#is this just a thing art schools do.
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when is my uni going to update the info on their website
#''haha sorey we still need to update our info for the 24-25 schoolyear 😊" my first class starts next week. what are you doing#is this just a thing art schools do.#ramblings
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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the fox god.
a comic about a trickster.
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all my other comics
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#cw: emotional abuse#cw: gaslighting#cw: animal death#charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic#i love playing with the concept of religion like this#im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years#and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god.#and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead#but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so#anyway#one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name.#it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable.#but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning#he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god.#so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything.#“give me your heart.”#“my god. it had always been yours.”#comic art#hearteaters#stillindigo art#stillindigo comics#one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!
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Sunset Shimmer in my style :))
#sunset shimmer#my art#mlp#mlp art#my little pony#mlpfim#mlp redesign#will do the rest of the main cast#still juggling school/work/ and other things#thought i just post this first hehe#i still hate colouring
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Hello fellows, do you remember me?
I have been in a little art block, but now I finally do something. I think some of you will like this. It's been a hard like.....three months??
In some point I looked at the model and just redo most of it. And now I have more problems with fixing the arms then it has been on the first design, I think I can probably solve this but it will and would take some time.
And now have the THING:
I know that I am get VERY late on the party
Cass is finished the CAS and probably the @somerandomdudelmao thing and start new ...........
But till my work is working i will do it or die trying
video from the future
the headless model
the first sketch model
some meme
#Ignore these spikes.#It's just legs waiting for their rig.#I have so much important things to do#But#I am here do silly 3d model of a coolest dude on this side of internet#Totally not ignoring my important school project by effectively high procrastinating#cass#cass creature#somerandomdudelmao#3d#3d art#blender#dystopia au#dieselpunk
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The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is#a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good#personal#“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry#that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign#also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg#i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant#parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice#this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah#i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li#i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive#so they have to find temporary housing around the area#last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis#during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences#and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too?#this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either.#this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first#reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!”#newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know.#why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed
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ENOUGH with the cat themed pet names he is SUFFERING
#men be like Im fighting demons. and the demons is that their coworkers are hot#ntu tag#i was gonna have jenny say that someone was gonna spay him but i thought against it LMFAO#tigerghost#in a way.#jk he already knows hes bisexual. mans went to art school.#hes just used to being the hottest person in any room he walks into nd thats simply not the case anymore#nota bene. i do think it's fun if jenny and manny have a little fwb thing at first. thats it. just sets that down. you KNOW shes got a#designsa dn concept of course (c) tumblr user nicktoonsunite TM TM TM TM TM TM
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Lil gift
Give her her glasses she deserves them
This took 7 hours oh my lawd
#I still hate the way I draw V but hey I think I’m getting better#srry haven’t posted in a while school is killing#it’s not like I’m super busy or anything it’s just that school drain all my energy and when I come back home the only thing I want to do is#sleep forever#murder drones#murder drones art#murder drones fanart#murder drones comic#md#md comic#md fanart#md art#serial designation n#sdn#n fanart#murder drones n#md n#serial designation v#sdv#v fanart#v murder drones#md v#uzi#uzi doorman#uzi fanart#uzi murder drones#uzi md#nuziv maybe??#glitch productions#liam vickers animation
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short & stout rose And awkward and gangly dave >>>> i think rose would move with a ferocity like she could accidwntally bump her elbow onto the corner of a table and the table would crumble . dave posture’d be so rigid that he’d fall like a tree and shatter like glass from a light breeze
#dave strider#rose lalonde#homestuck#im gonna yap more abt my drawings ive been restrained for too long thinking people wouldnt care😤😤#my friends at school building up my confidence for better or for worse lol#i have thoughts!! things 2 say!!! not a lot but hopefully getting out the things i do have will make room for more…^_^#anyways#daveis just egon schiele art to me now#discomfort of tha body ……. Davesprite would be even worse imo#this also means dirk is a short king. and roxy would tower over him LMAO#dirk the shortest in the entire group#i need to draw egbert n jade more😢😮💨😮💨😮💨im sorryyyyyyyyyyy#hits post shyly
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Work in progress on Wednesday's teen bedroom (lots of eclectic nicknacks from her mom & NANA posters) ... 🦋
#The Sims 4#Sims 4#TS4#Sims 4 Interior#Sims 4 Build#intramoon#I tried to keep everything to the time period of 2010s#like the posters and music#it's not perfect but it will do!#I to in my teens was holding on to any#“sapphic coded” lol friends in media#since there wasn't nearly as much gay media in the 2010s#Wednesday loving NANA just makes sense#she also gives she'd like Paige and Alex from Degrassi#but just in a rewatch/re-reading kinda way#just to herself#The wall you can't see will be her desk for#school and art things#then I am going to do Celeste's room#because thats her highschool sweetheart makes sense
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I wanted to join idk
sharing is caring ffs Riley 😒😒 (read tags psst)
#art#fanart#my art#original art#concept#bro I was like how tf do I interpret egotism and then I remembered one of the girls in my schools#such a fucking pick me and actually an egoistic ass person#she manipulates everyone and ripped friendships apart because she came in and started being the queen around#ofc she doesn’t tell me what to do. doesn’t even come close to me lol but I still hate her like respectfully just disintegrate please#so yeah let’s not say her actual mame. im gonna call her Sophia. this character is based off of her#inside out#inside out oc#onside out envy#envy inside out#envy#inside out fanart#inside out art#inside out 2#inside out egotism#Sophia actually will envy the shit out of other people bc there’s this really cool guy in my classroom and he has ONE SINGLE HOODIE THAT SHE#ALSO HAS. AND IT LOOKS BETTER ON HIM and she’s like ‘is he gay? he’s using a girl’s hoodie’ SHUT UP SOPHIA PLEASE#LMFAO#please excuse the mistakes with the spelling and stuff I’m on my tablet and it’s the worst thing ever
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I liked the part where he committed crimes *giggles and twirls hair*
#samgladiator#yhs sam#samgladiator yhs#yhs#yhs fanart#mcyt#mcyt fanart#yandere high school#fanart#grian#grian fanart#taurtis#taurtis fanart#yhs taurtis#yhs grian#sircutieyuki#yhs yuki#i do not agree with things samgladiator said btwwww this is just about the character#Five Art
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the new beato art is rlly cute…
#umineko#umineko no naku koro ni#beatrice the golden witch#my art#my finished stuff#i think its just cuz school is starting but ive been in a bit of a slump 😭 just wanted to do a low stakes thing i guess…#ok bye
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day 129
so was anybody going to tell me @adorkastock had their own random pose generator now or was i just supposed to find that out on my own
#day 129#year 5#aradia megido#homestuck#so hey genuinely i think adorkastock taught me to draw???#well among other things obviously. BUT.#in high school when i was just starting to like. understand anatomy as skill that i could Actively Practice#instead of just drawing whatever the hell i wanted and hoping it looked okay#i spent entire art classes just TEARING thru their deviantart page and drawing my blorbos in the poses i found#because my art teacher didnt know what to do with me since i was blowing through all the regular assignments WAY too fast#so she really just let me go nuts#and this was still homestuck mind you. like. it was 2013-2014 i was very much in the rabbit hole already#so fundamentally i have changed as a person in the last decade but also no i havent#ANYWAY it was adorkastock and line of action that basically got me Actually Improving at art at that point. cant recommend them enough trul
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#edward elric#roy mustang#fullmetal alchemist#this was really fun to line#lineart#comic#fan art#fma#fma03#just so we're all on the same page I didn't look at a single character or uniform while ddrawing this so if they're wrong that is why LOL#heymans breda#riza hawkeye#jean havoc#vato falman#fmab#this was me in school except I was both doodling things and disrupting class#I hope other people find this as funny as I do once again LOL#guys !!!! I am watching trigun for the first time since alike 2013 and it is GOOOOOD!!!! I am just having the time of my life revisiting#all these shows I used to watch#I went and watched trigun stampede and wow it is angsty#very good very good#but damn do I love trigun98#whoever said vash was the original babygirl#you are correct#anyway you can probably expect some trigun art in the near future no promises tho#this is in the early days as you may have guessed#also feury was playing tictactoe with ed LOL#falman has been watching the whole thing from the side#breda and havoc are making bets#no one is paying attention basically
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This Twitter MLP human redesign drama is a mess, leave me the fuck out of it.
#saw people posting my designs to put down other artists' designs saying that i'm the “correct way” of doing things#don't do that#i don't give a SHIT if people are redesigning these HORSES to be fat or “”“ugly”“” people they're all valid#this whole thing is so dumb just say “i don't like the art style” and move on#“hey op i spent 4 hours of time and effort to redraw your shitty redesign and show you how it's really done” you're fucking weird#you know that right? dedicating that much time to cash in on a hate trend when you could be creating something unique and original with lov#your insistence that human redesigns need to be attractive and symmetrical and anything deviating that is woke psy-op brainwashing#is fucking weird. saw an entire tweet reposting my designs listing off how i “got it right.” bullet point: “looks like real people”#the black fat pinkie design with braces that went viral looks more like a real person than any of my designs you asshole#or maybe you spent too much time in high school bullying people who look like that to notice#personal#delete later#do not use my art to belittle artists who've done nothing wrong this legit made me really angry today
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