#the facials

[drakulateeth]

In defense of resting in your masculine

First off, you can enjoy a soft life, but if you ground yourself in reality and leave out the delusions… it’s not difficult to arrive at the conclusion that in order to be free, you must be financially independent. You don’t get financial freedom by relying on your family or partners, you will need to do some type of work.

On a personal level I would rather be bound by a work contract based on law, than the free will of a parent or a partner that can change in the snap of a finger. I titled this in defense of resting in your masculine, because your main responsibility in life is you, and you need to constantly create the life you want for yourself. Quite frankly I do not think you can achieve that by repeating 50 affirmations in front of your mirror, and consuming femininity content. The same way you bash the state of being stuck in masculine energy, you should also bash this outdated mentality that you can just “protect your peace”, wear pink clothes and drink a smoothie or matcha and manifest your dream life.

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snow

[harumscarumcos]

tbh I do not think that Vander is beating the “Claggor is his biological son” allegations

[lingrimmart]

Fake yourself as human.

[monakisss]

the reverend family and harrow's childhood (based on htn)

[wolfythewitch]

Jon sketch

[maked-artyshenanigans]

So, I saw this image on Facebook, and it was supposedly showing what Queen Nefertiti would have looked like in real life:

Now, I thought this AI generated garbage was just truly terrible on a number of levels; first off, she looks wayyyyyy too modern - her makeup is very “Hollywood glamour”, she looks airbrushed and de-aged, and as far as I’m aware, Ancient Egyptians didn’t have mascara, glitter-based eyeshadows and lip gloss. Secondly, her features are exceptionally whitewashed in every sense - this is pretty standard for AI as racial bias is prevalent in feeding AI algorithms, but I genuinely thought a depiction of such a known individual would not exhibit such euro-centric features. Thirdly, the outfit was massively desaturated and didn’t take pigment loss into consideration, and while I *do* like the look of the neck attire, it's not at all accurate (plus, again, AI confusion on the detailing is evident).

So, this inspired me to alter the image on the left to be more accurate based off the sculpture’s features. I looked into Ancient Egyptian makeup and looked at references for kohl eyeliner and clay-based facial pigment (rouge was used on cheeks, charcoal-based powder/paste was used to darken and elongate eyebrows), and I looked at pre-existing images of Nefertiti, both her mummy and other reconstructions. While doing this, I found photos of a 3D scanned sculpture made by scientists at the University of Bristol and chose to collage the neck jewellery over the painting (and edited the lighting and shadows as best as I could).

Something I see a lot of in facial recreations of mummies is maintaining the elongated and skinny facial features as seen on preserved bodies - however, fat, muscle and cartilage shrink/disappear post mortem, regardless of preservation quality; Queen Nefertiti had art created of her in life, and these pieces are invaluable to developing an accurate portrayal of her, whether stylistic or realistic in nature.

And hey, while I don't think my adjustments are perfect (especially the neck area), I *do* believe it is a huge improvement to the original image I chose to work on top of.

I really liked working on this project for the last few days, and I think I may continue to work on it further to perfect it. But, until then, I hope you enjoy!

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[attyrocious]

ace sketch study + a law so i can feel goth again after that

[britishmuffin]

Since you guys seemed to really dig the first bunch, here are a few more studies of the kids :>

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[tiredandoptimistic]

Ultimate gay ally Sherman T Potter

[hinamie]

been thinking a normal amount about just how Strong yuuji is

[supernowa-art]

old men<3

[the-rodent-gentleman]

All rise for the Big Daddy of Wrath

And as a bonus:

[lchariott]

DIVA 💜

[saszor]

Happy Face Equality Week :-D

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I really wanted to draw some happy people with facial differences for this week so:)

if you tag this as "tw scars" or some other "body horror" I'm killing u btw:D!!!

[Image description: digital drawing of 7 character with facial differences against a patterned background. The left side shows a gay couple sitting and hugging; one from them has a large bump on his forehead and widespread eyes, while the other has paralysis on one side of his face. In the middle is a teen girl cuddling with a cat, both of which are missing their left eye. Below her is a nonbinary person smoking a cigarette with heart-shaped smoke surrounding them; they have facial atrophy on one side of their face. The right side is split into three small panels; top one shows a Black girl with a cystic hygroma on her jaw on a pastel pink background, middle shows an Indian man with Crouzon syndrome from the side smiling, bottom is a zoom on the side of the head of a person with microtia; they're wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid and have a buzz cut with stars patterned in it. At the bottom, "Happy Face Equality Week" is written. End image description.]

[wolfertinger666]

Dom

(He/him) 🏳️‍⚧️🐏

[socra-time]

Genin team power swaps!