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Calendar October 12, 2014 13:49

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boumdraws:

Lis, from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s excellent Seconds.

(I should really start adding colour to some of my Inktobers)

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Calendar October 10, 2014 16:39

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jamesgunn:

#flashbackfriday #gotgpicoftheday With line producer Nik Korda, @prattprattpratt, & Lee Pace, enjoying a rare day of rest during #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy. #GotG

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Calendar October 6, 2014 19:08

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justinchan:

This weekend I reached 20000 followers!! My tumblr also happens to be turning 2 years old!! WOW!!!!

Seriously, thank you guys so much!! 2 years ago I would not have believed that my work could reach so many people… you all rock!
I’m going to be doing another giveaway as thanks!

Like
or reblog to enter, you can do both to enter twice! I’ll pick random winners this weekend, and I’ll draw a character you like!…

Thanks so much for the support, it truly means a lot!! :)

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Calendar October 6, 2014 11:27

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ryannorth:

UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL

new monthly comic starting in January

me doing words

Erica doing art

and it’s gonna be TOTALLY GREAT

read more in Entertainment Weekly!

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Calendar October 6, 2014 11:26

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audreybenjaminsen:

Here we have Roald Dahl’s four famous brats (from right to left), Veruca Salt, Mike Teavae, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, and our hero of course, Charlie Bucket. Reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with my Mom is one of my favorite childhood memories, and that memory inspired me to do some character designing! I wanted to experiment with only using graphite drawing and digital color, aiming for a flatter more textured storybook feel. Overall, it was a fun prompt to work with!

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Animation/Drawing Reference

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

Reference! Reference! is a free database that collects different video clips, with categories ranging from facial expressions, to styles of fighting, and animals in motion. 

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You can play and pause the videos, and move through them frame-by-frame easily.

I’m freaking out, man. 

-Evvy

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Calendar October 1, 2014 02:39

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typette:

run-lonely-tardis-man:

omgtsn:

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mistahgrundy:

kat-reverie:

omgtsn:

a masterpost

fUVK HSDGUJWKEG i love this

SPOOPY BUS

This is actually pissing me off. It has begun to ruin halloween for me knowing people don’t spell check. Things are massed produced in factories and sent out for sale to the public spelt spoopy, doo, and creppy. Like what the actual fuck. My computer even automatically changes spoopy to spooky. I mean, come on. The best holiday season and businesses don’t even care enough about it to spell check the items they’re gonna sell. Fuck this shit.

come on buddy wheres your smngfiehp cheer

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HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THAT BADLY IM DYING

holy jesus the christmas one did it

HAPPY SDNFGJHD(SNEEZE)

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Calendar October 1, 2014 02:37

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kurtiswiebe:

This perfectly summarizes why I love the Simpsons and hate Family Guy. 

Yup.

So this.

I watched that episode with my family and I could just feel how uncomfortable everyone was. Honestly, it was a really jarring, unpleasant episode.

Homer is a terrible dad. So is Peter. But Homer’s saving grace has always been that he tries—he’s bad at it and he fucks it up a lot, but he loves his family and he wants to be better than he is.

One of my favorite Homer moments is in “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife.” Tl;dr Marge writes a steamy romance novel starring herself and Ned, and when Homer finds out, he chases down Ned and, rather than attack him, asks him to teach him how to be a better husband.

There’s some part of his stupid self that wants to do better.

I never got that impression with Peter. Instead, the family has gotten more and more abusive towards Meg. It’s really unsettling for me when I started realizing that’s what happens sometimes in abusive families. Abusers sometimes single out one child to abuse, and quite often the other family members take the abuser’s side. After all, it’s easier to side with an abuser than to run the risk of becoming the target yourself.

There’s never really a point where it seems like Peter cares at all that his shitty behavior impacts his family. It actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. He expects everyone to clean up his messes because that’s always what happens; there’s really no reason for him not to be shitty.

And it’s easy to see how Meg is affected. She doesn’t have much of a character, really, because so much her screen time is devoted to being abused. The bits of character development all seem to hinge on her being this sad, neglected person who’s trying her best but never really gets any help from anyone. Quite the opposite; there have been a lot of episodes where her family sabotages any attempts to be herself.

It can be easy to forget how awful this behavior is when the only context is the show itself (frankly, everyone on Family Guy is kind of terrible). Seeing it played against the Simpsons, who are a flawed and dysfunctional but ultimately loving family, was painful to watch.

(Source: fyspringfield.com)

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jjmccullough:

Can you tell what’s wrong with the official gubernatorial portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was officially unveiled in Sacramento earlier this month? Look at his lapel.

Originally, Arnold asked the artist to depict himself wearing a large pin with the face of first lady Maria Shriver on it. But as we all know, the Schwarzenegger marriage went sour shortly after the Governator left office, and the couple is currently in the midst of a multi-million dollar divorce. But apparently the portrait was finished before all that started to go down, so as the New York Post reported, Arnold had to get someone to do a crude touch-up after the fact. According to statehouse staff, a “sloppy mess” is what resulted.

It’s another wonderful case study in the dangers of cramming your official portrait with lots of myopic nonsense. It’s got to be up there with Mitt Romney asking for his official portrait to feature a copy of the Romneycare act. 

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Calendar September 18, 2014 22:36

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My Least Favorite Trope (and this post will include spoilers for The Lego Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Matrix, Western Civilization, and—cod help me—Bulletproof Monk*.) is the thing where there’s an awesome, smart, wonderful, powerful female character who by all rights ought to be the Chosen One and the hero of the movie, who is tasked with taking care of some generally ineffectual male character who is, for reasons of wish fulfillment, actually the person the film focuses on. She mentors him, she teaches him, and she inevitably becomes his girlfriend… and he gets the job she wanted: he gets to be the Chosen One even though she’s obviously far more qualified. And all he has to do to get it and deserve it is Man Up and Take Responsibility.

And that’s it. Every god-damned time. The mere fact of naming the films above and naming the trope gives away the entire plot and character arc of every single movie.

Elizabeth Bear - My Least Favorite Trope (via feministquotes)

I couldn’t agree more. I liked those films, but it would have been awesome if Peter Quill had been played more like Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. A P.O.V. character who only thinks he’s the protagonist.

(via unatheblade)

See also: Harry Potter.

I think with GotG specifically, they were going for a real Indiana Jones homage by making him somewhat hapless, but they forgot the most important part of Raiders - that Jones accomplishes absolutely nothing except for leading the Nazis to the macguffin.

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I feel like this critique misses the point of those movies, at least in the case of GotG and The Lego Movie. The protagonists are intentionally imperfect people. It’s not as interesting to watch an already perfect person continue to be excellent. It’s more interesting to see an imperfect person grow as a character. A better way to solve the gender imbalance would be to cast an imperfect, interesting female character as the protagonist rather than shift the focus onto an already proficient female character.

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Calendar September 16, 2014 19:39

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radioactivesmog: Hi! I'm a junior in high school right now and your art is so inspiration (i've finally been able to track down your blog after seeing it all over tumblr). I'm interested in animation as well! I had wanted to go to SVA for awhile but lately I've been hearing some mixed reviews. I also am getting little to no help from my family with paying for colleges so I have no clue what to do basically. Any advice you can give would be godsent. Thank you so much!!

danaterrace:

Hello! Hoof that’s a tough situation. I hope this can help.

The thing I learned after spending 4 years at SVA and over 100k in loans is that… You don’t need to go to college to become a successful artist. Well fuck! Wish someone told me sooner. What you DO need is the discipline to spend your time productively (to build just as good of a portfolio as any other graduating student) and a proactive attitude. There are plenty of courses online that will teach you the basics of storyboarding, character design, gesture drawing, digital painting, etc at a FRACTION of the price from any school. (check out http://www.schoolism.com/school.php or if you’re in SoCal, http://conceptdesignacad.storenvy.com!) Look to see if your town offers any figure drawing classes (because that will always be your most important class), again MUCH cheaper than paying for school, or just ask your friends to pose for you.

One thing you could do is hit up some people who go to schools you like and ask about their courses. Most people will be kind enough to respond haha. I used to incessantly bother people from Gobelins or CalArts ;;; But hey it resulted in some pretty rad friendships! We’re all just trying to learn, here. Start giving yourself weekly assignments based off of what you hear. Challenge yourself! Find online communities that do weekly challenges, or daily challenges like Sketch Dailies. It’ll be super important to make yourself an online presence because even though you won’t be around industry folk in person you could still be in their MINDS. Doing a film once a year, like what is required of both CalArts and SVA students, and debuting it online will help a TON. Think about it! That’s four films to show potential employers that you know your shit and you’ve done your research. And the tools to make films are so easily.. downloadable. TV Paint and Flash for 2D animation, After Effects and Final Cut for compositing (those two take some getting used to but there are enough youtube tutorials to teach you everything you need to know), Photoshop for your pretty paintings (unless you’re all traditional in which case more power to ya). I don’t condone pirating but… OkayyesIdo. At least until you can pay for it yourself ; )

Clearly I’m not an expert on what to do if college isn’t an option for you but from what I’ve gleaned from coworkers and friends who went down that path it’s entirely possible to do it. 

Good luck! 

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Calendar September 15, 2014 09:59

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radfordsechrist:

Construction and proportions for Jasper and Kyoko. I have to square off the ball and pear for Kyoko to show off her boxy hips.

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Calendar September 15, 2014 09:56

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radfordsechrist:

Figuring out Tech’s basic proportions and construction

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Calendar September 15, 2014 09:43

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faitherinhicks:

phobs-heh:

isthistakenalready:

Aoi Honoo is Too Real

Me at job. 

my editor sent me this and was like “it’s you!”

… yes. :F

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About This Blog

Hi, I'm Tim Lai! I'm a cartoonist living in Ontario, Canada. I like drawing cute and colourful things. This blog is a hub where you can find all of my Tumblr, DeviantArt, Flickr, Blogspot, and other posts in one place.

 

About My Work

I write and draw Lemon Inc., a comic about a seven-year-old who wants to be a business tycoon when he grows up. Until then, he runs a lemonade stand. You can read it at

I have done some professional web and graphic design work, including designing the website for the webcomic, Just Joel. I'm also a member of the webcomic collective, Ink Bomb Comics.

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Lemon Inc.

Lai Guys Comics

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Ink Bomb Comics

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Underwhelmed

Stale Bacon 

Zoo Dot Com 

 

Other Comics I Like

Woody After Hours

Cucumber Quest

Boxer Hockey

Lackadaisy 

Helvetica

Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name 

Filibuster 

 

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Sean Mclean Art 

Ryan Estrada

Matt McCray

Kevin Coulston

Paul Westover

 

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