#like come on. that's unreal...

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[kedreeva]

I need you to understand that the very straight and immediate line from someone's very confident "I don't like mice/I've handled mice before so I know what they're like" to joyous wonder as they hold the first calm, friendly mouse they've ever held and murmur "they're so soft/sweet/warm/gentle" practically to themselves is basically a drug

"I work at a petstore," says the young man with much disdain, "so I don't really need to hold another one. I know what they're like."

"These aren't petstore mice," I say, as I turn my hand over and the mouse holds on tighter. "They're not like any mouse you've ever held," I say, as I close my hand gently around the mouse and flip her onto her back for a second so I can touch her mouth and demonstrate how difficult it would be to get one of my mice to bite.

"I'm sure you've handled them extensively from a very young age, though."

"They haven't been handled before today, except to be moved into clean cages." She arranges herself in my hand and cleans her face. "Are you sure you don't want to hold one?"

He opens his hands, and she pours from my hand into his like a viscous liquid. She is soft and warm and sweet, and his entire face lights up when she hunkers down onto his warm hand and closes her eyes.

"....She's changing my mind."

"They tend to do that when you leave it open."

He took her and two companions home.

[benevolenterrancy]

Li Yu is on!! a mission!! which is really hard to do when only one of your three currently viable forms have legs and it's not like. the ideal form.

[johnnyshrine]

★ 150 // “Mermaid”

[pvppyjawn]

@bunniepluzhie got me back into voltron and i curse her for it

[rythyme]

girl i'm on the FLOOR

[theloveinc]

i mean... i know it's not my business like that but i do have to wonder .... is the [entertainment/anime] industry in japan even remotely worried about the fact that two, internationally popular animangas ended/are ending with really, really abrupt endings? like............ does that not concern anyone? in regard to mangaka health/burnout mostly but Also the fact these endings are lowkey... ass?

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | Season 1 (2015-16), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

[the-butternut-tree]

there’s something very symbolic about how short butchered tongue is and how it sounds like it should keep going but it just stops.

[jadedresearcher]

New Zampanio Branch Dropped :)

http://farragofiction.com/ZampanioSimEastEastEast You know Zampanio? That creepy pasta game I'm obsessed with that probably doesn't exist but that's okay because we all keep making 'fan games' of it based on what breadcrumbs we can find? Filling in the holes with other fandoms and ocs and what not?

I made another fan branch of it!

This one is more recursive than normal (don't worry it's justified :) :) ;) ) but I have it in a p decent state before I need to go get ready for Lavinraca/Lavinraca!!! And of course, because it's to the East, you can luxuriate in the fact that it's actually a game!

It's more game than anything you've ever seen me create before! Isn't that exciting???

Don't you love it when the appearance of a thing matches the reality of a thing? Soooo much better than the North! Who even likes all those fakey fake illusions pretending to be food delivery sites or dating sites or games or a gender quiz or whatever? Though I WILL say. North really did have something going on by pretending to be Tumblr.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Sometimes I like to think of killer and something new papyrus reuniting similar to the way jinx and vi from arcane did in season 1. Mostly just the shocked, disbelieving look, the camera spinning hug, the “are you..real?” maybe not much else but that sticks with me

[bugtoast]

in the scenario where Mephone is friends with other object show hosts, do y'all think that he stays up at night trying to reassure himself that the other hosts are real?

[lifemod17]

Like Real People Do

🎥: earthsicecoffee | x

Summerfest || 06/20/2025

[carmen-berzattos]

There's something at the tip of my tongue about the parallels between Jackie and Wilson and Who We Are

How the narrator of Jackie and Wilson wants to run away with a woman that he's carved out of his imagination based on a brief interaction. How they would try the world, but good god it wasn't for them. So they run away from it into a fantasy world where they live by their own rules.

And then comes the narrator of Who We Are, who dreamt his whole life of finding someone who would hold him like water or like a knife, only to find that running away from the world will only get them so far, since "the hardest part is who we are". And only to find out that the "phantom life" he's fantasized about is actually just that: a phantom. And its absence sharpens like a knife

[lazysublimeengineer]

Everyone be hating on Noa just because he betrayed Isagi in this chapter is unreal.

What betrayal happened? I didn't see any of it in the latest chapter.

First and foremost, Noa is a MASTER, A REAL EGOIST & A COACH FOR BM. The initial core of BM is to make decisions based on rationality and logic.

It's not the first time that something like this has happened in the manga. Character is being devoured left and right to make way for their growth and ego. ESPECIALLY IN THE FIRST AND SECOND SELECTION.

He doesn't owe Isagi anything just because he idolized him. I feel bad for Isagi and I hope that this situation would foster for his further growth and evolution.

But to say that Noa didn't give a shit about Isagi and sided with Kaiser is utterly wrong. He wasn't siding with anybody.

And did anyone forget that he values Isagi's opinion and strategy as well? This is evident when he allowed Isagi to let Hiori in the Ubers match when logically speaking Kiyora should be in there because he had higher stats than Hiori as to what Noa had said to them. But he placed his trust in Isagi's judgment back then which also led to their team's victory.

I can't even believed I'm defending Noa right now because I'm mostly neutral about him.

But the hate is uncalled for. Stop glazing about your favorites and understand why he did what he did.

Honestly, it made the manga interesting again because lately it's been getting stale at the moment.

Glad that the author took a risk and took this route.

[lmskitty]

I think one of the saddest parts of satosugu that we don't talk about enough is losing your best friend. Like yeah the romantic and physical element to their dynamic but the jokes? The ripping on each other? The laughter that happens at 3 am when you're saying dumb shit to each other and the next day you catch each others eye and reference it and you're bent over laughing over something so dumb.

Losing that person that can make you smile with just their presence, losing that person that understands what you're trying to say when you're tired or in a bad mood because they just KNOW you. That hurts more to me.