Month: May 2017

gothiccharmschool:

knitmeapony:

Kids.  Teenagers.  As someone staring 40 in the face lemme tell you a thing.

You are going to be horrified and embarrassed at some point by the shit you are doing now.

And you are going to wish with all your might you’d done more of it.  

You’re gonna wish you had more selfies, more photos, more videos being dumb with your friends.  You’re going to wish you’d had your hair even higher or your shoes even sparklier.  

Go.  Document the shit out of your ridiculous life.  Fuck trends but if you wanna be trendy, go all in.  Fuck in-groups and subcultures but if one sings to you, do it all.  Be exactly as cool or punk rock or goth or fandom or country or hardcore or hip hop or whatever, and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Just don’t hurt people.  That’s the only thing you’ll ever genuinely live to regret.

IMPORTANT. TRUTHS.

fangirlinginleatherboots:

things i did that forced me to be a better artist:

• used a reference for everything
• thinner line art (you think thats thin? go thinner….)
• sketch, then do a cleaner sketch, THEN start finalizing
• THUMBNAILS
• color research, picking a set palette or light/dark for each work
• you like that pose? redo it one more time
• USE A DAMN REFERENCE
• do not rely on stylization as an excuse for anatomy
• draw the goddamn background you coward
• just draw the hand- a bad hand is better than a hidden hand
• the rule of thirds WORKS
• take a considerable break between sketch and lines/paint
• know that art takes longer as you get better at it
• draw the seams on clothes
• stop aiming for accuracy and focus on fluidity and motion, accuracy will come with practice of those two concepts
• just…do the chiaroscuro. just DO IT. no excuses it always works
• stop making excuses, make yourself an art schedule/set weekly(or daily) art goals and just DO IT.

zenyattayes:

Genji once asked my why I stop whenever I float over one of Junkrat’s steel traps.

“It doesn’t touch you,” he says. “It doesn’t even clip the tips of your feet.”

I feel that people give Junkrat too little credit. He hand crafts those traps. He puts a lot of thought and effort into their design.

He lines them with magnets, and I am made out of metal.

zenyattayes:

“Tell me your thoughts, my friend,” I say to Bastion.

They tell me their thoughts.

D.Va’s meka is the largest, fattest flamingo they have ever seen.

They would like to know how long it will take until Ganymede is as tall and beautiful as Mercy.

Torbjorn needs to stop leaving his young unattended in strange places; this is why they die so often. They also want to know who the father is.

They also like Hanzo’s tail feathers, which I can only assume means his hair ribbon.

As it turns out, Bastion thinks anyone who is not an Omnic is just a very large, strange bird.