Meredith: Art, Design, and Creative Life

I don't chase dreams, I hunt premonitions

[lonelyvampx]

Anastasia Trusova

[sunlilys]

blood/sweat/tears, 2005

alison saar

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[skriveting]

me after writing out the scene I imagined in my head:

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877

[mismedleym]

recollections

[mrporg]

[secondlina]

That dumpling can groove.

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[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[laikaspotlight]

Wildwood test animation

The General will be voiced by Angela Basset!

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

Those are the most accurate wing animations I have ever seen in practical effects.

[armthearmour]

A beautifully blued, silvered, and gilt elbow Gauntlet,

Length: 21.5 in/54.6 cm

Germany, late 16th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[rad-roche]

i have a few resources i look to consistently but i'm gonna plug anatomy for sculptors as One Of The Most Useful. great if you're a 3D artist, INVALUABLE if you're a 2D artist. gives you turnarounds of specific limbs/fiddly body parts like ears. great especially if you're referencing a photo and start looking at an individual part like 'wait, what the hell is going on in there'

[red-lipstick]

[karlek]

Soo Sunny Park (b. Seoul, Korea) - Unwoven Light at Rice University’s Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. Composed of 37 individual sculptural units, the installation uses iridescent plexi-glass embedded in pieces of a chain link fence to cast shimmering, colorful reflections across the spacious gallery. 

[avadcniels]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 🎞️

day 7 – free day

[l1atena1]

Don't you sometimes get an absolutely extrodinary, mind blowing, such an awesome idea for a story, but you just don't have enough skill level to pull it off?

[dark-magical-ships]

Write it anyway.

Write it anyway, write it anyway, write it anyway.

There are so, so, so many reasons:

You gain that skill level only through practice. So practice.

No matter what you’re writing, no matter how badly you think you’ve written it, there is ALWAYS some audience that will love it and cherish it.

You can use what you write the first time around as a first draft and just rewrite it again later when you feel like tackling the story again!

Rewriting the same story over and over is a valid writing process. It’s literally just creating new drafts. Each iteration will be better than the last, because each is building on your growing skill and experience.

If you love the story, it will always be worth telling simply for your own enjoyment. If no one else ever sees it, that’s okay! Your art should be for you first, anyway.

Write it anyway.

[bettsfic]

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

[kaijuno]

This was in Sioux Falls South Dakota! The green sky is caused by large hail stones within the storm refracting back green light to the observer.

[kaijuno]

More pics from that day

[cholvoq]

This has been a long time coming but I’ve been wanting to do some character study/cheat sheets for some time now!

Up first is Steve! He’s a little harder bc his features are so prominent that if you don’t draw them right, it doesn’t really look like him :,)

[redslug]

A moon worship ritual.