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This is probably the greatest advice!
I think one of the bigger complaints I've seen at anime cons about Homestuck cosplayers has to do with grey paint getting everywhere. :( Which is an easy thing to avoid (and makes your hotel staff a lot happier when they have to room clean later on!)

Ben Nye makes a pretty good product called Final Seal that works quite well after a translucent powder has been applied. After the fact, you'll probably want to invest in a pack of makeup removing wipes- I've used these to great success, but I am pretty sure any disposable remover will work just fine.

Have fun. :)

In the meantime, draw everything. Everything. EVERYTHING.

Keep a sketch book with you always! Draw people waiting for the bus, cars parked outside, city blocks, landscapes, trees, ideas, concepts, doodles, nonsense.

Take pictures of things and use them for reference. Constantly! Can't figure out how an arm looks like in a certain pose, get someone to pose the same way and take a shot with your phone. Its not "cheating" and most artists worth their salt will stare at you like you're insane if you told them to do a large scale project with no live or photo references.

Go to figure drawing meetups. There's usually some at art schools or in any big city. You will be terrible at first but drawing people is a good way to train your eye.

Copy your favorite artist. Not just draw from, but try to copy a whole piece of art, from start to finish, line for line, as closely as possible. Do this a lot! It will help you understand why they put this thing there, and put that thing here, and drew that thing like this.

Its the same reason musicians practice other people's work before they start composing their own!

Figure out who their influence are, and do the same thing with them.

If you're looking for books to get you started, here are some good ones.

I can help!!!!!!


It sounds like your daughter is cosplaying Aradia Megido


Ok, I have a giant post on makeup [here] (http://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1fb1df/cosplay_advice/ca8vwk8) that may help you (sorry about the profanity). But I'll try to condense it down to points for a younger cosplayer.


In your situation, I would 100% recommend Snazzaroo brand paint. It's a water-activated makeup that you apply with a damp makeup sponge.

To seal it, she will need a sealant. This is necessary for anyone wearing body paint. If not, the paint gets on everything, and other people get very, very angry about it. Seriously, if the sealant is unavailable, I would really highly suggest that she not wear the makeup at all, which is completely understandable/common for casual Homestuck Troll (the species of the character) cosplays.

EDIT: haha wow I wasn't expecting gold. Thank you to whoever that was!

Thanks! I actually borrowed the facepaint from my friend so I'm not really sure which one it was, but I'm pretty sure it was this one. Thumbs up to you too!

I recommend going through Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw, your local library should also have a copy. It is probably the best drawing book out there.

Yesterday I ran this colossal fucking tournament for the PC platform fighter Rivals of Aether (Available now on Steam!). Along with two other people I run 3 online tournaments every week for this game, which has quickly turned into a terrifying monolith. Luckily, the T.O. team is made of sterner stuff than mortals - we're like about as tough as a hardcover book, actually. Today I played Kerbal Space Program until I remembered I'm bad at Kerbal Space Program, then I started my re-read of Applied Cultural Anthropology, or... (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus Curse), because it updated after a year-long hiatus and I didn't know what was happening. Also because I'm a lonely disgusting fanfic-reading filthmonster...

I'm trying to read a book a week for 2016 and I've completed the first step of that process by enduring Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher. I liked The Dresden Files a lot more than this higher-fantasy stuff, which is a shame. Next up on my list is Hyperion. I've been told that this novel contains a spaceship called THE TREESHIP YGGDRASIL, and that is all I know.

AOTD1: I woke up at like 7 AM this morning, disgusted with myself. Luckily I managed to pull off a noon-2 nap, which felt great.

AOTD2: Book a week for a year.

Have you read Red Rising by Pierce Brown? It's a sci-fi dystopia book that I've described to friends as featuring a hemospectrum-like class system.

It's a few hundred years from now, and humans have begun to colonize the solar system. The Red caste labor beneath the surface of Mars, working to terraform the planet so that the other castes can make the journey from earth. However, one Red worker discovers that the planet has already been terraformed, many years ago, and the rest of the colors are living in luxury above ground. He then infiltrates the ruling caste, starts a rebellion, all sorts of lovely things.

I'm currently in the middle of the last book in the trilogy, and so far I'm loving it. There's a bit of a Hunger Games vibe in the first book, but it quickly loses the similarity. There's a lot more politics, and the characters are far more interesting(Sevro. Bloodydamn Sevro. Enough said). I highly recommend it, and apologize if the ending of the last book sucks, because I haven't gotten that far yet!

I ordered it from amazon spain here is the product page. It was from amazon itself.

Do you know if amazon france ships to spain?

Sorry if this was already posted, but if anyone wants to support it in print: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159362073X/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Womens-Microfiber-Opaque-Tights/dp/B07RTKR52P

This is what I got for my tights and arm socks :)

no worries, i saw that and it predicated my PM to you!

strunk & white is this book: http://smile.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X/ it's generally considered a classic with regards to writing, and is all about how to communicate clearly. (well, mostly.) i definitely recommend it. hell, email me to set it up and i'll send you a copy, it's great.

This is actually a repost from a while back but it's all good.

Check out the top review for the Blind Pony.

Cool, thanks!

Ohh okay. What book am I supposed to pick up then? I did find the [Shadowrun Fifth Edition] (http://www.amazon.com/Shadowrun-Fifth-Jason-M-Hardy/dp/1936876515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462672945&sr=8-1&keywords=shadowrun), but I'm not sure if I can spend $50 on a book for this...

Heh, could I ask you for advice then? Or at least when I'm actually able to get started.

> That's pedantry.

And what is it that you're doing, exactly?

I'm not trying to fight with you. I'm just offering some information.

> It is not 1998. And I don't ever recall Macromedia Flash being referred to as Shockwave Flash anywhere in its history.

That's because you're young. I'm not making this up or anything. Check out the reviews for this book I just found:

> In the chapter on delivering movies, you use the Shockwave Flash Export dialog box, learn about compression, create stand-alone projectors, and use Size Reports and the Bandwidth Profiler.

I couldn't find any with "Shockwave Flash" in the actual title, but I clearly remember visiting bookstores as a kid and seeing them on the shelves.

> There is absolutely no reason to have a error written like that.

Is the person who sees the error message (and probably doesn't know what it means) responsible for the people who put it there in the first place? Is yelling about this in /r/homestuck going to get it fixed?

Here's a link to the same sealant on Amazon, though only in the 2oz spray bottle.

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Seal-Matte-Makeup-Sealer/dp/B005MZ4A7C

They've seemed more or less irrelevant so far, but there is some precedent.

Here is the mobile version of your link

Here’s a link

http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Jews-Karl-Marx/dp/0806529539

To know why what you are saying doesn't make sense you need to read a very large amount of physcis books, may i suggest starting at Bill Bryson's a short history of nearly everything then moving on to Stephen Hawking's a short history of time

i actually referenced what the book description said on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Homestuck-Book-Act-Andrew-Hussie/dp/1421599406/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511543781&sr=8-1&keywords=homestuck

"Now this sprawling saga has been immortalized on dead trees with notes"

but your idea sounds sick too