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Wow I’m Actually A Fairly Decent-Looking Person Now That Puberty Is Done Ravaging My Dignity -...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:29:00 -0400

Wow I’m Actually A Fairly Decent-Looking Person Now That Puberty Is Done Ravaging My Dignity - a novel by me

neptunes-salty-butthole: THIS FUCKING MOVIE IS MY GODDAMN...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:09:38 -0400

THIS FUCKING MOVIE IS MY GODDAMN CHILDHOOD, IT HAS RAISED ME SINCE BIRTH AND HAS MADE ME WHO I AM TODAY GOD FUCKING BLESS

Matthew: pfffff you and your birds and your girlfriend

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:03:11 -0400

Matthew: pfffff you and your birds and your girlfriend
Lina(lovesyou): .....
Matthew: boyfirned boyfnendo nfonef
Lina(lovesyou): fSDLKFJS
Matthew: b o y f r i e n d

I even have one of neondragon’s books that outlines the fact that those are the three animals...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:17:00 -0400

I even have one of neondragon’s books that outlines the fact that those are the three animals that dragon anatomy is based off of wow

how did I not see this

wait hold on I just figured out why I had such a huge childhood crush on dragons and still kind of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:07:19 -0400

wait hold on

I just figured out why I had such a huge childhood crush on dragons and still kind of have a small obsession with dragons

reptiles + birds + big powerful cats

dragons

wow ok I need to go re-evaluate my life for a while brb

suchre: yeffyaboyuice: gaypee: is this even accurate i havent...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:55 -0400

suchre:

yeffyaboyuice:

gaypee:

is this even accurate i havent played

SCREAMING

das som spoky bsns

neondragonart: Harpy-eagle gryphon, one of the Kickstarter...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:11:39 -0400

neondragonart:

Harpy-eagle gryphon, one of the Kickstarter monster-backer pledges. This little fella was sponsored by Vahilor. He was awesome to work on!

wild-catsabound: cheetah-chaser: losers-count-sheep: Tigers...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:33:56 -0400

wild-catsabound:

cheetah-chaser:

losers-count-sheep:

Tigers may be extinct within 12 years

Amur leopards - of which only about 35 are thought to exist in the wild - may be extinct within 3 or 4 years.

In the 70s and 80s, 18,000 jaguars were killed each year for their fur. The numbers are still rapidly declining.

Half of Africa’s lion populations face extinction within the next 40 years.

Credits are noted in the image.

This makes me want to cry. Humans are disgusting. The majority of these cats are killed because of greed.

So sad honestly. Such beautiful animals put to waste by humans. My faith in humanity is questioned everyday.

Gooby still seems a little apprehensive but she’s eating a bit and exploring her tank bravely...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:17:34 -0400

Gooby still seems a little apprehensive but she’s eating a bit and exploring her tank bravely so that’s a good sign at least. Good job little stickyfeet, we love you.

technicolorchameleons replied to your photo: Gooby got switched over to her big-girl tank… omg...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:37:55 -0400

technicolorchameleons replied to your photo: Gooby got switched over to her big-girl tank…

omg she’s so pretty

the prettiest ok you all best believe it

Gooby got switched over to her big-girl tank today! I lured her...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:13:07 -0400

Gooby got switched over to her big-girl tank today! I lured her in with some food and she worked on it happily for about half a minute before realizing Wait… Something is Different Here. She’s now clinging to her little climbing branch and wondering what her purpose in life is as I speak to her in Portal Turret voice to try to make her feel less anxious. I feel bad for my baby but we all have to grow up sometime!

Cheer up Gooby, it’s alright, look at all the things you get to explore and all the space you have for jumping and climbing! You even have your own little cave so you don’t need to burrow under the paper towel when you want to hide away.

Also I’m going to go ahead and make it official, since I still haven’t seen any pores and she’s not terribly spotty underneath so I don’t think I’m missing them, Gooby is a girl and her official name is Ivy! She’ll still be my little gooby forever and always though <3 I’ll be tagging her posts with Ivyfeets from now on c: because, you know, gecko feets

watching Road to El Dorado and I heard an oropendola in the background holy shit I’m such a...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:08:15 -0400

watching Road to El Dorado and I heard an oropendola in the background holy shit I’m such a nerd

kudos to Dreamworks for researching their birds for the location they’re setting their movie in A+

pokemon-personalities: Limited edition Eevee 3DSxl The amount...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:16:06 -0400

pokemon-personalities:

Limited edition Eevee 3DSxl

The amount of want i feel for this is outstanding

ok so usually I don’t care about limited edition stuff but

wow those coffee stripes are so cute I would totally buy this over a regular one??

ahaha wow that little outburst was so surreal and now I have a headache but I really don’t...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:54:14 -0400

ahaha wow that little outburst was so surreal

and now I have a headache but I really don’t care I’m too excited to care

I’m just going to try to breathe a little and make some tea and try to order some Dubia roaches.

crookedindifference: “I have a friend who’s an artist and has...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:46:04 -0400

crookedindifference:

“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe…

I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
- The (always wonderful) Richard Feynman

yes yes yes yes yes

Art and science go so well together, too.

SCREAMING I’M SO GLAD I CALLED I’M SO GLAD I CALLED SCREAMS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE I AM...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:46 -0400

SCREAMING I’M SO GLAD I CALLED

I’M SO GLAD I CALLED

SCREAMS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

phone anxiety wheeeeee

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:52 -0400

phone anxiety wheeeeee

Awww the better know a district from last night’s Colbert Report is Milwaukee I’m so...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:48:39 -0400

Awww the better know a district from last night’s Colbert Report is Milwaukee I’m so proud dang dang dang

gosh what a sassy lady too she’s hilarious GOSH this is so good

anthonyholden: What are studios looking for? How can I get into...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:52:32 -0400

anthonyholden:

What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?

I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!

I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!

If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.

Be good, and see you soon!

PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.

Okay, first full day off in a while. Things that have to get done, if I get them all done I get to...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:26:00 -0400

Okay, first full day off in a while. Things that have to get done, if I get them all done I get to work on my own art wheeeeee

do laundry
clean room
move Goob into her big-girl tank (!!)
~~re-schedule dentist appointment~~
~~call Diane~~
Finish Algae masterlist
Ideas for gallery
read bowmaking documents
prune raspberry bushes