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Dragon Bones by artist Stefan Koidl.
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Dungeon Meshi - Orcs
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potato-mole · 2 days
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idk. it's never too late to start drawing. get a wacom intuos for 44 bucks and pirate an art program. use the billions of tools available to make it easier. trace 3d models. redraw existing drawings. make an elf and draw her 3000 times. you can do it. and if you are actually unable to hold a pen, dont go typing in prompts for some ai art, write fanfiction or original stuff. writing is art. it has just as much value it just takes longer than 1 second to appreciate
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potato-mole · 2 days
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Collaborative writing is a labor of love. What if it could be easier? 
Think connected drafts, not disconnected files. 
Think effortless version history and control. 
Think in-document chat. 
Far away from the prying eyes of AI and LLMs.
Ellipsus is a new writing tool for people who write together!
Two new features have arrived this week: Comments and Dark Mode! :D
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We’re looking for feedback from folks who care a lot about writing.
Check us out, and join the Ellipsus beta.
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potato-mole · 3 days
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Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.
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potato-mole · 3 days
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I hope every single person who puts nice comments in tags under reblogged art knows that you you guys are the backbone of society. Being an artist online sucks these days, but here on tumblr I still get compliments under artworks that I made years ago. I hope you know every WOW and heart emoji and heartfelt compliment and funny comment you left in the tags is part of the reason I kept drawing all these years, in spite of everything that was going on.
I've been screenshotting the nice tags I get for years, and at this point it would be literal thousands of lines if I still had my old files. I love u tumblr users <333333333
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I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes
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Kill la Kill (キルラキル)
Original animation layouts from the first ending sequence of Kill la Kill, featured in the Kill la Kill Animation Originals Book Vol. 01 (Amazon JP).
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It should not be this hard to draw my own fucking characters. Like I MADE you. why are you evading me .
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need to look at the sketches vs finished product more often.... it's so funny to me :^]
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My new Singer Pack is now available. ✨ Here are some freebies.
The full pack is available via Ko-Fi and Patreon.
Thank you so much for your support and have a great week. 🌺
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Please read the Rules
You can also find me on Twitter - Instagram - Patreon - Ko-Fi - Pinterest
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Reasons to Shoot RAW by Astrikos
Instagram | DeviantArt| Art Tutorial Tumblr
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potato-mole · 4 days
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As I'm taking a break from my current drawing session, I wanted to take a moment to share a bit of my current process. One thing I like to do when either working on a new piece or practicing difficult poses is to trace over the reference first. I still often struggle with properly aligning everything by simply observing a reference, so I have found it very helpful to trace over the reference itself and use the landmarks I've made to keep my freehand version consistent. It also helps me to practice drawing forms in perspective.
I remember the old days of DeviantArt when tracing at all was treated as a cardinal sin, and it's unfortunate that some learning artists have shied away from it completely at the expense of their progress. While I certainly make each piece I make my own, there have been recent efforts where using tracing has proven quite instrumental. As @sambeawesome likes to say, tracing is just another tool, and as long as we're going about it honestly, there's no shame in utilizing it.
If I'm able to develop the rest of the figure well, I hope I'm able to finish this and show what I have in mind for the pose. In any case, I was in the mood to post something artsy and show that I'm still at it.
Constructive feedback is appreciated. (Yes, even on something like this if you have something to share!)
Pose by @adorkastock
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potato-mole · 5 days
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Priests' outfits - Jikitotsu, Daimon, and Hentetsu
(as worn during Edo period - great charts by Nadeshico Rin). You can find more about samurai ranks and their regulated attires under the tag "samurai kimono".
"Hight Priest" jikitotsu
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This outfit was worn for court events by Buddhist priests of the highest rank ( 法印 Hôin) and second highest rank (法眼 Hôgen). Those titles could also be also given to 儒者 Confucian scholars, 医師doctors, Buddhist 絵師 painters and 仏師 sculptors, etc.
直綴 Jikitotsu - type of monk robe, originally made by stitching together a 偏衫 henzan (monk robe covering the upper body) and a 裙子 kunsu (monk robe covering the lower body) together. Overtime, jikitotsu came to be worn opened, more like a haori vest.
末広 Suehiro - a type of formal folding fan. TN: the fan drawn here ressemble more a 中啓 chûkei, as suehiro have curving ribs which don't seems to be the case here (find more about fan types here)
(長)袴 (Naga)bakama - hakama pants with long trailing legs, here made of hiraginu (plain silk)
白小袖 Shiro-Kosode - white kosode (=ancestor of the kimono) /or/ 帷子 Katabira - thin garment made from hemp or raw silk (worn during Summer). Note that 経帷子 kyôkatabira designates a shroud (=the white kimono used to dress the dead). /or/ 熨斗目Noshime - kosode (=ancestor of the kimono) with stripes/lattice pattern at waist area
小さ刀 Chîsagatana - small katana
"Companion" formal kimono
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First people helping buddhist priests, 同朋 dôbô (lit. "companions) became overtime men attending on the Shogun, feudal lords and other high-ranked officals.
They were in charge of miscellaneous tasks (like cleaning, messengers etc.), or depending on their talents more skilled ones (dance, music, ikebana, tea ceremony etc.).
大紋 Daimon is a specific hitatare set, patterned with large 紋 mon (clan/family crests)
菊綴 Kikutoji - decorative tassel-like knots, first appeared on Heian nobility clothes. Here, those were leather ones
胸紐 Munahimo - chest ties​, first appeared on Heian nobility clothes. Here, those were leather ones
熨斗目 Noshime - kosode (=ancestor of the kimono) with stripes or lattice pattern at waist area. Also note the colored undergarments collars.
袖括 Sodekukuri - decorative sleeve ties. Originally appeared on Heian clothings (like kariginu, nôshi, etc) where they were used to tighten sleeve cuffs. Here, those were leather ones
(長)袴 (Naga)bakama - hakama pants with long trailing legs, here made of white linen
小さ刀 Chîsagatana - small katana
The Proto-haori
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This outfit was the formal wear worn by lower class priests, scholars, doctors, artists, etc.
編綴 Hentetsu (lit. "stitched together") - a vest with large and long boxy sleeves, made from gauze or plain silk, most often black or dark brown. The chest straps were also made of the same fabric It evolved from 十徳 jittoku (itself a variation of 直綴 jikitotsu, see above). First a casual wear for court nobles, and then spread to lower-class samurai who wore it over their kosode from Muromachi era and on. Its use then reached other social classes during Edo period. Overtime and minor variations, it finally became known as our modern 羽織 haori
服紗(小袖) Fukusa(kosode) - a kosode (=ancestor of the kimono) bearing crest, and made from soft silk (like habutae or rinzu). In summer, it was a katabira (thin garment made from hemp or raw silk) /or/ 熨斗目 Noshime - kosode (=ancestor of the kimono) with stripes or lattice pattern at waist area
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potato-mole · 5 days
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These are amazing — and shockingly accurate. Did you know there’s a “Bechdel test” for female scientist biographies?
Follow @the-future-now​
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To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
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A post in 2014:
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A zoom out of the same post:
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This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
If you want more of something, reblog it.
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