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I don't know if anyone looks at anyone else's favorites, but the celebration of dA's 14th b-day is a good excuse for me to show off the super amazing and fantastically magical artworks in my favorite folder called, "All-time Faves," which is a name I should replace with something more akin to "THE BEST ARTWORKS ON DA WEBSITE" or something.
Most of these are from some of my all-time favorite artists in general. A good way to gauge how much I adore an artwork is the amount of time it's spent as my desktop background. I'll be sure to include that data. SO, in no particular order of favorites or chronology, LET'S BEGIN.
ISN'T IT BEAUTIFUL???? I grew up watching Ed, Edd n Eddy and loving all the Kanker Sister episodes. Double-D may be my favorite of the Eds, but this picture is my favorite of these pictures. I'm a sucker for purple and yellow lighting. It's super in-character. The picture just feels like magic. This one has spent a total of probably three or four months as my desktop background. That's impressive. I change my desktop background like every month, normally. I keep coming back to this one.
BEAUTIFUL. Batman is my favorite superhero because if I was a superhero I would want to be the billionaire kind. But actually it's because he's so dark, and he's not stuck up and cocky. I also love his relationship with Alfred. I mean have you guys seen "Batman: The Animated Series"? It's like one of the greatest shows EVER. BUT CRAP, enough about Batman. Look at this picture. The beautiful blurry snow. The moon. The moonlight. The thick cozy cape Alfred probably made him wear because it's winter. loOK AT IT. This was my desktop background for about two months in the middle of winter.
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS PICTURE. I'm just gonna say right away that this has spent like a yEAR as my background. I love classy cartoons. This is the definition of a classy cartoon. It's such a good characterization of Indy. Plus, brown is like my favorite color. This is just beautiful, BEAUTIFUL. And FUN FUN FUN. I love the lineart style. Firstly, it's thin lineart, which I love and get jealous of. Secondly, notice how most lines are either totally straight, or even curves ending in corners. I never would have thought of that. It looks amazing.
I know what you're thinking: "JEss, this can't be a desktop background cuz it aint da right size" but HAH, YOU'VE FORGOTTEN My iPOD's LOCK SCREEN. Because this sucker has spent about a half a year total as the first thing I see when I grab my iPod. I love that it's a promotional poster. I love the blue lineart. I feel if I tried to to that, it would look like garbage, but here it's like, "well of COURSE it's blue. that's like the most natural thing in the world!" I'm also supremely jealous of the jeans here. I need to practice drawing nothing but jeans. These look amazing. And those shoes. The shoes look amazing too. And the lettering. Damn, the lettering is so cool! And teh paint thingies. And the blood on the axe. And the shadow. I could go on forever.
Once again, iPOD bACKGROUND/LOCK SCREEN. Meta: Wow sorry for acting so hyper but I have a really weird, really bad cough and I haven't been able to bike or take a walk for ages so I'm feeling kinda crazy. /meta. I fell in love with this picture before I even watched Sherlock. Now I adore Sherlock and I adore brothers and this picture has double the meaning for me. Once again, line lineart. Once again, a classy cartoon. This is the pic that made me fall in love with very limited color pallets. It's so perf...look at their eyes......
Oh wait, there, I did five. Okay maybe I'll have to do journals like these again because I'm self-absorbed and like showing off my opinions to everyone.
Most of these are from some of my all-time favorite artists in general. A good way to gauge how much I adore an artwork is the amount of time it's spent as my desktop background. I'll be sure to include that data. SO, in no particular order of favorites or chronology, LET'S BEGIN.
ISN'T IT BEAUTIFUL???? I grew up watching Ed, Edd n Eddy and loving all the Kanker Sister episodes. Double-D may be my favorite of the Eds, but this picture is my favorite of these pictures. I'm a sucker for purple and yellow lighting. It's super in-character. The picture just feels like magic. This one has spent a total of probably three or four months as my desktop background. That's impressive. I change my desktop background like every month, normally. I keep coming back to this one.
BEAUTIFUL. Batman is my favorite superhero because if I was a superhero I would want to be the billionaire kind. But actually it's because he's so dark, and he's not stuck up and cocky. I also love his relationship with Alfred. I mean have you guys seen "Batman: The Animated Series"? It's like one of the greatest shows EVER. BUT CRAP, enough about Batman. Look at this picture. The beautiful blurry snow. The moon. The moonlight. The thick cozy cape Alfred probably made him wear because it's winter. loOK AT IT. This was my desktop background for about two months in the middle of winter.
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS PICTURE. I'm just gonna say right away that this has spent like a yEAR as my background. I love classy cartoons. This is the definition of a classy cartoon. It's such a good characterization of Indy. Plus, brown is like my favorite color. This is just beautiful, BEAUTIFUL. And FUN FUN FUN. I love the lineart style. Firstly, it's thin lineart, which I love and get jealous of. Secondly, notice how most lines are either totally straight, or even curves ending in corners. I never would have thought of that. It looks amazing.
I know what you're thinking: "JEss, this can't be a desktop background cuz it aint da right size" but HAH, YOU'VE FORGOTTEN My iPOD's LOCK SCREEN. Because this sucker has spent about a half a year total as the first thing I see when I grab my iPod. I love that it's a promotional poster. I love the blue lineart. I feel if I tried to to that, it would look like garbage, but here it's like, "well of COURSE it's blue. that's like the most natural thing in the world!" I'm also supremely jealous of the jeans here. I need to practice drawing nothing but jeans. These look amazing. And those shoes. The shoes look amazing too. And the lettering. Damn, the lettering is so cool! And teh paint thingies. And the blood on the axe. And the shadow. I could go on forever.
Once again, iPOD bACKGROUND/LOCK SCREEN. Meta: Wow sorry for acting so hyper but I have a really weird, really bad cough and I haven't been able to bike or take a walk for ages so I'm feeling kinda crazy. /meta. I fell in love with this picture before I even watched Sherlock. Now I adore Sherlock and I adore brothers and this picture has double the meaning for me. Once again, line lineart. Once again, a classy cartoon. This is the pic that made me fall in love with very limited color pallets. It's so perf...look at their eyes......
Oh wait, there, I did five. Okay maybe I'll have to do journals like these again because I'm self-absorbed and like showing off my opinions to everyone.
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new comic site for Little More Than Waitstaff
Smackjeeves bit the dust (well not really but they made awful updates) so Little More Than Waitstaff has a new hosting site:
http://littlemorethanwaitstaff.thecomicseries.com/
Of course I'll continue to upload comics here. :)
back for my like yearly life update lol
I moved from Minnesota to New Orleans for grad school last monthI'm earning my MFA in Creative WritingI made a new "website" that has links to ALLLLL my art-related social media in one place: https://jstarickadrawing.blogspot.com/I also made an art instagram so PLEASE follow me and I will DEF follow you back: https://www.instagram.com/jstarickaart/I still feel artistically restless and like I can't devote enough attention to truly improving in any one area so I'm not getting any better PLUS my time is also split with writing so I'm REALLY stretched thin because there's too much I want to doOh and chapter 4 of Little More Than Waitstaff is air
updates to my life right now
I was cleaning up my gallery (throwing things in scraps because I'm a hoarder and don't have the heart to delete anything...) so I'm gonna keep the momentum going and post a journal in the form of a list of bullet points
https://jstarickaonline.tumblr.com/
^^^ That's my new "website" where I have links to all the places I put my art. Go there to find stuff you may not have seen before, like my redbubble store and my actual portfolio.If you have an instagram I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU so comment or DM me so I can do that. My insta is just me posting mirror selfies so it's not relevant enough for me to post here. Not that it would be hard to find.I
I wanna follow your twitter/tumblr/FB!
Hey if any of you have twitter, tumblr, or an art facebook page, I wanna follow you!! Even if it's barely/not at all art related. Post your links in the comments, or send me a note if you want to keep it private :>
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Aah this is so sweet of you to do! All these artists are just fantastic (lol rating by desktop-worthiness, I should try that :3c)
I'm so honored to be featured in your dA story among such talented artists! I hope you enjoy another great year on dA and find more cool artsy stuff to inspire you!
Also sharing my Batman fangirlism is always a pleasure
I'm so honored to be featured in your dA story among such talented artists! I hope you enjoy another great year on dA and find more cool artsy stuff to inspire you!
Also sharing my Batman fangirlism is always a pleasure