#because i'm incompetent at photoshop

[allycat75]

I hope one day you can tell your story, Boston Dumb Fuck.

The weight of what you have been carrying is more than one being is meant to carry and it shows everywhere you look. You deserve to share your burden as part of your growth and healing. And when you do, may I suggest the book title:

Desperation, Lies, Hypocrisy and Nicotine: The Smell of a Decaying Soul and How I Faught To Recover It From the Clutches of Hollywood

Chapters could include:

I Hate Myself

Shushing My Way Into a Corner

White Privledge and the Illusion of Invincibility

A Monkey's Paw Sort of Situation

Training to Prepare for the Mental Gymnastics Championships

Dissociation 101- Dead Eyes With a 1000 Yard Stare and a Handler's Programing for Automation

Wear Your Masks, Boys and Girls

True Romance and a Sprint Through Central Park

All At Once I Knew I Was Not Magnificent- A Slight Breeze As Some of My Soul Begins Its Escape

Fake Jump Scares and Senior-wear Chic; alternative- A Revocation of Sexiest Man Alive

I Love Love So Much I Made It a Joke and Now Nothing Will Ever Be Special and I Ruined Every Holiday Forever

How To Shower on a Budget- Wash Your Body, Hair and Clothes with Pantine; alternative- When Your Team Has an Ulterior Motive, They Don't Put a Morality Clause or Success Metrics into the Contract

Private Planes, First Class Seats, Economy Class and Invisible Luggage

I Am No Feminist, I Am Not Righteous, I Am Not a Woke Political Avenger

I Am, However, An Alone Guy Whose Dog Is My Soulmate

But I'm Going To Be A Happy Idiot- Now I Feel the Heavy Weight of Missing Part of My Soul

So I Kinda, Sorta Married an Arrogant, Immature, Selfish, Vapid, Racist, Antisemetic, Fatshaming Clout Chaser and Now I Am One Too (So Much Better Than a Fuckboi, Right?)

Maybe I Can Hide in the Woods, Smoke Weed, Make Pottery and Gaze at Trees (Dissociation 102)- Subtitle: Did I Really Wear a Medical Mesh Tank for a Complicit Magazine's Photoshoot?

My Fans Are the Crazy and Jealous Ones; Too Bad They're Not Stupid to Believe the Lies and Peace-out'd on Me

Is It Live or Is It (Bad) Photoshop?

Education is Sexy and Geography is Fun

Waiting In a Poorly Lit Basement Room of The Flatiron Building at Christmas With a Deck of Cards and a Coloring Book For the Wifey, While the Real A-listers Have Fun Upstairs; alternative- How I Jeopardized the Marriage of a Good Friend and Why She (Rightfully So) Hates Me (And Who Else I Have Used For this Unsuccessful Farce)

Still Trying To Shove ASP As A Good Idea While Democracy Burns, Probably Because Jinx Doesn't Want Me

What Would It Be Like to Be Tracee Ellis Ross's Personal Trainer Instead of Me Right Now?

5 Or 7 Rings to Rule Them All (And None of Them Fit)

So The Soul Is Gone and I Feel Nothing But Fear in a Pit of Despair (Hint- Stop Digging Straight Down)

Loitering In Front of An Oscar Party to Be Dragged Incognito With the Fake Wifey While the Real A-listers Party Inside

I Got 2 Razzie Nominations and RDJ Got An Oscar- Guess I Know Who Won "Civil War"

I Turned My Back on Everything I Believed In and All I Got Was a Black Audi (I'm assuming they gave you a car as part of the new endorsement deal and you always seem to get them in black)

Promised More Challenging Roles; Instead Got to Play the Worst Version of Myself for Over Two Years Until All Good Parts Passed Me By; alternative- It's As If My Team is Corrupt and/or Incompetent and Either Had It Out For Me or Felt I Was an Expendable Pawn

How Do I Build Back an Authentic Life From Scratch When I'm Not Sure Who I Was To Begin With and Don't Know Who I Want To Be; alternative- Decide What to Be and Go Be It

and the rest is still unwritten...

#you are the company you keep #ai in human form #brian wilson vibes #liars suck! #i don't like hypocrites #i hate manipulation #boston racist #boston antisemite #boston fatshamer #don't piss on my leg and tell me it is raining #is your mom still proud? #coward #do better #get some help #who are you? #is this who you want to be?

[borathae]

I recently started working with an association that collaborated with the college I study in. I applied for being the contact person and got interviewed by officials. Even after I passed the interview and got selected I feel like I’m not worthy enough for the role. Plus all the work I’m supposed to do hasn’t started yet but it will, in a few weeks. So when I see people working, I feel even more useless. I’ve been helping my colleagues with their work whenever they need me…

Lol the purpose of this was to ask MV!Yoongi if he can tell me what he thinks about this

"Let me tell you that most people don't know what the fuck they're doing", Yoongi says and lets out a mocking scoff, "they're just better at pretending to know shit. Don't worry, you can learn. Ask the colleagues you trust, observe wherever you can and don't be afraid to look up tutorials."

Okay switch into author mode because I don't know how to convey this with a three thoussand year old vampire who barely worked a normal human job in his life lmaooa

I'm working in my first ever real job as well and let me tell you that I'm still scared sometimes and I still feel as if I'm a burden to my team because sometimes I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. But the thing is? I watched my colleagues (with experiences ranging from 20+ years to 8+ years) often enough to realise that they don't know what they're doing just as often as I do. I was scared to look up tutorials at first because I didn't want to come off as incompetent, until I one day looked over my shoulder and saw my colleague who has been working in this company for 20+ years look up a tutorial for something in Photoshop which I could have easily explained to her. I realised that people just don't know shit sometimes and it's okay to ask for help (even if the help is secretly via a tutorial on the internet) and that sometimes you might know about stuff others don't know about and vice versa.

Hang in there, you got this 💜

"Yeah what she said", Yoongi agrees, "I'm sure you'll do great in your job. You're already more than enough for people to be proud of you."

#asks #anon

[bigbodaciousbuddie]

disaster buck.jpg

#i honestly don't know lmao #this is the first thing that i thought of when i saw the photo #i had to do it #and yes #i made this instead of studying for my midterms #do not look at me #i'm ashamed #also edit is not the best #because i'm incompetent at photoshop #also idk if this has been done already #anyway #my edit #evan buckley #911 on fox #911 fox #tv: 911

[bluebellravenbooks]

It's January and winter blues is real, people! I've been trying to do more stuff that I love to keep the spirits up, and this includes studying animation. I've admired it for a long time, but mostly by just staring at concept art and reading on how really advanced stuff is made; however, after catching up on some cartoons during the lockdowns (such as Avatar, Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe) I realized that I'm much more interested in the character animation and storyboard/storytelling part, which very nicely intersects with my other interests in writing and drawing - and I decided to study it all a bit more!

So these are my

complete beginner's notes on learning character animation that no one asked for, by someone who is definitely not qualified to talk about it

Figure drawing. This is the first thing that will hit you like a ton of bricks if you as much as glance in this direction. I'm in two minds about this: on the one hand, some practice in this area is obviously essential (duh!); on the other, this sometimes becomes a genre in itself, a specifically stylized drawing just for the sake of, well, pretty drawing. Which isn't helpful if you're doing it for practice. Also, if you thought that art of naked women in ridiculous poses is about two centuries dead... well, yeah you're wrong. (Seriously, what's up with that? There are some things in the art world that I just don't get.) As for how to learn it, there are plenty of classical books on the subject and apparently a lot of Discourse on which method is The Best; I'm trying not to get too deep into that and currently am just learning by practice and trying out different techniques.

The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams. This book was quickly pointed out to me as A Classic, and I'm having a lot of fun doing some basics with it in Pencil2D, but oh my God a good portion of this book really did not age well. It's full of reverence towards the Golden Age of animation, blatant misogyny and the ever-present incompetent "in-betweener" (animation assistant), whose problems seem to stem from the fact that he's always "plugged in" listening to music (because I'm sure that's the only reason the lowest link in the famously underpaid industry would not produce a masterpiece in every drawing). Basically, animation basics are covered really well, but there are tons of animation industry (and just life) details that are decades out of date (or at least no longer relevant for most western studios from what I know about their workflow). I didn't know that an animation handbook could be so annoying.

Perspective! For Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea. I picked this one up because of Rebecca Sugar's recommendation and all the interesting stuff she talks about in interviews about perspective. I can't comment on the book much yet since I've barely started it, but it looks fun, and perspective is definitely an important aspect that I hadn't been paying enough attention to; also interesting to try and tanslate some of these concepts to perspective in writing (reminds me about what Philip Pullman said about "camerawork").

Art books (featured here WolfWalkers and Steven Universe). I have a few more back at home - have always enjoyed them, and one can learn much from them as well. However they are heavy and expensive, so that's something to consider - for example if you're a student like me, who doesn't have tons of free cash and will probably have to move a lot. But hey, times are dark, so sometimes I do threat myself...

Software. I like doing doodles digitally, especially when learning - spoiling a lot of paper makes me feel bad, while digital drawing allows me to relax a bit more, since every bad drawing is just one click away from oblivion. The conventional choice for drawing is Photoshop, but there are definitely decent free alternatives out there. For animation tests I'm using Pencil2D - it's free and perfect for a beginner. However, one thing that you'll need if you want to try out digital art is a graphic tablet - I'm afraid computer drawing isn't really feasible without one, unless you're into VERY specific art styles. But in good news, there's not much difference between super advanced and very basic ones, so a simple one will serve you just fine! I'm using my old trusty Wacom, purchased many years ago for saved-up pocket money, and it's working great.

Well, there we are - no idea whether this is useful for anyone, but I hope it is. My take-home message here is that learning art is fun, and there are many different types of "art" that you can learn and do on your own - it's not just oils and pastels :) And of course it's not really feasible to get as good as actual art school students on your own - but there's still plenty of interesting stuff you can do!

If there are any actual art/animation people reading this - I apologize for my amateur dabbling, and would be interested to hear if you have any tips!

#animation #art #cartoons #storytelling #atla #steven universe #over the garden wall #gravity falls #booklr #wolfwalkers #my pictures #original post