#resident-dumb-fuck

[tackypies]

faust sold her soul to the bus and limbus company. discuss

(there is textual evidence for this: i havent read goethe's faust but i have read marlowe's faustus and it has to be pretty similar right. faust sells his soul to a demon, mephistopheles, for power and shits and giggles. you know as you do. the bus is named mephistopheles. fausts soul belongs to the bus and therefore the company. sorry faust ily but you are an office worker forever now <3)

i have a sneaking suspicion that there's more to mephistopheles than meets the eye and i am so sus of that bus as the kids would say

[focsle]

dearest creator of a comic that includes a lot of ships. how draw sailing vessel???? (do you have any advice beyond Look At Reference Picture And Cry. because that is my current strategy)

thanks sorry

I'm afraid the best way to learn how to draw something is Look At Reference (and hopefully not cry too much!)

I'm not sure what kind of vessel you're interested in--an ocean liner is different from a man o war is different from a caravel is different from all the whaleships I draw, but whatever sort you're interested in, get a lot of references.

Tracing is a really good learning tool! Take your refs and just trace the basic shapes. Ultimately ships are...basically cylinders/rectangles with various edges shaved off or flared in certain ways. But tracing the basic shape can help you internalize an understanding of the Bones of the thing. And can also help with drawing them in different perspectives if you're thinking 'it's just a rectangle with some edges shaved off and some pointy bits'.

Sailing, as an activity, also has a lot of diagrams that can be referred to. The information on them can be overwhelming, but it's good to be able to identify basic parts of the ship (such as the different masts, different sailing rigs, the names and locations of the sails themselves)

Not every ship is going to carry that much sail nor all at once, and it'll change depending on weather conditions, sailing objectives, etc. I'd also say that if you were planning on including all of those lines in the first diagram in your own art that would probably be...excessive. But it's helpful again to have something broken down to better understand your own references / how you want to draw the ship in various conditions. Books like the Young Officer's Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever are good too--it has really nice diagrams of a lot of different components of a vessel, if you wanna get granular.

This isn't the most accessible piece of advice, but if you have the opportunity to dabble in actually sailing, try it! I don't sail professionally; I am the most seasonal of hobbyists and I'm feeling particularly rusty right about now, but I found that when I started sailing I gained an understanding of how things worked when otherwise just reading about it or looking at images was pretty inscrutable to me. Being able to actually see how something works and feel it and handle it was enlightening. In lieu of that, while it's harder to find video tutorials for tall ships compared to sailboats, those exist too! Here's one.

Granted my sailing experience is exclusively on schooners and I still have no idea how square riggers really work. If I ever get the chance to learn on one and look back at my comic I'm sure SO many things will be wrong. There are absolutely issues with my ships in that comic. Sometimes I forget what sails I set from one page to the next. Yadda yadda yadda. That's why I'm always whispering 'don't look too closely at my ships' @ any sailor-inclined person who's reading said comic.

Which ultimately brings me tooooo--I don't know what your aims are in drawing sailing vessels, but my aims are not to draw a perfectly accurate depiction of a ship. I'm not making diagrams. I'm trying to get the spirit of the thing, and hopefully in a way that looks......not completely incorrect. Sometimes photo references or sailing diagrams can be really challenging to parse. What's helpful to me is identifying what's Most Essential to getting my point across. And one way to find out what's most essential is through a sailor's simplification of a ship.

I love model ships for instance! I love being able to see and handle something in a three dimensional space, and look at how things connect even if it's not an exact replica. Here's mine that I pull out sometimes when I'm trying to figure out how to lead rigging:

I also like collaborating with my deceased whalers of whom I am so fond. They have a lot to teach me, including--with those who were more artistically inclined--how to condense the visual information of a ship. If you can find the historical art done by sailors (such as in logbooks or diaries), especially amateur art, it gets to the heart of the thing without being too much. These men were intimately familiar with the ship and how it functioned, so I look to them to better get a sense of what they felt was most important to include. Here's a couple from 19th century whaler journals that have absolutely been helpful to me.

I hope some part of this was helpful! Good luck drawin boats!

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank would you kill a whale?

In a heartbeat. I'd get right in there with my knife and kill it myself, no questions asked.

I mean . . . okay, some questions would be asked (is this really the best way to stop future whale attacks?), but I would not mind killing an animal that large as long as its death served some greater good. It might even be something of a relief. But then again maybe you could say that about any other creature. I just tend to think of big animals like whales when people ask me hypotheticals like this because they are easy targets for my imagination to focus on.

[vanderspeiglemd]

God like shut the fuck UP.

So Chris originally pitched vandertrees. They were supposed to be together in s2. They were supposed to take care of Bridget.

Chris says that didn't work out because Alan and Sara's 'chemistry is more mother-son' and I've never heard a more absolute bullshit excuse for 'I didn't develop my main character so when Alan played him as ND read I said oh he's a baby haha' and changed the shows trajectory after the first season. BTW that's from his own mouth, he didn't even know Harry until they got Alan literally when they were already filming the pilot and then he decided Harry was supposed to be an idiot child. Like yeah, that dynamic happened bc you FORCED the child/parent thing later, that never existed in s1. Their interactions after the whole dumber Harry thing are so stiff and miserable, it's not natural the way they were before.

They genuinely won the lottery with two super attractive, talented actors who had immediate chemistry and they shit all over it. And fine don't make it canon, why do they have to be so hostile and weird about it? You're not smarter than shippers, you make a show full of poop jokes.

[adarku]

resident evil is all about finding ammo in the craziest places and not being able to go through bushes

[nymphiess]

"Ada is so much more complex than Claire" this "Claire is a passive character she doesn't even do anything" that both Ada fans and Claire fans need to team up and realise that Capcom did them both dirty as hell and join hands. And maybe kiss.

[leonisdumbasallhell]

would u consider drawing jake and piers just hanging out? doesn’t have to be shippy but could be if u wanted to

[flowers-and-beskar]

his demonic smile has bewitched me, body and soul.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

when i was in highschool one o my biggest coping mechanisms was drawing all the kids i hated getting killed and eaten and killed. and well. time is a slowly ascending spiral. you will find patterns.(i work as a blackjack dealer. gamblers are FASCINATING

[ableedingpromise]

There r sooooo many games I wanna check out but I'd rather wait until I get a laptop instead of watching playthroughs!!

[tiredqueermushroom]

Dorian Storm they could never make me hate you!

[tackypies]

hiii i think you are so cool and smart. anyway there *have* to be other buses full of classic literature characters working for limbus company right. we all agree

i wonder how many branches there are in limbus company ngl 🤔 MAYBE?! this is an interesting idea, but the sinners seem unique in their ties to dante. i absolutely think the mirror worlds had loads of buses full of other literary characters tho

[crispy-dib]

Ramón Salazar drawings

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

frank, why are the curtains blue?

. . . because they're NOT red?

(FTR, I used to live with Frank, so I know exactly what you mean. But he said that last sentence, and it took me a few seconds to think of a reply.)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

hello merry day the pequod left port if it’s still the 25th in your time zone :)

WHEEZE THANK YOU BESTIE AND SAME TO YOU! may the voyage ahead be as profitable as it is perilous and may we all return soundly to our wives and families :)

[citrine-elephant]

ugh so i just went down a bit of a fuckin rabbithole, but

it IS confirmed that leon is built different?? like actually got stronger bcuz of las plagas?

... still haven't played the remake bcuz i can't commit to buying a pc lol