♡ Stephanie Brown ♡

https://steph-guides.carrd.co Don't be scared to chat anytime

[angstyentropy]

I'm probably gonna tag any spoilers for new comics with [run name] spoilers

Letting you know in case you wanna filter that tag

[kotori-mochi]

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"

[animalphotorefs]

Boosting this in case any of the programs and books suggested are useful.

All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!

As long as you’re not using AI to create your art, you can reference / trace / draw / recombine / make any sort of art you want, with any of the photos, for free.

[mssmarvell]

duke

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[theminotaursmanual]

by Laerte Coutinho

[las-lus]

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

[ashoss]

i am not trying to discourse at you i am just genuinely curious why you filtered out mute cass/cass using sign language? ive only been apart of this fandom for like a week but i am non-speaking and unaware why you wouldnt want that in a fic. i hope this doesnt come across as malicious or passive aggressive (i struggle with tone, apologies)

hi, not at all! i understand why a lot of people have the cass using asl headcanon, or even see her as mute, but to me its just a complete misunderstanding of her character and often comes from a place of racist stereotyping instead of genuine representation.

cass is not mute. she didnt know any spoken language growing up. she grows up only reading body language and her brain processes body movement as a language on its own. sign language is its own language, (and for the sake of simplicity im going to be refering to asl), but cass had no basis of a language, so asl would be incredibly complicated for her to understand (in her early batgirl days at least).and we do see when she does learn how to talk, she enjoys talking (albeit short and stunted sentences). shes likes being snarky, she likes being sarcastic, she likes making jokes and finally explaining how she feels about things, and even in the new 52 reboot, she really enjoys reciting shakespeare with basil karlo. she didnt have a choice in these things growing up, david took it away from her, but now as batgirl and with people like babs + bruce shes able to learn and express herself.

a lot of people who dont know much about cass will see that she grew up not knowing how to talk, and jump to "well, shes mute" because its the easier option to portray instead of her fumbling her way through a sentence or trying to understand the way she talks. they read that she knows body language and will portray her using asl because they misunderstand both her disability and asl as a language.

there are ways to write a cass who knows asl, and i do think its something she'd learn eventually as a way to communicate silently on missions or in a tough situation, but a lot of people aren't writing about it in that way. when im scrolling ao3 for cass fics, im trying to find cass fics written by people who read cass comics. its why i have soooo many tags filtered out that dont even have to do with cass. a huge majority of fics that have the mute cassandra cain or cassandra cain uses asl tag is fics where cass is only a secondary character, if that. ones where she'd only show up to hug her brothers and sign that she loves them and leaves the story.

and since i couldnt really find a way to transition into this, im shoving it here. there are a lottt of (mostly unintentional, but still harmful) racially stereotypical headcanons in the batman fandom, from tim drake being east asian because hes super smart and often meek in fanon, to jason being latino because he was poor and angry. but cass, being an asian girl, and being portrayed as silent and docile (fanon cass's entire character being about loving her brothers, being bruces favourite, how she could never disappoint them, how she gets along with all of them. etc) is just. racist. the people who write cass like this are tryinggg to insert diversity and representation into their works but it just comes across as gross and uninformed.

anyway, its veryyy late for me and im not sure if i even conveyed my thoughts properly, but if you want a more in depth post about the fandom portrayal of cass using asl, i highly recommend these posts !

[ashoss]

Might i suggest a bettegirl or flamebird sticker?

you may !!

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[missroserose]

I'm not sure what mood this is but it sure is one

[digitaldiscipline]

it’s a spoiler alert

[copperbadge]

She’s definitely spoiling her dinner. 

[ID: An image of a white sporty-looking car with a high spoiler on the back; a woman is sitting on the trunk of the car, legs through the spoiler, using it like a narrow table to eat soup off of. She also has what looks like a coffee drink and possibly some french fries nearby.]

[karlyanalora]

This post has been sitting in my drafts for 4 years. Thank you @ihatebrainstorm for making this joke possible.

[comicpolls]

Favourite Platonic Duo: Round One Match Nine of Sixty-Four

Stephanie Brown (Batgirl/Spoiler/Robin) & Damian Wayne (Robin)

Ororo Munroe (Storm) & Max Eisenhardt (Magneto)

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

[dustbunnyaac]

Of all of the issues with claiming a non service animal is a service animal, one I've been reminded of recently is the allergen risk.

I have a pretty bad animal dander allergy. If an animal brushes against my leg and I touch that part of my clothing and then my face, my face and airways will swell and I'll start audibly wheezing. If I touch my eyes they swell to the point I can't see.

Several times in the last few months I've had "service animals" jump on me/my wheelchair, press against me, or try to get me to pet them. Its happened in places only service animals are allowed. Every time this has happened the animal has been near the full range of its leash and looking away from its owner (who is talking to someone else and doesn't notice their animal is getting all over me).

When this happens I need to keep track of where the animal touched me, take a Benadryl if there's any risk it's gotten near my face/airways, and immediately wash that clothing when I get home so I don't experience anaphylaxis. If I can't do laundry then that clothing is quarantined for weeks on end, until I can eventually wash it.

Service animals do not act this way. Even in training the handler is aware enough of them to keep them close and off of other people. A service animal that is not focused on or even near its owner is failing at its job and not ready to work, never mind in sensitive places like doctors offices. The handlers I know irl have had better behaved months old puppies when it comes to this, unlike the adult dogs who've tried to get their paws in my lap.

These have not been situations where the animal is trying to get my attention to help its handler. These have been situations where the owner has been acting like a typical pet owner in places where only service animals are allowed. They are making the active choice to endanger me and other people with animal dander allergies, including people who have more severe allergies than me.

[idontwannafilloutajobapplication]

Cassie Sandsmark !! :D :D :D

[angstyentropy]

If you ignore when people tell you about how they've been discriminated against or even brush it off with an excuse, you should die. I'm so fucking serious rn

[vanta-bat]

[angels-changeling]

Cass has a shag mullet forever and always

[casscainmainly]

plus dc nuked Gretchen felker-martins comic for saying something negative about a dead nazi a successful pride special isnt going to undo that thats their attitude towards lgbt people

GOD YEAH... like DC should've been raked over the coals way more for that and while most of the people on here were outraged I still remember people caring more about fictional characters than the unjust firing of a trans woman. And never let it be said that DC lets sales get in the way of their bigotry, since they actively lost money firing her and retracting that issue!!!

Like of course we need more queer books but the way people reacted to the boycott (leading to its early termination) is not showing DC that we love queer stories. It only shows that when it comes down to it, DC can continue their bigotry in plain sight, and we'll just let them.

[sinhosstuff]

Duke Thomas week day 2!

Community- We Are Robin

Did some redesign on Duke's Robin days.

[batgirlanimated]

⧼ BATGIRL ANIMATED: INTEREST CHECK ⧽

We aren't planning on killing anyone… but we also aren't going to lose out on our plans to make an incredible animated show with your help and support! So please show your enthusiasm for Cassandra Cain while you still can ↓

📅 June 1 - 22 📅

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