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Yoshitaka Amano: Elevating Anime

Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝) is a Japanese painter, character designer, illustrator, set & costume designer for theatre & film. He first came into prominence in the late 1960s working on the anime adaptation of Speed Racer. Amano later became the creator of iconic & influential characters, such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Hutch the Honeybee & Casshan. In 1982, he became a freelance artist illustrating for numerous best-selling novel series, such as The Guin Saga & Vampire Hunter D. He is probably most famous for his concept art for the video-game franchise, Final Fantasy. Since the 1990s, Amano has been exhibiting his iconic retro pop icons in galleries around the world, painting on massive aluminium panels with acrylic & automotive paint. | Previous Post

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The Love Witch | Anna Biller | 2016

“The iceberg is a fine image of Trance itself, for another, final reason: just as the largest part of an iceberg remains submerged below the water, so too will Sonia keep part of herself hidden, even when she’s exposed to the greatest misery, slavery, and degradation. Hence her refusal to speak or to tell her name. This interiority—which remains unknowable, unreachable, and untouched by those who use and sell her body—is profoundly treasured by the film. This is what constitutes the precious, subterranean core of the iceberg that is Trance.”

“What Is An Iceberg?”: Close-Up on Teresa Villaverde’s “Trance”

More tips:

Just use any old toothbrush. I used to use the ones that my dentist would give me after a visit, just because those were kind of cheap and I wouldn’t actually use them anyways.

I use acrylic for flicking and highlights because watercolour-whites tend to fade when they dry. 

Also, remember to keep your hands clean, because nothing’s worse than smudging graphite into your watercolours and then unable to get it out.

Try to avoid black and white when possible. They tend to dull the colours and it loses that watercolouring lustre. 

Tools:

The closest I could find on Amazon to the watercolour set I use is Talens Japan watercolour, but I think the closest american version is the Koi brand.

Canson Fontenay. I’ve never used Montval from Canson but it’s the only Canson watercolor block i could find on amazon

I’d say Arches has better paper though.

Since I started watercolouring again for my daily sketches, I’ve gotten a lot of asks/dA notes on if I could give a tutorial on watercolouring and also more specific questions that overlapped each other, so I decided to do a semi guide/tips/answering thing.

I actually started watercolouring before I went into digital medium, so I have a bit of personal experience, but I am essentially self-taught when it comes to watercolouring since there weren’t a lot of watercolour tutorials online back then to begin with, so I cannot promise that these are the absolute correct way of doing things. 

Hope it helps anyways :)

I’m cheap. And any cosplayer knows that it can be a pain in the ass to constantly have to buy wigs, especially when you have one or find that could aaaalmost work for another character except- of course- it’s the wrong color. Well I’ve come to realize now that you can repurpose and completely change the look of almost any wig with just a packet of dye. Now this is by no means news to a lot of cosplayers, but I was surprised by how few tutorials on this process I found when I was first wanting to do it. Maybe it’s because Sharpie dyeing is a more practiced method, but I’ve done that too and to me it’s just tedious and doesn’t have reliable mixing results unless you directly color the fiber.

So I’m making my own tutorial for the process I do, turning the wig on the left into the wig on the right:

As an inside joke, the officers decided to have the cake decorated in police-blue ribbons and sugared bees (for a “sting”).

The band, led by a city police officer, announced themselves as a weed-loving group named S.P.O.C, which stood for ‘Somebody Protect Our Crops.’ In actuality, it was just COPS spelled backwards.

They played the song ‘I Fought The Law (and the Law Won)’ as a signal to begin the bust.

“Let’s have some fun,” an officer shouted. “Everybody here that’s a cop, stand up! Okay! All the rest of you motherfuckers put your hands on the table, because you’re under arrest! This is a bust!”

I found a video of The Wedding Sting, but there’s no audio :(

Please unmute? Thanks (•‾⌣‾•)و ̑̑♡

Moon River - a duet with myself. 

Pairing it up with my sketch I did a while ago. This is just a little test; I was trying to see how well i could record singing with my iphone :3. And also how the harmony would work. I struggled with the second half cause I was just coming up with it on the fly. I might do the whole song some day :)

the bizarrest adventure of all: jotaro’s love life