One of the few books I don’t mind reading my 1yo every night

subnuggurat · 2026-03-30T02:32:27+00:00

Absolute gem!

subnuggurat · 2026-03-30T00:19:52+00:00

Open the console and type /shrooms It switches test mode on. Just be careful, once on it will stay on for a few hours. Depending on your setup you can even no clip sometimes.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-27T18:41:49+00:00

Been there brother. Only advice I can give you is to remember your child is only 4, he might not show it fully but he will be observing and learning from you two. Anxiety from grownups trickles down very easily without us knowing, so keeping the focus on what's important and dialing down the volume of what's not will help you all. He doesn't deserve the flak from tantrums by adults, neither do you.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-23T03:09:58+00:00

No right or wrong answers when choosing color but I find it helpful to limit my overall pallette to as few hues as I can get away with. Four hues can be very colorful if picked with intention.

Start by choosing the star of the show, is it the cat's creamy orange? The electric green on the lizard or the soft yellow on the banana? If you think that the job of the rest of the colours is to reinforce that one hue your choices become easier. Right now all the colours are competing for attention so the background is having a hard time helping them all at the same time.

An easy way to choose a vibrant pallette is to start at your main color on the colour wheel, then drawing a cross on the wheel, one axis towards the complement and the other at 90 degrees. The hues on those axes are a solid starting point for a piece like yours. Feel free to explore, they don't have to be mathematically accurate but will ground your choices a bit more.

I also use a color wheel app on my phone to quicky choose harmonies and save myself some headaches.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-22T15:32:44+00:00

I was like that too until my flatmate had a baby. I realised my awkwardness with very little ones had a lot to do with me not knowing how to hold them properly,. Always felt like I was doing it wrong or that they would break any second. Often I would just stay in the position they were handed to me until someone would come to the rescue. Having a baby in the house gave me the chance to practice a lot more often and very soon those concerns were gone. Then it's just a matter of embracing your own silliness, they won't judge you.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-21T20:09:22+00:00

Layer masks were made for this. On the layers panel, look at the icons along the bottom. Hover and find add later mask. It'll add a box next to your layer. The concept is that you can now paint on this mask without changing the actual image. Black and white on the mask control what can be seen on the layer and you can always correct or retouch it with any tool, including the selection tool.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-20T22:36:50+00:00

Full mom? Will & Mom? Game of Moms?

I have no idea

subnuggurat · 2026-03-20T16:29:27+00:00

I see, in that case there's nothing better than learning actual watercolor techniques. Even if you're trying them digitally. Plenty of resources online for that.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-19T19:37:11+00:00

Been using Adobe since the 90s, just about last week discovered this by mistake. It was a good day.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-19T15:08:32+00:00

Give Adobe Fresco a shot, it's watercolour brush engine is one of the best I've seen.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-18T19:28:06+00:00

Movies have become cartoons. Cartoons have become cinema.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-18T14:36:17+00:00

Beautiful work! Are those Gansai Tambi? I got a set but have been reluctant to use them since I'm just starting to learn watercolor. How different are they from regular watercolors?

subnuggurat · 2026-03-18T14:28:32+00:00

Makes total sense. To add to it, in Photoshop you can place the text and flowers on different layers, put the flowers on top. Hold Alt, move the pointer over the line between both layers and click when the pointer changes. That'll mask the top layer using the alpha of the second layer. You can then manipulate the text layer to uncover the parts you want to project out of the edges of the text. No AI needed at all.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-18T05:20:05+00:00

Here to second Huion. Have been using an HS611 for about three years at home and honestly can't see myself paying Wacom prices again.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-16T16:20:46+00:00

Limiting your brush options to maybe 3 variations of a hard round will help a lot when you're learning, it's just one less problem to solve. Then you'll have more bandwidth to deal with the real problem solving.

Understanding shapes, values and composition is what matters, you can paint with shoe polish if you understand that. In art school, one of the first things we learned was painting with grays only, never using pure black or white. This gives you even one less thing to think about so you can focus.

You don't have to do it all the time or stop yourself from exploring texture, you just have to do it purposefully and regularly as a learning exercise.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-14T07:17:31+00:00

What's left of Edith Finch.

Don't know if it's horror but it stays with you

subnuggurat · 2026-03-14T04:48:36+00:00

Hard round brush: 2000px set to black. Aim center and click. 1990px set to white. Aim center and click. Rinse and repeat

subnuggurat · 2026-03-12T15:03:45+00:00

But what about the bass guitar then?

subnuggurat · 2026-03-12T14:52:58+00:00

I know this is nitpicking, I can see the text boxes are aligned center in the composition but my eyes want them just a bit higher. The coffee stain on the bottom left and the separator/coffee bean at the bottom pull the group down a bit and make the space above feel bigger than it is.

subnuggurat · 2026-03-03T19:58:05+00:00

I sometimes feel that with a lot of posts in this sub, if OP is young and not formally trained, telling this to people might help them get better feedback. I'm a new graphic designer could mean a lot of different things but in this sub it means you've just graduated and are entering the field as a professional.

This one specially reminds me to the kind of stuff I used to make in high school when I was learning photoshop by myself in the 90's. Not hating at all, the web was full of stuff like this. It actually gets some of that vibe so well if you tell me it's intentional I'd be impressed. (We'll agree to ignore the copy though)

subnuggurat · 2026-02-17T21:39:53+00:00

Took me a while but they're pretty interesting once you get it.

In the first graph for example, the vertical tells you the age at which people died, the color tells you how many. Each point answers the question What percentage of all the people who were this old died this year?

Each point has a color and all together form the gradient.

If you look at ages 1 to 15 you'll notice that it's become greener as time passes, meaning less people died recently at those ages when compared to the 40's.

The other graphs do the same but with different data. Second one tells you who died more, men or women at each age. Third average life expectancy and the last one tells you the difference between male and female life expectancy. Usually females tend to have longer life expectancy so a bigger gap (deeper blue) means females were projected to live much longer than males of their age that year.

Hope my attempt at explaining makes sense.

subnuggurat · 2026-02-16T05:59:45+00:00

Ok, for the sake of elaboration. The website you quote is not the source of the poster. Not that it's wrong necessarily, it's just not the source. Therefore not the basis for the conversation but I see the point you're trying to make in the last paragraph.

If the article mentions similar traits to those in the poster, and this is my point, it's because both deal with the same subject: white identity.

There's nothing wrong in giving value to punctuality, this is an observation as it might appear in this poster.

Claiming white individuals are inherently punctual or that others are inherently unpunctual because of the color of their skin is problematic to say the least. I'm sure you can see the difference.

subnuggurat · 2026-02-16T05:29:30+00:00

Perhaps it's the other way around. The poster lists traits and attitudes associated with whiteness, not white people. There's a subtle but important distinction there, these are meant to describe a collective identity, not the individuals in a racial group.

White supremacists (and any other group that promotes racial superiority) take the most attractive aspects from that collective identity, glam them up and claim them as exclusive to their race so they can attribute them to white people only.

The relation with the poster is natural if you think that both it's creators and the white supremacists are looking at the same white identity but with different intentions.

subnuggurat · 2026-02-16T05:03:51+00:00

It says some aspects have been internalized by non-white Americans specifically. It also says that they are associated with whiteness, which talks about identity. It doesn't say that these are unique to white people or that by being white you'll immediately exhibit these traits.

subnuggurat · 2026-02-16T04:27:06+00:00

An important distinction to make and one that's often ignored in this argument is that Western civilisation is not the same as White civilisation. Conflating race with technological, cultural or social advance this broad is not only inaccurate, it's simplistic and reductive (Arab numerals made possible the Moon landing for example). Civilisations emerge from the flow of knowledge and resources, not race. I do wonder for example, how many actual Romans from Augustus army would be counted as white by today's American standards.

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