Nisie is a fangirl and an artist. Main fandoms are Harry Potter, Doctor Who and am currently obsessing over Game of Thrones and Les Mis. I draw fanart for whatever catches my fancy. Sometimes NSFW. I post alot of illustration and comics and personal crap too. Don't expect any kind of consistency with this blog.
im so excited for these !! coloring is literally the bane of my existence so i rly appreciate u sharing knowledge xxx
yay yayy! I hope you find them as useful as i have in making them. i’m learning that it’s one thing to know about color theory, and a whole other thing to know how to use it- and i realize that i’ve been really lazy about things in my own work.
ok wow, i’m working on stuff for the next two color tutorials, and wow, there’s just much crap to know, like I’M LEARNING SO MUCH by trying to describe for you why things looks good, like thank you guys for encouraging me to get off my butt and start learning new stuff.
(PS the next two topics are: Organizing Color, and Using Color Theory)
I’m doing a tumblr exclusive giveaway for this set of silkscreen prints, Death as They Know It and Life as They Know It, inspired by Sofia Coppola’s film, The Virgin Suicides. I’ve decided to remove the last set I’ve got left from my shop at www.jamesreadsmerch.com and give them away to one lucky tumblr recipient!
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You can enter until June 6th at noon eastern standard time. At which point I will choose one person with a random number generator.
Good luck, and thank you for your support!!
literature meme | [1/2] movements: Romanticism
In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of sensibility with its emphasis on women and children, the heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and “pure” nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology.
In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime. As articulated by the British statesman Edmund Burke in a 1757 treatise and echoed by the French philosopher Denis Diderot a decade later, “all that stuns the soul, all that imprints a feeling of terror, leads to the sublime.”
It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, made spontaneity a desirable characteristic (as in the musical impromptu), and argued for a “natural” epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie.
- Michel Foucault (via evocativesynthesis)
… I’m a graphic designer and I’m not “anal” I don’t mind your layout. It’s cluttered and doesn’t read in an intuitive way but no one said it had to so … I just think your being a bit harsh here
hahaha, sorry sorry no offense intended i meant it in a very loving way, bc i sincerely wish that i could be as attentive to details and cleanliness and simplicity and usability. i think nothing beats an elegant design and it takes a very critical eye to achieve one, and lords knows i can’t do it.
i didnt notice any problems either um
yeah. i’m thinking maybe they’re just a super anal graphic designer (all gd’s are super anal, it’s just their nature) who is screaming inside at the color of the text.
Like its graphic design 101 that long text needs to be in easy to read fonts and neutral colors or else readers will end up with eye strain and quit reading, but i didn’t making this layout with the intention of making long text posts, which isn’t so much an excuse as my mistake in not making a super flexible layout.
but i’m hoping in the new theme i make to figure out a way to get posts to render with bright colors on the main page and neutral colors on the individual posts…..ugh, but jquery’s masonry script seems really tedious to learn to code myself.
