Author: torithehoshi

torihoshigirl:

I’ve finally managed to finish a reference sheet for one of my characters! I decided since I would be using Silvia’s new design, I would start with her. I mean why not, am I right?

I decided to base it off the format that Dangan Ronpa does its design sheets because it’s an interesting base to use. And I think I managed to do a decent reference sheet as a result. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty good if I do say so myself

Also I still can’t draw hair buns properly I think.

Some facts about Silvia underneath the cut

Edit 8/29/2015: I decided to change Silvia’s last name to actually be Italian and I thought this was nice so I fixed up her ref sheet so it’d say it.

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So You Want To Blind Your OC, Disease Edition

loquaciousquark:

Because bloomingcnidarians​ asked, and the answer got long. Very long.

Edit: I should also say that while I am a practicing optometrist currently in the middle of a residency in low vision, I am sighted myself with no visual impairment. Reported symptoms are only based on what patients have told me and case reports, not from personal experience; you may have found something else entirely to be true, and I would love to hear about it!

OKAY. Let me go over a couple of the most common misconceptions about low vision/blindness first, which will make everything easier.

  • Reminder: a visual acuity of 20/20 is considered “normal” vision; in layman’s terms, that means you can read at 20 feet what an average population can see at 20 feet.
  • 20/15 vision is “better than perfect;” you can read at 20 feet what a normal population must move up to 15 feet to read.
  • Worse acuities, such as 20/200, mean that you have to move up to 20 feet to read what a normal population can read at 200 feet.

True blindness is defined as is the total inability to perceive light. Unless extremely, extremely severe eye disease is present, it is actually really hard to go totally blind in both eyes.

  • People who have developed total blindness very rarely describe it as the world going black. The majority describe nondescript grey fog or colorless backgrounds with occasional shooting lights.
  • This is different from “functional blindness,” where a patient has no useful vision but may still be able to perceive light vs. darkness, blurry colors, or very, very large letters. These patients may still have quantifiable visual acuities, but because their vision is so poor they do not use their eyes in any meaningful way.

Legal blindness (in the United States) is defined as best-corrected visual acuities worse than 20/200 (in the better eye), or a visual field restricted to 20 degrees (also in the better eye).

  • Please note that this is BEST-CORRECTED. This means that with the best and most accurate glasses I can put in front of the eye, it will never see better than 20/200. A lot of people with high prescriptions (especially nearsighted people) like to say, “I’m legally blind without my glasses.” This is not possible as legal blindness is, by definition, with glasses on. A patient who can’t see the big E on the eye chart without glasses, but who can then put their glasses on and read 20/20, is not legally blind. They have a high prescription, full stop.
  • Simple refractive error is not a disease. Even if that prescription gets worse by a step every other year, if the eye is still 20/20 in the glasses and there is nothing wrong with any of the eye’s physical structures, they are not legally blind.

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torihoshigirl:

Here’s the last OC bio I’ll be doing for a while. Their name is Viv! I don’t have much to say about them other than the fact that Viv is essentially my Author Avatar with at least one big difference (they are agender). Though when I imagine stories involving my OCs, I can think of one big one but after that, they’d be more in supporting roles.

Also I need to be able to draw hats that aren’t being worn better.

Anyways, onto some facts.

  • Viv is a nickname that they gave themselves. Not many people know what their real name is except for close friends. Even then, they just prefer the nickname.
  • If I were to associate Viv with someone whom they hang out with a lot, it’d be Taylor. The two of them hang out a lot from time to time. Like Tiff, they help Taylor get out of her shell.
  • Their gender is autochorissexual and demiromantic.
  • And as said before, Viv is agender.

torihoshigirl:

½ of the last few character refs I’ll be making or a while, minus some sketches I want to do of potential background characters. And so, here they are. I had fun designing them and colouring them in. Though I’m iffy with Cedric’s design. It seems kinda messy but on the other hand, it’s not horrible.

So yeah! I like the colours for these one and yes, Kendra’s clothes colour is a reference to another character from a franchise I hold dear to my heart.

Anyways, character facts under the cut, though I’ll admit I’m still working on their characters. I have only so many ideas. If I have any more, I’ll add them and tell you guys.

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