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Mohammad @canaanitepalestinian, who is the on-site vetter for @gaza-evacuation-funds, is very close to his fundraising goal. He is currently at 92%!

In light of multiple GFMs being mass-reported and shut down suddenly, I am anxious for him to complete his goal as soon as possible.

Mohammad has been prioritizing helping out fellow Gazans in need, and his personal campaign has suffered for it. Let's please help him out!

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Today is my birthday!

Thank you for another lovely trip around the sun!

If you'd like, consider looking at my Inprnt! (Which is still mostly Akechi pieces, I'll update it soon, promise)

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Birthdayyyy drawing for @asfodeltide 😚💗💐

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iof shut down the gaza border again, cutting it off from aid, again. the cost of daily living will likely rise again. please donate to the people working to make things a little more equitable in the face of death:

the sameer project

workshops4gaza (workshops/bookstore, proceeds go to the sameer project)

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🇵🇸 FREE THEM ALL ‼️

cooked up some risograph prints to raise funds for families in Palestine 🫶

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Vday art for my girlfriend and I ^_^💗

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Hi I just wanted to say your art is increeeedible looking at it makes me feel like I'm on the turntable in a microwave it just activates So many parts of my brain if that makes sense. I've never seen someone's art and been like "yo. I wanna draw so much now and I wanna learn from this person's work" so much before!! I hope I'm able to commission you when they open back up!! :-)

Thank you so very much, this is so kind!

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@ Anon that's a little too personal for me to publish but yes I go to school in the area :]

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For school magazine

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in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.

afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.

please donate what you can and share widely.

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Hii!! 😸😸 First off, just want to say your art is amazing!! Your use of texture and color is so inspiring and beautiful to look at. You've posted about brushes before, but out of curiosity, what drives you to them? Do you have any general "likes" that really draw you in? Any common motives with how you play with textures and qualities in your art?

Thank you!! 🦀

Thank you so much! And this is a wonderful question!!!

It depends, like most things, although there are certain qualities I look for almost 100% of the time, like opaqueness (I don't blend), interesting stamp shape (texture!), and versatility (I rarely use a brush for one thing exclusively). I also tend to sometimes heavily tweak my most-used brushes to make them more enjoyable to draw with

I recently bought an oil paint brushset (this one; it's $20 but if you message me I'll give you the download for free, I don't care) because I was interested in trying to recreate the textures of oil paint in my own art after admiring a lot of traditional paintings. I like brushes that make me actively think about how to best apply them and find ways that do and don't work

I almost never use brushes that lack pen pressure or are like, hard rounds, because I think the lack of depth they provide isn't interesting to look at. If I use airbrushes (rarely) I want them to have grain or I'll feel the same way. I also like going back and retroactively adding grain or turning sharpness all the way up because of the jpeg-esque feel it gives my art, I think it looks really nice, and I don't care about image quality most of the time so I have no problem distorting things like that

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Keep it going!

Hey friends, Mohamed (@/help_mohamed_from_gaze on IG) needs help buying food for his family and medicine for his leg! He is a 15 year old boy with a family of 6 in Gaza. It is so important to financially support the people of Palestine as they struggle to survive under apartheid. Prices have skyrocketed and it is extremely cold in the tents. If you have anything to spare right now, please donate and share ���� Can anyone match my £25?

🔗 GFM: https://gofund.me/05166cf7

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I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

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