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Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)

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Now there are two!

#queer art #trans art #bi art #not my art #inspiration

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You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.

#Inspiration #Not my art #The Monster of Sentan

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abstract flower garden pride wallpapers

lesbian | gay

bi | trans

lgbtq | pan

ace | aro

aroace | nonbinary

please rb if saving <3

more here

#Amazing #Not my art #Hats off to you my friend #Inspiration #Queer #Queer art

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

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 infringing copyright! 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 sites for free images <3

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Prompt: Design a decorative bottle for a potion or poison.

My potion: Draught of Living Death

#Inspiration #My art #Potion #Yes it looks like this from all angles because magic shut up #HP #Harry Potter #Harry Potter potion #Draught of Living Death #Sleeping Beauty potion #Clear as water #I liked the liquid effects

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Never thought I’d be quoting the pope, but

“We cannot keep squeezing the world like an orange” Pope Francis - Oct 2020

#Inspiration #Ted talk #My art #Oil #Environment #Climate #Pope Francis #Quote

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Shruti Kartikey on Instagram

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Denis Istomin on Instagram

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My “draw the squad” memes so far

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i’m thinking tonight about masterpieces. michelangelo looked at the sixtine chapel and saw; nothing to preserve. virgil wanted his aenid burned and forgotten; only to be saved at the behest of an emperor who thought it flattery. kafka instructed his friend to burn everything he’d ever written - too personal was it, too unfinished.

they were ignored.

instead, their work was taken and held and published and thrown to be gawked at. instead, an emperor, a pope, a friend, took from within the cavities of them their choices; their art.

tumblr rolls out post+. twitter rolls out tip jars. youtube takes half of what creators earn. on social media, there is a ko-fi or a patreon and a polished face in every bio. i show my poems to my mother and she asks if I will publish them before she says anything else. emily dickinson instructed her sister to burn her poetry.

her sister did not listen.

we are a community, says tumblr, we should give back to creators. my last poem had 50 notes. six of those were reblogs that weren’t mine. i lie in bed at 2am and stare at my bright phone screen and the way netflix’s library grows thinner and thinner. the first ad on tumblr that i can reblog is for amazon. amazon takes more than half of what authors earn.

kafka’s friend took barely finished work and hammered it into structure. he is the only reason we know of him.

my father wrote a book and a play when I was barely big enough to reach his knees. when i try to talk to him about writing, he shrugs.

no one wanted to publish it, he says. so i don’t write anymore.

i am filled with poems I have never published, books I haven’t written. There are little snippets of them scattered throughout my life. I link to my ko-fi on my tumblr.

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asked capitalism of the artist: what is art, if not for consumption? who does art benefit, if it is not consumed? why create at all if you do not market it? who are you, frothing at the mouth about someone publishing someone else’s poems? who are you to hate your magnum opus? what is art, if not in relation to its reception? if no one sees it, how is it art?

said the artist, baring their teeth: it’s mine.

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I’ve been wanting to do a thing like this for a while. Behold my amazing animu mongah skills there wow swoons

#I think this speaks for itself

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me, a writer, staring at one sentence for 10 minutes straight: i don’t know what’s wrong with you but i don’t like you

#mood #this

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Ramona Chantaf on Instagram

#Gorgeous

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here’s your reminder to let yourself create. not create ‘well’, just create. draw badly. write shitty poems. sing stupid songs. make whatever you want & have a great time doing it. that’s what creation is for. it’s self expression, not perfection

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i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh

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How To Draw A Horse by Emma Hunsinger in this week’s New Yorker magazine.