sleepy brain dump

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!

I threw together a little rec list for fans of Murderbot :)

This is aimed at fans of the novellas and the TV show and I tried to capture various different elements of the story and characters.

Text of slides below the cut

✦ Grace Rocky Save Stars ✦

Across the vastness of space, against all odds, the most unlikely of souls find each other's savior and hero.

am i sitting in a tin can

It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.

As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.

They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.

You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.

Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.

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Anyway other than that yes all of this!! I've made a proton account and am slowly transitioning over instead of all at once - any time I log in somewhere, I change the email after and update my password manager. When I get an email from a service I try to remember to log in and change it. Takes longer overall to get rid of google than doing it all at once, but it's a lot more sustainable for me.

Also Proton imported all 16 years of emails from gmail for me, with like, three clicks. It gets all my emails forwarded so I still see stuff from my gmail address, but I'm hoping that I can slow those forwarded emails to a trickle over time.

I love you, The Crane Wives

I love you, Rabbitology

I love you, Sparkbird/Stephan Nance

I love you, The Family Crest

I love you, Hozier

I love you, Cosmo Sheldrake

I love you, Yaelokre

I love you, The Amazing Devil

I love you, Elio Mei

I love you, Fish in a Birdcage

I love you, The Paper Kites

my friend you caught me in a good mood (and happened to mention one of these posts that’s by a friend of mine and i feel warmly towards it despite what i just said) so i want to drop a short list of books you might like if you feel like You Can’t Kill Me In A Way That Matters/You Fungal Piece Of Shit can’t be replicated in “serious” literature!

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

The Cipher by Kathe Koja

The Beauty by Aliyah Whiteley

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

John Dies At The End by Jason Pargin

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Bunny by Mona Awad

The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

Against The Human Race by

Thomas Ligotti

Shots from a PHM animatic I’m doing which I’m planning to post tomorrow!

Edit: it’s now out!!

"Strangely Enough" by C.B. Colby "All Summer in a Day" by Rad Bradbury "The Veldt" by Rad Bradbury "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce [Short stories] by Paul Jennings "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett “Extinction is Forever" by Louise Lawrence "The Cyberiad" by Stanisław Lem "a good man is hard to find” by Flannery O‘Connor "everything that rises must converge" by Flannery O'Connor "Carcinoma Angels" by Harlan Ellison "End of the Game" by Julio Cortázar "Nine Stories" J.D. Salinger "The Jaunt" by Stephen King "First Love, Last Rites" by Ian McEwan "leiningen and the ants" by Carl Stephenson "The Glamour (1984)" by Christopher Priest "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory" by Raphael Bob-Waksberg "The Dark Side of Nowhere" by Neal Shusterman "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More " Roald Dahl "All Mimsy Were the Borogoves" "the bus" ( & "The Lottery") by shirley jackson "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been " Oates "Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed" Bradbury "Terribly Strange Tales" by Sechrist, Elizabeth Hough "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Red Fox Fur Coat" by Teolinda Gersão "The Red Laugh" by Leonid Andreyev "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

And that probably works every time, it must make the type of pirate guys he’s been around feel pretty triumphant to top Blackbeard. I’m sure he’s had his fair share the other way around, too. Probably like on raids, he’s got an alpha-male performance to keep up, y’know. He probably hasn’t met many “artsy outsider” types for a long time now that he’s got such a reputation to keep.

Anyway, then he challenges Stede to stab him, in the only way he knows how to initiate that kind of thing. Sex and violence go hand in hand, right? But Stede holds him and Ed giggles, he looks up and all he sees in Stede’s eyes is gentleness and concern and confusion. Then Stede asks how to take it out, he doesn’t want Ed to be hurting. He doesn’t WANT this from Ed, Ed has to “make him do it.” After all, Stede is so “fragile” and Ed is used to rough guys. Stede puts his arms around him and takes him back to his cabin to patch him up.

They finally kiss under the moonlight, Stede wants more but the second Ed pulls away so does he. He understands Ed’s boundaries and he respects them. Ed’s never had this before, usually if you want someone that much you’d pull out a gun and threaten to shoot them to get it, right? You’d take any pain just to be close to them. You couldn’t just ASK… could you?

Then Stede takes Ed’s hand and asks if that’s alright. Ed’s eyes are wide with surprise because nobody has every ASKED him before. Nobody has ever said “is this alright?”

Then he knocks on Stede’s door, and it opens and his beautiful Stede is there with tears in his eyes. And he grabs him, and he pushes him to the wall. And then… he waits. Stede looks into Ed’s eyes, across the distance between their bodies, and he waits for Ed to nod. They don’t even need words, they just need to see each other to understand. And Stede smiles, and they collapse into each other’s arms until there’s no boundaries between them.

And then Ed’s on the bed, looking up at Stede with such tenderness and feeling so safe. Stede draws the curtains closed so it’s just them, safe behind the fabric, like the blankets that Ed always seeks to hide in for comfort. And finally Ed can have what he wants, he can let someone take over, be his captain, and he can TRUST them. Ed can be fragile now, because Stede won’t break him. He’ll take care of him, and he’ll fuck him, but it will be so loving and beautiful and probably all that Ed has every wanted anyone to give him, but that he could never ever ask for before. He doesn’t even need to ask because Stede gives so willingly.

Anyway, I’m just saying that those rings on the windowsill are really important, and they’re a part of a story that we’ve seen unfolding since the “stab me” scene. I’ve no doubt that Ed has been through some rough things - but now he’s finally learning that sex and violence can be separated, and that he can have love and trust and respect and everything that he deserves 💕

First thing he does when he wakes up is "just making you some soup. Make your body better." His body that was beaten to a pulp. Some part of his subconscious is trying to save itself in there. And the fact we later learn that warmth and good food are two of Ed's reasons for living is tied into this as well.

And even moreso in the next exchange of dialogue:

Ed's subconscious: You need your nutrients now. Ed: It's poison. It's fucking poison! Ed's subconscious: All right, have it your way. I've got to get these nutrients into you.

His subconscious is force-feeding him food and warmth, describing them as nutrients, specifically to help his body recover. The repeated use of the word nutrients there made me go "Hey, wait" because some words really do just jump out of the dialogue. I double-checked and the literal definition of a nutrient is "a substance or ingredient that promotes growth, provides energy, and maintains life".

Ed may not be aware of it at the time, but his body is fighting for its life even while he's lost in the Gravy Basket.

And the thing is while the Hornighost does say a lot of stuff that sounds horrendous, it's all things that Ed has been thinking, which makes the exchange on the beach really interesting to me.

Ed: You don't feel bad about it do you? Ed's subconscious: Feeling bad isn't gonna rebuild an abdominal wall, is it? You've gotta move on, man. You've gotta move on. Or… you blow your brains out. Ed: Those are the options? Ed's subconscious: Or we could just make some soup. Ed: Yeah. Soup. Let's do soup.

Ed's raking up all the stuff he did because it's clearly weighing on him, giving all the details about all the things he did. The "you don't feel bad" about Hornigold's past actions that leads to this exchange indicates that Ed does feel bad about his own misdeeds and doesn't feel that moving on from it is a viable option.

(Semi-related: the abdominal wall line makes me think of body parts Ed has damaged that can't be rebuilt - but the crew can build a new version. They have the technology and the gold glitter paint)