Inspirational Art Work

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www.AlmostSeenOn.com

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Pipra Darling

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おれんじ＠ついった

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Rufous-Backed Kingfisher (Ceyx rufidorsa) @ Panti Forest (by Chong Lip Mun)

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by せばすちゃ

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This is what I was inking when you guys were asking me crazy things!

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Brittney W

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by 宮部サチ

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legend of zelda | Tumblr on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/44330958/via/LeeAsdfu

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I totally forgot about this. And seeing as I’m on a tumblr rampage this week, I might as well post it now.

So last month I did some art for the launch of the new tomb raider game. I wrote a blog post about it here. Anyway, as is the case with these sorts of projects, how it goes is you submit a bunch of sketches and then work one of them up to finished art. Due to a slight miscommunication I ended up working the wrong piece up to a finished state. Luckily, I was ahead of schedule so I finished the correct sketch straight afterwards, but that long-winded explanation is why i have TWO pieces of Lara Croft illustration in my folio.

I was really happy with this one too, so here it is, along with the sketch and a third sketch that I really didn’t have time to do. Enjoy!

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Hiroshima Lantern Festival by rileyroxx on Flickr.

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[gentlemandeerlord]

Queen Puabi’s headdress, beaded cape and jewelry, all ca. 2550 BCE (includes comb, hair rings, wreaths, hair ribbons, and earrings) of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian, was excavated in the early 1930s by a joint Penn Museum/British Museum team, at the ancient Mesopotamian Royal Cemetery of Ur, in what is now Iraq. The Queen went to her final resting place accompanied by several hundred female attendants, several guards, and a rich cache of objects. Puabi’s headdress included a frontlet with beads and pendant gold rings, two wreaths with poplar leaves, a wreath with willow leaves and inlaid rosettes, and a string of lapis lazuli beads. The comb would have been inserted in her hair at the back, leaving the flowers floating over her head. Her beaded cape and jewelry includes pins of gold and lapis lazuli, a gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian garter, lapis lazuli and carnelian cuff, and gold finger rings.

[neverstopdrawing]

“Hair” - Gunnmgally

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The visual linguistics of a comic book page

Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:

People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.

But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.

Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”

Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.

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O-OH. OH IM LIKE ACTUALLY IN PAIN LOOKING AT THOSE LAYOUTS.

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All of these layouts cause me physical pain, except for the grid one, which just bores me to death

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Coloured Shading Tutorial - How to pick a palette by *MadeleineStern