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Silent Hill 2 (2001)

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

can you take my white ass to funkytown

over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs

must a fictional relationship be “healthy” or “functional”? is it not enough to simply watch two made up people destroy each other, hand in unlovable hand???

better than drugs

friends, i am afraid that "i want more weird freak art, but ONLY if it's not weird PORN" is a completely incoherent stance. you are not obligated to like the weird porn that is sexualizing fucked up shit, but if you want more weird art made by freaks, you need to create an environment where people feel comfortable making transgressive and shocking art that upsets people, and that just so happens to include weird porn and sexualizing fucked up things as a category, like, by definition!

like i cannot stress enough that you cannot pick and choose which transgressive things can exist in your artistic sphere based on if they upset and shock you or not... that's undermining the entire point of artistic spheres that encourage transgression!

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

“let people enjoy things” is quickly becoming a very dangerous phrase

Source: http://bit.ly/2N2Nqi4

my wife is constantly mocking me for how lightly done I like my toast. “your hot bread is done,” she says to me. disgusting

My “draw the squad” memes so far

If you receive this, you make someone happy. Go on anonymous (or not) and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or some that you think need cheering up. If you get some back, even better. 💜💖💜💖

😭💕 thank you friend!!!!! I love you and your blog🌺 stay cute!!!

yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:

(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)

Gonna start a post with blank memes. Please add any you have on hand and reblog to spread them.

WATCH: Ingenious Hack for Sketching with Two Point Perspective Using an Elastic String [video]

pLEASE?

What does Tgn! Ciel act like in modern au?

I’d still want him to have the long hair.

He straightens it so it’s perfectly flat, like silk. He’s very beautiful, he probably has a shared Instagram account with his brother, posting those stereotypical rich boy things - vegan lattes, their dainty hands resting on the steering wheel of an expensive car, dressed up in suits for a soiree.

His daddy is very rich. He started with railroads and now he’s a billionaire. They live in a penthouse apartment - the security is state-of-the-art.

Until, the night his family is killed.

He and his brother are dragged into the wine cellar. Ciel shoots his twin with his daddy’s gun, then turns it on himself. They’re discovered the next day by Adrian, who manages to conceal the gun before the police arrive.

The paparazzi snap pictures of Ciel’s small, bloody body as he’s carried outside. They swarm his hospital room. The rumours run thick.

Ciel is infuriated by how useless the city’s police force is. He decided to head to the slums to seek out an assassin.

He’s dressed in high-waisted slacks, a fine shirt, a little blazer. His hair is in a ponytail, his little lips shiny with gloss. He looks beautiful and clean, and out of place in the dark bar he wanders into.

He wants the meanest guy there. The bartender laughs at him.

“You’ll want Michaelis,” he spits - and gestures to a man sitting in the corner.

He’s wearing a leather jacket and it looks like he just left a fight. His hair is all messy and his eyebrow is split open. He’s smoking, dry blood coagulated in his nostril.

He takes one look at Ciel through his narrowed eyes and sneers, crushing his cigarette on the cheap vinyl table.

“Didn’t ask for a whore,” he bites.

And yeah, ahahaha - everything is pretty much the same. Ciel rides bitch on Diablo, arms wrapped around Sebastian. He still has a switchblade, Sebastian has a shotgun.

Maybe eventually they get a car… named Diablo II.

Ciel wears lingerie, it’s more modern. He wears g-strings and garters and little straps.

They travel town to town, staying in dirty hotels, eating food from the convenience stores. Ciel saves all the soaps from the places they stay - he likes to keep clean, just like a cat.

That’s the aesthetic, old and dirty hotel rooms, neon signs and roadtrips. Leather seats, lingerie, shotguns and bullets and tracking men down in misty fields, abandoned buildings.

Ciel becomes some viral sensation, an online celebrity. A modern day Robin Hood.

They fuck in Sebastian’s car, Ciel’s clean little trousers bunched down around his thighs, riding reverse cowgirl, pushed over the dashboard, silk hair in his face.

He’s sobbing. He can’t speak when he gets fucked this hard. This position - he can’t control it. Gravity pushes him down, Sebastian’s blood-dark cock pushed up into his guts.

Sebastian’s hands bruise his thighs, keep his legs split open so he can fuck up into him. Ciel’s prone to fainting when they fuck too rough, head rolling into the crook of Sebastian’s neck.

Sebastian would be the type of guy who would film their sex. Take photos. Want to make sex tapes, humiliate Ciel as he watched them fuck, playing it over and over, getting the heir all flustered. Use it as blackmail in arguments - “you aren’t mad at me heiress, you were moaning my name just an hour ago.”

He’d cum inside of Ciel and pull out, zip Ciel’s trousers back up and groan as his cum dripped out of Ciel and stained the fabric, fingers crooked over the spread of his thighs, smirking as the heiress shook in humiliation.

Maybe Ciel buys Sebastian a collar.

I seriously love this headcanon. There’s so many different things you could do. Sebastian would snort cocaine. DeWitt would be a dirty cop.

Ugh. It’s just like the modern LPM au - no one ask me to write them, because I will.

Did I ever tell you guys about my modern TGN au?

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

I'm kinda ashamed to ask this, but could you make a tutorial on how to draw hands? ;A;

omg dont be ashamed at all!! Hands are generally tough to get used to, lots of artists struggle with it! so dont be ashamed i feel you.

and I actually have made a hand anatomy guide before in fact! If you want to get better at drawing hands I def recommend you learn the basic anatomy first. Please check out the ones I made, I try to make it simple and easy to understand:

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 1

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 2

There’s my guide to the anatomy, but here’s some more tips that I’ve noted to myself that I’d like to include

First off, I’d like to just note on the fingers: if you pay close attention to your own hand, you may notice the fingers are ever ever so slightly curved inward. It’s a very subtle detail, but I noticed that, despite how slight it is, it can make a hand look more lively, and less stiff.

Second, the “M” on the palm! Your hand moves in many ways, and because it does it creates creases in your hand. The most prominent creases appear to make an M shape; this is handy to remember for what I’m going to talk about next. (It also could be a “W” I guess, or to be more specific a “ )X( “; just think of it in whatever way helps you remember!)

SO now that you see the M, draw your hand as a basic blocked shape and add your details. As you do, you can see that the M divides the palm into four basic parts!

When the hand moves, parts A, B, or C of the palm, alone or in different combos, will create the general poses that the hands do normally. These parts are the parts that move, with D being stationary, no matter what!

Here’s a chart of all the possible combos. Once you have down what part of the hand moves for a certain pose, you can change up the fingers and tweak it a bit to do what you need to make it more specific!

This is simply my method of drawing hands. God knows there are hundreds of tutorials out there by other artists, but personally, this way helps me the best (after learning the anatomy first). 

This way I can divide the hand and combine the parts in any such way I need! 

Hands take a lot of effort to grapple, and you need to practice them a lot, especially foreshortening of the hand; that’s really something you need to learn through your own studies. Look at your own hands, draw hands from life, from magazines, shows, comics; just draw hands! You’ll eventually figure out a method that works best for you. So to get better at drawing hands; draw hands!! And don’t stress over it, have fun with it!

This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.

How to recreate the mp100 psychic power effect

If you’re like me (not very creative) you’ve probably considered figuring out if you can decently recreate the effect they use in mp100 whenever anyone uses psychic powers. If you don’t know what the fuck a mob psycho is, here are some examples of what that is.

it’s funky and cool

Disclaimer! This is probably not the most intuitive way to do this. There’s probably some photoshop thingy that can generate these sort of textures or something. I’m just using firealpaca, so this can probably be used in a lot of different programs. All you really need is clipping.

STEP ONE

Get yourself some textures. I did this by looking up “holographic foil texture” but uh. the results aren’t amazing. Please tell me if there’s a better way to find these sorts of textures because. yeah.

I’ll also put some textures I’ve made beforehand under the cut because this is just outrageous.

STEP TWO (skip if using my textures)

Find a way to make it usable as a texture. No idea how this works in other programs but in firealpaca there’s a thing called extracting lines under the filter tab, mess with that a bit. You want there to be a lot of contrast between the transparent and black parts.

Here’s the first texture I made that’ll also be at the bottom of the post for redundancy.

STEP THREE

Get your drawing and put a fuzzy aura with an airbrush around the character doing the psychicing. You may want to use a bright color just so you can see it if there’s a white background, but you’ll eventually need to make it white.

for example, here’s a mob.

STEP FOUR

Take the texture and put it over your drawing, just enough so it covers the aura. Then, either turn on protect alpha or make another layer with clipping and color the texture. You may want to play around with the colors a bit, but you can do this at any stage so. ya.

STEP FIVE

Alright now you can clip the texture onto the aura and make it white. This is all pretty simple stuff uhh… If you don’t know how to clip things and use protect alpha, look in your layer settings. Keep in mind it may be called something different in your program, also you may have to merge the color layer onto the texture layer if your program can’t clip over clipped layers.

And that’s pretty much it! You can play around with colors and maybe put a slightly off center layer of the filter that’s another color under the main layer… etc etc.

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remember when you were a kid and whenever your parents came into the room while you were doing something for pleasure like looking at something on the computer or watching tv and you’d immediately close the thing like you’d just been caught watching porn when you were actually doing nothing wrong this post was made by strict parents with no boundaries gang

quick and easy: Rivulets And Rain by ZedEdge

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.