knickerweasels:

Drawing Feet and Shoes from 萌えキャラクターの描き方 (How to draw moe characters)

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nuburu:

I’ve longed for all these dots and lines and a whole bunch of everything else. Fortunately, vacation is over. :)

askthesciencebros:

Yo guys,

I promise this will be the last time I use this blog to direct your attention towards something not Science Bros related, but this is still very important!

A friend’s sister is getting kicked out of her house and she needs money to get a place. She and a couple others have opened…

helpyoudraw:

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olliescribbles:

mocca-latte-in-my-veins:

cynicalsleeper:

this is the best thing that appeared on my dash today

can’t…stop…laughing…

I wish this post never ended.

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artist-confessions:

Text says: ”I love my doodles more than my finished pictures… but i’m still too scared to show them around”
This doesn’t have too much meaning, i just love how colored doodles look like… they take about 10 minutes but often i’m more proud of them than of my finished pictures on what i’ve worked over 2 hours (not including the mental breakdowns and normal breaks i take while drawing). 
Yeah the part with ”i’m scared to show them around” is actually not part of the confession, i’m very inactive lately anyway ..
For short - I sometimes don’t understand why to work on actual long projects if i could just doodle shit and probably like it better at the end… even though i’d lack a lot of practice if i stopped finishing my stuff… and then i could never improve…. well, f****. I hope I’m not the only one feeling so.. 
At the end I just want to say sorry if there are any gramatical errors..

Art by InuzukaNeko (Deviantart, furaffinity, whatsoever)

-submitted by inuzukaneko

artist-confessions:

I have very low self esteem to the point where any time I get a compliment on my artwork I feel extremely uncomfortable and wish I hadn’t shown them anything. I don’t feel confident enough that I deserve their praise.

My dream is to someday be a character designer and/of illustrator for Dreamworks, Disney, or Pixar, but I’m tremendously afraid of my skills not being high enough quality for them. I wanted to go to art school but I decided to go to a community college because I was simply afraid of being rejected. My low self-esteem has gotten bad enough to the point where I’m afraid it’s going to completely destroy my future, but I’m too afraid to avidly continue following my dreams. I’m just too afraid and I don’t even know what to do anymore.

The image is a sculpture of mine done for class.

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animencartoons:

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artist-confessions:

Sometimes I feel guilty when people compliment my clothes. Some part if me feels like I’m taking credit for someone else’s design, and even though I know it’s not that way at all, I can’t help but fret over it. It happens even when I wear school shirts or something and add my own touch to them and people are like “Ooh, cool”. I thank them, of course, but some irrational side of me is like “NO IT IS NOT YOUR DESIGN STOP TAKING CREDIT” and it irks me. Though I KNOW that the clothing designer would be proud to know that their work gets complimented, being complimented on fashionable clothing still kinda makes me feel like an art thief.

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itsonlythefirstdraft:

One of your terrible, old stories that you naively let them read:

artist-confessions:

Science is art. Art is science. They work hand in hand, they basically are one thing if you think about it. 

It always really bothers me when I hear and see people say that I gave up on art, or anyone who chose science or major that is wanted by society, over art. That may be true to some degree, but again, not the whole degree. There are people out there who just passionately love art and science equally, I for one do. 

When people spat at me for saying I gave up on art or I chose the easy road, they do not understand how long I struggled to think about what I wanted to do with my life. My whole senior and junior year in highschool, I stayed up late at night, crying my eyes out because I did not know what I wanted to pursue or which one I should pursue: art or science. I love them so much, they are both my oxygen, my life support, my foundation in life. I know I could easily double major, but my parents do not allow it. If that was an option, then I wouldn’t be writing this confession to begin with. In the end, I chose science because I realized that I do not need a degree to call myself an artist. That could be said the same the other way around, you don’t need a degree to call yourself a scientist too. (The degree is basically the only way for society to recognize/accept you has a true scientist/artist anyway…)

Another point I would like to touch upon is that some people say that scientist can and never will be able to appreciate the beauty of art/nature the same was as an artist. Again, this may be true, but in my opinion, I think this is utter bullcrap. I am pretty sure the scientists that we all study in our textbooks did not do life threatening research half-heartedly (Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin being examples of this.) I may not know them personally, but again, science is art and they saw the beauty in science, wanting to discover its mysteries, the art of life itself. Maybe artists and scientists view beauty differently, but that does not mean scientists will never understand beauty. This mostly bothers me because someone who I thought understood my struggle deciding what I wanted to do in life, outright said that I would never understand art because I chose the science route. This was a double hit to me, insulting my love for both science and art. Again, I think society is the one that puts these pressures and harsh opinions on these two subjects, creating misunderstandings.

How I mostly cope with this is that I incorporate science theories, thoughts, concepts, discoveries into my artwork. In life, science and art work together in harmony and I hope to show that through my artwork. I mean, why is the golden ratio appealing to the eye? Why is the sunflower mathematically perfect? 

Again, this is just an opinion and I don’t expect people to agree with me all the time, I just hope it brings a little insight or understanding to whomever reads this. Take my opinion (or not) anyway you want. I love art and science wholeheartedly.

Source of drawing: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/18501621333/explore-blog-systematic-wonder

-submitted by danajayy

paintbucketresources:

SKIN: a tutorial - Part 2 by *navate

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trumpetnista:

rarely-pure-never-simple:

thecornercoffeeshoppe:

hickshannary:

small-and-misunderstood:

Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff

My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk. 

My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2

My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits. 

Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.

This could SAVE a life.

Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissue…) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the doc’s.

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tawnyscostumesandcuriosities:

Dating to about 1850, this beautiful gold tiara is set with round and leaf-shaped cabochon garnets in the form of a half-circlet of flowers and foliage. Made in England, the tiara shows the sort of requisite ornament worn by aristocratic English ladies at important functions. Similarly, it’s wholly demonstrative of the jewelry designs of the 1850s—designs which relied on natural ornament and motifs based on the beauty of the English garden