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[ladycibia]

It's my boyfriend's birthday and here's a little gift for him!

[eroticcannibal]

Hey Risu I think ud have some sound advice about this... I want to learn to draw n be an artist (digitally) but my brain screams when I try cos I'm new n not good at all and idk how to counteract the brain so I can draw shitty things until I get good.... It's hard to have fun when my brain is saying I'm shit and should quit :( Any advice? (I love ur art on ur art blog BTW... Ur art is good but like, not what I'm used to seeing and it's kinda nice to see how a hobby artist art looks cos I'm so used to more professional artists who take comms on twitter)

I was thinking of doing some of my shitty art to song lyrics (they're some of my fav, I draw my ocs in some sort of pose and then slap the lyrics on top in fancy font text or write it on my drawing tablet by hand) - and just don't care how bad it looks but I'm unsure if I can get my brain to not scream at me for not being enough long enough to do it :(

Any advice would be nice <3 p.s. My art is so bad it's like a kid trying to draw (derogatory but only at me) n I don't really have anyone in my life for support cos if it's not good they don't care :/// (well I have one friend, he's also a hobbyist as well, rarely draws cos he has the same issue of not being good and perfect type deal)

Oh hey its how I feel about my art 24/7 (and how most artists do!) So I will run u through all the things I find helpful

Listen. Brains are little bitches, ok? They LIE. They are MEAN. You need to practice telling ur brain to shut up. Like "hey, thats not fucking nice, I'm not listening to u until u have something helpful to say!" And its hard, cus its you, but with practice it gets easier to ignore ur brain being on one. Treat it like a toddler who is kicking off and calling u mean names cus u won't give it chocolate. "Thats nice dear im busy with my art". Like u gotta remember, for anyone trying to get started with art, it looks like a kid trying to draw because that's when most people stopped drawing. Same with any other skill u stop in childhood. My kid struggled so much with handwriting due to being ND that it switched to typing and guess what? Still has the handwriting u would expect from a small child. Because it stopped writing as a small child. I have the coordination with running and throwing of a young kid cus thats when I stopped doing sports. People who stop reading books young will find it harder to read books for an older audience. U do those kiddy drawings, do lots of them, you WILL get better.

Another thing. Heres a secret. For every artist, the majority of what they produce is shit. No really, all of them. Not just the crap you have to produce to git gud, but like, every amazing piece of art you have seen has like at least 5 fucked up sketches that got scrapped. Whole bits of painting that got covered up. All art is made up of mistakes and fuck ups. And even if u are sat there going wow this is perfect! The artist is DYING because they can see a hundred little mistakes that u cant. Art is all about perspective and honestly the perspective of the artist is the worst one. We are too familiar with the details to see our art for what it really is.

The thing that helped me most tho was when I went to art museums in Paris. I saw so much "good" art and im like. OK. This is technically good I guess? But it was kinda meh. The museum of modern art was the most disappointing cus, and listen I stan modern art ok there was some good shit in there, but there was a fucking rack of skis. Someone gone bought some skis and put them away and thats art. Hello? Oh someone painted some squares and came up with some deep meaning and im meant to be impressed. And then I go outside for a fag and I open tumblr and see some crappy 2 minute MSpaint vent art and u know what? It made me fucking feel. It make me feel like NOTHING in that museum had. Who is fucking deciding what "good" art is? I dont remember being consulted! I dont think I fucking agree that "good" art is good! I think shit art is good! Some fucking ship art scribbles has more meaning for me than the fucking mona Lisa, yknow?

And then I went to an exhibit of Picasso's sketches and doodles. Napkins with little scribbles on and shit. And they were so normal. Nothing impressive. And it was wonderful. I've done better sketches! I promise u u have done better than some of that stuff. Honestly so many artists aren't even "better", they're just successful. And idk but I think success is a poor way to measure arts worth.

There is a genuine magic to a hobby artist just. Doodling what makes them happy. Not for money, not for fame, not for skill, just because they want to. Art for arts sake, yknow?

Also I understand it can be very hard to share ur work but I would encourage u to do so with ppl u trust to give u fair feedback. Feel free to send me what u make I will be more than happy to tell u how great it is

[niuniente]

Do you think people can juggle/learn different art styles? I have an anime art style and I want to make a comic without the detailed work that comes with the anime style. I want to make things quickly without worrying about proper proportions to make it a fun experience. But I feel like only knowing this style makes it hard to do such a thing. When I try to draw simply, my brain tells me it's wrong "You have to be more detailed here! You need to fix the face shape there!" and it's very hard to ignore and discourages me from sticking to any other art style since my brain wants to 'fix' it to my usual style.

Yes, it's possible, though usually professional artists and well-known hobbyist are known for their own, one, single style. I need to draw also for corporations sometimes and for those I use different style, which is still probably recognizable as mine, but not in a way that the corporations could for example discover this blog and go "Oh this artist!"

I think that perhaps the trick to handle multiple different art styles is the ability to mimic others' styles. I don't have the post saved or at hand, where one person here had draws Jessie and James from Pokemon with multiple, vastly different times. So different that they were asked to credit the artists of these stolen art pieces because they clearly couldn't be done by one person only. That's the most extreme case I've seen someone being able to mimic multiple art styles.

Of course you need brain (and hand) training if you wish to change the style as your brain is already conditioned to see things right and wrong :3 Training oneself can be a challenge and it's up to you if you wish to do it or not.

Sometimes art style changes that occur naturally can start with these "I want to draw like this but it looks wrong..."-phases.

To be ready to train and attain something, you need to have end goal and most importantly, the reason for this end goal, in mind. WHY do you wish to attain this skill? What's the THE point for this goal of yours, why are you aiming at it? With that, training gets easier.

[sightless-highland]

7 reasons to create Yuru-Chara for "Jameson's Door"

"Or a little bit of R-Man's revelations"

So, to begin with, the word "Yuru-Chara is not at all the name of Chara from some Alternative Undertale Universe" Yuru ", and even more so it is not a reference to one member of Jameson's Door community, which has such a nickname in Discord... "Yuru-Chara" is a kind of mascot, but only in the Japanese way. They necessarily look "very cute" (kawaii), which means that their design should be memorable due to its simplicity (so that such a character would be easy to draw even a baby). The goals of Yuru-Chara are obvious - to codify the advertised product, or, more simply, to be its symbol, which would immediately be associated with the product advertised (IMHO, Robbie the Rabbit from Silent Hill franchise is kind of "Yuru-Chara" but he's not enough "moe" on my opinion).

Well, let me explain the reasons why I believe that the Jameson's Door project needs "Yuru-Chara"

1) Community. Yes, you, my dear friends. So, When I invited people to join the project, the Silent Hill fans (who were a priority, because the project was designed specifically for them) reacted rather coldly and even negatively. Messages in which they simply scolded me and sending to hell, were far from rare. But Undertale's fans (to whom I sent out invitations "just for lulz" - forgive me, my friends, but I say how it really was) responded most willingly, and gladly accepted the invitations (for which I thank them & you personally by the bottom of my heart!) 2) Nikita "Bratish" Kuplinov. He is the lead artist of the project, it depends on him what "face" will have "Jameson's Door". But he is far from a professional (some will try to challenge this, but this is really so, he himself writes in his portfolio on DeviantArt that he is just hobbyist), so his drawings, which he does NOT from photographs, but draws in a vector, do not corny fit in a grave and gloomy style, which was set by Silent Hill. In addition, he is clearly addicted to anime - these are his main subscriptions (and followers) to DeviantArt & Pixiv, and indeed his drawing style is clearly strongly inspired by this genre. 3) My personal impressions after walkthrough Silent Hill 1. The fact is that when I played the above game, I was very embarrassed that there was practically no character on which, in general, the goal of the game was tied. In case someone hasn't guessed, I'm talking about Cheryl Mason. She runs away from her father (whom we play as) and our goal is to find her. And in our adventures we sometimes hear her voice, there is even a moment when she appears on the screen of monitors, but we never see Cheryl, let's say, a material form again (if I didn't understand something in the final cutscene that is shown in front of the boss, I humbly ask you to forgive me). And this upset me greatly, because firstly, I did not expect this from the game where we are looking for a daughter (yes, I did not understand anything in Silent Hill when I played the first game for the first time), and secondly, after the middle The game began to annoy me that old woman (I forgot her name), and when I finished going walkthrough the Silent Hill 1, I began to scold the developers ("sotto voce" of course), who, for only for them well-known reason, decided to give this character so much screen time. And that's why I made a vow to myself that if I were to be inspired by the characters, it would definitely not be this old hag, that stole potential time from poor Cheryl. 4) Mass-media ads. I made observations, during which I concluded that products (game, cartoon, something else), the symbol of which is a female character (and, for the most part, a underage), depicted in anime style, are much more popular than products whose mascot is something that does not fit this definition. Lord, look at the same Silent Hill. Not all, but still some games have something similar on the cover, which means that even the maestros could not resist against pop culture, since they did so. 5) My own lack of professionalism. At the very beginning of develop, I confess, I conceived the idea that the main character had a wife. Moreover, he had her in such a way that, on the one hand, Jameson seemed to remember her, but in fact, it is very likely that he just dreamed of her, and in fact, he has always been and remains a bachelor. Sounds a very idiotic and sick, right? I had to do this so that the plot did not look like a tracing paper from Silent Hill 2, where the main character also had a wife in the past (but there she really took place in the life of James, another character was a hallucination). Then I abandoned the idea with my wife, because I just decided to work on minor characters with whom Jameson would contact throughout the game (and this business went well for me - all that remained was to write intelligible dialogues, and then I'll can publish the full story for everyone to see). And until recently (read - before the idea of ​​registering an account on Reddit), I did not even think about returning to the topic of a female character in Jameson's Door, if... 6) And yes, Nikita Kuplinov AGAIN! Oh yeah, this person still haunts me. The fact is that, despite his seeming dependence on me, in fact, he created most of the art before I met him (he was going to do FreeDoom 3, can you imagine?), And in general, he is an extremely willful person. All you need to do is look at his art with his "avatar" (especially "Gamedeveloper's Life"), or the infamous comic strip, "Jameson's Nosebleed". Yes, to be honest, I was completely unaware of the existence of this art until he published it on his profile. It was his strange (and stupid as I thought before writing this post) fantasy, from start to finish. He even add logo of "SH-Team's Core" that I lead, in order, apparently, to make fun of me, to make everyone think that he did art in full agreement with me, although this was ABSOLUTELY wrong! I had to pretend that it was me who gave him the idea for this comic, so as not to look like a person who denies what he is involved in according to the information that takes place (yep, I'm talking about the "SH-Team" logo, which Bratish does not put even for those artworks that have been agreed with me from beginning to end). 7) The fact that I have already promised to give someone a gift is that I will add a love theme to Jameson's Door. When I wrote to this person about this, I was thinking about how to dig out the coffin in which the idea of ​​the protagonist's wife lies (this is a literary reception, do not take it literally), but all of the above factors persuaded me to do what I am going to do now.

Outdated message: So, you are probably already making assumptions about how and in what form this character will be embodied when its design is ready (since at the moment our potential "Yuru-Chara" does not have any appearance in principle ), and that it will not be just a symbol of game, but something more. Well, you are on the right track, dear friends ;)

[andfeminism-blog]

I’ve known this lovely lady since we were running aorund a soccer field together as kids. Well, I was running, she was saving all the goals. I’ve had a mad girl crush on her since the moment I saw her play, she’s absolutely incredible. Since those days loooong ago, Leah has done a ton more cool stuff! She went to culinary school, pastry school, traveled around, became an aunt and more. She’s this super cool woman that oozes magick from her soul. She’s sweet, strong and smart. Read on to become inspired by her journey thus far!

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  You’re a hobbyist baker and I’m totally in love with everything you create. You went to school for it as well, what made you get into baking? You are so sweet! I am equally in love with all that you create! Yes I attended VIU and was lucky enough to partake in field school that took me to Belgium and France. Which was both an incredible life and career experience. As for what made me get into baking, I would have to say that would be my Grandmother. As a child I spent my summers at her house in Metchosin, BC. A house my Opa built from the ground up, on 2 acres of land covered in the most dreamy flowers and fruit. So much so, that we had no need for a fence, because wild blackberries surrounded the property. There were 7 cousins that I spent my summers chasing after, to keep us busy, my Grandmother would give us all empty ice cream containers to fill with blackberries so she could make pie and preserves. To this day I still strive to make pie as good as her, as well as her dream worthy chocolate cake. Those summers will always inspire and keep me dreaming.

How did you come up with the name Copper Fox for your baking? Honestly it is pretty silly. My friend Alex and I were in University of Victoria at the time, and I was having a classic existential crisis, trying to figure out what to be when I grew up. I found myself procrastinating from schoolwork, and baking or cooking for my friends instead. When I finally came to the conclusion that I needed to take the plunge and attend culinary school (I went to Culinary first then pursued Pastry), Alex said, “You need an identity!” Alex had always told me that I had a “little fox nose” especially when I laughed, which always made me feel more confident, as I was always self-conscience of my nose. It was truly perfect since foxes had been my favourite animals since I was a child. As for copper, aside from the fact that I am obsessed with it, is because there are scientific properties that make copper magic in regards to baking. There is a reaction between it and the albumen in egg whites, causing it to stick to a bowl better and create a beautiful meringue, as well as it conducts evenly making it the best for working with chocolate. And so, in 2011, we concluded that my baking/cooking nom de plume would be the Copper Fox, and so it was.

My “little fox nose” Photo Credit: Tyler Meers Photography @tylermeersphotography

What do you hope comes from Copper Fox? Oh, I have so many hopes! Currently I am just doing my baking as a hobby. One day I hope to open a storefront, that includes both my trades. The dream is for a breakfast bakery, as homemade and from scratch as possible. I am currently living in Prince Rupert, which is a beautiful town, but has little local produce/ingredients, so a move one day may be in order. For now I exercise my artistic need by creating wedding cakes when I have time, generally for friends, or friends of friends. I love that I found this passion; it is the perfect therapy and expression of myself.

What’s your favourite thing you’ve ever baked? That is so tough! I suppose my most current favourite is the wedding cake I made this past summer for my friends Dave and Soph. The interior was a tangelo (orange) chiffon cake, with dark chocolate grand marnier ganache. Covered with vanilla Italian buttercream. The colour inspiration was urchin purple, so I made a rustic ombre from darkest at the bottom to ivory at the top. I made edible barnacles out of gum paste, and hand painted them with luster dust, and cascaded them up the side. Then topped it with shells the bride had found and sterilized. It is my favourite, because they had told me the colour and then I dreamed up the rest. I showed her what I wanted to do, and she threw her full trust into me. When people trust my vision and let me create something for them, that is when I feel I do my best work.

What’s something you’ve struggled with in life?  Hm, honestly, I have struggled with a lot. But, I would have to say chronic depression is the biggest one. I am outwardly a very happy loving person, very empathetic, and a huge people pleaser. So taking care of my mental health has always been something that gets neglected. Living in a northern town like Prince Rupert can be dangerous with SADS (Seasonal Affective Disorder Syndrome), also my full time job is with BC Ferries, where I live aboard a ship for upwards of 2 weeks at a time. I don’t get much sun suffice to say, I have what you might call a “rain tan”, I basically give Snow White a run for her money in the pale department. Baking has however been a great help for me, giving me an outlet to create, and make me happy. Though, sometimes I take too much on, and over do it. As my mother says, “burning the candle at both ends.” I need to work on that bizarre word “no” everyone keeps talking about…

Has it taught you anything? It has taught me to be more cognoscente of myself, and my needs as a person. To take care of myself more, and to try and put myself first as well as focus on self care.

What does a typical day look like for you? Depending on whether I am on my two weeks at work, or my two weeks off. At work, it is essentially Groundhog Day, work, eat, sleep, and repeat. If I am lucky, I am night cook and I get to be creative in my meals and even get chances to bake for my coworkers, but seniority rules, so that is not often the case. With my job I am very lucky, as there is always training opportunities, to learn a new position and try something out of my comfort zone.

On days off I try to keep busy, chores around the apartment, hikes with my dog Maggie, or potlucks with friends. I try to bake 2-3 times on my days off, and take opportunities to cater or do weddings/birthdays. My job schedule does make it hard to take people on with their requests. I also like to keep creatively charged, by painting, drawing, or writing. It is also a full time job attempting to keep my urban jungle alive when I am gone half the month. Plants, everywhere.

What’s one thing you’ve always wished for? That some how Bon Appetit Magazine/Test kitchen discovers me and hires me to come work for them, or travel and write about food for them. Dream… Job.

What’s something you need more of in your life? Adventure! I am always craving more, but seemingly lacking the motivation to make it happen. So I suppose I require more motivation too. Down time is so necessary after 2 weeks straight of work, that I often find myself making excuses for my laziness. I need to get past that.

What’s something you’re really proud of yourself for? I am proud that I am excelling at my day job. I am proud that I followed my dream and went to Pastry school. I am proud that I finally went to Peru and hiked Machu Picchu and fished in the Amazon River (“Piranhaaaa” in the voice of Dory from Finding Nemo). And I am very proud of the person I have grown up to be.

Is there anything you wish people knew about you? I wish people that I was stronger and smarter than I seem. Not that I feel people view me as weak or dumb, I just feel I am often underestimated. Though that could be the patriarchal society I exist in.

Can you show me your favourite photo you’ve ever taken? I know it looks over saturated, but I swear this is the way my old iPhone 5s took the photo. It was early morning, like 0630. I had just done what felt like a never-ending stairway made by evil sorcerers, and had finally made it to Machu Picchu, which literally translates to “Old Mountain”. We were siting on the cliff side, learning about the history of the Quechan Royalty and waiting for the mist to subside, when in the corner of my eye I caught the most brilliant shade of blue/purple. And so in the midst of sitting in awe I snapped this photo. I know it is probably an atrocity for a photographer like your self, but I love it. It reminds me that even if the skies are grey, there is still beauty to be seen. (Note from Paige – let the record show that I think it’s a stunning photo!)

What’s something you’re looking forward to? So much! I am up for a promotional training opportunity at work. A good friend of mine is getting married, and I am making the cake, as well as doing her make up and hair. My mom is coming to visit me this spring, and stay at my new apartment, that I love. The summer, I have some camping and fishing trips planned with friends. Also, my vacation block is coming up in November and I get 6 weeks off. So I look forward to visiting family and maybe jetting off to somewhere I have never been.

What’s something that makes you feel alive? Adrenaline. I am a serious thrill seeker. Just ask my friend Christa, whom I just travelled to Peru with. Anything from bungee jumping, to white water rafting, zip lining, or down hill bike racing, I love it all. Show me to the roller coaster and you will see nothing but smiles from me.

What’s your all time favourite song? This is an extremely hard question. All songs Fleetwood Mac or Otis Redding When I grow up by First Aid Kit Lost in the light by The Bahamas Current Obsession: Mistake by Middle Kids But seriously, there are so many more!

What do you hope people remember about you? I hope they remember me as kind, that they remember me as laughing, for my eccentric dance moves, and for making them full with delicious food and desserts.

What is your ultimate goal in your personal and professional life? Girl you are killin’ it with the hard questions. My ultimate goal? Well, I suppose when summarized, is to be happy. I hope to make Copper Fox a well-known name, and household tradition. To fall in love and create as well as raise a family of my own. But ultimately take all my dreams and make them an unwavering reality. The only way to get anywhere is outside the box you call the comfort zone.

Thank you so much Paige for choosing me to be a part of your wonderful blog, and for always being so supportive.

May you always be magic, and may you always… Stay Foxy ❤

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Wild Women: Leah K I've known this lovely lady since we were running aorund a soccer field together as kids. Well, I was running, she was saving all the goals.