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Getting ready to start up Hellbound again in January. I have a Sci-fi mini comic coming up too! Thumbnailing fight scenes is the hardest for me because of my disability i cannot percieve 3D space! Did you know that? Lol thats why i like those 3D programs for set layouts. #comics #hellbound https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHd4sxOHCE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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If you love books and want the people who make these books to be paid a livable wage please support this and donate to their fund! Please do not stop buying books! It's helping them apply pressure. If you work in publishing. Please do not pitch any books to harper, and do not work for them. They will try to fill the gaps with underpaid temporary workers! https://bookandfilmglobe.com/politics/harpercollins-strike-continues/ #hcp #harpercollins https://www.instagram.com/p/CloVfvML2zU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Broom broom im in me mums caahhh https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6HwQGLbYI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Found this old art! Still fkn hilarious... #comics https://www.instagram.com/p/ClU5v72LMUo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Finally. I'm important online. I'm...verified. and, it was a buy one get one deal! Amazing.

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“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”

“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”

“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”

“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”

“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”

“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”

A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.  

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Tips for artists coming back to tumblr from twitter

Have a pinned post with your name and links, like you would on twitter. You can also add links to your bio with html.

Find a blog theme that is very image friendly.

Create an art tag so people can find your work!! Especially if you also reblog others’ stuff onto your main. If you don’t feel like getting creative, #my art is a popular one.

Popular art tags here are # artists on tumblr, # my art, # illustration, and # drawing, or just simply # art. You can add as many tags as you want to a post, although only the first 5 or so are prioritized in search.

Pinned tags are now a thing? so like if you have a bunch of tags on your blog but only want a select few to show up, you do that in blog settings.

You can also turn on tipping on your posts to allow people to donate to you if you connect a Stripe account. I don't know specifics.

Create an art-only sideblog for people to follow if they don’t want to see all your reblogs.

Submit your art to blogs like @art or @artistalley for a chance at getting featured or reaching a wider audience!

You can use spaces in tags. Please use spaces in tags. It makes navigation much easier.

@tips has a more in-depth explanation of various functions and how to use them so check that out if the UI here is overwhelming.

Go to @changes and @wip for updates/help/whatever on what staff are doing with the site. You can also make requests for new features I think? idk

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Just ordered one of your artbooks as a christmas present for a friend who's just getting started in traditional arts :P - do you have any extra tips/knowledge I could pass on?

Hi! ✨ That's so nice! For me, one big thing in improving my art was to start doing a lot of freehand sketching with a pen and not erase any possible mistakes. It helped me become a lot quicker, and I was able to do more sketches and finished pieces, when I wasn't getting stuck on fixing some tiny mistakes. It might feel frustrating at first, but the more you do it, the better you get at it. 💕

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this is mostly for art friends who want to follow artblogs or follow people for art but dont want it to be crowded by shitposts

blog subs are going to be the last one here

this will then redirect you to tumblr labs

where you will need to enable tumblr labs and then toggle blog subscriptions

now you can go to whatever artblog or whatever and go to get notifications to get a feed that is exclusively those people

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If you don't know xkit and are new to tumblr. Xkit fixes all of tumblrs awful updates haha

XKit Rewritten

The enhancement suite for Tumblr's new web interface.

Features

Block all instances of any specific post

Get an unread count on your tracked tags

Easily see when a post was originally made

Adjust the volume on audio & video posts

And more! Check out the full features list on the wiki

Screenshots

Installation

Get this extension for Firefox

View on the Chrome Web Store

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Thats me ^

Remember to not only follow artists main blog, but also follow each others reblog-shitpost sideblogs.

Main blog is just for a clean impression of my own posts.

My sideblog - MirrePP - is where the good shit is

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I wanted to link my instagram so i moved. Lol