2/2 braincells active

"Marcia and Sarah"

source: Girls' Night Out, photographed by Chloe Atkins

Dykes on bikes! (Yearning to kiss)

- by me, do not reupload

WE’RE BALLPLAYERS, CARSON. WE’RE FAMOUS. EVERYONE WANTS US.

this is less of a tip and more of just an explanation HAHA but i reference collage edits all the time for layout ideas!! they kinda just come up in my explore page, but here r some keywords u can search

y2k edit

collage

graphic poster

fashion edit

lookbook

this is some of the stuff i look for to get ideas!!

n then when i go to draw, i usually work around one key drawing like this:

and use shapes to guide where i want space to be filled/left alone!! n then i just slap random things that r fun to draw in there to fill those spaces

the site is

But! Not Sargent’s portraits!! In his portraits, you often can’t even see the subject’s whole face, like in the 4th and 5th paintings above and in this one here (The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (ID in alt text)):

Edward Darley Boit spent a lot of money to have his daughters painted, but I still have no idea what that girl leaning on the vase looks like! Despite that, I’ve learned things about her. Between her and her sisters, she’s probably the introvert: she’s hiding her face and wearing darker colors than her younger siblings. Almost certainly none of these girls enjoyed sitting for this painting, but she’s the only one who looks like she doesn’t even want to be there.