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What do you think you did to say that, bro? If I can ask, I don't mind talking it out.

i sent in my application to study abroad in japan and i think i fucked it up. i’m dying

#coolsuga

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#cars

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Dark Ponyta

#Pokemon #art #pixel

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative, work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take awhile. You just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass (via z-v-k)

#Things I NEED to remember

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Talent is a lie Talento é uma mentira

Or, to be accurate, the common conception of what “talent” is: An effortless innate, magical skill that grants the wielder an otherwise intangible ability. This is my life scarring sight holidays gift for you: Same character, 8 years apart.

Your favourite artist is hardly “talented”; at some point of their lives what was their very best simply wasn’t enough. Their very best today will look equally cringeful to them in a couple of years. It didn’t came easy to him or her. This artist probably didn’t have better opportunities than you. What they had was an earlier start and an unwavering determination.

Get up and work hard today. It’s okay if you don’t have your dream job yet. Even if you have to work on/study something else for now think of it as being your own patron, because that’s what it is. Every tiny step counts, in time they’ll take you a long way, and this is the beauty of painting: It’s not something dependable on a diploma stating that you’re able to do something, nor it’s an innate ability, it’s an achievable skill that depends only on your efforts. Believe! You’ll get there.

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#Things I NEED to remember

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Just remember, even your worst days only have twenty-four hours

10 word story (via dwaejieolgul)

#quote

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Lars Anderson: A New Level of Archery

Lars Anderson studied historical manuals and rediscovered an ancient and extremely fast way of firing arrows from a bow, making icons like Legolas and Katniss look like slugs.

He trained himself to be able to perform such feats as firing three arrows in less than a second, catching an arrow and firing it back, splitting an oncoming arrow in two, and basically debunking all the lies hollywood has fed us about “ultimate archery skills”

#Crazy amazing shit

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Limit your 'Oh' Moments

I recently watched a movie that I was very, very excited about—and I ended up being very disappointed in it. It was filled with what I call “Oh” moments, the moments that are (supposed to be) really powerful and dramatic. A death. An unexpected triumph. A really awesome fighting move that ends the bad guy. A heartfelt speech. Anything that makes you go Oh.

Because the movie was so stocked full of these “Oh” moments, they began to feel really cheap. Especially because the “Oh” moments started from almost the beginning of the film. Because there were so many of these moments, spanning the entire movie, it felt overly dramatic and totally disconnected me from the story. It didn’t feel believable at all, and the “Oh”s got less and less impactful. 

Over-saturating your story with deaths and speeches and triumphs turns your story into a caricature. When everything is dramatic, nothing is. When everything is super awesome or super sad, nothing is. It’s basically like having several climaxes in your story.

So keep in mind to limit your:

Main character deaths

"Brilliant" ideas (when a character suddenly has a genius idea as to how to stop the bad guy! And this goes for even when the brilliant idea doesn’t work)

Rallying speeches

Intimate, emotional speeches (a character professing their love, two characters breaking up, etc)

Super awesome badass fighting moves (and similar such things)

Plot twists (My father’s not dead! He’s actually not my father! You’re my father! But now you’re dead! Oh, wait, no you’re not!)

Climaxes (we defeated the bad guy! But now there’s a new bad guy! And now we defeated him! Wait, he came back!)

Etc.

This doesn’t mean you need to cut these things out of your story. It just means that you need to think long and hard about why you’re including each one, if it’s logical, if you’re doing it just for the drama, and if it really adds to the story. If it’s not adding to the story, it’s taking away from the story.

#writing #reference

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Life.

Don’t spend so much time admiring work that you don’t end up creating work. Observe. Apply. Surpass.

#art

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deadlock aka “im sure this twelve year old is capable of handling the emotional burden of having killed someone”

#Fucking #THIS #Transformers #Raf #soundwave

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HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS UNTIL NOW?!

#Korra #Assassin's Creed

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Osiem, i have a question, if it's not too much to ask...? I just came across a post of your art progress gifs, and i've always wondered how to make a greyscale image coloured without it looking... tacky. i.e. they tend to look very flat?

Most tutorials I read about this kind of painting say to use multiply, or overlay layers to add colors. But I kind of never was able to make them look ok with just that, so I use as many layers with blending modes and adjustment layers as necessary, for example:

After adding colors images will often look flat, you will need to paint over whole image again, fix stuff, add extra lights and more depth with that

here is video (not FR related) I made last year, using same technique, adding colors starts around 20min in, you can see all the layers I used there as example

http://youtu.be/5QgWV6Bwjbo

#art #reference

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"What do you hope girls take away from watching [Agent Carter]?" (x)

#Agent Carter

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Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

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i think a big reason why i use tons of emoticons and exclamation points is because i want there to be no doubt that i’m being friendly and not at all terse or uninterested, cause i have the problem where when people reply to me i’m sure they must be soo irritated with me and disgusted with who i am as a person if they don’t put some indication of being interested/happy to speak with me (liiiiike exclamation points or emoticons). 

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"Creating one interesting character is hard enough — but when it comes to writing a whole novel or series of books, you have to create dozens of them. How can you keep your supporting cast from seeming like cookie-cutter people? There’s no easy answer, but a few tricks...

#writing #reference

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ happy birthday, friend.

#Flight Rising #art