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I got an ask from someone who felt timid about drawing curlier hair and wanted some advice! This is by NO means exhaustive and is mostly just my thought process for my own stylization. There are tons of resources for drawing more textured hair, so for this I just wanted to focus on curls. hope it helps!

#save #art

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canon 👍

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this is steph and solomon coded

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LOCAL MAN FORCED TO MAKE YURI

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#ur not dense! #it’s a custom leather wrist band to hang hus cane from!!

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#curtwen #owen carvour #agent curt mega #spies are forever #spies are forever fanart #saf #tin can bros #tin can bros fanart #lycas works

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ONLY $5,000 USD UNTIL ESCAPE

This family's fund only requires $5,000 USD to get them to $20,000 which is what they'll need to evacuate Gaza. $5,000 is definitely an achieve-able amount. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, share!

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Wanted to draw something quickly before the SAF concert, so here's Tatiana 💞

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Mary Kate Wiles. That’s it. That’s the entire post.

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I'm not able to go to Spy Another Day, but I've been working on this Spies Are Forever wood segmentation piece off and on since the tinlightenment campaign back in February. I swore to myself I'd get it done before the LA Spies show, and I just barely made it! I absolutely cannot wait to watch the digital ticket for this

This show has meant so much to me. It has gotten me through a few very difficult months, and I can't wait to hang this on the wall of my workshop and be reminded of a thing that inspires me.

The backer board is 3/8" red oak plywood, "Forever" is cut out of 3/8" baltic birch plywood, the "spies are" is 1/4" baltic birch plywood, and the cityscape is 1/8" marine plywood. The figures are 3/8" baltic birch, the shape of each color is cut out individually, sanded, painted, and put back together like a puzzle.

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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Did you know that Sir John Herschel, in fact, built a telescope?

(This is super rough in some places and I hope to refine it later down the line)

#TGIS IS SOOOO COOL !!

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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drawing my two fave spies 🥂

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this is so stupid

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"FROM THE BLACK BOOK?!"