travel through the street lights

gummiesandbirds: never trust a skinny chef

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:48:43 -0400

never trust
a skinny chef

misteravid: Do not ever fall for shit like this. This is a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:00:09 -0400

Do not ever fall for shit like this.

This is a screen cap I took from http://www.freelancer.com/

Freelancing does not mean you will create work & be paid only when your client wants it. If you work that way, you are dooming the the future of your livelihood & that of others.

DO NOT EVER LOWER YOUR PRICE IF A COMPANY OR A BUSINESS PERSON IS INVOLVED.

I can’t say this enough.

If you have no portfolio, build one, but not under this kind of circumstance.You can create designs for a small pawn shop owned by your uncle or a cookie business of your friend. What is important is that the people you do cheap or free work for know that it is a favor & that they do not under value you.

Business entities ALWAYS just want to do things as cheap as possible. They will never reward you for your effort aside from what they pay you. That is not evil. It is simply how they are. Like vicious tigers who eat little fluffy rabbits. So learn how to not get eaten or have laser cannons installed in your eyes.

i needed you, i need you. i just dont know how. so never mind.

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:44:18 -0400

i needed you, i need you. i just dont know how. so never mind.

sp00nful: ground chicken lettuce wraps

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:11:17 -0400

sp00nful:

ground chicken lettuce wraps

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Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:10:15 -0400

Varying Your Body Types

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:08:21 -0400

Varying Your Body Types:

dredsina:

By me, Sara D. (Heh.)

I think it’s very important for artists to vary the types of bodies they draw! Not only does it add visual interest and diversity, but different body types can enhance your characters! (Plus it’s more realistic; when was the last time you walked down the…

Photo

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:47:35 -0400

micasaessucasa: Beach Bungalow

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:43:54 -0400

micasaessucasa:

Beach Bungalow

what was it again?

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:52:00 -0400

Same rain, same ground. If this makes it hard for me to hear you what more if you’re in a entirely different place.

...at the museum

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:16:00 -0400

Ooooh… so I once wrote on a piece of paper something like….

“…finished the last few scoops of ice cream then I looked at you with the city lights in your background. I must say it is one of the most wonderful scene I’ve seen in my life. As you speak and describe what a sea would be like, I got lost, dazzled by the view. Remembering every angle, lighting, moment and taking it in. I only heard the last few lines…when you were done and said the last word, ‘dust’ I came back to reality and heard the people passing by. It is frightening that I can focus on one thing and forget the rest. It is frightening that I can block the whole world and choose, unknowingly or knowingly to see just YOU…”

That was right after I got cleansing and ate ice cream in front of the museum. And the sad thing was you were serious and I was just staring and kept thinking to myself how wonderful this person talking in front of me :) haha!

is this a test?

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:30:40 -0400

“I was testing if you’d fall for another by disguising myself”

…”you have no right, with this you have doubted me. You have no trust.”

——-

and if this was a test… who knows.

adayinthelandofnobody: Log Bowls Designed by Doha Chebib

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:19:27 -0400

adayinthelandofnobody:

Log Bowls Designed by Doha Chebib

wickedclothes: Skeletal Swimsuit, sold at Black Milk...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:06:16 -0400

wickedclothes:

Skeletal Swimsuit, sold at Black Milk Clothing.

Please check out Wicked Clothes on Facebook and Tumblr!

i remember, that is all...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:34:11 -0400

I remember you and I miss you, that is all.

I love you and I care for you, that is all.

How was your day…I see.

All right, see you then.

That is all

pachurz: Some building block references my Life Drawing teacher...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:37:06 -0400

pachurz:

Some building block references my Life Drawing teacher drew up for us for our Figure Drawing class. Thought I would impart the wisdom.

letmefixthatyaoiforyou: So, other glaring anatomy problems...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:35:03 -0400

letmefixthatyaoiforyou:

So, other glaring anatomy problems aside… how do muscles in the torso work?

Ah, a very good question. This isn’t really yaoi but I’ll do it anyway since it’s such a good question. to be frank I’m not really an expert on the muscles specifically since I tend to focus more on the overall shape than interior detail things (plus I like drawing skinny guys so the my treatment of muscle is usually really subtle) so I’ll just show how I organize the male torso:

I break it into groups. Green is the pectorals, which sit on top of the ribcage (in red), which transitions into the abdominals (blue) aaaand yellow is kinda just “everything else”. oh and the blue dots are there to point out a subcutaneous landmark (meaning “below the skin”, a place where the bone comes very close to the surface that is good to help navigate the body) of the Iliac crest on the pelvis, just because I love that landmark it’s so useful. I googled “male torso” and did the same to a sculpture I found so you can, like, see it in action or something

Ok stuff:

it’s IMPORTANT to realize that the pectorals are on top of the ribcage. see on the line drawing on the left, the area around the left armpit, see how everything layers. there’s an overlapping indicated where the ribcage swells forward from underneath the thickness of the pectoral. emphasizing this line really pushes the skinniness of the body, though it is still good to put it there on guys who work out more (it keeps a rounder, bigger, pec from looking like a boob)

next, keep in mind that the torso has thickness as well as width:

it varies from person to person but I find it generally ideal to have the bellybutton here:

Also something I see a LOT in yaoi manga is people outlining all these muscles with solid lines; no :( Well I guess it’s kind of unavoidable if you’ve only got black and white to work with, so if you need to put lines on the interior, make sure they 1) don’t outline things and instead are placeholders for where a shadow would be, and 2) aren’t drawn with the same line quality/thickness as the outlines of the body. the point is to make soft contours look like soft contours with a softer line, right?

Honestly I’d avoid putting any lines to indicate abs altogether unless I was drawing the Hulk or something, but I wanted to see if I could do it in an acceptable way so I drew this. it looks fine I think. if it’s in a black and white line drawing sure, but if I were doing full color and shading on it then I would never leave those lines in, and instead let my rendering tell the viewer that there are abs there. I attempted to do that to the submitted drawing (it’s low res so it didn’t work out as well as it could have, but you can get the idea)

I tried my best :|;;;

anyway since the torso and shoulders are connected I have this post as suggested reading

wannabeanimator: Hand drawing references by Bethany Craig

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:54:29 -0500

wannabeanimator:

Hand drawing references by Bethany Craig

fix

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:31:19 -0500

fix

Today I met an old lady

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:08:00 -0500

Today I met an old lady. Two words that would describe her - lovely and lively.

It amuses me that in her old age she still acts and thinks young. She feels that in her own way there still something to give to the world. I’m not saying in general, but most of the old people I know feels like they have done enough and they cannot do anything else but sit and wait for death to come. But this lovely old lady smiles so warmly and acts tough at the same time. Reminds me of another classy, lovely and remarkable old lady whom we loved so much and departed from the physical world.

But this early morning I keep myself awake, have tried to close my eyes and drift my thoughts to an even more depressing set of imaginations that I feel like the devil will grab my feet anytime.

I do not wish for death to come, nor summon its time.

Only a few people i really care about might just live more miserable lives if I keep on humiliating myself in front of the public. In-front of the people connecting blood to mine.

And sins? they never stop coming- and the point really is to survive while trying to avoid them.

I thought I wasn’t really ready… because I was afraid that I might not breathe again when I close my eyes.

I thought I wasn’t ready… because I was afraid of darkness and that it would eat me.

I’m not ready because I keep my lights on at this very moment.

fuckyeahdigitalpainting: the pilgrimage by julia sarda

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:58:05 -0500

fuckyeahdigitalpainting:

the pilgrimage by julia sarda