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Let’s hear it for lurkers

So apparently round umpty-zillion of “people are killing fandom by not commenting” is going around, and I’ve seen a few posts trashing people for lurking/viewing/reading instead of actively participating.

My journal and my fic has always been a lurker-friendly zone. I think lurkers are great and people can fight me on this. Here’s why:

We all started out as lurkers. Or at least most of us did. Come on. I’m sure some people out there must’ve jumped into fandom with both feet and started writing and commenting right away, and good for you if you did! But I sure didn’t. I lurked for YEARS. And even now, though I’ve been in fandom since before Y2K, whenever I get into a new fandom or a new social media platform, I still lurk. I hang out around the fringes for awhile to get a feeling for the place before starting to participate. Back in the mailing list/bulletin board days, it was usually recommended that people do that on purpose, watch and listen and learn the local lingo and social rules before diving in. So you know what? You are not doing anything wrong and you are not doing anything that most of the people you see out there commenting and creating and reccing things haven’t done themselves.

We all have lurker days, weeks, months …. Nobody is 100% “on” all the time. Participating in fandom (commenting, reccing, creating content, and so forth) is WORK. It may be fun work, but it still takes effort! Even if you’re sometimes very active in fandom, then you’ll have life fall on your head or the brain weasels flare up, and you won’t have the time and energy to give. Don’t feel guilty about not being able to give fandom your extra spoons. No one in fandom has a right to demand a single spoon from you that you don’t want to give.

Some of today’s lurkers may be your friends tomorrow. How do I know this? Because I’ve made friends with some of them myself! I’ve had people delurk in my comments to say hi after YEARS of reading my fanfic without saying a word. Which I am totally okay with, by the way. And some of these people are good friends today.

So, in conclusion:

It is okay to feel too shy to come out of lurkerhood in fandom until you feel more comfortable there. It is fine, in fact, if you never do.

It is okay to be too busy and have too few spoons to comment or create stuff. You still have a perfect right to be in fandom and read and reblog whatever you want.

It is okay if you meant to comment on that fic or go back and press the kudos button but never got around to it.

It is okay if you have too many accounts already and don’t want to create a new one just to comment/participate on a social media platform. 

It is okay if your personal situation (a stalker ex, controlling parents) makes it unsafe for you to create an account or comment on things.

It is okay if you can’t or don’t want to comment or do any of the other things that constitute non-lurkerhood, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for why.

IT IS OKAY TO BE A LURKER.

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What if Wash RvB hallucinated Big Bird LobCorp

#thank you random person for reminding me this exists #rvb

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Episode 3, huh?

I gave myself the limitation of drawing on a 200x200 pixel canvas. I enjoyed it! I feel rather proud of this one for the style I got out of it :)

#mythyk art #art #tmagp #tmagp ep 3 #the magnus protocol #my favourite thing about this piece? #Do You See Him :) #spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers #tmagp spoilers #alt text included #described image #if i could do better describing the image #please let me know #lineless art

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How long is an appropriate time to wait to post fanart of the latest TMagP episode?

Asking this before I post because:

I'm pretty sure it just came out today

It contains absolute spoilers for the main part of the episode

I'm still blocking the tag for myself (because I don't want to see others' character designs yet)

So! I'd like to hear the general opinion on how long I should wait before posting (and/or the appropriate tags for such posts/fanart)

#tmagp #mythyk chat #not art #the magnus protocol #no spoilers in this post #i'm just asking about Etiquette

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First sketch of the beast for you all. Maybe not accurate to the poll but I think I'll draft more.

#prompt #body horror #tumblr polls #poll #art prompt #monster generator #monster creation #mythyk art

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#srb #aiming to maximize chances of people seeing this #more votes = more creature? #maybe

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#i'm having so much fun seeing what people thing #srb #6 days left

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Q: how do you draw torsos and legs? Some people say the hands are more difficult but for me it's those things, what tips would you give for those?

I also struggle with legs, way more than I ever struggled with hands. But, every problem has a solution. In this case: skeletons and naked people.

You can trace directly off of real life bodies, but a better practice is to draw your best copy of what you see, making your measuring and line confidence stronger💪

Yeah muscle anatomy is cool, but that’s a factor AFTER learning basic skeleton structuring. Having a 3D model of a skeleton that you can manipulate helps with figuring out how the skeleton moves with muscles, but you can typically see someone’s skeleton straight through their body depending on their weight and position. Below, you can see my simplified version of what I think his skeleton is doing. You need to understand how to build a strong base to create a proper body over it.

With enough studying of how the skeleton manipulates through the muscles, you can add your own skeleton to your drawing. Knowing each layer of biological anatomy, not just simple limb by limb drawing anatomy, brings much more weight and mass to your characters.

Lots of simple studies to figure out how the bone fits into the muscle so that you don’t have any limbs anatomically clipping over eachother and breaking form

For muscles, first off, just draw lots of naked people, second, use this lemon slice shape to show the weight of flesh, along with the tension of movement along the straight line of the shape. Watch all of this dudes video but specifically this one to understand more

#reference #ref #anatomy

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I like to provide a taste of body horror from time to time. I can make it either fun or distressing. I want to go more in-depth with it and acquire whatever skill it is that makes body horror tick for me

#mythyk art #art #drawing #artists on tumblr #sketch #oc #Drew #oc:Drew #body horror

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Drawing from References with deep Foreshortening

And some practice poses:

Edit: 1/11/24 It was brought to my attention that some of the language in this tutorial read as fatphobic. This tutorial was originally written and published on DeviantArt in 2011 and I was generally unaware of these issues at the time. I have adjusted the language in the tutorial to hopefully address these concerns, though old versions may continue to circulate. Thanks for taking the time to point these things out to me. I will continue to learn and grow. ♥ Here's a few more refs with foreshortening from a larger variety of models:

#ref #reference #guide #tip #tips #foreshortening

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#prompt #body horror #tumblr polls #poll #art prompt #monster creation #monster generator

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(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

#refs #references #reference #ref #useful #helpful #tip #tips

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All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

#interesting #color #colour #art #reference #ref #neat

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So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

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Drawing made using @color-palettes neopolitan sweetheart

#mythyk art #art #drawing #artists on tumblr #palette #color palette #neopolitan sweetheart #pink #yellow #orange #oc #digital art

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you, you got games on your phone?

#hlvrai #benrey #art #mythyk art #artists on tumblr #half life vr ai #benrey hlvrai #benry #benry hlvrai #digital art #firealpaca #alt text included