I made a thing! I was thinking about this for a few days - because I realized that when I was young, I was also frustrated about being given the same advice over and over - without really knowing what it meant!!
Here’s 5 techniques which I have done before which have helped me grow as an artist, which are good for 5-minute warmups or just straight up challenges for your sketchbook!
Obviously, these are not the ONLY techniques - they’re just the ones I find most fun! And maybe they’re not the most ‘correct’ ones out there, but it’s better than another comic about practicing more, right?
watching teenage girls get famous, get sexualized as minors, get SUPER sexualized the second they turn 18 because now all the freaks who were sexualizing them as minors but knew to be quiet about it can be loud about it without getting in as much trouble, and then have super sexualized eras “reclaiming” their bodies is so fucking depressing
especially when they’re still like 18/19 doing the “I am going to do super sexual, clearly for the male gaze stuff for MYSELF now, it’s for ME not YOU which is why it’s on the cover of a magazine” stuff like it hurts my soul and makes me so sad for them
i’m not saying this in a puritanical ‘young women shouldn’t be sexy’ way but just watching it become a very clear public display which these girls are just replicating things forced onto them… it hurts it just hurts i don’t have deeper, more profound language to describe it. it just hurts
and i hope they’re okay and everything they’re doing truly feels like it’s for themselves and stays feeling like that.
Anytime a woman is struggling to make bills or survive and somebody suggests “start an onlyfans” it is your civic duty to make that person’s life as miserable as possible. They are vultures and deserve no mercy.
Japanese teens Mahoushozyomiuchan and Kyoppe on the street in Harajuku wearing dark fashion by Never Mind the XU, Killstar, Vivienne Westwood, Faith Tokyo, and matching Yosuke chain platforms. Full Looks