my sleeping pills just kicked in heavily and im genuinely on the verge of tears because i for some reaon remembered a misprint in a 1980s newspaper that switched the captions between Far Side and Dennis the Menace
You may think this list seems familiar, and you’re correct, it is. I made the same list a very long while ago, but deleted the account that made the post. So, I decided to remake it here.
I found this little “gem” on the web-The most complete list of diamonds I’ve ever found! Each name below is a link to everything about that diamond. You name it, it’s got it. If you use this, comment please because if it proves to be more useful than I thought, then more than likely I’ll make lists of gems that pertains to certain families, creating a very large resource pool for gems and information pertaining to gems. Even if you don’t use it, tell me what you think of the previously mentioned idea! I might put a page on my tumbler dedicated to resources and stuff like that.
When you start comparing yourself to other artists but you remind yourself that their success isn’t your own and you know you’ll get better if you continue working hard on your own work and take inspiration by the artists you envy instead of being petty with a bad attitude.
Teach me how to draw armor!! Pleeaassdee I struggle with this so badly but your armor is always so amazing I just want to see how you make it, show me a tutorial oh my god please i need you
thank you so much!! I…okay!! i’m not particularly good at armour or teaching or well anything really so if anyone wants to point out mistakes or add to this feel free to do so, i’m not sure what part you struggle with so i included shading too? I hope this helps! I’d suggest looking at different medieval armour suits to have a better idea of the parts and shapes but here goes nothing
HEREis a much better explanation with all the layers and a much more realistic approach by perplexingly that your should definitely check out, also their art is fantastic!!
HERE you can find armor parts and if you click around you will see tons of armor reference
a little comic about art and success; don’t limit yourself to what people have already done!
try not to get too discouraged when the path you had in mind isn’t working out.
when I was in my senior year, I applied to a private art school and got in. I thought this was cool! but the price tag was huge, and even all of the scholarships I could manage didn’t begin to put a very good dent in it. even with near perfect grades my first year of college!
so fast forward about a year and a half in, when none of the classes I got were remotely to do with why I was even going to art school, I quit. there’s a stigma about dropping out of school - as if you’re “failing”! but that’s absolutely bogus. you need to do what *your* path calls for, and the longer you delay that, the longer you delay getting to where *you* are going.
sometimes art school is absolutely right for someone and they get everything they need from it and they meet people who become lifelong friends etc… but sometimes it’s a huge, huge moneysink for no real gain. and you know what?
we have the goddamn internet, where you can post your work and gain an audience for FREE on a multitude of websites. it’s fine if you have to do something non-art to support your art passion. that’s fine! that might be your path! and that’s really cool!
but please, please don’t let us lose what you could become because you get so distracted by not being able to take the path of another – by not getting that job you want, not getting into that school you want, etc… there’s always something else out there waiting for you to go and snatch it, there’s always a path waiting for you
too many people cut their creativity short because they can’t get over the disappointment of not being able to follow that way in front of them, and that’s a horrible, horrible shame, because you guys have so many amazing stories and pieces just waiting within you to be released, but you have to realize you have that potential and work to unlock it
you can definitely do it as long as you keep moving
