#i am not good with words

[lesbiansayaishii]

this is extremely entertaining to watch

it is extremely entertaining to see in my inbox... answering however is another matter entirely

[noodleowl]

Oooooooh my god so obsessed with the way you draw Rick! Obsessed with your drawing style in general. Your anatomy is literally so good. Do you have any tips on anatomy? My figures are always rigid and I’ve been thinking about using a posing software or something. I’m sure the secret is just a shit ton of practice but I’m scared. Lmao. I specialize in portraits but like chest up. 😭

First: Thank you so much for the kind words! :D

I am afraid you are right, "a shit ton of practice" is unfortunately the correct answer. I also still have a ton of weaknesses. Especially, when I switched to stylized work. That shit does not forgive flaw in anatomy at all.

I don't know about posing software… The ones I know don't teach you about body structure at all. But then again, I never tried one. I am too lazy, lol. I have a Book for artists which goes almost medical school like into the depths of bone and muscle. So I don't only "copy" what I see on pictures or see in the mirror, I try to understand and memorize how it works and why it's there. Getting to know the fundamentals is key, even if that's a lot of work. I'm surely preaching to the Choir.

What I do personally, I use my hyperfixations to hone my art skills. For example now, when I want to study backs, I draw Rick topless from behind. Simple as that. Like this, it goes hand in hand and I can practice for hours on end. I am also interested in NSFW which obviously is a lot of practice too since it goes into the nitty-gritty with more complicated posing (I don't post it on tumblr. so they don't blast me into obscurity). Though, this is definitely not everybody's coup of tea. Every artist grinds differently, after all.

The hard part is not to be discouraged. Lord knows, I've been there. I had to get out of my very own "Portrait-phase". But let me tell you this: The fact, that you yourself see the flaw in your own art, is a good thing! It means, your eyes and brain have already learned, something is wrong. It is your hand, who needs to be trained. Keep that in mind as a positive!

Last but not least: Don't be scared to get out of your comfort zone!! There is nothing to lose, only to gain! Find what works best for you. Go wild and in work and time, you'll get there!

[lgbtqtext]

Requested by analog-autistic

[erabu-san]

I enjoyed every second of this quest

[This art has platonic intention. Thank you for not tag ship!]

[ququoquaw]

i hope everyone knows that while my compliments to art are incredibly basic i make the ugliest and most unique faces known to man to make up for that

[hinamie]

itafushi nation how r we Feeling!!!!!!!!!!!

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[chalkrub]

saw some mangy dog on the outskirts of town

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Hello, a little rant here. I don't know whether people are becoming insensitive or I'm just taking things very seriously these times, but I beg of you, when I post about an update on the situation in Gaza, or about a lost life or any piece of news that is most likely horrifying and heartbreaking, do not repost or reblog with "yikes" or "real bullshit" or whatever goes in the same line. It just makes it seem so trivial when in fact it's world-shattering. Not to mention the horrible edits I see on Instagram/tiktok.

I literally came across an "Instagram reel" of my friend's UNCLE (who lost three of his kids, and was saying his goodbyes while they were in body bags), it was edited into a reel, with the effects and changing colors and the trending sound of the song "daylight by David kushner". I was speechless.

I know people show their solidarity differently, I know this. Especially through music, I've literally been listening to Samer songs as well as "Telk Qadieah", etc. But the edit I saw was way too much. I don't know how to explain it, because I've seen many reels of Palestinians in Gaza grieving and I thought it's important to share them but this one is different. It was like the edits you'd make for characters from a TV show or movie that died or had a sad storyline.

I don't know, maybe I'm overreacting but I genuinely feel like I'm going crazy. With everything going on and how it seems like some people are living in a parallel world rn.

I hope I don't get misunderstood, I'm not talking about the general clips with sometimes sad songs on them, I'm talking about certain edits the people started to make that are so weird and insensitive. Like the people they're editing aren't real, like they're some entertainment material.

[justdeich]

When you have free time draw killer ai selfships *goes back to work*

[xeemaee]

I love dungeon meshi fan art but the girlies keep drawing Laios eating cephalopods like squid and octopus because its easy shorthand in art for “monsters” despite cephalopods being like… the one thing my man, on record, doesn’t wanna eat

Legit the one thing he gets the ick about and I feel like theres so much fan art of him eating them! Read the sacred texts!

[yeiwing]

a quick presentation on my findings as a casual podcast consumer

[writeouswriter]

My followers: And is this “writing” you’ve been “working on” in the room with us right now?

[bubbarnes]

“... I can remember being a kid myself and going to school and wondering whether I was going to make it or, you know, anyone was going to care.”

[meamiki]

silly comic based on a time i struggled to read live on stream :thumbsup:

context clip compilation below ASDASDFASA

(cw for brief mention of hospitals/strokes)

[erabu-san]

I enjoyed every second of this quest This art has platonic intention, please don't tag ship