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An infograph showing how to lucid dream. Here are some similar posts I have on my blog, you may enjoy. 

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HE’S TRYING TO BLEND IN.

HE KNOWS HE’S IN DANGER AND HE’S SCARED AND DOESN’T WANT TO BE SEEN.

y’all see this motherfucker right here?

this is the Indonesian Mimic Octopus.

This cool little guy can mimic a crab, lionfish, sea snake, flatfish, and jellyfish. He uses these amazing disguise techniques to avoid and deter predators, and also to attract possible meals.

Animals lived on ground for only 550,000,000 years, while underwater life existed for billions of years. Also the ground is only 30% of the Earth and height wise it’s only as tall as some tall trees unless you’re flying. Also many places on the ground are deserts and thus don’t have water to support much life.

Due to the inconsistencies in style her style, I had suspicions that Ariel might be tracing. Deciding to look further into it, I came across a stock photo that looks remarkably similar to this piece of hers here:

From then on more and more evidence of her having traced many, if not all pieces of her art began to emerge. Not only has she been tracing various stock photos:

She used one of the stock photos to trace a commission for tumblr user @looktothehorizon

She’s also traced non stock photography

T.v screen caps

And different other people’s artwork, one belonging to tumblr user @elvishness and another who I couldn’t find the source for.

Referencing photos is an excellent tool for every artist. I once had an art teacher who told me that you should never draw something unless you have a reference to look at. I don’t really believe that’s necessary, but her point was that there is this culture that’s recently arisen online in which referencing pictures reflects badly on someone’s skill. Every time I reference a picture from sight only, I worry that someone is going to come along and do exactly what you’ve done to this artist. Plenty of artists have taken pose or piece inspiration from stock photos or other artists, and I’m curious as to why you’ve chosen to attack this particular artist for something so common.

These kind of posts, seriously, what is your goal? To set the dogs on this girl for maybe (maybe!) referencing poses? (Because I agree with the comments above, it is clearly not tracing.)

You could’ve asked the original artist. (Also, all these poses are so incredibly generic, she could’ve referenced them from basically anywhere.) And what inconsistency with style? There is none.

I mean, you do realise the most famous artists in the history of the world used references? Look it up, in some cases the original references are still preserved (for instance Mucha’s references, photos, are still to be found).

At least the artist can now join a group of pretty great people, who have all been accused of tracing art.

so, yeah, this person has heavily referenced stock photos, and THAT’S OKAY. THAT’S WHAT STOCK PHOTOS ARE FUCKING FOR. As for the art that was heavily referenced from other artists’ work, there’s nothing wrong with that either??? you know absolutely NO POSE is “original” or “belongs” to an artist??? the poses referenced from other artists here aren’t exactly the most original to begin with, either.

frankly, if i find someone has made a piece of artwork who’s pose is directly based on one that i’ve done, it might surprise me at first but god damn it i’m not going to be OFFENDED, like HOW DARE they steal that pose from me, because MOST LIKELY that pose was either referenced by me from something else or i subconciously remembered that exact pose from something else I saw in my travels as an artist constantly visually memorizing everything around me that inspires me. Either way, its referenced. Doing it by visual cue or doing it by memory are no different from eachother; one is not “better” or “more legitimate” than the other, so fuck off with that.

i just wish artists didnt have to be so fucking afraid to ADMIT that they used reference otherwise people will yell “CHEATER!!” and think that they don’t actually have skill or something stupid because you know it totally doesnt take skill to look at something and use it as reference to render something TOTALLY DIFFERENT with the same likeness, right? either way you spin it, the characters depicted are vastly different from the people in the original photos and that had to be drawn, and it was drawn (and colored??!) very well. “Tracing” or no, someone who is not a good artist wouldn’t be able to add those things.

the great thing is, artists who use references do EVENTALLY learn to break off from having to use them all the time, and start to be able to do stuff from pure memory. but that takes FUCKING YEARS to be able to do (and its still not absolutely 100% reliable, sometimes references for tricky anatomy/posing is STILL NEEDED), and that is something only VERY HIGH LEVEL ARTISTS can do. Do NOT immediately hold every artist posting their work on the net to those standards, its completely fucking unrealistic. let them get there on their own. And even if they don’t, its still none of your fucking business, OP.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

I AM CRYING

THERE ARE ACTUAL TEARS

ALSO I CAN’T BREATHE

OH GOD BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IF YOU *EVER* WERE IN ORCHESTRA OR CHOIR DO YOURSELF A FUCKING FAVOR AND WATCH THIS

The Mind’s Imaginative Adventure 

Within our own imagination, anything is possible. Montreal-based illustrator Gabriel levesque visually conceptualizes this abstract notion with his series titled Mind’s Eye. The alluring images feature a silhouetted figure who is illuminated by the scenes taking place in their head. Each inner picture tells its own story, with a tiny person confronting a foggy, grandiose landscape.

DGM ANIME 2016 CONFRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So - what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

A Restaurant With Goats On The Roof