In Which The Tea Genie Dwells

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ih8religion:

Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies

Y’all better learn these. They’ll make you a better person.

ARB logical and rhetorical fallacies.

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uhohgodsavethequeen:

RACHAEL’S ONLINE. I’M TALKING TO RACHAEL.

atruthuniversallyoutthere:

gabzgirl:

kiddblink:

 

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I’M FKN’ DEAD!!!!!!!

i literally cant stop laughing waht tha hell is going on here omg

MAURICE STOP WITH  ALLTHE RAVING

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thoughtsaboutdickgrayson:

I absolutely love the covers to the early issues of World’s Finest Comics. They are so wholesome and silly.

We have:

Issue 20 wherein Clark messes with Dick and makes the boy think he’s getting fat

Issue 23 in which Dick gets back at Clark for the previous stunt

Issue 27 in which Clark is the cool uncle

Issue 29 where Bruce and Clark let Dick win a race (awww)

Issue 35 in which Bruce takes the prize for pimpest suit (although no one rocks a bow tie quite like little Dick rocks a bow tie)

Issue 45 where Dick totally owns Clark in an arcade game and Bruce is all “that’s my boy!”

Good times.

This is why retro comics are the best.

It’s even since Dick is such a Superman fanboy and asfkjhdfh *Smooshes cheeks* the lil’ cuties.

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ameliated:

im-not-your-average-teenager:

eternalseptember:

Other Half

I love this so much

The Origin of Love. Beautifully illustrated.

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e1n:

storyshots:

Drawing from films

Drawing from films is a ridiculously useful exercise. It’s not enough to watch films; it’s not enough to look at someone else’s drawings from films. If you want to be in story, there’s no excuse for not doing this.

The way this works: you draw tons of tiny little panels, tiny enough that you won’t be tempted to fuss about drawing details. You put on a movie - I recommend Raiders, E.T., or Jaws… but honestly if there’s some other movie you love enough to freeze frame the shit out of, do what works for you. It’s good to do this with a movie you already know by heart.

Hit play. Every time there’s a cut, you hit pause, draw the frame, and hit play til it cuts again. If there’s a pan or camera move, draw the first and last frames.

Note on movies: Spielberg is great for this because he’s both evocative and efficient. Michael Bay is good at what he does, but part of what he does is cut so often that you will be sorry you picked his movie to draw from. Haneke is magnificent at what he does, but cuts so little that you will wind up with three drawings of a chair. Peter Jackson… he’s great, but not efficient. If you love a Spielberg movie enough to spend a month with it, do yourself a favor and use Spielberg.

What to look for:

• Foreground, middle ground, background: where is the character? What is the point of the shot? What is it showing? What’s being used as a framing device? How does that help tie this shot into the geography of the scene? Is the background flat, or a location that lends itself to depth?
• Composition: How is the frame divided? What takes up most of the space? How are the angles and lines in the shot leading your eye?
• Reusing setups, economy: Does the film keep coming back to the same shot? The way liveaction works, that means they set up the camera and filmed one long take from that angle. Sometimes this includes a camera move, recomposing one long take into what look like separate shots. If you pay attention, you can catch them.
• Camera position, angle, height: Is the camera fixed at shoulder height? Eye height? Sitting on the floor? Angled up? Down? Is it shooting straight on towards a wall, or at an angle? Does it favor the floor or the ceiling?
• Lenses: wide-angle lens or long lens? Basic rule of thumb: If the character is large in frame and you can still see plenty of their surroundings, the lens is wide and the character is very close to camera. If the character’s surroundings seem to dwarf them, the lens is long (zoomed in).
• Lighting: Notice it, but don’t draw it. What in the scene is lit? How is this directing your eye? How many lights? Do they make sense in the scene, or do they just FEEL right?

This seems like a lot to keep in mind, and honestly, don’t worry about any of that. Draw 100 thumbnails at a time, pat yourself on the back, and you will start to notice these things as you go.

Don’t worry about the drawings, either. You can see from my drawings that these aren’t for show. They’re notes to yourself. They’re strictly for learning. 

Now get out there and do a set! Tweet me at @lawnrocket and I’ll give you extra backpats for actually following through on it. Just be aware - your friends will look at you super weird when you start going off about how that one shot in Raiders was a pickup - it HAD to be - because it doesn’t make sense except for to string these other two shots together…

Since I’ve had people asking me about storyboarding and how to learn it or what exercises to do. Emma Coats tells you all you need to know in this post.

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gh0stick:

bridgioto:

Just hangin out with that inner critic, yo. She’ll creep up on you like nobody’s business.

I think one of the hardest things to learn when you’re starting out on a making-stuff journey is which bits of that voice are valid and which bits are a waste of time. A lot of it can drag you down and get you stuck so much that you can’t find the confidence to face the stuff you need to do to get better. But once in a while there’s a real piece of honest self-reflection. Telling the difference between those two can be super tough; knowing when to listen and when to just chin up and move on.

oh god uploading a long comic to tumblr did i do this right

extra addendum i ate a whole bunch of fruit by the foot while drawing this, i think it is becoming my official Art Fuel

friggin brilliant, thanku

The best one

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