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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

Not Flint but she looks very similar haha. A sketchy thing.

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

crayfish galore!

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

I like to think I am smart but I think I would fall for multiples of these.

I am the person who is convinced that me and my clone would be best buddies- provided they don't get an existential crisis and kill me on sight and provided we are similar enough. (I don't think I would kill them because of scientific curiosity and then we would become besties).

I would possibly excuse the murders in the house.

if I got bit by a zombie and stuff was hectic enough and I had too much on my mind I could actually forget.

I would also possibly go into the castle.

Would also summon a demon with my besties if it looked fun enough but I also do tend to be the "uh guys" one so that's 50/50

Coloured in a drawing from months ago. Hopefully it's not too blurry.

The solution to art block is almost always trying a new style, technique or medium and I'm enjoying coloured pencils at the moment.

Redrew a childhood drawings in coloured pencil :) sorry for the lack of contrast

list of protests to protest the supreme court ruling against trans people in the UK

Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

Feels like too many people have forgotten that everyone on earth also has feelings and interior lives and experiences and are themselves entire universes that exist beyond the current and fleeting moment…

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.

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

On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

Flint and Kai as medieval (in vibes mainly) "princes" but the hat Kai is wearing clearly does not belong to them and Flint wants it back.

Can't decide if Flint is a runaway princess dressed in guys clothes (as a continuation from my last post of them) or if it's just gender fuckery.

Also so often when I draw these guys I subconsciously give them trans colours. I suppose that's what I get for in my head assigning Flint as red and Kai is blue and then deciding paler colours work better with the colour scheme.

(not that I'm complaining anyways it fits)

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

thank u google thats exactly what i was looking for, not how many days she has been the prime minister of the united kingdom, her height in picometers. you can read my mind, google, its uncanny 

Princess au flint because I am but a gay who has rediscovered their colored pens and markers.

brainfog girlies make some noise if you're fuckin uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

Wizards are not naturally immortal, in fact creating their own form of immortality is their graduate thesis.

Rare flint with their hair down :O

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

a very sketchy flint :)

thinkin about a baby of my acquaintance & how when her parents are hanging out & chatting, she’ll almost fully participate in the conversation–politely watching who’s talking, saying something approx the same length & tone of what her parents are saying, occasionally using a questioning cadence & looking at someone specific for an answer, laughing when they laugh–doing everything except actually using any recognizable language

A Cuttlefish in motion

I was mesmerised by the motion of their fins so I challenged myself to make an animation of them.

A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

entire plate of cheese. you agree. you reblog.

A break from my ocs to post a study of Doechii! Saw all the art of her on insta and she's very cool.