It’s been about a year since I’m REALLY sort of productive artistically, and I figured out what I have to do to get back on my feet, even if it’s something that sounds completely stupid to have as a “realization”.

I have to stop being afraid and actually draw.

Some drawings I publish here from now on might be a bigger mess than what I normally used to post, and that’s because I have to get used to the idea of exposing my work to other people again, and to the idea that mistakes aren’t unerasable stains that stay with you forever.

I’m finally admitting to myself: Yes, I am a beginner.  I am ignorant.  I am unskilled.  And that’s okay.  I’ll just have to endure this period of mediocrity by drawing and writing a LOT until I get Sort of Better at This.

attempts at character design for a thing I am working on

these are all ideas for the same character, whoops

winnr:

mercurialblonde:

deliciousironing:

Abstraction 1-9

Comics to make you give up trying to make comics by Shintaro Kago

JESUS

tropicalwind:

3go:

geekgirlsmash:

1. Click This
2. Make A Self Portrait Using The Doll Maker You Got.
3. Post It.

Here’s Mine:

literally the closest thing i could make to being me 0/10 would not play again

I am the Hungriest Dwarf ever.

http://www.dolldivine.com/seed-plant-breeder.php

So my semester’s over and a few months of free time are coming.  

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wnycradiolab:

atlasobscura:

odditiesoflife:

The Amazing Underwater Forest of Lake Kaindy

What makes Lake Kaindy truly remarkable is that it contains an underwater forest. Visible on the lakes surface are the tall, dried-out tops of submerged Spruce trees that rise above the water’s surface like the masts of sunken ships. They are the only sign of the amazing frozen forest below the water’s surface.

The water is so cold (even in summer the temperature does not exceed 6 degrees) that the pine needles remain on the trees, even after a hundred years of being submerged. During the winter, the lake freezes and becomes a popular spot for ice diving.

The lake is 400 meters long and is located in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains, about 129 km from the city of Almaty. The lake was created after an earthquake in 1911 triggered a large landslide blocking the gorge and forming a natural dam.

Even more on Kaindy Lake… 

Holy crap.

crispysnakes:

reptilesrevolution:

raptinawe:

Chrysopelea paradisi, gliding snake read more on National Geographic and flyingsnake.org. Watch Jake Socha TEDxVideo:

Photos by Jake Socha and Tim Laman. Gif video sources 1.) PBS and 2.) IoP. 

Paper: J.J. Socha, Gliding Flight in Chrysopelea: Turning a Snake into a Wing (free acces).

Survival Of The Fittest. 

So happy for these gifs look at that gorgeous snake

rhamphotheca:

The monkeylike face of a goby fish peers out from the center of a coral labyrinth. The fish depends on the coral for its home, and, in turn, often cleans smothering algae from the coral. This image was accepted into the Art of Science 2013 competition at Princeton University.

Photo: Chhaya Werner, Princeton Univ. Art of Science Competition

(via: Live Science)

tropicalwind:

TELL ME IM PRETTY

Hooray, Wahoo, Excitement, Ahhh Ten Thousand Years Free, Etc. Etc.