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Personally I think that Telemachus permanently and irreversibly changed Athena for the better, more on that at twelve

Penelope really said “Look I didn’t wait for TWENTY YEARS, raised our son ALONE, dealt with 108 MEN PIGS only for you to come back and have imposter syndrome, BITCH” and I love her for it.

Slay queen, slay.

am I the only one who imagined it as

“No<3”

or is that just me

Let's have open arms instead!

*stab*

No..

Nobuo Terashima ♡

THIS STUPID SHOW IS RUINING MY LIFE WHAT THE FUUUUUU-- Anyways Nobu as a loteria card because I couldn't find any reference poses 💔💔

Help my family rebuild our life 🇵🇸🍉

Dear Humanity,

My name is Hazem, and I am 27 years old, living in the Gaza Strip with my wife, Nadra, who is 26 and expecting our first child. We led a simple life until the recent war devastated everything, forcing us to flee multiple times. We now live in a tent on the streets, facing unbearable conditions.

In addition to the war, I lost my father, and our home, my store, and everything we worked for were destroyed. As I prepare to become a father, I am deeply concerned about the future of our unborn child and the care my wife needs during her pregnancy.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Hazem and his pregnant wife secure a better future, organized by Hazem Alsadi

Dear Humanity, My name is Hazem, I am 27 years old, and I liv… Hazem Alsadi needs your support for Help Hazem and his pregnant wife secu

The purpose of this GoFundMe campaign is to seek financial support to:

Ensure safe conditions for Nadra's pregnancy.

Rebuild our lives and secure a stable environment for our family.

Provide basic necessities such as food, shelter, and medical care.

We desperately need your help to rebuild and provide a better future for our child. Every donation, no matter how small, will make a difference. We are truly grateful for any support. 🫂🙏

✅️ Vetted by @gazavetters , my number ( #282 )

🚨Please, don't skip‼️‼️

Very important... 💔🍉

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Donate to Help Hassan and his family get out of Gaza, organized by Mosa Salama

My name is Hassan and I am from Gaza. For ten months, I have not been able to s… Mosa Salama needs your support for Help Hassan and his fami

I am very sad because the campaign is going slowly, and I want to reach the goal, which is to reunite my family, get out of Gaza, and live in peace and security.

My children are not to blame for all of this They are visionary children. 😞💔🍉

Life in the tent is very difficult. No one can imagine how we spend the day in the tent. It is a very difficult life.

Look at the innocence of my children, yousef and Malak

the

The Devil Sprite and the

might as well

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown” ↳ "I won't let them corrupt your dream."

Hello kind souls 👋❤️

❤️‍🩹🛑🛑❤️‍🩹🚨

My name is Safaa. I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am 21 years old. I study at the university💚.

“I am engaged, and my wedding date was at the end of December 2023. I was preparing for it as any girl dreams of a wonderful wedding and starting a new life. But unfortunately I lost all that in the blink of an eye. But my dream remained to have a wedding after survival and to travel with my family And my fiance .”

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Donate to Help Safaa Family to travel to a safe place, organized by Safaa Yasser

Hello kind souls My name is Safaa. I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am 21… Safaa Yasser needs your support for Help Safaa Family to trav

I am raising money on behalf of my family of ten (my father, mother, brothers, sister and her children 🥺Adem👶, Nasser🧒 and Baraa👧). We are trapped in Gaza and living in tents with minimal access to water, food or basic necessities. My family and I are at risk of death at any moment, if not from bombs, then from hunger, dehydration or disease.

It is embarrassing that the only glimmer of hope is that I am appealing to you to fund us. To travel and cross to safety. ❤️🍉❤️🍉❤️

I would never have imagined myself raising money from the masses for such a solution. 🙏🙏

But I will never forgive myself for not doing everything possible or imaginable to save their lives and get them to safety.❤️‍🩹

I will not abandon any of them, and I still hope you will donate and share my fundraising campaign to raise enough money to fund their evacuation.

I appreciate your generosity.❤️❤️

my family🩵💜

Fear began to overtake me... I never imagined that I would forget any of the memories of my beautiful home. I had a house in the northern Gaza Strip, in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood... a beautiful house with two floors. I return to it after every ordeal to find myself in the arms of my family, my home that had memories in every corner of it... My family's shelter has become a pile of rubble.💔💔❤️‍🩹🍉❤️🍉❤️🍉❤️🎗

Before After

A side of our meaning 💔💔

Now, my family and I are facing a difficult choice. We need to evacuate for the safety of our lives, but the cost is beyond our means. Each person requires , and without your support, our options are painfully limited.

I humbly ask for your compassion and generosity. Every donation, no matter how small, brings us closer to safety and a chance to rebuild our shattered dreams.

Please, if you can, consider donating through the link . Your kindness could make all the difference.

Thank you for standing with us in this 🥺🌹🌷

Vetted by @el-shab-hussein 🍉

Vetted link

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Donate to Help Safaa Family to travel to a safe place, organized by Safaa Yasser

Hello kind souls My name is Safaa. I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am 21… Safaa Yasser needs your support for Help Safaa Family to trav

…….character ideas

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

Tweaked Eugene’s design a bit

quick tutorial on how I shade with solid black (a lot of people ask, hope this helps)

prints | patreon  

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do you have an idea of a checklist for learning how to create digital art? like i know practice is essential, but i don't really know where to start or where to go from there. thanks so much xox

I think I can toss some stuff out here that might be of use.  Assuming an artist learning digital art starts from the beginning–owning a tablet & drawing program but not knowing how to use them–here’s an inconveniently long list of stuff that could help them.

TL;DR: 1, mess around till you’re used to drawing digitally. 2, study and create ad infinitum. 3, a bunch of tips that are pretty hard to TLDR so you should probably just go over em.  Step 2 is basically what you asked me NOT to tell you (“practice”!), but unfortunately it’s all I know how to do :,(

1) If you own a tablet that you plug into your computer (i.e., you don’t draw directly on the screen), feel free to spend a few weeks or even a month+ just getting used to it.  When you first start out, it’s really freaky drawing in one place and seeing things appear somewhere else, but trust me in that you won’t even notice the disconnect after a few months of consistent digital drawing.  I’ve been painting digitally for about 2 years now, and it’s actually slightly easier for me to draw digitally than traditionally.  [If you have a cintiq, or you use an iPad with Procreate, or something similar, then you probably don’t have to spend as much time in step 1.]

Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter how good you were with traditional drawing when you start digital; the mental disconnect you have will make it very difficult to think about proportions, values, edges, colors, etc.  You’ll probably notice yourself making mistakes that you wouldn’t normally make on paper.  Don’t worry about them, just keep drawing as you usually would.  Digital you will catch up to traditional you in time.  

For now, get used to blending colors, drawing somewhat steady lines that go in the correct direction, and fooling around with brushes and brush settings.  If you come across a brush that you like (easy to work with + pleasing results), it may help to stick with it as you continue to learn.  Digital doodles and sketches are good for this stage; though try to keep doing traditional work so your base art skills don’t atrophy.  

If you’re just starting out with Photoshop or Sai or Krita or whatever software you’re using, you’re gonna be intimidated by all the funky buttons and settings that you first see.  If it makes you feel any better, I use maybe 0.1% of the tools that Photoshop offers me.  When you start, all you need to worry about is the brush tool and control-z, maybe the eraser too.

2) Do studies as well as pieces from imagination.  You can move into step 2 as early as you please; you don’t have to wait until you think you’ve become “skillful” at digital drawing (in fact, this step is what will probably help you become the most comfortable with digital).  It’s alright if your colors are icky looking and your values are off (tip, occasionally turn the saturation of your drawing to 0 to check the values), because as long as you keep studying reality and appealing art & continually learn from your mistakes, you’ll get better. 

Always remember to study or at least appreciate the qualities of art you enjoy.  It’s the same thing that people always tell writers–you have to read a lot to write well.  You probably shouldn’t shield yourself from the influence of other artists; while you may think that this action would help you develop artistically in the manner most true to yourself, in reality the vast majority of the process of learning art will be honing in on what you find visually pleasant so that you may, in turn, express your artistic taste in your work.  If you look at other people’s art, you can pick out tiny aspects of it that you like and incorporate that into your style.  It’s a bit trickier to build a style without the “help” of other artists, though you can always turn to nature for help. On that note, I also recommend referencing nature as much as you can, because we as human beings are sort of wired to find natural designs, colors, and structures beautiful.  Look at nature for the universally beautiful, and look at art for the subjectively beautiful (i.e., enjoyed uniquely by you).

If you find yourself getting burnt out pretty quickly, then just paint/draw simple and small things for period of half an hour to 1 ½ hours a day (and switch back to traditional).  You can spend this time mapping out proportions, creating thumbnails of values/colors, drawing linework, or whatever.  Add complexity to your pieces as the months go by, and if you already have a decent foundation in drawing aim to create somewhat finished pieces after maybe four months to a year.  Please note that the second part of that sentence was something I completely made up out of my head, because I’m trying to quantify pretty unquantifiable concepts such as a “decent foundation in drawing” and a “somewhat finished” piece of art.  If you find it unrealistic, or just too easy of a goal, disregard it entirely.  It can take you half a decade to learn to make finished digital art, or you can get it down in a couple months.

3) Fun fact, there’s not really a step 3 as you stay in 2 forever, always studying and creating.  But there’s a few other things about digital art that you ought to know, so here they are:

• If your computer doesn’t make a fuss about it, I’d recommend working on a decently large canvas (at least 3000 by 3000; I personally prefer 6000 by 6000). You’ll get less defined edges and colors if you go below 1000 by 1000, from my experience.

• If you have a tablet with pressure sensitivity (you probably should otherwise digital painting is kinda hellish), go to your brush settings and set ‘transfer’ to ‘pen pressure.’  This is what makes it possible to blend.  

• If you’re having trouble matching colors while studying, you can always color pick the ref (in photoshop: bring the pic into PS and use the eye dropper tool) and compare its colors to your colors.  Some people add too much red to their skin tones, some people draw their highlights with overly desaturated colors, some people make trees and grass in their landscapes too green; whatever the case, take note of and correct errors that you consistently make.  

• Get used to using the transform/warp/liquify tools (liquify is technically a filter but you get what I mean).  They’re lifesavers for fixing proportion mistakes that you’ve only noticed 8 hours into a piece. 

• Give layers a shot.  I only work on one layer, but I’ve heard from people who divide their piece up into multiple layers that they’re damn useful (until you draw on the wrong one). 

• Flip your canvas horizontally every once in a while to make sure stuff hasn’t gone awry. 

• Screw around with color modes; they can do some really fancy things that are difficult to duplicate with normal digital painting, let alone traditional.  On the topic of colors, don’t be afraid to use somewhat desaturated colors (near the center of the color picker square in PS). There are some very aesthetically pleasing color combinations that you can make out of somewhat dulled colors.

• If you’re using PS, bind ‘step backward’ to control Z, not ‘undo.’  This is under keyboard shortcuts.  Set up a bunch of shortcuts that are the most convenient for you–personally, I only keep my left hand near the lower left region of my keyboard (my right hand is away from the keyboard and off to the right, drawing on the tablet), so I have all of my necessary shortcuts in that area.

This was a bit longer than I expected, but I figure that someone out there can get something out of it.  Cheers to you, if you do.

Glory fades

Prints • My IG (@ vetyyr)

Commissioned illustration for an upcoming artist residency program—Gothe Residency of the Arts!

(Many thanks to Vincent for giving me the banger prompt of "dark academia androgynous person + Borzoi")

THE CHARIOT

Commissioned tarot illustration for @steel-princess! This piece was insanely fun to paint <3

If you'd like to reach out/inquire about a commission, contact silverthegold@gmail.com >:)

That was nearly fifty years ago, and I have never seen indigo again.

A personal piece in between commissions. See: “Altered States” by Oliver Sacks.

Guess who found a new favorite artist

DnD Commission <3

Illustration of a DnD character for @elderidgeart! His name is Leland, he's a dark elf + a cult leader, and he has crippling anxiety :)

If you'd like to reach out/inquire about a commission, email silverthegold@gmail.com ... if u dare ...

I Will Be Sure When I No Longer Remember Myself

Personal piece <3

Client sketch vs. final illustration

When someone commissions me, I absolutely love getting a rough sketch/doodle of their concept—it makes the first steps of an illustration (composition/posing) so much easier.

I'll never ever judge a client for a messy sketch!! (And also, no pressure to send something like this if you'd like the artist to take the creative reins on your piece.)

Libations

Cover art commission for an upcoming TTRPG book detailing 1000 fantasy drinks. It's beautifully written and the creators put so much love into it—K!ckstarter here!

Thanks to @/httpaladin and @/clericalcleric for being so great to work with!!

Someone was talking quietly of lanterns—but loud enough to light my way.

prints here

:D

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

My fandoms and my fandom neighbors!

TODAY, August 12, 2024, The Animation Guild begins negotiations with the AMPTP to win a new contract for animation. This is a huge fight with severe stakes for the future of the Animation Industry in the US, and the guild needs your support!

TAG is fighting, Right Now, to stop exploitative practices that are weaponized against animation professionals across the globe, and working hard to ensure this industry has a future here in the states.

If you are a fan of animation, whether it's major or independent studios, eastern or western, tv or movies, we need you to get LOUD in support of The Animation Guild. The crews who work so hard to bring these works to life are struggling to pay their bills, if they can find work at all, while studio CEOs are getting multi-million dollar raises to cancel projects and gut streaming libraries.

We can win this fight, but we need public outcry and support. If you work in animation, if you've ever dreamed of working in animation, or if you just love animation, please stand with TAG and support the union effort to keep animation a viable career and a valuable medium!

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