#something of a style experiment

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[lemongogo]

idk what im doing

#higuruma #higuruma hiromi #jjk #MAN.ive like . idk. anytime i draw smt recently im like SOMETHINGS MISSSINGGGG #this isnt tje full thing i have . judgeman in there but sigh.SIGH!!! #i think im at that point where i just need 2 experiment a bunch and tweak my style or do SMTHHH different .ykwim #lg doodles #anyaays i like drawing this sword a LAWTTT j hope i can come back to it and finish it at aome later point-__-

[north-noire]

a gift that holds both good and bad memories based on this post (kinda, this artwork sorta goes under interpretation territory-) michael afton fanart for @k03rinz 's AU! it was really fun experimenting my art with this! love how fluffy michael's hair is tbh

#take this as a style experiment AND fanart bc damn i love this artist's artstyle so much something about it speaks to me #anyway go check their art and au out! super underrated artist omg!! :D #the design and the functionality #the design and the functionality fanart #michael afton #mike afton #william afton #fnaf #my art

[teartra]

I wonder how people Luz schoolmates would process how Luz went from this

To this

And this

In one summer

#this girl must’ve been experimenting with style #or she has been through something #luz noceda #vee noceda #the owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #the owl house season 3 #toh season 3

[cheerioskid]

the lonely little sun :,)

this is a little skyblings comic i made for the moonrise au by @germworms and i!! more details below vv

some general context if you're not familiar with the au: basically it's a life series/hermitcraft au about gods and humans and kingdoms and all that cool stuff :) pearl and grian are the current moon and sun gods respectively (their predecessors are joel and lizzie but there are other posts for their lore)

now onto the comic vv

a big concern of grians is becoming too overwhelmed with his position as sun god as that can cause a supernova and subsequently the destruction of the entire system soooo

all throughout childhood pearl has made it clear to him that she's always available to talk to and as a way of looking out for him she often (not maliciously) speaks on his behalf and allows him to be a recluse basically (she just really cares for him as they're both the only close family they really have; jimmys like a distant cousin in this au lmao)

when they were kids and coming to terms w the fact that they're literal gods w responsibilities pearl would try to tell grian the story of joel (prev sun god) and his fate in a very roundabout way as to not scare him but warn him about the pressures of his future position and encourage him to be open with her

(also ik stars are technically scott's thing in the au but the sun is also a star?? sooo it makes sense when in reference to grian/joel)

the dialogue is taken from shane koyczan's piece "for instance" i highly recommend checking it out!! all of his poetry is insane and heart wrenching

check out the moonrise au tag and Sea's profile for more posts and lore!!!

#mc moonrise au #it feels weird making something so grian centric considering my favs are pearl/jimmy/scar but i rlly love this au #also this was kinda a different style i was experimenting w?? #dunno how i feel about it #pearlescentmoon #pearlecentmoon fanart #grian #grian fanart #skyblings #hermitcraft au #life series au #mcyt #mcyt fanart #digital art #my art

[werecatboy]

This piece gave me so much hell but I was determined to finish in spite of my perfectionist tendencies LOL

#ff15 #ffxv #final fantasy 15 #final fantasy xv #noctis lucis caelum #my art #still not entirely happy with it but at some point you gotta just accept your art for what it is and move on #something I need to practice LOL #experimenting with style was fun though I really enjoy a messier sort of style #there’s a lot less pressure

[skrrtscree]

Just a call away... 🦋💙

#persona 3 #persona #p3 #minato arisato #makoto yuki #hamuko arisato #minako arisato #elizabeth persona 3 #theodore persona #persona 3 protagonist #persona 3 fanart #persona fanart #persona 3 art #ngl i was really sitting on finishing this one💀 #first it was too busy playing pikmin 4 it was my 1st experience with the franchise and i love it #but after i finished the main story of the game instead of finishing this i procrastinated by doing nothing #BUT ITS DONE! now i can finally.. do something else idk?? #i also tried a different style of rendering this time especially when it came to the hair #im not sure if i like it so let me know if it fits

[zdrawstvyite]

zelink sketches

#something old #experimenting with my art style never ends well #zelink #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #link #princess zelda

[potatoeofwisdom]

im having fun

#art #dp fanart #dp #danny phantom #dp x dc #dc x dp #jason todd #im having. thoughts #just. lazurus water being stinky ectoplasm #potatoe keep ur style consistent challenge #drawing with a mouse sure is an experience #I spend 3x the amount of time I would normally take to draw something #but I enjoy it nonetheless #ms paint my beloved #I personally prefer the au’s that have Jason being just a normal dude that has been cursed by sewage water ecto #zombie man plagued by the sauce #Danny being around literally just eats away at the nasty but I like to think it isn’t immediate #Jason gains nothing from this aside from marginally better anger management #maybe I could let him still have scary eyes #as a treat #potatoe rambles #HA WAIT #Danny loves nasty burger #now he gets some homemade nasty ecto ™️ #that was bad #I’m tired #I’ll go to bed now #red hood

[fictionadventurer]

There's something about reading really great writing that's so relaxing. You can just sit back and let the words wash over you, knowing that you can trust the writer.

#random thought of the day #books #part of the reason i'm not getting writing done today was because i spent most of my free time reading from books i've let sit for too long #i haven't been able to sink into good fiction for a while #so elizabeth goudge felt like a spiritual experience #cleansing and uplifting #it always takes me a while to get into her books #there's a learning curve of a couple of chapters to adjust to the style #but once i break through it's bliss #it becomes easy as breathing #there's nothing quite like what she does #i love books that understand that goodness isn't boring or trite #you don't need to have 'darkness' and 'grit' to be complex #like one bit that took my breath away was the talk about sallie and david's marriage struggles #they're both good people who love each other #but they also have their differences because they're human and that causes struggles #not marriage-breaking struggles just nuanced life struggles #and i'm not sure i've seen something like that in a book before #it's a good marriage they married the right people but that doesn't mean life is perfect #goudge uderstands that marriage isn't happily ever after--heaven is #and a good marriage is two people partnering up to help each other reach that goal #it's so much more adult than any 'complex adult' work i've seen

[wolfram-but-art]

mercenaries the typa person to say "is anyone gonna fall in love with that?" and then not wait for an answer

reblogs > likes btw \(^_^)/

zoom-ins under cut :3

the polka dot brush texture was made by ggutinho on DeviantArt btw!!

#i know Dell's hand positioning looks wrong but i literally didnt know where else to put them so i guess he's grabbin spys ass #i'm trying out a new style of shading because i hate the way i shade and i need to change something #also experimenting with colours and filters #i think i like it #tf2 #tf2 fanart #engineer tf2 #spy tf2 #practical espionage #EngieSpy #napoleon complex #don't tell anyone but i had to trace my own legs when drawing spys because i couldn't get the perspective right FUEGFES #do you guys like my shoes FSFGES #it looks kinda off since they're so detailed and shit but i make this for myself so <3 #also hi i gues i'm back :*

[bbreaddog]

NO WAY I’ve never posted these on tumblr but i guess you could say it’s NOW OR NEVER HA HA HA

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #jatp fan art #luke patterson #reggie peters #alex mercer #bobby shaw #mine #i draw things #artists on tumblr #fan art #jatp art #omg these are from 2021… TWO YEARS AGO #I’m gonna slowly post all the fan art i never posted on tumblr #there’s something so refreshing seeing something as unpolished as this in my files #I’m a very detail-oriented person so everything is so refined #but this is like. idk like it looks rushed but the shapes are clear at the same time #i like it a lot #i think i might experiment more with this kinda style #it’d certainly be easier on my arm too #speaking of arm BOBBY’S ARM MUSCLES???? HELLO????? #(i am looking respectfully) (at my own art) ( ??? is that weird) (that’s weird) (RESPECTFULLY 👀) #also big fan of the way i drew luke’s hair #it’s so accurate #omg reggie’s nose was impossible to draw #i remember having to erase and redraw it so many times #alex was somehow the easiest to draw out of everyone #i think bc he’s the most front on in terms of angles #and he’s got very clear simple shapes about him #i miss them :’)

[elnotwoods]

temptation accomplished

<someone pls check on Aziraphale>

inspired by this post

#finally posting at least one of the good omens works i made #or more like - i finally finished something #experimenting with art rn #trying different styles atm and it shows #excuse the messiness but i had to get this out there as quickly as possible #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #femme crowley #the original tempter #or.. temptress #el draws

[tenderwulf]

weird guy in a weird city

#ygo #ryou bakura #yugioh dm #my art #i thought i'd see how my acrylics technique translates into digital art #the answer is: it doesn't really #but it did lead me to something interesting #i want to experiment more with this style

[x-letsbreaksomerules-x]

“He ordered me to kill them. So I did. I killed them all.”

#fenris #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #murphys funny little art pieces #the shit with the fog warriors ALWAYS gets me like. fuck man #i have a lot of little fenris pieces i want to do lately but so little time #but im glad i sat down and did this one it was fun #tarot card style drawings are such a blast #you know sometimes i think about fenris and the fog warriors and then i think about his battle dialogue #theres something about the fact that he shouts 'to me my friends' that kinda gets me #'we must fight together' also sticks out but the friends one is forever in my brain #reminded of that one post about him refusing to turn mages in and i think his experiences of betraying people before add an extra layer #to like all of that. he's been hunted and whatnot but he's also had people who took care of him and fought for HIS freedom #and he killed them once before. he wont do it again. #ok done fenrisposting goodnight

[that-g3-artist]

2 types of big brothers, plus dad

bonus featuring uncle wars:

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #i am a very serious artist who takes my art very seriously #anyway i'm trying a new style for my shitposts #instead of just black lines on blank background #i like the messy colored look but i need to find something else for the bgs #idk i'm just experimenting we'll see if it sticks #anyways now to tag all these fuckers #lu sky #lu hyrule #lu twilight #lu wild #lu time #lu legend #lu wind #lu warriors #lu chain #lu memes #also whoops i forgot to tag #lu four