tastefullyoffensive
Yep.
an emotion: *happens*
me: Get Back Into The Feelings Box You Dirty Gremlin
2000′s Randomcore Alignment Chart tag urself, im the painful mix of nostalgia and embarrassment
chirart-deactivated20181203
10 Helpful Notes On Character Design
So many people have asked me for character design tips over the past couple of years. Here’s a whole list of rules I keep in mind with my own character designs.
In no specific order:
- Simple is good. Streamline your design to its essence. The more shit you add on your character the more you make it about what they are wearing, and not who they are.
- Popular ideas of beauty are limiting. There are only so many ways to make a character conventionally beautiful before you start noticing they all have the same face (i.e. “Six Faces Syndrome”). What most people consider “ugly” or undesirable is actually features that make your character unqiue. Who would you likely remember more: A perfect-faced model or that model’s twin with buckteeth?
- Understand typical archetype designs and visual stereotypes to use them effectively. What are characteristics found in a “hero” character? In a “villain” character? In a “child” character? What can you do to mix them around, or play it straight?
- Don’t draw the lines of the character, rather: draw the character in the lines. In other words: if someone told you to draw a horse, don’t just draw a plain old horse—draw the personality in the horse. A Royal Noble Horse has a much different character from an Old Sickly Stubborn Horse, for example. There’s a difference between Hark! A Vagrant!’s Fat Pony and Tangled’s Maximus, for another example.
- Make your characters relatable. Making a character as wildly unique as possible (a pink-purple-blue haired goth wearing nothing but Hot Topic gear, for instance) actually is one of the most alienating thing you can do for your audience. It’s trying too hard to make your character a special snowflake. Limit this extreme to very specific characters and roles, be calculating and precise about going crazy. It will be more effective.
- In addition, find what makes a person special through the boring features. Not everyone has crazy tri-colored hair, but there are a lot of people who have short brown hair. Can you draw five different characters with short brown hair and make them all unique? Try it out.
- Silhouettes are important. Are you varying body mass? Are you utilizing basic shapes? We are able to recognize people and objects just from their shadow, and we do it so often we don’t even notice we do it! If all your characters have the same “shadow,” challenge yourself to mix it up more.
- If you drew your characters naked and bald, could you tell them apart?
- Be consistent in the ‘tone’ of your design style.
- All these rules can be broken according to how calculated your irony is for your story. But you need to know what to do right before intentionally doing it wrong.
destinyrush
Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up Shot By Police.
Charles Kinsey, 47, a behavior therapist from South Florida was shot in the leg three times by the police in North Miami while laying on the ground with his arms up and trying to help his patient with autism who had run away from a group home.
It all started when someone called 911 and said there was a man walking around with a gun. However it was Kinsey’s patient who was sitting on the ground cross-legged, playing with a toy truck.
Charles got shot by police despite telling them he was only trying to help his patient.
The police shot him, handcuffed him and left him on ground bleeding.
North Miami police have not released much information at all. They haven’t released the officer’s name, they haven’t given us an update on the investigation. However, they did say that the state attorney is now a part of this investigation.
#CharlesKinsey #BlackLivesMatter
#StopPoliceBrutality #NorthMiamiPoliceDepartment
Seriously?! WTF people?
sousuke-deactivated20190306
commission etiquette
a lot of people have been commissioning my friends lately and…i havent seen the best manners when they were doing so. i think it was from a lack of knowledge rather than from an intentional rudeness, so im here to list some things to keep in mind when youre gonna commission someone.
- give them info. do not be vague about it. if you send someone a few sentences, theyre just going to be confused about what you want. if its an OC, have ref pics. PLEASE be descriptive. being vague isnt really giving the artist “more freedom”, its just confusing them. we like for you to be very descriptive and specific to ensure you get what you had in mind. dont be afraid to ask.
- if an artist says they wont draw something, dont ask them to do it anyway. youre not special. oftentimes they have “i wont draw” because theyre not very good with those things, or it just goes against their personal beliefs on what is right.
- dont tell people you drew the commission. thats just shitty. i dont care if you paid for it.
- TIP THE ARTIST. dear god, tip them. how much? 20-35%. a few cents will make them think youre joking. it works like a restaurant. you wouldnt go into one and not tip, right? and if your argument is “well they never included the tip in the prices”, restaurants dont either. you still need to have some extra cash to tip. and if you cant tip…dont buy it, or buy a less expensive piece. artists need tips. a lot of them undersell themselves.
- dont give the artist a time limit. someone literally set a TIMER for me once. (30 minutes.) if they dont get it done right away, they probably had others lined up!
- you get what you paid for. if the artist is doing VERY cheap commissions, dont be surprised when theyre not HD drawings. theyre not going to spend as much effort on a $3 commission as they would a $100 commission. thats unfair to the person who paid more. you pay less, you get less.
- dont get angry when artists draw things for free for their friends, but not for you. dont befriend artists to get a free drawing, either.
- you pay the artist first, then they draw for you. i know you might be scared they wont follow through, but if so, you can easily call them out and sue them if you must. if an artist works their ass off on a piece, theres nothing to stop you from running off with it and saving it. and they cant really get that back or get you in legal trouble for that. when you purchase something in a store, the cashier hands you your items AFTER you paid. thats how it works.
- be nice to artists. theres a person behind the screen.
This needs to be in bold on the front page of every art forum.
jsuarez369-deactivated20220817
classic. i used to fuck with my straight buddies by hitting on their rpg characters
Still a love story better than Twilight.
captainkirk94-deactivated201903
“Good cops”
rainbow-unicorn-monkeyballs
I need this to be watched by the masses.
This is the simplest explination ever and people still don’t wanna hear it.
Yooo he killed this, yasssssssss
asoslive-deactivated20200124
Shout out to Tumblr’s top artists and illustrators – enter our competition and you could see your very own original design for sale at ASOS.
Just hit the submit button on our page, check out the important admin bits herethen submit your best of the best.
And remember to keep checking back to have a look at the competition…
Entrepreneurial, you? Most def.
· Your artwork will be a placement print, in the centre of the tee.
· Please work to A3 portrait parameter, and the image resolution must be 300dpi.
· There is no limit on colour levels, world is your oyster there.
· It must be your own original artwork, no copycats ya hear?
HOW ABOUT YOU PAY AN ARTIST TO MAKE YOUR DESIGNS? YOU CAN AFFORD IT. DON’T COVER UP THE FACT THAT YOU’RE REALLY JUST LOOKING FOR FREE WORK FROM UNSUSPECTING YOUNG IMPRESSIONABLE ARTISTS.
“By submitting your design on the ASOS Tumblr page, you automatically assign all rights in your design to us and you give us and any of our associated suppliers a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence for a term of 3 years to use your image (including comments you submit in connection with any image) on product to sell on the ASOS website(s) and to display the design in any and all media (including, without limitation, on our social media channels, websites and tangible media) without accreditation or notification. If you would like us to remove the design after the end of the term of this licence, our duty to do so will be limited to those channels still reasonably under our control.”
AS CONTESTANTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? IT MEANS IN THE EVENT THAT YOU DON’T WIN THEY CAN STILL USE AND MAKE PROFIT OFF YOU. YOUR ART IS THEIRS AND THEY DON’T HAVE TO PAY YOU A CENT.
BECAUSE YOU AREN’T WORTH A PAYCHECK.
Say “NO” to contests like these. Take back your worth.
I went to read the tags hoping it all would be against the contest, but there’s still people considering doing it or asking artists and friends to do it. So I feel it’s still really important to share. Don’t do it!
assign all rights in your design to us: we get to do anything we want with any part of any of your work and you don’t.
any of our associated suppliers: anyone we want to let do anything they want with any part of any of your work gets to too.
royalty free: you’re not going to be paid anything no matter what we slap your design on or how much cash it makes us.
without accreditation or notification: we don’t have to tell anyone that you were the guy who drew the art. hell, we’re not even going to tell you what your art’s used on or in.
if you would like us to remove the design after the end of the term of this licence, our duty to do so will be limited to those channels still reasonably under our control: even when the art is technically ‘yours’ again we’re not going to give half a flying fuck over removing your art from anywhere that’d actually take us any effort.
kids: this is the artistic equivalent of getting in the back of an unmarked van because some guy told you there’d be candy inside
you are going to get SO FUCKED
look at this company trying to be so hipster about exploiting youth
usbdongle
please don’t do this holy shit, don’t give this company anything, your art is worth more than this, which is nothing. they are giving you nothing in return for your work. artists don’t need to undervalue themselves any more than they already do. please do not do this
ok not only all that, but more people will think it’s okay to exploit young artists. even if you don’t care, you’re gonna ruin it for other people trying to get out as designers and illustrators. please don’t do this.
nicterhorstsketch
Signal boost on my main account - DO NOT DO THIS.
Stephen Silver has an amazing set of videos explaining why you shouldn’t participate in stuff like this - but if that post explaining the rules doesn’t put you off… It should.
Not cool, don’t let yourself get screwed over by people like this.