taking the long nap

find me @carnespecter {2016-2019}

[endivinity]

A tutorial on meatspace I made for my patrons last year! Making things exist in the same space believably is a difficult process, but hopefully this will help drawing softbodied subjects interacting together a little easier!

[achjayel]

Y’all remember that one Hemsworth meme??

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Jeff Simpson

[prudencepaccard]

What Is Glitter?

A strange journey to the glitter factory.

When I asked Ms. Dyer if she could tell me which industry served as Glitterex’s biggest market, her answer was instant: “No, I absolutely know that I can’t.”

I was taken aback. “But you know what it is?”

“Oh, God, yes,” she said, and laughed. “And you would never guess it. Let’s just leave it at that.” I asked if she could tell me why she couldn’t tell me. “Because they don’t want anyone to know that it’s glitter.”

“If I looked at it, I wouldn’t know it was glitter?”

“No, not really.”

“Would I be able to see the glitter?”

“Oh, you’d be able to see something. But it’s — yeah, I can’t.”

I asked if she would tell me off the record. She would not. I asked if she would tell me off the record after this piece was published. She would not. I told her I couldn’t die without knowing. She guided me to the automotive grade pigments.

[injygo]

He also did not want me to visit his glitter factory. The jovial Mr. Shetty told me over the phone that people have no idea of the scientific knowledge required to produce glitter, that Glitterex’s glitter-making technology is some of the most advanced in the world, that people don’t believe how complicated it is, that he would not allow me to see glitter being made, that he would not allow me to hear glitter being made, that I could not even be in the same wing of the building as the room in which glitter was being made under any circumstance, that even Glitterex’s clients are not permitted to see their glitter being made, that he would not reveal the identities of Glitterex’s clients (which include some of the largest multinational corporations in the world; eventually, one did consent to be named: thank you, Revlon, Inc.), and that, fine, I was welcome to come down to Glitterex headquarters to learn more about what I could not learn about in person.

[saiasus]

[parkinglotfistfight]

Went record shopping today

[icarus-milano-deactivated202103]

What’s

What’s on the record?

[lyingpink]

Exactly what you’d expect!

[djcalvycakes]

[botanyshitposts]

oo that reminds me…..ominous plant mystery #45133415: so u kno those lepidodendrons i was talking about in the last post? giant 100 foot tall prehistoric megaflora that went extinct when the swamps dried up as the continents split? apparently it’s actually common to not only find fossils of the trunks of these plants, but also to find fossilized spores (these plants had spores in a hard outer shell, but plants hadn’t evolved seeds yet). because these were somewhat protected they fossilized pretty well. 

i was talking about them with my uni’s paleobotany dude (a retired professor) a couple months ago and he was like “you know whats weird about lepidodendron spore fossils? we find them all the time and we never find any embryos.” 

apparently, when paleobotanists dig these spores up and cut them open, they can’t actually see any fossilized embryos of these giant Units despite the outside being perfectly preserved. the common explanation for this is ‘well, maybe fossilization was favorable of protecting the outer coat but not protecting the actual plant inside’, but he’s skeptical of this. “you would think,” he said, “that someone would find something. we’ve found them in all kinds of environments. you would think that of all of them being dug up, someone would find at least one that survived fossilization.”

so yeah theres an entire type of massive prehistoric plant that was extremely common 400 million years ago, thats literally responsible for coal, that we’ve found thousands of fossils of and continue to find all the time…..and the embryos are missing. 

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

what

[kiaraincolor]

A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a transition color! I quickly made this when my brother asked for art advice while I was working on a painting for my best friend. (I was watching a lot of makeup videos to pick out her gifts). 

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

[besnurched]

Please for the love of god LOOK AT THIS

[adorkastock]

I got a new thing. 😂

[beastlyart]

Man, senshistock has been out here doing God’s work for artists for a long time.

[dooplissss]

[mossworm]

battle shrimp

[beaky-peartree]

the only DB Cooper theories i accept:

he died cuz he was an idiot who jumped out of a fucking plane during a rain storm in the middle of the night

it’s tommy wiseau

[xenosagaepisodeone]

there’s no proof he hit the ground so he could still fall on us at any time

[biphobique-deactivated20190110]

i know people have made posts before talking about how bisexual women are not inherently available to men, but i want to make it even more clear, since those posts always have sentences like “a lot of bi women choose to only be with women for a multitude of reasons” in them, which is absolutely true and there’s nothing wrong with pointing that out, but get this: bi women who have a preference for men are still not inherently “available” to men. bi women who tend to date men more than women are still not available to men. bi women who like to hook up with guys are still not available to men. no woman is inherently available to men. we are in control our own boundaries. we are in control of our own bodies.

the word “available” means: “able to be used or obtained; at someone’s disposal” and it’s very telling why people have chosen this word in particular to describe bisexual women and how we are “connected” to men. if you still fail to see how dehumanizing and offensive it is to refer to ANY bisexual woman as available to men, no matter what their dating or sex life looks like, you are absolutely utter garbage 

[space-coyote-judal]

“…no woman is inherently available to men. we are in control our own boundaries. we are in control of our own bodies.” This motherfucker gets it, finally someone who fucking gets it. Any crusty sack of shit that implies some women are “available to men” unlike other women who are better/more pure/not tainted by dick should be shot in a rocket straight to the sun for being a bigoted sexist asshole.

[aleworldaddict]

Philip Treacy Haute Couture F/W 2001

[st-just]

Dutiful Return by  Anna Steinbauer

[nim-lock]

Hoi!! I saw a little bit of the process on your Instagram, but could you explain how you go about making a pattern? I absolutely love how that neato cactus/desert one you did turned out!

Alrighty!

So to make a repeating pattern: 

1. Open a canvas and draw in the center WITHOUT touching any of the edges. 

2. [Below: Light cyan lines] Divide your canvas into four equal parts.

Make four guides framing the canvas, and two across the middle. 

For the ones in the middle, View > New Guide > Horizontal or Vertical for needed orientation > type in 50% to get the exact middle of your canvas. These are photoshop shortcuts, may be different on your programs. 

3. [Above: Yellow arrows] Make sureyou have ‘Snap’ checked under View > Snap, then select each quarter of your piece > layer via cut > move diagonally to the other side.  

After you’re done moving things diagonally, you can either turn off Snap so your doodling won’t stick to the center lines, or toggle the guide visibility off (Ctrl+;). Merge the layers back together. 

4. Draw in the middle without touching the borders, color the entire thing if you plan on doing that.

5. Setting your image as a pattern After your image is done, merge all layers into one > select the entire canvas (Ctrl+A) > Edit > Define Pattern

Open a new canvas bigger than the one you made the pattern on, and paint bucket it in! (Instead of the Foreground button at the top when paint bucket is active, select Pattern then your pattern)

If you aren’t using a program that lets you define patterns, merge everything into one layer and duplicate & tile them manually. 

Cheers!