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POV: Itās 2004, the school day is almost over, and itās raining. Youāre daydreaming and staring out the window during Debate Class while a prep and a stoner have a spirited argument at the front.Ā
I literally zoned out
Thatās the vibe weāre going for baby!
Shout out to the bad bitches who powered through the zone-out-inducing white noise and listened to the insane conversation going on in the background
I zoned out but then I vaguely heard āThereās no communists in Antarcticaā and my brain immediately logged the FUCK back on
this will never not be funny
When someone says these days sexism and misogyny donāt exist anymore show them this.
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Your annual reminder to not donate to Salvation Army!
someone: incest and pedophilia are badĀ
shippers: wow,,,,,, do you see the harassment we have to deal with? we are getting bulliEdā¦ā¦by the evil antis yet again :(
I have a full time job and a place to live, but I have no money to pay my car insurance, rent for November, and medical bills from my broken foot. I was able to find my tablet pen so I can open emergency commissions. PLEASE, please reblog this if you canāt or donāt want to buy a painting.
Please consider donating via Paypal ([email protected]) or Venmo (@witchtrix)! I have two cats and none of us will have anywhere to go if I lose this apartment.. I will not get my first paycheck until next Friday. ā INFO Contact: I am best reached by tumblr IM and email Commission: https://witchtrix.tumblr.com/info under the Info tab Payment Method: PayPal, Venmo (ask please) Art Only Blog: witchtrix, instagram
I have 4 slots available (as of 10/28/19) at a time to see how things go. *Price varies depending on difficulty (design, extra items, armor, etc) āHEAD/WAIST SKETCH - 300DPI, white/your choice BG Starting at 10 USD āFULL BODY SKETCH - 300 DPI, white/your choice BG Starting at 15 USD āHEAD/WAIST FLAT COLOR - 300 DPI, shapes/design BG Starting at 20 USD āFULL BODY FLAT COLOR - 300 DPI , color/aura BG Starting at 28 USD Donations are always welcomedāreally, anything helps! If you are unable to commission me, I understand, but Iād appreciate it so, so much if you would reblog rather than just like! Please!
- WITCH graphx credit, ebbymac !
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 youāre supposed to do warm up sketches every time youāre about to work on serious art when youāre fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! itāll help
me: my what
Whatās up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
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, yāknow, we were young so it didnāt matter so much.Ā
Being older now and having an art job itāsā¦kind of essential.Ā
So: a quick primer for those of you who are likeĀ āok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.āĀ
1) you may be tempted to doĀ āa warmup drawingā which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didnāt warm up first. Itās tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!Ā
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task youāre 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 youāre going to be using, whether thatās your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that youāre 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!Ā
In order to ensure that youāre drawing from your shoulder, when youāre holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool youāre using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingersāsome 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.Ā
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 iāve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i donāt do that unless iām feeling loose
b) spirals! i donāt always do spirals, but if iām stiff and the circles just arenāt 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 itās all about making sure iām comfortable with how iām moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!Ā
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 Iām 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 donāt always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but Iām 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 Iāll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if youāre going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.Ā
g) beans. I donāt do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so Iām mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.Ā
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 youāve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. Iām bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.Ā
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 youāre getting bored, etc.Ā
This is a long list, I know, but I usually donāt take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while Iām drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.Ā
Sometimes Iāll advance to a precision warmup and find that I havenāt loosened up enough yet; itās 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 Iām not feeling it before I start, by the time Iāve gotten to the end Iām usually Ready For Drawinā. Brain hacks.Ā
so, yeah! thatās a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!Ā
So I see a lot of Disney...
and Mei being used for the Hong Kong protests, which is great! But if you really want to hit China where it hurts
Use Hello Kitty
She is a big part of Chinese culture. Banning her would be bad for them. They have an Amusement Park dedicated to her.
Letās be honest: every single popular character should support the Hong Kong protests.
blizzard on their clown shit
So what Iām hearing is that our efforts are working, and we really can turn any fictional character into an icon and absolutely FUCK some big companies over.
HELL
FUCKING
YEAH
original artist said to spread it without credit
The other day I watched a little boy get knocked to the ground by an older kid who was running by. He burst into tears as his mother hurried over.
āHereās a bandaid for ya,ā I said, producing one from my vest pocket.
āOh, heās not bleeding, thank you though!ā
I lowered my voice and leaned in. āKids think bandaids are health magic,ā I said. āAsk him where it hurts and exploit that placebo effect.ā
She did just that, and instantly the kid stopped crying and thanked her. āIāll have to remember that,ā she said.
Children: #HACKED
Also if you have a crying kid give them a cup of water. You canāt cry and drink at the same time and it gives them a chance to calm down.
Tell them their going to run out of tears so they drink the water.
My mom does this at her preschool after awhile the other children start offering the crying child little cups of water.
Stuff like this is also a great test to see if the kid is actually seriously injured! Because with how much some kids cry over tiny bumps and scrapes, it can be hard to tell. But if you slap a Band-Aid on it or give them a cup of water or a piece of candy and they stop crying, theyāre fine. If they keep crying despite whatever little placebo or distraction youāve given them, you might wanna look a little closer at that injury or seek medical attention.
alright im gonna say it :/Ā big and defined noses are extremely fucking good and can easily center facial shape and add interest to a face the way a button nose cannot. and if you do not agree you are firstly my enemy and secondly a cowardĀ
Friendly October reminder not to put Spock or other Jewish characters in costumes with horns
to clarify: it is an antisemitic idea that Jews have horns (dating to a mistranslation of karan (shone) v keren (horns) ) which was perpetuated in art by the likes of Michelangelo. this is not a thing of the pastāsome gentiles still believe that jewish people have horns, and putting jewish characters in costumes/aus with horns is insensitive at best and also really fuckin gross
also do not depict Jewish characters as demons there is a very long history of Jews being seen as demons and that being used to kill usĀ
please do not dress Jewish characters in costumes that are priest outfit or nun outfit or with crossesĀ
Just to give y'all an idea of how modern the horn issue is: My dad, when he went to college in the early 1980ās, was asked by someone who had never met a Jew before where his horns were. In the 1980ās. My dad was asked where his horns were. This was only 30 years ago. I have been lucky not to deal with that particular stereotype in my lifetime, but that was less than a decade before I was born. And I know other Jews in areas where Jews are scarce have dealt with this much more recently than the 80ās.
Yup. When my mom went to college, her freshman year roommate woke up the first Sunday and started getting dressed for church. My mom was still in bed, so the roommate came over and woke her up.
Roommate: Did you want to come to church with me, or do you have your own church youāre going to?
Mom: Well, I donāt really go to religious services, but if I did I would go to a synagogue, not a church, because Iām Jewish.
(Long silence. My mom opens one eye to see her roommate staring in shock.)
Roommate: You ⦠you donāt look Jewish.
Mom: (Who looks VERY Jewish) What do you mean?
Roommate: Well, my pastor always told me that Jews have horns and a tail.
Long story short: they didnāt end up getting along very well.
@optometrictzedek and @theforestsoulbird, itās more recent than that.
Iāve been asked about my horns as recently as 1997.Ā In a public school in New Jersey.
It would b cool of my non-Jewish followers to reblog this!!! Spread this bc itās scary and real and you should know!
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