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So you want to talk about racism in the alt music scene?

Okay. Then let’s do something constructive about it.

Note: I personally think looking toward a celebrity / rock star / influencer / fandom BNF for performative allyship is a waste of time. I think there’s a lot of nuance lost in generational and life experience gaps and I’m not going to engage in that conversation.  

What I want to do instead is focus on what I can do for myself and my local community to take active steps in making the alt music scene a more inclusive and less racist space. I’m a big believer in building up and supporting your local music scene as much as possible, so the (totally not comprehensive, but def a starting point) list I’ve curated below will reflect those core values I hold for myself.

BROADLY, QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF:

What POC artists / artists of color are you listening to? Are you buying their albums? Buying their merch? Requesting their songs at your local radio station? 

YOUR LOCAL MUSIC SCENE:

When shows return post-pandemic - will you go see any local POC artists? 

Are you able to use your contacts to help these artists books shows? 

Maybe request the local music club to book certain bands? Show promoters will listen if there seems to be enough interest for them to make money on ticket sales/door fees. (You can usually google your local music venue + booking to try and find this information)

College music stations - if you’re in a college town - there’s a great opportunity to get involved (esp if you’re a student) with helping curate what music gets put in rotation.

Are you able to host a show? House shows are the ULTIMATE music scene DIY - if you’re in a position to offer up your house/space as a venue for bands to come and play, why not make a point to seek out artists of color and have them be part of the line up? 

SoFarSounds.com is another great avenue for the house show route.

Follow: To The Front DIY   

DIVERSIFY YOUR NARRATIVE:

LISTEN:

POC ALT PLAYLIST

INDIGENOUS PUNK

POP PUNK LATINO

ASIAN PUNK ROCK

READ:

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

Punk Rock Hora: Adventures in Jew-Punk Land

Evolution of Modern Popular Music: A history of Blues, Jazz, Country, R&B, Rock and Rap

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

WATCH:

Racism in the Punk/Alternative Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgekmBGt4E8

The Very Black History of Punk Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIWDZ1xxdM

The Very Latinx History of Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyo1zd9jcw  

The Asian Punk Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZKcd8Dn0SA

Anarchy in the Philippines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtSZt_KeiGU

Punk Jews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c29lJ3U_A0

Your Favorite Entertainer is Problematic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sru88ArTFw

Racism in Metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQ-KxS5xUs

HELP THE NEXT GENERATION OF MUSICIANS WITH DONATIONS & SUPPORT:

https://www.musicandyouth.org/opportunity-gap/

https://www.colorincolorado.org/booklist/music-kids-hispanic-heritage

https://www.harmony-project.org/

http://www.musicunites.org/

https://icyola.org/

https://www.musicforallseasons.org/who-we-serve/youth-at-risk/ (New Jersey!!)

https://www.latinoartsinc.org/

https://aimusic.us/new-student.php

https://www.rcmusic.com/learning/learning-through-the-arts/indigenous-programs

Or Google your city + “youth music programs” or “youth after school programs” and volunteer / donate / support!

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

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Nappy.co

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

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ive been wanting to make smth like this for a little while now and i finally finished it up ^_^ hopefully my tricks are helpful

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BRUSHES! for Clip Studio Paint

Clip Sutdio Paint brushes available over on my kofi!

- Free 16 brushes that are crispy and textured

- link: ko-fi.com/s/d51e2ba97a

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Small Rarebit basics to start your webcomic site

pt 1

If you are interested in having your own comic site you may have come across people suggesting rarebit. Rarebit is a comic template you can use to do so.

I do know some HTML and CSS, but even then back when I downloaded rarebit for the first time I was still a bit confused on where to start, so I hope this small guide helps anyone that is interested on starting their own comic site using it.

In this part I’m going to change the logo and navigation buttons on the site.

1.- Download Rarebit from: https://rarebit.neocities.org/ ← You can also read information about it in here and check out other sites that use it.

2.- You will get a zip file with the basic things needed to set up your comic site

3.- You will place these HTML files and folders in your Neocities site dashboard

4.- Changing your logo

If you open the Index right now it will look like this:

I started changing the img files that make up the site to mine for this, starting with the logo, you can find it on the img folder

Select manage, these are the contents of the folder:

characters: stores the images for your characters page

comicnav: the navigation arrows for your site

comics: This is where you place your comic pages, your comic pages have to start with pg and then followed by a number, I will touch on that later.

thumbs: you can place thumbnails for your comic archive, this is optional and you can turn it off, personally I don’t use them but if you want them they are there.

Hildaterry.png: this is a placeholder image for the about page, you can delete it or replace it later on when you build your about page.

logo.png: What I did was open this file and replace it with my own logo, then overwrite, next time you open the index page it will have been replaced.

rarebitlogo_small.png: this is the image used in the credits to give credit to rarebit.

-Once you’ve replaced the logo file for your logo it you will notice the change in the index.

Note. The name of your logo file must have the same exact name of logo.png.

after the change:

Good start isn’t it? You can do this with your nav buttons as well, just replace the files on your comicnav folder.

Rarebit Credits:

Rarebit site

Rarebit's creator's ko-fi and patreon

Part 2

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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Unique vintage male names, companion to this post:

There are less of them because people seemed to be less creative with naming their sons. Not sure why.

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Since you guys like my male name list, here are some vintage girl’s names from old historic documents, recently updated:

(Sorry I listed the name origin/individual’s place of birth on some and not others.)

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does anyone know where I can find good reference images of victorian-era wheelchairs? I want to draw the jovial contrarian but all the wheelchair art refs/tutorials I can find are for modern wheelchairs

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RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they're got even more than these, too!

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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

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The six boots heel designs

When six introduced custom made LaDuca boots in 2019 they also introduced designs to the rhinestones on the heels which had previously been only a few scattered over the heel and boot. The original heel designs were created by Crystalled by Jane who continues to make the UK boots, and made the early cruise boots. The same designs have been replicated (with some small variation) by John Kristiansen NY or LaDuca for US productions, Norwegian Creative Studios for recent cruise casts, and Sydney Diamanté for Australia, a few flat boots that were added post opening were made by the wardrobe departments.

Rhinestones started all as Swarovski but have recently moved to Preciosa or a mix of both. The most common rhinestone size is 5 mm (SS20 in swarovski sizing) but some cruise boots have used a bigger size.

This is not meant to be a color guide. Crystal rhinestones are made to catch the light and show a variety of shades so using a single color would always be a misrepresentation, crystals will also look different in studio, stage and backstage light making figuring out colors even harder. On top of that the colors used for the boots are constantly changing between productions and even within the same cast.

While most boots now use the same design in the heel and straps previous straps used bigger rhinestones, studs or no rhinestones at all.

Aragon: Diagonal lines in three different shades of gold. Original design was one row of each color and newer ones have two of each.

Boleyn: Squares in white and one or two shades of green. Original design was 2x2 squares alternating between light and medium green with white outlines. US productions do white 2x2 squares with green outlines. Newer UK boots changed to 3x3 squares. Australia and NCS still use the small green squares with white outline. Colors are usually light and medium green shades, but darker ones and light teal have been used.

Seymour: Vertical lines in two shades of light grey or white and one dark grey. The two light stripes look like the same color as shades tend to be very simmilar.

Cleves: Two rows of zig zag lines in red and white. On thin straps they do white base with red zig zag or red base with white zig zag.

Howard: Diagonal lines or diamonds in white and two shades of pink. Diagonals alternate one row from each color. Diamonds are 5 rhinestones wide and tall with one white row vertically between them and two horizontally. UK and NCS use diamonds while US and Australia diagonals. The colors have been a wide range of pink shades with a few having purple or orange.

Parr: Solid bands. Bands 5 rhinestones wide alternating two colors. Have been blue and white/silver or blue and metallic silver. Before 2021 Parr boots didn't have rhinestones on the straps. This design is no longer in use, being last seen in Bliss 3.0.

Parr (continued): Solid blue or diamonds. The solid blue has been used exclusively in Australia. The diamonds follow the same pattern as the Howard diamonds. In the UK the diamonds are two shades of blue simmilar to the costume colors while in the US there have been a variety of shades including greyish blues and purple.

Black alt: Lines or two different styles of diamonds. The lines were the original design used until 2020; this alternate a single white line with two lines of grey and black. The diamonds originally folllowed the Howard style with a new one being introduced in 2021. The new one has only one row of white rhinestones separating the diamonds in both directions.

Teal alt: Squares. Originally 2x2 squares in different shades of teal separated by white lines. More recent boots have changed to 3x3 squares in the same colors. Rhinestones have been a variety of shades of teal

Orange alt: Diamonds. Originally orange boots had the same pattern as Howard and Parr with two shades of orange and white outlines. Recently they have moved to the new diamond format with single rhinestone outlines with diamonds in orange and white and black outlines.

Pink alt: The original pink boots had the usual diamonds but rotated. Instead of one rhinestone separating the diamonds vertically and two horizontally, these had two vertically and one horizontally. From the single closeup we have of this pair it seems it had one single light pink color and white.

Pink alt (continued): The newer pink boots changed to the new diamond format with only one line of rhinestones separating the diamonds. The color also changed to white and lilac instead of pink.

Silver alt: A design of white crosses (with 2 rhinestones on each side) with black squares in between them.

Broadway alternates: The original Broadway alts got boots with principal designs in black, white and grey. Nicole has Aragon diagonal stripes, Courtney Boleyn squares and Mallory diamonds.

Broadway alternates (continued): Keirsten has Cleves zig zag. Keri got custom boots almost at the end of her principal run, while the design is vertical lines as Seymour. She has two straps which is not the US Seymour style, making us suspect she might have alt boots instead. During cruise rehearsals a few boots in this b/w style have been spotted. This suggests that Bliss 2.0 (and potentially the cancelled original Breakaway 2.0 and Getaway 1.0) alts had boots in the Broadway alt style, but since we never got any clear photos of their finished boots it is impossible to be sure. This style is apparently discontinued now.

Alternates: Recently alts who wear principal costumes have a new style of boots with white heels and interchangeable straps with the main designs. While the heels seem to be all white its been mentioned that the UK ones use two different shades and a few US boots seem to have at least two aswell this would create a little more depth to the design under stagelights. The three possibilities are principal designs in two shades of white crystals (possibly spotted in Leesa Tulley's boots), all white, or two colors scattered accross the heel.

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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Excellent tutorial to drawing cubby body types

“Some chubby guide for y’all!”

Source: paggiart on twitter