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Only one of the Bill Cipher Badge Pack left until my restock arrives in about two weeks!

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Ford and Mabel using science to try and figure out what the heck is in smile dip

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Gotta be honest Kai this just makes me want to pay for your plane ticket

If I ever showed up on @grunklejam's doorstep I imagine this is how hanging out together would be like.

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Shop update!

First off, huge thanks for the warm reception to the button-down. Really has made the hours I spent on it feel worthwhile, and I can't wait for people to receive their orders!!

Sadly, slightly more negative news - I'm having to raise the prices on my badge packs, as the profit margins have shrunk substantially since they were launched. I'm now only just making a couple of pennies or even making a loss on these things, and while I hate increasing prices, I don't have much other choice.

I hope you'll agree they're still worth it, though. Right? RIGHT?! Price rise will be done on MAY 1ST so if you want to get them cheaper, it's a great time to take advantage of my poor likkul business.

Big new products on the way. Lots of money spent. I hope it's worthwhile. Thank you again for being the best damned Gravity Falls fans on the planet.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

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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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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Comic strip artists from the 40’s draw their characters while blindfolded

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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everyone look at my seal rolls

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Gronklr Stabley

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It sometimes occurs to me that a lot of folks haven't seen our interview with the one and only Jason Ritter, which I was very proud to host.

This was a community led, LIVE event in which anyone could contribute a question, and we ended up asking him 36 of them over the course of the interview. He even stayed around on Discord for a while to thank people. Because he's awesome.

The result is a 1hr 36min video with lots of behind the scenes stuff, lots of quotes and some really huge insights into the show and its production.

Jason was an utter delight to organise this with and I will never be able to thank him enough.

Broadcast LIVE on the R/GravityFalls discord server in front of 195 viewers at peak!

On the 2nd of February, 2024, Grunkle Jam (that's me!) and Beni from the R/GravityFalls discord server sat down for an exclusive, live interview with Jason Ritter ("Dipper Pines") - coming to us all the way from Los Angeles.

From over 150 questions submitted to us by our wonderful community, we picked 35 of our favourites (and some very silly ones) to ask Dipper Pines and got some incredible insight into working on Gravity Falls. Some of these stories have never been heard before!

Find out or relive the incredible answers to these long-considered, complex questions:

How did he first learn about Gravity Falls?

What's his favourite episode?

What was the Cipher Hunt like?

What does he think of Dipcifica?

Does he eat mac 'n' cheese with a spoon or a fork?!?!

And many more! After a ton of work creating a ridiculously sleek video by beni2am and with sincere thanks to Pidgewynn and Oblox for assisting in assembling footage. Jason appeared courtesy of the Burstein Company, to whom we're eternally grateful.

While Pidgewynn and Oblox's footage was all we required, we'd still heartily like to thank: Din Elib, Mr. Popcorn Little, Orblington, Muddy Lives, Tragic Comedian, RyanZ Who all contributed their own recordings to help in assembling this video.

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Razzle dazzle, friends!

Just a few more changes until the star product is ready.

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Little black squash balls, Walter. This lab is where you will create little black squash balls.

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Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.