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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
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@celiaelise
I think I may have completely failed to mention this, but I've been going to this weekly figure drawing session at a local art academy! It's not a class or anything, it's literally just 2.5 hours of getting to draw a model. The session I go to has poses from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
I drew all these with papermate flair felt tip pens and regular crayola markers, in a 9x12" sketchbook. Some of the photos are cut off in the preview, so click to view the whole thing! 🌟
the phrase really should be "eat your cake and have it too" im with the unabomber on this one
Henry Taylor
bro my mom and I just do NOT like each other...😫 which tbh I'm usually pretty accepting of, but we're both acutely aware of the fact that in 2 weeks we're going on 6 day trip to the East coast, where we will apparently be SHARING A ROOM at the air bnb!!
(was not my idea and she knew I'd be opposed but she didn't ask me before telling her siblings that was fine. I think space is going to be pretty tight, so maybe it's unavoidable, but. 😒 Also maybe examine why none of your closest family members WANT to room with you???)
And I'm pretty sure it will be the longest continuous amount of time we have spent together since I moved out in 2020.
She's like, "you didn't offer to help your brother with [quick, one-person task] 😢" and I'm like, "yeah, he didn't seem to be struggling? And he didn't ask for help?" (we were in the same room and he was talking to me about other stuff while he did it) And she's like, "that's the point, we shouldn't HAVE to ask."
Like???? No? Talk to me like an adult?? It's cool if I can intuit your needs, but it's not a failing on my part if I don't!
And then she's like, "don't bother asking Elise for help, she only helps her theater friends." And I'm like, "wdym 'don't bother'? I would obviously help you if you asked." And she repeated, "we shouldn't have to ask, that's the point!!!" Which doesn't really make sense.
Like the insult of having to ask for help at all is so large that actually doing the task without help doesn't make a meaningful difference? That makes no sense.
(Also she likes to use "we", meaning her and my brother, instead of "I". i.e. "We worry about you when you don't answer our texts!", "you never help us", etc. Even though usually he doesn't give a shit. I think she just thinks it makes her whining more justifiable.)
And like, yeah, maybe I don't proactively volunteer to help her personally very often, but that's for the extremely clear reason that she is miserable to be around! She is usually criticizing my appearance or implying I'm a bad person!!
Also making these sweeping generalizations when in the past I have helped her with a lot? But I'm not being as "helpful" as she wants right now, so none of that exists anymore, apparently. I'm fundamentally unhelpful as a person.
Anyway I'm a little concerned we're gonna fight in front of all my cousins in the first few days i meet them 🙃
haters will see you going to therapy and be like he cant afford sixpenceee heals
you should have seen me a couple of years ago!
“I hate country music” okay so you don’t even know that way down yonder on the Chattahoochie it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie????
one of the most Consent Kings songs of all time
the kids in hsm2 shouldve unionized that country club
various tv, film, and theater producers for the last 50 years smacking themselves in the forehead like fuuuuck how can we make it easy to understand why carrie is alienated from her peers and callously bullied at school WITHOUT making her a hideous fatass like in the book
I was talking to this older, overconfident guy at the drawing session last night. (There are a lot of these there) He seemed super friendly, which I think was mostly genuine.
He started telling me about this website with figure drawing references, where you can set up timed poses like we do at the session irl. I told him I had heard of it, but, in an effort to, I think, explain why I'd never used it before, I started talking about how drawing from photos isn't the same to me as drawing from life.
I wasn't very good at explaining it, but I do think it was clear that I was talking about what I prefer, not saying drawing from photos is inherently inferior, or something. He didn't get defensive, exactly, but did seem like he was trying to convince me. He was like, "it's exactly the same!" and seemed confused at what I was saying.
Admittedly, it was a clumsy explanation, especially as I got a little nervous when it started to feel like we were disagreeing. It devolved to me saying something like, "the math I do in my head is different," which is true, but probably doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone who isn't in my head.
I think he was genuinely trying to be helpful!! Like, he felt I was closing myself off from a potential resource that he found very beneficial. But I got anxious at the prospect of a disagreement with someone who I didn't know well, and once our break ended, I felt bad about how the conversation had gone. I didn't want him to think I couldn't draw from photos, or that I looked down on it.
But then I was like, "wait a second. Why do I care about this? This guy's art is NOT as good as mine." like, it was fine. It wasn't bad, and of course all I'd seen of his work were the studies from that night. Maybe his finished work is really remarkable! But I kind of doubt it?
Also, at one point I was showing him my sketchbook, and he said, "yeah, you're getting really good!" Which I didn't really process the condescension of until after the fact. Bro, I started really good, what are you saying? 🤨 Also that's just not how artists in a studio compliment each other, in my experience. We'll find specific things to point out as interesting, or to say we like, or even to ask questions about.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, there was a little bit of an awkward pause after he first complimented my work, (prior to the "getting really good" comment) where it felt like maybe I was supposed to reciprocate and compliment his drawings in turn. But for the few moments the silence lingered, I genuinely couldn't think of anything to say! Not that his work was bad; it was fine, what anatomy he'd captured seemed accurate, idk. There just wasn't anything to say about it!! And then after a moment one of us pushed on with the conversation. So that was maybe a tiny bit rude of me? 😅😬
This is a way longer post than this interaction with this random dude warrants, but I guess I'm just proud of myself for pushing back against my anxiety by being like, "wait, actually. I just remembered I'm the shit, and I don't need to fall all over myself impressing others or making them feel better." That's something I struggle with a lot. Maybe someday I'll be able to believe it even in situations where I don't have my artistic prowess to back me up!
Like how do i take the confidence I feel about my abilities in visual art and inject it into how I feel about, like, generally being a human being?
artist: miranda sofroniou
I think I may have completely failed to mention this, but I've been going to this weekly figure drawing session at a local art academy! It's not a class or anything, it's literally just 2.5 hours of getting to draw a model. The session I go to has poses from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
I drew all these with papermate flair felt tip pens and regular crayola markers, in a 9x12" sketchbook. Some of the photos are cut off in the preview, so click to view the whole thing! 🌟
I don't necessarily disagree w the posts that are like "smh students today can't even do an [x number] page reading assignment!" but I do think it's something worth considering other perspectives on. (Though of course, regardless, ai book summaries are not the answer!)
I think it's very possible that today's students are both under more pressure and worse equipped to handle it than students of the past. I think there's probably not a good way to measure something like this, either.
Young people have access to more information than ever before, which isn't bad, but processing all that, learning how to control what you take in and how it effects you, is a specific skillset that many people haven't cultivated. They also have access to more routes of escapism than ever before! And way more points of comparison. Countless voices telling them that it's all going to be okay, or that they're doing terribly and it's not worth even trying, or that their energy is better used focused on something else entirely.
I think a large number of them probably don't have a honed ability to push past discomfort and do hard things, which is a real, learned skill, not just a character flaw. You have to train and teach your brain that it's safe to explore new things.
And why would they? Today's economy is terrifying. Young adults can not be assured that concerted effort will be rewarded with success. Fifty years ago, it was "apply yourself, work hard, and you will secure a good, stable career." That's simply not the case anymore!
Also, the last several decades have seen a big push for increased literacy and education, and for everyone to go to college. So a lot of people who maybe wouldn't have persued higher education, historically, are doing so now. Which in many ways is great!! I believe everyone should get as much education as they can! But it does mean some students maybe don't come from families that are well-equipped to support them.
And, yes, there will always be edge cases. People who came from nothing and worked two jobs while they studied to pay their tuition, who built everything they have from the ground up, nothing but their own grit and gumption to lean back on. But they shouldn't have to do that! No one should have to do that, and, furthermore, it's unreasonable to expect most people even can.
I don't have a well-thought out conclusion to this, but I thought we had already agreed it's not helpful to anyone to start calling people "lazy". Like, probably some of these kids are entitled little assholes, but even that is a learned behavior!
Also, the unprecedented accessibility of information and communication in our digital world means that we're definitely just now learning about weak spots that have been there the whole time.
wear the fuck is all the furry art of Smokey the Bear
literally he's a fat outdoorsy anthro bear in jeans who loves nature and has a noble job... this is a fuckable guy. where is his recognition
like I don't even want to bang him, that's not my cup of tea, but I'm offended on his behalf. this guy has to be countless peoples gay furry awakening.
oh my god I used the wrong version of "where" in the first post and didn't even notice. take me out.
I think I may have completely failed to mention this, but I've been going to this weekly figure drawing session at a local art academy! It's not a class or anything, it's literally just 2.5 hours of getting to draw a model. The session I go to has poses from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
I drew all these with papermate flair felt tip pens and regular crayola markers, in a 9x12" sketchbook. Some of the photos are cut off in the preview, so click to view the whole thing! 🌟
I know comment sections are supposed to be, like, the root of all evil or whatever, but seeing articles or posts with NO comments, just suggested articles, or, even worse, ADS.... idk it feels kinda bleak and empty! Like, let us speak... 🥺
