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[insertdisc5]

I know you probably get these asks a lot, but I've really been trying to try drawing comic pages. I really admire how free and flowing your style is! I've seen your little tutorials and tips and idk what's wrong but I just can't seem to wrap my head around panel composition? Like I do wonderful painting comps, but I can't seem to break out. Do you have any resources or help to get started?

thank you very much!!!!! im just using this ask as an excuse to draw random comic tips i hope thats okay and that you’ll get something out of it

did that help…

[yamino]

I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about... How To Make Zines!

I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!

[tenya]

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

[broskepol-deactivated20221009]

this fucking shit, you know

[bogleech]

I spend so much time carefully picking and adjusting the colors in every single drawing I make that I’d probably lose my mind if I didn’t just repeatedly push this out of my memory and pretend it’s not a thing. Why am I reblogging a blank empty post that doesn’t say anything??? Weird

[gaysheep]

good news! you can’t make sure that everyone will see the correct colors on their own device, but you can make sure your monitor is as accurate as possible for printing and sharing by calibrating it! 

there are a bunch of free monitor tests, but here’s an easy one you can use. the passmark and eizo tests are also pretty good, though passmark doesn’t work in your browser. be warned that some tests may cause eye strain.

you can either use the settings built into your monitor itself or use the display color calibration settings in your operating system to adjust the settings until everything looks correct, and then enjoy your accurate colors.

[zeldadiarist]

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

[camerapits]

Photographers, too. Color calibrate your monitors if you intend to print or sell your work. There’s a ton of info out there for this.

[miniangel]

mines is “this is a safe place bc i know harries would murder me: a true crime series”

[moldspace]

the sphinx

[clyde-anti]

skin color ref because some of yall non-black poc and whites keep fucking up as if yall don’t know there’s other shades of brown when u racebend for woke points or something 

(non-black artists please reblog)

[nebbie91]

Please reblog regardless of your race/ethnicity.

[inkandego]

heres a chart I made for myself showing diffrent undertones and how that affects the skin if anyone’s intrested

[vigaishere]

Use this to make a skin palette in your art program!

[queenofthefaces]

Also! This photography project by Angélica Dass has thousands of photos of people, with a Pantone color assigned to each! It’s very helpful as a resource !!

Humanae — Angélica Dass

Humanae — Angélica Dass

And some examples of the project!

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

[mishafletcher]

ok, but honestly, it is unfortunate. you know how we’re always passing around that ‘you are not immune to propaganda’ meme? this is the propaganda it’s talking about.

it’s cute dancing robots! they have a cute robot dog! it’s cute! it’s friendly!

well, the robot dog friend? cute little jumpy guy, does some careful ballet-esque steps, often between the humanoid robots? so far, both the boston police and the nypd (heads up: autoplaying video, with sound) have ‘deployed’ the cute dog friend. both departments say that the robots are being used as ‘observation devices’, sent into buildings with lights and a camera that sends a videofeed back to the cops. 

part of why i think this video (and others like it) is so interesting is because boston dynamics has defended police use of the robots, saying that there’s a clause that the robots can’t be used in a way that would ‘physically harm or intimidate people’. i don’t know about you, but if i were at, say, a protest, or honestly literally anywhere, and a robot dog started running towards me, i’d be pretty fucking intimidated. i’d assume that it was going to hurt me. if one of the humanoid robots were running towards me, i’d assume it was straight-up about to kill me. 

but these videos do a lot of work to erode that assumption. how can anyone claim that they’re intimidated by, say, a line of robot dogs at a protest? the robot dogs do funny dances online! the video above has been live for about two months, and it has thirty million views. people love them! they can dance!

so when they start being used as mobile security cameras, or when they start being used to maintain a perimeter or for crowd control or whatever, it’s not really a violation of the contract. the robots are friendly! my bet is that when they start setting them out to do security or whatever—and i don’t doubt that they’ll be used for security, etc—they might even do funny little dances and interact with people who stop to gawk at them. anything to normalize increasingly autonomous roboticized policing. get one of the humanoid ones out in the field, and it’s a remarkably short step to autonomous, mobile cctv—that can also detain you if it doesn’t like what you’re doing, or if there was a crime and you’re in the area, or if your face looks like someone from a database, or—

and all that assumes, of course, that the no-harm clause stays there forever, and that police departments, so famous for their love of doing things by the book, adhere to it. but just for fun, watch that video again, and imagine even one of those robots weaponized, outfitted with even ‘nonlethal’ crowd control. 

i’m not arguing that the robots are inherently bad, or that there’s no reasonable use for them, even by cops. but the time to get critical of them is now, not in five or ten years when their use has been largely normalized. this is cute propaganda, but it’s still propaganda, and we should acknowledge it for what it is.

[radicalurbanista]

anyway this is how to disable the Spot robo-dog that the NYPD just purchased

[wondersmith-and-sons]

also? the naming of “Spot the police dog” goes deliberately hand-in-hand with how the language of anti-protest policing deweaponises it from the actual harm caused. labels like “non-lethal” and “less lethal” guns, which fire “foam rounds”, “bean-bag rounds” and “rubber bullets” have taken out eyes and cracked open skulls, are deliberately named to make them sound more harmless than they are. 

foam bullets are solid metal and foam-tipped, bean-bag rounds are sacks of cloth filled with lead pellets and rubber bullets are metal bullets that have rubber-coating - it’s a deliberate trick of language to make writing and reporting about it diminish the violence they cause the victims. 

“police fired bean bag rounds and foam bullets at protestors” sounds like the cops are using kindergarden weapons and not shooting to kill. 

“police deployed spot the robot dog for crowd-control measures” (which is how it will inevitably be written) makes it sound like it’s some cutesy doctor who sidekick out there yelping at protestors, rather than a weaponised, mobile, agile hunk of metal that is designed to break your fucking arm. 

[emiett]

Here’s the short comic I made for @pichikui​’s Danny Phantom charity zine, GOING GHOST! She’s selling digital copies on her gumroad if anyone missed out! Profits are donated to RAICES 👻💀!!

[lasuastanza]

“Youre ALREADY 14”

Thats fucking metal

[rumbelows-deactivated20221028]

Rural Ireland in the 1950s/60s by John Hinde

source

[sabertoothwalrus]

I wonder if Lio would be glad to finally have a daughter that shares his hair texture, and if Wolf would let Kipo pick out all her hair accessories

[sabertoothwalrus]

here’s a completely unnecessary sequel because I want Wolf to have little sibling energy

[lilacs-world]

If anyone ever tells me again that I’m not concentrating hard enough or I’m not focusing hard enough on doing my tasks or work or whatever, here watch this. No brain is the same and our ADHD brain looks different when focusing/concentrating!!!

©chalenejohnson on tiktok

[nikkitana]

Transcript

Chalene: We have very different brains.

Bret: Yes, we do. Very different.

Chalene: And we’re gonna show you.

This is a SPECT, S-P-E-C-T of my husband’s brain. This is his brain during focus of a–at a task that takes concentration. This is showing blood flow to the different areas of his brain when he has to focus and concentrate.

And this…is mine.

When I have to focus and concentrate on something I find boring, my brain literally goes to sleep.

Okay, when I was having that test, I knew I was being tested. So I was concentrating as hard as I possibly could. I was trying to focus, and that’s what happens in the brain of someone with ADHD.

So when we say our brains work differently, we literally…

(quieter) What was I talking about?

[thescarletlibrarian]

Neurological condition is neurological, yo.

[icyblueroses]

Yeah so ummm everyone’s talking about the detail that went into Elsa’s ice powers in Frozen, and I just have one question:

Have you seen Rise of the Guardians?

HAVE YOU?

CAUSE IT SEEMS EVERYONE’S JUST FORGOTEN ABOUT THIS FUCKING MASTERPIECE

[missdoodle-deactivated20140702]

FUCKING THANK YOU. 

[missdoodle-deactivated20140702]

#in all objectivity#because I always am when it comes to movies#I didn’t like Elsa’s frost AT ALL#I thought it just looke ugly and unatural#too much pretty cute swirls and GLITTER AND#aaaah I’m so pissed about her frost you can’t imagine#THERE I SAID IT#I HATE THE MAIN ELEMENT OF FROZEN OK#IN ALL OBJECTIVITY#JACK’S FROST IS SO COOL AND BADASS AND IT CAN LOOK DELICATE AND WILD AT THE SAME TIME#JUST LIKE NATURE YEA#and I know Elsa’s frost is more about MAGIIIIC~ then actual nature#BUT STILL#TOO MUCH CUTIE LIL SWIRLS AND GLITTER AND LIL STARS THAT DONT EVEN LOOK LIKE SNOWFLAKES AT ALL#oh man why am I so pissed#why#PROBABLY BECAUSE RISE OF THE GUARDIANS DIDNT WIN AN OSCAR#OMG I AM SO PISSED WHY AM I SO PISSED SO SUDDENLY

I feel you friend. I really really do. I know it’s a perfectly valid defense to say that Elsa’s ice (I’m not calling it frost because it’s never referred to that way and frost is Jack’s thing) doesn’t have to look natural, because it’s magic, and it’s Disney’s take on ice powers. But coming right on the heels of Rise of the Guardians, the entire aesthetic of Frozen is just so cheap and synthetic looking. 

Never mind all the other incredible details in the film, but speaking of just Jack himself, his design may be simple, but the rendering is so detailed and lovingly meticulous. The many different shades and hues that make up his complexion. The texture of his skin, clothes, and hair. No detail was spared in making Jack as lifelike and realistic as possible while still keeping his design within stylistic margins. 

Now, let’s take a moment to compare. 

Of course, it comes down to the style, but considering that style and aesthetic is a great majority of what the medium has to offer, these elements are crucial to the end result. Everyone has their preferences, but  in general, styles that are more evolved and lend more towards realism are often taken more seriously, and make it easier for the audience to invest in the characters. When you look at the two figures above, which one looks like a person, and which one looks like it belongs on the shelves of a toy store. 

On the left you have Jack. His proportions are modestly exaggerated to give the character more life, and the color pallet that illuminates him and his surroundings is of muted, earthy tones. There’s a lot of nuance there, both in his features, and in the coloration. 

Then on the right is Elsa. Her features are extremely exaggerated; the colors are loud and gaudy. Not that there isn’t a place for loud and gaudy when it comes to film, but if you consider that Disney wanted to make a serious tale of fantasy, politics, and human interest, the aesthetic doesn’t really help them in this respect. It’s glaringly obvious that these designs were taylor made to be reproduced as toys, as merchandising (particularly with the princess brand) is a huge contributor to Disney’s profits. 

And as for the powers? 

There’s actually quite a lot I have to say on this subject. Starting with how their respective powers are defined, what they mean to the character, and how they play into the story. 

In Jack’s case, his powers are pretty well defined. We know, for the most part, what his limits and abilities are. As does he.  We are given a sense from the beginning of the film that his powers come from a higher place, and by the end of the film the audience, as well as Jack, has found how and why Jack came to possess such power. Furthermore, the aesthetic is naturalistic, complex, and very beautiful. 

Not so for Elsa. 

Regardless of how you feel about the aesthetic of her powers, you can’t deny that the film does a poor job of developing them. The source of her powers remains a mystery to us, as does their nature. We know that she was born with them, and that it’s supposedly some kind of curse, but where did it come from? Who cursed her, and why? No explanation. And as far as her limits, her powers seem to range from whipping up blizzards, to dressmaking, to bringing inanimate objects to life??? And wether or not she can control these powers seems to vary at the convenience of the plot. Aesthetically, they’re…well…as generic as Elsa herself. 

[frozen-sarcasm]

#Those bed eyes still haunt me  #Ugh…

I still don’t understand why there are crazy loads of Elsa recolours which give her different powers. It’s like there’s something odd/incomplete about Elsa & her power and people want to do something about it.

[misskiwi]

just want to put this here because “disney put soooo mcuh detail in frozen’s animation!!!1one!!”

looK HOW BADLY RENDERED THIS CRAP IS. IT’S LIKE WEIRD LIQUID PLASTIC. THE SHOE. THE WEIRD DRESS THING. I ACTUALLY LAUGHED OUT LOUD IN THE CINEMA WATCHING THIS SHIT.

[frozen-sarcasm]

[let-the-phoenix-fly-deactivated]

I think I just found my favourite anti-frozen post.

[glorious-scumbag]

let’s all add some more jack frost gifs here to compare because Jack frost walking across ice was much more interesting and developed than Elsa’s Vonnegut-esque Ice-9 floor that apparently turned the whole ocean into ice??? what

[4aari]

oh no they’re lost, whatever shall they do

[pacificcoasthighway]

ppl w adhd and autism reblog and add what texture is so awful it haunts your dreams its okay if its incredibly specific ill go first: scratching my nails on a car

[neechees]

How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please <0<

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.

[drakansa]

I dunno if this is the place for it but it might help someone out there remember:

A poem by an actual native person on the actual color of their skin.

My skin is gold

Like cookie dough

Shimmers and folds

Crinkles and rolls

My skin is dun

Wheat in the Sun

Kisses by the rays

Of hot summer days

My skin is Earth

With intrinsic worth

Bright copper tone

Soft earthy loam

[teaboot]

^^^ My only point of contention with this is the “too light” bit. Like…. IDK what part of the world OP is from, but in my area there are plenty of band members with skin tones like those examples or lighter. Especially when I went to the southern states, I was surprised by how many native folks were white-passing. But yeah obvs there’s a difference between a white-passing character and a character that’s been whitewashed

[devinellekurtz]

The story arcs of Avatar: The Last Airbender pt I Original Art by Devin Elle Kurtz (me) Twitter | Instagram

[isharton]

Thing i learned some time ago!  hope you all find it helpful ( perspective grids can be your friend!)

[kihublue]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

[blushy-idiot-trazz-deactivated2]

whERE WAS THIS MY ENTIRE LIFE??

[lenindelrey]

on the geometry lessons you probably ignored because you were so artsy (but that’s ok and not so much your fault because your nerd teacher probably didn’t know this could be useful for arts)