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I'd give anything just to have my mother hold me right now

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I've been watching The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for the millionth time. What's your favorite CN cartoon? #drawing #art #myart #artistsofinstagram #digitalart #digitalpainting #thegrimadventuresofbillyandmandy #mandy #billyandmandy #blackandwhiteart #procreate #cartoonnetwork https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEg_2tFxpi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kc696vi5cqcs

#drawing #art #myart #artistsofinstagram #digitalart #digitalpainting #thegrimadventuresofbillyandmandy #mandy #billyandmandy #blackandwhiteart #procreate #cartoonnetwork

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A warm-up doodle I did the other day #drawing #art #myart #artistsofinstagram #digitalart #dontstarve #dontstarvetogether #wendy #wendydontstarve #abigailsflower #videogameart #warmup #doodle #procreate https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEgpKTFHQl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15mfkgw3jgrma

#drawing #art #myart #artistsofinstagram #digitalart #dontstarve #dontstarvetogether #wendy #wendydontstarve #abigailsflower #videogameart #warmup #doodle #procreate

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Finally starting to show ❤🤰 #pregnancy #pregnant #firstpregnancy #babygibau #secondtrimester #🤰 #babybump #14weeks https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq--DrgFaba/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lo61remw2en8

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Baby Gibau June 4th, 2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq2-OkulwIN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c37oeut2so41

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To the ignorant fuck at work who told me that at least I know my baby will be either a boy or a girl and it won't be born transgender, I hope you now know a little bit more about the difference between sex and gender and the fact that intersex people do, in fact, exist. I don't care if my baby has penis or a vagina or neither or both because guess what!? Sometimes it's not just one or the other and that's ok. I'm still gonna love my baby and raise my baby to know that they are valid and that their genitals are nobody's business but their own. Do not come up to me and assume that being straight and cis is default and correct and that I wouldn't want my child to be trans or intersex or queer or anything that you consider to be abnormal. Being straight isn't wrong. Being cis isn't wrong. However, being anything else isn't wrong either. At the end of the day people are just people. Let them exist. Let them be. And don't ever assume that I would be relieved by the misinformation that my child can only come out with a penis or a vagina.

#thoughts #rant

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Cooking show I desperately want: Professional chefs compete to wow and astound totally amateur food critics who don’t know dick about shit. Get eliminated on totally arbitrary grounds such as “I don’t like sour cream.”

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what if we called “flat” soda “flaccid” soda instead

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sprimkle

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The life of Gordon Ramsay isn’t an easy one

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「カルピス　コラボドーナツ」

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Full time work should entitle someone to enough pay for rent, food, bills, and leisure activities. Full time work for a full life wage. You put in your 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? You should be able to afford the basic shit you need in life, no matter where you work.

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When you’re drawing without reference:

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Shorthand Google Reference Guide

I’m gonna type this up while it’s fresh on my mind because some of y’all don’t know how to use Google

SO YOU WANT TO DRAW A woman sitting in the grass.

IF YOU SEARCH: female sitting

Very vogue. Very male gaze. Good for fashion or model pictures, not very good if you’re wanting to draw a natural looking pose on a woman who isn’t a model and whose camera certainly didn’t fucking turn on by itself.

IF YOU SEARCH: female sitting pose

Arguably worse, depending on the use. My experience with “female + pose” searches is that you get a lot of IMVU and The Sims pose sets, and artists making sketch compiliations that… don’t always have great anatomy and are frequently just more stiff model poses. I do use similar searches for pinup sketches, ie, “female sassy pinup pose,” though “posing for pinup photography” and “how to pose for” will give different results if you aren’t finding what you need.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman student relaxing sitting on grass crossed legs

Closer. Still kind of staged looking. Maybe we don’t want her studying. Maybe we just want her relaxing. Still, you start to see how specific keyword searches will really get you results.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer

Nice. This is only a small handful of the results, but most of them more or less fit my mental image. Mostly stock images, but good for gesture sketches or figuring out a pose. Still… we could go further, and I think I will.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer senior photography

Jackpot. Senior pictures aren’t always awkward kids in braces. Look at how much more natural a few of these look? Compare that to the “Female sitting” search. Google Search tip #1 is basically “use more and specific keywords.” But just… one more thing I just… can’t get off my mind… what if I… just…

IF YOU SEARCH: black  woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer senior photography

Uh oh. So let me level with you, if you just google “dreadlocks,” expect a lot of white people. I spent over 30 minutes adding keywords to this search, and every page was still white people. Breaking it back down to “black woman sitting on grass” helped but gave me all the boring pose issues of the female sitting search. So basically, Google Search tip #2 is: Google image search is as White as the rest of the damn world. How do we find what we’re looking for now, then?

IF YOU SEARCH: black woman sitting in grass nature tumblr blackout

Beautiful, natural poses. Adding “photography” whitewashed it. Adding “summer” gave me bikini pinups. Searching for POC models using Google image search is infinitely more frustrating than finding a million thin white women, and you’re usually going to be better off supporting POC modeling blogs themselves than fighting with Google all day. Using “tumblr” and “instagram” as keywords may also get you a lot more natural, less Vogue Was Here hits. Pinterest too, on occasion. 

But keep in mind that these are real people–especially using tags like “tumblr” or “blackout.” There’s a difference between referencing a pose or drawing different face shapes, and outright copying someone’s exact likeness without their permission. Maybe also consider liking/reblogging/following them if they’re a model or photographer. Use some common sense. You don’t own images found on google yadda yadda don’t be a dick.

Have fun being better at search engines and learning how to draw stuff!

#art reference #drawing references #art #reference