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Jim Jordan has lost his first Speaker vote.

Hakeem Jeffries got 212 votes. Jim Jordan got 200. 20 Republicans voted against Jordan. That's one more, according to MSNBC, than the number of Republicans who voted against McCarthy on his first Speaker vote.

plaidadder

It's around 4:30pm and there hasn't been another vote yet. There are various empty media speculations a out why not and what happens next, but I will tell you that if Jordan thought he had more votes than he did at lunchtime today, he'd have scheduled a revote already.

Here's the thing about being a Disruptor: once you throw out the rules then other people don't have to follow them either. Jim Jordan and friends have broken all kinds of unwritten rules about party politics, and now they are seeing some consequences. May they see more!

plaidadder

So it has been announced that there will be no more votes until 11am Wednesday morning. This is, as some people have just straight up admitted, because Jordan does not want to lose more than one vote today.

I'll be interested to see what happens tomorrow. I saw one GOP congressmen telling the media that in order to get his vote Jordan has to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. Others are demanding that he guarantee they will fund the government. Some people are just putting together laundry lists of stuff they know their constitutents want. How many promises will Jordan make? How much begging is he prepared to do? Apparently over the weekend the Jordan campaign was all stick and no carrot--basically siccing the MAGA machine on the holdouts, even Sean Hannity was apparently contacting legislators directly on Jordan's behalf--and that approach failed to deliver. CAN Jordan bring himself to lick enough boot to get the gavel? I don't know!

It's too bad Conn mac Emer has retired; he would have been all over this. But it's like I said back in January: first the GOP didn't WANT to govern, now they CAN'T govern. Like, nobody actually wanted this. Even Matt Gaetz, some people suggest, was counting on Democratic votes to save McCarthy. The dog has caught the car; and we're now learning that the dog still does not know how to drive.

Meanwhile, every Democrat in the house has voted for Hakeem Jeffries every time. Maxine Waters cast her vote for Jeffries and "against Jordan, an insurrectionist." Go get him! If nothing else this is a real morale boost and bonding experience for a Democratic conference that can become quite fractious.

plaidadder

About to get on a plane, but just want to note that Jordan is in the middle of losing his second speaker vote. He's already lost too many Republicans to win; let's see if he can break his precious record of 20 Republican defections!

Wip for inktober! Like always I made it super complicated lol

#art #inktober #doctor who #weeping angels

parkchanwoohoo

I'm fucking weeping rn

succubusboyfriend

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

succubusboyfriend

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

suave-eddboy

thepioden

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

sparksel

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!

concerningwolves

t-c-art-inspiration

How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense

justpickupthatpen

https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk

stupidlittlesideblog

Reblogging to save a wrist

justpickupthatpen

stars-bean

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) dir. Jon Watts

noartnowritingsorry

Please read the whole thing.

Now I will argue that Batman’s motivations (protecting the innocent), level of preparedness, and the fact that he doesn’t kill people, put him miles above the current uniformed fascists charged with maintaining the status quo and protecting property. That being said I think this would be an innovative take on the Batman mythos, and have social commentary guaranteed to piss the wrong people (by which I mean the right people) right off. Personally I’d watch the shit out of that. 😉

Hey everybody, I recently got into an accident. There was a huge storm and the snow stopped… Jael Joaquin needs your support for Can you h

asphodelical

“Oh no! Not the flame of righteousness!”

I WHEEZED.

cinno

Theseus is so funny and for what

thefuzzydave

drinkyourjuiceshelby

stupidbeecandle

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

glowingghosty

evandash

Placing these one after another makes it look like he left got a lighthouse job and came back six months later to update the drive through employee

oneheadtoanother

✊

gorgoroth-deactivated20220130

Comrade

prayforlawnchairs

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I wanted to redo this piece and I loved how creepy it is! I ended up having way too much fun with this 😂 #art #halloween #digitalart https://www.instagram.com/p/CVihnfbD5K3/?utm_medium=tumblr

#art #halloween #digitalart

strawberrylind

bad and naughty symbiotes get put in the salad spinner

Im going through and choosing some of my favorites to digitize #nft#art https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/35512097924813011217473434341264795615212587148072946677690476485629876109313/. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUGXhzsLIY2/?utm_medium=tumblr

#nft #art