#there is art!

[lazyrezi]

How dare you say something so true and devastating?

I'm happy for Three it got what it wanted

Jesus christ ART that IS kinda fucked up

Was it wrong tho?

I think it's a little funny

Haha

ART wanting impress Mensah because it knows how important she is to Murderbot is sooo !!!!! Aaaaaaaa

Okay I'm normal again

Yessss shower the secunit with all the love

You better be used to it! You would do the same thing! Neither of them have any sense of privacy

Hah ART being all polite instead of menacing is ... different

It usually threatens people as a greeting so this is unusual

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[leebrontide]

I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

[noahverrier]

My oil painting of an Uncrustable

[phantom-shell]

Big fan of Dipper "if I ever see you again outside of my nightmares, there is no force in the universe that will stop me from putting you in the ground" Pines

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[cosmeretrek]

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

[kittarts]

New Coraline design drop

[pterygoidwalk]

sometimes i wonder what my cat named me

[feefal]

Mold x calico cats!

[notsotinyblob]

a whole new level of being mixed up with your sibling

[lazyrezi]

Murderbot internally losing its shit while remaining cool as a cucumber under pressure will never be not cool. To me.

Seriously I wish I could remain half as composed in crisis but alas I will crumble like an old dry leaf

It's even putting Amena's needs over its own!!

Honestly the matter-of-fact way Murderbot talks about the treatment of secunits just adds to the harshness of it

Flawless logic if you ask me

I am. Filled to.the brim. With emotions.

Whatisgoingonwhatisgoingon

That's like. A lot. Murderbot is also clearly feeling things

Murderbot is confusing emotions with memory failure

Can't even bring itself to just say ship or hostile also did ART just kidnap Murderbot? Not exactly the reunion I was hoping for but it tracks with how their relationship works so

Oof Amena is having a ROUGH day and Murderbot is having EMOTIONS - again not memory failure - so this is going well!

[pupucino]

life imitates art

[laurenillustrated]

Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s

Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?

The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe

[clacy2812]

POV your niece read the journal