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50 Weeks of Art Improvement Challenge

This challenge is made with an emphasis on human anatomy in mind because this is something I really want to improve on. Each week, I will make a post with references I find for the theme to help get everyone started. :D

Here, you can find all the reference lists I’ve made.

Your job, if you wish to join me, is to practice drawing the topic for that week. It can be doodles, sketches, an art piece that focuses on the theme, or whatever else you can think of. 

Please join me in figuring out how to art, and tag your work each week under “50 weeks of arting” so we can find each other’s art and keep each other motivated yaaay :D

Faces - proportions

Faces - features

Faces - shading with light sources

Expressions

Human body - proportions

Torsos

Back

Arms

Legs

Hands

Feet

Hair

Standing/sitting poses

Action/fight poses

Faces ( These are important - so let’s revisit them )

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Children

Elderly

Fabric folds

Accessories - shoes, hats, bags, capes, anything you can think of!

Clothing - casual

Clothing - formal

Fashion style of your choice

Faces (Awesome! Now let’s revisit faces and anatomy again before we move on to animals!)

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Dogs

Cats

Birds

Animal of your choice

Fantasy animal of your choice

Plants, trees, and flowers

Weapons

Armor

Faces - Again!

Part of anatomy you struggle on

Poses and figure drawing

Forest landscape

Urban landscape

Underwater scenery

Different perspectives

Draw a scene from your favorite story or fan fic

Monochromatic Color Scheme

Complementary Color Scheme

Analogous Color Scheme

Triadic Color Scheme

Tetradic Color Scheme

Choose a landscape or character, and color it using each of the color schemes.

Redraw an old piece and see how much you’ve improved!

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Girls being kicked out of school for wearing slacks; 1946

*sees notsexualized female character*

*crys out of happiness for three hours, has an emotional breakdown*

honestly like lesbian culture is so iconic…it’s all stuff like farming and sitting on the couch and respecting each other

I’ve found it. I’ve found the worst thing.

You know what’s messed up? People make fun of women for reading romance novels in which men are kind, chivalrous and sexually generous to the women they love, but men watching violent hardcore porn where women choke on dicks is considered normal, and ‘shaming’ someone for it is considered more taboo than the porn itself. And women reading romance novels has certainly yet to lead to a culture where men are considered lesser if they don’t emulate the men in the pages. I wonder the fuck why.

Are there any works in the post-apocalyptic genre with post-apocalyptic librarians? People who worked in the public library and after the Bad Thing decide to stay and keep the library clean, safe and available for anyone who needs it. People can’t remove books from the premises anymore, because they’re too precious, but you can stay as long as you want and read them or copy them out–the librarians encourage making copies, so that the information can circulate beyond the physical boundaries of the library. 

After a while it becomes an unspoken reality of the post apocalyptic society that you Just Don’t fuck with the library. You don’t fight there, you don’t steal from it, you don’t allow harm to come to librarians when they have to leave the building for supplies. 

People donate food and books and paper with no expectation of reciprocity, because the librarians don’t ask for anything when you need a place to hide or information or, fuck, to read a schlocky crime novel because you need to escape reality in some purple prose. 

Los Angeles sketchwalking, part one

since it’s asexual awareness week, i wanted to draw my fav space ace <3