Awesomnistic

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

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He treats darker stories, like from the 1980s, as inherently bad because they are dark.

He regards Iron Man’s alcoholism as irrelevant and pointless, pointing to exorcising it from Iron Man 2 as a smart decision.

He lambasts The Dark Knight Returns as dated. Watchmen as dated.

He bangs on about comics being for children and therefore hating on anything adult present in them.

This…is childish in an equal yet opposite way to Snyder’s approach in Dawn of Justice and Man of Steel.

Superhero comic books can have a variety of tones. Even individual characters can.

A Spider-Man, Iron Man or Batman story is not bad merely because it is dark or because they were intended for a younger audience.

It’s particularly stupid given the average age of most comic book readers along with the fact that even back in the 1960s the Marvel pantheon’s main readership was older teens and college students.

I’ve talked before about how decrying something as dated is an inherently invalid form of criticism.*

This is very much the problem with Bob’s ‘hot takes’ on DKR and Watchmen. He ignores their quality by the standards of the time they were written. Quite aside from ignoring how generally well written they are even now. It’s not like the average mini-series is that good today FFS.

Nuance is the key.

Stories can be light and fun AND dark and serious.

It’s HOW they are done that is the important part.

The Dark Knight is dark and serious and it’s good. Dawn of Justice is dark and serious but it is bad.

Avengers Assemble is light and fun and it’s good. Superman IV: the Quest for Peace is light and fun but it’s bad.

Don’t treat all dark, serious or adult content with superheroes as an inherent flaw jackass(es).

*Want proof of this?

The most beloved, acclaimed and rewatched British sitcom ever is a 4 camera laugh track affair very obviously made and set during the 1980s-1990s, complete with corded phones, VCRs and dated slang.

[AMV] Jon Arbuckle - You’re Gonna Go Far Kid

this is one of my favorite videos on the internet, and it kills me that the source has been silenced by youtube’s copyright system, so I’m putting it here!

I have seen a version of this on tumblr before, but the audio in that one is just a little bit off because that person edited it back in themselves

but today, I am proud to present the original video, sent to me by Crispy Crungy, who gave me permission to upload it here and share it with you all!