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The Disney Princesses in the new trailer for Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (x)
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my dad just exploded into laughter out of nowhere and told me ‘imagine the lion king but with sea lions’
he has been chuckling about it for 5 straight minutes now
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#goals
Next time you think your workplace is weird, please remember that my workplace has an annual tattoo night out, where we rent out a tattoo parlor, order pizza, play cards against humanity, and watch some of our coworkers get tattooed
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The Onion should start posting real news that seems fake and see how long it takes us to catch on.
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Things I Learned In Drawing 1 Class
If it looks wrong, it is wrong.
Draw what you see not what you know to be true
Everything is broken up by shapes and lines. Don’t look at the image look at what makes up the image
You can use grid paper to help you line everything up while you’re learning. Grids are okay
REFERENCES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. THEY ARE NOT CHEATING
When using references; there is the quarter rule. If you change more than a quarter of the original image (such as pose, backgrounds, movement) then it’s yours. It’s not stealing.
Only trace to learn, do not trace and post as your own art
Don’t just color over someone else’s art that’s stealing
It’s okay to make mistakes
Try new mediums as often as you can. Charcoal, pastels, crayons, markers, graphite, ink wash, paints (of all kinds) ect. It will help you grow as an artist and find what you like
Figure out what you like in someone elses art, why you like that art. Try to make it your own in your own art. It’s like art genetics
Surround yourself with other artists who will help and encourage you.
Draw for friends! Seeing them get excited that you drew for them will keep you drawing
Art block happens. Try not to stress
Draw daily
Draw from life
DRAW WHAT YOU SEE NOT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE
Play with lines and shading: contouring, crosshatching, stippling, blocking.
Experiment
Have fun
Form a small community of you and your friends who like to art. Give each other feedback, give each other advice, and get excited everytime someone draws
Do projects with someone else
Take part in collabs
Realize you’re not perfect and you will never be perfect. There is always something to learn, always time to grow. That’s fun of art
Enjoy the journey and the process
Realize it may not always look like you pictured in your mind
Be proud of your progress
Take breaks
Look at things from a distance
Enjoy what you make
Learn from your mistakes
And lastly: love what you do and do what you love. Don’t change your art for anyone but you.
Artists feel free to add on to this for new artists!
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Humans
Drinking alcohol to get drunk is just drinking poison in the right dose to mess you up but not kill you
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve.” It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov on Robert A. Heinlein and libertarian ethics
(via sonnywortzik) @whitemarbleblock Asimov was the gentleman from a Russian Jewish family, not Heinlein. (via sociolab)
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Book of the week: The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher
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*cries*
You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.— Margaret Atwood
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i’m now seeing posts that are basically accusing therapists of being the same as ““““neurotypicals”””” who tell you that doing yoga will cure your depression
and it’s fucking killing me because ??? the idea of being annoyed by people telling you that stuff is because those people honestly think that doing yoga and “looking on the bright side” will magically cure your depression, because they can’t imagine happiness not coming as easily to someone else as it does to them. the idea isn’t that getting exercise and practicing positive thinking are useless ways to treat depression. but that’s what i’m seeing a lot of now and i just want to say…. i got some fucking bad news, cause that is the treatment for depression.
therapists telling you to get good nutrition and exercise are not the same as your yoga-instructor aunt on facebook posting pictures of the sunrise and wondering how anyone can be depressed when the world is so wonderful!!! thats not just an anti-recovery attitude, it’s an anti-treatment attitude, and it’s unbelievably ignorant.
there’s sort of this interesting circular form to dealing with mental illness, where you start in a place of “i just need to think positively and push myself out of this ditch” and then you move to step 2, which is “depression is a real and very serious illness and it’s not my fault that i’m tired all the time, stop telling me to just “think positive” all the time.”
But then there’s step three, which is where you size up your situation and say “look, i understand how serious my illness is, and i’m no longer blaming myself for it. And it sucks, and I don’t “deserve” this, and I didn’t bring it on myself. But regardless of how unfair it is, the truth is that I’m the only one who can actually do anything about it.” And so in a lot of ways, you end up with parallel ways of thinking as before, but this time you’re coming from a completely different source of understanding. People who don’t know anything about mental illness say “depression is a choice.” People who are fed up with being depressed and realize that wallowing in the comforting embrace of self-pity is useful to erase guilt, but ultimately won’t help them lead a better life say, “recovery is a choice.”
The first group means that if you’re depressed, you can just magically decide not to be depressed. The second group means that depression is a crushing weight on your back determined to make your life as miserable (and as short) as possible, and that you didn’t do anything to cause it, but that ultimately you have the choice of giving up and accepting being depressed for the rest of your life, or you have the option of making an effort to improve your quality of life. Similar statements, totally different meanings.
But I think a lot of people are sort of seduced by the comfort of giving up, and with the good intention of creating communities of understanding and non-judgement between mentally ill people, social media has unwittingly created communities of mentally ill people encouraging each other to give up. To just accept that this is the way their lives are, and there’s no possibility of getting better. And that’s how it’s gotten to the point of people dismissing actual mental health professionals as being no different than some ignorant person who doesn’t know the first thing about psychology and thinks an avocado smoothie will solve all your problems.
Avocado smoothie people are coming from the first perspective, that being depressed is a free choice that you can easily opt out of. Therapists are coming from the second perspective, where mental illness is a horrible reality, but given that you’re seeing them, a provider of mental health treatment, of fucking course they’re going to give you advice on how to treat your mental illness! Your therapist isn’t going to sit around and say “yeah man that sucks, haha look at this funny meme about how much you want to kill yourself.” Your therapist is going to give you recommendations of activities and habits that will help you recover. And they understand that these activities are not easy!!! They get that!!! The reason they’re there is to help you introduce these activities and ways of thinking into your life!!! Otherwise they’d just hand you a pamphlet and walk out!!!
But you can’t access that kind of help - the kind where you say “getting out of the house is a real problem for me, I never have the energy to get out of bed” and your therapist says “okay let’s figure out how to break this down into small steps, we’ll set a small goal for this week, and next time we meet you can tell me if it worked out, and if it did then we can figure out what the next goal will be, and if not then we can figure out why it didn’t work and try a different approach” - if you immediately dismiss any mention of recovery as “neurotypical bullshit.”
Anyways please please please take your healthcare seriously, get treatment, and realize that giving up and normalizing your depression/anxiety/etc as something that will never ever get better (yes, even if it’s a chronic condition that you’ll never fully cure, you still need to treat it) is not okay. Try to get good nutrition. Try to get sunshine and exercise. Try to be social. Making an effort to do things that will help you is not the same as thinking mental illness is a switch you can easily flip. Getting treatment is not the same thing as pretending your mental illness doesn’t exist or isn’t serious. On the contrary, getting treatment is taking your mental illness seriously. I’m not saying you should never make a joke or reblog a fucking meme or anything, I’m saying don’t use social media as your mental health care provider. Social media can be a way to vent, but venting is not the same thing as recovering.
Honestly it can take a very long time to get to that “step 3″ perspective but it’s a vital step.
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We are the Muses. Goddesses of the arts and proclaimers of heroes.
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Because if we can’t protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge it.
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PRESETS! I’ve been asked about my editing process since I made a Tumblr, so I’m finally offering all of my custom Lightroom presets in a pack together. All of these are one click edits, and in addition you’ll be able to see how I use the different tools in Lightroom to create these looks.
On sale now at www.forrestmankins.com/presets
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Reblog this if its okay for your followers to introduce themselves to you.
Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends
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“my gender is a triangle”; 3am gender journals/comics… if my work resonates with you i encourage you to take some time to reflect/create your own work relating to your identity that expresses your own experiences and feelings in your own particular way. this is my gender. think about yours.
~~good vibes y’all~~
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