watashi wa yeah

digitallyimpaired:

this took like 20 years

full zise

blindsprings:

SMORE.  WHO KNOWS IF I CAN DO ALL 50 IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO DO THESE.  But I am trying to simplify what I am doing which is easy on landscapes but hard with BUILDINGS HELLO.  Also colour is so gratifying, i loveeeeeeee doing these?????

I’m noticing I get stuck less and less, like the fourth row on the left one?  I don’t think I had to colour pick at all (i consider colour picking my AGH IM FRUSTRATED HELP LINE and try not to do it at all unless i am like WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS COLOUR because well. Sometimes Im like wtf is this colour.

It’s usually grey hahahahahahaha.

Now on to composition, help.  Though i just realized we’re not getting graded on these, so fuck everything, I’m doing this as I want to :I

kingdogs:

Even if your heart becomes evil, please don’t forget that we’ll take care of you.

i wanted to do a series of favourite magical girls but i am too lazy maybe

blindsprings:

I’m up to 15 colour ones I NEED TO DO 50!!! 

Going to go work on some compositional studies, since they are faster, but by 5 i need to start working on my first of three master studies— I have a couple ideas of which ones I want to do, but I haven’t made final choices yet.

No colour picking on these, YESSSSSS I FEEL A LOT MORE CONFIDENT ABOUT COLOUR.

doloresdepalabra:

Meghan Howland

knockingghosts:

Crops of my thesis images. I will post the full ones after my thesis defense. Basically representations of my emotions when confronted by these different states of being, and trying to reason with not being as emotionally expressive as my friends and family—especially when it comes to death.

From top to bottom: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

scrotumnose:

mikelaughead:

From Anthony Holden!

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.

This is the best advice for any student or hopeful student. Having lived your life watching cartoons and drawing in your room won’t help you to make stories that involve doing much. I’m a total homebody, but doing things that force you to experience life in different ways is key. So just go to a new place, talk to the weird guy on the street, try a new food, whatever. It will enrich your life and the stories you tell.

you really know how to cut to the core of me, baxter

you’re so wise…. like a miniature buddha, covered in hair

digitallyimpaired:

uguughghhhHHGFUHFGGHghdhgfgh im gonna pass out 

anime-backgrounds:

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Created by Studio Chizu and Madhouse.

Mind…Blown…

anime-backgrounds:

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Created by Studio Chizu and Madhouse.

Mind…Blown…

thecreepy:

day 8: favorite song [song of skaia]

here take it i don’t even want to look at it anymore

zorobro:

This is just a super quick rough of what i want to do when i get to drawing more OFF enemies! I think it might be cool, WE SHALL SEE!

andinthemasterschambers:

i don’t know why i spent so long on this drawing

but boobs are nice

come in from the cold and chase the shadows out (x)

(Source: suchcolors)

just-a-skinny-boy:

This is probably one of the greatest if not the greatest body confidence videos I have ever seen.