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This guy ran for local and state government too! I was living in Long Island from 2016-2018 and everyone basically thought he was crazy but respected what he was doing.

My observations were that there were more red light cams in poorer areas, in line with what he said. They were also often very broken, going off at the wrong time (they had a very bright, unmissable flash) or even just flashing constantly (a great thing for triggering my migraines).

Needless to say I'm happy to be back in NJ where we determined the red light cams mostly just punish people making legal rights on red and increase rear end collisions without preventing most deadly collisions. NJ is trying to stop residents of the state from being liable for red light tickets in other states, too.

Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

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This is beautiful. The ocean is of of the only things that can make my heart beat faster and calm me at the same moment.

This isn't art in the traditional sense, so it's going on the sketch blog, but it's definitely art to me.

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The default FOV in minecraft generally makes for a crazy-looking perspective but that's okay if that's what you want!! This also works well with the Sims or Sketchup (much easier to use than, say blender). If you're using them for much more than planes consider not tracing and using them as a reference instead :). Tracing planes for perspective can help you learn perspective though! You could probably even build it with legos and take a pic to do he same. 😋

The Sims is great because there's so much furniture/building components there to start and you can always download custom content made by the community. You could even download sim poses if you wanted to use it as a vague figure reference too.

Sketchup is great because you can drop 3d objects in that you find online and create your own planes/shapes quickly.

Aaaalso Cities Skylines is amazing for general city references and even street level or terrain references.

the background cheat digital artists don’t want you to know about

step one build that shit in minecraft

step two take a fuckin screenshot n then trace that shit

step three what the fuck is up!

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Hopefully you didn’t mean like eye shapes or something like that, anon, because people are more often to ask me about coloring eyes lmao. But hopefully this tutorial helps a bit in terms of colors! 

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Reblog from the main art blog. Will add tags later because I’m burning out on this social media hashtag thing. Also burning out on humaning today because I keep staying up until 4am working on watercolors like some kind of paint demon.

New Painting + Now available on S6 - “False Sunflowers”

This is new watercolor painting of heliopsis helianthoides AKA False Sunflowers inspired by French Provencal color palettes and flowers I fell in love with as I walked past them daily in my neighborhood this past summer. Plus images of it on some Society6 products – my favorite applications of this particular painting, that is! 

If you’re interested in getting these products or others, check it out on Society6. 

If you’re interested in purchasing the original 9″x6″ watercolor piece, get in contact with me on Tumblr. 

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Pencil sketch edited digitally. I might turn it into a block print.

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What I'm working on today 😍 After invoices, that is

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Reblogging from my main art blog

I finally got around to properly photographing and editing this painting of an animal skull that I did in #gouache (at Collingswood, New Jersey)

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This is super useful for artists too!!

Architectural Nomenclature for D&D and Authors

Here is a series of diagrams I made while I was making the D&D 5e Masonry profession stuff. It’s basically a helpful guide to help describe parts of buildings, windows, and doors for us non-architects out there. Use these to narrate your dungeon using accurate descriptors, or be inspired to decorate the dungeon with these new terms! You could make corbels that are shaped like owlbears, or socles carved like dragon’s claws. Especially useful to describe where secrets can be hidden, like the lintel of a door or pilaster of a wall. I recall needing to look up the term “lintel” when there was a secret lever built into one in the Shrine of Tamoachan, so there’s definitely a use for it.

Keep in mind that some of these parts can be used for other objects, particularly furniture. For instance, a table can have an entablature and cornice, just like a roof can. A pediment can exist above a door or window. A reliquary can have crockets and pinnacles like a cathedral.

I learned a lot about architecture while researching stuff for Mason’s Tools, and wanted to share it with you guys! Remember that a wide breadth of knowledge can help you become a better overall DM!

Gothic Cathedral

Hellenistic Temple

Crenellated Wall

Interior Wall

Doors and Windows

Roofs and Domes

Arches and Vaults

Architectural Patterns

Other Decorative Terms:

Urn: Yes they put them on buildings, not just in dungeons.

Festoon: A wreath or garland hanging from two points. If it depicts cloth it is known as a swag. So yea.

Dentils: Originating as the ends of rafters, these became decoration that is repeated below a roof’s cornice. Their name means “teeth.”

Acanthus: This is the leaf that you find in a lot of architecture, especially as the capitals of Corinthian columns.

Diapering: Weird name, but basically anything that is a repeated pattern usually based on a grid that breaks up an otherwise flat space. Apparently the name comes from the Greek dia (cross/diagonal) and aspros (white)

Fleur-de-lis: If you weren’t familiar with it already, that’s what this is called:

Well that about wraps it up for today. Hope everyone was able to learn something today!

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Mmm reminds me of a packaging project I did as a graphic design student.. Excuse the photography, I was using the most absurd basement camera setup with the wrong lights

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Dream career: that girl in Kiki’s Delivery Service who lives in the woods alone and draws birds

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our model didn’t show up today so we got a poorly taxidermied fox and a marionette

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Adding Honey!! She's a gray lop eared mix.

On my sketch/side blog because I try to keep non art off my art/main blog.

Don’t tell Chewie but uhhh dark brown/black buns are the best buns! Also grey buns. Reblog and add pics if your children fit that description cuz I WANNA SEE ‘EM

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AllPose Book, 12 Fighting Poses - Buy it here

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I painted this yesterday but I don't like it enough to put it on my main drawing account...

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Today's warmup sketch

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A good face reference!

for the anon who needed this! hope it helps :)