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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.

All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!

Dazai: Uses the pronoun [わたし] / 'watashi' for himself which is formal. There's this thing where people think Dazai is feminine because he uses this pronoun but the reason why people equate 'watashi' to someone feminine is because 'watashi' is more polite and softer than the other pronouns and girls and women are more socially expected to be those things.

Ends sentences with [ね] / 'ne' a lot which I think adds credence to the idea of him being a little shit because 'ne' at the end of a sentences is urging the one being spoken to to agree or give their own opinion but Dazai doesn't wait for a reply. It's like going '(insert sentiment here) right?' but walking away or keep on talking very the one you're talking to can say anything.

Also ends sentences with [かな] / 'kana' which basically means 'i wonder' or 'maybe' which I think is again, him being a mischievous scoundrel because he probably already knows what he's saying is already true or false.

Uses English words when he doesn't need to like: [レディー] / 'redi--' / (lady) ;

[スマート] / 'suma-to' / (smart)

[グッド―バイ] / 'guddo-bai' / (goodbye)

[ワオ] / 'wao' / (wow)

Chuuya: Uses the pronoun [おれ] / 'ore' for himself which is informal.

Avid informal speech user.

Ends sentences with [ぜ] / 'ze' and [ろう] / 'rou' which gives off the impression of being informal, casual, and drawling.

Also ends sentences with [よ] / 'yo' which is more casual and self assured.

Uses [だろう] / 'darou' which is less respectful than Dazai's 'ne?' and Fyodor's 'desu ne?'.

Fyodor: Uses the pronoun [ぼけ] / 'boku' for himself which is what guys usually use.

Ends his sentences with [す] / 'su' and [です] / 'desu' often which is the 'proper' way to talk, but most people don't use it as much with long sentences because you can usually forgo them and still be mostly understood.

But Fyodor doesn't really do that. So his sentences feel a little unnecessarily wordy at times, I guess? Hmmm. How do I describe this? Imagine if a person you're texting to only texted with full sentences with periods. That's how it feels like. Personally, his dialogue at times reminded me of books teaching people how to speak Japanese.

Also uses slightly fancy words like:

[しかし] / 'shikashi' and [ただし] / 'tadashi' = means 'but' but [でも] / 'demo' and [けぢ] / 'kedo' are more commonly used.

[なぜなら] / 'nazenara' = means 'the reason why' or 'because' but [だって] / 'datte' is used more often.

I don't know if this was on purpose, but if you compare how he talks when he was first introduced to how he talks now, there's a notable shift. The other characters still have similar talking patterns but Fyodor's way of talking flows a little better. He still has his other speech quirks, but they're more natural now.

It's a little unsettling.

Atsushi: Also uses the pronoun 'boku' for himself.

Polite but not overly so.

Becomes significantly less formal with Akutagawa but drops the polite tone with some other people for quick moments of small snark like with Dazai.

Exclaims [おい!!] / 'oi!!' surprisingly often. Uses '...' (ellipses) a lot.

Probably the most normal way of speaking here.

Akutagawa: Uses the pronoun [やつがれ] / 'yatsugare' for himself which is another way to read the kanji for 'boku' but people don't use it because it's long and because it has the meaning of 'servant'. The meaning sounds humble but if someone were to use that for themselves in real life, they'd probably get teased or be seen as pretentious.

Blunt. The difference between his bluntness from Chuuya's is that Chuuya's is outwardly aggressive while Akutagawa's is mostly... aggressively closed off? I don't really know how to describe it, but he doesn't use polite words or theatrics to soften his sentiments.

There's this duality to his bluntness and his more poetic prose. The dreary comparisons and metaphors he'd make sometimes sound like something I'd read in older Japanese literature.

It's probably the reason I have this headcanon of Akutagawa learning how to read via novels or him reading novels once he learned how to read. Only tangentially related but I also have this headcanon that Gin also read the bible because of her choker and well, maybe it'd be something she can have hope in while not yet having a stable situation.

Anyways. The idea that Akutagawa has the fanciest way of talking in bsd isn't really true, I think. The structures of his sentences aren't that complicated and his way of talking aren't as archaic as some think. If anything, it's pretty normal in a blunt way.

He does use some deeper vocabulary at times and he does use metaphors often though so I can see why some people would think that.

A lot of Northerners were very kind during the freeze in Texas this winter with tips on how to stay warm for people who had lost heat. This is an attempt to repay that favor for people in the Pacific Northwest and other northerly locations who are facing dangerous heatwaves without built-in A/C. My qualifications to give this advice are that I was a summer camp attendee and counselor with no A/C for many summers in humid-ass central Texas with highs over 100F basically every day. Hopefully some of it will be of use to somebody who isn’t used to the heat.

1) PUT ICE WATER IN YOUR BODY. Ice water is your best friend and the #1 way to drop your body temp. Drink more than you think you need (like, at least a half-gallon a day and closer to a gallon or more if you have to be outside doing manual work all day) to cool your insides down and stay hydrated. Have some bananas, trail mix, or a sports drink to help replace the electrolytes you’re sweating out and keep you from getting cramps, but try to have most of your fluid intake be water. I used to take a giant water bottle, fill it part way with water, and freeze it on its side so the ice would slowly melt over the course of the day and my water would stay cold longer.

2) PUT ICE WATER ON YOUR BODY. Cold water, ice, or a damp rag on your head and neck, the backs of your knees, the insides of your elbows, and under your armpits will help you cool down the best, because your blood runs close to the surface in those places. Cold packs designed for injuries or lunchboxes, bags of frozen vegetables, etc. can substitute for ice water as well. Even room-temp water will pull heat away from your body better than body-temp sweat will, especially if it’s humid, so if you don’t have enough ice, the sink, bathtub, or hose will do fine. Dipping your feet into cool water helps a ton as well if you have to sit and work and don’t want your clothes to be wet.

3) WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET SO MUCH ICE?  To make sure you have enough ice to last you the weekend, especially through a potential power failure, I recommend getting a cooler (even one of the cheap styrofoam ones is fine in a pinch) and ~10lbs of ice from the big coolers at most gas stations, drug stores, or grocery stores. Try to do this now, before anybody loses power, and store as much in your freezer as you have space for to keep it from melting. You can use it for drinking or to keep your food cold in a power failure. You can use it for a party later if you don’t end up needing it during the heat wave, but you will probably be very happy you had it.

4) AIR FLOW. Being inside a room with the windows closed is the worst possible place to be if you don’t have A/C, because glass windows create a greenhouse effect and the hot air can’t escape. If at all possible, find a shaded place outside where you can catch any possible breeze. If not, open all your windows and, if it’s safe, doors so you can get a cross-breeze. Hopefully you have window screens to keep pets and kids in and bugs out. If not, you’re gonna have to do your own risk assessment. Fans of all sizes and descriptions are your friend; ceiling fans should be set to spin counterclockwise in summer. Even if you have A/C, finding or making a handheld fan will be worthwhile for when you have to venture outside. If you aren’t in a situation where you need to conserve ice, blowing air over a cooler full of ice will give you a makeshift A/C. 

5) SHADE. You will probably immediately notice that direct sunlight is a miserable place to be when it’s super hot. Find or make a shaded location, and don’t be afraid to move around to avoid the sun as the day goes on. Stay on the shady side of the sidewalk whenever you walk someplace. Try to shade your windows as best you can without obstructing airflow using blinds, curtains, shutters, etc. especially if they’re directly in the path of the sun. Do not be a jerk to your neighbors if their shade solutions are ugly. If you can get a shade for your car windshield, I highly recommend it, as the steering wheel, dashboard, seatbelts, and even seats can quickly become too hot to touch in a sealed car and will hold that heat for a long time.

6) CLOTHING. Light-colored, loose clothing that is as close to 100% cotton or linen as you can find is your friend. It doesn’t necessarily have to be short as long as it’s breathable. You will sweat through anything you wear, so I personally prefer only wearing machine-washable stuff. Sun hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, aloe gel for sunburns, mosquito repellent, anti-chafing supplies, etc are all worth looking into if you aren’t used to spending time in the heat.

7) TIMING. Try to stay out of the sun and avoid doing anything strenuous in the middle of the day when the heat is the worst. If you have a choice, plan to be more active early in the morning and late at night when the temperature is more bearable, and take a break in the middle of the afternoon.

Here’s a graphic from the CDC about how to recognize heat-related illnesses and what to do about them. I will add to this that if it’s hot and you stop sweating, you are getting to a dangerous level of dehydration and need to drink something BEFORE you start having more serious problems.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHINICHI I HOPE NOBODY TRIES TO COMMIT SERIAL BOMBING THIS TIME ❤️❤️❤️

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