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Digital Coloring Tutorial by Mii

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Mood

after telling someone how i feel

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and persephone is back to getting dicked down by hades in the underworld

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<3

I see a lot of positivity posts about 12-year-olds just learning to draw.  Posts cautioning us to be mindful of 11-year-olds with no grasp of anatomy and 13-year-olds whose characters are all the same person with different hair and clothes, and I love those posts.  Those are great posts.  Keep those posts coming, tumblr.

But can I ask, what about the 25-year-old who just bought their first ever sketchbook?  What about the 32-year-old who’s been drawing for a month and has just about got the hang of a human-looking face?  What about the 67-year-old who finally has time to sit down and learn how to paint like they’ve always wanted?

Not everyone starts drawing as a child.  Not everyone learned as a preteen.  Some people start in college.  Some people start when their career is going well and they feel like it’s time for a new hobby.  Some people start after they’ve retired.

Not all beginner artists are kids, and I just think the adults ones deserve some encouragement, too.

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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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You know what I'm a larper I'll fuckin do it.

Is this what they wanted?

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REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

9 million people fucking love dogs

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Kid, get off the ground. Spit your blood, and bare your teeth; go down a savage, go down fighting.

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Every time someone interrupts me with some stupid shit

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Every time someone interrupts me with some stupid shit

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Sodium bicarbonate t o r n a d o o o!

That stirbar is going at over 1k spins a minute.

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Reblog if you are willing to plot/RP via Discord/Skype, etc!

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Wild West Character Design Challenge by Thanh Tuấn

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*Squints*

AR is for Arkansas. AZ is Arizona. <--Lives in the latter

Japanese Demons, in My Farmer’s Almanac? It’s more likely than you think!

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\o/ I’ve got a Forsaken mage I play on sometimes on the DL just to RP on. She’s cute and doesn’t know how to use her magic very well, but she’s trying to get better after the fall of the Undercity; it’s the second time she’s had to evacuate a home so she’s trying to get better and learn to fight. 

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Got that anxiety so bad I can’t even sleep.