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[shutyourmoustache]

Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!

[anyrava]

I made a detailed rock painting guide (Includes some rendering basics too!)

You can find more tutorials on my Ko-Fi Shop if you've found this helpful! 🫶🍃

Visit Anyrava's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

[fontseeker]

Could you ID the font used in the webcomic Tiger, Tiger?

Milk Mustache (2015) [Identifont], which is free for non-profit/indie comics use.

[bunabi]

Clip Studio users: these are the best oil paint brushes I've seen for this software period please do yourself a favor and download

Thickpaint Expansion - CLIP STUDIO ASSETS

Make illustrations, manga, comics and animation with Clip Studio Paint, the artist’s tool for drawing and painting. All you need for drawing

[lakelacrimosa]

hey everyone! i’m a peer tutor at my university and i wanted to share some study strategies that i’ve found really helpful in my stem/content-heavy courses. please feel free to share yours with me as well!

(image descriptions under the cut)

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[girlmuppet]

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yeah hang on

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo

this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it

this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion

bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro

also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!

oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it

don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.

this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.

[succubusboyfriend]

so. i was not happy with the 3D models of horses on offer in the CSP store or literally anywhere else i could find them, i needed one to use for my work, and i went ahead and made my own that is now available for the low low price of FREE in the CSP assets store.

textures included are greyscale basic shapes, multicolor basic shapes, and white with no shapes (but eyes, mouth, nostrils, and hooves emphasized for ease).

shape is ROUGHLY based off the silhouette of an Andalusian. size-wise, it by default stands at around 16 hands, but of course it can be resized to suit your needs. for that, I recommend sizing a human pose doll to the correct height (in centimeters), lining them up on the same plane, and resizing the horse to match the human doll's height. remember that a horse's height is measured at the shoulders!

it also comes with the following preset poses:

if you use CSP and wanna snag it, type 2204263 into the search bar in the CSP assets store. happy horsing!

[shadeslayer]

@horsefigureoftheday digital horse figure ..

[horsefigureoftheday]

AWESOME

[wisteriasakana]

A list of free candy/sweet-themed resources

I love sweet/candy tilesets and, since I have a list of them, I thought I can share it, maybe it can be useful to someone!

RPG Maker VX/ACE

Avery [Sweets Icons]

Noir et Blanc Patisserie [Sweets Tile (Tileset/Autotiles)] [Biscuit Windowskin, Chocolate Windowskin]

Bouigainvillea [Biscuit Chairs/Tables/Sign (マップチップ 3), Biscuit Wall (マップチップ 5)] [Sweets Icons (アイコン 2)] [Biscuit Windowskin (ウィンドウスキン 1)]

Candra [Sweets RTP Edits] [Sweets Tileset]

Chocomill [Chocolatery Tileset] [Macaron Towers] [Pocky Fence]

Green Pochette [Sushi, cake, etc.] (material > first banner under “MAP”, on the left)

Guiguimu [Cakes!!!! RPG Maker VX Ace Shops C]

Lemori [Candy Theme Tileset]

Lizzy [Candy Furniture] [Sweets Walls] [Sweet Round Windows]

Lunarea [Gingerbread House/Lollipops (Re-Staff releases)]

Pandamaru [Candy Canes, Gingerbread House]

Spritemight [Candy Land Set 01]

Thalzon [Battlers] [C-D: Candy01-11] [E-H: Food03-04-08-10-11-14-15] [ReStaff: Halloween001-004-005-006-010] 

Tsarmina [Candy Windowskin] [ReStaff: Food Organizer]

Ying [Fanciful Tiles (various sweets, Sweets House)]

List of Fairytales resource by slimmmeiske2: Hansel and Gretel resources

RPG Maker MV

Avery [Sweets Icons]

Bouigainvillea [Gingerbread House (マップチップ 5)] [Sweets Icons (アイコン 2)]

Com-sho [Sweet Village Tilesets]

Dragoonwys [Candy/Cake House Walls and Floors] [Pastries Icons]

Journey_Sticks [Candy Country Tileset, Candy Characters, Candy Battlers]

Pandamaru [Candy Canes, Gingerbread House]

Whtdragon [Candy Weapons, Icecream Weapons]

RPG Maker XP

Citrus Cat [Candy House Exterior] [Candy House Interior]

Nekura [CandyLand (Cake Town)]

If you want to know the terms of use of Japanese sites, check this topic: Translated Terms of Usage of Japanese blogs.

Feel free to add… Or to report me errors or weird things (?).

[schweizercomics]

Hello, friends!

I reworked the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture from my comics-teaching days, figured I'd share it here. If you want a free, printable PDF for yourself or to share (especially if you're an educator), you can find it at the bottom of this same lesson on my website.

-Chris

[captainjonnitkessler]

Look, I'm not gonna pretend that I don't get it, when it comes to AI. But it's like this:

In most parts of the US, a residential electrician works only on houses and apartments. They use romex wire, that yellow cable stuff. You run it from the panel to wherever it's going, staple it to the studs, then make up both ends. You need to know basic electrical code but mostly it's pretty simple. A fast learner could be a decent residential electrician inside a month.

I, on the other hand, am a union industrial electrician. I work primarily in hospitals, factories, and research labs. Most of our wire is run in steel conduit that has to be hand bent on the job, which is an art form in and of itself. We work with much higher voltages, much heavier wire, much more complicated equipment, and we need to know much more of the code. Our apprenticeship is 4-5 years and that's only enough to scratch the surface of everything an industrial electrician might do.

And yes - I absolutely get a little defensive when unknowing people compare me to a residential electrician. There's absolutely a knee-jerk impulse to declare that they're not *real* electricians, that they're merely a pale imitation of what I do. But I fight that impulse because it's a *bad impulse*. Resi still takes skill and work, it's just different than mine. We're both electricians. And it's better for us to work together to improve working conditions for all workers than to get into pissing contests about whose job is more "real". And both our jobs are in increasing danger due to the proliferation of low voltage systems that the average homeowner can install and repair without hiring a professional.

So yeah, I do get it. But it has been very, VERY insulting over the last year to hear people repeatedly say "AI was supposed to replace blue collar jobs, not *my* job! My job is ~special~ because it has ~humanity~!"

Your job is not special. It's not more important than my job and it's not more fulfilling to you than my job is to me. And I don't get to insist that everyone start building homes with steel conduit just so less skilled people can't be electricians, and I don't get to yell at people for hiring a handyman to replace an outlet for $50 when my time would be worth $200.

I absolutely understand the instinct that AI art can't be real art because people who use it didn't "earn" it, or that automating art is uniquely damaging in a way automating other jobs isn't because it's "supposed" to be about human expression. But please actually think about what you're implying and who you're throwing under the bus when you say shit like that, and whether it actually holds up to your other values or if it's just a knee-jerk reaction you need to examine.

[eesirachs]

do you take any interest in liberation theology? if so, do you recommend any books/papers about it?

my recs—alves theology of human hope, yountae beyond man, keller political theology, moltmann theology of hope, rivera poetics of the flesh, rivera-pagán god the liberator, rose theology of failure, sobrino christology at the crossroads or christ the liberator, spivak can the subaltern speak, ateek justice and only justice, boff ecclesiogenesis, freire pedagogy of the oppressed, segundo liberation of theology, thurman jesus and the disinherited, tinker spirit and resistance. the rest i'm sure you know—cones, williams, gutierrez and romero,

[birdsofpasssage]

rough colour process walkthrough for twitter

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[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.

[bansheeoftheforest]

PLEASE do yourself a favour and check out this wikipedia-styled template for google drive, made by @ Rukidut on twitter

I decided to try to sort my ideas and whats canon regarding my ocs with this and ITS PERFECT. IT ALL FEELS SO CONRETE. and i sure as hell AM Going to continue to use this with every single OC I have until google drives is set ablaze- Just!!!!!!!!

Also; link directly to the doc, just copy the file and you have your own lil template!!!!

[bitchesgetriches]

Hi, so I've been unemployed for 4 years now (depression and anxiety), but I've done a lot organizational stuff to help with my parents. Ive also taken a 6 month bootcamp and completed projects with other people. I don't want to put down that I was unemployed on my resume cause then nobody will pick it up. Can I use freelance or something similar as a white lie? Is it possible to use my friends as an "employer"? Thank you 😊

"White lie"? "Unemployed"? Honey it sounds like you were plenty busy and occupied! You were ABSOLUTELY freelancing for ll that time.

If your friend employed you to complete a project (even if they paid you in beer), then that absolutely counts as freelancing.

Reframe, reframe, reframe your way back to full-time employment, my sweet baby mouse. Your priority should be securing an income, and we support you doing what you have to do to make that happen.

How to Frame Volunteering on Your Resume When You’ve Never Had a Job 

Ask the Bitches: “I Took a Career Break to Care For Someone. How Do I Explain My Caregiving Resume Gap?”

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[melonchews]

you’re art is so fantastic do you have any tutorials that really helped you improve :3??

Oh my gosh thank you so much!!

Here are some resources/tutorials that helped me over the years.

Patreon :

Loish has a patreon that’s full of amazing tutorials and tips that expand past even art, such as workflow and scheduling. Three of the biggest takeaways that helped with me so far:

• focus studies (choosing a specific area to focus on when doing warm ups)

• exaggeration + creativity when doing studies (so eliminating the pressure of accuracy and focusing on observation + feeling).

• workflow (the ways in which we complete illustrations and work it into our schedule. In due time I will implement this better lol).

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YouTube:

Ahmed aldoori :

• 100 heads

• drawing practice from reference

• photo study painting tutorial

Proko :

• draw the head from any angle

• getting better faster - painting with 80/20 rule

Marco bucci :

• 10 mins to better painting (playlist)

Ethan Becker :

• draw gesture with one shape (honestly a lot of his tutorials/tips are great! I think I learned a lot of various things that are scattered thought out his videos).

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Books: not tutorials, but good resources that helped.

• How to draw by Scott Robertson

• Figure drawing: design and study by Michael hampton

• a ton of “art of” books, study your favorites!

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My own tips/things I think about when I draw that have helped a lot:

Image 1) tracing over figures then drawing the contour or using that traced contour to check my work.

I also block in the shapes of the body and redraw that (sometimes treating it as its own character. I’ll play around with those proportions or stylize them, etc).

Image 2) negative space and envelope: Creating a shape around the figure and creating shapes in the negative space helped me a lot with mapping out poses. I eventually started using it as a short cut for my own work once I memorized common shape placements.

Image 3) finding the rhythms of a figure through connections and implied lines. For example, the curve of her hip flowed into the inside of her bra cup, or the inner leg flowed into her panty line. Etc. this really helped me simplify figures and draw in a way that was enjoyable.

Image 4) is an extension of 3, sometimes it helps to see the connection of the arms + shoulders or legs + hips. As well as opposing line curves (the red).

I hope that makes sense 😭 if not I can explain it better/more thoroughly if needed.