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we doing FOMO on tumblr posts now? fr?

page two! The plot gets started!

#art #Illustration #artists on tumblr #comics #comic #webcomic

#comics #art #Illustration #webcomic

magictransistor

Das Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracles), Augsburg, 1552.

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book of hours, Bruges ca. 1500

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 171v

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Spring ephemerals and other wild flowers have brief yet wondrous lives. Here are a few from the first volume of Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers of North America, a five volume set published by the Smithsonian in 1925. Most of these were drawn from specimens collected in and around Washington, DC.

Walcott was a naturalist and botanical illustrator born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860. While spending the summers of her youth in the Canadian Rockies, she no doubt developed a lasting appreciation for nature. She became an active mountain climber, outdoorswoman, photographer, and started her first forays into botanical illustration while on these trips. Later in life, she married Charles Doolittle Walcott, the then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and together they would spend months together on expeditions in the Canadian Rockies — he studying geology and she sketching rare North American wildflowers

Find her books in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and take a look at her legacy across the Smithsonian on our collections search.

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Hans Christiansen, The four elements, 1898. Kunst und Dekoration, University of Heidelberg

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Augusta Withers, Bird of Paradise and Amaryllis, 1830. Original watercolor on artist’s board. London. Ursus Books

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why you should make a webcomic and why you can make a webcomic

why should you make a webcomic?

it’s regular drawing practice

you get to draw and develop the universe your OCs live in

you could draw your OCs making out with context

see number 3

how can you make a webcomic?

make a new tumblr

install this theme https://www.tumblr.com/theme/37061

post comics as you would on any other tumblr they show up on their own webcomic site

what if nobody sees my webcomic :(

too bad you got to draw your OCs making out and nobody can appreciate your artistic genius obviously the world is not ready for this webcomic genius

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It also might be good for an artistic resume or portfolio.

Welp, guess that settles it. I need to start a webcomic.

dreadofthegrave

reblogging this to add while the original link to the theme in this post is inactive, you can find the newest webcomic theme here

heymonster

Hey friendos,

I’m just throwing this out there to all my depressive types, what are some things you do or coping methods you turn to when you’re in the throes of a depressive episode? I’m very very interested.

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rosalarian

1: Daylight lamps are life. It’s amazing how much better they make things, tricking your brain into thinking it’s summer with all this light all the time. Also, going to bed earlier and waking up earlier helps me experience more of the actual sun.

2: Hygiene and homemade food. I want to spend all day in bed in my pajamas and only get up when my grubhub order arrives and I blast the delivery guy with my various odors, but that’s not good for me. Getting up, taking a shower, putting on fresh clothes, and making breakfast is often a big step in signalling to my brain that I’m not accepting the urge to be a lump all day, but it’s not as difficult as the “just go run 7 miles you’ll feel great!” advice a lot of people give about depression. Sure, exercise would boost my mood when it’s over, but getting the motivation to do it is impossible when depressed. But showering and cooking a meal is much easier to achieve in that state.

3: Creative activities that don’t require too much thinking. This is when I ink and color a lot of sketches. The hardest part is done for me, and I can kind of tune out and finish something I’ve already started. And finishing projects always gives me a little mood boost. I like sewing with a pattern, too. I get to make something without having to completely invent something from scratch.

4: I spend a lot of my time when I’m not depressed setting things up for when I will be depressed. This doesn’t help when you’re currently experiencing depression, but when you do come out of it, remember what kinds of things you really needed when you were in that low state, and build up a sort of mental pantry you can take from when depression comes back around.

5: Remember that this is temporary and it’s not gonna be forever. Your brain is gonna tell you lots of lies about how this is just who you are now, and everything is pointless because you’re no good. None of that is true. You will come out of this.