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Follow these 7 artists to beautify your Twitter timeline
Make your timeline ~a e s t h e t i c~
Between all the memes, anecdotes, hot takes, and viral text and photos that make up most of the posts on Twitter, a thriving community of artists use the platform to share their work with the world. Many of them have also decided to take part in the yearly #Inktober challenge, wherein each person creates one piece of themed art for each day of October — whether using the official prompts as a guideline or adding their own spin on themes.
With just a week or so of October left, let’s celebrate seven of them that can add a touch of cute and whimsy into your social media browsing sessions. Here’s who to follow!
All my shark pals together!! 🦈🦈🦈 (sticker sheet coming soon!) pic.twitter.com/Vo2Tt3CgEP
— Ida Ꮚ•ꈊ•Ꮚ (@floofyfluff) March 28, 2018
20 dinosaurs!! 🦕🦖 pic.twitter.com/RCzEkFNsMc
— Ida Ꮚ•ꈊ•Ꮚ (@floofyfluff) September 16, 2018
Ida, or Floofyfluff, is a Swedish artist specializing in drawing cute, round creatures, often creating merchandise around them that she sells through her store, Afternoon Fika. Other than the conventionally cute puppies and birds, it’s her drawings of marine animals (like sharks), reptiles, and dinosaurs that make her stand out.
Discovery✨ #inktober day 9 pic.twitter.com/VLPeGxbu2o
— Heikala (@heikala_art) October 12, 2018
#VisibleWomen Hello! I’m an illustrator who loves to create with watercolor and show my process through videos💕 pic.twitter.com/l45nxf4wnC
— Heikala (@heikala_art) August 21, 2018
One illustrator currently making the most of #Inktober, her work’s themes this year focus on magic, space, and discovery. Finnish illustrator Heikala creates calming watercolor scenes and often posts the equally soothing process videos to match. Her art is also available to buy as prints and artbooks through Tictail.
day 14 #inktober pic.twitter.com/TL9bjF7LRH
— maru (@maruti_bitamin) October 15, 2018
🖌scene painter🖌 pic.twitter.com/6ODTPsYOP9
— maru (@maruti_bitamin) September 28, 2018
More elegant watercolor art on a Twitter feed? Don’t mind if we do! Canada-based Maru, or Koyamori, inks and paints fantasy-inspired portrait illustrations. Expect to see individuals with flowers sprouting directly out of their clothes, hair made out of seafoam, and vibrant but restrained color palettes.
Love pink? Get a dose of it every week by following Meyo, well-known for her pastel pink backgrounds and focus on interpreting everyday objects in surreal and fanciful ways. The highlight of her merch selection is definitely the pins — don’t miss out!
windows & witches
Day 20 🌿water lily🌿#botanicalwitches#inktober #Inktober2018 pic.twitter.com/DwP7CDtriD— Liya/mochipanko (@mochiipanko) October 20, 2018
time for a new #visiblewomen post :D
Hi I´m Liya and I like drawing backgrounds filled with plants. My dream is to illustrate and own a small plant & art store one day! pic.twitter.com/EI5HGucciV— Liya/mochipanko (@mochiipanko) August 20, 2018
Liya, a Chinese interior design architecture student currently based in Germany, is known on Twitter as Mochiipanko, as well as for her knowledge and skill when it comes to depicting spaces shows. Backgrounds and locations are lovingly detailed. Look out for her current #Inktober series, where she arranges witches, plants, and windows in visually stunning sets.
Cool Blue 14 – The shade pic.twitter.com/cO1hNItaxO
— N*Kim (@nkim_illustrate) August 15, 2018
My favorites for 2017! 😀😀😀 Time sure flies by! pic.twitter.com/6tv67u5XLU
— N*Kim (@nkim_illustrate) December 8, 2017
Nadia Kim loves working with color. It’s worth going through her entire selection of work to see just how much can be done using a few main colors in different shades. On the other hand, she’s also great at drawing adorable and delicious-looking desserts.
bad luck pic.twitter.com/pKjbKwPHyL
— vacuum (@vacuum_chan) August 18, 2018
long gone pic.twitter.com/tSPquaR0aO
— vacuum (@vacuum_chan) May 9, 2018
For kawaii with a rebellious edge, Vacuum’s your girl. Women are the stars in her work, and when drawn in elaborate clothing and sporting demon horns, fangs, and wings, makes for striking and compelling illustrations. Warning for fashion envy: You’d wish you owned the clothes her girls are sporting.
People may now straighten hair without worrying about heat damage. Dyson has launched the new Dyson Airstrait hair straightener, ushering a new era in hair straightening. As the product name suggests, this innovative tool introduces a new way to straighten hair using just air.
The Airstrait has a simple wet-to-dry straightening process. Airflow is accelerated through the two arms’ 1.5mm openings, creating a high-velocity downward blade of air at a specific angle. This creates a controlled downward force to straighten hair simultaneously as it dries.
With the tool, stylers can achieve a naturally straight and shiny finish that maintains the hair’s strength and healthy look. The Airstrait also speeds the process up by about 25%. What’s best is there is no heat damage, unlike traditional straighteners.
Designed for multiple hair types
The Airstrait runs on a specifically-engineered Hyperdymium motor, a 13-blade impeller that spins up to 106,000rpm and generates 3.5kPa of pressure. Like Dyson’s hair care range, the Airstrait features intelligent heat control that measures the airflow’s temperature to ensure there is no damage.
Users may switch between two styling modes: Wet and Dry. The Wet and Dry modes are pre-set with specific heat and airflow combinations for the best results. A Cool mode is also available to set the style. Moreover, the airflow control has two speed settings, low and high. Drying, meanwhile, can be set to cold shot or root drying.
The science
Dyson has constantly invested a lot financially in research and technology development to craft innovative products in its specific industry. In creating the Airstrait, Dyson engineers studied every detail, from airflow dynamics to hair structure. They also considered thermal, mechanical, and chemical damage and their effects to hair health.
In the end, the Airstrait works based on one key principle. In styling hair to a new shape, hydrogen bonds from each hair strand are broken down. Traditionally, this is done through heat or moisture. But Dyson came up with a tool that just lets water weaken the hydrogen bonds, and then style hair with the optimum level of heat and controlled airflow.
Price, availability
The Dyson Airstrait is available starting April 16 in two colorways: Bright Nickel/Rich Copper and Prussian Blue/Rich Copper. It is priced at PhP 33,900.
Those interested in preordering may already do using this link: Dyson Airstrait
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Filipina who created Window Garden joins Google Play program
More indie games to come?
Filipina-owned CLOVER-FI Games is taking the next step to build more accessible mobile games through Google Play. One-woman developer and publisher Camilla Santiago is representing the country at Google Play’s Indie Games Accelerator (IGA) program this year.
Her CLOVER-FI Games studio is behind hit local game Window Garden. The idle game lets players plant and decorate their own virtual indoor garden while relaxing in chill vibes, lo-fi music, and a cottagecore aesthetic. It was released in October 2021, back when Santiago learned app development amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Windows Garden has since amassed a million downloads. In almost three years, it has been received well by gamers with a 4.7 rating based on more than 8,200 reviews.
Google Play IGA
The Google Play IGA is a 10-week course designed for high-potential indie game studios. The program allows these startups to access the best of Google’s programs, products, people, and technology to be able to build and improve a successful organization.
The last Philippine representative in the program was Ranida Games, which had created one-on-one fighting game Vita Fighters. Through IGA, the title received benefits, allowing the developers to improve it.
Like Ranida Games, Santiago’s CLOVER-FI Games is just getting started. Her studio’s goal is to ultimately create more cozy-themed games that are accessible to everyone through mobile platforms.
With the help of the IGA, Santiago will be equipped with the necessary skills and experience needed to create another potentially successful title just like Window Garden. We can only wait as she empowers Filipinas through her craft.
During its global launch event in Seoul, South Korea, Dyson has unveiled its “most intelligent hair dryer” yet: The Dyson Supersonic Nural.
The styling tool harnesses Dyson’s new automatic Nural sensor technology to protect scalp health and enhance hair’s natural shine.
One of the Dyson Supersonic Nural’s key features is a Scalp protect mode which is activated by the Nural sensors.
This automatically reduces the dryer’s heat as it nears a person’s head, protecting the scalp from damage. The process is done by having the sensors recognize when the dryer is already nearing the person’s head.
In addition, the Supersonic Nural’s LED light automatically changes under Scalp mode, depending on the distance from the head. Users will see yellow for low heat, orange for medium heat, and red for high heat, for convenient usage.
Moreover, the tool intelligently remembers your last used heat and airflow settings and will apply them the next time it is in use.
Price, availability
The Dyson Supersonic Nural comes in two color palettes: Ceramic Patina and Topaz or Vinca Blue and Topaz.
The entire package will come with five attachments, including two new ones:
- Gentle Air Attachment
- Styling Concentrator
- Smoothing Nozzle
- Diffuser
- Flyaway Smoother
However, the technology has not been made available in the Philippines yet as of writing time. To be the first to know when it arrives, sign up here.
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