About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"
This makes people very angry and panicky.
My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.
It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure
Much, much better. Even though my phone ate the details of her freckles.
I notice I do worse when I try and follow a different style. Like tutorials and stuff? It just turns out wonky. I certainly love her ombré lips though, I’m a sucker for those.
Lmao you’re an adult, you shouldn’t be using the word squick. Use trigger. Use your grown up adult words to explain how you feel instead of leaning on a cutesy uwu term that no one outside of tumblr uses. It’s embarrassing.
Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly
Magic Breakfast ✨
I can't stop spamming him everywhere >w<
I made Eirwyn a shirt. Now I wonder if he really needs pants. I like seeing his legs. >w<
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
please reblog so everyone can get a treat :))
GET POUNCED ON!!!
Losing my. Mind. But I hope it goes well.
The kits seem popular already so, if those sell out, I will add more!
I have some early bird specials on the kits so please take a look!
Good morning! I wanted to share the project update from my Muriel bjd Kickstarter here in case any of you all are following along!
The campaign is coming to a close. I saw a few people had added multiple Muriels and, with all the color options available, I thought I'd increase the add-on quantity from 2 to 3 for the doll categories. Each doll add-on should have a maximum quantity of 3 now, so if you have been wanting to add an extra doll or two, you can! This way, you can get CMYK if you want (or any other color combo).
I've been printing my first official Muriel dolls. First, I'll finish printing the mini I'm working on, and then I will do a big version testing the other dye type. I plan to use these two as my instructional video Muriels for the kits! We'll go through assembly on each one and I'll show it using common household tools (with the option of some other things you can buy to make it faster/easier). Hopefully this will make it more accessible for those of you who aren't experienced in ball-jointed dolls (but are about to be...lol)
I thought I'd share some art of Muriel here, as some of you probably haven't seen it. It's fun looking back on these drawings and seeing how she and her misprints evolved.
Please let me know if you have any questions before the campaign ends! I will still be updating here after the campaign ends and sharing progress photos of the dolls; expect some fun printer build plate photos and lots of fun colors (unless yall order the same thing… lol).
I'm so excited to get started on these! Thank you all so much for joining me on my first Kickstarter journey.
she/her. migrating here from Instagram. Here to look at dolls and have fun. forever pro artist 😎.
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