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New behind the scenes photos from Jared Harris to celebrate the eighth anniversary of The Terror

The Terror premiered eight years ago, today. There are no better fans in the world than The Terror fans. Thank you for continuing to find, share, and remember this monumentally artistic limited series. #TheTerror #Tuunbaq #GoForBroke #ThisPlaceWantsUsDead #AreWeBrothersFrancis

#the terror

williamedwardparry

April 25th, 1848: the Victory Point note is left by Captains Fitzjames and Crozier

Text of the note:

[25th April 1]848. H M Ships Terror and Erebus were deserted on the 22nd April, 5 leagues NNW of this [hav]ing been beset since 12th Sept.r 1846. The Officers & Crews consisting of 105 souls - under the Command [of Cap]tain F R M. Crozier, landed here - in lat. 69˚ 37' 42" Long. 98˚ 41' [This p]aper was found by Lt. Irving under the Cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831 – 4 miles to the Northward – where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in May June 1847. Sir James Ross' pillar has not however been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position which is that in which Sir J. Ross' pillar was erected – Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June 1847 and the total loss by deaths in the Expedition has been to this date 9 officers & 15 men. [Signed] FRM Crozier Captain & Senior Off.r and start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River [Signed] James Fitzjames Captain H.M.S. Erebus

(Images from RMG and Libraries Tasmania, transcription mine, emended from Wiki)

#franklin expedition

henk-heijmans

A radiant turret lit by the midsummer midnight sun, First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1912 - by Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), Australian

#photography

dingoskidneys

It's always "The Terror" this "The Terror" that. What about Erebus. What about her

dingoskidneys

#the terror

regardintemporel

Marcel Mariën - La surface nocturne, 1983

#art

fuzzbby

Zatorski + Zatorski.

#i'm so captivated by this #my beloved swans #art #da

aropride

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

aropride

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

duckbunny

nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

laughingpokemon

rachelillustrates

and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

#poetry

i-am-a-stupid-robot

#x files

ecstandsforerraticcowboy

#the terror

saizine

#come home kent!!!!#whitechapel itv

the-slow-but-make-it-fandom

I've been skimming through terror for meme screenshots and I don't think i'll ever be the same after seeing this still frame of blanky

#waiting for the Billy Elliot AU #the terror

spirkkock

#...#the terror

maudiemoods

What do you all study when you're doing art studies??

venomous-qwille

Heeeeeyyy, I love me a good fucking STUDY

for environments:

shot deck is a massive database of film shots searchable by grading, tod, shot type, characters and content! Studying from films really helps improve your values and composition as the shots are usually very carefully constructed! It helps you find ways to maintain realism while still packing mood and narrative into your work!

master paintings! I recommend the orientalists like Jean Leon Gerome in particular their environments had great compositions and throw around a ton of colour and light! I like the modern artists Craig Mullins and Richard Schmid also, as there is so much impressionist lost detail and simplicity yet the environments feel so real.

The 1960s era disney background artists like eyvind earle are a masterclass in stylisation and simplification and make a wonderful choice for studies. (That being said modern disney visdev artists like Nathan Fowkes are just as fantastic to study for the same reason)

architectural photography can be a great resource too- I love to look for work by urbEX people!

thumbnailing and comp studies- trying to break down a photo into as few values as possible and still have it be readable- this really helps train your brain in the relationship between light exposure and local value.

Im begging you if doing it in colour is too hard to start with just do it in black and white!!!!! Greyscale painting is an essential step in learning to paint and understand lighting scenarios!! Colour is hard!!!

there is no substitute for going outside and doing some plein air painting- really looking first hand at how the light effects different materials and objects, how it bounces around, what edges your eye naturally loses in certain lighting scenarios. Just go outside and draw and try to notice stuff.

for characters:

figure studies!!!! from life if you can but if you cant there are a ton of great resources out there- personally I love croquis cafe and posespace, but if you can afford it (and are interested in intense anatomy study) then scott eaton has a site called bodies in motion which is fantaaaastic. I think by now everyone knows nyx and senshistock, I also use a lot of grafit studio photorefs to study more complicated poses!!

Master studies (again). I particularly like to study the work of John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alphonse Mucha (his le pater compositions are out of this world), any of the New Rochelle artists (e.g rockwell, tom lovell, those 1950s illustrators REALLY knew their shit).

I literally have a resin skull on my desk that I've used to do quick studies with different lighting, just 10 mins a day back when I was doing it and it levelled up my skill a lot!.

Material studies are essential to leveling up your character painting!!! Look at fur, look at metal, look at the way something embroidered reflects light vs tooled leather!!

gesture studies! Look at a dynamic pose and see how you can exaggerate the motion in away that captures the sense of movement. This is tricky to start with but its really worthwhile especially when you combine it with other exercises. Mixamo is a cool library to look into for this kind of thing as you can pause and rotate the models in the middle of their actions!

breakdown the work of artists you admire- it's ok to study other living artists (and try to reverse engineer how they are making their decisions) it's a very effective learning tool! Really figure out what it is about that persons workflow you like, and how you might incorporate that element into your own. Obviously, dont post studies of living artists work!

The most important thing is that when you do a study you go into it knowing what you want to learn. Dont try to do everything at once! It's ok to focus on the muscle structure and not give a damn about the gesture. It's ok to focus on the texture of the fur and completely ignore the characters face.

The best way to keep doing studies is to find refs you like- things you are interested in and that capture your imagination! Follow your curiosity and remember that just a tiny little bit a day makes a huge difference.

Gunna take a sec to recommend the tutorials of Devin Korwin. He talks about how to study and how to breakdown art fundamentals in a way that is at once both very advanced but also digestible. I highly recommend his pdfs!

#links #ref #art