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Butt wiggles

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Hannibal s1e6 "Entree" | s2e13 "Mizumono"

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Announcement I am running a 10 week long workshop with Drawing America this summer.

The classes will be every Saturday for two hours, from 9 to 11 PST,  plus assignments and reviews during the week.

The main focus is to deconstruct how I tell stories and rebuild the process going through all the steps I use to make images, strips and animations (it will be focused on the single images but the steps are the same ones I use for all my work).

We’ll go over explanations of what story is ( in my mind, my interpretation of it) basic drawing skills and tools, story development, production, style guides and ways on how you can develop yourself as a storyteller.

We’ll go over how I tell stories using space, characters, mood, points of views, scope, emotional anchor points and as many of the tools, tips and tricks I can  think of.

This is an interactive class so questions are welcomed.

This is not a visual development class.

You will develop an understanding of what you do, how you do it, why and how to channel your skills and energy into creating visual stories.

During the class and at home, you will be asked to write, sketch, draw, paint and create stories.

I will give you feedbacks and critiques.  

(Please know that I can be a little blunt in my feedback though) 

The class will be available afterwards as a series of videos on the Drawing America Website.

I hope to see you there. I am very excited about this( and nervous too!)

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#i sing in english mandarin cantonese hokkien/taiwanese japanese and malay #not well #but i can do it

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Old for you but new for me -

Source: @lily_ripley/tiktok.com

What the HECK IS THIS!?? this is soo a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e 😳

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Source: various/instagram.com

This whole thing is soo funny 😂🤣. The ref and Gable and Finn and low-key Sami..! These guys are so underrated 😭

Front and centre there's Finn and Gable just trying to survive their walk back 😩 And then there's Sami in the background just doin his own thing, celebrating, completely ignoring what's happening right in front of him 😂😂 the right corner bit though 🤣... Sami just struttin along high fiving the fans and walking right past Finn and Gable who are desperately dying on the floor.. 😭😭

#finn balor #sami zayn #chad gable #finn was definitely being a troll here

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Finn Balor

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He managed to capture such a range of emotions in his silent franticness 🥲

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Mustafa Ali: Woah! Wh-

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Shooketh.

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Mustafa Ali: I promise you I’m not like illiterate, I’m an educated man.

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The fact he feels the need to clarify though? I don’t know 🤨

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[kisses you tenderly on the lips while holding you like my lover] don’t eat any food with mold on it even if you cut the moldy part off ok?

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This is gonna sound rather conceited but I feel like it highlights an issue we have in Art.

I'm good at art. I've never had a hard time making art. I started using crayons before I could walk. Painting, Beadwork, sculpture, sketching, stippling, whatever- once I have a feel for the material, it doesn't take long to start doing what I want with it. It's been a common theme my whole life.

(Y contrast I'm awful at things like dancing, performance, sports, etc- in all things there is balance, right?)

Now, I've taught myself to use so many artistic mediums now that I KNOW how to most efficiently integrate them into the brain database. Once you really *understand* a material, it's much like memorizing the layout of your house, or flexing a muscle, or something in-between- it becomes PART of your brain in a way I cant quite articulate. But to get there involves just fucking around for a bit doing nothing in particular.

And I've found, especially in group settings, that nobody seems to be able to see you make something badly and leave you alone. Even if you say you're fine, you don't want help, you're happy, you're having fun, it's fine, they gotta ride your ass and hover.

I was at a class the other day for something I hadn't done before. The medium was one I've never used, so once the instructor told us the basics I started experimenting with weight, gravity, texture, viscosity, saturation, temperature, etc. The instructor had given enough info to know what was dangerous and what was safe, and beyond that I just wanted to absorb what I could about it.

And no insult to the instructor, but they kept checking in. Which was fine the first few times.

But then, without asking me what I was trying to do, started giving tips. That I told them I was grateful for but didn't really need just yet. If I had a question, I'd ask.

But they kept coming over. And touching my shit. And manipulating my project. And touching my hands. And using my tools. Without fucking asking.

And this happens every time. EVERY TIME. And by now I know the best way to get them to fuck off is to make something way beyond their expectations so they know I'm capable, then go back to doing what I want.

So I did. I wanted to keep having fun and learning, but instead I made something beautiful that I really didn't want to make, and wasted my time, and really didn't learn what I wanted to learn at all. I knew the formula to create a beautiful thing, so I followed that formula the same way I have a hundred times before, and didn't get to try anything spontaneous or ugly or exciting, just so I could be left alone.

And I know when I was a kid, I was aware aware people saw me puttering alone on something ugly assumed I had a special issue and treated me like I was stupid because of that. (I was neurodivergent.) And at at time I knew that I could do a neat trick for them like a trained pony and they'd go, "Oh, surely they aren't defective if they can do something like that!" And piss off.

But what if I hadn't known how to do that?

What if I hadn't been talented, or "special"?

What if I'd been just any other average kid trying to learn, and I couldn't pop something pretty out of my ass to get them off my back?

My problem my whole life has been that I haven't been allowed to make anything ugly in peace. I'm capable of beauty, so I have to make beauty, or get stepped on. And once people see what I can do, they get loud about it. "Look at this! Look what they did! We all know who the best is, don't we?". And that used to feel good, but it's tiring.

And how many people like me just wanted to play? Just wanted to have fun and experiment? Who were having fun with no goal in mind, or just took longer to learn, who gave up because of all the obnoxious helpers breathing down their neck with no way to shake them off?

How many of us are made to feel defective because we aren't doing things beautifully?

I have a lovely piece of art I didn't want to make.

I think I'm gonna frame it.*

(*I think I'm gonna burn it in my yard.)

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Little chirpy friend sitting on my garden shed, just merrily singing away this morning. Probably telling me to get better quality bird seeds next time.

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I love this scene and the way it's blowing up the internet bc to me its PROVING the importance of NC scenes but also WHY THE FUCK THEY'RE THERE. The reason these scenes need to bee included is because they show things that you wouldn't see. The characters dressed head to toe in their vulnerability, in their desire, in their love for one another. This scene is the culmination of so much pent up love, heartache, hurt, longing, and it shows. It shows what's important, not what's explicit. It has dialogue, it has intimate shots. The purpose of GOOD and WELL PLANNED sex scenes IN ANY PIECE OF MEDIA NOT JUST BL is to tell something, to show us something. NC scenes are part of the plot, and the fact that its THIS ONE everyone is talking about shows it... or maybe I'm deep in my internet bubble and I don't notice what else is going on but my point stands. This whole show is masterfully directed, and its brilliance extends to all aspects of it. This scene heals. This scene is necessary. This scene is great