the youtube “stop drawing like this” community doesn’t want you to know this but you can shade however you want forever btw. it doesn’t have to make sense in fact you should actively be pissing people off with how inaccurate your light source is
As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how “inaccessible art” is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)
Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)
SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)
Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)
The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)
Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
📚Here is my list:
The “how to draw manga” series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.
“Creating characters with personality” by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.
“Albinus on anatomy” by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.
“Artistic Anatomy” by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.
“Directing the story” by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.
“Animal Anatomy for Artists” by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.
“Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations” by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.
“Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand” by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.
“An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist” by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.
As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)
Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)
Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)
PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)
Krita (Free)
mypaint (free)
FireAlpaca (free)
Libresprite (free, for pixel art)
Those are the ones I can recall.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn’t take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don’t have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
Incase people missed this.
medibang paint is also free! theres a mobile version [dont recommend tbh. its ad hell] and a pc version :D
realizing that sticking to the “do it bad” “do it scared” mentality implies theres also a “do it bored”
ALT
well. did it bored 👍
DO IT SCARED. DO IT BAD. DO IT BORED. DO IT HALFWAY. DO IT WRONG. DO IT EMBARRASSED. DO IT UGLY. DO IT LATE. DO IT DIFFERENT. but by god do it <3!!
woooooooooooooooooooooo <3
I open tumblr to procrastinate and this is the first thing I see? I mean I’ll do it now and I’ll do it bored, but like it could have at least shown me a few other posts first before doing this to me, ya know? Anyways im gonna hit post and do it bored now.
German luck chatelaine with 13 charms. C. 1870-1880
I’m all set, got my lucky boot and lucky hand and lucky 13 and lucky scallop and lucky treasure chest and lucky anchor and lucky fish and lucky eel and lucky cat and lucky dog and lucky weight and lucky policeman and lucky heart
i know this is coming from a place of like intense sexual objectification and homophobia and racism not to mention the world ending efforts of big oil but unfortunately it is so funny
i love that this is perfectly designed to make every single political person angry but for different reasons
I once signed up to participate in a study on how depression affects memory, forgot I was meant to go do it, and when I emailed to apologise to the PhD student running it she basically told me that a) she was very used to this happening and b) the weird irony of her theories’ correctness making it very difficult to arrange proving them had by now gone from infuriating to hysterical
I went to the Grand Canyon when I was depressed and I literally forgot the whole thing. Like, the only reason I even know I was there is that I have photographs of myself standing in front of the Grand Canyon with dead eyes but i have absolutely no memory of it
People talk about depression like it’s just being sad all the time but straight up your brain stops working and sadness is just one of the many, many consequences of that
guy who tried to impress me with card tricks and failed every single one of them
old man who attempted to get my number when his wife walked away and slipped me his email address ending with “@ aol.com” when i said i don’t do that
cute gay couple that came back to tell me i was cute and then called the shop to ask me out
older professor who i talked to about folklore and told me he dressed as a wizard for recitals saying “this is really embarrassing but umm.. i’d love to get to know you more..” and gave me a receipt with his email address on it
dude in his 40s asking me on a movie date and me saying yes but then he kept starting text conversations with “ahoi hoi”
military guy who said it’d be hot if i killed him with a baseball bat
most notable time a customer did not ask me out:
a man who i knew had a wife and children getting really flustered and saying “um. ive been, uh.. idk if you remember me but um. i come in here a lot and ive uhhh haha umm ive been wanting to ask you for a couple weeks now.. um. have you read the green lantern issue i recommended??????”
German luck chatelaine with 13 charms. C. 1870-1880
I’m all set, got my lucky boot and lucky hand and lucky 13 and lucky scallop and lucky treasure chest and lucky anchor and lucky fish and lucky eel and lucky cat and lucky dog and lucky weight and lucky policeman and lucky heart
If this poll gets a hundred thousand votes before the voting period is up I’ll write a short-form tabletop RPG where you play as members of a former-girls-in-boxes support group.
Do each of the girls get different powers based on their origin, or is that something you build separately?
In the context of this hypothetical game, the precise nature of your character’s terrible hidden power is less important than your personal relationship with it, and the latter is a lot more likely to be game-mechanically significant than the former. Options might include:
My terrible hidden power is functionally or ideologically at odds with who I want to be as a person
I thwarted a villain’s scheme and saved the world by denying my terrible hidden power at a critical juncture, but I still have it, and that decision not to use it is something I need to reaffirm every day
My terrible hidden power is giving me an identity crisis because I’m genuinely not sure whether the person I am when I’m using it is the same as the person I am when I’m not
My terrible hidden power is super cool and has no practical downsides, but something about what it does or the way it operates tends to alienate the people I love
I never actually figured out what my terrible hidden power is or how to activate it, and having that hanging unresolved over my head is giving me some sort of complex
My terrible hidden power directly or indirectly caused some sort of disaster for which I hold myself personally responsible
My terrible hidden power could help people, and I’m worried that my unwillingness to pay the price it exacts makes me a coward
I have a weirdly specific terrible hidden power and a bone-deep certainty that it’s for something, but for the life of me I cannot articulate what that purpose is
I had to permanently give up my terrible hidden power in order to save the world, and I’m slowly coming to realise that I resent literally everyone for that
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces. More than 400 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been killed by Israeli fire since 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 100 of these deaths have been children, most of whom posed no credible threat to heavily armed soldiers from one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
why when able bodied fans draw canonically disabled chair-user characters do they have the abled partner sitting on their lap? i would kill someone if they touched my cane or sat on me in my chair
THIS SHIT IS INFINITELY MORE ROMANTIC THAN SITTING ON TOP OF YOUR DISABLED PARTNER. THE TENDERNESS INVOLVED IN HOLDING YOUR PARTNERS HAND, IN BEING CONSIDERATE OF THEIR SPACE, IN MAKING SURE THEY FEEL SAFE AND LOVED. i’m not going to go as far as saying stop having able bodied people sit on top of their disabled partners but know i’m disabled and would never consider it. i would absolutely get hurt
i hold the same viewpoint on able bodied partners carrying their disabled partner for no reason. my body is a fragile thing, easily broken. it has to be protected even from people with the best intentions. meet me at my level instead of taking me to yours
abled allies can and should reblog this
My friend has asked me to sit on her lap in her wheelchair just to fuck around, but NEVER just assume you can sit on/touch her in her wheelchair unless she asks you too. Leaning over the back of her medical chair to kiss her cheek? Infinitely more romantic than fricken. sitting on her lap. like no bitch she’s in that chair for a reason and it’s her hip.
[Video description: A pet bird on a kitchen table - it sees something it wants underneath a clear plastic container, and circles it clockwise then anticlockwise while making excited chirping noises. It successfully lifts the lid up and off the small item but immediately ends up trapped underneath the lid. It struggles under there for a little bit and manages to propel itself off the table and lands with a rather indignant chirp.
Image description: a Tumblr comment by GoldHornsAndBlackWool that reads, “congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it”
This is proof that capitalism is not about freedom. Not even close.
In a system that values freedom, it would be expected that people would value living over working.
This is the same mentality as those who claimed to value freedom but owned slaves. They want freedom for themselves while everyone else serves them. They still haven’t grown out of that.
For the record, Gen Z is smart to do this. To any generation out there reading this, live your life. Do enough to keep the job, and devote as much time and energy leftover to your life. Do not give your all for a company that cannot and will not love you back.
[Video description: A pet bird on a kitchen table - it sees something it wants underneath a clear plastic container, and circles it clockwise then anticlockwise while making excited chirping noises. It successfully lifts the lid up and off the small item but immediately ends up trapped underneath the lid. It struggles under there for a little bit and manages to propel itself off the table and lands with a rather indignant chirp.
Image description: a Tumblr comment by GoldHornsAndBlackWool that reads, “congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it”
genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people’s attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn’t even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with “btw i made all of this up” and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We’re no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of You wouldn’t get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
The human body is actually a marvel. It is just that our bodies are meant to move (not exercise, just lots of different movements throughout the day).
Here is a video of the Hadzabe, one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes alive (when I was studying biomechanics I used to watch hours of these videos). They sprint, squat, walk, well into their 70s without any pain.
I know we can’t change our professions, so if you are dealing with neck pain, carpel tunnel syndrome etc, please try to maximise your recovery by eating and sleeping well, and if you can, try visit a physiotherapist or check out physio-pedia.com
My best general health advice is: get barefoot shoes, and walk on uneven terrain once or twice per week. Without getting too much into detail: the feet have evolved over millions of years to adapt to the terrain we walk on to provide stability. There are many bones in the feet allowing them to become many different shapes. These shapes affect the kinetic chain above the feet (ankle, lower/upper leg, hips, lower/mid/upper back, neck). All these structures try to organize themselves to keep you in balance and move you forward, a beautiful interplay between your body and gravity. Due to the uneven terrain, your body will take on many different shapes which keeps your body healthy. With narrow shoes you will limit some crucial movements/shapes your feet should be able to make, so something else will have to compensate to make up for that movement option your feet are lacking. Often times, you will get lower back pain. I used to get it all the time when walking in Timberlands or Nike court shoes. Anyway, barefoot shoes are not the most trendy, far from it, but they are bringing out better and better designs each year. Remember, start with once or twice per week 30 minutes, uneven terrain (start soft, grass, forest, meadow), relax your entire body, feel your weight transition fully on your feet as you walk, let your arms swing naturally, let gravity help you.
I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
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Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
WHAT
water was in the name of the set. That paint is called water color. How did you guys not know this?
