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Nyibol Dok Jok by Rachell Smith for Latest Magazine April 2022

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do NOT feel bad abt scarfing down a tub of raspberries. there is NO reason at all to ration them like other delicious treats bc they WILL mold as soon as theyre out of your line of sight

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let it be known that Android 18 has been on my team since day 1, scratch that, since the betas

I wouldn’t survive in this world if Sonicfox’s shenanigans get her nerfed again

#the life and death of a sea turtle #c18 #a18 #dbfz #i seen some crazy tech i couldn't even imagine #he been playing with her for 2 days #fucking crazy

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daily 28Nov18

#the Life and Death of a Sea Turtle #daily

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an exercise that I found here that I really like 

#the Life and Death of a Sea Turtle #daily #I need an art tag

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Imma do this dbfz tourney and hopefully it'll be just scrubs there so I can get that prize pool

#man dallas has no fgc people #hopefully I don't get blown out immediately #dbfz #guess I actually have to get in the lab for this #the life and death of a sea turtle #fgc

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I keep having dreams about this strange forest

It’s not like any other forest I know. It’s like a rainforest, lots of fronds with fat, glossy leaves, and mango trees

It grows under highway overpasses in San Francisco, between yellow stuccoed walls, and women will leave their doorsteps and pass through the forest with their aprons still on

As I was dozing off, I was walking with children there on a narrow dirt path. We stopped to look at yellow blossoms withering at their feet like corn husks

#I really want to draw this so badly

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Anybody going to PAX South?

I'm going with a friend for the entire weekend, looking for fgc crews to run with

#pax south #fgc #san antonio

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Also probably going to be me shooting out creative ideas

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#I need a creative outlet #and I miss drawing

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Anyone who knows me could tell you I’m no kind of artist. However, as a professional project manager, I frequently work with artists, and one of the most frequent challenges we end up dealing with is lost work due to technical issues, unforeseen circumstances, or just plain carelessness. I’ve seen projects that have lost dozens, in some cases literally hundreds of hours due to lost or damaged artwork needing to be redone - which isn’t great news for either a budget or a timeline!

Of course, this is an even bigger issue for artists who are working solo, since you typically won’t have anything to fall back on when things go south. Lost or damaged art may set back a big project’s timeline, but when you’re working for yourself, it can be an absolute show-stopper; most solo projects that suffer significant lost work never recover at all. So here’s a basic disaster mitigation and recovery plan that anybody with a working computer can set up:

1. Sign up for a Google account if you don’t already have one. The free version gets you 15GB of storage, which should be more than enough for your current projects unless you’re working with ungodly huge files; if you are, the 100GB version is only like twenty bucks a year.

2. Download and install the Google Drive sync client - I believe they’re calling it “Drive Everywhere” these days.

3. Set up a special folder on your hard drive that you’re going to keep all of your working files in, and point the sync client at that folder.

4. Configure your art program to autosave every 20 minutes or so. How exactly you do this will vary depending on the program you’re using - you can Google for instructions easily enough.

Blam. Now you have continuously updated offsite backups; hard drive crashes, lost media, or even - heaven forfend - stolen equipment will no longer wipe out your work in progress.

Plus, go into the web console for your Google Drive and right-click a file. See that menu option that says “Manage Versions”? That’s right: Google Drive keeps separate copies of every individual version of the file that’s ever existed (or for the past 30 days, if you’re using the free version). Unwittingly saved over your lineart two hours ago? Working file irrecoverably corrupted because your questionably legal copy of Photoshop barfed? No problem: just walk backwards through your version history until you find a version that’s still good.

Now, this is by no stretch of the imagination a particularly robust offsite backup and version management scheme - I’d certainly recommend additional measures for anyone who’s doing digital art as their regular paying gig - but it’s better than nothing, and it has the benefits that a. it requires no particular expertise to set up, and b. it’s free.

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shit university students wear that movies do not prepare you for

plaid for days

pajamas that somehow manage to be A Look

somehow it’s the shoes that do it

pajamas that have absolutely no intention of being a look

obscure club merchandise

occasional weebs

unconventional hijab fabrics

seriously im 90% sure ive seen a girl wearing a snood. mad props bro

the Classic Engineering Student Look of jeans and runners

truly original international student fashion

bizarrely put-together outfits

looking at you, law students

the hoodie + hijab combo of greatness

shoes that are 10000% impractical for university

literally anything worn by an art student

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lines, painting

#sketch #janky lines #the life and death of a sea turtle

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Introducing Character Drawcember!

This is a series of drawing prompts I designed for myself to get into a better rhythm of art production and also to think in depth about my characters. I’m posting this in case anyone else would like to work through the list too! :) I purposefully designed the workload to be relatively relaxed, since December is a busy month for a lot of people, myself included.

RULES: Use whatever of your own characters you want to use. You can stick to the same couple of characters or use all different ones. Any medium, and they don’t have to be consistent in style or technique. Basically there are no rules, just use this as a fun opportunity to work on your cast of characters. If you do decide to do this challenge, use the tag Character Drawcember!

WEEK ONE (Dec 1-7)

Sketch…

…a protagonist

…an antagonist

…an old character you don’t use anymore, and then redesign them.

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK TWO (Dec 8-14)

Sketch…

…the inside of your character’s room.

…your character as a child, adult, and senior.

…an alternate universe version of one of your characters.

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK THREE (Dec 15-21)

Sketch…

…a big group shot of your characters.

…a fake screenshot, as if your characters had their own movie

…your character’s favorite place

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK FOUR (Dec 22-28)

Sketch…

…your character in someone else’s style (credit who you were inspired by!)

…three different outfits for your character

…free day- you choose what to draw with your character

CATCHUP (Dec 29-31)

If you’re not done yet (it’s okay!!), use this extra time to finish!

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INKTOBER @desperish's The Wolf

#janky lines #the life and death of a sea turtle #don't know if that's his name or title #inktober #ink #daily

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Inktober, better late than never Drawn from this

#inktober #ink #janky lines #the life and death of a sea turtle #sketch #gotta start doing more of these