#(encompasses that too)

[thirdtimed]

beautiful grianful world.. links to all the artists' profiles under the cut :D

linktoo-doodles

jellitchi

avo0930

alienssstufff

cherrifire

grianhate

luniise

tibbycaps

skimmeh

pippeinnit

i linked everyones tumblrs if they had one, otherwise it leads to twitter!

[stillgotscars]

evermore is a winter album, not an autumn album. reblog if you agree.

[elysiae]

do you think operator & drifter treat their warframes wildly differently?

somewhat insufficient TLDR: i think the operator and drifter are emotionally attached but in vastly, strikingly different ways, and it manifested very, very differently too.

in operator's case, it isn't that they dont *care*, but they know how durable a warframe is. they know they can take one hell of a hit, and they'll be okay because that warframe takes the brunt of it (albeit with some phantom pain if the damage is bad enough). theyre less comfortable outside the confines of those large, bulky war machines because they know they're ultimately safe. those warframes can take hits. they cannot. the operator knows they were people, but they never met those people before the tragedy. besides... a lot of them really are just empty shells. they're hardly the people they once were, especially since they recreated those warframes from blueprints. don't get me wrong, they do remember the anguish of the originals - they were there, they lived it, and they still have empathy for them... but the operator knows the limits of every warframe like the back of their hand - they can maneuver however they want, they can take hits, they can run into armies and not be too afraid because they (as in the operator and the warframe this time) be fine. even if the warframe is damaged, they can fix the damage, so no harm done.

but drifter on the other hand? at first i think they never really realised the power they had. in their mind they were still them, just running, rolling on the occasion, it took them ages to maneuver those things *properly*, and probably only ever really learned with the operator's guidance. they would not let a warframe take a hit, not because they felt empathy for it (at least not a lot, last i checked you kind of need at least *some* to have effective transference?) but because they were so used to walking around vulnerable. yknow, not inside a killing machine. but what would've really solidified the difference was after they went to 1999. sure, hearing that these things used to be people is one thing, but at the end of the day, to drifter, they're still just machines. drifter never got to experience what the tenno did, they never had to deal with reaching into their freshly scarred minds to ease their anger, sorrow, fear, rein them in like the terrified animals they were turning into and hush their cries with understanding - they only knew the dead inside remnants... but it's an entirely other thing when you go to the past and see the people who were hurt. you meet them and you get to know them, become their best friends - maybe even date one of them - and it hit drifter like a fuckin' freight train. they have this entirely different view on warframes from that cold perspective they had at first. they weren't just war machines. those are people. every time they go into the head of those machines, they're looking through the eyes of *people.* people who had families and desires and hobbies, things they looked forward to, entire futures ahead of them that were snuffed out. people who were scared, people who didn't know what was happening. people who knew what was happening, who lived in fear knowing they weren't able to stop it... people who lived in fear of losing themselves. and i think it hit drifter a lot harder than they'd ever admit.

but thats not to say one of them is more attached than the other - both of them care deeply about their warframes. it's just that, they have different ways of looking at them. after all their experiences were so vastly different, it'd be impossible to look at them the same way.

(too lazy to type it out all over, but i have an example in the tags i think kinda helps pull it together more)

[yukiranine]

its the negative rizz

[morsobaby]

I'd love to romanticize signs of old age. Not bc you need to find certain traits beautiful or appealing for them to matter or to be valid in having them but bc they're demonized so much that I'm sure it would help a ton. I genuinely just don't want aesthetic traits to be hated or a source of hatred for anyone. I think all traits can be unique, cool and charming. I like the fact that people can look so many ways in their bodies and faces.

Yeah it's important to remember that the goal isn't to be attractive but that can and should include the fact that anything can be found attractive regardless of societal norms. Attractiveness shouldn't be as polarized as it is, but obviously it's always a plus if someone feels more attractive in their imperfections. Like yes your advocacy should go beyond finding something appealing bc we shouldn't judge morality based on how externally appealing something is. But I think romanticizing the unloved parts of humanity is a great tool for dismantling this mentality/system of beauty standards

[heph]

TLDR: Got any drawing exercises to recommend?

I’m in loooove with the way you use lines, shapes and colors/shading to show form in your art. The way you draw bodies shows a lot of understanding of the shapes that go into them, and that’s something I often personally struggle with. I’m familiar with the shapes of a face, but when it comes to connecting them to the shapes of the body and so on, I get frustrated that it’s jumbled instead of cohesive.

I was wondering, when you’re looking to practice, whether that’s anatomy, line-making, still life shapes or whatever, do you have any exercises you’ve done and would be willing to share? I’ve been trying to crawl out of the no-art-depression-hole for a bit and want to start with things that don’t take much willpower but help me improve

I might be the worst person to ask this! My relationship with art is not typical and I do not practice mindfully! (I just draw whatever I want and that's my practice, y'know?

Anyways, here's my progress of how I learnt to draw :3

Step 1 is proportions - breaking up the human body into manageable blocks and pieces. And step 2 is learning the muscles that build up the body, and from there you can simplify as needed... Or do that thing anime art kids do and skip directly to the simplified bit! (You probably shouldn't do that but if it's a hobby who cares!)

For specific tutorials, I find that proko is probably the best mix of entertaining/educational content you can find, but aside from that I watch a lot of speedpaints.

As a sort of get rich quick scheme, I think the absolute easiest way to get stupidly good at art is studying perspective - but you at least need a basic understanding of proportions and anatomy before you can draw someone in a funky perspective.

Everything in life is in perspective, and every piece of work you will ever make will have perspective in it. Perspective is sort of like an all-encompassing thing in our reality that you don't realise is there, and maybe even not realise is missing in your work (just that something feels... Wrong) AND LIKE NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT IT! WHAT THE FLIP!!!

I don't really have a specific source for learning perspective, because I've been on-and-off trying to wrap my head around it for a few years (I'm still awful at it but I'm getting there...!) here's a video!

I do think that drawing with progression in mind might help, but I think with art (as a hobby) the most important thing is probably love for a special guy and joy of creation. You have to love what you're drawing and the simple act of creating, or it just won't work out. If you're in a depression hole maybe just try creating for the sake of it, and don't give yourself too many expectations :)

[pirhanaparts]

[ask-zacharies-snackarie]

Okay, starting off is the mask.

I figured I should post a sort of "devolution" to show where it started and what it became, because you cherish the end product more if you remember where you came from.

[scribz-ag24]

i checked the italian blind run that apparently is very popular in the IT community. and. was anyone.

so was anyone. was anyone going to tell me in this version dusknoir asks if his existence had value.

his line about saying with full sincerity that life is marvelous.

why didnt i hear of this until now i crave to know every little difference between translations so i can cry again and again over the same guy.

[midnightcinderella]

If anyone is wondering whether Homicipher is fun, I played 11 hours today

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

Ari do you think Suguru is overprotective of his s/o and gets worried whenever you are late from work or uni? Or when you don’t answer your phone?

OH HE IS IN SHAMBLES . to me suguru is a very empathetic and emotionally sensitive person, and that bleeds into … most things involving you 😭😭 i think that if you went too long without answering your phone he would get physically anxious. finds it impossible to relax before he hears from you. he manages it fairly well on his own but he does worry about you a lot.. he’s absolutely overprotective and it manifests as this grating itch he can’t scratch. it also partially stems from his control freak tendencies — he needs to have everything under control. he needs to know where you are, that you’re okay.

it’s part of what i mean when i call suguru’s love a little suffocating because i don’t think he’s toxic, but i do think it could be overwhelming </3 he’s a mother hen at the end of the day. so please try to answer his calls when you can, it puts his weary heart at ease!!!!

[solaestial]

SLEEPWALK - Hitorie

(link to song translation)

[alien-girl-21]

Filthy dog experience:

[qoldenskies]

noticing a trend while fleshing some things out in fire at will and that's that i REALLY like writing leo with ocean metaphors. he is just really fun to compare to water

[bread-blogs]

Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man is the perfect amount of:

- comedy & quips

- anger & loss

- boy failure

- guilt that stems from “I couldn’t save you so how could I save the world” and turns into “I couldn’t save the world so how could I be a hero”

- Audacity

To be in the same movie as Deadpool. They would do it perfectly.