#helpful
Imagine your favorite character is the kind of person who you could go to vent out your feelings and frustrations, they will let you cry on their shoulder, and will hug you and tell you that everything will be ok
Imagine you having a terrible day, where nothing seems to go your way, and your favorite character notices and does whatever they can to cheer you up. Imagine them always being there for you on bad days.
https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy/
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How your phone documents your abortion experience and what to do about it! By: the Digital Defense Fund
Risk: receipt for payment for your abortion and/or travel in your inbox Alternative: Make an email account just for this purpose, then delete it after
Risk: period tracking app shares your data Alternative: Use a privacy-driven period tracker like Euki App
Risk: search history saved in your phone’s browser, and with your ISP (internet service provider) Alternatives: - Use a privacy-driven search engine, ex: DuckDuckGo - Install a paid VPN to hide websites you visit from your ISP - Browse with Tor or Firefox - Use a private browsing window, or delete your browser history
Risk: payment history for your abortion in a banking or payments app Alternative: use cash or pre-paid gift cards where possible
Risk: ad tracking & location tracking from apps, browser history, & social media activity Alternative: in your phone settings turn off location tracking & mobile ad ID
Risk: sensitive text messages about your abortion experience are kept forever Alternative: use an encrypted chat app, ex: Signal or Wire, with disappearing messages turned on (important!)
For detailed instructions for each of the above tips, visit: https://digitaldefensefund.org/abortion-privacy]
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Trying to draw buildings
yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.
There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, here’s the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, here’s the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
FromBlacksad(artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
FromHellboy(Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totallycustomized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and veryfiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
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Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
Not just poses, you can also do this with lighting. Playing with lights in Blender is pretty fun.
Another cool thing: http://www.makehumancommunity.org lets you generate a human model. Like a character creator in a game, but more flexible, and the result is ready to import into a 3d editor like Blender.
This was a lot shorter last time it appeared here. Reblogging for the updated tips and to save a life!
Wish you were enrolled in an intro linguistics class this semester? Starting a linguistics major and looking for extra help? Trying to figure out whether you should study linguistics and what comes after? Whether you’re just trying to grasp the basics of linguistics or you’re trying to construct a full online linguistics course, here’s a comprehensive list of free linguistics websites, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other resources from around the internet:
Linguistics Podcasts
Specific episodes:
- The International Phonetic Alphabet andvowels
- Constituency
- Gricean Maxims andpresuppositions
- Kids These Days aren’t ruining language
- Learning languages linguistically
- Phonemes andpalatalization
- Prepositions, determiners,verbs
- Morphemes and the wug test
- Why do we gesture when we talk?
- Syllables
Podcasts in general:
- Lingthusiasm
- The History of English Podcast
- Talk the Talk
- Lexicon Valley
- The World in Words
- A Way With Words
- Vocal Fries
Linguistics Videos
Modular topics:
Structured video series like an online course:
- Introduction to Linguistics(TrevTutor)
- Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham)
- Phonology(TrevTutor)
- Mathematical linguistics(TrevTutor)
- Syntax(TrevTutor)
- Another syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (Caroline Heycock)
- The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University
- “Miracles of Human Language” (on Coursera from Leiden University)
Blog posts
General
- How much do I need to know before taking intro linguistics? (Spoiler: not much)
- 28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course
- How to find a topic for your linguistics essay or research paper
- For typesetting linguistics symbols: What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (with sample LaTeX doc to download and modify).
Further linguistics resources about specific areas, such as sociolinguistics,psycholinguistics,language acquisition (first/second),historical linguistics,neurolinguistics,prescriptivism.
- How to make your own paper model of the larynx
- Teaching phonetics using lollipops
- How to remember the IPA vowel chart
- How to remember the IPA consonant chart
- IPA transcription practice
- A detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents, and sonority
- A very elaborate Venn diagram of English phonological features
- The basics of how Optimality Theory works, with coffee analogy
- Allophones of /t/, explained with internet gifs
- Several good visualizations and explanations of the vocal tract
- How to type IPA on your phone (Android and iOS)
- Various ways to type IPA on a computer
- Morphological typology cartoons
- So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.
- Types of trees: a sentence is an S,a sentence is an IP,a sentence is a TP
- A step-by-step guide to drawing a syntax tree, with gifs
- Distributed Morphology
- Garden path sentences: how they work,some examples
- Structural ambiguity and understanding people in Ipswich
- How to draw trees on a computer (TreeForm and phpSyntaxTree)
- Pronoun typology and “the gay fanfiction problem”
- The solution to violent example sentences: Pokemon
- The difference between epistemic and deontic, necessity and possibility (with bonus modals as Hogwarts houses)
- Why learn semantics? Comebacks to annoying people.
- Presuppositions,implicature and entailment, and more presuppositions in Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- Gricean maxims in Welcome to Night Vale
- Scalar implicature and a duck gif
- Giving a shit about Negative Polarity Items, NPIs explained using Mean Girls references, and a follow-up on Free Choice Items
- The lambda calculus for absolute dummies
- The Lambda Calculator (software for practising in Heim & Kratzer style)
Teaching &Academic/career advice
- Linguistics resources for high school teachers
- Teaching linguistics to 9-14 year olds
- On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics(&follow-up)
- IPA Bingo
- IPA Jeopardy and IPA Hangman
- Practising syntax trees using cards and string/straws
- Find a linguistics olympiad near you!
- Editing linguistics Wikipedia articles instead of writing a final paper that no one but the prof will read (see also wikiedu.org)
- Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe
- Figuring out if you actually want to go to linguistics grad school
- How to decide which linguistics grad school to go to
- How to look for linguistics undergrad programs
- How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk
- An extensive list of undergrad and/or student-friendly conferences - apply to one near you!
- Advice for linguistics profs on increasing enrollment and supporting non-academic careers
- Linguistics jobs - a series about careers outside academia
- Linguistic approaches to language learning resource roundup
- Will linguistics help with language learning?/Will learning a second language help with linguistics?
- The problem with “economically useful” as a reason for language learning
Further link roundups
This list not enough? Try these further masterposts:
- A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes
- A list of books (fiction and nonfiction) about linguistics
- A comprehensive list of language and linguistics podcasts, from Superlinguo
- A very long list of linguistics YouTube channels and other free online videos about linguistics
- 20 linguistics blogs I recommend following
- How to explain linguistics to your friends and family this holiday season
Y'all have you seen this????
Appreciate the fashion and please don’t look in the notes unless it’s to find people who you want to block.
- The picture test: If you can’t tell if something is a hallucination or not, take a photo! If it shows up in the picture then you have a keepsake of that crazy creepy Halloween decoration. If not it’s a hallucination (or a vampire. No, i’m kidding it’s a hallucination.)
- Is some kid in mask causing paranoia? Ask them where they got their costume. Did they make it? How did they get the idea? Focusing on the person inside of the costume will help you remember that it’s just a person!
- Avoid haunted houses, haunted hayrides, ect. Actors will not stop scaring unless it’s an emergency, and I’ve yet to find a place that teaches actors how to deal with anything other than physical injuries. (I once met a haunted house actor who said causing a panic attack meant he was “doing his job right.”)
- There’s no shame in asking friends and relatives to avoid sending jump scare videos or anything else that could cause paranoia.
- Here are some tips on how to tell if a video is a screamer.
- (from freeasthepaperburns) Boggart it! If something is making you upset, make it silly. dance with the shadows, sing to the creepies, I bet if make a fish face at the scary face it’ll be a little less scary. I know this is harder than it sounds, but I’ve gotten better at it over the time, and find it helps!
Stay safe babes!