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I’m probably in some weird artsy minority here, but I would really love to see less emphasis on realism in movies.  I think trying to make everything look ultra-realistic puts too much focus on special effects.  They suck up budget and audience attention, if they’re even slightly off-kilter they become a laughingstock, and they’re increasingly mandatory even for stories that don’t involve robots or aliens.

Meanwhile, in theater a flashlight with some orange paper on it can be a “fire” and everyone’s cool with that.  You get the idea and that’s what counts.  And by asking the audience to actively participate in suspension of disbelief, it can draw them even more into the story.

I wouldn’t want every movie to go this route, but I wish it were considered more of a legitimate artistic choice.

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Removed the top of my desk for cleaning. Cat did not understand 

(via)

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A trope that i feel like doesn’t get enough attention is childhood friends to enemies,like watching two people who grew up together slowly fall apart until they completely hate each other is so UUUUUUGGGGHHH

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#drawing tutorial #cats #how to draw cats

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got taken to axe throwing tonight. i may not have impressed anyone with my technical axe throwing skills but my sheer brute animal strength is unparalleled

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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

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Christmas doodle? :D with... Cat??

MERRY CHRISM!!!

#mappsie draws #chrism cat #brain's empty so that's all i could manage xD

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20 sec drawing request - jetpack turtles???

Here they are! xD

#Westley going batshit crazy (with fancy flight goggles xD) #Buttercup's just enjoying the ride #mappsie draws #shitty 20 #20 second doodles #this took more than 20 seconds - but not much more xD

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@katschy send me this amazing prompt:

And instead of 20 seconds I took 20 minutes to doodle it xD

So here's the best boyfriend in the galaxy:

Thank you very much for this prompt that pushed my... "Artistic Skillz" xD

--------- (Prompts still open - Send me a word/character/oc/thing/whatever and I’ll take 20 seconds to doodle it.)

#mass effect #garrus vakarian #20 seconds doodle #shitty 20 #I'm very proud of this xD #not to scale!... i assume xD #mappsie draws #2023 doodles

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@lunetta-suzie-jewel

I love your prompts xD

Thank you! ^_^ <3

--------- (Send me a word/character/oc/thing/whatever and I’ll take 20 seconds to doodle it.)

#mappsie draws #20 second doodles #2023 doodles #robot theatre

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Shitty 20 seconds drawings!! How about Ashton from CR? Or your favourite NPC from any campaign?

YESSSS!

Here's the sweet Rock Boy!

I'm so behind with campaign three o_O But really only because I've been binging campain 2 and am now a good halfway through (they're out to find the white dragon!)

Anyway, here's a bonus Kiri because she's the sweetest:

Thank you so much for the prompt! <3 <3 <3

---- Send me a word/character/oc/thing/whatever and I'll take 20 seconds to doodle it.

#mappsie draws #20 second doodles #critical role #ashton greymoore #kiri the kenku #my laptop's windows emojis are missing ;______; #2023 doodles

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for the 20 second drawing thingy can you do sonic the hedgehog pretty please, hope youre doin good 💕✨️

I'm doing better actually, after coughing into the new year ;) Hope you're doing good, too!

Here's the Hedgehog:

idk but he kinda looks like Calvin somehow? o_O xD

---- Send me a word/character/oc/thing/whatever and I'll take 20 seconds to doodle it.

#mappsie draws #2023 doodles #sonic the hedgehog #20 second doodles

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Hello! 😁 Are ya still doing the quick sketches? If so, I wonder if you might sketch a bunny for my temp avatar on a side blog I'm creating @somebunny2love ?

For sure! <3<3<3 Not sure if this is avatarable, but here ya go:

#mappsie draws #bunny #doodles 2022

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I just wanna share some doodles from my kids:

A forest with a hut and bunting AND a volcano spitting lava AND a waterfall (kid 2)

A map, again from kid 2. He's obsessed with maps it's so awesome xD Even drew a compass rose!

Kid 1 prefers to draw person-ish things:

This rotund friend was inspired by a thin plastic bag that carried our supper yesterday xD

And she loved that cute Cat March so much she had to draw some of them ^_^

I just really love my kids' drawings 💕💕💕

#kids art

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I haven't kept up with the dailyness of my doodles (no guilt, it is what it is), but here's the last two i managed.

Left one was inspired by a spontaneous late-night walk to a close-by little forest and there were stars and fireflies and it all soothed my heart so much.

Left one is inspired by today's homework struggel and my musical break from it all listening to GUNSHIP.

#mappsie doodles #a doodle a day #doodles 2022

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Yesterday's doodle

#mappsie doodles #a doodle a day #sometimes she's stuck in a spiral and things she can do easily usually just... don't #and if i suggest she take a break it gets worse #sometimes lofi music helps but well yesterday it didn't

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Yesterday's Doodle-A-Day.

Went to the town fest with the kids and at the end they accidentally posed like the classic Star Wars Poster xD

I'm hella proud of this one.

(it's a rock they're on, okay? xD)

#mappsie doodles #mappsie draws #a doodle a day