#living model

[melanie-cot]

#illustration #friends #living model #digital art #sketches

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[notcryingtoday]

last day of living model ! tried to draw faces cause i'm shitty at it, loved using watercolour and regular blue pen together

also why does the drawing at the right looks like castiel if he went to jail ?

#drawing #diary #living model #watercolour #castiel #guess i'm still bat at faces #the model didn't look like misha collins at all

[mochiiniko]

there was a pre-existing dictum programmed to do nothing else

#initially i thought pegtrap had a really cool design #well i still do even now but the model looks kinda goofy LMAO #referenced its pose from the pegtrap page in the fnaf wiki #also i know it + the vanni mask isnt accurate in the drawing i just drew them like that for the silly #lyrics from “this comes from inside” by the living tombstone #shoutout to astralspiff's playthrough for inspiring me to make ruin fanart (we will never forget the zoom incident of '23) #fnaf #fnaf security breach #fnaf ruin #fnaf cassie #fnaf mxes #chiimo art shenanigans

[tv-k]

2016

#chalk #chalkboard #practice #anatomy #study #living model

[mirage-en-vadrouille]

Living model class from last year. I had a lot of fun with shapes and colors.

#livemodel #drawing #living model #sketch #animation student #colored pencil

[chimaeraonwards]

no ai generated content will ever compare to the absolutely cartoonishly evil plot to cut down trees to prevent workers from striking to get livable wage.

#tree law #sag strike #wga strike #also also it can be hard to admit but the US does set some industry standards so although im on the other side of the world its concerning!! #if bigwigs at US companies are screwing out their own workers what would this mean for those producing content in other countries? #what about our own local production companies that model american production houses? #oh we cant pay you a living wage cause thats industry standard. dont believe me? here is what a writer at X USA company at X TV show earns #also if you “cant afford” to pay your creatives a living wage then maybe you shouldnt be in charge #so yeah #i think this whole strike thing will affect more than just the US #just fucking pay your creatives

[mumblo-number-five]

Blake Lively

#Blake Lively #celebrity #actress #model #celebs

[mindsynthcreations]

Rock on

#rock #bass #bassist #rock band #live on stage #nudity #hot nude #sexy breast #sexy content #ai generated #ai girl #ai nude #sexy nude #ai model #sexy pose #nudemodel

[the-chemical-feelings]

#alternative model #instamodel #transgirl #trans woman #trans lives matter #trans pride #mtf trans

[angelwngd]

#blythe doll #lisbon sisters #70s #manic pixie dream girl #girlhood #pretty little liars #vintage americana #living dead girl #lana del rey #ldr #lana unreleased #lizzy grant #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #music #the virgin suicides #off duty model #dollette #dream girl #swan song #lolita1997 #princess aesthetic #dollification #playground love #heaven on earth #americana #florida kilos #vintage #cottagecore #pawn shop blues #manic pixie dream world

[ghosthoodie]

FT.

#HIII GUYS ITS OFF THA HOOK #their new models are so dummy cute i love them #hope u guys like thisss #my art #off the hook #splatoon #marina ida #pearl houzuki #pearlina #splatoon 3 #nintendo live #digital art #nintendo #artists on tumblr #eyestrain #just in case!! lol

[notcryingtoday]

some other poses cause i love them so much

(forgvie the low quality)

#drawing #living model #diary #pastel #white pastel #black stone #not sure if it's actually called like that in english

[justdavina]

Mature transgender woman with wonderful breasts! I love her pink skirt with white top. Very classy look with her beautiful hair. To be honest I can't stop looking at her breasts...there so perfect for kissing!

#trans #transgender #transfem #queer #lgbtlove #transgenderwoman #trans pride #lgbtqia #trans community #transgirl #male2female #mtf #mtf girl #mtf hrt #mtf nsft #mtf positivity #mtf t4t #mtf trap #mtf trans #multigender #mtf pride #t4t mlm #trans lives matter #trans model #trans mtf #unisex model #spank my pussy #cisgender #gay men #gay fashion

[miumiucnt]

Miu miu, fw22

#girlbloggers #girl interrupted #girlboss #dollette #lana del ray aesthetic #lana del slay #coquette #coquettecore #girlbossquotes #black swan #miu miu #fashion model #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #live fast die young #fall 2022 #coquimbo #coquette dollete #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #2000s fashion #2000s model #balletcore #blokette

[mumblo-number-five]

Blake Lively

#Blake Lively #celebrity #actress #model #celebs