Beleza ! Beleza !! Beleza !!!

[angelicdewdrop]

[the-chipped-heart]

I am a human with a chipped stone over their heart, a hoop that circles grief into grace, and a library card full of books about things I was never taught.

I am training my legs for a journey I cannot yet name. Each day: a few more steps on the machine. Each night: a few more pages of learning who I am.

I have two tomato sprouts and a pantry full of beans. I have a dying friend, a healing mother, and a handful of people who performed friendship so loudly I had to learn to love my own silence.

This is a record of becoming. Walking through grief, uncertainty, and the slow, stubborn work of choosing myself.

[contentmuslimah-deactivated2024]

Please, keep looking. Not for a person, but for your passion, your love, your courage, your goals, your dreams, your happiness, yourself. Keep looking. Explore yourself before you explore another. Know your worth, know yourself. Only then will you know what you need over what you want. You need yourself to become your own.

[desultory-suggestions]

It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

[gradienty]

Cupid Seattle (#fcbae8 to #53b8f7)

[hollowboobtheory]

you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it

[potsiefaerie]

Especially when some random newcomers draw an invisible line directly through the middle of your homeland so now you need the permission of two Colonial Governments to go visit your fucking cousins on the other side of the lake.

[gradienty]

Jordy Blue Perfume (#89b4f4 to #b8a9f8)

[milkandvoid]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Atlantique (Mati Diop, 2019)

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[515-interito]

@teal-chimera is this the one youre looking for?

[teal-chimera]

unfortunately not but I'll share anyways! <3

[aleiasanova]

@meepingmeep @mwbookwyrm-blog O3O

[gradienty]

Pink Flamingo Rose (#f664ee to #ed0287)

[gradienty]

Clairvoyant Blue (#3f074e to #0615ee)

[earthangeal]

A mural of a forest in the South Bronx, New York. Captured by Thomas Hoepker, 1983

Mural Art by Alan Sonfist, 1978. The building still exists, however the mural is no longer there

[angelicdewdrop]

[dolltraces]

[fleurison-deactivated20190824]

may you get a sign this week that shows you that you’re on the right path and that things are flowing and moving in your favor. may the sign be evident, clear, and direct

[bnmxfld]

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Kurt Tucholsky