#empowering music

[kittyraemusic]

everybody seems to have a moment where they turn themselves around…

… and mine’s right now.

(Sick Of Being Sad - Kitty Rae)

[mentalsmurf]

*screams in a happy stim*

My favorite song to stim to. Plus it's high energy as well as empowering

[thepersonalquotes]

Music empowers the soul with great strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

[sprnklersplashes]

two veronica lines I'm still mad about them cutting from the off broadway version are "I didn't kill heather, I know that but I still feel bad. but not as bad as I should and that makes me feel even worse" and "dear diary the irony of this is that I didn't get a chance to write my own suicide note".

why did they try to clean up my little gremlin girl? why wouldn't they just let her be a morally grey little gremlin who doesn't feel overly bad about the murder she accidentally committed.

[jackienautism]

i just HAAAATE it so much when people compare taylor and renee's reginas. like. as if they wouldnt be kissing? get real

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[memes-for-the-meme-kind]

Song Lyrics That Hit Hard Sentence Starters

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year."

"I don't need your civil war; it feeds the rich while it buries the poor."

"How I wish you were here."

"There's such a sad look deep in your eyes."

"Come on you target of far away laughter!"

"I'll place the skies within your eyes."

"Come one you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!"

"There's a fooled heart beating so fast in search of new dreams, a love that will last within your heart."

"You could be mine, but you're way out of line!"

"And as the pain sweeps through, makes no sense for you."

"I wish I lived in the present, with the gift of my past mistakes, but the future keeps luring in like a pack of snakes."

"But I'll be there for you as the world falls down."

"Your sweet little eyes, your little smile, is all I remember."

"We're choosing the path between the stars."

"We don't need our thoughts controlled."

"Ooh I've crossed one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very scared."

"All in all its just another brick in the wall."

"Planet earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do."

"So just spread your wings!"

"Your circuit's dead: there's something wrong!"

"We'll get higher and higher straight off the gound!"

"I move the stars for no one!"

"Higher and higher, leave it all behind!"

"Your eyes can be so cruel!"

"So baby dry eyes!"

"Just as I can be so cruel!"

"Oh, that's what dreams are made of!"

"Though I do believe in you!"

"Cuz we belong in a world that must be strong!"

"Love without the sunlight."

"Standing on broken dreams, never losing sight!"

"Life without your heartbeat."

"And in the end our dreams they will begin!"

"I can't live within you."

"Cuz that's what love is made of!"

[akkivee]

when you invert chuuoku’s pink, you get that green secondary colour attached to bb and with every canon release we get ever closer to bb realising their true potential as chuuoku’s antithesis

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

This is THE Taylor Swift photo.

[seralyra]

It took me almost 2 years of tragic Desert Duo Animatics/Animations, but I'm now fully into the Crane Wives.

Thanks traffic life smp fandom for giving me a new music obsession.

[blaylists]

bbe ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧🩷˚.🎀༘⋆

[spitblaze]

If I had a nickel for every incarnation of princess zelda I think is transmasc. I'd have two nickels

[omg-hellgirl]

Women friends are really the strength and backbone, because I think they understand you so much better than someone who is of the male species. It's incredible to believe that genitalia can cause so much brainrot.

— Angie Bowie, about how female friends helped her get through her divorce.

[quotelr]

Music empowers the soul with great strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind