Lady Of The Boneway

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

my partner was a TA for an intro-to-subject course in grad school. finals week rolls around and the students are required to submit this big module assignment they've had like a month to do for a decent chunk of their grade. if you've submitted everything, you'll see a summary screen with a star beside each module name showing it's been completed.

an hour before the assignment deadline, he receives an email from a student claiming they completed the assignment, but the system is not allowing them to submit. there's an image attached to the email. partner goes to open what he assumes is a screenshot of that summary page.

instead, he sees that the student has taken a photo of their laptop from about 2 feet away, with that page open. strange, but it wouldn't be the first time a college freshman has lacked the tech literacy to take a screenshot. he almost doesn't look twice at it, but he realizes something about it just feels a little bit...off. so he zooms in.

the student had CUT STARS OUT OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER and TAPED THEM TO THEIR LAPTOP SCREEN BESIDE EACH MODULE NAME. you could see where they actually had completed the first couple of modules, but the stars for all the subsequent ones were like, double the size of the first two and exactly as uneven/irregular as you'd expect if you were freehanding them with scissors.

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare.

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

Hii! Thank you for showing me your work, you've got some pretty nice stuff!

I'll give you a summary on the program/brushes and a timelapse of my latest drawing.

The program I use is Krita, which is a completely free and professional program. It looks scary and tricky when you first open it, that's why most people give up before actually understanding the basic tools. But I promise it's not difficult, and you can do everything other payed programs offer.

About the brushes: this may be surprising (or not) but I use pretty basic and simple brushes. I'm a believer that no good brush can fix lack of technique, and this is self criticism haha so if I want a certain effect, I tend to replicate it manually with basic brushes. I'm not saying I don't ever use different brushes tho, I just focus on three main ones, and I'm gonna show you:

This first one I mostly use for sketching, because it's not as sharp and it helps me create stains and shapes.

This second one is basically a hard version of the first, and I use it to both add the base colors and render them.

And the third one is the game changer. It's a blender, and it helps giving a textured oil painting effect. I use two versions of it, the first simulates brush strokes and the one beside it is perfect for soft rendering, it makes everything looks ethereal and smooth. They're both from Rad_pack, and it's probably the best brush pack I've ever got.

Also, you may notice that I love giving my drawings a traditional painting look, and most of the times I use some brushes from the packs: Memileo Impasto Brushes and ML Oil Paint Brush v1.1

And these are all the packs I have downloaded. Some of them are the standard from Krita. I don't use all of them, but they're all awesome.

And lastly, a timelapse/speedpaint! I have more timelapses on my instagram, but if you guys want me to start posting timelapses here too, just let me know

Anyway, hope this was helpful! 😁

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