Tranquility on Rydal Water The Lake District

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

Psychology textbook diagrams never cease to amaze me

ok y'all this isn’t a psych textbook gaslighting you into thinking it’s normal and ok for your boss to yell at you, it’s specifically about understanding that other people’s treatment of you is usually more about them than you. If your boss is pissy with you, it’s absolutely more healthy to understand that behavior as a reflection of his mental state rather than of your worth as an employee. It’s not a psych textbook’s job to advise you how to improve your workplace or say what is/isn’t acceptable treatment by a boss. It’s an example of detaching your own self-worth from how other people treat you.

^^THIS!

In fact, if you let yourself think of other people’s treatment as a reflection on YOU more than it is on THEM, it can prevent you from getting things done.

Or, in other words,

ok, im rb'ing this again because this actually helped me finally be able to take advantage of cognitive restructuring in a way i’ve struggled to do for a long time. Ive been able to get to the my boss was having a bad day part, but i’ve always struggled to use that mental change to do something that would improve the situation. but because of this diagram, i THINK ive got it figured out. Here’s a rough explanation of how I interperet this.

Real life example:

Boss yelling: My mom is snapping at me, calling me “disrespectful” no matter how I speak to her, and getting mad at me for having missing assignments He was having a bad day: She’s stressed due to my grandma being in the hospital He shouldn’t take it out on me: just because she’s stressed doesn’t mean she gets to be mean to me. Unionize: I advocate for myself, saying that I’m not being disrespectful and that it’s okay to have missing assignments because I’m doing my best Fuck his wife: I am unapologetically proud of myself for what i manage to do in a day, especially if my mom disapproves of it or doesn’t view it as productive, as my own little “fuck you” to her.

End result: no depression.

This actually works and its amazing. Thanks to the meme side of tumblr for accidentally developing a highly effective method for coping with people who treat you like shit

i hope you realise i have immediately added ‘unionise! fuck his wife! no depression!’ to my mantras for living

I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from

Ah lads they fucking rotated him

NOW it’s you

Oh yea? Well guess what bro

Best post I've seen all day

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

ive said it before and ill say it again: the most valuable skill ive ever learned and im still learning to this day is how to vet information and think critically about it.

ask yourself:

• what is the main point/points of this information i have read or heard?

• is this information neutral? is there leaning of support towards a specific side or cause? is emotional language used and if so, in what way is it used? what parts of this information is it used to emphasis?

• who is telling me this information? what is the benefit to this person if I choose to believe this information? (note: this is often seen as negative but can is also neutral - is it awareness? clout? are they selling a product or service? are they a believer or involved in a cause? is this their field of expertise?)

• how was this information produced/discovered? who funded it? who discovered it? what are their affiliations? again, what do they gain if i believe this information?

• does this information come from other sources? do they agree with it or disagree with it? what kinds of evidence do they have that support or deny it?

being able to stop and ask yourself questions like this is key in order to fight misinformation and propaganda, which is so easily spread with social media.

Mont Saint-Michel, France 🇫🇷

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

See it’s stuff like this that makes me believe that selling your soul to the devil in exchange for talent was a real career track in the 1700s.

Deal god i’m lusting for 1700s paintings 

Don’t forget Beatrix Potter’s illustrations for “The Tailor of Gloucester”:

Hellblazer #92-96

(1995)

DC, 1988 Series

"Critical Mass" by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips. Covers by Phillips.

23.10

dissertation writing advice

this is amazing and I'm glad I saw it

I did similar in tech writing.

Mine is usually saved as Don't Kill Your Darlings.

[Image ID: Three screencaps from Twitter. First, by c e aubin @ceuabin, dated Aug 25, 2023 at 7:15 PM with 52.1k views: "Genuinely, my main dissertation writing tip for PhD students (or anyone!) is to make an additional document for each of your chapters, and then paste everything you cut out into it. Cannot describe how many times I went back and retrieved things I thought I'd never use."

Second, by Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist: "YES For every file I'm working on, I make "samefilenameCUTS.doc". The shadow doc often comes in handy late in the game! And it frees me up from anxiety while editing."

Third, by Ashley Nicole Black @ashleyn1cole: "I do this with scripts too. And I've never gone back for anything in there, but it helps make it psychologically easier to edit when I know I can." Reply from ceaubin: "Yes! Especially if you have to cut out a part that is particularly well-written or poignant, but doesn't fit the structure or the theme of the section. Less painful knowing you can still access it."

End ID.]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Then bring me luck

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

DC is set to release a "faux-simile" reprint of Batman #428, originally published in 1988, with an unpublished alternate ending.

This issue is famous for the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin, at the hands of the Joker. However, the twist here is that in 1988, fans were allowed to vote on Jason's fate, and they chose his demise by a narrow 72-vote margin.

Decades later, Jason Todd was revived as the Red Hood. The alternate ending, created by the original creative team, will finally be revealed to fans when the 'Faux-simile' edition of Batman #428 is released on December 12.

Source

Holy crap

imagine being on your little dried peapod shell of a boat with your fragile little human self and then

out of the depths below

the Divine

God-Beasts

come right up to YOU

capable of crushing you without even noticing you

and ever so gently

so gently

roll back and forth around the dried leaf you're sitting on

just to maybe examine you and see what you're doing in their world.

you ever get tired of living but in a non-suicidal way

like everything is bad everywhere and no one has money and im tired of this cycle

i tried to explain how i was feeling like this to my drug counselor and she was like "yeah that still sounds kinda suicidal" and i could not figure out how to explain that i don't wanna die, i just like. am so so so tired of the way life is for me and all my friends and family. i'm tired of living like this but i'm gonna keep doing it bc i guess there's no other choice

I don't wanna die, I wanna go lay on a warm field under the sun and watch the clouds go by. How is this hard to understand?

I just want to spend a few days in the dim twilight between sleep and waking, but specifically the dim twilight of a Saturday morning in April.

Burnout. The word is burnout, but not because of an unusual state of overwork or an overly demanding position, but because the bare minimum being demanded is beyond capacity.

How is it that Tumblr consistently puts the posts that talk about what I am feeling at the top of my feed every. single. time?

oh, tumblr, we're really in it now

Yeah, I get that.

[Image ID: Green text reads:

"Self-Sabotage looks like:

Rejecting praise and compliments

Not asking for help

Pushing people away when they start to get close Opening up and attaching to others prematurely

Refusing to do something unless you can do it perfectly

Procrastinating on important projects

Putting everyone elses's needs before your own

Constantly criticizing yourself

Isolating when you are hurting"

image of that meme where a monkey puppet has a side eye expression then stares forward with grim realization.

]

*narrows eyes* HOW DARE

I feel personally attacked. I mean seen.

does "setting yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm" ring any bells, @baybelletrist ?

@siriosa ding ding ding

A highly scientific diagram