pathologic but it's a lost 1920s german expressionist film [id under cut]
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image 1: a digital drawing of a fake poster, using bright colours and rough, painterly brushstrokes. the title, 'pest' (german for 'plague'), is written at the top in spiky black text. in the foreground a man dressed as a tragedian is staring intently at the viewer, his hands raised and splayed as if in horror. in the background, the town is framed against a red sky, with the polyhedron in yellow behind.
images 2 and 3: fake casting sheets for the film, with the names of the actors and the characters they are playing above a black-and-white portrait photograph of them. all the text is in german. in english it reads:
'Pest', a film by Robert Wiene
Alfred Abel as Victor Kain
Ernst Busch as Grief
Lil Dagover as Katerina Saburova
Ernst Deutsch as the Bachelor
Carl de Vogt as Vlad the Younger
Marlene Dietrich as the Inquisitor
Willy Fritsch as Mark Immortell
Alexander Granach as Andrey and Peter Stamatin
Bernhard Goetzke as General Block
Dolly Haas as the Changeling
Ludwig Hartau as the Haruspex
Brigitte Helm as Anna Angel
Brigitte Horney as Maria Kaina
Emil Jannings as Big Vlad
Gerda Maurus as Yulia Lyuricheva
Lothar Menhert as Georgiy Kain
Asta Nielsen as Lara Ravel
Ossi Oswalda as Eva Yan
Fritz Rasp as Stanislas Rubin
Conrad Veidt as Alexander Saburov and Tragedian
Paul Wegener as Oyun
Gertrud Welcker as Aspity
image 4: four digital sketches of set designs for various locations. all are strongly influenced by expressionist imagery, using extreme angles, warped perspective, and dramatic shapes. they are labelled 'street 1' (a street lined with houses), 'street 2' (a square with a lamppost and a set of steps), 'polyhedron exterior' (the polyhedron walkway), and 'cathedral interior' (the dais at the far end of the cathedral).
image 5: four digital drawings in a black-and-white watercolour style, showing fake stills from the film. all are similarly distorted and lit by dramatic lighting. the first shows katerina's bedroom, with katerina standing in the centre of the floor. the second shows the interior of an infected house. the third shows daniil staring out of the frame in horror, one hand on his head and the other raised as if to ward something off. the fourth shows an intertitle with jagged white text reading 'the first day' against a dark background.
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David Tennant’s career is such a mystery to me. It’s like if Daniel Day Lewis also did Hallmark movies. He’s Hamlet and he’s the audiobook narrator of novelizations of Warhammer board game spin-off cartoons. He’s a convincing serial murderer and a streetwise animated cat (orange). He did a podcast where a main theme was asking other actors if their parents ever mentioned being proud of them. Who is his agent? What’s going on?
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I'm glad to say that science is well on its way to making a real-life Tumbler sexy man Dr. Two Brains.
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How do you come up with ideas for your more finished pieces like the one you showed in that process guide you posted earlier? Do you just doodle poses and come up with the symbolism aspects after or how do you go about thinking about it? Even though I love drawing symbolism heavy pieces for my favourite characters, I can never actually come up with composition ideas for them anymore
sometimes i doodle first and end up accruing more ideas along the way, but i usually have some kind of a key feeling/concept in mind for the more heavy-handed pieces i draw... for example, this drawing came about because i really enjoy how complex ouma's motivations are, and how there's a huge gap between what he says, what he does, what he wants, and what he's capable of giving in the game... and the one i showed in that process pic was linked to a specific line of dialogue in chp 4 contrasted to the events of chp 5, and what i imagine it must have felt like post-game! hoo hoo
all that's to say: if you want to draw something that's symbolic, you have to start with the meaning first... what is it that's interesting to you about your favorite characters and their stories? what kind of feeling do you want to highlight or story do you want to tell? even if it's just a single image, you're storytelling through the pose/body language, angles, expressions, colors, and literal or metaphorical imagery used. i think if you start from "this is the feeling i want to examine," it'll become easier to think through "what components can i work in to generate that feeling?"... i think. hope that helps...!
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HAPPY NARFDAY @wimsiecal !!!
here's a dinky in your costume design!! its so glowy and cool :0
for me, dark pinky will always have some that original pinky energy deep down xD
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i was (foolishly) like. whyyyy did the comic artist put squeaky's brain in front of the goggles??? and then i realized that that's how it is in the show... why is he stretching his goggles OVER the brain i feel like that's a liability
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watching prodigal son for Reasons (you know why) unfortunately i am simply too hannibalpilled to enjoy this. first episode intruder needs them paralysed so they can feel everything (just like how the red dragon's very first victims on the show were shot in such a way that the woman could still perceive everything) second episode dinner party with a focus on parental structures (just like in 1x04 œuf except the focus is on the mother instead of the father) also snakes in the mouth. think that one's not necessary for me to explain. actually i say all that but i AM enjoying this like it's derivative it feels like a remake but that doesnt necessarily mean i don't like spotting the similarities
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I haven’t been actively lately because I only just got internet and phone access where I’m staying rn and I finally have my new sim card in so I can have WIFI HALLELUJAH (I’m only supposed to have 1 hour phone time a day but no one needs to know heheheh)
Anyway I just wanted to say that I nearly died and I will still die and stand for Carson because he is amazing and a good person and season 6 isn’t in character but even if it was what happened to Thomas CLEARLY wasn’t even Carson’s fault and if you say it was then you SUCK and you’re WRONG!!! 😌 CARSON IS MY LIFE AMD MY WORLD AND THATS JUST SOMETHING FHAR YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT ABOUT ME!!!!!!!!!
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