#and i'm still learning

[frenchublog]

Pls help how do you draw eyess(or faces in general)💀💀 like what do you dooooo help my faces always look so weird and the same whenever I draww

Hi !

I'm learning with Proko classes but he has a Youtube channel with free cool lessons for beginners (perspective, shading, construction lines) he does have lessons for the head too I believe ! Of course, drawing your faves on the side, many times, helps.

It's very important to understand the basics first. I also do figure drawing too thanks to this website ➡️ https://line-of-action.com/

I also have the Michel Lauricella Morpho book that I have since I'm 21 (he also did one for the clothes, it's really nice)⬇️

When it comes to style unfortunately there's nothing more I can do, you make it, as you go 🎨🖌️I'm sure you have favourite movies, shows, books, artists, good strong influences that can help you craft it. The best way to get better at drawing is to have solid knowledge of your fundamentals. Understand how it works, why the bones are build that way and why they're called that way too ! (same thing for the muscles !) You can't draw something if that something doesn't have a name. Identify your weaknesses, keep pushing and working ! You'll see, it pays off ! ⬇️ (there's the Proko channel link down there)

Another very important advice would be to keep a sketchbook and fill it with doodles (no pencil !! only marker) we humans have this reflex of erasing our mistakes and then not learning ! Using a marker allows us to draw, fail, fail even more until we're on our knees crying, asking for mercy. But it's good, failure is good. Failure means you're learning, it's proof of your artistic journey. Like footprints. I understand fear can hold you back too but you can't do anything with nothing. You're not trying to reach for absolute perfection, that is not the purpose of this type of notebook, you can draw whatever you want!

(like this !! look at my THOND silly doodles ! no one can judge me this movie is a masterpiece)⬇️

I'll leave you with the 4 P's of life : Passion, Patience, Persistence, and Practice !

[cora-devil]

My headcanon is that Dovey was the one to initiate their first kiss and that served as an excuse for me to practice a little :')

[horseshoe-bay-ledger]

NANCY DREW || 3x13: The Ransom of the Forsaken Soul

“Should have watched those blind spots”

[achingly-shy]

“i’ve been hanging out with the rejects in the attic, can’t get out of my head the way you left” (x)

[zazrichor]

hii!! i love your art so much it's so gorg 😭😭 I was wondering how long it took you to get where you are with your art? I'm sort of a beginner and ur art is such an inspiration to me <3!! thank youu :-)

thank you so so much, that means a lot!!

Actually thinking about this has caused me critical damage and sent me on a soul searching trip ngl

I'd have to say that I started drawing as a kid (boring and unhelpful answer, I know) and got somewhat serious as a teenager but I hadn't really actively tried to improve until my mid-20s. Which means doing all kinds of studies, watching other artists do their thing, and so on.

If I had to give an estimate, I'd neglect the kindergarten and primary school days and say roughly 10 lackadaisical years + some off time in-between + 6 serious years.

Also, this made me think of how starting to do art in a new medium is, from personal experience, almost always a hard reset skill-wise. Doesn't answer your question but it's something to think of for sure.

Keep at it! It takes time but it's worth it!

[koddlet]

personal rules for winter ❄

[someonedonehiding]

"Todo el mundo anclao' ha sido

Todo un mar para perderte

Todo el tiempo que se ha ido

Todo el tiempo estando ausente

Si quisieras confiar en mí

Nunca es tarde, tarde, tarde

Necesito verte aquí, tu mirada me hace grande

Y que estemos los dos solos, dando tumbos por Madrid

Y sin nada que decir, porque nada es importante

Cuando hacemos los recuerdos por las calles de Madrid

Como un salto en el vacío

De quien no teme a la muerte

Otra noche en el hastío

De no poder entender que

Ya no quieras confiar en mí

Nunca es tarde, tarde, tarde"

[sweetagnostis]

What do you think of little boys in ballet? I tried asking someone on here and they said because there are usually no boys changing rooms at childrens' ballet schools "the little boys would stare!" - and then tried to claim "none of these think should stop little boys from doinf ballet" - which i pointed out is proven a lie by her "little boys would stare" stuff. It reminded me of what happened with Take Our Daughters to Work Day - the Ms.Foundation that started it *wanted* to start a day in parallel for sons' but - as demonstrated in this NYT article where girls on a TYDTW day see a Take Our Sons Home Day as a way of tormenting boys - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/29/opinion/editorial-notebook-a-day-for-daughters.html - guys knew that the Ms. Foundation didn't mean it when they said feminism wants to liberate little boys as well as little girls from gender roles. Not really. So a son's day never got off the ground. I grew up in the 1980s with a congenital defect - most of the adults in power or their proteges had been trained during the eugenics/forced sterilization of the disabled period and were against "mainstreaming" people like me - they said one thing when people could see them - and did horrible things to me and others who were effectively their helpless playthings.

There's, um, a lot to unpack here, so I'll just focus mainly on your question, my thoughts on boys in ballet: (To clarify, I'm not a ballet dancer myself, I work in the office for a ballet company.)

I'm not sure who you spoke to, but the company I work for (which encompasses both a ballet school and a professional ballet company) has always had separate changing areas for boys and girls. So that's never been an issue! I've never personally heard of a mixed gender changing room anywhere really, my theater experiences has always taken pains to make sure boys and girls have separate areas. And in the 7+ years I've worked for this company there's never been an issue of inappropriate behavior from male students/dancers towards female students/dancers or vice versa, and trust me as the sole customer service person I WOULD get that angry parent call/email if anything of that nature had ever happened!

For general thoughts, we LOVE our male students and dancers of all ages! The directors of the ballet company i work for (which encompasses both a professional ballet company and a ballet school) very actively work expand our boys dance program and fight back against stereotypes that ballet is only for girls or that there's something wrong with boys studying dance. We may not have nearly as many male dancers in our school as female dancers, but we have male students ages 4 to 18ish and they are all good students, most of the older boys are incredibly dedicated and have been there at least as long as I have.

Men have been in ballet as long as there has been ballet, and any ballet company worth its salt wants and needs male dancers. I'm not sure of your classical ballet knowledge, but without men in dance, who would portray the Nutcracker prince? The brave Prince Desire of The Sleeping Beauty? The dashing Basilo of Don Quixote? And many, many other famous male ballet roles.

While there are shared elements, ballet, for better or worse, has a strict gender binary: women dance on pointe, and men have their own separate ballet technique training that typically leans more into athletic jumps, weight training, and partnering technique. When performing partnering technique in ballet the male dancer really needs to be in good physical shape and know what they're doing, as the safety of the female dancer often depends on the male dancer.

If I can yank a few examples from Bing Images:

Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker

Rose Adagio from The Sleeping Beauty - it might not look it but is a famously difficult sequence for the female dancer, and she really relies on the hold she has with her male partners to keep her pointe. (That handhold typically becomes a death grip by the end of the sequence, lol.)

Grand Pas from Don Quixote.

All of this takes YEARS of training to master, so the earlier a dancer starts training, the better! Many dancers can start as young as 3 years old, but some dancers I know started studying later. We do have a dedicated men's program where men's technique is taught in boys-only classes, but there are classes where boys and girls train together, partnering obviously for older students but there are other classes where boys and girls are combined.

For the record, I'm in favor the idea of breaking down the ballet gender binary between men and women's technique, but that's a whole separate rant, haha.

Complaints about gender binary aside, I'd never ever say that boys shouldn't study ballet. It's as athletic as any sport and has physical and mental benefits. Saying "boys shouldn't study ballet" would be like saying "girls shouldn't play sports" - a terrible and incorrect baseless assumption.

I'm friends with our principal male dancer, and he told me about how studying dance literally changed the trajectory of his life: he did a dance camp in the summer as a teenager, auditioned for and was accepted into a prestigious men's dance study program, and this led to opportunities to allow him to become the first person in his family to get a passport as he'd received a scholarship to study in the United States, where he has gone on to dance and choreograph across the nation. He is a wonderful dancer, reliable and safe for partnering technique, an emerging choreographer, a teacher in our men's program, and nothing but kind and respectful to everyone around him, even to little old me in the office. :) And while he's the dancer I'm closest to, he's by no means an exception.

So, uh, TL;DR: boys and men in ballet = good.

[jade350]

Help wanted 2!(Spoiler! Kinda?) Sun shaking!

I made a gif to make it easier to see without having to watch the entire Fusion video.

I wonder if Sun and even Moon may have had trauma from the fire and earthquake, Sun seems pretty scared…

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[mynameismad]

MIMICS!!!

[bribinart]

nat 20!!!!!!

[vynnyal]

Some comics

[uncanny-tranny]

Basically, my philosophy around disability fakers is: I would rather a thousand people fake a disability than have one disabled person suffer without care, aids, compassion, or any help.

[abd-illustrates]

🔥Zahra 🔥

Some more of the finished art from this week’s video, where I designed a couple of Genshin Impact OCs! (And finally got to reveal one of the secret projects I’ve been working on…! 👀) I’ve been posting the finished pieces here throughout the week; and last but not least is Zahra; a fiery firefighter from Sumeru!

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[lotus-pear]

yeah sure therapy is nice but teen soukoku is faster and a lot cheaper