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08 Oct 21:06
Flapper ladies based on a lifedrawing from yesterday
Flapper ladies based on a lifedrawing from yesterday
07 Oct 18:15
A Republican congressman studies hard for his next piece of...
A Republican congressman studies hard for his next piece of legislation aimed at women.
07 Oct 18:11
The fact that white people pretend to be dumbfounded when they’re called out for being proud of winning a rigged game is pretty damning in itself. A good cartoon.
sillybill1947: Double standard #Obama ...
Double standard #Obama http://snafutoon.com
The fact that white people pretend to be dumbfounded when they’re called out for being proud of winning a rigged game is pretty damning in itself. A good cartoon.
07 Oct 18:09
Ah, my friend!
My buddy *HylianJean had an early birthday party this past weekend and, seeing how she always gives me the most lovely things for my birthday, I figured it was high time I returned the favor.
We met through the Myst community and Jean is a huge Riven/Moiety fanatic, so I thought it appropriate to draw her in some fancy, Katran-esque Rivenese getup. Thanks to Dropbox for not saving my first attempt because WHATEVER the second one turned out way better. SO THERE
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We met through the Myst community and Jean is a huge Riven/Moiety fanatic, so I thought it appropriate to draw her in some fancy, Katran-esque Rivenese getup. Thanks to Dropbox for not saving my first attempt because WHATEVER the second one turned out way better. SO THERE
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04 Oct 19:54
ellemichalka: A Preview of art for the new series I’m working...
A Preview of art for the new series I’m working on, Steven Universe! Painted by me, line and design by Sam Bosma! The series premiers next month so check it out!
Woo-hoo! One of the drawings I did for Steven Universe! Can’t wait for you guys to see the show — everything about it is great. The whole art team is incredible, too.
03 Oct 00:58
The family portrait from Friday’s episode, 204,...
The family portrait from Friday’s episode, 204, “Civil Wars, Part 2.”
Drawn by Christie Tseng, character tones by Sylvia Filcak-Blackwolf, background painting by Emily Tetri, art director stuff by me.
02 Oct 01:50
chgreenblatt: Well it’s official! Bad Seeds is a go on...
Well it’s official! Bad Seeds is a go on Nickelodeon. We’re starting production really soon, so look for it to air in about a year (yeah it takes that long). Here’s a poster I made for the final part of the pitching process. Now the work begins!
I was lucky enough to work on the pilot episode of this. I’m really glad Nick has decided to pick it up for series.
25 Sep 21:27
A WIP I may not complete...
by Mel Milton
Dont know if I have it in me to finish this. (Maybe the sore back talkin...)
Keep on keepin on!
23 Sep 19:45
Because Im a glutton for punishment...
by Mel Milton
..another wip....
Keep on keepin on!
23 Sep 19:34
"Now, Sifu, when was the last time you shaved?"
"Now, Sifu, when was the last time you shaved?"
19 Sep 16:17
the waiting game
by Dana
more style experiments for my personal project. Trying to keep my lines loose around solid forms. seeing how much texture i can put in before it starts separating the viewer from the scene.
12 Sep 21:54
Sketch XXIII
So not really a sketch but not really a finished piece either? Just a little something I painted for a Q&A in the current Imagine FX, which I liked enough to post 
Enrollment is currently open for my very first skillshare class on Character Concept Art! You can read all the details here and sign up here for anyone interested: Character Concept Art: from thumbnail to final design.
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Enrollment is currently open for my very first skillshare class on Character Concept Art! You can read all the details here and sign up here for anyone interested: Character Concept Art: from thumbnail to final design.
09 Sep 23:08
The Guards - Ranger
I created a bunch of characters for a story concept I had. The concept and the characters where good, but the story was weak, so I dropped it. I still have a bunch of those character concepts and I'll continue posting them here
Although he is a part of the guard, the Ranger prefers living alone in the wood than in the town he is protecting. Amateur of anything flora and fauna, the Ranger is also an adept poet.
The Ranger was heavily inspired by Eve's Character, Esben.
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Although he is a part of the guard, the Ranger prefers living alone in the wood than in the town he is protecting. Amateur of anything flora and fauna, the Ranger is also an adept poet.
The Ranger was heavily inspired by Eve's Character, Esben.
06 Sep 23:06
Pirate stuff we didn't use in Infinity
by Sam Nielson
Infinity started out as a sequel to the Toy Story 3 toy box mode, but we always wanted to do a pirate-themed area of the world. This was all before we got approval to use the Pirates of the Caribbean so our exploration didn't have much to do with that.
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| Some of the most early stuff was suggestions for gameplay, because we had nothing from the designers yet. |
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| We had to come up with our own Pirate toys, and making the characters funny monster fish seemed right. Definitely inspired by the second movie. |
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| Toy story was way more about what type of toy they are and how that affects the interaction. Sadly, we abandoned a lot of that once we switched to Infinity to support the collectible style of the toys. |
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| The world and gameplay was a lot different back then. A lot simpler, actually. |
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| At some point (even pre-Infinity) we moved the style over to something more realistic for the environments. |
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| An attempt at the overall layout of the main pirate island. This was all built and in the game, but nothing translated over to the final game. |
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| We had other islands back then, but they were very simple, like some of the smaller islands in the current Infinity Pirates playset. |
01 Sep 19:47
ha..oogin it up in front of hanks….lil scumlord cant even find...
ha..oogin it up in front of hanks….lil scumlord cant even find her dog…love u ladies
*is my Latfo tag still up?*
-Latfo
29 Aug 00:54
“Christ! What are patterns for?” wails the distraught young heroine of Amy Lowell’s famous poem, Patterns.
Her question is hardly surprising. Patterns have been with us from the very beginning:
Well, the world has waited long enough for the answer.
Lowell’s heroine yearned for passion and spontaneity, but found herself trapped in a formal world of patterns, from the designs on her brocaded gown and corset to the ornate garden paths which she paced, waiting for her lover to return from the war in Flanders. She dreamed of casting off her gown and racing naked through the gardens, pursued by her lover:
WHAT PATTERNS ARE FOR
by David Apatoff
“Christ! What are patterns for?” wails the distraught young heroine of Amy Lowell’s famous poem, Patterns.
Her question is hardly surprising. Patterns have been with us from the very beginning:
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| Red dot patterns painted on the cave walls at El Castillo date back 40,000 years. |
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| Star pattern on the ceiling of an ancient Egyptian tomb. |
Well, the world has waited long enough for the answer.
Lowell’s heroine yearned for passion and spontaneity, but found herself trapped in a formal world of patterns, from the designs on her brocaded gown and corset to the ornate garden paths which she paced, waiting for her lover to return from the war in Flanders. She dreamed of casting off her gown and racing naked through the gardens, pursued by her lover:
And he would stumble after,Together they could free each other from a life of closed patterns but alas, it was not meant to be:
Bewildered by my laughter.
I should see the sun flashing from his sword-hilt and the buckles on his shoes.
I would choose
To lead him in a maze along the patterned paths,
A bright and laughing maze for my heavy-booted lover,
Till he caught me in the shade,
And the buttons of his waistcoat bruised my body as he clasped me,
Aching, melting, unafraid.
The softness of my body will be guarded from embracePattern is an act of repetition, order and uniformity, not passion and spontaneity. It permits few creative choices once the formula is set. It is more often the work of anonymous artisans on assembly lines, or patient, long suffering women in huts rather than the work of creative geniuses who invent bold new styles.
By each button, hook, and lace.
For the man who should loose me is dead,
Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
In a pattern called a war.
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| King Tut's middle coffin |
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| Egyptian alabaster vase |
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| Islamic illumination |
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| Dhiagliev ballet costume |
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| Persian rug, 19th century |
So what the heck are patterns for, anyway? They can be lovely but can they really qualify as significant Art?
Our era prefers flamboyant celebrity artists to the steady, predictable hum of patterns by artisans. Great artists are the ones with the courage to break the established patterns and run naked through that garden, right?
Despite this fact, let's consider whether patterns have anything of value left to offer us.
Tolstoy, who was a more profound thinker than Lowell, wrote about the "chaste young girls" in Russian villages who labored for years making lace patterns:
Our era prefers flamboyant celebrity artists to the steady, predictable hum of patterns by artisans. Great artists are the ones with the courage to break the established patterns and run naked through that garden, right?
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| International superstars Tracey Emin (Royal Academy of Arts, CBE) and Miley Cyrus (VMA) |
Despite this fact, let's consider whether patterns have anything of value left to offer us.
Tolstoy, who was a more profound thinker than Lowell, wrote about the "chaste young girls" in Russian villages who labored for years making lace patterns:
As these girls worked over their looms, the rhythm of their patterns transported their thoughts to a faraway land:
lace makers in olden times... used to depict all their lives, all their dreams of happiness in the pattern. They dreamed in designs of all that was dear to them, wove all their pure, uncertain love into their lace.
There's no record of these young women tearing off their gowns and running naked through the garden, but that hardly diminishes the pathos of their situation, or makes the objects in which they invested their lives any less beautiful.
Similarly, look at this ancient Egyptian illustration of the frankincense trees that grow in the legendary land of Punt, (Ta netjer), a paradise rich with incense and gold:
Similarly, look at this ancient Egyptian illustration of the frankincense trees that grow in the legendary land of Punt, (Ta netjer), a paradise rich with incense and gold:
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The artisans detailed each and every leaf, despite the fact that each was identical to the one before. This was not an occasion for artistic economy, it was a time for being true to the pattern. As the ancient craftsmen worked on long rows of leaves in the hot sun, I'm sure their minds drifted off to the land of Punt.
Poet Stephen Crane (1871-1900) offered a very different perspective than Amy Lowell on that "running-naked-through-gardens" business:
Many in our generation of artists are puffing and panting, intellectually and morally exhausted from racing through the garden for the limits of art. They have put so much distance between themselves and the tyranny of patterns that their work is devoid of structure. Its atoms are so diffuse that they no longer cohere in a way capable of sustaining life or heat. As Clement Greenberg wrote:
When I hold my love close, and her arms steal around me, I'm like a man transported to Punt... the world suddenly bursts into flower. -- Egyptian love song, circa 1500 BCEFor viewers with patience and imagination, patterned objects can be rich with context.
Poet Stephen Crane (1871-1900) offered a very different perspective than Amy Lowell on that "running-naked-through-gardens" business:
If I should cast off this tattered coat,A century has almost passed since Amy Lowell asked her burning question, "Christ! What are patterns for?" Today, famed artist Tracey Emin shows us how artists have freed themselves from the constraints of pattern, and also of spelling:
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?
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| Tracey Emin masterpiece, The Hole Room, 1999 |
Many in our generation of artists are puffing and panting, intellectually and morally exhausted from racing through the garden for the limits of art. They have put so much distance between themselves and the tyranny of patterns that their work is devoid of structure. Its atoms are so diffuse that they no longer cohere in a way capable of sustaining life or heat. As Clement Greenberg wrote:
The nonrepresentational or abstract, if it is to have aesthetic validity, cannot be arbitrary and accidental, but must stem from obedience to some worthy constraint.Discernible pattern can be one of those worthy constraints. The order created by patterns may seem superficial and restrictive, but it is also one of the brakes on the road to artistic entropy. Rabindranath Tagore observed,
The freedom of the storm and the bondage of the roots join hands in the dance of swaying branches.So what are patterns for? Patterns provide the bondage of the roots, and unless you have both the storm and the roots, there just ain't no dancing.
26 Aug 14:54
michaeldantedimartino: evonyo: Hey gais!!! I was really really...
Hey gais!!! I was really really fortunate to do some character designs for the shorts that just released for Legend of Korra! Bryan asked if I would design them in my own style and I practically melted!!! (baby pabu was my favorite!!!) So here’s some of the work that I did. All property copyright nickelodeon
Some of the very charming designs Evon did for the “Republic City Hustle” Korra shorts.
23 Aug 16:19
afgavinstan: brogamer: Sony and Tequila Works teaming up to...
Sony and Tequila Works teaming up to bring you RIME.
Can I get an Ico, please?
This looks great.