Little Secrets.

[fromthedust]

Lewis Chamberlain (British, b.1966)

Scene from an Imaginary Ballet - pencil on paper

Ginger Haired Man - painting

Night Garden (The Sandbox) - pencil on paper

A World in the Evening - painting

Night in the Garden - pencil on paper

Alarm - painting

Giraffe - pencil on paper

Farm on a Plain - painting

Space Hopper - pencil on paper

A Village - painting

Roundabout - pencil on paper

The Winter Visitor - pencil on paper

Alice (Figure in a Landscape) - pencil on paper

[redzombie]

the throne of leyndell

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[kedamakedama]

🦅

[jmfenner91]

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

This project was such a huge honor to work on. I remember as a kid looking through the players manuals & doing little studies of the artwork in there, so this feels a bit full-circle. You can get a peek at higher-res versions of them on my insta!

[the-upper-shelf]

badass kingfisher lady!

[heroineimages]

Very cool design! I saw a design for an osprey-harpy once, and this is kind of how I imagined her fishing.

[lierdumoa]

Can I talk about how much I hate the "I knew I was gay when looking at a vagina made me want to vomit" trope?

Misognynist straight men love to talk about how disgusting female bodies are when they menstruate, or they have body hair, or they're fat, or their tits sag, or they don't have perfect skin, or don't have pale skin, or their noses are big, or they otherwise don't fit into some impossible plastic hollywood aryan barbie doll beauty standard.

Finding female bodies disgusting doesn't make you gay. It just makes you a raging misogynist. And a transphobe.

You should unpack that, probably.

Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not horror and disgust.

It is normal to feel completely neutral about the bodies of people you are not attracted to. It is not normal to feel horror and disgust. If you're feeling horror and disgust, you've got some fucked up psychological issue or deep-seated cultural prejudice that has nothing to do with your sexual orientation.

ETA:

So far I've had two transphobes in my notes bending over backwards trying to justify why it's normal and healthy to violently retch at the sight a naked human being who you don't find sexually attractive like I'm sorry you've been so brainrotted by puritanism that it's given you brain damage, and even sorrier that you expect me to take you seriously enough to debate with you rather than simply block you and let your guardians deal with you like the tantruming toddler you are.

Some of you have never seen your grandma's tits and it shows.

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Anonymous asked:

The ease of nudity in Finland is something I'm super jealous of, I think it also promotes people being comfortable in their own body, if body's aren't so sexualized and taboo. The only bodies i really saw were in movies, and indeed kids changing on the beach or baby's in diapers. I'm not even from the USA, the Netherlands, so close yet so different!

valilihapiirakka answered:

I think you’re right - while I have of course met Finns who are deeply uncomfortable in their own bodies and unhappy about being seen, the absolutely constant, default, “this is considered healthy actually” cultural background radiation of “nudity is always a precursor to sex! nudity is always a precursor to sex!” in many other places does really do a special kind of damage to people’s psyche.

I always think of one of my co-workers at a husky farm near Inari, who told me apropos of nothing while we were clearing out dog shit together that he thought the reason Americans are “like that” (“like what, Veikka” got the response “you know what I mean”) is because “they never see their grandma’s tits.” His logic was that “in Finland, you go to the sauna with your grandma from when you’re a baby, and you see her naked, and this is years and years before you ever see any porn, so you know before you see any of it that it’s temporary and fake. And when you get a girlfriend later, you know it’s only a matter of time before her tits look like that too, you accept this. And Americans don’t know that! They don’t! They look at porn, and then they get a wife, and then they’re surprised and bitter when she gets old - it’s true!”

Like, to be clear, I think Veikka’s analysis might have been missing more than a bit of nuance, this is the same guy whose motto was “Driving 600km south to Rovaniemi to get therapy is expensive, chopping wood till you don’t care about it anymore is free”, but I do occasionally still look at some British or American take online and think to myself, in his voice, “they’ve never seen their grandma’s tits”

[fallout-lou-begas]

do you have any advice on character design?

watch The Sopranos

[fallout-lou-begas]

i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design

[roganaut]

Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors

[fallout-lou-begas]

Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.

[sartorialadventure]

(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)

[todaysbird]

Today's birds are these wood ducks

[apolonisaphrodisia]

A large strawberry squid, one of three caught on the last trawl of the Deep-See cruise. Photo: NOAA Fisheries

“The strawberry squid, gets its nickname from the berry-like appearance of its bright-red body speckled with numerous jewel like luminescent photophores ” via @octonation

[neurotypical-karen]

[ventrue-in-control]

[hjeojeo]

I got some bills coming up soon, so I'm going to be doing a new batch of mini-portraits! 16 slots to fill the entire page with 16 panels! each slot costs $30 usd, but please feel free to tip if you're able to! I appreciate it a lot, But I understand if you're not able to!

link to my ko-fi commission page

[iliothermia]

🌟✨☀️ Lumen ☀️✨🌟

[maruti-bitamin]

hanabi

cara/insta/bluesky/ store

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[herpsandbirds]

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

photos: Irawan Subingar, Ekhardt Lietzow, Dubi Shapiro

[theinsaneum]