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Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Works insipired by Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”

Suehiro Maruo, 2013

Philippe Caza, 1989

Philippe Druillet, 1976

Milo Manara, 1998

H.R. Giger, (right image from the series “Passages”) 1975

…and the original, Arnold Böcklin, 1880

Mulan (1998) concept art from the DVD Extras

Visual development for Treasure Planet (2002) by Michael Spooner

Visual development for Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Marcelo Vignali

Newly exhibited photos from the project Ένδυμα Ψυχής - Raiment of the Soul,  collaboration of photographer Vangelis Kyris and Bulgarian embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev who present Greek traditional costumes, which are exhibits of the National Historical Museum of Greece. The exhibition is currently hosted in the Acropolis Museum, until March.

See more photos of the project  x, x, x and x. 

Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)

I assume people are aware of what the gimmick was with "the Tingler" and I don't need to explain it

Please educate me on what "the Tingler" did. I am very curious

The Tingler is a B grade horror film made by William Castle. Now what you need to know about William Castle is the dude liked to put on a SHOW. (If the first sentence in his bio on Wikipedia doesn't make you interested in him nothing will.) He made around 15 movies but the one's he's most remembered for had some or other "gimmick" when you went to go see them in theaters during the 50s and 60s.

A famous one was for "The House at Haunted Hill" (also starring Vincent Price). At a pivotal scene in the movie, a skeleton with red glowing eyes would swoop out over the movie theater audience on a wire.

Now the Tingler had a much more unique concept.

The story of the Tingler is already insane. In the movie, Scientists discover that all human beings are born with a parasite in their spines called a "Tingler" that feed off of human fear. Called "The Tingler" for how you feel a rush run down your spine during extreme fear, which turns out to be the feeling of the parasite growing. Tinglers grow and will slowly curl in on themselves and will eventually crush the human spine it's wrapped around. Humans have evolved a natural defense mechanism, which is screaming when they get scared. Screaming weakens the growth of the Tingler, and prevents it from reaching a lethal size.

A scientist discovers this creature after a movie theater owner's wife, who was deaf and mute, died because she could not scream when frightened. Turns out he had murdered his wife by purposefully terrifying her, allowing the Tingler to grow to a lethal size.

So here's the gimmick. It's simply but ingeniously effective, as the entire movie was basically written to "sell" the gimmick.

William Castle had buzzers installed under the theater seats. This caused the seats to, at specific points in the movie, vibrate against the movie audience's backs.

There was also some live action sequences I'm just gonna copy paste from the wiki

There were also nurses stationed at the theater doors and planted "Screamers and fainters" who would be gurneyd out of the theater and "whisked off to hospital" past the audience, who would then come back and repeat the process for the next showing.

And that's the story of the movie "The Tingler".

I recommend looking up Willaim Castle and his movies further.

Also this is what a Tingler supposedly looks like

Edit: oh it was also the first movie to ever show someone take LSD. Since LSD was legal at the time.

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i will let my mind go wild with these knowing i’ll finally be able to credit the original artist

EEEE FINALLY THE ORIGINAL ARTIST

Oh hell yeah, going to use these later!

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Pinterest is one of the reasons why I’m broke

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You can also donate $10 and dm me for my original ref folders from like 2015!

(Will never not reblog this beauty. What genius.)

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some of sarah bernhardt’s titular roles in posters by alphonse mucha

la dame aux camélias (1880), la tosca (1887), gismonda (1894), lorenzaccio (1896), medée (1898), hamlet (1899) 

A secret rendezvous in the castle halls! 8) 

Okay i have to talk about this because it drives me fucjing INSANE every time i see it.

First off the tenderness??? Of the kings expression????? Coupled with the knights expression, eyes closed, lips parted, but with the king’s thumb on his chin thats plausible deniability right there baby. In the shadow of a doorway, too, off course theyd be that close if the knight were pulling the curtains aside for his king, nothing to see here. The hand on the kings wrist– is he trying to pull the king closer? Push him away? Hold him right there in that transient moment, that liminal space, the only place they are allowed this tender intimacy??????

#jennifer coolidge was right, these gays were trying to murder us

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