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#day 1089 1/8/16 #daily #sketch #challenge #art #illustration #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #doodle #ink #brush #pen

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I've been watching a lot of braille skateboarding lately #animation #skateboarding #brailleskate

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So I’m challenging myself to do an anthro deck of cards. It’ll be a four-color deck with unique illustrations for 2-10, Ace, Jack, Queen, and King of each suit as well as both jokers and back art ^^

In addition to this, I am accepting commissions to add characters in. If you’re interested, more info can be found here: [ LINK ]

Anyway, this is the Queen of Diamonds! 

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Oren’s Forge Page 59

Read it from the beginning at: www.orensforge.com or over on Tapastic: http://tapastic.com/series/OrensForge

Questions? Feel free to ask, or check out the FAQ!

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Normal shenanigans #drawing #tiger #furryart #inlineskate #watercolor

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Learning to paint #acrylicpaint #sphinxcat #fuzzylombax416 #painting #colorful

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Inktober Day 20: It was immediately clear that there would be no winner. 🌽 Sumi ink on watercolor paper. #inktober2016 #inktober #ink #debate #scarecrow #crow #losers

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Not dead #drawing #sketch #doberman #dog

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Some artwork of Zib I did during a livestream for Patreon supporters. It was refreshing to do something more thoroughly in natural media for a change - pencil and water soluble graphite.

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It still surprises me at how few people have seen Freak of the Week, and I love sharing it with friends because of the inevitable, “How the hell have I never seen this?” look of awe drawn out on their face.

And man, it really is gorgeous.

Directed by Juanjo Guarnido, it took the team about a year of hard work to hammer out this bloody masterpiece (which you can learn about in his video here) using a combination of 3D animation with the power of college interns  skill of a team of artists to painstakingly re-draw the 3D elements they wanted in 2D frame-by-frame, not to mention the post processing and… everything else.

 Even though it came out in 2014, it doesn’t seem to have ever garnered the attention it truly deserves.

I really wanna drive this point home, so to give you an idea, Ghost by Mystery Skulls, animated by MysteryBen27 has 18,147,263 views.   Freak of the Week has only 2,271,121 views at the time I’m writing this.  That’s fucking depressing for something so … phenomenal.  I want more of this, and hell, maybe you do too.  But we’re not going to see anymore simply because the right people haven’t seen it.  In fact, it failed to reach a respectable level of Internet Popularity®, Juanjo himself even described it in the comments section as having ruined him because of how little attention it got.  

So if you’re reading this and you’ve got some connections with a TV network or something, consider pulling some strings to get this video spoon-fed to the masses, because people ought to see this.  I’m sure Juanjo would be all too happy to oblige.  And hell, if you wanna buy the art book, you can get the link here for about $50.

Now, maybe you recognize the former Disney animator Juanjo Guarnido for his other work: Blacksad.

Which is a comic set in the late 1950′s about a hardboiled private investigator published originally by Dark Horse Comics that does… y’know, the …

… noir investigator …

… aloof ladies man…

… badass …

… detective story thing.

That I haven’t yet read but I TOTALLY NEED TO.  

Look,

I guess I’m bringing up Freak of the Week because I was reading the comment section and, man, it kinda got me down.  

Some of the best things things out there just haven’t been seen by the right people, I guess.  But I suppose it’s also a depressing statement on the culture of the internet that the video makes.

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One of the most important things for any creator to learn: Finished, Not Perfect

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@lackadaisycats​  I think it goes without saying, I admire the brilliant artist that is Tracy J. Butler, her characters, her humor, and her storytelling skills. What also goes without saying is I can’t really support her financially, no matter how much I’d love to shower her beautiful potato face with dollars. I go to her shop every couple of days just to yell ‘TAKE MY MONEY’ at the Lackadaisy volumes and throw a bunch of random papers at my screen for the dramatic effect. Sigh. What I can do, however, is to encourage each and every one of you, dear watchers, to get acquainted with her work at Lackadaisy.com and support her like I wish I could. Tracy, if you ever get to see this, Merry Christmas (Yes yes, I chose this scene for selfish reasons. If you thought, even for a second, that it smells morafenish, it’s because it does.)

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Is and continues to be my favorite dance video. Dude’s so unexpectedly fluid.

> High score! What happened? Did i break it?

> You don’t see too many YouTube videos from 2005..

Weird to think that was almost a 10 years ago.

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This makes me so happy! I just smile from ear to ear reading these comics. Mordecai is one salty cat and I love it! I would say he is my favorite character but then again, I adore the whole feline cast in the Lackadaisy universe!

A little Q&A mini-comic I shared with Patreon supporters a while back. It can be viewed here as a full image.

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My silly drawing for a trade with @asian-vanillaicecream

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Blacksad is bombdiggity!!!

Juanjo Guarnido  -  http://www.dargaud.com/bd/Auteurs/Guarnido-Juanjo  -  https://twitter.com/jjguarnido?lang=es  -  http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-of-the-day/juanjo-guarnido-99124.html  -  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345419  -  http://www.blacksadmania.com/

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Art trade for @sournote, who wanted his tiger dude drawn in my style.