Trying Out Some Eye-painting Techniques And Creating References For Later Use

Trying out some eye-painting techniques and creating references for later use

Mike just confirmed Chester’s death (x) :(

No more murders, say women in Argentina. In Argentina, a woman is murdered every 31 hours in a domestic violence incident - according to an NGO. Recently, BBC Trending reported on one woman’s struggle to get sexual harassment taken seriously. Now, a protest initiative against this violence, which was supposed to bring a few hundreds together in the centre of Buenos Aires, has now spread to 80 other cities and across the continent on social media.

PH by Clarín

Ni una menos

 Ok, here’s another important rant. Just take 1 minute of your life to read.

I live in Argentina and i’m a 17 year old girl.

Nowadays there’s the highest rate of women murdered, raped and abused we’ve ever seen. Each month i see in the news a new case of a girl, most of them teenagers, that are missing; only to discover in the following week that her body was found with signs of rape, abuse and was dumped in the river, side of the road or the place were the trash goes to at the end of the day. If they’re even found at all. And that are the cases which go public and viral. There hundreds  more of women and girls that are being raped, phisically abused, mistreated, insulted, murdered, treated as objects, and more, that we don’t even know of. It may be for human trafficking, from part of boyfriend, parents, people in the streets, a whole lot of reasons. But its fucking wrong and it has to stop now. 

  The people who do it are not even in prison. Our justice department is doing absolutely nothing, and they even make up excuses. And we are sick of it. It isn’t fucking right that a woman dies every 30 hours.

  Today, 3rd of June, each town of the whole country had a manifestation, a motion to try to stop it and bring a spotlight into the subject. Femicide has to stop everywhere, not just here. Every one had signs which said: “Ni una menos.” (translated into “Not even one less”). 

Yesterday i heard a story about a place i used to go when i was 13 that its still open. It goes from 10 to 1 in the morning (which in my country is pretty early). It gets bigger and bigger the number of people that go each weekend. Two young 13 year old girls were sexually abused by guys the same age or a year older. 6 guys took her into the middle of the dance floor, pulled her leggins and underwear off and started touching her, 6 FUCKING GUYS. To the other girl they touched her bra and she managed to escape. When people fucking asked the first girl what did she do when it was happening and she answered “I didnt know what to do. There were so many hands.” I think its so fucking wrong that a girl so fucking young has to go through that. ITS SO FUCKING WRONG THAT ANYONE HAS TO GO THROUGH THAT. And what’s worse? I heard one girl in my grade say: “Well, when we went there guys touched our butts but we didnt go running back to our mom saying that.” THE GUYS HAD PULLED HER PANTS AND WERE TOUCHING HER BUT EVEN IF IT WAS JUST THE BUTT ITS WASNT WANTED EITHER. And i can’t even believed i heard that. i’m so angry and more bc this club wasnt doing a fucking thing till it went viral on twitter.

For this things is that women are fighting, not just here but in the whole world. 

These are some photos of signs: ( I dont know who they belong to so if its yours please tell me.)

(One femicide per day it’s not a casualty, it’s a social problem.)

(Sorry for the inconvenience but we are being murdered.)

(With shorts or pants, respect me coward!)

(To say “not even one less”: You have to stop calling “pick up lines” to street harassment.)

(To say “ not even one less”: You have to stop asking how short Melina’s skirt was.)

(Your dick doesn’t get bigger if you hit me nor it gets smaller if you respect me.)

We are so angry. We are angry that we cant walk alone at night neither take the bus. We are angry that we have to teach girls how to avoid situations like these instead of stopping the situation all together. 

 Thank you for reading. i hope that you share it beacause it involves us all not just my country.

I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.

Here we go then!

Freeware

Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from. MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems. openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it. ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it. The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.

Sketchbook copic: a bit different program

Not-free-ware

Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick. Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier. Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.

Anatomy

heads from different angles

anatomy and rotation of the head

human anatomy for artists

speed drawing studies

nude references

hands

arm and wing movement

beer bellies

body types

noses

box and egg/run of the stroke

a trick for arm proportions

body diversity

anatomy of the waist

feet

hands and forearms

Expressions

emotions and facial expressions

expressions from different angles (love this site)

body language

Poses

figure drawing examples

posemaniacs

gesture drawing

flexiblity

hand poses

Skin tones

handy pallet

painting skin

paint some life into your skin tones

ethnic skintones

Colouring

gamut mask tool (very nice!)

colour does not have to suck

5 easy ways to improve your colouring

fucking gradients, how do they work

light and shadow

painting crystals

achieving a painterly look in SAI

painting forests

colour scheme designer

kuler (more colour schemes)

portrait lighting cheatsheet

Brushes

a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush

photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)

lots of photoshop brushes

Other peoples masterposts

handy art link megapost

art references

stock artists

cocks and how to draw them

love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)

e-books

art e-books (mediafire download)

even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)

Andrew Loomis’s books

the art of drawing

cutting edge anatomy

Tutorials

drawing 101

how to paint realistic hair

how to paint realistic eyes

conceptart.org tutorials

creature design

folds

glasses

a pretty extensive general art tutorial

tumblrs

fucking art, how does it work

wannabe animator

anatomical art

artist problems

criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.