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Gentle fucking reminder to everyone that if you follow gaster-blaster-sans I want you to unfollow me right the fuck now. I'm done with her. She wants to blame me? Fine. Fuck her. I don't care. I'm mad, I'm splitting, she's fucking gaslighted me, vagued me, I'm done. I'm fucking done. I'm just gonna fucking swallow razors and end it there. WILL THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY YOU FUCK

[n0tg0nnabehere-blog]

I'm fucking splitting so badly right now I'm shaking to fuck how dare she how fucking dare she

[n0tg0nnabehere-blog]

You know what'd be cool? A free gender trials blog Like, a blog that anyone, regardless of age, could go to when they're questioning their gender/pronouns. 4-5 mods would be on hand for people to send in asks, requesting that the mod makes a positivity post based on them using the pronouns/gender they're questioning. The other mods can reblog the post to add more, so the person can get a good feel for how it all sounds. That way, the person in question can see what it's like being referred to by those pronouns by multiple people, and figure out how they feel about those pronouns in a safe environment without having to out themself to anyone. It'd be good for people who identify as cis questioning if they're actually cis; it'd be good for people who use multiple pronouns to figure out where their comfort zones are; it'd be good for people who identify as a neutral gender to figure out if neutral pronouns are their deal or not. Idk I just know figuring out I was genderfluid and that I preferred he/they pronouns would've been hella easier if I'd have had something like this at the time.

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@riiflesandroses I@m so tired and my back kinda hurts from hunching over my laptop for so long but have a lil scribble to try and encourage you!! ;w;

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@angelinya I can’t tell if the skin colour looks good cus it’s late and my screen is terrible

[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.

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!

[makro-prinz]

HEY GUYS I NEEDED 28 YEARS TO GET THIS AND THAT’S WHY I AM NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE LEVEL I COULD BE SO PLEASE DON’T PUNISH YOURSELF! <333

[washuuchan]

I cannot stress how important this is.

[quartervirus]

Posting this here because I know MORE THAN A FEW PEOPLE (@somereddame I’m looking at you) who need to see this.

On a side-note but still related: I occasionally get messages from people trying to shame other people for “copying” a pose or expression from one of my own pictures. Newsflash: if you’re trying to grovel for brownie points by putting down another human being for pursuing their talents, it won’t work. I don’t give a shit if they use my poses or expressions as reference.

If they copied the entire character and design then that’s another story entirely, but how do you think I got to where I am today? It wasn’t by pulling everything out my ass without references, that’s for sure, and I wish I used them more often. I feel like then my colour theory (or blatant lack thereof) wouldn’t look like eyebleeding oversaturated rainbows every single time and I might actually understand perspective.

Alas, one of my earliest artistic references was Neopets.

[spectralroses]

@doomedrebel

[pool-side]

im gay for that utopaea skin

[pfaerie]

“Careful there, Morrison. People are going to think you care about me or something.”

[bigbadmccree-deactivated2024050]

bro the brave camp counselor

[cranity]

what if they switched clothes

[hamhammers-deactivated20200629]

Cranity u make me the happiest

[n0tg0nnabehere-blog]

@mossysimon This looks so much better at the size it appears on my Sai screen

[n0tg0nnabehere-blog]

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😡 - What pisses you off?

Everything. Idk honestly, there’s a lot of stuff? I guess most prominently right now is when people talk over me or cut me off to say something as if what I’m talking about is wrong/stupid. My brother does it a lot and it frustrates me to no end, because his voice is so deep and loud you can’t speak over him unless you’re yelling - which obviously you get told off for. 

🍇 - Favorite fruits?

Cherries! Oh my god do I love cherries. Buy me cherries and I shall love you forever. Also plums and cranberries!

[n0tg0nnabehere-blog]

Circe by Ghost 😅

Now there is nothing between usFrom now our merge is eternalCan't you see that you're lost?Can't you see that you're lost without me?

These are the lyrics that stick out most to me cus h oly shit the entire song is so good but these are A++

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I love Eridan's Theme so much idek why it's just A Good (TM)

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