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Sleepin’ Pillow - Black Sea
your name is Eve and I’m the snake
you hold the truth, I’m crawling fake
Sleepin’ Pillow - Black Sea
your name is Eve and I’m the snake
you hold the truth, I’m crawling fake
thats reminds me to say
HI!!, I KNOW ALL OF YOU ARE THERE AND I WANT TO SAY THAT I’M FUKING HAPPY FOR THAT.
I know, i know. It sounds like the same gentility of always but belive me, it’s true.
(Source: c0rnfields)
What if sleeping beauty became a knight instead?
A mini project I’ve been thinking about for awhile. You can find a backstory comic [here].the graphic alone is pretty arresting!
(Source: fucked-up-lemon-drops)
you earned this tumblr user bloodtier
You know… i’ve used the term “lolicon” many times but was just some days ago that i started “lolita” by Nabokov.
pfff, i mean, it’s laughable how one is used to use certain terms, because we able to sensing what the hell it means (obviously lolicon means pedoshit) but one can’t avoid to feel a bit stupid when one gets the correct reference (the literary reference).
btw, i didnt get enough time to read so much of this book (because the life and stuff) but it’s really interesting (i couldn’t stop to read the past night but i had to).
A little appreciation post for Kathy Zielinski showcasing the villains she worked on in animated films. :D
She’s a great inspiration to all aspiring ladies in the animation business. She currently works at Dreamworks.
- Hexxus (Fern Gully)
- Jafar (snake and as beggar - Aladdin), Tzekel-Kan (The Road to El Dorado)
- Kathy!
- Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
A testimony to how inflexible/out of shape I am.
P.s today is my 21st birthday! ~*party*~
The painting in Hannibal’s dining room is Leda and the Swanby François Boucher created in 1740.
Leda was a queen of Sparta in Greek mythology. Zeus admired her beauty, transformed himself into a swan and seduced/raped her (this was obviously all right, because he is a god). The same night she also shared a bed with her husband, so there was not a conclusive way to find out who is the father of each of four children born from the resulting eggs. However, it is believed that one of the daughters - Helen of Troy - is the daughter of Zeus.
Leda and the Swan is common motive in both renaissance and baroque art. Other depictions can be found for example here.
It is a bit of bestiality porn, but it is all right as well, because it is art :-). I just have to wonder - if this is what have Hannibal in dining room… what paintings must be in his bedroom? ;)
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It is also reference to Hannibal, the novel (thanks to reblogging fans to pointing it out):
“His absentee landlord apparently had a fixation on Leda and the Swan. The interspecies coupling was represented in no less than four bronzes of varying quality, the best a reproduction of Donatello, and eight paintings. One painting in particular delighted Dr. Lecter, and Ann Shingleton with its genius anatomical articulation and some real heat in the fucking.”—-
All descriptions of paintings in Hannibal are here.
I made this comic solely to explain how the interview went, so please ignore how ugly it looks. This was easier than trying to just write it down for me.
I am a very emotional person especially when I’m nervous, so this event hit me quite hard.
More news soon.
Oh honey. Oh god. I’m so sorry. Okay. This is not a school you want to associate with. These are bad people. They are not better than you. I don’t care how prestigious they think or say they are. Going there would have been a waste of your time, because you are so much better than anything they could offer you and they do not have a fucking clue what they are talking about. Trust me. I struggled through a college full of people just like that, and got nothing out of it but wasted time and resentment. All they did was tell me I was phony and a failure for wanting to actually learn how to draw and paint, and that is all kinds of backwards. All that self-important grandiose bullshit about illustration and technical skill not being “art” is just hiding the fact that they can’t paint or draw for shit. They live in an echo-chamber, and they only worship the absolute newest trends in the handful of areas of modern art they deem worthy, to the exclusion of all else. That is NOT art, that is elitism and egotism, pure and simple, and that sure as hell does not help the students. They are NOT better than you. Your beautiful artwork and expressiveness and illustrative style are powerful and important - everyone’s is. Saying someone’s work is “not art” and therefore not important is not a critique. It’s an asshole thing to say, and offers absolutely nothing of importance or value for potential students.
Now, that isn’t to say there is no value in modern and post modern and abstract expressionist etc. art - on the contrary. The more inclusive you can be in your influences, and the more you can look at and study, the better. (Branching out is always a healthy thing to do!) But if that’s ALL a school has to offer, if an art school tries to tell you that technical skill and illustration are invalid or unimportant, if they try to tell you that Rembrandt and Van Gogh aren’t worth looking at or studying because they are dead, if they dismiss artists they don’t approve of as “kids who like to scribble,” if they tell you that you don’t have a place there unless you conform exactly to what they want, then you need to avoid that place like the plague, because they are not there to help you, they are not there to teach you, they are there to find people who can make the school look even more self-important than it already is.
Sorry for the rant. XD I’m still haven’t quite gotten over how crappy my art college experience was. (For those interested, the crap school in question was Sacramento State University. After I left, I attended a handful of classes and workshops at the Academy of Art University in SF and Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA ,which helped me SO much more, as the teachers were interested in actually helping students learn the skills that art schools are supposed to teach you. You know, painting and drawing and inking and sculpting and all that good stuff.)
Uh, so yeah. >_> Basically look for schools with a good technical program that stresses life drawing, painting, drawing. Art is one of the few careers where people care about your portfolio more than where you got your degree (unless you’re gearing up to work for a Pixar or Dreamworks or something, in which case it does help). So find a place that will help you be the best you can be, and don’t worry about how prestigious or fancy they think they are. <3
Echoing Julie’s remarks here. I spent my college years at an institution like the one in the comic that valued ~soul expression~ and AbEx over developing technical skills. At the time, I thought it was all peaches, because I was (and still am) super into making and observing AbEx art. Fortunately, I was required to take classes in Photoshop and Illustrator— without those, I would not have gotten a job after college.
I graduated without having learned ANYTHING about drawing, about color theory, about perspective or line weight or form. At thirt*coughcough* I’m still drawing like a high school kid and trying to make up for the damage of those wasted years.
Fuck “real art”, fuck “high art”, fuck “low art”. Learn, develop, grow, evolve, create.I don’t often reblog stuff, but this comic and the commentary are incredibly important.
A lot of people ask me about college, expressing fear and nerves about whether or not they’re “good enough” or doing “the right art” to get in/do well. Fuck that, kids.
Find a school that will help you grow, no matter what art you do. Be open to criticism, yes, but if the school you’re talking to talks down to you or says that what you’re doing isn’t ~*~*~*”REAL”~*~*~ art, tell ‘em to fuck right off and walk the fuck outta there. That attitude is wrong. THEY are wrong.
You deserve to have an environment that nurtures your art and your skills and offers classes that will help you the very most that they can. Nothing will hurt you/your art more than cutting off the corners of your square peg to fit into a round hole.
/raises fist in solidarity
/extends middle finger at art elitist assholes
Rebloging because this was exactly how my interview went almost three years ago.
I can relate so fucking much to this it actually hurt.Might not surprise that I quit artschool in my second year because of this very reason. I’m so happy to say that I still do not regret quitting. I learned a lot but gained nothing of what should have been important too. I was unhappy at this school because I couldn’t fill in expectations they had for their students. I liked what they saw as art but I was never support in what I wanted to make as art.
Trouble is that it’s hard it find schools that aren’t like this. As far as I know, they aren’t any art schools with a different attitude where I live.
Even the local art academy I used to go to as a kid in my free time to do art as a hobby, tried very hard to shape kids to be artistic in the way they thought art should be like instead of what the children really wanted.
Fuck all that. It’s a tough world out there but stay confident and keep at it. You can carve your own space into society. Don’t give up and don’t let other try to reform you because it doesn’t work.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via girlwithoutwings)
(Source: quote-book)
This painting showed up on my dashboard and I was struck by how similar it looked to Danielle’s blue everyday dress from the movie Ever After. I’d bet good money that this Waterhouse painting was the costume designer’s inspiration.
