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Eau Claire Leader, Wisconsin, August 30, 1932

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Heterosexual Character of Today:

Severus Snape from the Harry Potter Series

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🚨 The internet needs you 🚨

You’re up again, Tumblr. 

Back in 2015 you demanded that the FCC adopt strict net neutrality rules and establish a free and open internet. And you won. 

That should’ve been the end of it. But apparently not.

The new head of the FCC wants to undo the net neutrality protections you fought so hard for.

His proposed changes open the door to your web traffic being slowed down, or even blocked altogether. You could be forced to pay extra to use your favorite apps. You could even be prevented from getting news from the sources you trust.

Title II protects consumers and democracy by ensuring all voices can be heard.

You know the drill. Here’s what to do:

The FCC is taking comments from the public, and dearfcc.org is making it as simple as possible for you to make your voice heard.

Go there now 👉 dearfcc.org ✌️

You’ll just need to provide a name, an address, and then say a little bit about why rolling back Title II protections is a bad idea. If you’re not quite sure what to write, here’s something to get you started:

I’m writing to urge you to keep our Open Internet rules based on Title II in place. Without them, we could lose the internet as we know it.

The proposed changes to FCC rules would allow fast lanes for sites that pay, and force everyone else into slow lanes. We’ve already seen access to streaming services like Netflix, popular games like League of Legends, and communication platforms like FaceTime slowed down, or even blocked. Conditions like this hurt businesses large and small, and penalize the users who patronize them. 

The changes also open the door to unfair taxes on internet users, and could also make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can’t pay up to have their voices heard.

Please leave the existing existing net neutrality rules based on Title II in place.

Thank you!

If you need more ammo, feel free to quote these experts from our net neutrality Issue Time. TechCrunch and Battle for the Net also have some good starters.

Everyone is counting on everyone else here. Do your part and tell the FCC to keep a free and open internet under Title II. 

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First off thanks!!! I tried to make a tutorial but it ended up extremely vague and more of a step-by-step of a headshot i drew today for this purpose whoops;;; oh and I use manga studio 5 for drawing and painting but the hair thing works in sai and photoshop too.

This is one layer but If it’s a complicated drawing then i’ll draw it out and line it with a thin brush with no pressure sensitivity, and then bucket fill the shapes on separate layers, usually 1 layer per character and one layer for the bg.

I also might do color adjustment layers and merge them down as I go but I got lucky this time and didn’t have to make any adjustments. 

I work on one layer but every 30 minutes or before I begin a new stage (hair, the eyes) I’ll duplicate that layer and paint on the topmost one. This way I can check to see if I over-rendered by hiding the top layer. If i over-render or mess something up, then I have that back-up layer that I can go back to and start that part again. 

Some additional things:

lost edges are where the edge of a shape bleeds into the other without any visible separation between the two. If you don’t need an edge consider getting rid of it for a more painterly look. Zhao Ming Wu does this beautifully.

The very very darkest shadows on skin are almost always warm. Even if the light source is cool, the nostril will be a warmer color than the rest of the skin.

warm light: cool shadows

cool light: warm shadows

Vary the hue here and there with little flecks of bright colors that harmonize with the local color of the object to make things pop

If the background is dark, draw a very thin orange or dark pinkish line where the skin meets the bg. This is called a corona and will make the skin look like it’s glowing but without looking like you slapped an overlay filter on top

you don’t need to use pure black AND pure white in the same image every single time

The eye is drawn to hard edges, so use them where it counts!! 

Read Richard Schmidt’s Alla Prima for more of this kind of stuff. I got most of these ideas from that book 

and proko’s youtube channel

ps that’s makoto 

That’s all I can think of right now!! 

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Part 2 will cover Elemaps, Blotmaps, Brushtex, how they work and how to make your own. 

Fun fact: The Airbrush is just a soft edge pen tool and is also completely useless

I also meant to include What The Hell Is A Stabilizer and it’s thrilling sequel Oh My God How Did I Ever Live Without This but I ran out of room.

Part 2

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CamScanner: a must have for traditional artists!

hello! I recently found this rad app called “CamScanner”, a mobile app for android and iOS

what does this app do? well, basically it imitates a scanner, so even if you don’t have one, you can take real cool pictures of your drawings!

for this to work, i suggest you take a picture of your entire paper / sketchbook / etc. The app will automatically crop your picture and come out with something like this:

(sometimes it wont be too accurate, but that can be easily fixed by moving the frame yourself)

once scanned, the app will make it so your drawing looks like this:

(the app will have some presets, so you might want to mess around with those. OR you can mess with the settings yourself to get a look you desire)

this can be really helpful if you plan to color your traditional piece on a computer, or something similar.

this can even work with colored drawing, if you’d like!

original:

edited with CamScanner:

if you mess with the settings yourself, i bet you could get the picture to look better, as i did this with the presets.

anyway, i hope this helps!

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Hey friends!

Meg here with this weeks TUTOR TUESDAY (I’m a broken record I know it’s Wednesday, sorry for the delay) I just wanted to show you guys some exercises that I do all the time and that I think are a bit more fun than what I usually teach! If you have any tutorial recs send ‘em in here or to my personal! Now go forth and I’ll see you next Tuesday! 

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50 Weeks of Art Improvement Challenge

This challenge is made with an emphasis on human anatomy in mind because this is something I really want to improve on. Each week, I will make a post with references I find for the theme to help get everyone started. :D

Here, you can find all the reference lists I’ve made.

Your job, if you wish to join me, is to practice drawing the topic for that week. It can be doodles, sketches, an art piece that focuses on the theme, or whatever else you can think of. 

Please join me in figuring out how to art, and tag your work each week under “50 weeks of arting” so we can find each other’s art and keep each other motivated yaaay :D

Faces - proportions

Faces - features

Faces - shading with light sources

Expressions

Human body - proportions

Torsos

Back

Arms

Legs

Hands

Feet

Hair

Standing/sitting poses

Action/fight poses

Faces ( These are important - so let’s revisit them )

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Children

Elderly

Fabric folds

Accessories - shoes, hats, bags, capes, anything you can think of!

Clothing - casual

Clothing - formal

Fashion style of your choice

Faces (Awesome! Now let’s revisit faces and anatomy again before we move on to animals!)

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Dogs

Cats

Birds

Animal of your choice

Fantasy animal of your choice

Plants, trees, and flowers

Weapons

Armor

Faces - Again!

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Forest landscape

Urban landscape

Underwater scenery

Different perspectives

Draw a scene from your favorite story or fan fic

Monochromatic Color Scheme

Complementary Color Scheme

Analogous Color Scheme

Triadic Color Scheme

Tetradic Color Scheme

Choose a landscape or character, and color it using each of the color schemes.

Redraw an old piece and see how much you’ve improved!

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MY FAVORITE GANG 

FUGO SE FUGÓ badumtss -I SUCK-

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blue zircon, space attorney

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this is so funny

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