Please, ask me!!
Oh this one is also good, happy pride
so how we doing with the fact that we gave ourselves telepathy as a society thirty years ago? How's that working out?
BLAAARGH!! PUT THE COALS WITHIN MY MOUTH! ROAST YOUR FOOLISH MARSHED MALLOWS!! COLLECT THE ASHES FROM MY ASS TRAY and dispose of them responsibly, especially if they are still warm, fires are no joke. Uh. BLAARGH!!
Encounter: Bufobecue; a metal bipedal frog that will attempt to eat your coal, firewood, &c.
Yeah I know that guy
Croaky says only you can prevent forest fires
i’m tired of historical dramas trying to spice things up with sex scenes instead of giving the audience what they really want which is excessively long scenes of noble women being dressed in sumptuous and period accurate layers by their attendants with gratuitous shots of the era-appropriate fastenings and lacings being done
And long panning shots of historical buildings and locations that still exist, but bustling with activity back in another time period
Don’t forget: explaining what the politics and leading philosophies of the time period actually are
And artisans! Cooks! Clothiers! Craftmasters in the middle of the painstaking process of creating works of art to adorn the world the nobles inhabit. Beautiful embroidery and intricate feasts.
And armour that hasn’t been scoured down to its base metal thank you Victorians.
Period-accurate speech, accent, and affectation can odd my bodkin any time.
d100 Table of Books You Can Find
I posted this on Twitter ages ago and it did well, but with that site finally tailspinning I should probably put it here for safekeeping.
'yolo,' i whisper, as i add an entire stick of butter to the frying pan,
'might as well make it short as possible,' i do not add
okay haters which is it, are actors all rich fops who don't deserve money or all poor people who don't deserve money? it literally can't be both
when my sleep paralysis demon stands in my doorway grinning at me i like to leap down from my bed and scuttle at it, whooping like an inebriated coconut crab. *I*, sir, am the freakiest thing in this house, thank you.
#30 ('Corn')
Ancient grass of the plains
Turned by man's hand to maize
For the syrup and starch
By the billion we raze
It's sweet and it's bright
All stacked up in rows
It comes in an ear
Not an eye or a nose
You can mash up and creme it
Bake in muffin or bun
And should you set it on fire
It'll bang like a gun
Today is the day that my son was born
But I can't process that so here's a thing about corn
Marceline (with Finn) running with wolves, “Go With Me”
She did an akira
it is a hot day. remember to spend time in the shade.
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
Reblogging to save a wrist
"Re Blog" to PERMANENTLY become some sort of fucked up creature or demented beast
#28
I struggle with self-loathing.
I think I could be more efficient at it.
If I wasn’t such a dipshit.
crushing tiredness is maladaptive. doesn't make sense. how did my ancestors gather enough nuts and roots and berries to feed their family when their bones didn't work. help me out here evolution
#6
The bill is in front of me
"That bill is still in front of you?"
Initializing
"My bills were done ages ago."
Authorizing certificates
"I can pay over 10,000 megabills a minute."
Requesting data
"Now I'm calculating asteroid trajectories and running Doom."
Error encountered
"You should just update your OS instead of sitting there in your pajamas with that look of dread on your face."
Restarting
"What do you mean you 'don't know how to update your OS'? What are you, a child? Learn to adult!"
The bill is in front of me