So When Straight People Ask Me Why I Say I’m “queer” Or “gay” Instead Of Sharing My Actual

a boy, a small town, a key.

Character, Setting, Object Prompt

A snow fairy, a river, a lost treasure

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

heres my advice to any followers i have who are young. Don't delete things when you think you've outgrown them or they're cringy. If you make youtube videos just private them don't delete them. Save your files, you can bury them in multiple sub-folders if you think they're cringe now but DON'T DELETE THEM! It doesn't feel like it now but years in the future you will look back fondly at who you were and wish you still had those things.

USEFUL MATERIALS

sketchbook

pencil set

waterproof fineliners

white pen

watercolours

acrylics

pastels

inks

copic markers

brushes

travel brushes

gouache

oil paints

craft knife

TUTORIALS

lighting a face

add variety to faces

skin colours 

curly hair tutorial

clothes folds

draped fabric

shoes

add a glow

furnish a room 

skylines

trees watercolour

ARTIST INSPO

Breugel 

Vanitas

Rembrandt

Claude Monet

Camille Pisarro

Odilon Redon

Picasso

Van Gogh

Surrealism

Matisse

Chagall

Arthur Rackham

Andy Warhol

Tove Jansson

Peter Doig

Cornelia Parker

Grayson Perry

Damien Hirst

Tracy Emin

REFERENCE

pose creator

more pose references

sketchbook inspo

book of sketchbooks

le-dessin

Collins artist manual

Artsy

TATE youtube

National Portrait Gallery instagram

Royal Academy instagram

The art assignment

Hope this helps! Get creating x

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The first pride was a riot, more specifically a riot against police violence. Trans women like Miss Major and other people of colour paved the way for the celebration of pride today. You cannot celebrate your pride this month, or any month if you aren’t also supporting Black Lives Matter and the riots going on against police violence right now. Us white LGBTQ+ need to stand up for our black siblings and their rights, their struggles. We need to amplify their voices and show any support we can. (Edited to add links and make the image clearer)

Extensive BLM Google doc including places to donate to, education resources, etc

List of 75 things white people can do right now

Simple way to donate to the cause if you have no money to

Harvard University Free IT Courses | Resources ✨

While scrolling through Twitter, I saw some posts that highlighted some free IT courses and resources being offered by Harvard University! Harvard University offers a wide range of IT courses that are available to the public for free! Here are some of them!

1. Introduction to Computer Science - LINK

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

2. Web Programming with Python and JavaScript - LINK

This course dives more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

3. Mobile App Development with React Native - LINK

Learn about mobile app development with React Native, a popular framework maintained by Facebook that enables cross-platform native apps using JavaScript without Java or Swift.

4. Introduction to Game Development - LINK

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

5. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python - LINK

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Hope this helps someone and do check them out! 💻👍🏾💗

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent.