- 3/20/2018

Three FREE Online Video Courses Every Artist Should Take.

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Drawing Academy: An online Drawing Course and Art Community where you can learn how to draw in the comfort of your home and benefit from the support of Academy tutors and fellow students.

Old Master’s Academy: This course reveals all you need to know about art materials for oil painting, color theory and rules of mixing paints, the know-how of the indirect method of painting, and the step-by-step sequence of creating a painting in the Old Masters’ style.

Anatomy Master Class: Step-by-step instructional videos on drawing the human figure, classical proportions, skeletal and muscle anatomy, drawing realistic portraits and much more.

This week I was a piece of crap next week I will be more

Captain America was literally based off the idea of a golem so if you are confused about what a good human representation of a golem is its captain America and in no way trump

your periodic reminder that “golem” is not a word you can throw around without context. i know golems are pretty ingrained as earth/elemental spirits in a lot of fantasy settings now, but i wish more people understood that golems are extremely important to jewish people in an extremely specific way. 

the legend of the golem is a direct response to antisemitism in europe–specifically the blood libel; it was the golem’s job to expose asshole christians who tried to frame jews for child murder. the golem was a uniquely jewish response to a uniquely jewish problem: a sort of proto-superman who could come to our aid when all else failed. the golem is for the most part a benign protector (though there are legends of them rampaging after their rabbis lost control of them, but really, that one’s on the rabbi for not being specific enough). it is a positive and much beloved figure in jewish folklore.

so i want you to understand the full extent of jewish revulsion when we see people throwing around the word “golem” in regards to trump. 

trump is not a golem. you do not get to use that word. it does not mean “vaguely human-shaped unfeeling lump of excrement trying to pass as a person.” If that’s what you’re trying to convey with the word “golem”, please just use those words instead.

- 3/29/2018

Photos That look Like Renaissance Paintings

- 5/06/2018 Im trying to find a standard way for me to colour cause so far I always think I have a plan or a method then it doesn’t work so I have to wing it

sadly i am 100% type 1, and i am typing this so i don”t ponder whether a cockatrice is warm or cold blooded and if that would affect the petrification and could they lay eggs or the question that i avoid every time i think about this animal... where does the poop go

The two types of fantasy writers

1. Feverishly calculating the body mass of your dragon species, spent 5 hours last night researching the origins of steel, losing sleep over horseshoes, 20 tabs open, should a cockatrice be warm-blooded?, will die if they don’t immediately figure out when honeybees were first domesticated

2.

Every time I see this it’s like I have tunnel vision by the end

Here’s my 4th year Calarts film! 

Marvel Comics #1000: We’re Calling Him Ben

- 3/02/2018 So I finally (kind of) figured out how to paint white people skin on apple's iPad notes... an app I should stop using and switch to one with layers and cropping...