Life, love, tears, fears.

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[forrestimel]

Art Resources :D

Tools for Anatomy, Gesture, and Figures

Figure and Gesture Drawing

Bodies in Motion

Quickposes

Character Design

3D Head & Hand Viewer

Pose References

More Pose References

Gesture & Figure Reference

Animal & Creature Reference

Creature Reference

Tips on Drawing Animals

Color & Light Reference

Tool for Color Schemes

Movie Screencaps

Costume Design

The History of Costume

Osprey Armor Collection

Fashion from History

Armor 

General Resources

Miscellaneous References

More Miscellaneous References

Miscellaneous Articles

Textures

Tutorials

 Yohann Schepacz Tutorials

Anthony Jones Tutorials

Mike Azevedo Tutorials

Dave Rapoza Tutorials

Realistic Shadows Tutorial

Art Channels

Dan Warren Youtube

Sycra Youtube

Dave Rapoza Youtube

LevelUp Youtube

RossDraws Youtube

Anthony Jones Youtube

Basics of Digital Painting

Adobe Channel

John Silva Twitch

These are the Photoshop Brushes I use

Feel free to add any additional reference websites that you might use, if I don’t have it. :)

[forrestimel]

Also, here’s a site where you can view/save pretty much all of Loomis’ books for free. 

Some other books I recommend:

Color and Light by James Gurney

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesnt Exist by James Gurney

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators by Michael Mattesi

How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Enviornments from Your Imagination by Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling

[zarzalblack]

I love you, Joe Kelly!

[mysharona1987]

There is no part of this diatribe that is not amazing or 100% true.

[decemberdancer04]

SAY IT AGAIN FOR ALL TO HEAR

[animatedamerican]

The line I saw a while ago that seems relevant:  “There is no such thing as unskilled labor, only undervalued skills.”

I can’t find a counterexample.

[mentaljen-deactivated20190625]

As someone that’s worked several years in retail I can confirm this is beyond true and accurate.

[kahtiihma]

every friend i know in white collar jobs just sits on their asses and watches netflix at works and me and my blue collar friends bust our fucking asses for peanuts

[fierceisnotenough-deactivated20]

I worked retail for 9 years, and when I left I was a merchandise manager who got paid $12.50 and hour. That’s right, I was a manager who got paid what amounts to $22,000-24,000 for the year. That’s below the poverty line.

I would keep my phone on me to count my steps, and routinely would get between 11,000-13,000 steps in an 8 hour shift.

The minimum wage needs an increase bad. That is all

[procrastinatingabout-deactivate]

[aisakataiga-archive-blog]

condoms are free because 40 million people died during the aids crisis, and the vast majority of them were lgbt+, sex workers, or both. condoms are free because people dying of aids had to fight tooth and fucking nail so no one else needed to. condoms are free because people were having real actual die ins as form of protest. condoms are free because the government laughed while the lgbt community was dying, until they were forced to fight back. condoms are free because they save lives, everyday. they save rape victims lives, they save lgbt lives, they save sex workers lives, ect. saying condoms are only free for the benefit of men is transmisogynistic, classist, homophobic, and completely ignores the struggles of sex workers and rape victims. 

so the next time you bring up the fight for free menstruation products (and yes, you will have my support in that) leave free condoms out of it 

[dragon-fat]

If you are all up in arms screaming #fuckparis and #fuckfrance, I hope you never blogged about Marion Cotillard, Omar Sy, Joakim Noah, Léa Seydoux, Jamel Debbouze, Eva Green, Maïwenn, Pierre Niney, Gaspard Ulliel, Audrey Tautou or Tony Parker.

I hope you’ve never liked music by Daft Punk, Ibrahim Maalouf, Phoenix, Yelle, Oxmo Puccino, IAM, Justice, Tryo, Dionysos, or La Companie Créole.

I hope you’ve deleted all your aesthetic™ pictures of the Eiffel tower, macarons, ponts des arts, cheese and wine, or Mont St Michel.

I hope you’ve changed your Les Misérables, Les Fleurs du Mal, or Astérix related urls and taglines.

Most of all, I hope your rude insensitive and ignorant ass fuckface never steps on this country’s soil and that you choke on nasty white bread.

[macarousse]

Or on your nasty wannabe cheese. 

[stirringwinds]

can people criticise western-centrism in the media without insinuating that the victims in the Paris attacks were all white? i guarantee you they were not, given the demographics of the city and the kind of soft targets that were hit. non-white people in europe exist. many are citizens or permanent residents of EU countries. many of us are furthermore, in the countries of our former colonial master. in the UK, there are many conversations british citizens from the former british colonies have about what it means to be british today. just as in the US, people will say the idea that it is a “white” country is an approach that cuts out the experiences of non-white people who are us citizens, or even been part of the US since its founding. a country with white supremacy =/= white country

it is one thing to talk about western-centrism in the media, it is another to claim all the victims are “white” just because you want to make it acceptable to say insensitive things about a hideous tragedy. (because if all the victims are white, then it’s okay because they have power and privilege right? even though they have been hideously murdered?) or because they don’t want to deal with the complex dichotomies of how western privilege works (which is not completely synonymous with white privilege because- non-white westerners do have several advantages flowing from the global power of the country on their passport vis a vis non-white non-westerners). like they want to talk about western-centrism in the media, but at the same time they do this by perpetuating the completely false idea that non-white people don’t live in europe and that we aren’t also affected by the terrorist attacks here? by reinforcing the idea of europe = 100% white? these people do us no favours in a climate where there are far right groups who say our presence here is unwanted and threatening their deluded fantasy of Pure White European Culture that apparently existed before.

[imaanhammamofficial]

Imaan Hammam attends the Tiffany & Co. exclusive party 11/12

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[forevernxxn]

painfully accurate

[freemymind4rtpop]

Me rn: 

[violainebriat]

tiny tutorial thing I meant to make for the people I sometimes help out on portefolios : ) just wanted to share perspective doesnt have to be a bugger, yknow ? 

[lickmyeyeballsss]

🍓 #crybaby

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[forevernxxn]

“It suddenly becomes many times more difficult for  someone like me to start a conversation about the harmfulness of the words “kafir”, “kuffar” (“infidels“) or “kufr” (the act of blaspheming or the demonized act of proclaiming or implying disbelief) as a family of concepts with destructive effects within Muslim communities when memes like the one above epitomize how my liberal allies choose to direct their focus. I have to undo the work they have done and assert the importance of my narrative to even begin to talk about this issue, an issue of a slur personally used against me and people like me. Specifically, related to the meme above, in Islamic contexts the English word “infidel” is a translation of the word “kafir”, which in Arabic ordinarily translates to simply “nonbeliever” but in the context of Muslim usage usually has the intent and effect of being a slur against non-Muslims or people perceived to be false Muslims. So it turns out this is a bit more complicated than the meme which tries to minimize the aggressive scope of this word would have you believe. Most Christians and Jews are definitely considered kuffar in some sects. To deny the widespread anti-Semitism concurrent with Muslim belief is dangerous and irresponsible. By no means is discussion of Judaism unilaterally positive in the Qur’an or ahadith to begin with, and in the case of Christianity the trinity is viewed to be kufr in multiple schools because it is interpreted as contradicting the doctrine of God’s oneness. We also know that cultural use of the term isn’t always consistent with scriptural use. It has taken on a pervasive and culturally significant meaning whereby it is used as a catch-all term for the West and Western ideology. Such usage is a real connotation. The meme above virtually argues that this expressly Othering use of kafir is never intended by Muslims and thereby commits the same kind of mistake that it is ostensibly rejecting: that of essentializing Islam and reducing Muslim experience and interpretation to one version.

I would also argue it is irrelevant to appeal to the fact that the term isn’t limited to Islam in order to imply its harmlessness. Of course, as a word from a broader language and not limited to Islamic usage, it obviously has uses outside of Islam (unless you believe Arabic is tied inextricably to Muslim expression such that Islam gives the ultimate meaning of all its terms somehow), but this is irrelevant to what the word means in its specifically Islamic context. Unless you would point out that not only Christians use the term “nonbeliever” in English as a relevant point, why point it out for the Arabic?

I understand that the goal is pointing out the bigotry of conflation, which does happen a lot, but the way it is approached reinforces binary thinking. I fear it’s still treating the language as somehow different than you’d think about English because of the incongruity in contextualizing terms. The fact that kafir has uses outside of labeling unbelievers in a Muslim sense should not properly be relevant to its significance as both a concept in Muslim belief and a specific cultural regime of truth within the Islamic world.”

-Hiba Krisht, How Progressive Allies Hurt Marginalized Muslims and Ex-Muslims

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[hellenbelle]

Muslims be like…^

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