art from may, july & august
Sunday, September 14th, 2025 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redstringraveng'morning, lads!
i'm not sure what the 'expected' method is around these parts for sharing artwork, but consider this a test-run as i share a few of my favorite pieces from may, july and august of this year. might also share one of my shorter fics later today to test-run how that'll look in this space as well. i have a fic i wrote for the tmnt zine: leader in blue that i'll be allowed to post publicly on the 19th, and i'm very excited to finally get to share that on a wider scale!!
[edit, 10.10.25]: art can be found in the cuts! i've been told there're some clever ways to format/stack images neatly, but i've yet to look into those. will try to have those possibilities explored at least a little before i post several larger pieces at a time!
i'm not sure what the 'expected' method is around these parts for sharing artwork, but consider this a test-run as i share a few of my favorite pieces from may, july and august of this year. might also share one of my shorter fics later today to test-run how that'll look in this space as well. i have a fic i wrote for the tmnt zine: leader in blue that i'll be allowed to post publicly on the 19th, and i'm very excited to finally get to share that on a wider scale!!
[edit, 10.10.25]: art can be found in the cuts! i've been told there're some clever ways to format/stack images neatly, but i've yet to look into those. will try to have those possibilities explored at least a little before i post several larger pieces at a time!
MAY 2025 ~ Screenshot Redraws
![[ID: digital illusrtation of michelangelo from teenage mutant ninja turtles, the 2003 animated series. it's a screenshot redraw/draw-over, where mikey is spooked and fearfully looking to his right while biting his fingertips /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ac2aa02a5cef872a2a73579004f16fb3/e6fc898ae2ae5337-ad/s1280x1920/d72c6861e8530e18fad9804b48ce5579c8abb43b.pnj)
![[ID: digital illusrtation of leonardo from teenage mutant ninja turtles, the 2003 animated series. it's a screenshot redraw/draw-over, where leo has sprang in front of his brothers and is holding up his hands while shouting "NO!!!!" in a moment of panic; there is no danger, however, casey has just suggested he stay at their house after breaking half their furniture /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8879ee65567ab7e5f4770a593efc47f/e6fc898ae2ae5337-20/s1280x1920/861ac2791af3473f0fc8aa321294fbc4cce2f22d.pnj)
![[ID: digital illusrtation of raphael from teenage mutant ninja turtles, the 2003 animated series. it's a screenshot redraw/draw-over, where raph is standing straight and a bit stiff, with his hands behind his back, attempting to feign innocence despite having been caught /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ec4f79302d5d8d99b1e374d285d380d0/e6fc898ae2ae5337-10/s1280x1920/02e34d50f563291dc808b1cdbd3750758f7c7a7a.pnj)
![[ID: digital illusrtation of donatello from teenage mutant ninja turtles, the 2003 animated series. it's a screenshot redraw/draw-over, where don is holding a silver sentry action figure between his hands and close to his chest, smiling contently /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/74e7d9d0eb353b34f9f44d732fcb7575/e6fc898ae2ae5337-43/s1280x1920/52c46e67d0d2ba9db46e26f6c6b3449581d401c3.pnj)
JULY 2025 ~ Who has Time for Tears?
![[ID: digital, colored illustration of leonardo from the animated tmnt 2003 series. he's standing in profile facing right, one katana drawn and held at a lowered angle in his right hand. on the end of the drawn katana rests a faintly glowing red and brown moth that seems to leave a thin trail of blood. behind leo is a rusty, cream-colored, tiled wall with one tile square across from him glowing red. he stares down at the butterfly, expression somber and exhausted. the painted text on the wall reads "i feel your stress". /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f5926d32817605cb6b65573f47614c89/383b77335e9deb24-61/s1280x1920/b24009122e2bc2f42b200f848d374e38aadf11a7.pnj)
AUGUST 2025 - Neglected Space
![[ID: a digital illustration of my tmnt 2003 original character: gwyneth. it's an overhead shot where she's lying nude on her side, curled up in a ball and her face hidden by her palms (though one eye peers out at you through her fingers). the scene is dark and framed by weaving, tangled tree roots. gwyn's body is covered in cracks as though she were made of old stone, and there's a faint glow coming from her body's bioluminescence along her skin and in her hair. /END]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a0c0d378395f3af0ff3a151d54359bdc/298ae2c787d979cf-ac/s2048x3072/29e3df46cc5b78feff4582854ea76e5355a375e1.pnj)
think that's it for now! curious to use this as further testing grounds for how journal tags work and other bits of organization, that sort of thing. hopefully after adding the cut, the images will remain formatted like i have them here. in the preview they keep defaulting to left justify. >->;;
godspeed, lads. hope your weekend's treated you well.
Thoughts
Date: 2025-09-14 07:51 pm (UTC)It varies.
In your own blog, you can do what you want. Experiment and figure out what works for you.
The many Art communities vary widely in their rules. Those with few or no rules are pretty freeform and easy to post in. The longer and more detailed the rules, the more likely you'll flub something and those are the people most prone to scream at you for it.
Probably the most common rules regard cut position, either wanting a brief introduction, a template, or one image above the cut and everything else hidden. Reason being, long posts take longer to scroll through and lots of images take longer to load, so a short above-cut section makes it easier to scroll through multiple posts. Some also have rules about image size, etc.
>> i don't think there's a way to format/stack images neatly, otherwise i'd try more of a grid pattern lmao. <<
It can be done but requires code. You might ask about that on
The expressions on the characters look great.
>> curious to use this as further testing grounds for how journal tags work and other bits of organization <<
People use tags in different ways, so look at communities and individual journals for inspiration. Think about what you'll post the most and make subcategories for your biggest categories. Less common topics can be broader. Compare:
Art
Nature
Nature: Animals
Nature: Plants
Nature: Plants: Trees
Nature: Plants: Wildflowers
Science
Art
Art: Black and White
Art: Color
Art: Drawing
Art: Painting
Nature
Science
Science: Chemistry
Science: Optics
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-09-14 11:00 pm (UTC)oooOHHHH ✍!!! okay, this is excellent to know. i'll need to mess around a bit more with the cut tool then, too; i fought with it a little bit this morning. it'd let me get the july piece behind it, but it'd keep spitting the august piece out (but keep the title text). i tried swapping into the html version of the post editor and moving code around, but that didn't seem to work. 6-6;;; there's probably a minor detail i'm missing.
thank you so much! not just for the info, but for the link(s) as well! c: aaa, it makes me happy that it IS possible to do. huge relief, actually. i'll have to come back and clean this entry up once i figure it out.
;w; !! thank you!! 🖤💜
YES!!! i noticed this while i was making the entry this morning, actually! especially how colons can help organize topics on the tag page. it'll probably be a bit of trial and error on my end while i find a system that works efficiently and clean for me, but goddddd, i love platforms that have good tag navigation. it makes me so happy.
thank you SO MUCH again, dude!! i seriously appreciate you taking the time to share all this with me, that was very kind of you. D: i hope you've had a wonderful rest of your sunday and the week ahead brings a nice thing or three. 🖤
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-09-15 03:37 am (UTC)I've never gotten it to work normally. I use it in HTML mode. To do this:
Open the post creator.
Click the upper right tab that says "HTML." (You can check how things look by clicking "Rich Text.")
Put in your post content.
Figure out where you want the cut to go. Type (cut) there, but replace the parentheses with arrow brackets to activate the code.
Scroll down to the bottom, or wherever else you want the end of the cut. Type (/cut) there, again replacing the parentheses with arrow brackets.
Everything between those code lines should be hidden until someone clicks on it.
>> it makes me happy that it IS possible to do. huge relief, actually. i'll have to come back and clean this entry up once i figure it out. <<
I've seen rows and grids most often in the icon communities. People there usually know how to do it. You could watch to see who uses image formatting that you like, then ask them about it.
Also, if you're doing a lot of art, you might like
>> YES!!! i noticed this while i was making the entry this morning, actually! especially how colons can help organize topics on the tag page. <<
Also if you put ! in front of a word, that sorts it to the beginning. You'll see !admin, !schedule, and other functional tags that way.
>> it'll probably be a bit of trial and error on my end while i find a system that works efficiently and clean for me <<
You'll get the hang of it. I think there's an option for either cloud or alphabetical sorting, but I only use alphabetical so I'm not sure where that actual tool is.
>> thank you SO MUCH again, dude!! i seriously appreciate you taking the time to share all this with me, that was very kind of you. <<
*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service. I want people to find things they like and learn how to use the site, in hopes they'll stick around. I also encourage people to post full content here, instead of just links offsite. It sucks to have recs from a dozen other services that not everyone can see. :/
>> i hope you've had a wonderful rest of your sunday and the week ahead brings a nice thing or three. <<
Today's project was breaking down a fairy garden lantern so I can later turn it into an air plant terrarium.
We also have a shopping trip planned soon, so that'll be fun. Might as well get something done, because it's too frigging hot out for gardening. In mid-September. >_<
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-10-01 05:35 pm (UTC)the second half of last month was a whirlwind, i apologize for the silence. e-e;;;
absolutely going to have to check that out. ✍ now that things have slowed back down into a bit more of a reliable routine, i'm looking forward to being able to sit down and scope things out proper. T-T;; heck.
i just checked this out! that's such a cool lantern. e-e!!! said this over on your page, but! hope it's cooled down a bit in your area. we've still been fighting off the heat over here, and as much as i wish i could say that goes away after a certain point... we still sometimes have 90F days in december. so. what do i know. oTL
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-10-03 09:49 am (UTC)Yay!
>>i just checked this out! that's such a cool lantern.<<
Thank you.
>> hope it's cooled down a bit in your area. <<
Nope, still 85F in October. Sooo not normal.
>> we've still been fighting off the heat over here, and as much as i wish i could say that goes away after a certain point... we still sometimes have 90F days in december. so. what do i know. <<
O_O I definitely could not deal with that.