if it makes you happy then it's good

He/him|my interests change ever .5 seconds, im sorry|minor

[aerokriegs]

Hey, so I decided to make an introduction for myself because I haven’t yet, hi, I’m aerokriegs or aero. I go by He/him (trans)

Art blog: @thepluralofaxolotl

I like writing once in a blue moon, drawing sometimes, and listening to music

I’m writing a drabble or very short thingy everyday for the whole year; you can find it under the tag #aerokriegs' drabble a day aka I try and overcome my problem with committing to stuff

Idk that’s all for now

[aerokriegs]

Yo, so like this is so random to be posting after being dead to tumblr for years, but like I'm going insane over this

I saw (i think it was a tumblr post) about ancient greek nudity and how it was seen as protection against evil spirits, then talking about how capitalism censors nudity and was comparing the two and talkign about how capitalism is evil because it rips away the protection that the ancient greeks had with nudity OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IDK i dontfully remember, but now I can't find it and need help, so if you have seen that or heard of it anywhere PLEASE SEND IT TO ME IM GOING INSANE LOOKING FOR THISSS

[aerokriegs]

just did my first debate today... HOW THE FUCK DID I LOSE BOTH OF THEM?????? Just because i didn't contest that vunerable communities would be impacted by climate change? IT'S LITERALY TRUE HWpwn THE FUCK DO I DISAGREE WITHTHAT,,, yes i concede that i should have read more articles and actually prepared for this, but like the other team didn't even have an arguemnt, pr much of one at that. Sure i could ahve used mroe of time tiem, and adreassed the ther sides's arguments, but I HAD NO CLUE WHTAT THEY FUCKING WERE???? and THEn fpr the first rupund cause im snpt speaking n order I was told to SPEAK WITH MROE ANNIMATION??? IM SOOOOOO SORRY I HAVE AXIETY AND THIS IS MY FIRST WVER TIME DOING THIS, i defended by argument just fucking finde thank you. at least I got 7/10 both rounds tho solnjsdfsdfmn sdj,dlhgaklgknlvvskjbkjdvs ughhhhhhhhhh

[definitelyincorrect]

Pepper: Is Peter a youth medium?

Tony: Like a child psychic? No.

Pepper: no. The t shirt size.

Tony: Oh

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello, I have a question. So when I draw it's usually just pencil and pen because I don't feel confident with colour yet, and I was wondering about a way to draw poc and black people with that medium in the most respectful way possible? Thank you :)

See, I plan on doing a lesson on this, because I actually find it to be a very important topic, but I'm only one person and I'm moving slow 😭 I don't want to hold you up by making you wait though!

One thing I will say for pencil is shading! You know how in grade school, art teachers taught us to gently smudge light pencil marks to cause a sort of "filling" effect? That's how you could use pencil to "color" in skin. The amount of pencil affects the darkness of the skin shade.

(forgive me, it's a messy example, I'm better at digital). Admittedly, I can see this working better for realistic styles moreso than cartoons, but I believe it's still worth a shot if you want to try it.

As for pen, I actually have a cool example by a fan of mine that drew my OCs, and she did it in pen with blue markers! I know you said you're only using pen and pencils right now, but the markers kind of have that effect I was talking about with the blurring of the pencil before (if that makes sense). Another friend of mine has a pen drawing here, and if you observe the one on the left, you can see how despite the absence of color, I can tell that a women of color are being drawn!

One thing at the end of the day, is still focusing on the features of your Black characters, regardless of the medium. If you draw thicker hair textures and our hairstyles, our noses and lips, you will convey that the person I'm looking at is meant to be Black, regardless of whether there's color there or not. It'll take references and practice, tbh. But as long as you're doing your research on authentic looks, you should manage to be respectful in your depictions.

It will definitely help to find Black artists that draw in the traditional style that you seek, and observe how they do it! I'm only an amateur at art, but there are professionals and Black artists working far longer than I that could offer more succinct and helpful advice.

I wish this could be more thorough, but it's been a long day lol and I'm not as organized rn as I feel I should be to give you a better answer. I hope it helps!

[aerokriegs]

just thought i would make a quick post saying hi, im still alive and doing fine :) have a good day/night

[agirlnamedbone]

traffic sign art by Stanley Marsh 3 in Amarillo, TX

[coiour-my-world]

Iceland | 60 horses crossing a black ash desert with the north wind blowing || Video: hekluhestar || Music: M83•Outro

[omtai]

they literally created a place where you can go and learn about something that really interests you and they fucked it up by inventing ASSIGNMENTS

[oceanspirit9]

sisters ❤️‍🩹

[mcufam]

I know what I want. I know what kind of god I need to be... for you. For all of us.

LOKI | 2.06 ‘Glorious Purpose’

[theophan-o]

Cossack Heroes

A pencil drawing by Ivan Ivanec (Іван Йосипович Іванець, 1893-1946), Ukrainian artist from Lviv, created between 1929-1940.

From the collection of the National Museum in Kraków (Poland):

[san-demetrio-corone]

The Great Hall of the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music decorated with wall paintings by Modest Sosenko, carried out in 1914-1915. The Secession-style paintings feature images of Ukrainian folk musicians.

[rosaeins]

Somehow popped off with the line work on this

[videodante]

cohost dot org is a new website

cohost is a lot like tumblr. you can have a blog, you can reblog things.

cohost is also a lot NOT like tumblr. it's explicitly anti-algorithm, no ads, and extremely transparent.

it's made by some friends of mine, and right now it's invite-only, but you can also make an account and you're put into a queue that's activated as the site scales up. I think it's a really cool project and I'm going to be on there more and more, i think.

it's totally free, and the culture is still starting, but there is some real top-tier Posting going on. you can check out the cohost twitter account for more information, but i really think this is gonna Be Something.

if we're mutuals feel free to reach out for an invite code, i have a few more saved up. (update signup is totally open now) the site's good, i love it, and i'm way less worried about some of the dumb shit that circles around sites like tumblr or twitter. for one thing, they're actively doing all these things:

i trust these folks, and i think the site's good. i think more people should be on it, and if you're used to tumblr you'll probably like cohost.

[pyroinfusedtiger]

Reblogging this again to add things I've liked while splorin co-host:

You can add private notes about a user on their profile (only visible to yourself) which I've always wanted so I leave myself a reminder for "artist draws x character the way i like" or "blocked this guy for being a creep"

Marking content warnings are streamlined and collective so you dont have to filter out 50 versions of the same way to tag it (#tw, #cw, #cw:, etc)

It looks like they just took all the things people generally like from Tumblr and Twitter and built on it.

I like that "reblogs/retweets" are "shares"

And i also like that theres a waiting period after signing up to be able to post, but still lets me explore tags, functions, edit, etc. Like introducing a new cat

Asks, anons, replies are all there

Pinned tags to your profile for easy art tag or themed post organization

Other features i liked but cant think of at the moment

Tldr; hope it grows, it reminds me of a simplified tumblr from when i was younger in a good way

[partywithponies]

I made an account! I used my same url and pfp from here so people know it's me.

[saspitite]

a little doodle of the idea i mentioned earlier (where hyper advanced machine-like species are able to transform into the objects they represent)

bed bunny

[saspitite]

wow people LOVED this post huh (for my typical engagement standards at least). well now i know what to feed the tumblr people with

[jesterbots]

"ohh what if my kid starts identifying as a CAT because of the trans agenda we have to prote—" well they've always done that. do you remember the psychological effects of h2o on young girls. of warrior cats on autistic children. i believed i was a demigod because of percy jackson. twilight came out and kids were telling their friends they were secretly vampires. this is just a thing kids do. worry less