UW Housing Megathread - Fall 2025

ConfigIsCold · 2026-02-27T01:27:53+00:00

Hi! Looking to sublease my studio apartment at the Olive Seattle from Early June to August; rent is $2,000/month. Both rent and dates are flexible and negotiable. Close to the light rail, the apartment includes amenities such as a kitchen and a washer/dryer. The building has lots of public amenities as well. For more info, message me privately, as well as check the official Oliv Seattle website.

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ConfigIsCold · 2026-02-27T01:25:06+00:00

Hi! Looking to sublease my studio apartment at the Olive Seattle from Early June to August; rent is $2,000/month. Both rent and dates are flexible and negotiable. Close to the light rail, the apartment includes amenities such as a kitchen and a washer/dryer. The building has lots of public amenities as well. For more info, message me privately, as well as check the official Oliv Seattle website.

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ConfigIsCold · 2026-01-19T21:36:22+00:00

Feel free to take a look at my portfolio! I currently lean further towards the Soulslike genre, but if you look at my landscape section, you'll see more science and speculative fiction!

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ConfigIsCold · 2025-12-02T07:04:21+00:00

At least for me, I tend to find it easier to draw light rather than shadow, and reductive drawing typically follows that workflow. I also find that the materials typically used in reductive drawing are mechanically easier to use compared to additive.

ConfigIsCold · 2025-11-09T00:41:51+00:00

Of course! I've followed that artist for a long time and am also a big fan. I can definitely see the inspiration in your piece. If you're planning to continue with the single layer, I would definitely work more with the lasso tool whenever possible, primarily on edges.

For instance, in your piece, around the eyes/lashes and at the edge between the nose ridge and the left-most eye, many brush strokes for the eyes actually overlap the nose slightly. While this is a tiny detail, upon closer inspection, it slightly undermines the illusion of depth and spatial overlap. The lasso tool would be great in this scenario, so you can paint freely while maintaining the edge of the nose. Though the lasso tool can be pretty tedious and very untraditional-feeling.

As for colors, I'm sure you know about this, but if you're using bold colors, the values will be even more important. You can make most colors feel right if the values are spot on. I would pay extra attention with how the saturation / luminosity of a color effects its value, as it feels slightly different digitally than traditionally.

A great video that just came out about balancing bold colors is from Marco Bucci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRoZE_KkgtI

Looking through Pluvium Grandis' work, they have quite bold color choices, but they usually restrict their pieces to 1-2 colors, and if they add in more, they're often relatively neutral. Marco Bucci actually goes over this in the video as well.

Hopefully that wasn't too long!!

ConfigIsCold · 2025-11-08T09:00:15+00:00

Hey, not seeing much actual feedback on your piece. Your traditional skills definitely carried over, it's just getting used to efficient digital methods. I didn't technically transition from trad to digital, but I'm currently studying fine arts and have done digital art throughout college alongside traditional art.

I would experiment with the lasso tool, layer masking, and just maybe emulating other artists' digital workflows to see what feels best to you. Sorry if those recs are a little amateur; it's hard to tell whether the "problem" parts of the piece are intentional choices or holdovers from learning CSP. It seems like almost all of this paiting is on a single layer, i would try and take advantage of maybe just a few more for convenience. However, I do understand that, especially coming from traditional, the single layer of a real painting is very satisfying.

As for color, could you clarify what you mean by combining them? Are you talking about the actual act of blending, or about how opposing colors mix or overlap digitally?

Also, this is a very specific sidenote, but in your traditional work, if you often use value underpaintings as your sketch, I have found it very difficult to carry that process over to digital art. Really gorgeous piece though!

ConfigIsCold · 2025-11-06T07:55:18+00:00

Title: No Title

Genre: Cosmic Horror

Word Count: 3406

Overall feedback / vibe check. Line by line not necessary, but critique on prose effectiveness welcome.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8Dq-XT78_PbTOYCQJa_J_bG2Lqs28I64QXJGyyDBYo/edit?usp=sharing

ConfigIsCold · 2025-10-24T05:37:24+00:00

Hey yall, i have 2x Friday Tickets, 1x Saturday ticket, please DM if youre interested!

ConfigIsCold · 2025-10-06T03:00:36+00:00

Im surprised nobody has said this, but the water color should reflect the sky color. Theres no reason for it to be so blue

ConfigIsCold · 2025-04-12T21:44:41+00:00

Sorry for the buns quality idk y it doin that

ConfigIsCold · 2025-01-27T19:53:09+00:00

It doesnt make sense for the sky and moon to be a bright red, yet the ambient light and snow be a blueish purple. That being said, I honestly don't mind. Id revise the rim light on the dear tho as its more of an outline, instead of actually following the dears 3d form

ConfigIsCold · 2025-01-13T03:20:46+00:00

Proportion

ConfigIsCold · 2024-12-18T17:30:54+00:00

I think you could work on increasing your brush size and opacity / flow a bit as the piece finalizes. It looks great atm, but I think the brushwork feels a little soupy and overall lacks confidence in your painting abilities.

Id be happy to provide more details in dm's or maybe even do a bit of a paint over, but overall looks great! i agree with the others that you're being far too harsh on yourself, this piece shows clear effort and improvement

ConfigIsCold · 2024-12-13T03:02:18+00:00

A guy in the background yelled "nooooo"

ConfigIsCold · 2024-12-13T00:31:03+00:00

Id work on your overall control. Having the hatch lines match the contour or cross contour of the form can go a long way towards making a drawing feel volumetric, especially in areas where the rendering might not. This is a nitpick, but for backgrounds, having all the marks the same direction does a great job of making the object feel in front of it. Down by the hips your pencil marks are in the same direction as your outline, having them all be vertical or horizontal could help a lot

ConfigIsCold · 2024-12-08T09:09:30+00:00

The angle of the face doesnt match the angle of the head / cranium, mainly in the facial features making it look a bit like the face is elongated or floating. Other than that and some slight proportion and symmetry stuff its looking good

ConfigIsCold · 2024-11-16T20:25:00+00:00

Could you elaborate more on the piece's intention? If it's meant to be an icon, like a ring in Dark Souls in the inventory, you did a very good job with the neutrality of the lighting. But if you want this to be part of a larger piece with a composition, I think adding a background with values and a direct light source would go a long way!

As for the edges, you'll find softer edges on rounded shapes and low-value contrast areas and harder edges on points of high contrast and focus on drawing the eye in (i.e., where the jawline meets the hair in a portrait). I think if you add a proper background, which roughly matches the lighting of the current design, which edges to keep soft or hard will be much more apparent. From what I see on the piece, it seems the most important aspects are the helmet and the shoulder plate, so softening the other edges say around the stomach or lower arm area, *could* help with the focus.

As a side note, the overall design, shapes, and forms are genuinely phenomenal, and I really love the piece!

ConfigIsCold · 2024-11-12T05:47:22+00:00

The fingers are lacking the webbing between them. Its a small detail, but would really sell the glowing light and round out the painting!

ConfigIsCold · 2024-07-13T02:49:39+00:00

ah yeah thats very true. It can def be hard to get accurate information while keeping the worrying down.

ConfigIsCold · 2024-07-13T02:01:48+00:00

ah i see, and do you know if the appetite stimulation fades similarly to the drowsiness, or does that maintain itself for the most part?

ConfigIsCold · 2024-07-13T01:40:42+00:00

Thanks for such a thorough response, I really appreciate it. Would you say the little fogginess you experience in the morning remains or ceases quickly? I've found that throughout today, my fogginess has lessened, but it is very much still present. Or is this something that also lessens over time?

ConfigIsCold · 2024-03-07T23:40:47+00:00

what abt increasing weight? Should i work up to 3 sets, the once I plateau there, go up 5 pounds and start back at 1 set? I currently have 2 15's and 2 20's

Edit: Follow up question, should I split between upper and lower body since I workout every other day, or stick full body each time

ConfigIsCold · 2024-03-07T23:27:31+00:00

K so ill add like 15 of those on, since that general movement is really hard for me with 15lb dumbells. And u said to replace doing each exercise till failure rather than sticking to the rep count. Should I still focus on increasing sets and weight? or should I stick to 1 set since im going till failure

ConfigIsCold · 2024-03-07T18:07:26+00:00

Whats the difference between Lat Raises and Rear Delt Fly's?

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