start anew. throw away old memories if they remind you of bad things. burn what they’ve touched. rip apart pictures of you with them. trash what no longer brings you joy, no matter how old the memory. start anew.

I actually like this one haha. Done with watercolor and a Hi-Tec-05 Pilot Pen.

this is the most romantic thing i’ve seen all day

No shit. That tom cat was like:

“This thorn invested wall means nothing.”

“I will gladly walk on it a thousand times over, if that means I could be with you, my lady.”

and the lady cat was all:

“My brave darling.”

OOOPS MY HAND SLIPPED!!

Suddenly my muse insisted me to draw the personification version of the last pic, and who am I to reject inspiration when it comes so willingly to me? At least this will help with the artblock issue I currently have to deal with.

Russian imperial era inspired because hot damn.

Note: I tried google reverse image (and other reverse image search engines) those photos and came up with nothing. I wish I knew the original photographer because I want to love hug him/her so hard for capturing such inspiring moments.

OMG that’s the cutest thing ever and the best courtly love ah so brilliant.

Few romantic heroes could do better.

I don’t post cats often but that illustration.

Lapis!!!! You can get this design as a t-shirt in my shop :D

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

So far the links are legit and I am playing with it as we speak. This is gonna be handy as fuck since I plan on getting back into drawing fantasy men in Empowering Armor and poses.

Being described as “The Last of My Name” is way cooler than “an only child”

ねむねむインコ可愛い(´*ω*`) #マメルリハ #インコ #らむまめ 〜 らむﾁｬﾝ(・Θ・)まめ吉

Sleepy parakeets so cute (´*ω*`) #Mameruriha #parakeet #ramumame 〜 らむﾁｬﾝ(・Θ・)まめ吉

Decided to draw England in my clothes beause it looks good, I guess~

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Who let me make more bad cat puns???

(Available on redbubble here as shirts, bags, etc. if cat pun merch is your thing!)

This was ultimately my first, and overall favourite, cosplay picture of the day… my friend and I were just getting our wristbands on when a SPECTACULAR Dean and Castiel duo appeared…

When asked for a photo, they responded, ‘How close would you like us to be?’

And I responded, ‘Strike your best Destiel pose, if you don’t mind…’

The response?

'Sure, but be quick, I can't hold it for long!'

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The result speaks for itself, I think.

Awesome cosplayers, great sports, brilliant photo result.

I know you two have tumblrs, so if you see this, thank you for being so cooperative and… well, Dean, thank you for your flexibility…

-The Little Sister

Alright, our Dean and Castiel found the photo!

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Dean (icanwritejunk)   & Castiel (sceneseannn)

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Feel free to tell them how awesome their cosplays were, friends, followers and mortals-under-my-command…