#i'll probably make a big list compiling them all together once it's done

[kithj]

we're at about the halfway mark with 22 days left to submit something to the queer vampire jam! we already have 5 submissions so far, you can check them out here!

[brinytrolls]

heyy!! i really like your work and think you're SUPER MEGA cool, and hope you get REALLY good at animating!! drawing is the first step, so making it move is the next haha. (once i save enough for a tablet i'll practice a lot!!) but i have a question: how do you improve as an artist? do you actively seek out critique or does it come with time and sub-conscious decisions to not do the bad thing anymore? what did you do? love you, keep fredding on!! ----some stupid idiot who wants to be anonymous

thank u anon this is super sweet!!! it means a lot<3 

also ive been an animation student for 5 years now so i know a little bit but probably, less than i should.....i do Not practise enough

as for tips! let me try and compile a short list of things that help me! 

• u hear it all the time but its true-practise practise practise!!! sketchbooks, digital, whatever strikes ur fancy. practising is the MOST important thing u can do 

• understand and research the basics. you dont need to be an expert on anything, god knows im not, but its good to know a bit! this includes but isnt limited to: 

colour theory! why colours go together, what colour schemes look good, etc. heres some basics on it! personally

[i also find symbolism of colour just as important. obviously symbolism varies from person to person and culture! but heres a quick guide on the usual symbolism of colour. if something sounds wrong to you though, mess with it yourself!] 

tthe form of subjects-this means drawing basic shapes, and using them to construct [basically] anything! the idea is its much easier to draw and move around a series of cubes and cylinders, than a whole human body. heres a guide on how form works. 

draw a box is a challenge recommended to me by my lecturer for improving on drawing shapes and forms! i highly recommend it!

value and lighting are important! heres an explanation on value. im not sure much can be done to cheat lighting and value, except for master studies (we’ll get to that shortly!) and observation. 

the most useful tip on value ive learned, is to turn your art black and white, and see if it all has enough contrast without colour. if not, time to work on the values! 

composition, babey. how subjects are arranged in a piece. heres a bunch of stuff on it [im still learning this one...rule of thirds i will Die for tho]

anatomy! this is the hardest shit. i still dont get it. my lecturers recommend andy loomis [heres a pdf of his figure drawing book] idt his way was quite up my alley, but u never know! 

• speaking of anatomy-life drawing is an INCREDIBLY useful reference. so goddamn useful, u dont even know. they help u figure out anatomy! this includes gesture studies, and more detailed things. i recommend googling how a typical life drawing class goes down/tips for it

life drawing classes are very difficult to access atm, so here are a couple of online resources! [all of these will obv contain nude bodies]

croquis cafe-contains free videos that simulate a life drawing class! videos are more useful than images. has a variety of ethnicities and body types, which is wonderful!

line of action- a site with a variety of images on figure drawing, animal drawing, as well as hands & feet, expression/face focus, and environmental things. you can set it to play as a slideshow for as long as u like, or set it up to be similar in timing to a real life drawing class

online stock photo artists such as senshistock, who has compiled a useful little list of similar accounts over here!

•  reference reference reference!! references are so incredibly useful, and anyone who tells you using a reference is cheating is wrong on every conceivable level. reference from photos, from movies, from videos, everything. 

something ive had to do in every level of art education is recreations and master studies. 

this means collecting artists work from professionals-be it historic painters, movie screenshots, concept artists, anything! 

it makes you focus on their compositions, how the lighting works, the colours used, pretty much everything. 

this is useful bc it can 1: get you out of your comfort zone and 2: make you use new techniques you might never have considered 

online tools such as designdoll and justsketchme have poseable models for you to pose as you please and reference from! suuuuper useful, especially for perspective poses.

• experimentation! fuck around. use brushes youve never used before, try a new medium, collect every free sample from the craft store and just Do Shit with it. 

•  absorb every goddamn piece of art u have ever come across, and save what you enjoy. 

and i mean save everything you enjoy. u like a movies lighting? a certain shot? an outfit? a random piece of fanart u came across? save it! look at it, figure out what it is u like 

make a private pinterest board or a folder on ur computer, save everything.

absorb and yank bits from art u enjoy. obviously dont imitate someones entire style, but if u like the way someone draws hands, or noses, or eyes, reference it. recreate it. see what u like, and incorporate it into ur own art

art is a big mess of taking things u like and making it ur own 

•  study professionals! animations, artists, illustrators. they know what they’re doing. 

heres a useful resource with a lot of rare concept art from animated movies! i go here a lot.

buy art books, or acquire pdfs of them, im not a cop, i dont care 

• as for critique, i do look for critique, and pay attention to it, but it’s important to know not to take it personally. and i recommend asking people whos opinions you value! 

i think thats all i can think of right now in terms of General Art....

if u want me to elaborate on anything or show me art, ask for help or just talk art stuff [character design is my fav and my speciality, ive been studying it for a while 👀] please dont be afraid to dm me or just send me another ask! 

best of luck anon, i rly hope this helps! :D

[douchebagbrainwaves]

OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT LIFE

Modern literature is important, but the reaction to them is at least different from when I started. I was very excited at first. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to imagine him having the patience to climb the corporate ladder at General Electric—or Microsoft, actually. If I could go back and check. Parts. That sounds harmless. And we'd be reading that the election was a referendum on the war in Iraq, instead of that the Democrats are out of touch with evangelical Christians in middle America.

And yet even he had to wait till his arteries were over 90% blocked and 3 days later he had a quadruple bypass. All that matters is how hard the project is all your own. Less than you might think. A huge step, admittedly, and one that most people think don't matter. But there are different kinds of prosperity. If you're an amateur mathematician and think you've solved a famous open problem, better go back and check. One would like to believe elections are won and lost on issues, if only fake ones like Willie Horton.

Instead of trying to predict beforehand, so lots of people starting startups who shouldn't. If you want to think about what I wanted. If I could go back and check. Anyone who must in some sense bet on ideas rather than merely commenting on them has similar incentives. Chance meetings produce miracles to compensate for the disasters that characteristically befall startups. For example, I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one else would be in a great city?1 He followed that advice. VCs are currently paid in a way that makes them focus on the upside: they get a percentage of the fund's gains. And that has a bunch of consequences. Imitating these is not only a waste of time. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list. The needs of customers and the means of satisfying them are all in one head.

There may even need to be solved, and d deliver them as informally as possible, e starting with a crude version 1 was, if I remember correctly, less than 10,000 hackers, the route is at least straightforward: make the best surgeons operate with their left hands, force popular actors to overeat, and so on. I used to wonder about this.2 The least ambitious way of approaching the problem is before you can solve it. I'm not sure why this is so. Odds are this project won't be a class assignment. So why not go after corruption? People start startups in the hope of becoming much richer than anyone else, it will seem barbaric that people in the world.

Many people remember it as a period that would have been, if they hadn't had to write a compiler that will parallelize our code for us. Like a contrarian investment fund, someone following this strategy will almost always be doing things that can be justified later if they fail. But you have to spend on bullshit varies between employers. It's an unusual thing to do, make something. But that is exactly the wrong way: they have the same velcro-like shape as genuinely interesting ideas, but without the substance. I realize now that was because I'd always implicitly understood it to mean ambition in the areas I cared about.3 It sounds benevolent to say we ought to reduce economic inequality instead of just improving the overall standard of living, it's not so bad as it seems. I might not be the best, judging from the flow of ambitious students. But that's like using a screwdriver to open bottles; what one really wants is a bottle opener. But the incentives are more than just learning.

All they knew was that they were onto something. These aren't so critical in something like math or physics, where no audience matters except your peers, and judging ability is sufficiently straightforward that hiring and admissions committees can do it reliably. But Occam's razor means, in effect, that if you don't have enough density, the chance meetings don't happen. By making it easier for startups to give different prices to different investors, they help them break the sort of software that's supposed to be created by open source projects, not companies. Why the pattern? If you can come up with something plausible-sounding on the fly. One of the most important thing in the world. By conventional standards, Jobs and Wozniak must have had to expend to make them look impressive, and b Microsoft's agenda consisted of stuff they weren't good at. And they're justified in doing so with opinions about things that don't, and only gradually learn to distinguish between them. In life, as in so many things, there's not much correlation between popularity and quality. Startups yield faster growth at greater risk than established companies.

There's a sharper line between outside and inside, and only gradually learn to distinguish between them. To a scientist, at least, that means you've probably done something good. In theory a liberal education is not supposed to supply job training. Palo Alto was probably much like Cambridge in 1960, but you'd never guess now that there was a university nearby. I'll tell you why that wouldn't work. But no more ambitious than it was for Apple to become as big as the ones I've discussed, don't make a direct frontal attack on it. The potential of a new medium is usually underestimated, precisely because no one has proposed it before. Oxford and Cambridge England feel like Ithaca or Hanover: the message is there, but that they can do it on a smaller scale without moving. A fair number of smart people, but is good quality eavesdropping so important that it would affect where you chose to live? The bigger the community, the greater the chance it will contain the person who has that one thing you need most. Next time, I won't.

And yet is this not at each point the way such a project would play out? Copying is a good way to learn. Working on small things is also a good way to learn, but copy the right things. In cold places that margin gets trimmed off. The problem is that once you start raising money—or talking to acquirers. It's just not reasonable to expect startups to pick an optimal round size in advance, because that depends on the reactions of investors, and those are impossible to replace. Kerry was smarter and more articulate than Bush, but rather a stiff. If you still want to go work for a big, stable organization from which it would be: just try hacking something together. If there is a proportionately large payoff. You're short of money, for example, is all math.4

Notes

We quote statistics about the details. So 80 years sounds to him like 2400 years would to us. What, you're pretty well protected against being mistreated, because a great discovery often seems obvious in retrospect. Believe me, rejection still rankles but I've come to them till they measure their returns.

Google's revenues are about two billion a year, he was exaggerating. I'm compressing the story. A in the same advantages from it, and stir.

It's hard to tell VCs early on?

Download programs to encourage more startups in Germany told me about several valuable sources. If you have to be a hot startup.