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both drawn to life books are free to read on archive.org?? and downloadable as pdf???? what!! YO HOLY SHIT
a coworker yesterday was asking me about these behind my chair, and gun to my head, if you asked me what was the single best drawing book of all time -- it'd be these. there's a reason i keep them in irl arm's length.
not to toot my horn but i get a lot of comments about "believable life"/body language in my drawings, and i owe that to this book. Walt Stanchfield -the author- was one of the main mentors to a ton of the rennaisance era disney animators (Glen Keane, Musker, Deja, etc). this guy understands both the kinectic sense of how bodies move and squish/stretch, and how people "act", and composition/silhouette, and is honestly just a thoroughly decent dude.
some screenshots!
writing mood™️
hey❗️grabs you like pencil. the sleepwalkers are bloody sick ❗️
I gotta ask, what can they do? and do they ever waltz over to the moon seeing as they think it's god or?
They weave dreams and nightmares by like creating this thread that they each control and that latches onto people. They can individually control a persons sleep too but that requires a lot more effort and they don’t have time to do that every night so they’ve kind of mastered a sort of mass production of it though it is more overwhelming like this. They can also give each other sleep and dreams! (Mostly this is used by Reverie on Mara per her request). They can fly, mostly dissipate into stardust, make basic things out of their stardust. Probably a lot more too (gods) but they’re like mentally blocking the rest and think they’re angels. So.
As for if they if go to the moon, yes! (It’s like the big thing in the plot actually lol) In a moment of desperation they do in fact fly up to the moon, thinking surely she’ll answer their prayers then. Obviously, the moon doesn’t and their faith (especially Reverie’s) is really shaken after that.
Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 17, 1898
Can I please have some fat fat frogs please? I hope finding pictures of cute fat frogs will make you feel a bit better
when a mutuals struggling but you know you can't say anything to help so you just like their post and hope they know they're not alone
*looks at you pathetically like a stupid wet cat*
some oc lore? Please? For the needy?
OC lore!! Sleepwalkers!!!
So Morpheus is a god who does not realize they are a god and as almost entertainment they start to shape human’s dreams as they see sleep as wasted time. They want to give humans something to keep them busy. Well Morpheus starts learning about humans and learns about companionship and how humans crave it, fear a lack of it, and they start to get lonely. Around this time Morpheus starts to realize they have more power over people than they thought and starts to grow scared, not believing themself a god.
Morpheus this whole time, like any other being, has searched for a higher power to pray to and turns their faith on the moon, and pleads the moon for an equal, for a partner. In their desperation they split in two, entirely on their own, forming Reverie and Mara. The sleepwalkers know they are split from Morpheus, know they control dreams and nightmares respectively, but don’t remember much beyond that.
They don’t remember that they are gods. The moon is their god.
They’re shapeless until they want to look human so to explore Earth a bit, they weave and thread dreams and nightmares. They love each other and that is enough for them.
And yeah. OC lore. Some of it anyways. Thanks for asking always very very happy to talk about them :D
white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
i should.. draw riptide npcs.