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I don't feel like swimming this morning
Charcoal pencil drawings on paper
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#mcdanno#mcdanno fanart#steve mcgarrett#danny williams#h50 fanart#h50#hawaii five 0#fanart#drawing#traditional media#with my left hand
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mycenaean miku
she was there singing on the beaches of llion. homer copied the catalogue of ships from her.
#hatsune miku#tagamemnon#my art#based on several frescoes including my FAVORITE goddess wearing boar's tusk helmet with baby griffon#miku worldwide#artwork#ancient greece#bronze age#the iliad#artists on tumblr#putting my classics degrees to work#she doesnt have six fingers on her left hand that is her thumb the mycenaeans also struggled with hands and I kept that#ISAAC REQUESTED THIS AND I HAD TO
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And lemme know your age (if you feel comfortable!), and when you got your first phone in the tags!
If these options are scuffed I'm sorry, I genuinely have no clue how many phones people are "supposed" to have had (hence the poll)
#polls#I'll go first: I'm 22 i got my first phone at 12 and im on my 3rd phone#never broken one but i left the last one on the feckin bus :(#it was a hand-me-down from me mum so it had a good life#lost me damn photos tho
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alright i couldn't find any posts showing this idle animation and needed it on my blog
#on my hands and knees thanking whoever animated this#the first time i came across it id left to get a snack#and when i came back and saw them doing this i did such a violent double take i nearly gave myself whiplash#LOOK AT THEM ‼️#engaging in tomfoolery together....#tears in my eyes#disco elysium#kim kitsuragi#harry du bois#just sat silently beside my computer for nearly twenty minutes to get this recording. worth it
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my mother taught me to crochet when i was young. she was left handed, so she taught me how in the bathroom mirror so her hands would be in the right position.
she learned to crochet from her grandmother, who was right handed. her grandma was the one that originally used the bathroom mirror to teach her granddaughter properly.
i find something poetic about that. here in this bathroom mirror, through generations, we adapt to our young who have a different way of learning and interacting with the world
#my mom grew up in the 70s rural missouri#very much in the ‘left handedness is the devil’ era#her first grade teacher handcuffed her left hand to her desk#so i find it very sweet that my great grandmother#took the time and effort to show her grandkid how to create and crochet with her left hand#using the only methods she knew how- the bathroom mirror#the narwhal speaks#crochet
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🏳️🌈HAPPY PRIDE!!!🏳️⚧️
Fuck you Disney these characters are queer :)
Commission info
Version with my headcanon individual pride flags under the cut:
It's ok to disagree with my headcanons, just don't be a prick
Also, yes, this is the return of the Kalluzeb boob meme
#I hope Ahsoka and Barriss look good because I had to render them with my left hand#I got tendinitis and won't be able to draw for a while :')#star wars#my art#wolfwren#velcinta#finnpoe#stormpilot#nitearmor#asajj ventress#dinluke#darth maul#kalluzeb#sabé#barrissoka#codywan
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"I've seen the way you look at him... You're in it."
they shouldn't kiss. they shouldn't kiss at all. they're going to kiss a whole lot
#solavellan#solas#dragon age#solas x lavellan#dragon age fanart#we're so back#it's about the *hands*#it's about the yearning#it's about the way she thinks he's being overly cautious and worried about her reputation#and he's feeling wracked with guilt over what's on her left hand and what he has to do#elmo burning.gif#the hands on this actually tried to ruin my life it was so difficult i redrew each one probably at least 4 times in slightly different pose#pina art
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Did not realize polls were timed...no wonder y'all be asking for rebogs
Anyway tell me about ur jewelry in the tags if u wanna!!
#i wear three rings always#engagement ring diamond ruby band on middle left finger and promise ring on right hand#i have s bunch of other rings i wear to work and then take off at home so my exema doesnt flair up lol
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I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.
#sometimes I really sit and think about how much impact the sweet strangers in my life have had on me#thatve helped me keep going without ever knowing just how fucking miserable I was before them#like how can I ever repay the family that drew pictures and left them at my door as an apology for all the noise#the man who held the train door for me even after I slowed down bc I didn’t think I’d make it#the girl who held my hand at the beach because the waves were too strong for both of us to stand on our own#the nurse that charged my phone when I was at the hospital#like????#humans are good actually#hopecore#hopepunk#the indomitable human spirit
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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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30 Years of Red Ships and Green Ships
Celebrating 30 years of Due South.
30 years of Fraser and Ray K (not yet but soon…). Also Dief’s great-great-grandaughter.
I missed the @ds30below ‘s fanart week; posting these a bit/too late but I hope it’s ok.
Charcoal pencil drawings on paper + a few digitally added effects
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#due south#ds30below#fraser/rayk#fraser/kowalski#benton fraser#ray kowalski#due south fanart#diefenbaker’s family#drawing#traditional media#with my left hand#ds ckr things i do
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another modern zelink dump because I like them and epona is cute <3
#had these for a while but I’ll just post em now#my left hand is cramping bc im crocheting a lot lately#seollenda me likey me likey likey likey me likey likey likey dugeun dugeun dugeun (heart heart)#please ignore that#iykyk#the legend of zelda#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#breath of the wild#tloz#loz#totk#botw#totk zelink#totk zelda#totk link#zelink#zelda#link#modern au#loz au#epona#<3#kittyyyy#nintendo#artists on tumblr#art#my art#shrimp IS bugs
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6 November - It's finally over 🌅
these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (i would say new readers beware, it has spoilers for the book but well... we are at the end already)
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#my art#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#note to self: dd2024#mina murray#mina harker#jonathan harker#quincey morris#van helsing#abraham van helsing#also i just realised quincey is using his bloodied hand to hold Minas... ough i shldve drawn the blood transferring from his hand to hers#welp weve reached the end! just the epilogue left tomorrow. see yall then!#for next year perhaps and more... even if this fandom doesnt really remain active ill probably be trucking around here#dracula is not something ill put down anytime soon. i always bounce back to my old interests
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aftercare ❤️🩹
#call of duty#cod#john soap mactavish#simon ghost riley#soapghost#my art#see the boy's fine he just had a gnar wipeout trying to stick a kickflip#fail king 😌#meanhwile Simon's doing that mr darcy thing with his hands#can't get the feeling of your phantom grip out of my palm#your blood's still under my fingernails because it might've been the last thing I had left of you...#etc...
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i am curious,
rb for sample size yada yada
#my post#poll#please share 🥺#left handedness#right handedness#left handed#right handed#ambidextrous#mixed handed
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the new jjk cafe fits have been living in my head . no thoughts except yuuji in a letterman
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#itafushi#fushiita#yuji itadori#fushiguro megumi#megumi fushiguro#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#havent had yuuji fight me this hard in a MINUTE omg far left took forever i redrew his face and hair like 10 times minimum#he looks good now but like rly yuuji i thought we were past this i thought we were cool :((((#i put Hand On Thigh and this is how u repay me.....#sighs#whatever this took a million years longer than it should but im finally happy with it im finally done ths all that matters#i dont know what yuuji's pants look like in the official art but i ripped them as a treat fr me :)#ik theyre probably just regular jeans but i think yuuji deserves to show a lil knee#real talk tho yuuji's fit is so so good i love it so much. megumi i am ehhhhhh but it's on brand fr him#plus i like that they dress him like he's canonically cold all the time lmao yuuji in a light sweater n megumi in a thermal and puffer coat#its what they deserve
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