Amélie I.S. Debruyne

a man reading a book to a young boy Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]

Alt text needs to convey what is in the image but how flowery or detailed should you be?

Generally, the description needs to match the importance of the image. If the focus of the post is the image, give it a detailed description. If it's just decorative, write that.

However, for other things....

The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and-

"I wouldn't if i were you"

The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby.

He raised the sword again.

"Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1

Digital illustration of Endres in a casual robe sitting in front of a painted divider screen at a round tea table decorated with a vase of blossoming branches. He has a plate of pastries and a tea pot with a tea cup in front of him, grasping the cup delicately and arranging the branches. The mood is quaint with pastel colours.

If you want to support me and my art, you can tip me on ko-fi!

#MyArt #illustration

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Drawing of a yellow fish with blue stripes

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

I'm researching pixel art portfolios for inspiration to make mine and I spotted some glaring turn-offs in otherwise stunning showcases 😬

I don't usually do these kinds of threads, but...

👇 Here are 32 art portfolio blunders to avoid (or fix!):

#Art #Artist #PixelArt #DigitalArt #Portfolio

First one too, second is harder to read.

It's supposed to be cooled down in the fridge and eaten cold, but of course I'm already having a slice and burning my mouth 😂

A photo of a chocolate tart with pear sliced arranged in circles on it, with a light-blue kitchen gloves on the side that has a cat on it made of red and white squares.

I made a pear and chocolate tart! Inspired by @vazdimet.com 's Thanksgiving tarts 😌

It was supposed to be made with custard (creme pâtissière), but chocolate mysteriously made its way on it 😇

Taking the fish out for a walk

I need to have things like a nonfiction audiobook or a youtube documentary or video essays going on while I draw or I get bored—but I can't deal with anything requiring a big focus. That way it's fine if I miss a few words or a sentence, and I occasionally press pause or go back if I miss too much 😂

So to make I choice, I'd advise you to go with 1) something that people would associate with you, 2) something that illustrate your art style well, 3) if you can, also something that has the right mood / theme to represent you, your art and your writing

My profile pic is art I made from my first big #WorldAnvil article back in 2021. Since I was just starting to get involved with the community, I just grab whatever I had on hand that was pretty 😂 Since people knew me for that article, it help them recognise me on discord. Still love it years later 😊

That turkey looks great, what are you saying! 😂 Never heard of shoofly before and had to google it. Is it something very local?
Have fun eating them 😆

(you reminded me I need to make a pear tart this weekend before ethe ingredients go bad 😂)

I've already done this one yesterday, but thanks for the tag! ❤️

So i think it's not something a lot of countries have. I found some when I lived in Germany but never had any luck in the UK & it was the thing I was missing the most 😂

March is best birthday month 😌

😱 I guess apricots are not super common in Norway?

We grow a ton in France - I went on holidays in the orchard last year. Apricot juice is a "nectar" & you need to cook them & add sugar, so it's not really something you do yourself but that you have to buy.

I stole @nnie.bsky.social from you 😈

Catamite Wars The Catamite Wars were a series of conflicts over lunar independence in the Jovian system, encompassing the uprisings and rebellions on Jupiter's moons triggered by the Io miners' strike, as well as t...

"Lo and behold, this once great Senate now stoops to appeasing indignant moons."

About the wars for lunar independence, the conflicts that have kept the cyclops planet occupied as of late 🪐

🔗 www.worldanvil.com/w/solaris-nn...

#FeatureFriday #Solaris #Worldbuilding

😂 the joy of BlueSky's format mix-ups

Oh sorry I didn't saw that you had already answered this 😂 I just went easy and simply picked friends who I had recently interacted with on Bluesky.

I guess you can see that as some kind of AU fanfics XD Although most of the time I get inspired by vibes, a specific plot point, a theme or time period...

Thanks! ❤️

Humans are unique in having developed magic channels to speed up the transport of magic particles inside their body.

Other organisms have magic inside their body but not all have director cells to use it consciously. Its important for their health (e.g. immune system) & defense mechanism

In the end, I feel that once you play with an idea and appropriate it enough to make it your own, it's fine. Some people are always going to compare regardless of your inspiration - like if you write a magical school, everyone will talk about HP no matter how dissimilar it is 😂

Any stories that I read. I get inspired a lot by type of settings and daydream about what my own versions would look like XD

5 favs, 5 tags!

Food: chocolate 🍫
Season: spring 🌷
Drink: apricot juice 🍊
Colour: turquoise 🟦🟩
Anime: I haven't watched any in forever 😅

@vazdimet.com
@catoblepon.bsky.social
@hanhula.com
@skairunner.bsky.social
@nnie.bsky.social

A schematic drawing of the magic reserve in the human body. - On the right, cells with a vast cytoplasm (i.e. cell interior) are used for storing magic. - The cytoplasm is filled with a few big compartments called organelles. - The organelles contain magic-binding metalloproteins (MBMPs), featured on the left. - MBMPs are proteins that have a ring-like chemical structure with one or more metal atom bound at the centre. - Those metal atoms bind magic particles. - MBMPs with and without magic particles are stored together in the organelles, stabilising each other.

Schematic drawing of the mechanism of magic storage in the human body. - On the left, cells of the magic reserve, which contain magic-binding metalloproteins (MBMP), with a magic particle on the protein. - The magic particle then moves to a microtubule in the centre of the image, which is a long structure that carries many metal proteins. the magic particle hops on one of those metal proteins and travels from one protein to the other. - The magic particle then reaches a director cell and its own MBMPs on the right of the image. Those cells are where magic is "used" by the human body.

Schematic drawing of the mechanism of magic casting. - On the left half of the image, the human body, with magic channels reaching towards a type of cells at the surface of the body called a "director cell". - The magic-binding metalloproteins (MBMPs) inside the director cells receive a magic particle from the magic channels. - The magic particle is then transferred to a different type of protein at the surface of the cell and so at the surface of the human body. They are called "casting proteins". - The casting proteins throw the magic particles outside of the body towards the target of the spell. - The casting proteins throw a magic particle outside of the body, each given them a different spin and movement, which gives the particles special properties. - The combination of different casting proteins throwing particles at the same time influences the global properties of the magic being cast, resulting in a specific spell being cast at the target, represented on the right of the image.

Here are a few examples of schematics I made to explain one of my magic systems, using the same art style I use at work for official scientific papers 😆
#worldbuilding #fantasy #art #writing #ScienceFantasy

(check the alt texts or this link to read more about it:
www.worldanvil.com/w/challenges...)

Thanks for adding me :D

When making magic system, I always end up going back to my biochemistry/bioinorganic chemistry roots and talking about molecules and magical particles 😂

If not that, then it'd all maths with runic geometric designs.