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23. Black. Trans. Man. Steven Universe. Sads. Sleep. Sex.

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How to Draw Black People (2019)

How to Draw Black people is an interactive learning tool for artists looking to improve their understanding of Black culture and design methods for Black characters.

Learn how to take a cultural approach to character design and navigate the mores of Black culture. Build Black characters from the ground up, while avoiding tired and hurtful cliches. How to Draw Black People shows artists new techniques for rendering dark skin, drawing Afrocentric faces, and breaking through gender norms. With a digital component that includes brushes made specifically for African hair types and a library of sample files to practice on, How to Draw Black People is an essential resource for improving Black character designs in all media formats. Step by step tutorials and challenging activities centered on Black hair, skin tone, facial anatomy and so much more.

How to Draw Black People fills a void that is missing in art instruction by realigning character design with culture, instead of tropes.

by Malik Shabazz

Get it here 

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[roseography]

The human body remains the most controversial piece of art yet.

[hoodnearthy]

black. trans. lives. matter.

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

I do not mind being with you if you are a work in progress, just as long as you are working to progress.

[catchymemes]

[choryllis]

[celestial-uran]

Suck shit Chipotle. Learn to take care of your employees!

[firstoffletmesayi]

The same crusties who are sending nurses to people’s houses when they call out. The gotdamn nerve of you bitches.

[browsedankmemes]

Be careful out here (via /r/BlackPeopleTwitter)

[pissvortex]

[veryfunnymemes]

[firstoffletmesayi]

This dumb ass movie.

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[rae-napier-deactivated20180822]

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

[satyinepu]

…it’s not hard?………shit….I always thought it was

[firstoffletmesayi]

@3ll3a bread appreciation post for you

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[mycroftrh]

…psst:

[Photo ID: text saying “People who are unable to experience joy from activities that once brought them delight and satisfaction may be suffering from anhedonia, a symptom of a raft of psychiatric disorders marked by a lost or greatly decreased capacity to experience joy and pleasure from the things and people that typically provided joy. People with anhedonia may lose interest not only in hobbies and social gatherings, but even in food and sex.”]

Anhedonia is most commonly associated with clinical depression, but is associated with a wide variety of other mental illnesses as well, from schizophrenia to PTSD, and even some physiological conditions like thyroid disorders, diabetes, and vitamin deficiency.

Anhedonia can take a number of forms and has a wide range of severity, from not feeling any positive emotions at all, to things you used to like doing “not hitting the same”.

Anhedonia is not normal, capitalism or no capitalism, and if you are experiencing it you should seek professional help.  Presence of anhedonia is a major risk factor for suicide - if you have two otherwise “equally” depressed people and only one has anhedonia, that one is much more likely to attempt suicide.  Even if you’re not suicidal, it, well, sucks.  It has a negative effect on relationships (romantic and platonic).  It reduces your likelihood to work towards your future - I’m not talking like “you don’t put in 110% at your shitty retail job in hopes of getting a promotion to secondary assistant sub-manager”, I mean things like eating food with nutrients, replacing the burnt-out lightbulb in your bathroom, staying in contact with your friend that moved away, practicing your drawing, and yeah, if it matters to you, it’ll probably screw up your grades/your job too, especially a passion-driven side-job.  It inherently by definition involves you not being happy (or as happy as you could be), and isn’t that enough?  It’s not something you should ignore and dismiss as a sign of the times.

It is, however, treatable in the great majority of cases.  Talk therapy, medication, ECT, ketamine, TMS, vagus nerve stimulation, etcetera - between all the various treatments, there are verrrry few people for whom it is legitimately true that “nothing works”.

If you feel like this, GET HELP.  It is almost definitely a sign of a larger condition, and ignoring it could very well be fatal - but also help, well - does help.  YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.  Even if it really is “just” this… this sucks, and you don’t have to put up with it.

[tumblunni]

Yeah seriously man this is not a “funny meme”, this is a relateable experience to me with my depression and if you are experiencing this and not getting any treatment for depression then I really worry about you! Please see a doctor and try and find out if it’s connected to depression, or any of these other conditions! There are ways to get help!!

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