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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)

Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)

BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)

Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)

Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)

Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)

Pikat (art advice and critiques)

Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)

Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)

Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)

Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)

IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)

Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)

NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"

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me w/ half my fics on Ao3

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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Someone needs to punch me in the face bc the way I be starting stories left and right yet never doing more than the bare minimum much less actually writing the whole damn thing down needs to be studied

I be dissociating on some shit ass music, appaled by my own writing genius, thinking of yet another plotwist while the word document hasn't been touched in years

It sure be almost as touch starved as I am atp

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Additional thought on dumb OP god and goddesses AU/fic prompt (Link here) now with Shuggy.

Sun God Luffy deciding I wanna go be a pirate because that's what Shanks did. Shanks being god of kings or heroes or something. He went to Gol D Rogers ship to watch him and then met Buggy and ended up falling head over heels.

The entire pantheon have been trying to get Shanks to come back for years but he's just pining or moping over the fucking clown.

Luffy: Shanks became a pirate he's the coolest.

Crocodile/Dragon:*watching Shanks sob because the clown won't return his calls*

Bonus: Rouge being a goddess to, she went down to get Shanks back and ended up falling for Roger.

This is why they decided NO MORE GOING TO EARTH SERIOUSLY! Shanks is a pining mess and Rouge has been sad for years over her mortal dying. (And Mihawk is so tired of her trying to sneak into the underworld )

The world government are trying to figure out where Rogers kid is and why they can't find him, it's because he's a half god and is chilling with divine pantheon with Rouge.

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boiled onions :)

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koala and the sun pirates

I just finished ep 543 (the ep Tiger fisher dies) and i just needed koala and jinbei, Fisher Tiger, Hatchan and Arlong as the avengers dad meme.

my thoughts below the cut

Its obvious I don't like Arlong but i wanted to include him. (just realized i didn't give him pupils)

ALSO i didn't mean to make the absolute GIANT that is Fisher Tiger to look small but im not fixing it rn. but if i did make him size acuate only koala's foot would be showing, lets be real.

This is also the fist time I have ever completed a piece in KRITA and i had to look up how to save it in a way i could post it (i had to export it, not just save it). this only took me 3ish hours and is not really good quality so ima call it a doodle.

Jinbei: just happy she's not stressing

Hatchan: she's sleepy :) she needs affection :)

Arlong: i am five seconds from throwing the child

Fisher Tiger: don't drop her don'tdropherdon'tdropher

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not my cat aggressively trying to get me to sleep. She’s bullying her way onto my lap and becoming a motorboat of purrs

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everyday i mourn dante’s character assassination from when he was adapted from mcd to mystreet

turning a guard who was the epitome of loyalty—i.e. him staying at the gates of phoenix drop for 15 years, living there totally alone for a good chunk of time—into a dude with little substance or compelling character traits that dated two girls at once is actually criminal

dante i’m sorry for what they did to you </3 you deserved better

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Asexuality win! Person who repeatedly pressured their ace partner to "compromise" on sex because it was "a necessary part of a healthy relationship" fucking dies. <3

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Idc if this is a mistranslation, or if Oda was weirded out by the homophobia, this was goated and sanji is heavily queercoded‼️

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Love without Sex

I’m doing a Philosophy paper on Asexuality. Please reblog if you think Love without Sex is possible! I really need the data. Like if you think love has to have sex.

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How I think Cottonmouth could have been handled better as a twist villain in Wings of Fire (Flames of Hope spoilers)

So I think the problem a lot of people have with Cottonmouth is just that he kinda comes out of nowhere, and doesn't really get enough buildup, and also Wasp is just thrown aside, so here is my proposal on how it could be fixed, because i think conceptually, he is a cool and interesting villain

Books 11 and 12 would play out mostly as normal, though maybe it could be teased a bit more that there are controlled dragons acting outside of Wasp's apparent agenda. However, in book 13 or maybe late book 12, at some point, the main characters confront Wasp in person, defeating her in some way, maybe like cornering her and taking advantage of like an inability to move if she is controlling other dragons or something, just get it so she is unable to control dragons. Then, when everything seems like it is going to be okay, out of nowhere, a dragon controlled by Cottonmouth intervenes, bonus points if its a main character, and either kills Wasp, as he no longer has need of her, or goes to defend her if it seems like he reasonably would. He would then probably reveal himself, monologuing a bit to the protagonists, revealing his desire to wipe out dragons, and possibly also hinting at Freedom's existence as well. At that point the characters would flee back to the poison jungle, and the entire plotline with Hawthorne and stuff could still probably take place, and the dragons would still flee to pyhrria, with books 14 and 15 mostly continuing in the same way. That way, the transition from Wasp to Cottonmouth as a main villain would be more of a surprise twist, and feel less cheap.

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ok, so I went to point at the food dish and found out someone in the house put the food dishes on the table. Should not have judged her ig

I told my cat “approach me coward”and she did!

she meows at me to fill her food dish and when I get there the bowl is full and she keeps meowing like it’s empty like ma’am what

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my brother didn't like that i was using Microsoft edge and got me opera GX?

the switch made me sign out of everything what the fuck?

now i have to ask family for passwords

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Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto.

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I think a thing that is criminally overlooked in a lot of fantasy world building (and when it's done it's often done badly) is dancing. Like dancing was such an important element of polite society. It played such a huge role in people's lives. Like literally for a lot of European history you really didn't have someone who'd explicitly teach you manners (as a noble/upper class person) bc that was the job of your dance teacher. In the baroque era how to walk properly, how to sit properly, how to greet people on the street, that was all considered a form of dancing.

And it was in many ways considered almost a more important skill for men than for women at times. On the one hand because dancing teaches you a lot about balance and if you are living at a time where sword fighting is in any way still considered a relevant prestigious skill for men, you should really have impeccable dancing skills. A lot of sword fighting manuals explicitly talk about how it is good for a fighter to also be able to dance well BC it will drastically improve their footwork. And also all that complicated footwork in many dances? If you're wearing a long dress nobody is gonna see what your legs are doing. But if you're wearing pants or (more likely) hot pants and stockings, people will see what your feet are doing and judge you for it.

It was considered the thing that teaches you how to move your body with grace. How to keep your posture.

I am exhausted by the amount of times I've had to read about feasts in novels without there being any mention of dancing. My brother in Christ THE DANCING IS LIKE THE MAIN REASON FOR HAVING A FEAST. Dancing was how you met people, how you snuck in a conversation. When Elisabeth Bennet complains, that Mister Darcy doesn't talk while dancing this is BC that is what dancing was for. Especially Playford Longways are notorious for this BC in most of them one couple has very little to do while the other is dancing a lot. These days many dancing masters use variations of these dances where couple two has more to do, because these days the balls where these dances are danced are generally not to find a potential partner in marriage but rather BC you enjoy dancing.

So please please please, make your characters dance more. And don't make them not dance bc they are not 'girly' and don't make them be bad at dancing without there being a good reason for it and without other people making it a thing. (Aka if they can't dance BC of a disability that is fine. If they can't dance bc of their low standing or BC they can't be bothered to learn this will be considered a moral failing). They can not like dancing. They can be bad at it BC they have two left feet and no sense for rhythm. But please make them dance. And if you point out particularly bad dancers, please, maybe consider also pointing out incredibly good dancers.

For some examples through the ages: we have Lo Spagnoletto, a 16th century Italian dance written down by Cesare Negri, La Bourgogne (one of the more important dances of the Baroque era, here without period clothes, but notice both the arm and foot work. I am learning this one right now and even the feet alone are so difficult to get right) or the Quadrille Francaise, one of the most important dances of the 19th century, here in a version that is like I learned it, although very ballet-like (and I am told very Italian, but the person I learn 19th century dancing from is on a lot of balls in Italy so it makes sense that he has that style of dancing. This is another thing: even when dances themselves were widespread different styles still emerge and are still present/redeveloping today. 19th century dances are danced very differently in Russia compared to say the UK) or here in a version that doesn't require quite as much waiting by having all four couples do everything at the same time.

Now, do note that these (except for the Quadrille) are generally considered to be the more difficult dances of their time. At least in the modern historical dance community. Many people dance only Arbeau (a French 16th century dancing master who wrote perhaps the most well known 16th century source on dancing, the Orchésographie) and John Playford (who published the Arbon dancing master, which is a very important source for baroque dances, although it should be said, that Playford is often danced with very simple steps, BC his descriptions are very minimal but in the scientific community it is generally believed that this is BC it was assumed that people knew the proper steps that are described in more detail in other dancing manuals of the time)

If you have any questions about dancing please feel free to ask me. I am far from an expert but I have been doing this for many years now, I have read some dancing manuals and I have experience with dances spanning several centuries.