possiblestalker:

indianajjones:

opalescentlesbian:

entropyalarm:

katfiction2001:

“writers always know exactly where they are going with their work!”

r u sure

“no writer does anything by mistake, it’s all very strategic”

r u sure

“they use symbolism in everything. for example, a simple sentence symbolises directness and-”

R U SURE

The best moments in writing is when you discover you did something absolutely genius by complete accident.

A miscellaneous world-building detail from ten chapters earlier accidentally saved a character’s life once

“Omg this line is genius and the best reference!”
“Thank you I did that entirely on purpose!!” *sweats*

READER: “(points out symbolism and foreshadowing and depth)”

AUTHOR:

I’ve done this far too often.

pastelbatties:

mousathe14:

bokoblinarm:

higgs-bonbon:

mentalmeles:

your-fearless-leader-pantskat:

wannabeanimator:

adriofthedead:

disp0sableheroes:

• You’re so lucky you don’t have to buy textbooks!
• You’re a really good drawer.
• Can you draw me?
• Did you draw that? (No, I’m just running my pencil over someone else’s drawing for fun)
• That’s so good, it looks traced!
• Did you trace that?
• Design my tattoo! (This is what tattoo artists are there for)
• Draw this thing for me!
• *pretty much expecting/demanding any art for free*
• I can’t even draw a straight line. (Neither can I. There are these things called “rulers”)
• Can you teach me to draw?
• Was that freehand?
• I wish I was born with artistic talent. (Saying things like this discredits all the effort we actually put in to developing our skills.)
• *TOUCHING THE ART*

see also:

• is that anime????
  
• you should work at Disney!

• “My cousin went to art school. They didn’t do anything with their degree.”
  
• “It’s so great that you’re following your dreams. I just chose my major so I could make money.”
  
• “Wow! I wish I could go to school and just draw all day.”
  

•you could make a lot of money drawing caricatures on the street!

• you can’t get a scholarship drawing the way you do
  
• you have to draw realistically to get a scholarship
  

BITSCH I JUST WANNA DRAW CUTE CHUBBY THINGS AND THE MARKET IS ME

• “You can draw so well, I can’t even draw a stick figure”
  

I’m not even an art major and so much of this hurts me.

- “Digital art isn’t real art”

aridotdash:

sorrygodlol:

theunvanquishedzims:

Werewolves are stereotyped as ravenous monsters because the transformations burn so many calories that they’re essentially starving afterwords. The more “controlled” werewolves are just the ones who figured this out and loaded up on calories beforehand, whereas the “wild” ones assume it’s part of their wolfish nature to hunt and eat whatever’s nearby.

The transformation back burns calories too, but by that point they’re exhausted from running around in the woods all night, not to mention the physical strain of two transformations. And filthy people showing up at Denny’s in the early morning are assumed to be hungover, so the ravenous beast idea is applied only to the wolf half.

are you suggesting people who eat at denny’s are essentially werewolves

not just essentially 

mattforsythe:

Dear E. 

Thanks for your email.

I don’t work at Cartoon Network any more. But I’m going to give you a very quick portfolio review in hopes that you find it helpful! Here are some things I noticed when looking at your stuff - lessons I learned from brilliant people while working on AT for two years: 

 1) AVOID SYMMETRY. Humans are organic, randomly shaped animals. Perfect symmetry rarely exists in nature and if it does, it’s conspicuous - it’s the exception rather than the rule. Find interesting ways to throw your characters off-balance. 

Don’t repeat objects in twos - (buttons or rips or whatever) - it feels prescribed - cluster things in threes or fives if necessary. 

 2) AVOID CONCAVITY - I don’t know what else to call this. But it’s those lines that go “in” rather than “out”. You are using inward sloping lines to describe many of your characters. As an exercise, try using outward, rounded, voluminous lines to draw EVERYTHING. Humans are fleshy lumps connected together by other fleshy lumps. Each mass is either in front of or behind other masses and as a designer, it’s your job to tell the animator where it is. As a designer, you are providing a technical blueprint for the location of masses. 

Only occasionally allow a concavity to connect two convexities. Look at the work of Robert Ryan Cory (spongebob), Tom Herpich (Adventure Time) or Phil Rynda (AT / Gravity Falls) - master character designers - for examples of this. If you need to, trace a couple of their drawings and you will see what I mean. 

 3) AVOID GRAPHIC DETAILS - Some shows use a graphic style; it’s very appealing and looks clever when done right. But in animation, everything needs to move in space - so if you use a graphic element - it needs to correspond with an actual 3D thing that can move. Therefore it is better to start with a voluminous style and then revert to graphic elements where appropriate. Art directors will look for this. Do not jump straight to graphic representation if you do not yet know what you are representing.

Look at the work of Tiffany Ford and Jasmin Lai for amazing examples of volume expressed graphically.

 4) STUDY JAMES MCMULLEN - To truly understand volume, and fully respect your subject, you should read very carefully High Focus Figure Drawing by James McMullen. Slow down and think about drawing “around” your subjects. It’s a truly meditative experience when you get there. Think about the weight and mass that your characters, props and effects are experiencing. Many students from SVA - Tomer Hanuka, Becky Cloonan, Rebecca Sugar, James Jean - studied under McMullen’s philosophy and you can see this common richness in their work. 

Jeffrey Smith, a top student of McMullen’s now teaches life drawing at Art Center. These are two of the best illustration schools in North America - anyone who is interested in drawing living things, should probably read his book. Also look at the work of Andy Ristaino or Danny Hynes - two other character designers’ whose work is seething with volume. 

I hope this is useful and I hope you have a wonderful career. 

Warmest,

Matt

ladyevel:

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

• create pixel art
• Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!
  
• Totally free transparent textures
• make a cute chibi
• draw some cool generative art
• be a graffiti creator
• create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)
• paint online
• another awsome site to create pixel art on
• and another one
• create your own mandala
• or color one
• create an avatar
• or you can try creating your own superhero
• here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes
• here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,
• Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown
• here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music
• Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here
• Want to build your own planet
• here is a website where you can create your own galaxies
  
• make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)
• create next hit comic
• make a city which looks like something from 90′s games
• draw a mandala like design
• jig saw puzzles
• more jig saw puzzles to solve
• create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!
• make a movie
• create and dress up dolls
• play a piano
• you can also play a guitar
• create sounds
• another sound creator
• create a logo
• design your dream home
• sketch rooms
• explore fashion trends and create your own sets
• build a website
• try this app for building a website
• Or maybe start learning how to code!
  
• design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them
• design your own phone case
• pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool
• Make your own Glitch art
  
• Here’s another glitch art maker
• And another!
• Holy hell, here’s a third!
• make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64
• freaking cool text generator!
• Easy to use word processor
  
• Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)
  
• Write an essay on anything with no hassle
  
• Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?
  
• Make pictures out of text
  
• ASCII word generator
  
• Need an idea for some fanart-here :D
  

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

• watch a documentary
• learn to code
• do something yourself
• workout with the help of this great youtube channels
• learn things
• play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games
• waste your time on miniclip
• play games at additing games
• or try games at agame
• calm your thoughts
• the quiet place
• it will be okay
• vent or listen to someone
• pour out your soul
• explore the sky
• look at art from around the world
• virtually visit museum of iraq
• explore world with arounder
• create a music playlist
• list through rare books
• scroll useful science website
• create sand art
• brain games
• try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book
• interactive 3D anatomy
• random street view
• post a secret
• create a family tree
• find our what’s the difference between x and y
• help scientists and become volunteer researcher
• create your own font
• read a classic short story
• In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?
• scribble on maps
• listen to letters
• play with acrobots
• listen to podcasts
• make a bucket list
• Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?
  
• Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!
  
• Zone out watching the colors drip down

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

_{This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose!} (´ヮ`)!

_{How to Write Better OCs:}

• _{basic tips on how to make your oc even better}
• _{tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great}
• _{writing specific characters}
• _{a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character}
• _{kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME}

_{Character Development:}

• _{how to actually make an OC}
• _{Q&A (to develop characters)}
• _{more Q&As}
• _{giving your character a backstory}
• _{how to write an attractive character}

Need an Appearance idea?

• Humanoid generator? check
  
• Here’s another one
• and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work
  
• Need Monsterpeople?
  
• Well, then here ya’ go
  
• Maybe you need Cats?
  

_Diversity

• _{adding more racial diversity}
• _{avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it}
• _{writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)}
• _{masterpost on writing more diversity into your story}
• _{cultures of the world}
• _{guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)}

_{Mary Sue/Gary Stu}

• _{Test to see if your character is a Sue}
• _{Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus}
• _{Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues}

_Villains

• _{villain generator}
• _{need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam}
• _{villain archetypes}
• _{what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?}

_{Relationships}

• _{character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)}
• _{how to write strong relationships between two characters}
• _{8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others}
  
• _{OCxLove Interest Handbook}
• _{develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!}
• _{how to write realistic relationships}
• _{how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)}

_ARCHETYPES

• _{12 common archetypes}
• _{8 archetypes for male/female characters}
• _{female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)}
• _{a list of archetypes}

_NAMES

• _{how to name your character}
• _{random name generator}
• _{most common surnames}
• _{surnames by ethnicity}

_APPEARANCE

• _{tips for better design}
• _{basic appearance generator}
• _{pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)}
• _{clothing ref masterpost}
• Clothing generator
• Another clothing generator
• More clothing generator
• Aaaand even more
• Steam punk clothing
• Char Style preference
• Dress Generator
  

_DETAILS

• _{give your character better powers}
• _{a list of professions}
• _{proactive vs reactive characters}
• _{positive and negative traits}
• _{interest generator}
• _{skills generator}
• _{motivation generator}
  
• _{123 ideas for character flaws}
  
• _{list of phobias}
• Oh shit someone died
  
• Backgrounds and stuff? yep
  
• Quirks
  
• Personality. you need that shit
  
• Need something fandom related?
  
• City generator hell yeah
  
• location? got ya
  
• World-building?
  
• make your own god damn laws
  
• Landscape.
  

Need Item names?

• Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names
  
• Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.
• Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

• Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators
• How did your characters meet?
• Fanfic plots. you bet your ass.