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some fools be like “i play games to escape my responsibilities” then pick tank or healer
in my greatest fantasies i am able to help people
In my fantasies I can prevent people from being hurt, even if it means I get hurt in their stead.
Today, I am forced to leave Gaza—not because I want to, but because life here has left me with nothing to hold onto. There is no home to return to, no place to protect us from danger, and not even a memory to shelter us from this pain. Everything is lost, and even hope feels fragile under the weight of fear for what’s coming and the uncertainty of the future.
I was sitting on Salah Al-Din Street, the road that connects southern Gaza to the north, when my eyes fell on the moving trucks carrying the belongings of those returning to their homes in the north. I watched them, and tears betrayed me… it felt as if my heart was breaking a thousand times. I wished I could be like them, returning to my home, to my memories… but no house awaits me, and no wall carries my name. I am lost, a stranger in my own city, watching those leaving and returning, unsure of where I belong anymore.
I beg you to stand with me in this difficult journey. Extend a hand of support so that we can escape this hell and build a safe life for me and my small family. Your donation is our last hope, a chance to find a place that embraces us after we’ve lost everything, giving my children a chance to live in peace, away from fear and destruction.
Help us start over… your donation could save a family from being lost forever.
As you celebrate this ceasefire, remember those in Gaza still need our help, give whatever you can!
if you could share and donate it would be appreciated by me
TRANS COMMUNITY DONT SKIP ME
‼️‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME ESCAPE HOMELESSNESS‼️‼️I beg America to have mercy on me, I am disabled trans person and never been this low before, I feel alone and scared. I have dreams that are dead if i have no home, I’m scared my artist life is over. I am in Oregon.
https://gofund.me/bc68dc647
We stick together
tumblr liberals in the 1990s: "i believe that the boers and africans need a two state solution. anti boerism on the left is a real problem that needs to be critiqued. as a boer i feel unsafe leaving my house. wont someone please think of the boers?"
This is how white South Africans still talk
Bothering the beast
Can't afford art school?
After seeing post like this 👇
And this gem 👇
As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
📺Here is my list:
Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)
Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)
Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)
BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)
Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)
Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)
Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)
Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)
SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)
Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)
The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)
Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)
Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)
Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)
Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)
Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)
Pikat (art advice and critiques)
Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)
Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)
Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
📚Here is my list:
The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.
"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.
"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.
"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.
"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.
"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.
"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.
"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.
"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.
Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.
📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )
Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)
Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)
PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)
Krita (Free)
mypaint (free)
FireAlpaca (free)
Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)
Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)
IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)
Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)
NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"
Boosting this in case any of the programs and books suggested are useful.
All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!
As long as you’re not using AI to create your art, you can reference / trace / draw / recombine / make any sort of art you want, with any of the photos, for free.
There's also MORPHO, a really good book series on anatomy by Michel Lauricella, with very clear explanations and sketches!
And for pose references, there's @adorkastock who shares a ton of them for free, with different models and props, and her website is amazing <3 you can also buy pose packs from her.
In America you can lose your job for not being sufficiently mournful when a shock jock dies
for existing
I loved that video it made me laugh and smile. it really is not that bad. it's far quicker and more painless than he deserved. get on my level of nazi-hatred.
sometimes I'm reminded that not everyone is fueled entirely by rage and spite and anger
there was a time when reddit knew the only good nazi was a dead nazi! but a nazi finally bites it and now it's ohhhhhhh what about his faaaaaamily! (he was for sure abusing his wife and child)
if you didn’t hear dc pulled gretchen felker-martin’s red hood book for posting about charlie kirk on bluesky and silencing of a politically outspoken trans woman aside it’s really unbelievably sad we aren’t gonna get to read a jason todd book written by a woman who posts like this:
“big two comics can be a medium for radical politics” my ass. Grow a spine and stand up for this woman
hunting CEO’s
Stewards of Japanese American history are calling out the use of Fort Bliss to detain immigrants.
they turned the concentration camp into another concentration camp
fair and unbalanced western institution!
hey bro qick question .do i seem like a person to you
it sucks so bad how tmes almost universally understand a transfem's pre-realization pre-transition experience as just Being A Boy when for so many of us, it was the experience of being a girl constantly forced into male spaces with no way of understanding why they're so hostile to you.
idk every bit of masculinity i picked up was a self defense mechanism to keep myself safe and desperately try to make "other" boys like me instead of being alone and bullied. and that getting thrown in my face and used to lump me in with the people who hurt me as soon as i step outside of a transfem-dominated space is, yknow, kinda viscerally upsetting.
