hboscar:

katlay:

The mini I’ve been working on for a couple weeks now….this started as a word ladder, and the last bit was a total, last minute ending. Because it was fun. 

that was not the ending I expected…

edentimm:

i dont exist so you can find me attractive and acceptable

happyd00dle:

tastefullyoffensive:

[philintheblanks]

He has a tumblr, guys! Go follow him!!

Phil McAndrew

beastlyart:

brokenjaw:

What a cutie-patootie. 

Yes hello, I would like one of these. I really love the concept of raising a tiny sapling into a giant protective plant monster aw <3

kateoplis:

Huxley vs. Orwell

darkwingsnark:

crackpotcomics:

“Fiction, or, Why I’m A Cartoonist, and/or Why It’s So Hard For Me To Make Friends”, a story I’ve been meaning to tell for a long time.

Since only 10 images are allowed in a photoset, here’s the cover (bigger image here):

Something I think we can all relate to. Give it a read, please. Crackpot is a wonderful person with limitless talent and deserves the whole world seeing it.

mynameismad:

gameplate:

Minecraft comic series by 

Alexander Diochon

AAA COOL

theamericankid:

Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.

well you’re in luck tumblr because it comes from this lovely lady!

anthonyholden:

What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?

I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!

I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!

If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.

Be good, and see you soon!

PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.

fairytalemood:

“The Little Mermaid” by Ileana Surducan

ktshy:

stephenmccranie:

I’m sad how tumblr doesn’t let us talk much. Will you follow me on twitter? I’ll follow you back:

https://twitter.com/stephenmccranie

More comic essays like this can be read at:

http://doodlealley.com/

Stephen’s comic essays get me so excited about drawing and thinking about comics…

itscarororo:

hotwingforgery:

so some advice I received in high school that has stuck with me to this day is that art block is just “your art in the process of getting better” so you just gotta push through it and get to that next level!

This is my take on that advice :P

shannon’s right!!