A Tip For Excellent Writing I Just Learned: Don't Introduce A Character With Their Dramatic Backstory.

Today I learned about an incredible artist named John Conrad Berkey. He created cover art for many science fiction books, and also created artwork for NASA! But he’s most famous for his incredible Star Wars illustrations.

George Lucas actually bought several John Berkey science fiction illustrations and used them to help pitch Star Wars to studios. And many of Berkey’s pervious artwork was used as inspiration for Star Wars’s visuals.

Berkey was later commissioned by LucasFilm to create posters for Star Wars, shown below:

"Berkey's imagination and expressionistic style quickly set him apart from other sci-fi illustrators. From a distance, his paintings appear very exacting and perfectly rendered. But upon closer inspection, they reveal a beautifully loose and freely abstract style."

―Rusty Freeman, Vice-President, Collections & Public Programs, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota

You can check out Berkey’s website here, and read his Wookieepedia page here

Favorite joke is whenever Saiki brings up dark reunion as a real option whenever someone or something is being shady

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

HEARTBREAKING: band you just discovered doesn't have any other songs that sound like that

More sketchbook art! Couldn't figure out how to make the colours bright enough but I tried.

not my art but this is so sick omg and I love crustaceans

crayfish galore!

my ocs :)

These are my ocs Flint (she/they) and Kai (he/they). If you see inconsistencies in their designs on here worry not I just keep tweaking them .

not my art but i am obsessed with this omg oarfish

My train was late. AGAIN.

My ocs Leili and Kai :)

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

I desperately need someone to convince my nervous system that the tiger does not exist.