I Promised You 🦋

Are any of my followers fluent in Russian? If you are, would you be willing to translate a few short things (like under 30 words) for a chapter of a fic of mine?

I'm happy to credit you for helping in the notes of the work ^^

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an o

uk people, sign and share

non uk people, share but don't sign

terfs, get in the bin and stay there

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach - Preparing Shortly Before the Race, Niki Would Finish P2

It took a long while, but finally I finished colouring this black-and-white photo.

Everything has been colour matched to be as accurate as possible to how it was in real life, guided by other colour photos of the event. Though, some exceptions had to be taken, such as the hair and clothing colour of background people.

Closing my anons for a bit because I'm quite literally getting about 30 spam anons a day and I cba to keep blocking them when they seem never-ending. Tumblr is a functional site.

I bought this book a handful of years ago and it's absolutely amazing. Even today, I still go back and reference it. The amount of thought and detail put into every page is a wonder.

I think this is a must-have book for anyone even slightly interested in the concepts of human-avians, I'm so thankful to own a physical copy of it.

click here!!!

$27 USD

this book is the only thing keeping me from deleting my amaz*n account. which I would like to do within the next few months.

if anyone's thinking about getting it, now's a good time to decide. No one else prints them this cheap. When I find another service, the price will go way up.

Don't buy from amazon! eBay has whatever you need! buy every item from a different seller and check out as guest!! it feels amazing !!

Flight Rising [And Not Flight Rising] Commissions!

Finished Work Examples ^^^ All animated comms come with still versions

My Flight Rising account with my art shop forum post can be found in my Tumblr bio!

More details copy-pasted from there are below the cut.

Open to doing commissions outside of FR dragons. Good with most animals (canines, felines, equines, etc). The pricing will be discussed and will follow the above guides as close as possible.

Open to doing simple backgrounds that may increase cost, but I don't currently have art examples for it.

‘Oh, Niki Lauda? He’s just some little Austrian fellow with a creepy-crawly insect dæmon. If you’ve ever seen the man, I think you’d agree it’s quite the fitting form.’

Niki could say a lot in response to that quote now fed back to him; that James’ own dæmon is some puffed up, squawking lorikeet whose colours are clearly compensatory. ‘Centipedes are myriapods,’ is what he instead responds with, 'which are not considered part of the insect class.’

It’s true; they’re not. Nevertheless, it seems to win him no favours.

Finally, the vintage Niki Lauda and James Hunt F1 dæmon au, which is certainly not niche at all. I don’t know how to tag this post, but I do know RatHunt is the best ship name ever created.

My Twitter has been officially WIPED. It was good while it lasted, now for more time on Tumblr and Bluesky.

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach

Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.

Some explanation to my process below.

From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:

Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.

The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.

Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.

Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.

Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!

Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.

Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.

Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.

All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.

Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.

Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!

Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.