#adventures in studying

[fragiledewdrop]

I have long mantained that the graffiti on the desks of my university are works of art, and I have a folder dedicated to them, but today I found the one that beats them all:

There are so many level to this.

The care put into drawing an accurate portrait of Dante, down to the laurel crown.

The idea of calling it "Dante Sudante" (Sweating Dante"), which immediately draws your eyes to the drop of sweat at his temple.

The immediate question of "why is he sweating?", the answer to which is in the image description:

"When I am in a mutherfucking chiasm competition and my opponent is Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso" (the use of "chiasmo della Madonna" here? The language switching? Unparalleled)

What cracks me up is that in order to laugh at this joke-that someone took a lot of care and time to craft- you have to know:

a) what a chiasm is

b) that Dante uses chiasms

c) that Ludovico Ariosto wrote THEE chiasm at the beginning of the Orlando Furioso ("le donne, i cavalier, l'arme, gli amori" ; "the ladies, the knights, the arms, the loves")

d) that, therefore, in that immaginary competition Dante might very well lose

and you have to care enough about all this to find it genuinely amusing.

It is obviously the work of a stressed literature student, that almost only other stressed literature students will see and understand, and it was probably way funnier in the context of whatever the professor was talking about when it was drawn.

I love it. It should be in the Louvre.

[devildevotee]

the course has already been a test of endurance and patience, especially with how they regard demonic activity (it's very old fashioned and fearmonger-y, even to the point they blame depression on demonic activity which i disagree with HEAVILY).

i think i understand why lucifer prompted me to study it though, because ultimately i need to come to my own conclusion about demons. i need to surround myself with a variety of opinions, to see what i end up truly believing. he's doing it not as a test, but to watch me go through the odds and ends of questioning whether demons harm or help, especially because he knows i'm easily influenced by others in vulnerable situations (that's just a personal problem tho that i gotta work through). i think he wants me to be confident in what i believe, and who i am.

that being said, i hope it's amusing to him to watch me go about this with the grace of a headless chicken lol.

[egophiliac]

doylist explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: probably something about space constraints and making sure two sprites in one seat aren't covering anyone else when they're not in focus

watsonian explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: he snuck in and is hiding from the teachers, don't give him away 🤫

(I've reached my limit of unsuccessful attempts at pulling them before I need to save keys for Halloween, so I've been living vicariously through youtube videos...but the fact that Gidel just pops up from under the desk to wave his arms around happily is really testing my resolve. D: I'm gonna die when they finally get to do alchemy...)

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[lilybug-02]

highly doubt they would ever meet but I'm curious what The Hunter would write about Dewi

Dewi

A human child, the largest living creature in Hallownest. His skin is soft, but strength lurks behind his stride.

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Legends tell of immense godly creatures who strode through clouds and walked across the plane in times of old. Perhaps such fantastical stories are not as unthinkable as they once were...

....

A strange mountainous creature. Though he seeks the thrill of the hunt, he does not close in for the kill. Us mere bugs seem to be easy prey. To be truly hunted by a creature so vast is a bewitching thought.

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I absolutely love The Hunter, so of course he'd make a visit to see the beast everyone in Hallownest has been whispering about (and when I say everyone I mean like 10 people).

[chloesimaginationthings]

Someone please give Jotaro a break

[whenmemoriesfrost]

lonely girl adventures, pt. 7

a day of bookshops, cafés, libraries and museums 💌

total walk: 9km

[sugar-grigri]

I think the biggest revelation will not be about what fear Pochita represents, but rather the fact that she's a "girl/female"

This information alone concludes a whole host of themes: the birth demon theory, Denji's search for maternal affection, symbolic as an orphan but also impossible because he has merged with the Supreme Mother, i.e. the birth demon, but above all the fact that in reality this dream has already been fulfilled.

[filthyguts]

feline

[diceptic0]

men liker men kisser

[fragiledewdrop]

Every second French poet in the 16th century, apparently: We are not barbarians! We are descendants of *spins wheel* Hector's secret son *throws dart* Francus (or Francion si vous voulez) who came to France because the Gods commanded it and met the Gauls who were *draws card* the Trojans's actual ancestors and also *pulls an handkerchief out of his ass* Noah's direct grandkids. And that is why we are the true heirs to the Roman Empire, and why you should support our good and just king against that vile usurper the German Emperor. Let's write an epic poem about this.

So I have decided I am coming up with my own myth, according to which I am a descendant of Penelope and her secret, previously unknown Italian lover she met after Ulysses fucked off to parts unknown at the end of the Odyssey.

What is your personal mythology? Go wild.

[yasmeensh]

A Master Study featuring Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. In which Link hangs out with the two Zeldas post-game (Who do you think became the Queen of Hyrule?)

This was a difficult piece, but I'm happy with it!

Based on 'The Chess Players' by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1902)

Information on inspiration and process under the cut!

Original piece: "The Chess Players" by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1846-1908).

The moment I saw this artwork I immediately thought of Zelda II. One of the women is wearing a medieval-esque red velvet dress, and she looks a lot like the design I made for the cursed princess Zelda!

I thought it would be very fitting to reimagine this artwork in a Zelda II context, so I went ahead with it! doubles as a master study and LoZ fanart.

I learnt a LOT from making this piece! Since I worked on it digitally, I got and made brushes that acted as close to traditional brushes, and I also worked on the entire piece in one layer. So whenever I made a mistake, I'd have to paint over. No return. But it was a big learning experience! Learnt more about rendering silk and velvet by observing how they are painted and blended in the original.

Here are some WIP shots! It took a long time to get to where it is now xD It was difficult to finally pen down the right proportions and placement. I probably should've done a grid copy, but I opted to just eyeing it out all the way through. It was... hard. (lesson learnt?)

I read that in a lot of older pieces, they are made in greyscale, then flat colours are overlaid on top. makes rendering much easier. and it truly has! I probably should’ve rendered the greyscale version even more. Since there were still a lot of mistakes that I had to rework and adjust while colouring.

Very fruitful experience overall, and I’m just happy to make a grand-scale Zelda II artwork xD I’ve never seen one so I made it!!!

[gvnchyno2]

jojos x slam dunk manga art

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 207

Danny does not come out of the portal. 

In fact, he’s lost. Very lost. He just wants to go home and is getting scared of everything around him because he doesn’t know what’s going on. But! But he’s found an (admittedly also terrifying) castle or keep or whatever they’re called that all the ghosts avoid!

It never exactly enters his mind that they might have been avoiding such a place for a reason. 

In unrelated news, the first thing Fright Knight sees after his sword was (accidentally) knocked free from its prison is not a blob ghost- they’ve done it a few times over the eternities- but a ghostling. A newborn ghostling, who promptly bursts into tears to his genuine horror. What did he do?!

[momopatchi]

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