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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-21 09:31 pm
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okay, fire emblem tellius zihark characterization essay that's been cooking for years, aka this one:

#one of these days i may or may not write that giant meta essay in my brain about how [zihark would] have a very complex/messy relationship with-- masculinity in general (this is purely Vibes. all vibes) given what i headcanon part of his past to be and anyway. #i can see things getting easier in some ways and not in others when he gets older. why am i saying this lol. enjoy?

cracks knuckles. )
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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-21 09:33 am
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Cosmio de Medici pursuaded Benvenuto Celini, the Florentine sculptor, to enter his service by writing him a letter which concluded, "Come, I will choke you with gold." - Ogilvy on Advertising
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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-20 11:01 am
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Art is for opening little portholes to a subject we’re all familiar with in some way and saying “let me teach you how I see this thing, let me show you how to get emotional about it the way I get emotional about it” ‪@coelasquid.bsky.social‬
kradeelav: Mordecai, FE9 (sleepyboi)
krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-19 02:28 pm
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'i don't like the person [this] is making me become' continues to be a startlingly useful self check.
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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-16 11:05 am
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i know it's ultra cringe to say this but i honestly have so much more sympathy for why managers are Like That sometimes after being in the same position for a while now :v

gently poking $pisces_art director_underling like 'hey, you good for the upcoming meeting, man....'
love the dude but omfg i do need to know if you're set!!!! don't give me crickets!

anyway, also a little funny when my former intern was safely ranting to me about our VP giving him useless powerpoints/decks to design and i had to explain like. yeah, it's useless shit *to us*, we're not the audience for those specifically, but those funny graphs and shit are a critical part of upper management politicking and leverage. leadership is the audience. make your boss look good, you get paid good (or at all).

ah man this reminded me one time years and years ago when i was surprised in one of the big town hall meetings that the no3 (design-esque) chief of staff) didn't have anything to show (and commented it to my immediate team). and then. two weeks later, he was fired lol. it's stuff like that.

kradeelav: Mordecai, FE9 (sleepyboi)
krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-15 11:30 pm

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Anonymous asked:

How did you get so good at art? Any particular practices or studies? I had tried to look for previous asks, if there was any similar, but couldn't find any. I view improvement, or skill, in art, to be the ability to communicate ones ideas; your art has such a strong ability to communicate! I love the way you set up abstract enviroments and designs, grounded in reality, to create this inviting world of your own vision. I've thought about DMing you about this too, but felt that may be a bit much, haha. Really inspired by your work!

 

Thank you very much. I spend a lot of my time drawing, which is a necessity, but beyond that, I believe in improving your art by observing the world. I think you should always be curious and look at the world around you, both online and offline. There's an incredible richness that you have to look for, and try your best to understand it. Whenever you come across something, try your best to understand why it exists, the circumstances of its creation. All art is a communication of our world, so only by improving your understanding of our world will you make a more believable one in your art.

And it's not about realism. Games like Final Fantasy 6 are not at all realistic, but they convey a rich world by reflecting so effectively the feelings of our world. It's something you simply come to *know* the more you live and observe. I believe in living for your art, though in a way, that is living in the real world. Do not lose your life for your art, because if you do you will not be able to *know* this world, and create new things. You must fight for your right to draw and live a healthy life in every way you can, because it's your desire to observe this world through the drawings and through these drawings understand what parts that are still unclear to you. Beyond that I also believe art is about communication beyond anything else. The shared experience of creating is what it is about to me. The internet facilitates it and also destroys it in some ways. It tries to make it into something with meaningless scores. It's a very useful place we must not let go of, but try to share this art through other means if possible. It will help you improve, and no create unhealthy habits based on said scores. And please try to make friends and take care of the people you love who understand you. Try to understand them even if they don't. It will only make you better at drawing and living, which is what we want, right?


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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-13 05:40 pm
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finding out that bob gurr (disney imagineer) is another skunk works / kelly johnson project manager nerd has got to be the weirdest combination of exact shared special interests with me. dude was THERE at the blackbird farewell fly-over for kelly. i'm jealous.

i'm choosing to believe weird curious-about-the-world engineer/doodle gremlins are just inherently drawn to well designed shit.

anyway, another interesting anecdote from his book:



what's new is old is new.

edit: have an extra quote i lol'd at. )


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krad ([personal profile] kradeelav) wrote2025-07-11 03:18 pm
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i think one of the more tragic casualties of the ai era is just going to be how much easier and more common it will be to scam elderly people out their money when retirement money is more important than ever for medical and survival reasons.

since it's a combination of factors, right --video/audio deepfakes based off of grandkids (elderly folks i find tend to be a lot more trusting of phones/video compared to text, thankfully most scams were fairly limited to text for a while), the lack of a millennial techie/sysadmin/etc in the family as less and less people are deeply tech-savvy beyond clicking things on apps, and a general deterioration of communication between the generations for too many reasons.

like i know it can be annoying to explain things (repeatedly) in a way people internalize, but man it is crucial for basic protection.

having to install teamviewer (with explicit permission) for grandma so she doesn't keep downloading every ""antivirus" system ever, and also being dad's living password manager x.x and then having to explain what grok is. can i strangle elon with my two hands already.