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Prompt I will never do anything with: instead of being given to the Dursleys, Harry Potter is put up for adoption and is adopted by the Addams Family

Hey did you happen to see that post about indigenous brands to shop from or to support. I’m looking for it at the moment

This ask has been sitting in my inbox forever - and I’m really sorry about that - but I finally found it!!! I’m also gonna add some other links from other posts too. 

List of indigenous owned businesses 

Pendleton blankets from the Navajo Water Project

Indigenous authors to add to your bookshelf

This isn’t really for shopping, these are just a good list of links to donate to to help multiple indigenous communities in the face of COVID 19

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I wrote a song about my college experience 🌶🌶🌶👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥

ERASE the plot of the whole series from your minds. they’re living a calm regular life and have their own jayviks to obsess over.

Griffin’s resume of the future

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”

NOT JIF,

GIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

Also

Dont fucking get ur info from kiwifarms. Ever. They celebrate the suicides they caused for lgbt people and mentally ill people. They spread misinformation or just straight up lie. Dont EVER. Get your information from Kiwifarms. Please reblog this bc i have experienced first hand how this website can ruin someone's life or worse.

I imagine you've already received an ask like this, but...would you happen to have any anatomy tips? The way you draw the human body is just 👌 *chef's kiss*

I am so sorry about the late reply! I sometimes forget i own Tumblr lol. However, thank you so much!

I could spend the following 40 minutes talking and writing and giving advice about anatomy, even if I too stll have a LOT to learn and practice, I actually never studied it professionally, mostly just on my own, through tries and tries and tries. It starts from the fascination with the human body, the way it moves, the way skin wraps around muscles and bones and creates lights and shadows and how it conveys dynamics effortlessly when moving. My advice, is to always look for the beauty of it: go on Pinterest (which is your best friend as an artist) and look through anatomy and poses references images, pick the ones that attract your eyes the most and STUDY why it attracts you.

Look at the body you are seeing, then visualize the major masses in it, the volumes it has, the head, the torso, the legs - I’m finding out more and more myself that it all revolves around volumes, curves, perspective. Idk if you’ve ever had the chance to.... sculpture anything, with clay or even digitally (Blender, ZBrush etc), but that helps a lot to understand volumes and it will reflect on your bidimensional art too. Draw like you are sculting something, skillfully crafting something out of a flat surface.

Take the picture of your choosing and try to recreate it with simpler masses and volumes, just dynamic lines on paper. Start studying the muscles of an arm, or a leg, or abs. Then, everything will gradually become more natural and the pose will be clear in your mind eye. But Art is growth, and growth takes time. And lots of dedication, and love. Like a pet. Or a baby.

Beside all this, I have a huge collection of references I use almost any time I draw, even if I’m not copying it - if I have to draw an arm in a certain position, sometimes it’s enough to look at the picture of another arm EVEN if the pose is completely different. Your mind will still recognize the volume of it you need to recreate. I’d share all of it but wouldn’t ve fair to the artists I don’t even remember the name of anymore.

Personally, the anatomy references that have been useful to me the most through the years are some of the ref sheets created by Jinx-Star on Deviantart! Hope they can be useful to some of you, too.

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