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bottle caps (the ones made of metal obv)

pliers

safety pins

pull tabs (torn from drink cans)

pinch the edge of the cap and fold it towards the bottom side of the cap in one place, then do it again a second time on the opposite side

trap a safety pin under the pull tab but over the folded sides of the cap. make sure it's still possible to open and close the safety pin. you might have to slightly bend the tab in the middle to make room for the safety pin

pinch the edge of the cap and fold it towards the bottom side of the cap again in order to trap the pull tab under it

continue folding and flattening the cap until the pull tab holding the safety pin is completely trapped. unless you're very very lucky, the other side won't be perfectly round nor perfectly flat, but still! congrats! you made a diy button/pin with stuff you mostly found on the ground!

Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

I'm a learning visual artist and I've found one of the best ways for me to hone some aspect of drawing is to do timed sketches from photo references. I'm going to focus on facial expression soonish and want to cover people with various facial differences as well as the typically non-facial-difference-having models on mainstream reference sites. Any resources would be appreciated--even just non-art-focused websites with lots of neutral/positive photos of people with facial differences that I can sketch!

Thanks for all the work you do!

Hello!

The closest one to what you describe is probably Positive Exposure, which aims to photograph and portray all kinds of disabled people (not just visibly disabled) in a less medicalized/dehumanizing way. If you know which conditions cause facial differences then you can go through their albums and pick some of them out - there's a ton of them. The one I linked goes to their ichthyosis shoot.

Here are some other photo resources I do know of, but just be aware they might be underwhelming for what you're looking for;

Portrait Positive - focuses on women with facial and bodily differences;

HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? - focuses on people with large birthmarks;

Here I Am - focuses on adults and seniors with Down Syndrome;

About Face - focuses on people with various kinds of facial paralysis, mostly Bell's palsy

Classic Stock Photo Website - exactly what it says.

These are video resources, obviously less convenient, but you can try screenshotting and redrawing a shot that you like;

#FearNoFace

I Am More Than Just Your Villain

AboutFace's Awareness Videos (unrelated to the other link named similarly)

Outside these you can always try looking for models/actors with facial differences. Some you can look up include Adam Pearson, Catrin Pugh, Austin Halls, Justin Stewart, Alison Midstokke, Loide Ndemueda, or Turia Pitt.

I hope this helps! Good luck drawing

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

It's not annoying at all! Yes I print them myself, except if it's a long comic (20+pages). In that case, I save up to get a bunch printed at a print house. I send them a PDF and they do the rest :-D

But for little zines, I always print them at my local library! My 8-page zines are made with this technique (youtube-search "single sheet 8 page zine fold" for more instructions), though I often glue the pages at the end cus I don't like them flapping open (this is an unnecessary step, I just like to do it even though it's very fickle)

I also often add a separate piece of card-stock as a cover after folding+gluing. Sometimes decorate with stickers.. and then I staple it :-D with a regular office-stapler

If there's more than 8-pages, or if I don't wanna do the single-sheet 8-page fold, I use online2pdf to put files together (in the layout-tab, pick the "Booklet (In order to bind a book)" option. Then I save that and print the pages at the library, and staple them myself.

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