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This past June 24th, two massive earthquakes destroyed various cities of the country, the first one being of 7.2 and the second one of 7.5: the strongest of our history... I don't live in Venezuela at the moment, but my family lives there! Thankfully they're fine, but the rest of the country is in shambles... (Update: there's been replicas of the earthquake all around the country... Yesterday there was a 5.2 replica...)

There's an estimate of 50.000 missing people, many of them under the debris of fallen buildings, other couple of thousands needing medical treatment...

Millions lost their homes and their families... My dear Venezuela needs help!

Please, if you know any venezuelan artists, commission them and help them! Thank God I don't need it, so please focus on other artists from venezuela! If some venezuelan artist is here on Tumblr, reblog this post with your commission charts so others can see it!

(On my Twitter, I have a lot of venezuelan artists reblogged! I want to warn you, I also have a lot of sensible images and videos from the earthquake and the aftermath reblogged on my Twitter too...)

Now, if you want to help more than one individual, here's a link to Caritas if you'd like to donate: Caritas (it's a Catholic assisting organization)

Yummy (a venezuelan private delivery company, they are offering free rides to hospitals and deliver medicine all across the country and are recollecting money to help refill medical treatments, food and any thing the affected civilians need)

(Update:) DO NOT DONATE TO THE RED CROSS!!! The venezuelan branch is compromised!!! It has direct ties with the corrupt regime, so any help you want to send to the Red Cross will be STOLEN by the dictatorship!

hi so recently there was a very strong earthquake in Venezuela that left so many people deeply affected including my family that lives there. The government obviously doesn't have the means to help its people with the current economic situation and all so I would really appreciate some monetary help as my grandpa and aunt are currently struggling, their home is barely livable at this point (theres multiple cracks in the infraestructure) and they're in dire need of basic need products (food is scarce due to the high demand) There's also some direct friends of the family that were deeply affected and I would like to help them too, any dollar or sharing helps

as venezuela is my home country, all of this hits especially close to home. thankfully, my family and loved ones are safe since they were in cities not as severely affected. however, many others have not been as fortunate and are now facing the aftermath of these events.

years of political and economic instability have left many communities with limited resources and infrastructure, making it even more difficult to respond to emergencies like this. there are reports of people who remain missing, and many families are still waiting for news about their loved ones. rescue efforts have been made even more difficult by shortages of equipment, ambulances, and other emergency resources needed to respond to a disaster of this scale.

if you're able to, please consider sharing information, supporting verified relief efforts, or simply helping spread awareness about what is happening.

here’s a link where you can donate if you can

i’ll try to get more help resources to post here!

“The Weaver’s Garden”

*coughs up blood* i-it’s… finally… done…

I have been working on this on-and-off for MONTHS. Just color correcting this took me six-and-a-half hours. I sketched Penelope months ago, modeled her loom, chair and the flower pots in Blender. Rendering her loom in Photoshop took FOREVER. Other than the cloth textures and a few rough textures I used on the floor and wall, I rendered and textured all of this by hand. The roses were completely freehanded and while I used a leafy vine brush for the acanthus, I colored each of the petals and added the veins for each one by hand. I also tried out a new soft-shading style that I think turned out nicely, rendering harsh light in a dark scene has always been a pain in the ass for me, but I really like how it came out. I also tried to mix some softness and hardness with the light, and I rendered all the garnet gems individually.

Anyway, I am relieved to be done with this. My girl here is TIRED and she needs a nap. Can someone please let her have some peace and quiet??

 I saw a trend with a reference on TikTok and decided to try making it: