How to Art

Ever wondered how to Art? Well here are some tutorials n stuff! If you need me to tag something, feel free to tell me. Banner and avatar picture copyright Jupiter, which is me. They/them. For more examples of my own art, see my art blog KateyHanes. Anyway, let's learn how to do art!

[art-res]

 🛑 Stop Working for Exposure (Mathematically)

I'm an artist and medical student, and I use art to help me pay some bills.

I built a free, helpful tool because to help prevent other talented creatives from undercharging, as I really see this a lot online.

It's a calculator with a built in reality check

Input your survival costs and expenses

True billable hours

Get the rate you actually need to charge to hit a 20% (or whatever you choose) profit margin.

It generates the rate, a template negotiation email + final invoice.

Plan to keep this tool free, ad-free, and open to everyone.

🔗 Check your math: fairpaycalc.artres.xyz

If the "Thriving Rate" calculation empowers you to double your quote on your next job, please consider hitting the "Buy me a coffee"button. It keeps the server running and the code flowing <3

AL is creating web apps, art resources, and illustrations

I am an artist and medical student and creator of Art-Res, a blog where I write and curate art resources. Hopefully you find art that bring

[art-res]

Thank you for all who tried/spread awareness of the tool and also to people who tipped, truly touched by the support and it means the world! <3

[metalgrrrl]

underrated pose references i found on pinterest pt 10

[magentasnail]

About a year ago, I dropped out of uni it's scary to think it's been a year because I feel like I haven't done anything meaningful with my time

so here's a compilation of all of my art since dropping out of uni, so I can feel better about myself:

starting off strong, one of my favorite piece, about dropping out

2 shirt designs for the band ghost! one denied and one approved but never made (it's stuck in purgatory of never seeing the light of day and I can't even post it)

a entire 40 page undertale comic ????? in like 2 weeks??? (read it here)

a lot of deltarune art

Including a short animatic

6 MCYT posters (one is yet to be released)

I built 2 (and a half) websites!

(still working on my portfolio, but I like what i got going on so far!)

and a whole bunch of doodles!

and i've reached the 30 images limit so I guess that's enough!

I don't feel like it's a ton of stuff, it's a decent amount though! and I got to do some big fun projects I'm still a far away from where I want to be as an artist, but I'm working my away there slowly! I hope this year I will get to do even more art and cool projects, and hopefully finally finish my portfolio and even maybe make a game!

[rslashrats]

going down the wikipedia rabbit hole again

[rslashrats]

they were doing anything back then to try and kill gay people

[gekkoinapeartree]

I’m sorry what?!

why are we not talking more about the kittens and real babies being part of these shenanigans.

Why are they even in this plot? They are but innocent young lives. Why!!!

I mean yes please be safe and try not to get killed for your sexuality. But wtf

[how2do-art]

I don't get the problem. So long as the sex isn't happening to or directly around the babies and isn't happening to the animals what's the issue

[rslashrats]

going down the wikipedia rabbit hole again

[strkid]

[how2do-art]

So could they like kill or I assume there were some type of limits on the crimes?

[johnny-but-emo]

sure why not

[ayeforscotland]

UKIP have submitted a new logo to the electoral commission and fucking hell.

[fuck-usag]

😬

[candycoateddoom]

[ayeforscotland]

UKIP have submitted a new logo to the electoral commission and fucking hell.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

This is visible here, for people who'd like to see it on the official website:

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/political-party-registration/current-applications-update-party-registrations

Scroll down to find "UK Independence Party". They submitted two applications, one for Great Britain, and one for Northern Ireland.

[baddywronglegs]

Fuck a bucket I hate it everywhere

[nerathul]

I guess a straight up swastika was a bit too direct so they went with second best

[ayeforscotland]

UKIP have submitted a new logo to the electoral commission and fucking hell.

[ayeforscotland]

Electoral Commission has now rejected the logo.

[miketalkstrash-deactivated20170]

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

[latinagabi]

Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.

[princessnijireiki]

Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:

chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.

grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet

he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.

even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).

(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)

famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”

for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.

and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

SWAG

[sugaryumyum-deactivated20170907]

I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.

[elodieunderglass]

when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically

daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman 

he invaded egypt

the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”

then napoleon showed up

napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus

the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”

this did not make napoleon happy

in fact it made him jealous

napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud

[liza-not-lisa-deactivated202401]

I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.

[petermorwood]

General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…

…and like this…

…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…

:-D

I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…

…he was also a foodie.

[sicktress]

He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER. 

[biblioaesthetica]

His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:

Project Gutenberg offers 73,007 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

And for those of you who would like to try audio versions, this is what is on LibriVox, the free, volunteer run audiobook version of Project Gutenberg:

LibriVox

[how2do-art]

I didn't know they had that! The audiobook version

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

[targetedknowledge]

[how2do-art]

This also applies to many animated shows I feel

[snippit-crickit]

look what i cooked (literally)

sweet as a 1/4th cup of sugar Some extras below the cut!

Heres them out of the oven

and a digital animation i made first as a guide!

[how2do-art]

Holy shit those cookies came out exactly how you wanted em! Did it take a few tries to get em right?

[makingqueerhistory]

But Not Too Bold

Hache Pueyo 

The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings

The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House⁠—Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides.

Dália, the old keeper’s protégée, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if she can unravel the crime that led to her predecessor's execution, Dália might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role.

But there’s a gaping hole in Dália’s plan that she refuses to see: Anatema cannot resist a beautiful woman, and she eventually devours every single bride that crosses her path.

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[lesbx]

they are doing things on the fallout 4 nexusmods page God doesnt even know about

[lesbx]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Tedious quests in video games don’t usually bother me because I’m listening to podcasts

[what-even-is-thiss]

Amusing conversations to gather nirnroot to

[what-even-is-thiss]

Chill beats to grind your sword to

[how2do-art]

Lowfi beats to farm EXP to