#quicktalk

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Dia de aprender dicas sobre como ser uma pessoa mais produtiva no trabalho. #quicktalk #somosensinotecnico

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This month, we’re reflecting on our time spent together, particularly this past year. So we asked ourselves, What's something new you learned this year?

Sayada ( sayadaramdial ): Something I've only recently learned is that even if I consider myself more of a 'night person', waking up earlier and getting most (or all, ideally) of my work done before dinnertime is best for my productivity. Then I can have my nights free! (Still working on getting this accomplished regularly in practice)

Stephanie ( stephaniecraneart ): I've learned that you can fight what life sends your way, or you can pretend you chose it and embrace what you've got. The only person that can make you suffer is you.

Patricia ( anticipatricia ): This year I learned how to incorporate exercise into my work flow and how to do appliqué!

Lena ( @flamingolines ): I've learned this year (even though I don't always put it in to practice) be nice to people. You are allowed to have bad days and be in a bad mood but don't let it affect how you treat people. It may be more effort to be nice to someone when you don't feel like it but it's always worth it.

Paige ( paige-money ): This year I learned to really stand up for myself, my work and what I care about! I learned that I underestimate myself a lot, so I've been working on confidence. I also took up embroidery and learned some new techniques that I can apply to my craft.

Kenton ( kentonblogs ): This year I learned how to live in Denver, CO. I moved here last year, but I had a bit of a rocky start (hahaha?). I'm much more comfortable with where I am now and I've been inching my way into the art scene, so that's encouraging.

Jade ( jadejohnsonillustration ): My takeaway from this year revolves around products - how to launch them, how to market them, how to make instead of think. It's been very satisfying and fulfilling work!

Jill ( @manfishinc ): This year I learned how to market to my target audience more effectively. Because of this I was able to expand into using more programs efficiently and easily, worked into tuning my design and photo manipulation skills to give my pieces a more sophisticated look. It's given me more credibility and a solid reputation as a professional to build my audience.

Jessica ( jessicaroux ): This year was about self discovery. I’ve been trying to be more patient, kind, and understanding, and at the same time, more self-reliant, confident and sincere. I’m excited to go into 2016 with a better understanding of self in order to make more goals happen.

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IThis month, we’re cracking open a good book and spending some quality time reading. So we asked ourselves, Tell us about a book whose illustrations influenced you.

Zoë ( zoelotus ): My mom thankfully held on to her childhood books and passed them down to me, and two of them were an illustrated edition of Tolken's 'The Hobbit' and Ruth Stiles Gannett's 'My Father's Dragon'. I ended up so in love with the grease pencil illustrations of the latter that the trilogy was all I read for a while. Jerdine Nolen's 'Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm' and 'Raising Dragons' get honorable mentions, too -- I would act like I was reading along when I would ask my dad to read to me before bed but I was just really into those colors and dragons I guess this is really opening up my eyes.

Sayada ( sayadaramdial ): Those Enid Blyton short stories books for sure! I loved drawing fairies and pixies based on the illustrations from those books as much as I loved reading the stories.

Stephanie ( stephaniecraneart ): Old school Little Golden Books!

Kenton ( kentonblogs ): One of my professors in community college once pointed out to me that successful picture book illustrations have visual rhythms that echo the rhythm of the text. Dr. Seuss is a great example, but also especially influential for me were Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and Night Kitchen, as well as Barn Dance by Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault and Ted Rand. The latter of which I can still recite most of from memory.

Vickie ( vickie-v ): Stephen Gammell's illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark were the first illustrations I remember having an impact on me, because they are SO terrifying. They were the first illustrations to show me how a picture could impact the words it accompanied, and I think made me subconsciously realize the power illustrations have. So maybe they didn't influence me in style, but they definitely influenced me to see art like I do now.

Patricia ( anticipatricia ): Where the Wild Things Are! The crazy characters and dark textures struck me big time as kid books go~

Jade ( jadejohnsonillustration ): I've been re-reading a book I picked up a while ago, Miss Don't Touch Me. The lines are so clean and the faces drawn so dang expressively - it's pretty great!

Paige ( paige-money ): Theres a children's book that I love called Runaway Bunny, the man who illustrated it also did Goodnight Moon and a few others I think. His name is Clement Hurd. And Maurice Sendak was an amazing illustrator as well!

Jessica ( jessicaroux ): I am a huge fan of Beatrix Potter - her work is so incredible and I love her line quality and color palette. I had a Peter Rabbit pillow that I carried around everywhere as a kid, and it got so threadbare and worn that you can’t even see the illustration anymore. Today, her work as a naturalist is still very inspiring.

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Oh wow Rumi I didn't know you were ace ! I am too :) i haven't been on Tumblr very often these days but I'm glad you're back, you were missed. I bet you aced your exams! Also, about Pietro Maximoff, he absolutely could have pushed Clint out of the way without harming him. After all, he did it for dozens of ppl when the train crashed in Korea. He shattered the robots because he ran through them, like a giant bullet. I thought he took the car and put it in front of Clint & the kid (cont)

+ …But he had to run through the field of bullets with the car (hence all the impacts on the car). He was tired from the fight and so not fast enough to push the car before the bullets reached HIM (things don’t actually stop when he runs, just slow down relatively). That’s what I’m going with. Still flawed : why didn’t he hide behind the car too, I’m sure there was enough space for 3…

What a nice surprise, we are ace buddies!! I’m finding out that I’ve befriended lots of asexuals without knowing it on here; I guess we recognized each other in a mysterious way….. LOL. Oh, aced my exams? Nice pun! Also thanks, I hope I did :D (I’m glad I’m back too! You can’t imagine how much I missed ALL OF MY TUMBLR FRIENDS it was hell, but it was luckily not too long)

ABOUT PIETRO: Oh Goddddddddddd I don’t know what to think anymore, did you see that person’s ask that said if Pietro had pushed Clint + kid away he’d have killed them bcz of his speed? Idk what to think about that, and yes he SHOULD MAYBE HAVE PUSHED SOMETHING BETWEEN CLINT AND THE BULLETS IF THAT WERE THE CASE, AND WHICH WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM ALL but as you said: he. was. tired. And as much as they are surhumans with superpowers, I guess even they need to sleep and can get stressed the fuck out, so I guess it’s not THAT nonsensical to have Pietro sacrifice himself…….. THE SACRIFICE THAT LAUNCHED MY CLINT X PIETRO SHIP tbh ❤

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For July's QuickTalk, each member made an influence map showing aspects of art history that affect their work. We'll be posting each member's map over the next few days, so keep watching! 

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Here are nine of my biggest visual influences. Of course, this list could go on forever, and like most of us, I’m sure I’m influenced by things I’m not even aware of. But this is what I’ve picked (left to right, top to bottom):

Gorgio de Chirico: The underrated forerunner of Surrealism (which I’m big into as a whole, really).

Edward Hopper: A quintessential American realist and hella moody.

Pulp magazine illustration (image by Norman Saunders): Guns, gangsters, aliens, cowboys, monsters—it’s all there. I’m drawn to pulp art for how weird and extreme it is, and how big and bold the technique is.

Children’s art: I always find kid art inspiring for its emotional rawness and limitless imagination.

Esther Pearl Watson: OK, so I’m big into UFO’s, but whatever Esther’s subject matter, she handles it with a personal touch and wonderfully unrefined simplicity.

UFO/extraterrestrial culture: Since I was a kid, I’ve been obsessed with aliens. Visually, UFO culture ranges from cartoony, pop images and Roswell kitsch to abductee’s drawings of their captors and creative interpretations of ancient imagery.

Maurice Sendak: I’ve noticed most of my favorite children’s books are about little boys who sneak out of the house somehow in the middle of the night.

Georgia O’Keefe: O’Keefe painted everything in big, simple shapes. I remember a professor telling me once, “If you want to paint like Georgia O’Keefe, just paint like Georgia O’Keefe.” Vague advice, but I took it to heart.

Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Giesel: A Seuss illustration is full of color, movement, brilliantly realized imagination and a visual rhythm that matches his written verse perfectly.

--Kenton