some shadowing on the crotch got out of hand...

call me GP. Here's my art blog.  

[raakxhyr]

Turned @gipspips ‘ art to a video with the music :) Hope you enjoy!

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[gipspips-blog]

Uoooooooo <3

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The twilight confers power. I was being given everything and losing everything at the same time.

Violette Leduc, tr. by Derek Coltman, from “La Bâtarde,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

i have seen a million pictures of my face and still i have no idea

Elaine Kahn, from Women in Public (via lifeinpoetry)

[gipspips-blog]

Little sketch cuz ir luv 'em

[gipspips-blog]

little series

[gipspips-blog]

Yoo, so I wrote this song last year for a friend’s short film

[gipspips-blog]

Me, reading a fic at midnight: I'll read one chapter before I sleep

My mind: WHY YOU ALWAYS LYING

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

[wolveswithhats]

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

[priderising]

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

[reapergrellsutcliff]

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

[armellin]

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

[euclase]

#literally one of the biggest fears I have #is for some douchefuck to dig out my reference #and point at it and say that I’m not a real artist #I don’t want you to dig out my references to prove that I didn’t make up a realistic picture out of fucking thin air #that’s not how art works #but especially on this site it happens CONSTANTLY #it’s so fucking scary #when people who’ve never touched a pen in their lives think they’re qualified to judge you #and ‘reveal’ how you’ve ‘scammed’ people

Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.

And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.

So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. <3

[lindblut]

Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.

Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!

[julee-art]

How is even possible that in our fandom we don’t have a CHERIK!AVATAR AU.

@holy-cherik @hipstershota

[gipspips-blog]

I have like only a handful of good pictures of my face and i'm gonna use it in every social media forever

[gipspips-blog]

Tbh all i want is to play Puck one day and be all fairy n shit

[gipspips-blog]

Tbh all i wanna is get to play Puck one day and be all fairy and Shit

[gipspips-blog]

Hah I'm probably going to write a new zine about feelings n stuff

[shapeshiftersvt]

BINDER GIVEAWAY VII: THE GENDER AWAKENS

Here at the end of a long winter, we at Shapeshifters just cleared the 350-sale mark. As a small token of our everlasting thanks, we’re holding our seventh binder giveaway!

As ever, the lucky winner will receive one single-layer custom-sized binder in their choice of size, cut, and print. This means anything we offer that’s priced at $55 or under. Check out the store for your options.

Here be the rules:

Only reblogs count. One per blog. No giveaway blogs.

You don’t have to be following.

But your ask box must be open.

Entries from all countries are welcome.

You may reblog without entering, just tag it accordingly so we know. Signal boosts are always appreciated!

The winner will be randomly selected on **March 2nd, 2016**. We will send an ask and a message notifying the winner.

If said winner does not get back to us within three days, a new winner will be selected.

Good luck!

As a side note: we’re moving! If you like what we do and want us to be able to continue doing it, please consider donating a few dollars via Storenvy or Youcaring, or ordering some fabric samples! We’d ideally like to move as smoothly as possible without having to close the store, slow down production, or sell our gay little souls, and you can help make that happen.

Thanks!

[bostonpoetryslam]

We don’t, especially in the US, want to look at poetry as something every student is capable of, because that would be dangerous to those who control the school systems. All students, regardless of their backgrounds, would realise that they are capable of speaking very well; that there are not certain individuals who control what constitutes good language. They would realise that language is not just this agreed upon set of constructed ideas, that it’s not an MLA citation or a five-paragraph essay, that everyone can create new and beautiful language. So it is very frustrating to me when people say, ‘I don’t like poetry,’ or, ‘I don’t understand it,’ because all of that seems the fault of a system that doesn’t want to give poetry its power, and that doesn’t want to give people their power either.

Dorothea Lasky, interviewed by Rebecca Tamás for Prac Crit (via bostonpoetryslam)

[gipspips-blog]

Continuar lendo

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still #2016

[lupin420]

this yaoi doujin is straight guy approved