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anyway, when the world ends it will be silent
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In Verses, a new interactive fiction game by Kit Riemer, you play as Eca: a data analyst working in a laboratory on the coast of far-future Romania. The land around you is grey and dead, the residents sickened and mutated by the poisonous soil or swept up into endless war. But your job is not to save the world — rather to understand it, digging deeply into the meaning of objects, organisms, and poems. Keep your mind clear and open. Be a conduit. Stay hungry.

Verses takes 30-60 minutes to play. Cws: graphic violence, flickering text, unsanitary (see 'about' section in-game for more details).

#verses#interactive fiction#intfiction
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maudiemoods

What do you all study when you're doing art studies??

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venomous-qwille

Heeeeeyyy, I love me a good fucking STUDY

for environments:

  • shot deck is a massive database of film shots searchable by grading, tod, shot type, characters and content! Studying from films really helps improve your values and composition as the shots are usually very carefully constructed! It helps you find ways to maintain realism while still packing mood and narrative into your work!
  • master paintings! I recommend the orientalists like Jean Leon Gerome in particular their environments had great compositions and throw around a ton of colour and light! I like the modern artists Craig Mullins and Richard Schmid also, as there is so much impressionist lost detail and simplicity yet the environments feel so real.
  • The 1960s era disney background artists like eyvind earle are a masterclass in stylisation and simplification and make a wonderful choice for studies. (That being said modern disney visdev artists like Nathan Fowkes are just as fantastic to study for the same reason)
  • architectural photography can be a great resource too- I love to look for work by urbEX people!
  • thumbnailing and comp studies- trying to break down a photo into as few values as possible and still have it be readable- this really helps train your brain in the relationship between light exposure and local value.
  • Im begging you if doing it in colour is too hard to start with just do it in black and white!!!!! Greyscale painting is an essential step in learning to paint and understand lighting scenarios!! Colour is hard!!!
  • there is no substitute for going outside and doing some plein air painting- really looking first hand at how the light effects different materials and objects, how it bounces around, what edges your eye naturally loses in certain lighting scenarios. Just go outside and draw and try to notice stuff.

for characters:

  • figure studies!!!! from life if you can but if you cant there are a ton of great resources out there- personally I love croquis cafe and posespace, but if you can afford it (and are interested in intense anatomy study) then scott eaton has a site called bodies in motion which is fantaaaastic. I think by now everyone knows nyx and senshistock, I also use a lot of grafit studio photorefs to study more complicated poses!!
  • Master studies (again). I particularly like to study the work of John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alphonse Mucha (his le pater compositions are out of this world), any of the New Rochelle artists (e.g rockwell, tom lovell, those 1950s illustrators REALLY knew their shit).
  • I literally have a resin skull on my desk that I've used to do quick studies with different lighting, just 10 mins a day back when I was doing it and it levelled up my skill a lot!.
  • Material studies are essential to leveling up your character painting!!! Look at fur, look at metal, look at the way something embroidered reflects light vs tooled leather!!
  • gesture studies! Look at a dynamic pose and see how you can exaggerate the motion in away that captures the sense of movement. This is tricky to start with but its really worthwhile especially when you combine it with other exercises. Mixamo is a cool library to look into for this kind of thing as you can pause and rotate the models in the middle of their actions!
  • breakdown the work of artists you admire- it's ok to study other living artists (and try to reverse engineer how they are making their decisions) it's a very effective learning tool! Really figure out what it is about that persons workflow you like, and how you might incorporate that element into your own. Obviously, dont post studies of living artists work!

The most important thing is that when you do a study you go into it knowing what you want to learn. Dont try to do everything at once! It's ok to focus on the muscle structure and not give a damn about the gesture. It's ok to focus on the texture of the fur and completely ignore the characters face.

The best way to keep doing studies is to find refs you like- things you are interested in and that capture your imagination! Follow your curiosity and remember that just a tiny little bit a day makes a huge difference.

Gunna take a sec to recommend the tutorials of Devin Korwin. He talks about how to study and how to breakdown art fundamentals in a way that is at once both very advanced but also digestible. I highly recommend his pdfs!

#reference#wowow
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de-mykel

Sarah Anne Johnson. Sunset # 2 (Bedazzled), 2018.

pigment print w/ holographic tape + adhesive

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Wool and Cotton Short Socks - Calzedonia
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these are my favorite socks, they're cotton-lined wool with 2% elastane, so they're soft, comfortable, and warm but not scratchy. the website is having a 5-for-$15 sale on all socks, so they're $3 instead of $9. if you like natural fibers you should get a bunch. they also have them in black and grey, it's just a different product for some reason.

also there's a functional Honey code on their site rn, i think it's "TARA15" that takes even more off. go with god

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ovur

Imagine if the one in black was a girl and the one in white was a boy. Or they were both boys... or even both girls. Yes I'm fucked up. No, I won't apologize

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Closest match: Papilio xuthus 4-coumarate--CoA ligase 1-like (LOC106124360), mRNA Common name: Asian Swallowtail

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maybe i shouldnt have slept through all the sunlight today

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viciar

i was born from a lab experiment in which researchers worked to synthesize a person who “deserved it” (paper fails to clarify what was meant by this)

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Anonymous asked:

there’s somethin so beautiful abt forcefem? idk i love trans joy and being able to give ur partner that feels so great

charlott2n answered:

literallyyyyyyyyy

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okay so before the CDC dropped Covid guidelines altogether and lumped it in with other respiratory infections, they said you should isolate for 5 days after testing positive and then mask in public for an additional 5 days. I first tested positive last Thursday (5 days ago) and this was my test today:

seems like it would be a bad idea for me to go grocery shopping, even with a mask

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covid force field (12-ft diameter circle that follows me around and weakens my enemies)

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wife saw me taking this pic in the CVS and sighed so loudly

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