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January 2011

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"Explain It!" featuring Mike natale

Ok everyone, I’m going to start a new comic series of strips called, “Explain It! featuring Mike Natale” or “Mike Natale Explain’s It” But I need your help. Each time I make a strip, I’m going to pick a subject/theme and I want you people to submit questions to my ask box related to that theme. Then my pal Mike will pick his favourite question (or...

ohmonah asked: AH this isn't a question, but WILL. I just wanted to say, you're an awesome role model, animator, webcomicer, just all around person. You're aware of everything around you, and what you're goals are. You're storytelling and carefree personality is really admirable. KEEP ON GOING WILL.!
BTW: Do you recommend any good books? For storytelling for philosophy etc?

Anonymous asked: Do you do any life drawings or anything more realistic?
Don't get me wrong; I love your style. I'm just wondering.

aatmajapandya asked: What's the most difficult part of drawing and maintaining a webcomic?

missrylee asked: U 3U Love Para-ten!
So, I've noticed some animals in your, amazing, webcomic. What's your take on drawing animals? Fun, hard, interesting, etc...

bluebunny asked: If you didn't decide to become an artist, then what could you have become instead? (Awkwardly worded question is awkwardly worded.)

furippupauplus asked: Are you old enough to have played Number Munchers on an Apple IIe in school? (assuming you are American).

Anonymous asked: What kind of art classes did you take in high school? o:

huliia asked: AT WHAT AGE DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE A ROMANTIC???!!!!
HORYYAAAAAA!!!!!

nrandom123-deactivated20120317 asked: I LOVE YOUR STYLE IM SO JEALOUS AAAAAHHHHHHHGGG I LOVE YOU

the-voie asked: At what age did you truly find your own unique art style? I've been having the hardest time finding something that I love, and that I can stick with.

Dear tumblr, if you ask me some questions I will probably answer them. I ( not so) secretly love questions, but I don’t get many. It’s dangerous though, because I’m sort of like a soda that someone shook up. Take the top off and I just overflow, and there’s no telling when I’ll stop.

huliia asked: I mean don't you need some color blending to happen for there to be enough area for color dropping?. Ha ha ha, I mean at 600 dpi the antialiasing would be so tiny, idk how you be able get any blending at 100 opacity

cursed-tea said: i thought it would be something like that. i just noticed that you’re able to get your final painting edges very clean. any tips on how to do such a thing? I tend to use the colour picker and go back and forth between two colours to sort of sculpt the edges. The most important thing for me is working at a high resolution, so that I can slow down and zoom in close to get the...

cursed-tea said: are your sketches, lines, and colors on different layers? Oy, I usually paint on three layers: a rough sketch layer, a layer under that for rough colours, and then a layer on top for doing the final painting. Sometimes I’ll make extra layers if I want to try something out without worrying, but once I do the rough colours and sketch I work like it’s all on one...

frigandier asked: Hihihi. <3 I've been following your stuff since I found out about Para-Ten from Happle Tea, and I was wondering if I could draw you a small Valentines' picture! Your style is just so darn distinctive, and I just love everything about your works- so I thought I might show a little of my appreciation for your stuff like this. Please let me know if I can draw you anything, like a...

We can't just do everything for ourselves

We don’t need politics, we just need to care for each other. People looking out for themselves exclusively seems to be the root of a lot of political and social problems. Every time I hear someone on the street talking about Ayn Rand I want to punch them. Atlas Shrugged? More like Atlas gave everyone an excuse to be selfish bastards. I’m not saying we need to donate to charity or...

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me,...”

– -Chuck Close (via sandyhong) It’s true, man. I haven’t had an “art block” in like 5 or 6 years, and the idea is almost crazy to me now…. the reason is, 5 or 6 years ago, I started drawing comics, I started thinking of stories. Bill Watterson said, “the mind is...

“They say one of the worst things you find out about the world as an adult is the...”

– Daniel O’Brien, Robert Brockway, Jack O’Brien, Kristi Harrison, David Wong on cracked ( http://www.cracked.com/article_18950_9-major-stories-everyone-got-wrong-this-year.html#ixzz1BvEFqktF) I don’t know which one of them wrote that, ha ha. It’s amazing the actually good...

I hope you people don’t mind all the non art-related stuff I post. But, you know… we don’t create in a vacuum and all that jazz. This video is about plastic and learning from other species and respecting each other.

“It seems to me that often in life, if you want something badly, you don’t get it...”

– Chris Anderson Curator, TED Conferences (via aricherconcept)

Anonymous asked: What weird art related things did you do in high school?

Huliia said: what is this fanservice You don’t know how many e-mails I get asking for pinups of Paveline’s mom.

“In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s...”

– Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

Watch my cat run around while I play a song. I was recording this to warm up my voice/get used to being in front of a camera, because I needed to record a brief introductory video for a job application. As a result it’s not great (forgot chords a lot) but I watched it and there was A KITTY.

“The Last Day on my Back Porch in the...

Anonymous asked: I don't think that theory is useless, I just think it is more like a credible theory for studying some particular cultures than a general rule applicable to all of them.
Don't just say you're wrong, dammit! You know, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, i have an idea, you tell me why it wont do, and i try to adapt it so it will, over and over until it's perfect!!

Huliia said: I always feel really discouraged when people reply to my rants to the contrary and I always feel bad because I pissed someone off. But you gotta take it with a grain of salt on the internet. But I like your ideas! Keep em coming! Yeah, ha ha… I don’t like to upset people. But I do like writing out my thoughts. For some reason I feel more comfortable posting on...

Anonymous asked: Whoaa when did you become so.. philosophical ?

Anonymous asked: I don't mean to be rude or anything but that theory is very antiquated... it was a way to explain why europe (and the us to some extent) were so more advanced and civilized than other places such as latin america and africa - which were called "lazy" because they were "blessed" with warm weather and abundant food, or “cursed” with too harsh a climate....

otaku-hat asked: DRAW KIMI NI TODOKE ARTTT >:3

More answers to pressing questions.

Hulia said: Believe it or not I learned this in 9th grade high school by a New York attorney who quit work to be a high school teacher but then hated it and went back to being rich and in New York. Geography —> More fertile geography means more food and livestock —> Accounting systems and writing arises as people become more specialized and division of labor occurs because not...