surveyor of the silent comics @rubylured - Tumblr Blog

adult - illustrator - world’s most pretentious cartoonist

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@artoflured or #ruby’s art, if you’re interested.

#collection for old postcard scans, magazines, and other artifacts, primarily early 20th century. All my own stuff that is laying around wherever I presently live.

Interests: silent movies, old hollywood, film in general, historic amusement parks, general americana.

#ruby’s art #collection

rubylured

I love baking I love my nonstressful but still productive feeling activity I do when my brain is too tired to read write or draw

#prev that’s the funniest tag I have ever gotten I’m literally just like your oc your sister

I love baking I love my nonstressful but still productive feeling activity I do when my brain is too tired to read write or draw

bad-comic-art

Question: why is using free stock images bad art? If someone's not good at designing or drawing vehicles, horses, space ships, etc, but the story calls for them, why can't they use resources other artists have created? People get heckled for drawing badly, for tracing over objects, and for putting stock images in their work. How can they win?

I’ve gotten this kind of ask a lot over the years and I used to spend a lot of energy trying to think of compelling arguments to answer them but honestly Ive come to the conclusion that if you don’t get it you won’t get it, you win, can’t explain why tracing is bad, I can’t explain why photoshop filtered 3D models are bad, it’s too fundamental a feeling to explain beyond “because you’re an artist dude” why do chefs slave away in the kitchen when they can door dash, why do musicians practice a piece for hours when they can just play it on YouTube? If your main goal as an artist is to save time, find a short cut to get around having to improve, to just fucking trying then why bother? Why are you as an “artist” taking up room in a cut throat industry when someone infinitely better than you is begging for $10 commissions on twitter? Or even if they aren’t better just someone that would try, do you think Adam Hughes when he was learning to paint was ever like “this is too hard let me just slap some jpgs in here” no, he learned form drawing, because he loves what he makes which people like Greg Land clearly fucking don’t, I don’t believe theres ever been a great artist in any medium that didn’t fundamentally love art, if not the process than the outcome but if the outcome isn’t yours to begin with then who gives a shit, not you obviously but hey you didn’t have to try and plus think of all the time you saved, that’s what really matters

#I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way sometimes my peers at ART SCHOOL acted like I’m insane for thinking tracing stuff is lame #idk man don’t you want to fucking DRAW

treecitysessions

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

#laziness tbh

heptacon-deactivated20260507

if ur lightbulbs are cool toned im leaving

happy pride to all the characters in old obscure movies no one cares about that I have decided are homosexuals

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You guys ever see a DNI that makes you break out into laughter and almost cry

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If graphic design is your passion then !!! GET OUT !!! 🚫🚫👎‼️🥶🥶🚫

proserpinea

brandon and phillip's official apartment plan from the rope novelisation by don ward (1948)

and they were roommates...

tomatoluvr69

I wish every single woman woke up tomorrow with zero desire to remove body and leg and face hair. Amen

tomatoluvr69

Like all women not the ones who aren’t dating anypony. I wish for every leg hair to reach its natural terminus and for several industries to go extinct foreverrrrr

tomatoluvr69

just think about the millions of discarded plastic items stuck in the biome for all time in order to achieve…two days’ smoothness at a time. All the shaving creams, all the razor handles, all the plastic shells the razors came in. Just the most pointless consumerism ever just for something that is NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Agghhhh

#cannot manage to convince anyone of this I have been trying for years #absolutely fucking infuriating world

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe