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art cheats
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
80’s anime style
glitch effect
glow effects
adding colors to grayscale paintings
foreshortening ( coil )
foreshortening ( perspective )
clipping group (lines)
clipping group (colors)
dramatic lighting ( GOOD )
shading metal
lighting faces
that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this
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So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.
Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.
One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.
All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.
So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.
And Mr. Hargrove loved it.
It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.
Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”
And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.
Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.
One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.
That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.
And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.
And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)
So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.
Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.
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opals look fake tbh
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I realize this comment will have niche relatability but when I’m taking drive-thru orders I often “trick” customers into thinking I’m going fast when I’m actually going slow, then they pull up to the window all happy and surprised when their drink is ~*~*~Already Ready For Them~*~*~. It is a neat little magic trick where people see their time at the box as active and their time at the window as passive.
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An Octopus with a disorder that gives it 96 tentacles                           
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I hate when people say shit like this. First, it discounts the skills of the photographer. A person made this photograph and used years of experience to get this shot. That is 95% of what made this photo great. But sure, let’s give all the credit to a strip of plastic. I believe if he had a digital camera back then, it still would have been a great photo. 
Second, it discounts the three technical things that helped make this photo great. The lens, the format, and the lighting. The lens I won’t go into much detail. Put good glass on a camera, you are going to get sharp images with good contrast. 
The format and the lighting are the interesting bits. They worked together to allow this shot to even be possible. And, again, the photographer had to know how to leverage those aspects–and back then that was no small feat in a fast paced environment.  
You see, as far as a camera is concerned, an indoor arena is super dark. To this day, people still have trouble taking sports photos indoors. But raising the ISO wasn’t an option back then. You’d have to put in a new roll of film and it would degrade the quality of the photo due to grain. Clean images at high ISOs (or ASAs) weren’t a thing back then. 
So they used medium format cameras which had larger film which allowed more light to be captured for each photograph. More light means a cleaner photo. But that still wasn’t enough. So they placed giant strobe flashes in the rafters. You can see one firing on the top left. These special lights sent out a very brief but very powerful flash of light. It was so powerful that they could use ISO 100 film to get the cleanest image possible. Today, if you are shooting indoors without special lights, you’d be lucky to get your ISO down to 6400. 
If you have good lighting and a good lens and an experienced photographer, you can get amazing images–film or digital. In fact, if I have good lighting, I could probably get professional results on an iPhone these days. Besides knowledge, lighting is so much more important than pretty much anything else. And because good lighting is so vital, I would wager the reason you will no longer see a modern photo that looks similar to the one above is because they no longer allow giant flashing lights in the rafters. 
I get that people are nostalgic for film. And it can have a certain ineffable look in certain photos. But it was so much harder to work with and you could not take as many great photos as consistently. The photo above may have been 1 of 4 photos that photographer got that night that were any good. And he would have an anxiety attack waiting for them to be developed. He didn’t know if he got focus. If the strobe fired. If he got his framing right. Film could give you a panic attack if your livelihood depended on it. 
Film, for the most part, looks worse most of the time. You have to get the stars to align to get a film image to equal or surpass something digital. Especially in a chaotic environment. It’s a bit like music. The best music stands the test of time. We either forget or don’t know about all of the shitty music that happened years ago. Just like the best photos from the era of film are the only ones we still look at today. But if you go through your family’s old photo album, I doubt you’ll find anything shot on film that comes close to having the clarity, colors, and contrast as the photo above. It took great effort, experience, and often great expense to get photos to look that good. 
Sometimes I think some people just want things to be harder. They don’t like that newer cameras are easier to use. Forget that it allows artists to not think as much about the technical aspects and focus on the art of taking a photo. Old school photographers want newbies to suffer like they did. So they rant about how film is better so they can always have a way of feeling superior. 
I still want film around. I want people to still learn and love the format. I just want all of the bullshit hardship olympics to stop. Some people like film for the same reason some like vinyl records. In truth, vinyl often sounds worse by objective measurements. But the worseness has a character to it. A warmth. Certain music sounds better with that lower fidelity. Just as certain photos can have a stronger emotional connection if they have that film look to them. It can make SOME photos better. But not because the objective quality is better. Because it gives you a better feeling. 
There is also fun in the process. Because film takes extra work, you have a stronger sense of pride when you really nail a photo. Photography becomes more about the journey. 
Today indoor sports photographers all use high end digital cameras. They don’t have to strap lights to the rafters because they can control the ISO and still get sharp images. They can also do burst shooting which allows them to get more consistently amazing photos. They can also check immediately to make sure they got the shot and avoid those panic attacks. And because equipment is easier to manage, photographers can carry multiple cameras on their person–giving them more options in focal length. Which made possible this award winning photo with a super wide angle lens. 
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Film is different, not better. It can sometimes produce images that digital has a hard time emulating. But digital has surpassed film in almost every objective technical measurement of quality from efficiency, convenience, dynamic range, and resolution. The only film cameras that can still keep up with digital are large format cameras. They can be scanned in at similar resolutions as digital medium format cameras. However, they rarely have optics that match in sharpness, so digital still has more advantages. 
The best pro photographers I know of that are working today all use digital for most of their work. Many of them are old enough to have used film. They have the skills and resources to use film if they wanted to. And they don’t. If they believed film would give them better images, they’d probably use it. 
Joe McNally is about as old school as it gets. He has been photographing amazing things for decades. He took many amazing photos on film. 
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But he still manages to get some good looking photos on the horror that is digital. 
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The small number of pros that still use film typically don’t care about it being better or worse. They just love the process of using the format. Or they enjoy using vintage gear. They like learning the skills needed to physically develop photos. To dodge and burn without Photoshop. It can make the art more tangible for them. And that is beautiful. But I can’t remember a single one of them saying film was superior. Just that it was the right format for them personally. 
“I like the look and feel of film more than digital.” is an individual’s opinion that I will respect. 
“Digital photography will never look as good as film.” is nonsense.
This is a photo taken during a high school basketball game. 
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This photographer didn’t have the resources to buy an expensive medium format film camera. He didn’t have the ability to attach multi-thousand dollar strobe flashes to the ceiling. This shot would have never happened if he used film. 
Shaming digital photography is crapping on how wonderfully accessible this art form has become and belittling the people who can’t do it any other way. 
Love film all you want, just don’t make it a competition. 
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A Visual #Fashion Guide For Women - Necklines, Skirt Types & More!
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Pretty convenient that a lot of American students never learn that Einstein was a Jew who came to America and started the nuclear research after fleeing from the Nazis and having most of his research lost in the book burnings. 
Or how much of his life and work was shaped by his autism, like how it was his biggest asset because it allowed him to think differently, but also his biggest hurtle because of all the abuse he received in school from teachers who labeled him as a dunce and told him he was stupid because of his disability. Which he proved wrong by discovering the theory of relativity because of his autism instead of in spite of it.
EVEN THOUGH THOSE ARE THE TWO MOST RELEVANT DETAILS OF HIS LIFE THAT EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY HE DID ALMOST EVERYTHING HE DID. But nah, Im sure diversity wasn’t relevant enough to be important in this situation.
Its almost like we have a biased school system that censors the accomplishments of marginalized groups to stop them from realizing that people like them have accomplished things.
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We’re only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because they’re outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we can’t experience because our senses are limited. When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN see…. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink. It’s also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodies…. isn’t it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of? . . (There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.) Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER    
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I thought that this might be helpful to talk about.
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Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
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every year we have to say it
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im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers
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Considering how commonplace the advice of “just LET your children TALK TO YOU about their INTERESTS” is on Tumblr, it’s astonishing to me how few people seem to realize/accept that that’s a two-way street, especially as adults. 
I’m not telling you how to relate to parents who were shitty/abusive to you, obviously, but given a relatively healthy relationship or the ATTEMPT to build one as adults, you’ve genuinely got to let your older relatives talk to you in their own way about the things they’re interested in. Yes, sometimes it is painfully boring, yes, sometimes they do it in a slow or round-about manner or tell you way too much, but sometimes it’s boring listening to a twelve year old talk about fortnite. I still do it, because people, adult or child, need and want people to talk to about their interests. 
My dad is into the cringiest possible anime. I am halfway to dissociation every time he spends 30-60 minutes walking me through the entire plot of an anime, one episode at a time. One time we had an eight hour car ride and that was the ENTIRE trip and by the end I wanted to DIE. But I still let him do it! Because he needs someone to talk to his passions about, and I care about him and know that being that person for him makes him happy and improves our relationship. Because of that, we spent the SECOND eight hour car ride talking about the history of unions, something I spent 27 years not even knowing my father had an interest in! 
Let your parents talk to you about the dumb facebook videos they saw or the funny ancient wine mom memes they like or that time they went to korea and over-reacted to kimchi. Kids aren’t the only ones who just want their family to be interested in what they have to say. 
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A Timeline of Women’s Fashion from 1784-1970 (source: http://kottke.org/17/07/a-timeline-of-womens-fashion-from-1784-1970)
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