#I know this stuff!!

[inkalight]

You are like seriously a god, goddess, your a Devine entity and holy hades, ok um, I'm trying to get onto drawing but I'm not very good at getting the bodies to be perportionate and was wondering if you know of anything that could help me.

I did not see this soon enough I’m so sorry!!

How I started was I drew really really tiny stick figures like 1 inch tall in poses then I’d redraw it larger in a light colored pencil then I’d draw over top of that. I’d say once ur comfortable building a simple stick figure you can grow into more complex drawings. You don’t need to know everything right away! (You don’t need to know how to draw abs on the first drawing lol)

Furthering your learning on proportions is fun and a bit challenging I recommend turning into a dragon and hoarding 2 things: tutorials and your favorite arts. (In other words you are what you eat, so seek out what you want to be)

Doing a quick search on your preferred search engine on human porportions will help you a lot , collect your favorites that explain things the best to you and show the proportions you want to master.

But break down the body to pieces, find the simpler shapes and flat planes in the complex objects from a reference. I shared some easy starting tips in the drawing below. That show some of the basic shapes.

The great things about proportions is that you can change them! No two humans are the same so once you feel comfortable (or even when you don’t) exploring how to change things up will open you up to new ways to draw! Most often I see if the eyes are bigger then the whole ratio of the body gets smaller in comparison to the head which is a popular approach but that’s not a rule.

If you have more questions feel free to ask (I need to make better tutorials tho)

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[so-i-did-this-thing]

The evolution of (trans) man.

(Well, this one, anyway.)

Age 9: "Tomboy"

Age 15: Strictly enforced femininity

Age 30: Hitting the mental limits of being closeted all his life and about to crash HARD

Age 47: Fifteen years now since starting transition. Far more good days than bad, no regrets.

The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[charbroiledchicken]

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[kensatou]

assigned omega by auntie yi yi…….

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[trekkerac]

Ford "Icarus didn't flap hard enough" Pines

[rainbowcrowley]

today a fascist won an election for the first time since 1933. here, in germany.

i don't care if it's just one (out of 16) states. björn höcke is a fascist. a court decided not long ago that it's allowed to call him a nazi. bc he is one. not "far right" or "conservative" - he is a nazi.

here. in germany. and he just won an election.

it hasn't even been 100 years.

i am scared.

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[styxxsyringe]

ghanaian miku

[littlemut]

[turbo-autism]

will forever love ryoko kui for depicting spooky evil laios despite him not actually having a villain arc

like thank you. i needed this. laios would never, and yet we have been fed anyway. ah dungeon meshi, as they say. do you get me.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Poppy playtime Doey would love the animatronics..