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Idle conversation takes a turn for the hilarious when he arrives
Bara Rung
He’s here
And he’s going to analyze the shit out of you
THERAPY
The Iron Giant is coming back to US theaters. Remastered “Signature Edition”. Two all-new scenes. New FX animations by Michel Gagné.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Jumping the heck on the Steven Universe train*
Actually, I’ve been on it for months, but this is the first art for it that I put a lot of effort into! Me and my friend gurglerr made gemsonas together, and I designed our characters!
Inspired by this absolutely stunning piece by wintrywood
Please do not remove credit, the original deserves recognition
I have an idea for this homework assignment. It’s a fake New Yorker cover, meant to be inspired by one of the recent broadcasts of This American Life, which is a great radio show about all sorts of interesting topics.
The one I ended up picking is called Amateur Hour, and it’s about how people with no training get thrown into situations and often find solutions to problems that trained professionals just don’t think of. It made me think about something that has bothered me before about certain art classes.
I used to go back into my sketchbooks from 2 or 3 years ago, and while I have improved in a lot of areas, I feel like I’ve fallen in others. Whether it’s from my style shifting, or simply from being out of practice, it’s hard to not think that I just can’t draw like I used to. These thoughts put a pretty depressing idea in my head for the cover, of creative and varied students getting filed into a factory labeled Classical Art Education and coming out homogenized and vaguely hipster.
I don’t like having such cynical thoughts, simply because I feel like I can’t afford to think that way. I haven’t spent all these years at school for nothing and I feel like if I made that the cover, I’d be offended by my own work. The dilemma is that it’s due in a week and that’s by far my strongest idea.
Let's talk about mynoise.net
Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.
Let me introduce you to MyNoise.
MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape. So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax. Anything. I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds. They have a page for that.
But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder. Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that. See those sliders with all the cute colors? That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of. Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:
But say rain isn’t really your jam. Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y. Something with people. Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:
Or say you miss the ocean.
Or say you miss your cat.
Or say you miss your spaceship.
Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons. In the dungeon.
This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer. The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.
Enjoy!
OH MY GOD
blight-jellies Presents,
TAARSIDATH-AN-HASLAAM ‘S 4OO FOLLOWER ART GIVEAWAY!
In Celebration of my blog hitting Four Hundred Followers, I’m giving away one free piece of art for you by yours truly!
1ST PLACE- Full body digital picture, full color, full lineart of two characters of your choice! 2ND PLACE- Full body digital simple coloring of ONE character of your choice 3RD PLACE- A full color chibi, (like blight, drawn above)
RULES:
ONE like per person, and you can reblog as much as you want, just don’t spam your poor followers with it!
I’ll be picking by random number generator, so the more you reblog, the more chances you have.
You have to have been following me when 400 hit! I’m not going to count people after that, but if you want to follow me that is still awesome!
I won’t be doing any NSFW art for this, so please don’t ask!
The deadline for likes and reblogs is Saturday March 16th!
I’ll draw the winner on Monday at 12am! (CST -6)
HAVE FUN, AND GOOD LUCK!
EDIT: updated, now with places!
I'm sorry you've been feeling down and out for a while, but I'm happy you decided to vent. You already give so much of yourself to us, it's the least we can do to listen and support you when you can use a shoulder to lean on, or a torso as a pillow. <3
You make a very good pillow.
Also to make you feel better: Imagine someone showing Mangle a Monster in Paris, and then she starts making Francoeur noises at everyone/
oh crimeny that's too cute. she'd be super good at making creaky bug noises <3
I am currently in the same boat as you. I haven't made an illustration for myself in a while, but I'm going to have to agree with Cricket and say that you should just keep doodling around and get whatever ideas that may come to your head out there. I really love your art, and I want to see more of it!
Thank you guys. It’s good to know I’m not alone. We can make it together!
burn out happens man. i hardly draw anymore unless its for class or a commission, and thats cus i have to make a body of work for job prospects. i feel ur pain about comapring ur self to others, i do it all the time and get so low i wonder why i bother, but i think thats jus part of it. dont let it wipe u out completely. trying to force habits of drawing will only make it worse. if anything, jus start idly doodling or focusing on one thing, like noses or feet and eventually you'll come back uwu;
*You get internet hugs from this moth, crick*
I love you
I love artists. There are people that can literally create magic out of nothing and that's mind-blowing to me. Even the silliest simple little sketch of theirs is art in its own right. I was so inspired by them but lately instead of being inspired and wanting to be able to do something like that I just shut down and don't want to even try.
I know you're not supposed to compare your artwork to other people's and they've been practicing for ages where I haven't- but that's just it. I don't draw nearly as often as I used to. I don't just sit and doodle anymore, barely even fanart let alone my own characters. It's becoming work and I don't want it to, this is something I love to do and I want to get better at it but I never will if I can't force myself to actually attempt to make things.
Drawing shouldn't be something I have to force myself to do. I used to be defined in my family as the one who brings her sketchbook everywhere and I still do, but the difference now is that it's habit. I barely touch my pencil unless it's for class. Am I just burnt out? Am I working too much? Will this go away when I'm out of school? How am I supposed to do another year of this? Six years of college that may not even be worth it since I apparently can't be assed to fill out a single internship application...
I don't know what' I'm doing. The more beautiful art I see the less confident I get when it used to do the exact opposite. I can't even escape into tumblr lately because of all the hostility everyone seems to be obsessing over. I want to make stuff because I want to, but I either don't want to or don't have time. Artist's block was never like this for me, it's something else and I hate whatever it is. When did art stop being fun for me and start being so anxiety-driven?
Sorry this is so long but I don't want to hide it under a readmore, I've been bottling too much up lately.
Every day is a process.
Feeling this so hard. (Seven pages in one day, though, dang!!! I can barely manage 1)
This is why it’s so frustrating any time I vent about how much I have to do and people jump on my in a chorus of “You could just take the week off and not do it” because you’re becoming a physical manifestation of those voices in someone’s head telling them to give up.
Dead people everywhere.
This was actually something I thought of while my friend DoodleChill was visiting a few weeks ago. We both like all of these characters, but then I sort of noticed the odd one out. With a lot of these characters, something happened that let to their death….and then there’s Jack, who - as far as we know - has been dead his entire life (for lack of a better term). I don’t know. I just get the feeling that some of the issues that Jack goes through probably seem trivial to some of the other guys.
Bonus panels:
jack is such a drama queen…. like his father