vibing

adult. local animator and animation theorist.

[kriosv]

[mchnhorse]

1hr 15min landscape.

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[redm00n-t]

Another drawing with Rose quartz. Another one. And another. MORE.

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[drawing-prompt-s]

No, this is a starship, not a spaceship. It’s a common confusion

[choodraws]

blacksky eye 👁️

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[shortboxcomicsfair]

Apply to SB Fair — ShortBox Comics Fair

Applications for ShortBox Comics Fair 2027 are now open! Full details and form at the link.

[shortboxcomicsfair]

A reminder that applications to SBCF 2027 close at the end of this month. SBCF is an online, digital comics fair: you can apply from anywhere in the world -and there's no upfront tabling/exhibiting fee involved. All details at the link.

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

Suzuno’s wardrobe in 2003.

Unsure which brand the black skirt is from, but the blouse and op are AP and the set on the bottom is Meta.

[svndvn]

paitings to exercize, Im trying find a brushwork that feels more like mine, always aiming for a very "traditionnal" look, between gouache and watercolors

[zethyre]

[japaneseaesthetics]

Artist: Yoshida Hiroshi Title: Eboshidake Date: 1926 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.

[shi-gu]

Hello! I have just stumbled across your blog and started reading your webcomic and I am entranced. I am thoroughly enjoying the care you've clearly put into the names; I'm not amazingly familiar with Mesoamerican languages but I can tell there's a bunch of very obviously Nauhatl names and a bunch of very obviously not Nahuatl names (which I assume are Zapotec), and I've picked up that Nahuatl 'cacalotl' is 'crow' (^^) (it does hurt my soul a bit to see all the commenters complaining about "Mayan" names, though ToT) I see the pages I'm reading are dated 2019; I'm hoping that means I have a whole lot left to read!

(also your art is wonderful, and I love the little speech scrolls in montage sequences and Itzcacalotl collapsing on the ground into a very Mesoamerican art pose and all the little details - and Donají is completely adorable)

Hi! Thanks a lot, I'm very glad you're enjoying it!

Yeah, the webcomic began in 2018, though the version you're reading spans only up to chapter 5. In 2021 I signed a contract with IDW to publish Codex Black as a graphic novel series. So far there's two full colored books out there, and I'm currently working on the third one. The webcomic that's online corresponds to what is book 1, although we reworked the plot a bit, particularly chapter 5, and added a new climax and considerable material to that part of the story, as well as some extra scenes, so I'd say the book version is a much more developed one. Of course, as part of the deal I had to cease the publication of the webcomic online, so for example, none of what is book 2 is online, for now.

Indeed, as for the part you're reading, it's mostly Nahuatl and Zapotec names (Donají and Itzcacalotl themselves being examples). Though later on there will be characters from other cultures, like Otomi, Huastec, P'urhepecha, etc.

The pose you mention of Itzcacalotl after they fall down the cliff, is a reference to the famous Coyolxauhqui relief!

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[fatartappreciation]

Succubi, a divine work by Iranian-born and now French-based artist Bahman Pezeshkzad, depicting an ample beautiful woman well worthy of adoration! Per Wikipedia, in modern representations, a succubus (succubi denotes plural women) is often depicted as a beautiful woman seductress or charming, rather than as demonic or frightening, to attract people instead of repulsing them. The male counterpart of the succubus is the incubus. Historically, folkloric belief in succubi was motivated by distressing nighttime phenomena, chiefly wet dreams and sleep paralysis.

This was recommended by a wonderful anonymous source to whom I’m eternally grateful!

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[lesbiansforboromir]

everyone stop reblogging this I hate to be reminded of my own good advice

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)