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The Wax Menagerie

@waxmenagerie / waxmenagerie.tumblr.com

The art blog of Liam Feld (or Garner), (genderfluid) animation student/nerd and internet commission artist, who needs a place to display his/her art. Some images may be NSFW/NSFL, please use the tag warnings. Pecunia non olet.
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here in my gar͙̟̗̳̲͠a͓̻̬̝ą̭͉̤aA͏̳̞̦ͅA̦̰͚̼͎͎̼A̴a̮͚̝̯͖͙a͡a̟̞̳̯̳̯̰a͙͕̙͚g͕̤̘͔e͓̖ͅ just bought this uh..new lamborghini here

fun to drive up here in the hollywood hills

but you know what i like a lot more thanKNOWLEDGE! this uh..new lamborghini here but you know what i like more than my new lamborghini here

my tedex talk where i talk about this ᶰᵉʷ ᶫᵃᵐᵇᵒʳᵍʰᶦᶰᶦ ʰᵉʳᵉ the ǝɥʇ the ǝɥʇ t̪͖̻͉h͈̳̖̪̥̬h̤̙̮̮̮͍̠h̺͈h̭̜̺h̦͙̹͙͉̘̲hh͇̺̖̣̪̦͙h͓̩͔͈͎̭͡h͈̜h̹̮̰̩̘͓̺͜ḩ̼̞͇̼h̻̬̦̺̫͇ḫ͙̣̟̪ in fact i’m a lot more proud of the 7 new hollywood hills that i had to get installed to hold 200 new lamborghinis (silence while mouth moves) THE it’s like the buffet warren billionare says: the more you earn the more you DRIVE  UP  HERE  IN  THE  HOLLYWOOD  HILLS

in fact. the real reason why i keep this lamborghini here..is the real reason i keep thisLAMBORGHNI here is that it’s a reminder, a reminder that drears still possible because it wasn’t that long ago that i was in a little lamborghini, sleepin, on bookshelves in the hollywood hills with only FOURTY Seven billion dollars in my bank account and only FOURTY Seven lamborghinis in my lamborghini account and only FOURTY Seven hills in my hollywood account and only FOURTY Seven tedex talk where i talk about warren buffet in my TEDEXTALK WHERE I TALK ABOUT warren buffet account. but you know what? something happened that changed my life. i bumped into a LAMBORGHINI and another LAMBORGHINI and a few more LAMBORGHINIS. i found 5 lamborghinis. i don’t call it money anymore i call it FUEL UNITS. you must have enough fuel units! you must have enough lamborghinis. you must Ć͓̣̟̥Ọ̠̬͕̠̺ͅN̝͢S͓̟̤͇͔͚̙T̬͉̝̙̘̟R̫̻U̬̱C҉̲̥̬̪̜T̖͇̗͟ͅ ̖͙̥͎A̺͓̮̥̼̜̘͢DD̸̜̦͙͉I̙̺͈̰T͎̫̺͙͖͖͉̕Ì̖O͎̞N͙͕̺͜A͉L̢̤͙ ̖̫Ṕ͚̼̭̫Y̛̭̳̭̖̲̗Ḷ̳͞O̴͍̳̖̟̭̖N̸̼͕̞͔̗̟̯S̼̪͍̲̪̥͘. i’ll see you on my website, it’s a quick video and uh..you’ll see there absolutely nOTHING

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it honestly blows my mind that there are real life people in this world who don’t experience mental illness. they don’t want to kill themselves. they don’t cringe when someone moves too fast. they don’t have missing chunks of time. they don’t panic over nothing. they don’t sit up all night worrying that they’re silently dying for no real reason. they don’t hear and see things that aren’t there. they don’t drive randomly all over the place just to make sure a car isn’t following them. I can’t believe these people exist.

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salon

In case we needed further proof Fox News hates women: 70 horrific instances of Fox News’ sexism in under 6 minutes

You know they were all high-fiving each other when they found a woman who would pile on. “Ha, see, a WOMAN agrees with us!”

It’s Stacey dash, the same person who made comments about the wage gap and was completely shut down. But I mean, on fox you can say whatever self-hating things you want and people will just agree with you.

Source: salon.com
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miss-gardner

The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.

When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 - 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.

One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down

Since then I’ve heard tons of other accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.

A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breathe their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc. 

What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.” 

Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:

There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy. 

This is totally untrue. It’s a well known fact of the animation industry that none of us sleep. We constantly bleed from most of our orafaces and when we’re not crunching deadlines hourly, we form Fight Clubs/ThunderDome to determine who is the best artist in the studio.

Wait, no, the other thing. Please take care of yourselves! Art will never get better if you’re always sick from lack of sleep, eating properly and getting up once in a while away from the computer/desk.

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mylittledoxy

What’s the damn point working your ass off to improve for fucking years just to die prematurely. I rather draw till 80 with 70% my potential skill. Tell all my stories, get ALL my ideas out. Then tell a fraction of what I have to say or express but at 100% skill level just to die at 40.

Art and health is a huge deal. Artist are unhealthy BY DEFAULT. Your job is to get your ass in a good rythymn or all those hours sacrificing your life and friends just to fucking die a talented idiot.. Seems bleak.

animators: you need to learn movement and timing. learn it by feeling it yourself: by doing it ! dance, play, run, do, what does it all feel like? that experience away from drawing is not without consequence. it isn’t wasted time. why not help be healthy at the same time? learn anatomy to both help your own body and draw and express characters. feel rhythm of actions by experimenting with different music, dance, even just listening to rhythms around you! and most of all, talk to people and pay attention, for all that dialogue and realistic fine expressive skills. nothing is wasted.

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liimlsan

Inktober day 1! A cerberus!

(It’s not tomorrow until I go to sleep.)

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micdotcom

A long list of famous “artists and cultural leaders” including actor Danny DeVito, Zoë Kravitz, Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, Hans Zimmer, Will Ferrell and Steve Wozniak have signed an open letter endorsing Sanders against his opponents in the Democratic primary. Barack Obama received a similar endorsement back in 2012.

lil b is the only one that matters

lil b is a wank and a transphobe

Source: mic.com
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5:15

Pretty girls digging prettier women...

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An in-joke for a friend I’d prefer to not identify, but “Space Goats” was too funny...

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Demimonde

(I always think possums look like society parisian ladies in fur coats and fingerless gloves... who knows?)

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“You even match the drapes! The whole room, in fact! Con-sider yourself... part of the furniture...

And it occurred to me - If Riley's eleven, she's as old as this show and may have seen it as a toddler and associated Imaginary Friends with that gorgeous pink victorian interior design. (Characters and setting (c) Pixar and Cartoon Network)