Kevin Thurman's Blog

This space will soon be demolished so Costco can put up parking lot for a new 33,000 page tumblr setting up next door. Well, it’s time for this cowpoke to saddle up and mosey on. Have a good one to anyone that ever read this or is reading it.

I pushed the crank to hard, the engine responded with the guttural noise that metal against metal makes when you do it wrong.

“No, no, you aren’t manipulating it right. Clutch first, then stick, don’t rush it”

I tried again. My heart was a rabbits foot lightening and beating against the ground. I could get it…only to find out I couldn’t.

paracomart:

Lighting is often underestimated in illustration – a lot of illustrators and beginning artists look at it as a decorative element, or as purely a tool used to showcase the form. A lot of beginning artists are afraid of shading and of using harsh lights. But even with the lighting mastered, even with perfect rendering and good understanding of form in space an integral element of the light remains missing in their pieces.

Look at the samples above: the same character’s head has b...

I watched my headlights bounce reflected in a tailgate. The swinging. I remembered my mom had gone outside one morning to find the neighbor across the road had hung himself from a maple tree. It’s Texas so breezes along the plains tend to be rough and tussling. She said she had to watch for a minute. The pebbles in the road kicked up around the wind. She said the worst part was the tree didn’t creak. Eventually the paramedics came. The note said his family had left him. He was bro...

“Don’t be so hard on yourself. Don’t put pressure on yourself. Life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.”

-

Dan Harmon (via feellng)

I am currently only surviving because of repeat binge watching Harmontown episodes. This man is silly and wise.

The company I write for made their first game!! It’s a puzzle game about the 5 stages of grief. How cool is that? Cool, cool, cool.

Transience Trailer (2015)

I once thought this band was boring. Then I realized I was wrong. His voice has some real depth and character to it that helps bring the lyrics out. One of the best lines as well “I was brought to Ohio in a swarm of bees” Amazing imagery.

And you’ll never have friends like you did when you were young.

But our bodies were pulled away and swept out to the sea

and I’d call and say hi if I thought you’d remember me.

cause some things are worth leaving old memories for.