of how to do this, it's just how I managed it.
Traced the pattern onto tissue paper. Traced the thumb hole onto fabric. Lined up thumbholes on tissue paper and fabric. Fold fabric on pattern fold edge. Baste all three layers by machine. Set stitch length tiny, sew on line all around fingers. Tear away tissue paper and cut out fabric carefully.
Pin thumb on fold and sew line. Cut out and turn right side out. Slip into hole in glove palm. Hand sew around the circle. Go blind.
Turn all right side out. Yay!
Two whole gloves! I totally forgot that I intended to custom snub off the pinky for her right hand that has no pinky, and accidentally sewed it full length. Oh well.
Here's a cell phone picture of my pattern that may be too specific to help anyone else ever, but have it anyways. ONLY works with super stretch and no fray materials. Fiddly as fuck. Don't use the thumb marked "little too long"
Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting
Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”
the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”
More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.
He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.
Painting titled “My Loved Ones”
[in reference to his career] “the most immediate and lasting part of my life’s work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children.”
OMFG I used to work at Carl’s house which in now a museum in Falun, Sweden, and now his art is on my dash!
I could tell so many stories about this family, but to sum it up they lived the definition of what we would call a cottagecore life where both Carl and Karin worked as artists in their dream house that they designed and built together. It really was an artist’s home built with pure love, and also a big contrast to what a typical Swedish home looked like at the time. The late 1800s trend was to have a dark home with gothic vibes and brown and dark red colours. The Larsson’s home though is bright and colourful with big windows and homemade textiles sewn by Karin.
I also wanted to tell a bit about Brita, the cute little girl on her father’s shoulders in the original post. Here she is portraited in Brita, Cat and a Sandwich.
She was the fifth child of seven and felt like she didn’t get enough attention from her dad as a middle child in a big family. To get more time with her dad she would ask him to paint only her as often as possible since then she could talk to him without any of her siblings annoying them. This is how she became the most painted of all the children with hundreds of portraits made with her as the model. She was 89 years old when she died in 1982 and loved to talk about her childhood and those many, many painting sessions with dad.
This is one of my favourite paintings by Carl Larsson, A Viking Raid in Dalarna. Here we have all the children in a boat during a cool summer’s eve (from left, Pontus, Brita, Lisbeth, Ulf, Kersti, Esbjörn, Suzanne).
i’m not joking about how much i love webcomics btw. this is why stuff like webtoon feels so hostile to human life. webcomics are supposed to be for like, sporadically updated comics made by hobbyists about their unpublishable YA premises, or shockingly competent polished graphic novels that have nevertheless been running for 100 years and make no fucking sense, like, niche, labor of love projects hosted on vaguely pre-web2.0 sites and available to read completely for free. this is the best kind of media that exists
everyone reblogging this post with tags acting like old school webcomics don’t exist anymore is making me sad… this isn’t a complaining post this is a joyful post… you really can still go read a bunch of random people’s unique creator owned works on their own sites! i’m not even going to give you any recs, just start here and go with whatever looks interesting !! i love you! i love independent comics!
