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[skoople]

[wormliness]

please, untitled document was my father, call me untitled document (1)

[transrubato]

hey i’m really sorry because you were a really cool mutual but for the record i have to unfollow you because the purple creature in your profile picture (whatever she’s from) (or they sorry i don’t want to assume the beast’s pronouns) (i love all genders) looks almost exactly like my ex girlfriend’s fursona and i tried to ignore that for a while because i’m not the kind of pussy who would unfollow someone because their creature looks like my ex’s fursona but get this: she drew her fursona hitting me (human) (i’m not a furry) (nothing against them) (i love all genders) with a car (honda civic) and sent it to me from a burner account on toyhouse. so needless to say i can’t keep doing this. i’m gonna miss your posts though you were a real one i loved when you would say shit like “it’s (the f slur) wednesday post knuckles”

!??!?!??!?!?!?

[insomniac-arrest]

The beef between night owls and early birds is so silly. We complete each other. Evolutionary-speaking, wouldn’t it be useful to have people naturally alert at dawn to watch for saber tooth tigers and people alert at midnight watching for like, wolves?? Keeping us safe with internal clocks set to random.

All times of the day are beautiful.

[insomniac-arrest]

🥺

[skipppppy]

As much as I love the Stardew Valley spouses it always kinda bugs me that they stay stagnant after you marry them. Like even after having kids and passing a decade in game they look and act the exact same? Anyway what if

(Also don’t worry I will be doing the bachelors. I’m drawing dilf Elliott even if it kills me)

[t4timekeeper]

Currently the 2 devs left on TF2 are having a war in the office as they keep banning and unbanning the same cosmetic from the workshop over and over again, it's happened seven times.

What is the cosmetic you ask? Big Slappy.

What is Big Slappy you ask?

I bet you wish you didn't ask.

As of now, it is banned, that will likely change soon.

LITERALLY 1984

[casawio]

started sending bird facts to my math teacher anonymously

[barryogg]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I adore this

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[cetitanhasmoved]

i love this shit i need more examples

[cloudmancy]

op of the original tweet here there are SO many examples in the replies

[dogsuffrage]

Furries are the last hope for our wretched society and every furry is braver than any marine and they deserve respect

[headspace-hotel]

Starting to think a fursona is just something you end up with when you self actualize

[huffylemon]

[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)

[somecutething]

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

[luidilovins]

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

[genderkoolaid]

like 99% of "men and women are soooo different!!!" comedy is literally just describing the experience of not understanding other people. like it's not that women never say what they mean talking to other people is just like that. it can be hard to understand what other people are thinking. bioessentialism really rots the brain

[genderkoolaid]

"women will say I'm fine and then not mean it" yeah that's something literally everybody does. is this your first time interacting with another human being my guy

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

[genderkoolaid]

this is one of the only funny responses on this hell of a post

[brucebocchi]

colorblind pride flag just dropped

[antpilled]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[no-terfs-no-swerfs-no-fascists]

If you asked the people of Ur which of their countrymen would be remembered and often referenced by the world 4000 years later, I bet not one said "That shady merchant, Ea-nāṣir."

[hachama]

Today I found out one of my desk neighbors is Jewish, but hasn't been observant since his bubbe died.

He mentioned that he hasn't had matzo ball soup in years.

So I only have one choice.

[hachama]

There only was one choice.

[hachama]

And now to let it simmer for three thousand years

[hachama]

This is why you simmer for millennia. That golden color. The depth of flavor and rich mouth feel.

[hachama]

I have two Extremely Jewish posts doing the rounds right now: this one, and my chanukah season desk decorations. They jointly give a pretty accurate picture of who I am as a person.

I will spend time and money to decorate my desk out of distilled spite.

I will spend time and money to prepare food, especially for semi-orphaned fellow Jews.

But these are both Jewish values.

[hachama]

What? My soup post would make Twitter discourse??

[paladitos]

there was someone on twitter who made chili for their college aged neighbors who had a ton of pizza boxes outside so that they could have an actual meal and there were, like, insane 30-tweet threads about boundaries and consent and food allergies and people getting mad about things just for the sake of getting mad about things.

[hachama]

I just felt the concentrated disdain of 1000 generations of my family, every one of them distilling love and care into nourishment for their families and communities, wash over me like a tidal wave. I swear a blood feud on those Twitter twerps. I will drown them in chicken broth.