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[familiarplace]

pictures & tears by james elkins, 2001 / how to look at art and architecture by ad reinhardt, 1947 / the goldfinch by donna tartt, 2013 / comic by lynda barry, 2016

[arcusxx]

dead city 

art by Luciana Nedelea

[touhouweed]

[astronautes]

I’m slowly becoming more active on tumblr. Drew Levi after a fight, you should see the other guy.

[astronautes]

Happy birthday Erwin!! (I’m a day late, we don’t talk about that)

[thecollectibles]

Art by Juho Laitila

[arriaak]

[frankocean]

Visit Original Link

I memorized the wayward expressions Never look down Never let you see me down I memorized the way no directions Can I come over now I’d like to stay a little while I memorized your body exposed I could fuck you all night long From a memory alone

I never forget a face Don’t go plastic on me Nothing’s set in stone You’re not dipped in gold Dipped in gold You can’t breathe if you’re dipped in gold You are not on paper You are not a copy You’re so, you’re so..so thick, so thick

[commander-ledi]

anyways dont reblog any art from tumblr user redkatherinee

she literally drew her oc boiling trans people alive and made art saying that people are not allowed to draw junkrat with top surgery scars because “hes canonically cis boy, not a girl”. filth like that doesnt deserve any exposure.

[kingfarron]

She’s a Overwatch artist, I know a lot of my followers are into it so please look out for her posts and avoid interaction.

[spooky-deerling]

They’re Russian. 

[genicecream]

a series of composition tips i’d been sharing on twitter!

and since some people had asked, i’ve put up a pdf version of this on gumroad along with a layered psd of one of the example images too

tips would be really appreciated, but it’s up for free!

[astronautes]

[keycrash]

apparently ppl don’t know about waifu2x??? despite its… concerning name it’s literally the most convenient website i’ve ever come across as an artist

it allows you to resize artwork without it becoming pixellated. this is a MASSIVE help if you, for example, make lineart too small or something. it works best with things that 1. have no textures 2. have smooth lines 3. have cel shading, but it still works really damn well for things that don’t fit that profile

here’s an example:

normal size

2x in paint

2x in waifu2x

so like, there’s that. go wild

[jake-clark]

Original:

Photoshop scaled:

Waifu2x scaled:

It’s legit!! Tell your friends!

[keenblade9]

That’s quite impressive! It must have some great code under the hood.

[aieleh]

HOLY FREE ART PROGRAMS BATMAN

I’ve had this list sitting around for a while (in case I ever want to try something new) and I thought I’d share it, because why the hell not, everybody loves free stuff. I’ve only used a couple, so for all I know these could be complete shit. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW, RIGHT?

*= available for both windows and mac os

GIMP * - Does a lot of the same stuff as Photoshop.

FireAlpaca * - Similar to Paint Tool Sai, so it’s a good alternative for Mac users.

Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition * - Simulates the look of copic markers.

MyPaint * - Basic stuff, nothing fancy.

Pinta * - Drawing program modeled after paint.NET.

Inkscape * - Vector/drawing program meant to be similar to Illustrator.

ArtRage * - Digital painting program; you can get the trimmed down version for free or buy the full version with more features.

Sumo Paint * - In-browser drawing app.

DAZ Studio * - Some sort of 3D model poser thing.

Pencil * - Software for animating.

SketchUp * - Tool for making 3D models. Looks handy for stuff like architectural drawings.

Blender * - Pretty popular 3D software.

escape motions * - Some browser apps, fun to fiddle with when you’re bored (the fluid fire simulation is pretty cool imo).

Twistedbrush (Pixarra) - Seems to be meant for replicating the look of traditional media.

Pixia/Phierha - A popular program in Japan, according to the website.

Krita - This was originally made for Linux and it looks like the developers haven’t ironed out all of the kinks in the Windows installer.

Artweaver - Another trimmed down free thing if you don’t want to buy the full program.

paint.NET - Pretty basic kit, probably good for simple stuff.

Project Dogwaffle - I’m not sure what this one is all about because I couldn’t stop laughing at the terrible website.

Speedy Painter - Lightweight digital painting program.

mtPaint - Originally made for pixel art; simple enough to run on older computers.

Chasys Draw IES - Supposed to be some sort of drawing+image editor thing.

PaintRibbon - Seems to be another plain old basic image editor.

DrawPlus - Looks like it’s made for graphic design and vector stuff.

SmoothDraw - I’m guessing this is a basic thing for people who don’t want to bother with complicated stuff.

[empanadadooblez]

Paint Tool SAI  here too ♥

[thegunnsara]

Facial expressions!