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bryankonietzko: This is one of my favorite Bolin drawings from...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:49:27 -0700

This is one of my favorite Bolin drawings from the cabinets in the Korra production area, by Eugene Lee, in a style reminiscent of Koji Morimoto. Apparently Eugene drew it here so Bolin would stare into Colin’s office.

He does, and it’s creepy

Hey, Nearly Every Artist That I Follow On Tumblr, I thought I should let you know: when you publicly...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:22:08 -0700

Hey, Nearly Every Artist That I Follow On Tumblr, I thought I should let you know: when you publicly answer a stream of “asks” that consist entirely of compliments to you, it makes you look immodest and tacky, and somehow makes me like your art less. Please stop spending so much time up your own butt. Thank you.

What's your music playlist when you work?

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:39:25 -0700

Right now it’s Star Trek: The Next Generation on my second monitor while I draw on the Cintiq. I’ve gotten through three seasons since Thursday, I think.

It’s 1 AM and either somebody on the Korra crew is listening to Natalie Imbruglia’s...

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:01:06 -0700

It’s 1 AM and either somebody on the Korra crew is listening to Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” or I fell into a wormhole that sent me back to 1997

gif-club: Wanted to try colour! I’m very jealous of...

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:06:39 -0700

gif-club:

Wanted to try colour!

I’m very jealous of this.

Just found this on my phone from a couple of years ago....

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:45:08 -0700

Just found this on my phone from a couple of years ago. It’s the best picture I’ve ever taken.

bryankonietzko: I remember back in the Avatar days… the typical...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:39:10 -0700

bryankonietzko:

I remember back in the Avatar days… the typical fanart we would get would be a charming, childish crayon drawing stuffed in an envelope. Nowadays on Korra, I take a skewed screenshot with my phone, post it, and shortly thereafter someone un-skews it, crops it, separates the character levels, clones the background, “Ken Burns” it with a multilevel slide, animates the characters blinking and talking, tints it, and makes a GIF out of it, that I then see on the same phone with which I took the original picture. Times they are a-changin’…

P.S. In case it is unclear, I’m not upset, I’m just amused and amazed.

EDIT: Wait, I got it! A more appropriate classification for this: not fan art, but a fan retake.

Holy crap the solution to everything is crowdsourced retakes

Ezra Smith (ezrads.tumblr.com) (I can’t figure out how to...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:12:49 -0700

Ezra Smith (ezrads.tumblr.com) (I can’t figure out how to edit the html to make a proper hyperlink) got an astonishing 28 out of 40 correct! I’m seriously amazed that he managed to get a lot of these artists, as a lot of them have only been working on the show for a few months. Congratulations, Ezra! Message me your email and I’ll send you your prize next week when I figure out what it’s going to be.

: Legend of Korra Book 3 Crew Names

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:17:40 -0700

: Legend of Korra Book 3 Crew Names:

ezrads:

This took most of my Sunday to track down and find the crew members names and faces and I still had to guess for a few of them….Like the 4 top-left girls and a few others. I think this is a pretty good effort though. Please enjoy Colin….I hope I got you right…

Bryan made most of it pretty…

Oh, wow! This isn’t perfect, but it’s really close. How about let’s keep this contest open for another week, and then the entry with the most correct answers will win. Currently, it’s this one.

bryankonietzko: RYU CARICATURES OF KORRA BOOK 3...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:51:51 -0700

bryankonietzko:

RYU CARICATURES OF KORRA BOOK 3 CREW

–VERSUS–

KORRA BOOK 3 CREW CARICATURES OF RYU

We have a much bigger in-house crew these days, with full design and storyboard departments like we used to have on Avatar. Ryu couldn’t help himself with all of these new faces to parody and skewer, so he surprised us a few weeks back with a motherload crew caricature (top). Bill Rinaldi and a few folks had the idea to band together and get Ryu back with our own compilation of caricatures (bottom).

If anybody (that doesn’t work on the show) can figure out who each of Ryu’s drawings represent, I’ll email you some sort of drawing or something as a prize. Do an overlay with all the names over the drawings and tag me in it when you post. Hint: the placement of our Ryu drawings can help you figure out a lot of them, but it’s not exact.

Bruce Timm explains the real reason why Green Lantern the Animated Series has not been picked up:

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:44:43 -0800

giancarlovolpe:

Finally, the truth comes out from the horse’s mouth - or in this case, the Master:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/04/tales-from-eccc-bruce-timm-and-green-lantern-animated-series/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

bryankonietzko: ASAMI It has been too long since I drew...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:51:24 -0800

bryankonietzko:

ASAMI

It has been too long since I drew something for this blog.

#boogers

lizclimo: Finally! A book of these comics that you can keep on...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:26:04 -0800

lizclimo:

Finally! A book of these comics that you can keep on your coffee table or nightstand or in your bathroom or whatever.

I’m super excited to announce that Running Press will be publishing a book of my comics in the US in 2014! The collection will include many of the comics from this page, including 40 new, book-exclusive comics.

More exciting announcements coming soon- stay tuned!

My wife is going to be publishing a book! I’m terribly proud of her. I can’t wait to go to fancy literary parties and talk about character arcs

Drawing of some kind of barbarian lady, possibly sexist, 2013 I...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:50:43 -0800

Drawing of some kind of barbarian lady, possibly sexist, 2013

I worked on this before I left for Austin, and I was going to come back and fix all the problems with it, and then I got back and I was going to work on it more, but I just don’t think I can. Enjoy it to the extent that it is enjoyable for you. If anybody has color tips, feel free to share, because I’m not very good at it yet.

Just trying to get better at drawing girls, whether they have...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:23 -0800

Just trying to get better at drawing girls, whether they have weird hair and outfits or not.

theblueboxboy: Here is a fantastic series of character art...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:31:54 -0800

theblueboxboy:

Here is a fantastic series of character art by Francesco Francavilla titled “Hellbrown”, mashing together Hellboy with the Peanuts gang.

On Fandom and Toxic Environments

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:40:04 -0800

dgaider:

are you guys aware of how many people avoid the Bioware Social Network like the plague? I rather hope you don’t take that place as representative of the players in general considering how (IMO) utterly gross the people there tend to be. — rubyvroom

Sure, we’re aware that the BSN doesn’t constitute the be-all and end-all of BioWare’s fans (or simply people who play our games or are otherwise aware of them, if one sees “fans” in a purely positive context). They are certainly a group of passionate folks, and while I wouldn’t say they were all “utterly gross” as you put it I do agree that the overall tone of the forums has become increasingly toxic.

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you are fucking manchilds, all the LoK staff. Can you learn how to take a critique? can you learn how to write?

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:06:22 -0800

Wow! That was out of left field. Manchilds? Are we sure that the plural of manchild isn’t manchildren? If you’d care to offer a non-anonymous critique, I’d be happy to listen and respond to it. As for learning how to write, I’m afraid that ship has sailed. I never bothered to learn to write because I figured I was going to be in animation, so what’s the use? This is not me writing, by the way - this is being dictated to my assistant Jum Jum, who faithfully transcribes all my pearls of wisdom into tumblr via some sort of keyboard device. Thank you for your service, Jum Jum.

[He really can’t write. It’s kind of amazing, actually. What kind of jerk CHOOSES to never learn to write? Whatever - I get a job out of it, no matter how stupid it is. He gets to continue to be incredibly ignorant and I get to keep buying fantastically overpriced basketball shoes. I don’t even play basketball! He can’t read, either, so I’m not really worried about this ever getting back to him. Screw you, Heck! That feels good.

- Jum Jum]

Not Done Chun

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:32:00 -0800

So here’s a Chun Li drawing that is most likely never going to get finished, so the next obvious step is to post it in a public forum

Dear Young Conservative

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:25:04 -0800

dcpierson:

Dear young conservative,

I hope you are reading this. My ideal reader for this piece is an actual person under thirty years old who self-identifies as conservative. I would like it very much if this letter found readers beyond my typical (and beloved) echo chamber of liberal comedians and comedy fans. If you’re reading this and you’re not a young conservative, I’ll bet you’re friends with one on Facebook and I would love it if you could pass this along to them.

First off: I in no way mean for this to be patronizing. I’m not mocking you, young conservative. I know what it is to be a young conservative. I was one.

When I was in high school, in the early part of the first George W. Bush presidency, it seemed kind of cool and punk to me to identify as conservative. I didn’t agree with their social policies, but that wasn’t the point. The point was, what if all my liberal high-school-kid friends were wrong? It was a ton of fun to think of myself as the sole voice of reason among a bunch of wrong-headed young people who hadn’t read the same blogs I had, and hadn’t been introduced to Ayn Rand by their girlfriend last summer the way I had.

Looking back on all that, on the times I argued with my History teacher in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other things, I am deeply ashamed. And this shame comes not from the fact that I now have different political beliefs, different political beliefs shared, in some form, by almost all of my colleagues and friends. I almost always relish having a minority opinion. It’s a stubborn, age-resistant part of my personality. I am still the guy who loves hating the thing everyone else likes, or liking the thing everyone else hates. I didn’t like the movie DRIVE very much. I know. Come at me. So I’d be the first person to want to have a political belief counter to the ones treasured by all my friends. I argue most frequently with people I’m actually in total agreement with. I’m just that asshole. So it’s not that I felt the need to join the herd and now that I have, I’m ashamed to have ever felt differently than I do now.

I am ashamed because I accepted into my heart and head a system of thought I now believe to be, to borrow a term from my old friend Ayn Rand, anti-life: that government should only exist to make it easy for businesses to do business, the idea that it is our civic duty to have no civic duty. I no longer believe that the way to make things better for everyone is to let people with money do whatever they want, whenever they want. I feel I’ve earned the crap out of this belief, given that I used to believe precisely the opposite, and I’ve taken a long journey to the side I stand on now.

And I urge you, before you dismiss me as a long-haired Hollywood goofball liberal, to read on, and to listen to me in every bit the earnest that I am writing to you. Please don’t pull the dismissive ripcord in your mind, the one labeled “You’re just saying that because you’re biased, etc…” that all of us use every day to reject the idea that someone who disagrees with us may have a point. This ripcord is cynicism, plain and simple, and it mars political discourse and if we continue to pull it every time someone starts to say something that doesn’t jibe with what we already think, life on this planet will soon be quite literally impossible.

So:

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