Old Posts Like This Remind Me That This Place Was Around A Long Time And Things Like Twitter Going To

While lurking in the Twitter wasteland, I came across a few Japanese posts which talked about this guy.

A demon from the Dictionnaire Infernal called Yan-gant-y-tan and apparently he became something of a meme with either the pose or the demon being drawn.

If you want to see things, try using either of his Japanese translations

ヤンガンティタン

Or

ヤン=ガン=イ=タン

The Japanese don’t know how this trend started and honestly, most things don’t make sense nowadays but going with the flow seem to be the best way to live nowadays.

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@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

He “thinks” he’s doing a good job hiding it, but he couldn’t be any more obvious about what he really is. I’m surprised he lived this long without someone staking him

He smiles too wide and shows his fangs, he always talks in a way that makes people to invite him despite the automatic door, bats seem to follow him around (he tries to shoo or hide them away), he’s more lethargic during the day (doesn’t catch fire but does sunburn easy), counts whatever small things fall on the ground, when rain fell and the streets became a makeshift river, he want the long way to avoid it (wasn’t even that deep and he wore rain boots that day), a regular showed her new silver cross necklace and he had a look the was a very forced smile, I once saw a blood bag in his backpack and forgot it was open until breaktime, not to mention the many times he walked past a mirror.

Many vampires wouldn’t make these mistakes, they would were thick clothing, hid their pale skin with certain oils, use glasses or masks to hide their face, they would go to places with designated greeters, ect.

But he doesn’t do any of that, in fact his hiding attempts were more like a kid playing pretend.

So why don’t we throw him out or stake him? After all vampires in recent times have been very aggressive?

Number one, he’s harmless, he cries easy, apologizes absurdly for small mistakes, is amused with ants or ladybugs, and it’s done in a way so absurd that you can tell he isn’t lying.

Number two, I think he might be an outcast or an exile, vampires tend to stay together, but he’s always by himself and any vampires that see him try to avoid him or ignore him if they couldn’t. Because of this, he doesn’t know much about the more unsavory parts of vampire society, which may be a good thing.

And number three, he’s not the only one badly hiding who they are. I’m not the only human here, but I am the only one who know what they are and what to do if they became hostile, though I don’t think I need to.

The one outside chasing out solicitors with a stick is a cat… yokai I think is the term. I think specifically a Kasha. She hides her ears with a beanie that move with certain emotions, sometimes forgets a contact lens, and her “belt” seems to move at times. She’s always near the graveyard, but the church grim always scares her off.

The one restocking magazines while looking out the window is a Dullahan who isn’t seemingly trying hard to hide who they are. His head is slightly unaligned and usually a bit green, with his smile being too wide and too toothy. Not to mention the horse that he tries to hide in the nearby forest that never seems to stay put. There are stories in this area of a horse man with a whip chasing noisy bikers and crooks, so he’s at least doing some good.

The guy playing guitar in the break room was the one I didn’t know what he was until recently and only then it’s a guess. He looks the most human, but then you approach him and feel a divine presence. Not an angel because his songs talk about gods, plural. Always in the forest singing because he “feels at home.” When I looked up his songs, they were Hindu in nature, so I assumed he’s a Gandharva.

The one kicking the vending machine because his sunflower seeds got stuck is something called a Bilwis. There always a breeze whenever he’s around, he looks as corn and wheat products intensely, the cutting of tall grass on the forest, and he always talks in that German accent about his time in the fields. There aren’t any fields around here, so there isn’t much he could do, though I’m keeping an eye on him.

The one at the door is clearly a dragon or snake of a kind, maybe a Vouivre with the scales, the thin tail, the small wings, she isn’t even trying at all to hide. She’s acts like she’s above all and gets a bit prissy when others don’t join in. She’s so proud of herself that she actively wears things like rings, pearls, jewelry, things that attract muggers, which did happen a few times. She’s a nuisance, but all bark, so she’s fine.

That’s not mentioning the drivers which are an elf with the ears and how plants react to them and a gremlin with his small, goblinilke size and stories how he worked on(taking apart) planes.

None of them are doing a good job at hiding who they are, which is saying something considering I was one of the worse liars in my profession. I’m praying for them that these guys aren’t that dense for their sakes.

I am a part of a community of hunters of the supernatural who was sent to this big city to investigate and deal with an influx of supernatural visitors and crimes, though I was sent here to deal with a dealing of some kind of substance, one of the lowest priority jobs given.

(Just say we don’t trust you with anything higher to my face, I’ll understand better than dancing around it.)

They want to know why so may creatures came to the city, son decided to look for a long live species for info, leading to the vampire.

I thought I’d get something, but he knows nothing.

All of them know nothing due to ignorance, avoidance, or being too far in nature to care. I assumed their lives hid something, so I followed, but they’re all clean.

In the end, I tried some other monster I found, but someone didn’t like that, as my apartment was broken into and was left a threatening message to “stop my search or suffer” amidst the broken furniture.

They forced me to inaction because they knew of our plans and are willing to deal with us if we ignored them, like maybe out who we are, which was bad because I didn’t go out dressed like Van Helsing telling people I kill monsters for a living.

I hope to find a way out of this as I don’t want to get my superiors caught… and because I don’t want to leave my coworkers for their sake.

I’ve grown used to them, knowing them personally, actually being friends… maybe a family and I don’t want them to fear me, or worse, targeted by someone.

All I can do at the moment is wait for an opportunity to free myself.

A vampire has worked at the local 7-11 for the past 5 decades. No one has the heart to slay them—partly because they're a good employee, but mostly because they think the vampire is doing a "great job" hiding their vampirism (they're really not).

I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of “the free market” as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet

but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)

and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth

oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc

but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds

safe to say i’m losing my mind

anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭

and the reactions are everything

I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY

toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!

I’ve been thinking of how those rich anime girls or Ojou-samas and how they laugh and I got to wonder if one can imagine one laughing in French, Like not in a dignified ohohohoh~ but more like an exaggerated hon hon hon laugh

Arkveld is really smart when you think about it design wise.

Ghosts don’t exist in Monster Hunter, so how would they make a ghost flagship (who recall, is titled “The White Wraith”)?

Obviously there’s the design, a wyvern whose wrists look shackled and bound by broken chains, a shaggy white coat of fur and cloaked wings… It’s chains burning with ghostly white flames before turning to a bloody, vengeful red.

Yeah yeah design is awesome… But lore! How does Arkveld lorewise connect to a ghost?

Simple… Arkveld is an ecological ghost.

Its species is dead, it is dead, the world has adapted and reshaped without it. Arkveld’s species is artificially revived, mankind’s machinations bringing something that should be dead back into the world of the living.

Something dead, dragged forcefully back onto the living world.

Pretty ghostly if you ask me