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Happy YOIversary ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

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I hope I'll get to make plenty of art of these two ♡♡♡♡♡

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Artist : nikku (pixiv / twitter)

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I drew this after seeing Yuzuru perform history maker next to Dean Fujioka singing 🦅

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IMPORTANT: 🚨Emergency Insulin Request 🚨

Hi! This is an URGENT REQUEST as I cannot go a day without insulin. Currently I am unemployed through no fault of my own. I do not have insurance so I will have to use GoodRx. My insulin is called Afrezza. It costs around $300. I’m calling for community aid to help me get insulin because the healthcare system failed me.

GOAL : $105/$300

financial problem is the number 1 reason.

hoping to get some help in here.

Blood sugar reading this morning. The average blood sugar reading should be between 60mg/dl - 100mg/dl. I am terrified of not being able to administer my insulin simply because I was too poor to afford it. I am strongly in need of community help.

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ive also come to the conclusion that "laziness" is probably the stupidest, most hurtful, least useful, deliberately cruel concept in the world

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for anyone who has ever asked themselves "am I trans enough?" or "am I allowed to call myself trans even if I'm not passing?"

I want you to know that you are loved, I want you to know that you are 'trans enough' and that you don't have to do anything extra to prove that. you don't need to pass as any specific gender in order to be trans, you don't need to be on HRT, and you don't need to be publicly out as trans either.

you are wonderful, and you deserve to be treated with respect. please don't let other people or your own intrusive thoughts make you feel any different

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you can be masculine and feminine at the same time. being masculine doesn't make you any less feminine. being feminine doesn't make you any less masculine. there is no inherent morality to any masculinity or femininity you express. you create the meaning behind it by expressing yourself - your joy, your queerness, your health. you are not a reflection of other people's harmful ideas about gender. that's their burden to carry, not yours.

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The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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how do you draw your hands so well (even when they’re simplified)? do you use any methods/references or did it just come with practice?

some HANDy advice from your dear sweet uncle

a lot of it does come naturally, but that's due to a lot of practice with REFERENCES(!!!!!!!) and also learning to draw from life, so that if i need a quick reference i can just look at my own hands. practicing simple geometry and foreshortening exercises will help build up your skills to do weirder poses, but at the end of the day it's just shapes

(also in case you've ever wondered why my fingers get so toony and bendy sometimes - it's half stylization and half because i'm double-jointed irl so my built-in references just. do that)

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“Drawing techniques to improve boot shoes”

Source: takuya_kakikata at Twitter

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I want to start drawing landscape. Do you have any tips?

Took me a while to answer this (sorry anon)! Drawing landscapes for me are mostly just a matter of doing a few 'art studies' and a bit of imitating life. Here's a brief rundown of my process. I find that I learn best when I see a picture or a reference that really tickles my fancy, like these ones! First image for it's colors, and the second for it's composition.

And then I pull up the dreaded white canvas on start on a rough idea or just start dribbling out the basics: composition, a bit of color, general shapes, etc. If you have a hard time doing general landscapes, don't worry! Imagine breaking it down like this: You layer on some general colors and shapes; don't be afraid to make mistakes, you can always go back to it! Be loose and organic with it at first, we're not striving for detail yet, and just let that brush move freely. And once you got the shapes down, you can go back and forth in the canvas to start detailing. I find that it's best if you really look into how some things are "made". Like for example, how that patch of grass in your reference is made: 'is it layered? does it have some shiny bits in it that I wanna highlight? are the blades of grass sharp enough to individually detail or more clumped up together to just put in a sorta grassy blob?'. Also, don't be afraid to experiment a bit. Try putting some highlights around the edges to make it pop out more, or try putting small changes in the color you're working with; something that's close but still different, so that it compliments each other! Then it's just a matter of going forward with it; see what you like and what you wanna keep and imitate, see what you want to change or maybe just leave out on. Keep on detailing and going until you're happy with it!

This is a really brief rundown and explanation of a process that can be entire unique to each and everyone of us, and takes a bit of time and practice to pull off. But I believe in you! We all start from somewhere, sometime down the line; and that can start right now if you want it to! Goodluck to any artists out there who wanna try out landscapes. It's a fun and comforting process of organic and loose art that breathes in a lot of life in some people, especially me. Twitter | Prints | Ko-Fi | Patreon

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Clip Studio Paint Tutorial Masterlist

for those of you who don't know, i have a masterlist of CSP tutorials and guides available to read for free! all of the guides are made by me in the past couple years. most are twitter thread links, but eventually i plan to convert them all to tumblr posts when if find the time.

read here!

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Drawing hands from imagination by Proko

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Clothes and Folds Tutorial by fakhear

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Art Tutorial| 3 coloring methods

If you're frustrated at coloring or don't know how to do the color, please check and try them. They may inspire you to find a new way. Any feedback and suggestions are welcome!