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the dubious philosophy of salmon

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For drawing references 

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i just need to get through this week

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the whole “alpha male” thing is so funny because like. one scientist was like “hey i noticed this thing in wolves” are people were like “cool. that applies to humans too and a whole bunch of people who seem to be acting seriously are going to construct an entire psychosocial hierarchy around it” and the scientist is like “hang on wait i actually think i was wrong. about the wolves”

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Joel and Ellie + Puns  bonus: 

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Chinese Dragon &Terrace by Xision Wu

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losing it at this

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how to ARMS ??? teach pls? ( ´･･)ﾉ(._.`)

(this is mostly gonna be beefy arms from a side angle bc that’s all I can do okay)

ok first of all, obligatory insert of my initial reaction to this ask which was EXCUSE ME?? me know how to arm either!!! Don’t ask me!!! Me don’t know how to arm 😭😭😭 don’t let me fool you with one good Arm 😭

ok now that’s over, obligatory statement that I am not in all confident in my knowledge of arm drawing, I do not claim my knowledge to be correct, I just wanted to try my best to help anyways!!!!

And my adhd ass is completely incapable of making posts that don’t ramble for ten years so this is gonna be Quite long - which is gonna make me seem like I know what I’m doing, and I still do not! Okay let the Arm Time commence. 

Ok this goes without saying but REFERENCES ARE YOUR FRIEND you’ve heard it once you’ve heard it hundreds of times it’s true. Look at pictures. Trace pictures! Controversial opinion but nobody is gonna kill you for loosely tracing over a stock photo you found on Google because you don’t know how to do That Body Part! It’s not making you a bad artist! Personally I say it’s better to trace over a picture of a hand so that you can complete the image you have in mind rather than just not including the hand like you wanted and letting that be a roadblock keeping you from making the drawings you actually want to make and overall improving over time until you can draw hands by yourself!!! ok opinion time over

For my Reggie drawing I had three pics up on the side as my pose/arm references, one as my more exact pose reference and one (uh, ahem, uh, two references, yeah REFERENCE-) muscle reference with vaguely the pose I want so that I can have an idea of how these arms should look on my buff man subject. (bc obviously that skinny girl is not cuttin it for Reggie) anyways USE REFERENCES

Another thing: For me personally, I find really flimsy line-and-circle guidelines to be really unhelpful for my brain, so what I like best is to exaggerate shapes and angles until I can find some solid, chunky shapes to work with and help me remember anatomy stuff! These are kind of the loose shapes I use for arms ^^^

they may not be YOUR Good Arm Shapes but they are MY shapes :)

This one I’m like 96% sure is a thing so bear with me. But a thing I like to remember is that typically, especially from side angles, your arms are not gonna be equally Curvy on both sides! The way the Swole side of the bicep is pointing should be the curvier side, and your lines on the other side should be more subtle :) (this is way more noticeable and important on beefier arms obviously)

This is me trying to prove I have some idea of what I’m saying. Enjoy.

Bonus helpful arm stuff:

This is a lil thing I like to think of as the Magic Tiddie Line. Actually I just came up with that name while I drew this picture I’m a liar. This is more about connecting arms to the torso than drawing arms but if you don’t know it can be helpful!! Basically if you lift your arm above your head you’ll notice that there’s kinda this funky line of connected muscle stuff going from your arm(pit) to the outer side of your pectoral/boob/whatever. This can be pretty helpful for connecting arms to the body and figuring out where all the Stuff lines up!! (I used it while drawing Reggie)

A bit of a better explanation ^^^ I recommend looking at this in a mirror to see what I mean 😌 I just think it’s good to think about when you’re attempting to Anatomy!

Okay somehow TWO of my friends complimented the elbows specifically in my Reggie art so here’s a Thing About Elbows!! This is only visible from certain angles but it’s something I learned that really helped me draw bent arms, and it’s kinda this two-bump thing with elbows?? I tried to point it out but you can see it if you look at your own elbow (and you’re as bony as me) there’s not just your actual elbow in a single point, there’s actually another fairly prominent point and it makes almost a more square shape sometimes if that makes sense??? Idk I attempted to explain in the picture ^^^

Okay uhh that’s all I got sorry for the absolute wall of text

Hope this helped in any way :) happy Arming

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Love this! Her pieces are dope af. 

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please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry 

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Limits of the Human Body

Body Heat = 107.6 F

Cold Water = 40 F

Hot Air = 300 F

High Altitude = 15,000 ft

Starvation = 45 days

Diving Depth = 282 ft

Lack of Oxygen = 11 minutes

Blood Loss = 40%

Dehydration = 7 days

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Do ladies love stupid men or do they just love men who don’t exhaust every opportunity to feel smart

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July is about internal peace

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How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please <0<

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.