Chedderqueen - Chesequen

How to Ditch Amazon

Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want.  Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.

Give your puppy lots of attention and playtime

we know what you are

Bernard Black, Banphrionsa an Eolais agus an Ghrá

mar cén fáth nach bhfuil?

recent immigrant trans woman with everything wrong with her needs money to stay alive

alright everybody so ive been living off tumblr donos since like 2018 because of various terrible circumstances. finally after all these years im resolving my immigration limbo and my work permit is pending

pending means i do not have it yet. unfortunately rent and food do not pend. i just have to pay for those

ko-fi/paypal link

101/800$

699$ until goal

Realized that I haven't drawn anything spooky this season, so I drew the thing that terrified every 6 year old Little Big Planet player.

the realest LBP villain.

How I Study Anatomy

Everyone says NEVER TRACE!! THAT'S ART THEFT! Ok but we can do a little crime in the name of Learning.

Trace to learn, not to earn.

I like to take my own photos, but you can study whatever you want. Link back to original photos, and don't post copied artwork unless the artist is dead, cool with it, or both.

As always with learning, start every sketch with the intent to throw it away (trash for paper, quitting without saving for digital) This takes the pressure off and lets you make Bad Art, which is very important.

So let's make Bad Art of a Deer because I happen to have one handy

Start with a photo of your subject in a nice/neutral pose with all four feet visible. (so not like me)

Freehand copy it. Try not to stylize, focusing instead of matching proportions and pose. Don't get too detailed!

It's ok if your art looks terrible and has broken legs. I've drawn LOTS of deer so I have a leg up. Everyone's art sucks in their own eyes and here's where mine went wrong:

Either lasso-distort (recommended for beginners) or redraw a copy of your first sketch with your reference behind it (scaled to match the main body of your sketch)

Put the original and modified sketches together and compare the differences. Write it down if you want. This shows you where your eyes saw things the wrong size, so you can correct for that next time.

After learning about both deer and yourself, try freehand copying again.

Marvel at your newfound knowledge and skill!

but there's always room for improvement

You can stop here and move on to your real drawing, Or do another freehand-fix-compare cycle. I actually overcorrected my "draws heads too big" and veered into "heads too small."

Another note on tracing: Learning HOW to trace is more important than anything you could learn By tracing. Draw the Anatomy, not the outline. In real life, things don't have outlines, they have bones.

These are from the same shoot which is extra useful for consistency. The lines are minimal and follow where the animals joints are, and only important parts are drawn.

You won't know what Important Parts means right off the bat, which is where in-depth study comes in. You need to do learn the hard parts to do the easy parts right.

Next up: how to study bones and muscles.

GARTIC PHONE CHARITY LIVESTREAM FOR GAZA

twitch.tv/timsplosion

On Sunday 12 November 2023, me and 18 other pony fandom artists are taking to Twitch to run a Gartic Phone charity stream, in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians, a UK-based charity that works to provide medical supplies and protective gear to those working in and around hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank!

If your feed on tumblr or elsewhere has been anything like mine, then it's been a heartbreaking last 4 weeks - first with the awful attack on civilians on Oct 7, and then the maniacal unrestrained blitz over entire neighborhoods, over hospitals, universities, ambulance convoys that has been unleashed on a dense population with no ability to flee.

We don't know when or if a ceasefire is coming, but regardless of whether it comes tomorrow or a week from now, there are people in desperate need of medical help right now.

So let's raise money to get that help to them, let's have some fun while doing so, and let's let the levity of pastel pony pals bring some joy in a moment otherwise marred by despair. Helping me try and do that are awesome group of amazing artists, including @punkitt-is-here, @thedenofravenpuff, @thebirdgang, @fizzlefer, @poxyboxy, @falloutfurret, @pastacrylic, @amynewblue, @notfocks, @melodymelancholyart, @wavecipher, @malachimoet and others who aren't on tumblr so I can't tag them!

Hope to see you there!

twitch.tv/timsplosion