darecrowavis:

aviculor:

taleasoldastimelords:

Men of Tumblr, I’m counting on you to make this one good.

I got stuck

Pansy

korblabyss:

patruelesfratresomnes:

#can we talk about how everyone else just gets pissed off or annoyed at Tony’s sass #but Bruce is smiling #he thinks it’s funny #he’s just so happy that someone is engaging with him #teasing him even #how long has it been since someone has been comfortable enough around Bruce to tease him about something? #he probably can’t even remember #and now here’s Tony who isn’t afraid of him #who thinks he’s awesome #who wants to be his friend #ugh okay that got away from me but THESE TWO OKAY

I already reblogged this but I just thought of something I needed to say. Tony really is interested in how Bruce chills out. Yes, he treats Bruce like everyone else. He does want to be friends with him. But he actually does want to know how Bruce manages the Hulk, because he is starting to have panic attacks. Not often, but it is happening. New York just made it worse.

There’s also the fact that, I think, Bruce quickly recognizes that, yes, Tony is treating him a bit like an experiment, but that’s because that’s just how Tony is, that’s how he interacts with the world. Or at least, the non-vagina having half. I think he also genuinely is amused by it, because everyone treats him like a bomb ready to go of at any moment, even himself, but Tony just walks up to that metaphorical bomb and starts poking at it, and Bruce well knows that the little pokes aren’t actually enough to set him off.

megumiovvo:

chuck-charles:

i made a makeup tutorial for all my fellow feminists out there bye

jfc

watch it

theyoungradical:

your heroic US military

justmellarkingabout:

gracefullikeagazelle:

windmills-of-my-mind:

maevemactire:

apsilpastille:

k-auhale:

So I have been talking to this guy I really like for about a month now, and I was at work one day, and he surprises me, holding my favourite Starbucks drink. I had lent him the book Looking For Alaska, because he said he never really enjoyed reading, and I told him this book would change that. So he told me he was done with it, and he took me home from work. We get in front of my house and he’s like “I want another book!” So I told him I’d run inside and get him Paper Towns. 

As I was getting out he grabs me by my hand and says, “Wait! there’s this quote I wanted to show you on page… 123, I think. I like it a lot and I’m surprised you didn’t highlight it!”

And so I turn to the page, and there is this post it note pointing to that sentence.

I was asked out via a John Green book.

You hold onto that boy and never let him go.

When’s the wedding?

JOHN GREEN NEEDS TO SEE THIS

MARRY THAT BOY.

MAKE JOHN GREEN FIND THE THING

ahorsecalledhonour:

Wonderful

shnubs:

snaxattacks:

Another reason to not mess with the Wii Fit trainer:

SHE’S GOT FUCKING ADD ONS

Batter stop you have a wife

eschergirls:

soozarts:

karenhealey:

bisexual candycorn: thoughts on skintones

princessneeshydoomcuddles:

mulattafury:

people ask me a lot about drawing poc, more specifically “how” to do it. my kneejerk reaction is to get frustrated by it, because the answer is “just like you’d draw anything else.” it’s like the main excuse artists and writers use to not include poc in their art and in their worlds — they “don’t know how,” implying that we somehow operate by a separate set of rules, that while white characters don’t require a special set of considerations to be varied and textured and interesting, non-white characters are just an elusive series of step-by-step instructions that most creators just can’t be assed to learn or to include

i still feel that way

but

i guess i can understand that most instructive media focuses specifically on white aesthetics, proportions, skintones, and features, so there really is a need for more instructive material that is more inclusive

i can dig it

that said, there is a lot that i don’t know and am not good at and i don’t really feel comfortable trying to instruct other artists, but i’m fine with taking you through my thought processes a little

SO here’s some stuff about skintones. it’s not perfect, and there will never be a better teacher than the world around you for showing you what things look like and how to express them

first off, if you’ve ever seen me stream you know i don’t usually block in my shading with hard lines like this. i like to paint and sample colors as i go, but i’m trying to communicate my ideas about color a little better

but i’ve always used the same basic process for coloring skintones, any skintones, forever and always:

this is going to change up a little bit with directional lighting, colored lighting, environmental lighting, shit like that, but this is your basic procedure. the biggest mistake i think artists make is using skintone+black for shadows and skintone + white for highlights, and that results in pretty dull looking skintones

in the former image, i only varied the value of the main skin color, but in the latter i also varied the hue and saturation. doing so gives you more of an opportunity to add warmth and depth to your colors, as well as bring in environmental colors if you need to

you want to sample around the palette, use reds and purples and oranges, don’t just stay within the range of your base tone!

this applies for all colors, not just skin, but especially skin! you want skin to look alive, not plastic and dull

these same rules apply for most skintones

though it’s always going to be incredibly helpful to just look at references of the skintone you’re trying to draw, for little details like (for example), very dark skin, because there is a more extreme light/dark variation, will often look much more reflective than very light skin under the same lighting conditions

like so

because of this, you’ll want to work on using light more than shadow to describe form on dark skin

again, this is true of all colors, but especially skin, because you don’t want skin to look flat and lifeless!

the same rules can apply to fantasy skin tones. start with a base tone, then use warm, saturated colors to add light and shadow. sampling around the palette becomes really important for fantasy skintones if you are trying to make them look realistic/believable

this is especially true if, for whatever reason, you wanted to make a character with grey skin that looks alive and believable

OKAY THAT’S THE END OF OUR SHOW

LOOK AT THIS GOOD ASS RESOURCE MOTHERFUCKERS

Another helpful note is that darker skin tends to be shinier, which is especially easy to see on the super-dark people in the pics above. My rule of thumb is to use larger swaths of highlights on light skin, and more focused, smaller ones on darker skin.

(Though this is no more a hard-and-fast rule than anything else in art, but it’s a decent shortcut.)

Sharing another drawing tutorial for any interested. :)

korblabyss:

hyperbunny51794:

shorm:

filthypolak:

whydontihatemarrymyself:

itswalky:

demiurgent:

All I know is, it’s damn hard to do my job with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy making fun of everything that comes out of my damn mouth! Hey — I’m trying here! DON’T YOU SAY THAT I SURE AM TRYING! THAT’S NOT FUNNY!

I guess my job now is being flung through half the buildings in Metropolis.

I just got an internship at Google then hired.

Not bad

I investigate crime scenes? Cool!

I am Iron Man

did chris evans character even have a job in push. i think he just had a lot of debt

I sex up alien women to hide my feelings for my male lieutenant who supposedly is in a relationship with a glorified phone operator in space?

Sorry, I mean I’m a starship captain. That’s cool.

Why hello there my (most likely) future self! (starship captain here too, but from the first movie)

merlinisahuntingdetective:

damnthosewinchesterboys:

NO NO NO NO

WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT