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@gildedfrost-ao3 posted a wonderful cowboy-themed skating outfit for Viktor in the Yuri! on the Web discord server and I just had to draw it myself.
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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.
ALT*Puts "professional illustrator of cozy Yuuris" on my resume*
I'd like to get in on this, if you don't mind. Your Yuuri just looked so cozy, I had to draw my own.
OF COURSE I DON’T MIND HOLY SHIT!! AUGH he’s so cozy look at himmmmm 💙 Also love the colors and lighting it looks like a vintage holidays postcard that gives you comfort just by looking at it 🥹
Can this be a thing? I nerd to collect all the cosy yuuris
Yes please, unofficial Draw This In Your Style!
So, about that to-do list
ALTFinally adding my cozy Yuuri to the mix! Why did it take four months, you ask? Uuuuuuhhhh don’t worry about it, I have very good reasons, trust. Anyway, he is here!
terrible news: the only way to find out if something you create is gonna be good or bad is to actually create it
omg hiii shakespeare
I don't know how to explain it, but this FEELS illegal. He's literally painting with fucking play-doh!
It's been quite a while since I've done any dyeing, and that's because I've been slowly accumulating handspun yarn to dye, as well as saving up onion skins to dye with for several months at this point. But I finally got enough, and have a spare day to give dyeing with onion skins a go.
Yellow onion skins should produce warm yellows, red onions produce a more brown or red hue. I only had yellow onion skins. I soaked them in water overnight in a bucket, then in the morning transferred them into my metal dye pot and simmered them for roughly an hour. In the meantime I mordanted four 25g skeins of handspun wool yarn with alum, at 12% WOF (weight of fibre - so for 100g of fibre I used 12g of alum).
Then I strained off the dye liquor, it had turned a lovely deep red colour.
I rinsed my yarn and immersed it in the dye bath on low heat. I made sure to stir every few minutes, as this is often the step I forget and I end up with patchy yarn.
After about fifteen minutes I took out one of the skeins as the colour looked quite dark already and rinsed it. It was already a lovely bright mustard yellow so I decided to take the others out at the same time.
I decided to use one skein as it was, keep two for overdyeing with other colours later (will probably be indigo to make some nice greens), and use an iron modifier on the fourth, to produce an olive green.
To produce the green colour on the fourth skein, I added it to another dye bath consisting of hot water and a pinch of ferrous sulphate. I left it for about ten minutes, stirring regularly and watching for the colour change. When it had sufficiently darkened, I took it out and rinsed it extra well. Iron is mildly corrosive to the wool fibres, so I didn't want to leave it in any longer than necessary for fear of weakening the yarn.
As a final step, I washed all four skeins in a detergent made specifically for wool, and left them to dry outside as it was a sunny day.
Here's the final results! I'm really happy with how even and vibrant the colour is and I can't wait to use these shades in my tablet weaving!
Thought I'd share what the yarns look like made up into tablet woven bands - I'm really happy with how bright these colours turned out!
do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like
[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]
