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I am begging people who still say “Manifest Destiny” for any reason to understand that it means, very literally and without exaggeration, “White Power”

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“Notes on skirts and pants”

Source: miyuli on twitter

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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And here's the whole series. I'm kinda proud of myself - when they all put together I can see the amount of work - and I love my characters a lot. :) Now, I wonder, which one is your favorite? My personal favorite is 2nd - I think I did Lyra justice with those wings. Since this is gonna be a long post anyway, I'm gonna add a few sketches for some of them below.

Last one was an alternative variant for the 10th piece but I imagined that people would misinterpret it BAD so I decided to draw another one. I still like this sketch, however, maybe I'll finish it with lineart or sth like that. And another sketch also had Devil in it but since this piece was more focused on emptiness, I just erased him. Well now you know he was there. And about the knife... now you know who did that, too. After holidays I want to update my lore post a bit so stay tuned for that :]

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Just saw a post for The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish that someone had tagged SVSSS because they'd mixed up Ye Qinghuan and Yue Qingyuan.

Is this an understandable mix up? Absolutely. Their names are literally two letters off.

Is it hilarious to imagine Yue Qingyuan suddenly in the fish romantic comedy? Oh very much so.

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Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 1.08 (2024)

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Mirror Demon · Love Game in Eastern Fantasy · 2024

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art by J. C. Leyendecker (1910s to 1930s)

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Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

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Hey, here is some new frustrating discourse.

I'm going to clear this up super duper quick.

And then we can move on and discuss more important things.

Okay?

Here goes...

Nicolas Cage is an incredible actor who is very bad with money so he has to act in terrible movies because otherwise they will repossess his dinosaur skull collection.

But even when he is in terrible movies with terrible writing he refuses to phone in his performances. And sometimes when you are acting your ass off while saying some of the dumbest dialogue ever conceived it can give the appearance the acting is the issue rather than the writing and story.

Hayden Christensen knows that feeling all too well.

So next time you see Nic Cage in a B movie acting a fool, just know he probably bought some new shrunken heads and forgot to pay the mortgage on his volcano island.

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Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.

The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.

These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.

(all credit to my physiotherapist)

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some attempts at vintage pulp covers style

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really not a fan of entire (mostly black) music genres being compressed and confined to being seen as "video game" music to be totally honest

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People really sleep on how good Shen Yuan is at acting.

At this point in the series, Shen Yuan has been coerced into returning with Binghe and practically locked up. In his mind he thinks telling his captor "I don't want to see you" is the cruelest thing he's ever said in either life, because he dotes on Luo Binghe that much.

Multiple times in the series, he describes Luo Binghe's distress making him feel physical pain. This is a man who carried an unconscious Binghe around the Holy Mausoleum while two other heavenly demons chased him and he didn't have access to cultivation at the time!!! Actual nightmare. There is nothing Shen Yuan won't do for the sake of Binghe's happiness and safety.

And for that whole arc?? Binghe thought his shizun hated him!!

Because Shen Yuan is a poser! He says so multiple times! He acts like an aloof and untouchable peak lord, and he's really good at it. He's good enough to make people think that's who he really is, even if his inner thoughts are the exact opposite.

The way he tries so hard to pretend he's an unfeeling and selfish scum villain is almost as tragic as the fact that he's talented enough to make people think it's true.

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my svsss comic about sqq and his little personality split (what if)