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Sorry guys.....i missed the 21st....that means you dont get to see the opossums that appear only during the 21st of every month...please forgive me...

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Yall know what day it is

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If you're so transgender, how can I still see you

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Guys I died, im dead now

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Risk of rain 2 is the video game equivalent of " when you're happy you feel the music when you're sad you understand the lyrics". Except in this case understanding the lyrcis is piecing together the story and side stories to realize that Petrichor V is a genuinely horrifying place.

(Ps: will the next ror2 dlc be a common gearbox L or rare gearbox W)

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I don't know why I wrote this last night, I guess I was in a mood:

As time flies by, you may think you are being left behind, sometimes I certainly do. It feels like the universe is speeding past you, while you're still figuring out how to tie your shoes, or how talk to that cute guy or girl you like. It really does seem like you're starting a race everyone else began eons ago, and in part, you're right. Time is flying, regardless of whether you're ready, or not. Like all the grains of sand on a beach, taking one away does not take away from its vastness, nor does your absence effect the magnitude of our reality, so it does not care if it leaves you behind. However, that does not mean you can't catch up. In the face of the universe's sheer infinity, time can fly as fast and as far as it wants, and it will be no further ahead than you, the one who has yet to begin. Walk, run, crawl, it does not matter, you will end up in the same place as everyone else, the warm, tender embrace of the finish line. So take your time, get your bearings, and carry on. You may feel insignificant on the scale of immeasurable and timeless nothing, but one does not compare the ant to the elephant. The ant, while brief in its existence on our shared world, living but a fraction of our time, is as infinitely complex and beautiful as the elephant, who in comparison, lives 1000 generations. Then the elephant, grand and enduring, will be outlived by the towering oak by another 1000 generations. Your time in our world, and in our universe, is a fleeting moment in the lifetime of infinity, but rather than wallow in pity and meaningless sorrow, you should embrace the vastness of reality. Live to your *own* expectations, follow *your* heart. Your insignificance comes with the will to forge your own destiny, as the universe does not care to plan the lives of each microscopic speck upon it's back. You will fade into the vacuum, as will we all. So cherish these precious seconds, for they are yours, and yours alone.

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Neither of them have mouths so it's just a really romantic headbutt

Hey guys

This is old but it did well on twitter so I'm putting it here too now that I've moved.

Original colour version that I never posted:

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You lost the game

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your words inspire me (I gave up learning to draw months ago), but this, this is motivation! In my warmest regards I send you one virtual hug and half a coupon to burger king

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

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I have a game idea, if someone makes this is will give them every penny I have.

An open world Far Cry style WWI shooter. You take the role of a lone German soldier in an alternate universe battle of Somme that got cut off from his retreating battalion after their numbers were massacred by the first British tanks. Now behind enemy lines, your goal is to fight your way back to your allies. Along the way you discover certain positions that you once held were now held by the enemy (like a wolfenstein style superpower but not nazi Germany, just the British). The game would make you feel like a one man army, like most single player open world games

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how it feels to watch all of your classes assign a project. (final exams are in a week)

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The most amount of corndogs i have eaten in a day is 11

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Yall know what day it is!

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How it felt as a jojo fan to get released from the schizo room after SBR was announced

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Doodle of Elain I made from a while back :3

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To everyone who plays Roblox, I demand that you try Project Remix at least once.