Something Borrowed
FUck
well
…
…
spirited away
uHHHHHHHHHH
Autopsy.
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yes good.
Dolphin Tale.
…. wait am i the kid or the dolphin?
Mummy Returns.
Awesome, I’m the guy that saves the world! X3
Sailor cat!
Lovely Masochist…………………omg
Happy Bishoujo. Fuck yeaaah.
Super Angel.
I think I can live with this.
Dark Pretty-Boy…
I’m a girl. 0_0
((Chibi Prince. XD))
(Sailor Devil.)
Detective Vampire-Magician.
Henshin oyomesan
Kamen Do-S (Masked Sadist)
Chibi Lovely Masochist
I’M GR8
Detective Akuma….. i am okay with the sherlock reference
Phantom Thief Angel
Win? lmao. Also, DNAngel reference? Or is it just me?
reblog with ur age
17
14 pwned lmao
19
15
13 (I’m awaiting your flaming tonfas of doom)
12
oh what the hell is up now16 everybody else go home.
Hi yes, um, I’m 16 too.
19
20
14
15 wow im boring
17 woop. come celebrate my birthday in 9 months
16.289900097349889761609371487643156.
What now? Mine’s all long and such. (and most of those digits are made up ;))
ah yes katsucon
i- i don’t know…. how to feel about this
Mr. T pity the fool that doesn’t know about Homestuck!
HOLY— LOOK AT ALL THE BOUNCY BALLS OOH MAH GOD
I. Want. To. Live. Here.
Fun all day!
… Until you get hit in the eye or in the head with one…..
Or a dozen….
Or a couple hundred……..
Ok, never mind.
seriously, what is up with the rubics cubes all of a sudden?
also, im bored, anyone got pesterchum? im ragingArachnid
You ever try beating one?
Quite a few people can, but only some ever show it ;)
So its like bragging.
It bothers me when so many kids around my age or younger have convinced themselves that they’ll end up being alone. You…really don’t know how much can change in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years and so on… do you? How many people can walk into your life.
One day someone will show up and they will be the answer as to why nothing else ever worked out.Yes^
doubleyes^
Quadruplekazillionyes^
(hopefully.lol)
This will be one of the times where I write about something I care about. As all of you who follow me should know, art is a huge part of my life, so I think about it a lot and it is easy for me to over-think things that people say…especially when it is against my entirely favorite genre of art. Soo I want to say something really important that I have been thinking about lately.
I am very bothered by something and I’ll tell you flat out why; I have been reading some of the stuff said on artist-confessions’ tumblr… and, while it is totally valid to critique an artists’ work or a style or complain about it, all I can really say is that I really just don’t understand some things people say there, and in the art world in general.
When I got into High-school. In my first year, I found out that “fine” artists really hated anime. When reviewing my freshman-year highschool portfolio, my teacher told me “you are really imaginative. you seem like you are the kind of person who can turn a table-lamp into a creature and that’s really amazing. but, you should really drop the whole anime thing.” This, mixed with my hatred for most people who liked anime (I blame my horrible anime club experiences…) led me to quickly take her advice and swerve into a semi-western-cartoon semi-realism style. I was pretty proud of it and my teachers seemed to like it and its application. But slowly, I started losing interest in drawing. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because I just didn’t think I could make it, etc, because the fine-arts world was just way over my head. I think at that point, I just didn’t understand what the art world wanted from me, so I didn’t know what I wanted from art. I sometimes still drew on the side, I never really stopped, but I was harshly critical of everything I drew and everything everyone else drew, especially if it wasn’t “fine art” or “meaningful/deep” art, I barred myself from liking anything that wasn’t within that realm.
In the last few years however, I have learned a LOT about myself, and for this I can thank a certain friend, who draws anime art. He was really really amazing to me, and completely changed my outlook on anime art and comprehension and my ENTIRE DIRECTION With my life. He did this by showing me his art, and by simply diversifying the style with all the ASTOUNDING anime artists there are out there. When I met him, I started drawing anime art again, because I WANTED to do it despite what people hated about it, and you know what? It just makes me happy. Plain and simple. That is why I do it. It makes me happy and it is how I like to express myself, and what I like looking at because it inspires me. I am excited to draw again, I am excited to show people my ideas again in a medium that I enjoy, and enjoying and exploring anime style has made me appreciate many other art styles too, because they really add to my ability to show what anime can really be. I am no longer afraid to say that I am an anime artist. I am not filled with DREAD anymore to tell people that I am, and I am not afraid anymore to tell art teachers that it is my main focus. Why? Because I know people just don’t understand how GOOD it can be.
That is why I am writing this and defending it. Because it is a colorful, varied, beautiful art style that I absolutely adore above all others, and I hate that people only see the horrible thick top coating of BAD anime art.
I realize it doesn’t make everyone happy. I realize some people just PLAIN do not like the style either and that’s totally fine! There are a few reasons I think people hate it so much, though- It is because it is very popular and easy to laugh at. It is because a LOT of anime artists are very annoying, Japan-idolizing, CRAZY anime fans who can’t appreciate other mediums, especially ones from their own culture. It is because the things people see are not very diverse, and the good anime artists are hidden out of plain sight, due to the fact that many of them draw things that MOST anime lovers don’t like as much. It is because many people use it as a way to draw fan-arts of almost EVERYTHING and makes EVERYTHING look like the “same thing/pose/style”, even though the original was unique. I think it is because MANY anime artists don’t learn basics and don’t develop their own sense of style or subject, and draw copies of things they “learn” in American how-to-draw-manga books.
…But I really don’t think people should be so harsh on anime as a genre of art, and shouldn’t group all anime artists together. I simply think people just haven’t seen enough of it or have an idea of it that is based on popular American anime artists on deviant-ART, or on Bleach / Naruto / Sailor Moon.
Honestly. NO style of art is a limited style, and what you see on the surface is NEVER what should be considered the depths of the style. People, especially within the art community need to stop hating each others art that is different from their own, and putting each other down for things they probably don’t understand. I mean, I don’t understand abstract art that looks like paint splattered on a wall by a small child, or the hundreds of sepia-tone photography of naked girls with a deer skull held in front of their face, or church pews rearranged to look like a sail-boat with movie screens peeking out of the broken parts, or anything else that can be considered “fine” art… but I still appreciate it for what it is and don’t put people down for their adoration or creation of it, in fact I applaud them for having a difference of style from me- because artists need to learn how to LEARN from each other, outside of their stylistic “boundaries”. There needs to stop being furry versus anime versus realism versus painting versus digital art versus ANYTHING ELSE war— it’s ALL ART, celebrate it because it is all beautiful! see the beauty in it, or try to look deeper into it instead of complaining and despising the things you don’t understand!
WHY DOESN’T THIS POST HAVE ANY NOTES!? THIS IS THE BEST RANT I’VE READ TODAY. I LOVE YOU DEAR PERSON ON THE INTERNET.
YES PLEASE do read this. I hate it when I hear about people feeling pressured to get rid of their anime style even though they love it, simply because of how so many look down on the style. Drawing other things to learn and practise is good, but if anime and manga is what inspired your style the most then people have no right to tell you that you’re any less of an artist because of it.i drew anime/manga style for years and it really hindered my ability to draw correct human anatomy…i’m still behind artistically even though i haven’t drawn in that style for over 3 years.
the problem is when people buy ‘how to draw anime’ books and then never attempt to draw from life or learn the building blocks of art and then get huffy when people criticize them.
there’s nothing wrong with any form of stylization but people have to learn the rules before bending them to suit their own personal needs. I wish someone had told me this years ago or else I wouldn’t be struggling right now.
Anime is my main style. BUT. I am practicing with other styles as well.
I study anatomy, and I draw it, and I learn from my mistakes, and I keep on going.
I’m working on a western semi-realism style, and I think I’m doing good.
And remember that not all art is visual.
Anyway, I love you, person on the internet.
Drawing in an anime style is the only way i can draw, drawing realistic and semi-realistic doesn’t quite mix well with me. Regarding people who hate that style and want me to change, well forget about it. This style is my absolute favorite and i will never change it.
Anyways, beautiful post. And i think many need to read this. <3
reblogging for everyone again. Including the haters.
ugh YES
seriously, what the hell is wrong with anime? who gives a fuck if the faces aren’t realistic? when i finally felt that i was a good enough artist to draw people ( i couldn’t for years, so i stuck to animals, and am much better at drawing them ) i started drawing in anime style. i had only just gotten in to anime, and i still watch it. i loved and still love drawing the eyes, because i think they are really pretty. that has always been a main focus with me. eyes i mean. and i just love really pretty eyes. however, i sucked at anime. but i still kept trying. now i just have a sort of cartoony-anime style, and i love drawing big sparkly eyes and making them really pretty. for instance, when i started watching Code Geass, i kept watching and absolutely loved the main character Lelouch because he had purple eyes. PURPLE! i had never seen a character with purple eyes until then, but i thought it was so cool.
but, anyway, my art style is still changing, but it will always have strong anime roots
