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Everyone Bleeds Red, Unless They Don’t.
A motherfucking three part near-manifesto about conveying skin tone with extra swears and a Lincoln Park reference in the title to make it extra annoying when I point it out to you because apparently I have doubts about anyone willingly remembering that Lincoln Park was A Thing at one point of time.
Since somebody requested it when I published my objections to the tutorial I recently reblogged, I wrote down a little bit on painting skin tones. I COULD write a lot of words to describe a the lot of things that go into painting skin, and don’t worry I CERTAINLY WILL, but I could also just write three words that will serve you just as well as three thousand: don’t make assumptions. That’s good advice for any genre of art, really, as sticking to a set of assumptions is a good way to take all you observe, categorize, and discover from life and then throw it out the window in favor of what you think you already know. If you find what I write makes too many assumptions itself, and wish to disregard it, then good! You’re thinking for yourself, and therefore TAKING MY ADVICE ANYWAY. HA! If not, that’s good too. Makes me not feel like I’m wasting time so much.
Anyway, those three words doesn’t make for very satisfying advice post. So here’s some more words! I hope you enjoy them on some level? WARNING: this is not a straight up, image-guided tutorial. I misplaced my tablet pen… again… so I can’t do a demonstration of my points right now. But since what I’m talking about here is mostly conceptual, that’s not really a bad thing. Also, standard warnings about the quality of my unconventional, nay, REVOLUTIONARY grammar, punctuation and proofreading skills apply. I not write so good.
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These are words, dear Poupart, not the pictures that I’m supposed to only post to this blog but they relate to my art so I guess I’m SORT OF justified in posting them here. If you’re interested, you can read them I guess?
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Just me thinking out loud here that it’d be hilarious-SLASH-inappropriate if EA/Bioware did one of them puzzle game collections using characters from the IPs hosting minigames. Isabela could have a bejeweled clone because, I don’t know, she fucking like jewels, okay? Revan could host a math game, because for some reason they were really into math puzzles when they made KOTOR????? Oh, oh, and there can be a game where you try to close Baldur’s Gate(s), but when you close one two others open and all of the dogs get out of the yard through the open gates so it’s not actually that easy???!?!?! (please note I don’t actually know what Baldur’s Gate was about) And of course, the intense TOWER OF HANOI SUPER COMBO SPECIAL, featuring every instance of the puzzle in every game where they trod out that tired old thing.
dude SCREW YOU ANYWAY tower of hanoi what was your deal
Anyway, I kind of lost obviously interest here in the home stretch. WHO CARES ABOUT DRAWING BOTTLES ANYWAY
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In between doing things that actually have some worth to them, I’m making a Javik Shimeji. It’s fun because every other frame is dumber than hell. Here are three highlights, so far.
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Was upset about Toonami’s disgusting, horrendous marketing campaign, then upset about how my portfolio illustrations were coming out today, so then I decided to draw something that doesn’t make me upset.
And that thing was Manrill. Manrill doesn’t make me upset. The colors I used might make me nauseous, but not upset. Hooray, Manrill.
The end.
listen, he’s not going to go away until you give him an answer
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Hey baby u no what they say
Once you go fantasy, that’s what’ll tickle your fancy.
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three things I didn’t finish today, the two inset things are because photoshop crashed while I was doing them, the third thing I plan to finish but I’m going to ask you to hold onto for a few hours while I go to a movie
if the cops ask where you got it, I don’t know. Say, “Croatia”. Just act casual.
