Andralphan

Student. 22 YO. INFP-T. Multi-fandom [Voltron, Stardew Valley, Transistor, DC Comics...] & O.C

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Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

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.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)

Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)

BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)

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. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)

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. Mostly nature art)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)

Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)

Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)

Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)

Pikat (art advice and critiques)

Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)

Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)

Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)

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.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually 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. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)

Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)

IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)

Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)

NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.

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.

"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"

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[khaleesi]

The creator of these images is Matt Bernstein, one of my favorite educators online -- he makes incredibly clear, forceful collections of information like this one. He's queer, has fantastic nails, and has done a lot of education recently from his perspective as a Jewish person on why supporting Palestine is so important. Here's a link to this post, which he created for World AIDS Day on 12/1/23.

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There’s a song that’s been proven to reduce anxiety by 65%. It’s called Weightless by Macaroni Union, and it was specifically designed to slow your heart rate, reduce blood pressure, and lower cortisol levels. It’s so effective that it’s dangerous to drive while listening to it because it can make you drowsy. Source Source 2 Source 3

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YO O_O

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I knew within seconds that I’d heard this before.

It was one of the first Tumblr posts I favorited.

Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm. Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.” The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving. The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Don’t Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sull’aria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly

One of the comments suggests pairing it with Rainymood.

The combined calm might be weaponized with adding this song and some crackling fire.

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When I was literally unable to sleep at all, my senior at work gave me this song to listen to!

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My wife uses this song when she’s having near-meltdown levels of anxiety right before bed and it helps her relax and shed some of that stress enough for her to attempt to lie down and sleep.

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For those having a rough moment

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when I was so sick I wanted to die, this helped me relax enough to, uh, not die

jokes aside… fond memories

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I trained myself to relax to this music. It resets my heartrate. A gift.

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yeah I thought no way this lives up to the hype, but ok I’ll try it out.

I put on some good headphones and listened to the whole thing in one sitting. I was like “yeah that’s pretty damn chill, alright, but idk if I’d say it’s ‘the most relaxing song in existence’.”

…and then I tried to stand up and promptly fell over, because I had in fact relaxed so hard that my muscles forgot how to do things properly for a minute.

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there’s a long version, too, which I used to sleep to

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motion capture actress 曦曦鱼sakana shows how to move in games

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Vintage Lesbian Pulp Art Prints from PulptasticPrints

v / x x / x x / x x / x x / x

Gay pulp prints here

[andralphan]

21/21 Dernière image pour le DEJ de cette année avec un fanart de Felix “Pavel” et de Piers de la série Golden Sun.

Référence: Senshistock                

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Human Anatomy for Artist Unofficial Search Helper

They also have an animal one that I linked a whole back on the same site !

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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.

The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.

It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.

Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.

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Wait a minute .. you guys aren't here for art references!

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See also: the Mongolian Naadam festival

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I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

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I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[andralphan]

Lance - Shiro - Allura - Block & Meklavar - Coran - Keith

Petit saut avec l'image 16/21 pour le DEJ de Senshistock Référence: Senshistock

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To Everyone Who Has Ever Complained About the ‘Overrepresentation’ of LGBTQ+ Characters in the Arrowverse:

Here’s all the main characters Arrow has ever had: Oliver, Laurel E1, Laurel E2, Tommy, Diggle, Thea, Moira, Quentin, Felicity, Roy, Slade, Malcolm, Curtis, Adrian, Rene, Dinah, and Diaz.

One of them is gay out of a total of 17.

Here’s all the main characters Legends has ever had: Martin, Ray, Rip, Sara, Jax, Kendra, Carter, Mick, Leonard, Eobard, Amaya, Gideon, Nate, Zari, Wally, Ava, Constantine, and Nora.

Two are bisexual and one is gay out of a total of 18.

Here’s all the main characters The Flash has ever had: Barry, Iris, Caitlin, Cisco, Eobard, Harrison, Joe, Cecile, Wally, Julian, DeVoe, Ralph, Nora, and Cicada.

As of now, none have been LGBTQ+.

Here’s all the main characters Supergirl has ever had: Kara, James, Alex, Winn, J’onn, Cat, Mon-El, Maggie, Lena, Reign, Braniac 5, Agent Liberty, Dreamer, Nia.

Two are gay and one is transgender out of 13.

The greater majority of LGBTQ+ characters we’ve had have been only recurring or guest characters: Nyssa, Nick Anastas, William, Emily, Guinevere, Digsy Foss, Gary, Paul, Rob, Singh, Ray Terrill, Lindsay, Queen Anne, and E-X Snart.

All of these characters have only had extremely short lived onscreen relationships/no actual onscreen relationships (Nyssa, Paul, William, Emily, Gary) or had very little significant screen time in general (Nick, Lindsay, Guinevere, Anne, Singh, Rob) or were from another universe who showed up for 5 minutes in one single episode (Digsy, Ray Terrill, E-X Snart).

So here’s the total number of main, recurring, and significant guest characters we’ve had on all four shows: 195

Here’s the total number of main, recurring, and significant guest LGBT characters we’ve had on all four shows: 21

So roughly 10% of all characters have been LGBTQ+. That’s about equal to the percentage of LGBTQ+ people in the world population. Saying there’s “too many” LGBTQ+ characters in these shows is just pathetic.

Representation is so so so important. I know it has helped me be comfortable with my sexuality, and I’m sure it’s helped many more.

(Just to add some context to this post, after William being revealed as gay on Arrow, a lot of people on some other sites have been complaining about the Arrowverse being “too gay”. It’s not. In fact, I give the CW a lot of credit for having this many LGBTQ+ characters.)

[andralphan]

21/21 Dernière image pour le DEJ de cette année avec un fanart de Felix "Pavel" et de Piers de la série Golden Sun.

Référence: Senshistock