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Hellooo thereeee! I'm Bertie, nice to meet you! Just came back here after a loong time, mostly rebloging, I don't have much to say :P

[bertieisfine]

Hi!!! Changed my name and pfp because they were the same since 2023 and I changed a bit, but I'm still need-some-milkshake!!

Feel free to send me stuff, I'm friendly, I swear!!!

[jaydendr4ws]

Oh how the tables have turned 💔

[nando161mando]

[luna-azzurra]

Quick tips for writing Sleep Deprivation 

☽ Memory becomes absolute garbage. Like “why am I in the kitchen?” garbage. “What was I saying?” garbage. Their brain is running on buffering screens and regret.

☽ Fine motor skills? Ha. They’re dropping everything. Pens. Phones. Entire moral compass. They’re basically a malfunctioning claw machine.

☽ Hallucinations creep in. That jacket on the chair? Suddenly a person. That noise? Definitely doom. Everything becomes mildly haunted.

☽ Time gets weird. Five minutes feel like a year. A full hour disappears and they swear they blinked wrong.

☽ Irritation skyrockets. They get mad at chairs. At air. At gravity. At the audacity of other humans continuing to exist.

☽ Their voice sounds weird. Slow, scratchy, like they swallowed sand.

☽ They walk like a drunk baby giraffe. Walls suddenly jump closer. Floors rise unexpectedly. Coordination said: “I’m out.”

☽ Zoning out becomes a hobby. They stare at random objects like they’re trying to understand quantum mechanics.

☽ Vision blurs in and out. Like someone smeared Vaseline over their eyeballs out of spite.

☽ Their body just hurts. Not a dramatic pain, just the “why does my skeleton feel like it’s buzzing?” pain.

☽ Food cravings go feral. They’d fight someone for a stale cookie.

☽ Terrible choices. They will absolutely say “I’m fine” while making decisions that end in disaster.

☽ Random emotional implosions. Crying because their sock feels wrong? Yes.

☽ Cold hands. Cold feet. Cold heart. (Okay maybe not the last one, but it feels like it.)

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[rainycraze]

Reblogging to check this out later

[unclefather]

[psych-is-the-name]

[shinekocreator]

Okay, this is actually funny

[pigswithwings]

"male socialized" this, "female socialized" that. I WASNT SOCIALIZED!!!!! #straydog

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: "a ca" t, "a ca" tat. AT CA!!!!! #tag

Closest match: Ribes nigrum genome assembly, chromosome: 8 Common name: Black Currant

(image source)

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Just a little reminder: This fantasy of some magical “sisterhood between all women” that is now being threatened by including trans women - that is just that, a fantasy. It’s a made up narrative to paint transphobia as feminism. 

There has never been a world where all women were the same. There have always been (and will always be) women’s issues that not all women relate to.

Even if you exclude trans women from your definition of womanhood: A lesbian woman will still have different experiences than a straight woman. A woman who grew up poor will still have different experiences than a woman who grew up rich. A disabled woman will still have different experiences than an able-bodied woman. A black woman will still have different experiences than a white woman. 

Actually, even apart from any systemic injustices that certain women face and others not: even two women growing up in the exact same circumstances can still go on to have vastly different life experiences - because women are human and have their unique wishes and desires and life goals. Some women choose to undergo IVF, some choose to get their tubes tied, just as one example! 

Obviously I’m not saying “women who are different can’t be friends” or “women who have different life goals can’t stand up for each other”. The opposite of that, actually: Differences between women have always existed… and they haven’t erased womanhood. They haven’t killed feminism. 

The fear-mongering idea of “oh no, they are now adding women to our spaces who are Other and Different!!” doesn’t really make sense (and not only because trans women aren’t some new invention or just spawned into existence in 2024) because there has never been just one kind of woman to be. 

It’s actually not very feminist to say otherwise. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

[mergimergi]

kissing like in roblox

[doomedyaoiliker]

Man i love jean vicquemare

Just doodling somethings for fun and trying to decipherate how to draw kim properly

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[analog-machine]

I can confirm that the op is entirely correct in everything it says. I was there. I've been that kid. It can get better, and if you're getting better, I'm so so so so proud of you. <3

[doomedyaoiliker]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you draw the disco cops… the disco ball belt buckle on Harry is SO AWESOME… also Jean??? Just all of him??? He’s so tall and handsome :))) thank you for the food

THANK YOUUU I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!! I've been trying to figure out some little details that may be cool to add to their designs or other things that would be cool, I really like to create little HCs 😭😭

[no-chill-at-all]

[no-chill-at-all]

[siderealscion]

[orbsdotorg]

This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”

[yunisverse]

When we had Moonlight: Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight

My favorite in recent memory, though: “The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”

[biglawbear]

Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?

[gemstonechronologist]

Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.

[nightcatssketchbook]

When I saw this image I knew I had to redraw it so fast

(no motion blur/captionless version under the cut)

[greennerdbird]

chat

CHAT

thomas stop giving us pattern recognition tests for fucks sake- (/lh)

[peach-foxgloves]

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

[lavender-lily]

oh thank GOD

[andypantsx3]

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[baddywronglegs]

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

[thatspectacularpigeon]

Reblogged just for inventor of birb, she is a fucking legend