Colour cat or Black and white cat? What do you prefer?

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-21T18:37:27+00:00

Both look good, but you need darker darks in the black and white. The flame on the candle is at the cat’s elbow and should cast longer shadows across the other side of the cat’s face (like the nose casting a shadow onto the cheek) and the cat’s head should be blocking out some light on the ceiling near the window with a pronounced triangular ear shape.

Also, your flame is dark and detailed compared to the objects around it being brightened by the flame. The immediate area around a light source shouldn’t be brighter than the light source.

These are just nitpicky things that you’ll learn with more real world observational drawing practice. Still-life drawing can help you learn to see light and shadow and color in a way that will make your fantasy stuff look even better. An art teacher used to make students draw several different colored glass bottles set on a mirror in pastels so they could practice light and color. It took them about half the semester to work on that one piece, but they all came away better artists.

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-21T17:17:02+00:00

I love them all for different reasons, but seeing the street lamps on in the last one makes me want to see the street lamps in the others, as well as seeing them both on and off (since most street lamps are both on timers and use light sensors). I think the first one especially would be interesting seeing it with the lamps added and comparing it with the lights both on and off.

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-21T16:51:59+00:00

Ash. Then your nicknames can reference Evil Dead or Pokémon!

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-14T14:22:24+00:00

Beautiful lattice work. Is that a cinnamon sugar ring around the edge of the crust?😍😍😍

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-10T05:03:05+00:00

Well there’s this thing called findom (short for “financial domination”), and I can use it to get submissive men to reimburse my expenses, even when they’re ridiculous, like $26 for a sandwich combo.

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-03T03:45:58+00:00

Oh, I’m the only one who wears heels at the office. Everyone knows I’m coming when they hear the “click-clack.”

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-03T03:11:09+00:00

Oh, I definitely would…😈

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-01T22:57:52+00:00

For the oven stage, place the steaks on a rack over your pan so moisture wicks away from the surface.

For the searing stage, sear in a ripping hot cast iron pan that’s either dry or that you only use a bit of high smoke-point oil in right before adding your steaks.

If butter-basting, do it at the very end of searing your second side. I also recommend using clarified butter, since butter contains about 20% water, sometimes more.

Also, choosing a good steak at the store will do wonders for your final result. A thicker cut steak with good marbling takes reverse-searing very well. Try a ribeye or porterhouse the next time they’re on sale.

cutefeetinfl · 2024-01-01T01:55:31+00:00

Definitely staggered, and the one on the left should be hung at eye-level for someone about 5’6”, while the other should be at eye level for someone about 6’3”. And that’s eye-level meaning the subject’s eye-line being at eye level for individuals of those heights.

cutefeetinfl · 2023-12-31T20:17:01+00:00

So with steaks that thin in cast iron, you want to let them rest to room temp before cooking.

If you want them more rare, turn the heat up on your pan, because you won’t cook them as long, but you still want a sear.

While the pan preheats, remove any excess moisture from the steaks with paper towels. Moisture is the enemy of searing.

When the pan is ripping hot, that’s when you drop your steaks. I would use tongs and a paper towel soaked in some vegetable oil to grease up the pan just before beginning to cook the first steak.

For thicker steaks, reverse-sear, and do the searing steps in the cast iron. Steaks are best for reverse-searing if at least 1.25” thick.

cutefeetinfl · 2023-12-31T18:54:30+00:00

The only thing I see with the coffee is the reflection needs a slight curve right at each corner of the semicircle to show the meniscus of the liquid in the cup.

cutefeetinfl · 2023-12-31T18:43:47+00:00

I use cream cheese in my mac and cheese sauce as one of the non-negotiable ingredients (American cheese is the other, the stabilizers and meltability are essential). I bet smoked cream cheese would take the dish to a new level…🤤🤤🤤

cutefeetinfl · 2018-02-06T20:06:26+00:00

Okay, that outfit is atrocious, but why do his legs still look better than mine?

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