Drawin' Everyday

I love the visible brushstrokes, it conveys the feeling of adventure! I see in this picture a neat little story, like in those tall tales where having a boat in the mouth of a whale is like “Yeah, this is normal.” The shading inside the mouth is really well done, really gives it that three-dimensionality. Great job!

inspiration and burnout

I wanted to take a moment to talk about how much I love these pictures. Inspiration and Burnout are very successful art pieces because they tell their story in an instant and have the details to create complexity. And their just little guys!

In Inspiration, the joyful colors and sun motif immediately convey the bright energy that comes from feeling inspired. The geometry from the overlapping shapes works well to draw the attention toward the face. The expression is simple, a detail to enhance the expressive body. One of my favorite details are the red fingertips: they give the hands more substance and impact against the blue background. Looking closer, the body has subtle shades of purple, a color more largely found in Burnout.

The first things I noticed about Burnout was the lovely soft shading, the unraveling arms, and the pop of color in the face. The clouds have such a lovely texture, it complements the shading in the rest of the body. With the unraveling, erasing the body when it overlaps and the red shading really emphasizes and enhances the form. The expression in Burnout is also simple, with only pinprick pupil eyes. The layering of the white of the eyes, the blue/purple and pink of the face, and the surrounding darkness is a great focal point without taking away from the rest of the body. This layering shows the viewer there is still mental energy during burnout, it is just trapped within the mind. The one thing I might change about Burnout would be the static background. It seems a little too fine a grain, looking more like sand than the TV static I think the artist was going for. 

Within Inspiration and Burnout, there are little connections to each other through the use of body and color, implying you can't have one without the other. Absolutely fantastic job, I adore them both so much!!! 

little mac finds his lost cat (based off this idea) 

Just using the dog's ear as a blanket..

Endocrinologist voice: Your estrogen and testosterone numbers are looking good, but your Tony Hawk's Pro Skater scores are still lower than I'd like.

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.

Reblogging for my artist fellows.

Reblog this!

[video by dhtoomey. caption: Breaking news, short kings)

Big fella’s new raincoat

It makes me angry that this is such a fucking bop

This guy is literally playing the violin on the accordion

he is NOT playing the violin on the accordion he is playing the WHOLE STRING ORCHESTRA on the violin this is one of my favourite classical music builds and I have no idea how he is doing it

name a cuntier dog than the afghan hound

2023

1. COMMIT TO THE BIT

2. PARTAKE IN THE DIVINE ACT OF CREATION

3. LET THE SOFT ANIMAL THAT IS YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES

I took your ass to island we have fun in the sun together 😃👍

[Shut off last version of this post to avoid possible continual spread of misinformation that was corrected by staff. Reposting clean with corrected info]

So I'm sure almost everyone knows about the porn bot problem by now, so here's a post detailing why it's a problem, and what we need to do about it.

First off, yes, always block the porn bots. Don't be mislead into thinking they're ok to keep around because they 'inflate your follower count.'

Firstly, no one cares about, nor can anyone even see, your follower count. Be free from the shackles that are the bullshit other socials told you was important. Don't let your ego be tied to a number. Having a lot of followers won't earn you any clout here.

Secondly, bots only follow blogs to try and legitimize their malware (and other dodgy) links. This post goes into more detail about that.

Now that that's out of the way, you'll need to know how to recognize a porn bot. This round the template seems to be:

You likely recognize the pattern.

So, what you want to do is, first, report the blog as spam On mobile it'll look like this:

On mobile you'll need to report spam first, and then go back to the menu again to block.

On desktop it will look like this, and unlike mobile, you'll be able to report spam and block in the same motion:

If I remember correctly,* be sure to "Report Spam", not "Report sexually explicit material" to feed the bots to the proper channels. Because the blog is empty, they haven't posted anything explicit that would violate TOS. However, staff can recognize a bot, and if you report the blog for spam (the actual problem) they'll take a look, more than likely find that the blog is posting or DMing dodgy links, and dispose of it.

And I think that's it. Here's wishing you all a happy and safe blogging experience!

[UPDATE: It was suggested on another post that the bots track your IP if you click on them to send more your way. However, someone from staff corrected and said this is incorrect. They also corrected the 'guilt by association' myth that bots following you can get your blog flagged by tumblr.

That said, that trail all led to another, easier, way to report/block the bots all from your Follower Tab instead of visiting each blog separately, unfortunately it only works on desktop:

(For newbies, click on the little person icon at the top right of your screen and scroll to find the Followers tab under the blog/sideblog you need to block a pornbot from.)

*I remember this information from a blog that used to be all about taking down the pornbots. Unfortunately I do not know if that blog is still active, nor can I remember the URL. If anyone knows what blog I'm referring to, and/or if they're still active, please feel free to tag them so others can follow them for more tips!

big ole comic about adult ADHD diagnosis + big feelings + making sure childhood me is okay