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i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

this painting is what ultrakill speedrunners see when they close their eyes. if you showed this to the romans who flogged jesus theyd think this painting is excessive. this painting is the blood cavern from space funeral. it's the color out of space.

jegus tapdancing christ it is actually that bad

So the artist is Jonathan Yeo. His statement:

Listen. Buddy. I hate to be mean to an artist but when i first saw this I physically recoiled. If this had been done in another style and the background still matched the color of the coat I don't think I would have liked it but... this looks like it was composed of raw meat. Dude. WHY.

(I went and looked up the artist's work, and his style does overall involve a lot of this sort of heavily textured use of color. But none of the others hit me this way. He has one of Idris Elba that's a bust portrait and he isn't wearing any clothes, and the background is the same color as his skin, but like... there's more contrast in the portrait shading so it doesn't feel like Idris Elba disappears into it, and it's just not as upsetting a shade.)

LOOK at this thing. It's even more vivid in person, and it's HUGE.

Actually I'll say that the contrast between Charles's head and the rest seems like it's better in person. But it's still overwhelming and kind of upsetting.

Thank you for the explanation, and the artist's name! I couldn't tell if the bloody overtones were deliberate or not, so I looked up some more of Jonathan Yeo's art for context - and I'm glad I did. He's worked in a lot of mediums, but let's focus on the portraits, because they're fucking great...

I love these. Zoom in; each one is technically masterful but also very empathetic, delicately filling in exactly the minimum details necessary to convey the sitter's character and humanity.

So let's compare the portraits of Idris Elba, Helena Bhonam Carter, and Dennis Hopper:

To the portrait of Sgt Geoffrey Pattinson:

Okay so the blood-red staining every inch of a warmonger's portrait is 100% intentional and means exactly what we all think it means, Yeo just can't say that out loud.

Red is a cheerful color, conveying warmth! It's color theory!

Red is a cheerful

color, conveying warmth! It’s

color theory!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

what are you guys’ most “tumblr is a website” moments

off to a great start everyone

I understand some of you are 19 but that is not an old man, he's 32.

(Op deleted I think but here's my reblog for posterity)

everyone shut the fuck up and look at lil nas x and the wiggles

#the shadow on the ground showing its actually in the game is the best part

it is very much in game, here’s it being attacked by bees

Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!

The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.

It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.

They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

not to be a sap or anything but this particular piece of little mermaid trivia does something to me

I had a nightmare last night.

I was a reporter.

This is absolutely amazing. I hope you hold onto this idea.

OMG, YOU TURN THIS INTO A 500 PAGE NOVEL RIGHT NOW. I WOULD READ THE HELL OUT OF THIS.

Today's Seal Is: Umm...Uhhhhh...I Forgot My Lines...

Love and light to marcille but she has the worst fucking opinions on God's good earth

#Let Marcille Suck 2024#and not in the cutesy girlfailure way she's strong and competent and also has weirdly regressive views on gender roles

these hoes don't be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan's Law

tryna strike a chord but it's probably A Minor

big day for annoying people (me)

The Crushing Weight of Not Knowing If There Is a Task

im starting to think this crushing weight is not about the tasks

Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you