#art rambling;

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was a TA for the freshman art class in senior year my students really adored me. It was so sweet. I’d had classes that were more ambivalent toward me but these guys were all about me.

I loved working with that teacher too. He was the kind of crunchy art nerd whose own kid didn’t know what candy was, who loved bird watching and wearing tweed. We’d chat while they worked and it was just a three hour pleasure rather than work.

When the class switched from charcoal to gouache a devil medium, the evilest watercolor, the students struggled. We’d have in class painting where they’d spend the whole time trying to mix one color instead of just accepting something as good enough and trying to practice other skills.

So one day I showed up to my shift and announced, “I have stickers. If you get color down for the whole composition, you get a sticker.”

They wanted. The stickers. So bad. Students who had agonized before about keeping lines neat and perfect plowed ahead. The first student to call me over I tsked at. “Putting grey on everything doesn’t count,” I chided, “I asked for colors on each object.”

The classroom worked in furious joy, young adults who had seen my bird and cactus stickers and gone feral. The teacher was flabbergasted. “Why do they want stickers? They could just buy stickers…”

I held up my water bottle and showed him a tiny 3D bubble sticker the program director had brought to my game teams space last week. “You never grow out of wanting to earn a sticker.”

By the end of class everyone had a sticker. There was more visible improvement in the work too, which surprised them since they’d been rushing. “Gouache looks terrible before it looks good. It’s okay to start messy and then refine.” The teacher had said the same thing but looking at their frantic sticker paintings they finally saw the truth of it.

[kalicocal]

it must've been like a punch to the gut when ekko saw powder from this:

to this:

[noritaro]

booping someone numerous times when they only booped you once feels like this

[iamespecter]

my brain: You're hating your art style again aren't you me: That's literally your fault my brain: Yeah well lucky for you I know how you can deal with it me: How my brain: Practice cloth wrinkling and lighting using a different brush me: Aight...

my brain: But also draw Caine hot me: Wh

what

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[dragonbleps]

what artists dont tell you is that every compliment is actually 100 compliments because they'll go back to re-read it 100 times and it'll make them feel fuzzy all over again every single time

[dillyt]

[ravenmccookies]

Weird phenomenon I've seen on tumblr

[bluepandadraws-log]

The Amazing Digital COMIC #15-Ant Watching

[❤PREV] | [🧡START🧡] | [NEXT💙]

[8-billion-wishes]

This can’t just be me, right?

[kalicocal]

ONE FUCKING BREAK. CAN THEY NOT GET A GODDAMN SECOND TO FUCKING BREATHE?!?!?!

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[taytei]

some vash sketches as i figure out how i'm gonna draw him

[squishydem0ns]

"Is Vox inse-claw, purr-suing allure? Flitting between this cat and that, is nothing working?"

"IGNORE HIS CHIRPING!"