@graphitemegan

28. Indiana. I draw. Pencil Power Ranger #confirmed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Art Art Tags About Me

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@austinstjohnofficialfanpage ⚡ (Reference) 4″ x 5″ - General’s HB, 3B,  & Layout No.555

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@mygirlhiro & @mimeitv 🖤 (Reference) 4″ x 5″ - General’s HB, 3B, 4B, & Layout No.555

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Burkely Duffield as Holden Matthews in Beyond 5″ x 6″ - General’s HB, 3B, 4B, Layout No.555

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Portrait Artist!Dan

...and now whenever I set out to draw I wonder if anything will ever be as satisfying to replicate as his sharp angles and contrasting colors were.

(insp @wiinterberries) (Crayons and Constellations)

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I want to make beautiful things,        even if nobody cares.

Saul Bass (via wordsnquotes)

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Giant Dino Charger

What I Used:

Clear Glue

2 Powerade Caps

2 Paper Towel Rolls

Paint/Ultra Fine Sharpie

Foam Board/X-Acto Knife

Masking Tape (enough to circle cap)

How I Made It:

The finished charger is right around 7 inches long, I cut each end of the first paper towel roll in strips all the way around so that I could fold and glue the excess beyond 7 inches into the inside of the roll to hold the caps in each end.

When those dried, the caps were still falling into the roll a bit so I wrapped masking tape around each cap until they stopped falling in. One or two times around were enough. 

I cut the two mouth pieces for the (-) end and the gray piece around the (+) end out of the second paper towel roll. 

The button and zig-zag pieces on top are made from foam board pieces glued together. The button base is one piece, the button itself is two pieces glued together and then glued to the base. The zig-zag is 3 pieces glued together. 

I painted each piece individually before gluing anything together...then actually glued it together. Hot glue would've been better probably but nobody got time for that.

Detailed everything and wrote Tyrannosaurus Rex on the back with the Sharpie.

Tada! As close to scale as I could make it, Giant Dino Charger with a wonky looking T-Rex painted on it. Why? idk.

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@danisnotonfire​ & @amazingphil play Pokémon GO! Dan’s expectations of fighting Pokémon IRL vs. this reality probably.

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@danisnotonfire & @amazingphil play: Donkey Kong "STOP PRESSING A!" 3″ x 5.5″: General’s 3B, No.555, & Charcoal 557-4B Soft + white acrylic. Background: Wacom CTL480 & FireAlpaca || please don't repost

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Dwayne & Jasmine react to Dan & Phil (Reference) 3″ x 5.5″ - General’s 3B, Layout No.555, & Charcoal 557-4B Soft

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when i was 12 i babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she’d made during the week. and she’d be like “do the voice” and i’d put on a sports-announcer olympics-style voice and be like “such form! this level of coloring! why i haven’t seen such perfection in crayola in a long time. and what is this? why jeff, now this is a true risk… it seems she’s made … a monochrome pink canvas…. i haven’t seen this attempted since winter 1932… and i gotta say, jeff, it’s absolutely splendid”  and she’d fall back giggling. at the end of every night she’d check with me: “did you really like it?” and i’d say yes and talk about something i noticed and tucked her in.

she was just accepted into 3 major art schools. she wrote me a letter. inside was a picture from when she was younger. monochrome pink. 

“thank you,” it said, “to somebody who saw the best in me.”

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i just wanted to clarify some things

artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.

saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet. 

when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.

you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.

an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.

just because it’s “bound to happen” doesn’t mean it’s any less deplorable.

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“Finally...an energem.”

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trying to get into painting & starting small -- lipstick for scale

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what it’s like to be an artist, writer, musician, ….

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“Hey, what are you drawing? Can I see i–”

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Artwork Posted On My Previous Accounts Below This Point.

anonanubisadmirer → trixiekrueger → graphitepencilranger

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Originally Posted to my Instagram.

@StevenSkyler dropped your package in the mail today, should get there maybe sometime next week.

— GRAPHITE MEGA[N]ZORD (@TrixieKrueger)

June 12, 2014

@StevenSkyler you framed my drawing and put it on your desk??! (Najee snapchatted them). pic.twitter.com/9SILI1ajOY

— GRAPHITE MEGA[N]ZORD (@TrixieKrueger)

October 6, 2014