has no one told you about closing time ?

9 / 10 / juice

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

Tf2 mii's!

As promised here are my tomodachi life mii designs :)

I'm really happy with them! :D here are some bonus screenshots i think are funny/cute:

They all also have different personalities! lemme know if you want to know them :) some stuff that happend: Heavy and Medic are married, Spy and Engie are married, Demo and Sniper are married AND Soldier and Pyro are married. so much marriage... Some were in my control and others were SUCH a suprise. Soldier and Pyro both went: you know what, what the hell sure why not. Engie got rejected 3 times by 3 diffrent mercs, and Spy almost divorced him. Poor dude

the ninejuice fandom is dying reblog if you're a true ninejuicer

happy birthday, juno - happy 15th birthday

big things happening in jon bois land

to witness creation

like i can’t express how much hope it gives me seeing other people’s niche obsessions or ship content or whatever even if it’s “fandomslop” or already existing characters it’s so much better than making nothing i have to tell myself this repeatedly YOU HAVE TO MAKE THINGS EVEN IF THEY’RE STUPID AND “BAD” PLEASE DON’T EVER STOP. YOU KNOW WHY BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THEM. DO YOU KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS TO LOVE LIKE THIS

gay pride flag for people who can see a much wider range of wavelengths

GAY!! GAY!!! ALL OF THEM ARE!!!!

gay pride flag for people who can see a much wider range of wavelengths

This song has been stuck in my head ever since it's release and as I try to figure out what's the story behind it, I realized that this song applies to Jupiter space missons (Galileo, Juno, Juice, Clipper) horribly well. To quote my favorite part of it: "Depressurize Sign off goodbye Into your space here I dive.

If we must die Let us die million billion times Until we are moons of Jupiter."

Ever since I made the connection I can't help but weep a little thinking about my lovely probes. Like wdym death is inevitable for them. Nooo don't kill yourself your so sexy haha /ref I'd like to make an edit or something with this song, but it's harder than I thought lol

TIL there are 3 little lego figurines attached to Juno, just found out about this after reading random shit about her 'cause I got sad about the mission again. And just like Juice, Juno also has a Galileo tribute plaque travelling with her to space too.

Rest in power queen

It's Juno launch day today!! She's 15 now holy shit

I don't have anything for her... But this post.

P/S: "Rest in power" your ass Juno lives for another 5 thousand years affirmative

alts n talk below the cut

Webb's Eleven

Continuing my movie poster theme from last year's Art Fight with 11 JWST characters that I haven't drawn yet! The roster grows ever larger... The list is up to 43 now!

Character credits from left to right: @polswiss @/S00K00B1M @prosteishiysputnik @spaceraceart @axopies @the-vast-overcast @infectedscreen @pillarsofnoise @/pancakezaza @/Lucy_Starlight @/veronicaa

I have never actually seen Ocean's Eleven but the poster looked so perfect for what I was goin for!

Art details below

*jumps up and down waving my hands and yelling in a crowd* DISCORD WAS NEVER MEANT TO REPLACE FORUMS AND WIKIS!!! IT'S JUST EMBELLISHED CHATROOMS WITH MULTIPLAYER GAMING FEATURES AND LOOTBOXES AND SHIT!!! PLEASE PUT FAQS AND MESSAGE BOARDS OR AT LEAST A DIRECT EMAIL-BASED SUPPORT SYSTEM ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! 1GB NEOCITIES DOMAIN ZERO DOLLARS

part of being an adult is figuring out what eveyone else's definition of "going crazy" is. to you it is not sleeping for 60 hours, writing 80k words in one sitting and expiriencing enough anxiety to kill a horse. to beth from accounting its buying a ticket to Columbus, Ohio. and to your friend its consuming so much ketamine you lose all of your posessions and wake up with five broken bones in a ditch somewhere and then proceeding to do it again the next day. to your other friend its writing a letter to their favourite actress about how much they appreciate her work. to your neighbour its laughing loudly in a grocery store whilst in pajamas. maya from uni hears the voice of her dead father making jokes with no punchlines and she considers that to be quite normal - to her going crazy would be hearing her husband instead. your downstairs neighbour will take night walks naked sometimes and claim there is nothing weird about him. there are literally no rules to life and all meaning is in the eye of the beholder.