Midnight Siren

Art & Animation. They/Them, 28, an overworked, tired college student. Creating a Better Place. Requests: OPEN Commissions: OPEN

[midnight--siren]

Opening up commissions again while looking for work! DM if interested! 💜🖤💜

[linipik]

Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.

The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.

These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.

(all credit to my physiotherapist)

[midnight--siren]

So it's been a bit (I'll still mark as a spoiler) buy I really need to share the messed up situation that happened when I went and saw the final in theaters.

We were getting ready, and I'm all excited and k ow exactly what I wanna wear. One of my favorite baggy, soft shirts - My Jax shirt

This exact one to be precise.

I know it had been washed (but not fully put away cuz ADHD) and I had seen it a few days prior. Yet the day of the film, I looked EVERYWHERE for it. Tore through all the laundry, both clean and dirty, with my wife trying to find this damn thing. It was nowhere, and instead ended up wearing a different shirt (I think it was Nightmare in Wonderland...) and went off to watch the movie....if YKYK.

NOW it's been a couple of weeks and I STILL HAVENT FOUND MY SHIRT. WHERE HAS SHE GONE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. WHEN WILL MY ASSHOLE PURPLE RABBIT RETURN FROM THE WARS.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[midnight--siren]

I love when my dog is sleeping next to me, and I gently pet her and she wakes up briefly just too look at me like

Before immediately going back to sleep

[drawingden]

So how’s the art coming along guys?

[bumbleshark]

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[kiramartinauthor]

WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

[gjdraws]

[preserving-tiktok]

[midnight--siren]

Be Me: Just finished my Final after staying up for 24 hours to finish it fully

Be excited as hell to have a week off from school to do whatever I want artistically, and get to work on projects that got pushed aside for school.

Wake up Monday Morning with the worst headache that nearly makes you throw up.

Rot on the couch with medicine and cooling head press.

[midnight--siren]

Sure you love your dog. But do you love your dog enough to start designing a fursona after them?

Because I do

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

not my tweet but I thought it would be a good psa for artists here too

[the-haiku-bot]

not my tweet but I

thought it would be a good psa

for artists here too

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[my-secret-eye-deactivated201902]

Ryan McGinley, American Dream, 2009

[midnight--siren]

Studio Assignment - Genre Switch

Hazbin Hotel now Apocalyptic

This week we were essentially asked to create AUs for a show of our picking and keeping the visual style of the show but change its Genre setting.

My brain immediately screamed Hazbin and Zombies

I'm a but unhappy with the background colors buy I was a bit rushed.

Should I do the rest of the Cast?

[midnight--siren]

A little Whimsigoth Isometric room 💜🖤

I kinda stink with environments and this was suppose to be a 2 parter, the Iso angle and then the whole set rotated 90°....well I kinda...didn't get that second one. Oh well better than nothing!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[blondekidwithgatoradebottle]

Oh my god I have it in my 1946 Lily Wallace New American Cookbook too I’m screaming

[mybabymylatte]

This is it! This is the white culture we’ve been looking for!

[professorsparklepants]

I’m sorry are we just not gonna mention “Beef Tea” “Raw Beef Tea” and “Cooked Raw Beef Tea” one after the other

[fluffmugger]

#WHY

Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now.  You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone.   So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them. A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity. 

[tuulikki]

Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people

[aylwyyn228]

Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy. 

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera. 

[qwertyu858]

Its also something so medically logical?? Like “this person is dying bc they are loosing too much water. Lets give them water then.” So simple. But so logical.

[fentakneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel]

Coming up with options to help sick and dying people is white culture yes.

[uncle-cazador]

This is also why soups are incredibly important to stretch limited ingredients over a large batch

[sunder-the-gold]

If you would hate on your ancestors for not being taught the things you learned in school, you would hate the people in third world countries today – let alone the uncontacted tribes – that also do not know these things. You’re not being progressive, you’re being bigoted.

You’re also spitting on the efforts of the generations of scientists who worked through trial and error to arrive at the body of knowledge that you know get to learn without all of that trouble.

This is an ingrateful and arrogant attitude. Anyone with such an attitude is incapable of discovering anything new, because they are convinced they know everything. And because they would be too afraid to risk being wrong in the pursuit of trying anything new to solve today’s mysteries.

[plague-cure]

Ava references for my fellow artists! Part 1

Part 2