Golden Flower By Le Vuong

C - Pearlescent White by Cashile

“Empress Emily Kaldwin. I’m a friend of your father’s from the bad old days.”

Dream Daddy Steam Key Giveaway!

To celebrate the launch of DDADDS, I’m going to be giving away two copies of the game to some fellow lovelies! My hope is that even if someone can’t currently afford the game, I can still help them get their hands on the best dad dating sim around.

Guidelines:

 To enter, all you have to do is reblog this post! If you’re only reblogging for boosting and/or don’t want to be entered for any reason, just say so in the tags of your post

 You must have an unlimited Steam account to enter as I’ll be gifting the games to the winners

 Not necessary to be following me, but I’d appreciate it!

 I’ll only be counting reblogs as entries- please only reblog once!

 Likes don’t count as entries but you can like the post if you want :)

 Please don’t message me asking to pick you as a winner!

A lil disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the grumps or the Dream Daddy team at all, I decided to do this out of my own pocket

And that’s it! I’ll randomly select 2 winners using a random generator in a week’s time on July 16th. It’s a few days after the game comes out, but I want the post to float around for a decent amount of time. Thanks to anyone who participates and good luck!

Pooja Mor Femina India October 2014

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

Land of Eternal Autumn by ViaEstelar

Legends Of The North by RHADS

Yatagan Sword from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)

Dated: circa 1525–30

Sword maker: Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30)

Geography: Istanbul

Culture: Ottoman, Istanbul

Medium: steel, gold, ivory (walrus), silver, turquoise, pearls, rubies

Measurements: overall length 23 3/8 inches (59.3 cm); blade length 18 3/8 inches (46.7 cm); weight 1 lb. 8 oz. (691 g)

Exquisite workmanship and lavish use of precious materials distinguish this sword as a princely weapon and exemplifies the opulence and refinement of Ottoman luxury arts. Almost identical to a yatagan (now in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul) made in 1526–27 by the court jeweller Ahmed Tekel, for the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66), this sword was undoubtedly made in the same imperial workshop.

The gold incrustation on the blade depicts a combat between a dragon and a phoenix against a background of foliage scrolls. These figures, like the gold-inlaid cloud bands and foliage scrolls on the ivory grips, are Chinese in inspiration, and were probably introduced into Ottoman art through contacts with Persia.

This sword is one of the earliest known yatagans, distinctly Turkish weapons characterised by a double-curved blade and a hilt without a guard. Yatagans were commonplace in Turkey and the Balkans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and served as sidearms for the elite troops known as Janissaries.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Story Lines

This comic was inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture about the shapes of stories. It appears in the most recent issue of The Southampton Review.

Posters are available at my shop.