ALEX • 18 • HE/HIMhey, i'm an enthusiastic nihilist and an irony lover. i really like paintings, and i don't do those enough. i consider myself an artist, i'm heavily interested in the superhero scene, i will post my aesthetics here and my art occasionaly.
I’M SO IN LOVE WITH @toastyhat‘S “CHURCH” ANIMATIC. This is some fanart of Ashivon, whom I will protect with my life, a fluffy demon boyo who has never done anything wrong in his life, ever, he has such a beautiful smile, i bet he likes petting–
If you want to find out more about Ashivon, please do watch this animatic, it really is worth the watch! You can also buy a .pdf with all the concept art toastyhat did for the animatic for only 2$ over here
AAHHHHHH?!?!?!? AAAHHHHHHH HOOOOOOOHHHHHH HRRRGGHHHHHH these are so gorgeously rendered?!?! the colors are giving me LIFE the poses are so solid and dynamic AAAHHHHH ;A; thank you!!!!!!
Someone in the notes of the last Leyendecker post I reblogged mentioned having difficulty telling his work and Rockwell’s apart, and I know from experience that many people get them confused, which is somewhat astonishing as, to my eyes, their styles are very distinct. Leyendecker was Rockwell’s idol and mentor, but they were very different people and were interested in portraying different aspects of humanity, even when the basic subject matter was the same.
Surface-level, here are some differences:
See below: Two paintings of soldiers with women, but in Rockwell’s there is a clear punchline, and while the poses are contrived for the sake of composition, they’re not self-conscious. The women are pretty- as demanded by the central joke- but not truly sexualized anywhere but in the mind of the young soldier who is being overloaded with cake and attention.
Contrast Leyendecker’s soldiers with a young nurse. Everyone in this image is posing attractively- no one has their mouth full or ears sticking out. Each crease and fold is sharp and sculptural, and the light picks out their best features- in particular the shoulders and posterior of the soldier facing away from the viewer. There is neither joke nor story, merely a group of beautiful young people, portrayed with deft brushwork and graceful lines. (and check out that hatching! That’s indicator #1 that you’ve got a Leyendecker image)
Leyendecker was very comfortable with “hot young things wearing clothes”, and did them very VERY well, but his facility with idealization came at the cost of personalization, which was fine for fashion illustration, but shows in his domestic scenes:
Beautiful, but… cold. (Also, that hand on the left- who holds a baby with their hand like that??? Good lord, J.C.) Compare a Rockwell illustration (for a baby food brand, I believe) of a mother and baby: this is clearly a real and individual young mother and baby, interacting exactly how parents and babies really interact.
Even when they did basically the same content, and putting aside posing or composition or anything other than objective visual analysis, it’s still obvious who is who:
Now go forth, confident in the knowledge that you’ll never confuse a Rockwell or a Leyendecker ever again, and can refute any claim that their styles are ‘virtually identical’.
Thanks, I hate it
do you ever just think how men are allowed to look like shit at every second of the day. teenage boys are just allowed to have acne, old men are just allowed to have wrinkles. men can just go outside as they are and be attractive, women do it and they’re ‘sporting a natural look’
imagine if ed sheeran was a woman. he wouldn’t have a career
There are three breeds of cat:
Chonk
Goblin
Yeah that looks like a cat
donesparceSubcategories of breeds:
Floof
Naked
Normal
argentinelakeduck
This is my favorite post
did someone break a torch, why did tumblr suddenly get so dark
end-gatewaySome time ago we took a long, hard look at how we stacked up to the recommendations outlined in the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the initiative that sets standards for accessibility for people who may need assistance using the internet. It outlines steps to take and tools to use to create as seamless of an experience online as possible, whether you have auditory, visual, or neurological disabilities, are using a limited device, are on a slow connection with limited bandwidth, or…well, a whole bunch of other reasons.
The result of that long, hard look? Not great. We needed to make sure Tumblr was accessible to anyone who wants to use it.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to do just that. Our inaccessible menus are more accessible, we fixed our poorly described elements, and increased overall readability. You can read more about all that in our most recent @javascript post about the mobile web.
Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI, most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? Bad. It was bad, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments.
It looks…cleaner, doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker, the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our new brand colors, and it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? Good! Very good.
The switch to your brand new, higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll get it sometime in the next few days.
A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you have created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope, however, that this change only means newer, more bluespace art will be created, and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.
Goodbye, #36465D. You’ve treated many of us well, but #001935 will treat every single one of us even better.
halfusekTHOSE COLORS ARE NICE FOR ART AND STUFF BUT NOT FOR A WEBSITE
