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Intruder

#fan animated!!! this is so freaking good! #kon el #timothy drake #dc universe

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Eadwulf will always be famous to me for the fact that Caleb put being retraumatized by his former teacher on hold solely to admire Eadwulf's massive forearms

#OHHHH MY GODDDNNSKSBSNSJND #GRAAHAHSHHDHDBS EAHHHHSHDNENDKWBE #critical role fanart #critical role #eadwulf grieve

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Here we fucking go again

Sleeper Agent activated

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Begrudgingly glancing over because the sleeper agent in me woke up at the essek mention

#this is like the tenth time I’ve nearly stopped caring about cr but rising from the grave because essek was mentioned. someone save me

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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

#alfred <3333333

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never change, neil josten

#NEW AFTG???? #feeling crazy

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Coin landed on the side.

Choose your fate, and feel alive.

Have a smiley day, critters!

#last bump lol #thinking about how frida had a feeling that they wouldn't reunite :'))) #also how fcg died killing their first party and now they're dying to save this one

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Hanging on by a kiss and a cigarette

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They’re in their jack-o’-lantern era (haunting the narrative)

Coin landed on the side.

Choose your fate, and feel alive.

Have a smiley day, critters!

#bump

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Coin landed on the side.

Choose your fate, and feel alive.

Have a smiley day, critters!

#critical role spoilers #critical role #critical role fanart #fcg #fresh cut grass #cr spoilers

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Dropout & LiveNation present: Dimension 20 Live: Gauntlet at the Garden! A one-night only live event at Madison Square Garden in New York City happening on January 24th, 2025! Pre-sale tickets will be available starting Wednesday, April 10th (code: GAUNTLET), and general sale tickets on Friday, April 12th, at LiveNation.com. Featuring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson, Gauntlet at the Garden will be an event unlike anything you've ever seen! A video recording of the event will also be available on Dropout at a later date.

#WOOOOOOO #dimension 20

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Xhorhas…

#geographically inaccurate bc I DID NOT bother to check the wiki all I know were the barbed fields and rosohna plus some mountains #mainly an excuse to play with texture brushes hehe #critical role #critical role fanart

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

#reference

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The Game

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The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.

#i fucking love fanfics but I’m a terrible commenter so drawing fanart for fanfics is a comfortable alternative to expressin my appreciation

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him

#ohhhhhh my god #those colors #essek thelyss #big fan of the constellation neckline