🏳️‍🌈Pride🏳️‍🌈

y’all out here trying to kill me

straighten your back

go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT

go take your meds if you need to

drink some water

go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while

maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)

reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about

Origins SMP Designs!

For those who don’t know: 

Tom Ruegger is the original creator of Animaniacs. He’s the guy you have to thank for the iconic characters Yakko, Wakko, and Dot (for whom the primary inspiration was his own three sons.) Among many others, including the equally popular Pinky and the Brain.  He was also an involved writer/lyricist for the show and played a huge part in coming up with new song & story ideas.

Yet despite all of this, Tom was never asked back for the 2020 reboot. In fact, he wasn’t even aware that a reboot was in production until it was announced to the public. Although Tom has expressed plenty of interest in being involved in the reboot, WB/Hulu has repeatedly turned him away.

Tom’s oldest son, Nate Ruegger (voice of Skippy Squirrel,) has spoken out about this on his twitter: 

“the naked greed on display here to reboot a series without involving any of the original creative team so they can make *more* money, & then joke about it, is gross.” (x)

And he’s absolutely right. Outside of the main voice cast, none of the original team was consulted for the reboot. Tom was/is an integral part of Animaniacs. Without him, the show would never have existed, let alone become a cultural phenomenon. It doesn’t seem right for him to be cut out of the revival of a show that he is largely responsible for bringing to life in the first place.

The mistreatment and blatant disrespect of creators by big-name companies is something I’ve seen way too much of lately, and even though this is far from the first time, that doesn’t make the practice in anyway right or okay.

I’ve seen petitions for this going around, but they rarely gain enough traction, so I’m taking a more direct approach:

I’m asking fans of the series - new & old alike, regardless of your opinion on the reboot itself - to please reblog this. Or, simply spread the hashtag #BringBackTomRuegger somewhere on your social media.

So that we can let the new showrunners know that we, the fans, want to see Tom brought back for future seasons!!!

I finally finished that lineart i posted a couple days ago and it looked good until i made the hair grey ;-;

I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.

What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others. I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they " probably don't have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know..." and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.

I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?

I'm scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.

But mostly, I'm scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.

Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and "fight for yourself above all else" attitude could prove disastrous.

I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let's meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.

Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.

Our children will thank us for it.

- Dr Abdu Sharkawy

Y’all seemed to like the previous time I drew Sve in my hoodies. So here. 

Sve in my hoodies 2: Electric Boogaloo

Aww, that’s so nice! Thank you! I am really passionate about the thoughts of mixing history and culture with characters and stuff. XD So I am having a blast, much more than I did trying to work with the loose canon of Osomatsu san.

So I started drawing when I was about 12 or 14 or something in that age range and it was because my friend and I had OCs that were wolves and lions and we just wanted to share our stories and character designs. At first I just did from memory. I really liked South Park too… so my first sketch book was just South Park.

Dragons and Wolves and stuff too cause yeah. I just did it from my head. Which worked, I got ideas out and even though I would be 12 with these I guess, uh. Yeah. I learned to draw South Park by watching it and drawing along. Back then in 00s we didn’t have Youtube. So now I would say, go and look up drawing tutorials for youtube and stuff. I later in about 06 or so got into anime (who doesn’t) and started to just try to emulate Detective Conan style shit…

I again, still, had NO technique or skills. I just watched Conan and looked at the manga and picked up and a lot of my first stuff was just reproductions…

I also didn’t have a computer, nor any drawing tools… so I didn’t know about layers and I didn’t even know about how to draw traditional besides just a pencil… so all of my stuff was just that.

I pretty much stuck with Pencil Renderings and MS-Paint with a mouse. – Sorry this is long winded. My way I started and got into drawing is so different than what people these days can do… because you guys, everyone, almost, has a digital tablet at their disposal (you can use a smartphone to draw on!!!) youtube and a sea of references that load fast as fuck. Servers and forums with fast advice and people there who wanna help. Not slow forums or anything.

So the best tip is just draw what you want, regardless of if it’s ‘good or not’. - This is, if you want to just produce for the sake of putting your ideas out there. If learning actual technical ability is what you want to do instead… 

Start piece by piece, always use a reference, Look on youtube for beginner drawing tutorials and just kinda follow along like bob ross style. Watch how people IRL move. Think of everything as tubes and shapes.  You wont get good overnight. You wont get good in a few years. So much goes down to muscle memory too. Take your time. Especially with digital, you can constantly go back and make adjustments. Don’t be scared to do that with layers!! Resize, crop, adjust, fix,. Not all works need to be finished. Sketching is the best way to learn. Don’t spend too much time on something sometimes. Sometimes it’s best to just do lots of fast sketches!

the first part you should do is learn how to do simple shapes and burn that into your muscle memory. learn to make a pattern for how you draw things because it will help with consistency in the end.

the most fun time I have drawing is sketching… sorry, i hope this is at least motivational in that we all start from SOMETHING and get somewhere even if we don’t practice dilligently… my art quality began to falter around 2014 or so and has stagnated for the most part…. my stuff in 2009 was actually better than it is now in a lot of ways, especially the colouring and stuff.

(this is from 2008 before my passion was completely removed from my body by my teachers, obivously i know better about perspective and stuff) but I actually used to have fun trying new things. So experiment A LOT. Now I can’t really be arsed…

(this is one of the last pieces I actually put some effort into and it’s date 2015. There has been a few others here and there but this was a try at a very angled 1p perspective) Also I drew with a program that came out in 2002 until 2015 so!! (now I use CSP)