The best drawing advice I can give to anyone who wants to improve quickly is to use cheap notepad paper and ballpoint pens. I know it's tempting to buy the cool fancy supplies but then you'll feel pressured to not waste them. Use garbage materials and burn through them with zero thought. Only use pen because it forces you to commit and stops you from second guessing your lines and redrawing them over and over. Learn how to use your mistakes and then learn how to get it right the first time. I took numerous art classes and nothing taught me more than buying a big pack of Bics and legal pads and sketching anything that came to mind without hesitation. Fill a few pages everyday with the first thing that comes to mind. Don't rip out pages you don't like, just flip to the next page and try again. Watch yourself improve. If you really want to be a good artist, you need to learn how to draw from the ground up without relying on quality materials.

catholicism is painfully boring in practice, but it's always drawn the most batshit insane artists and imagery making it, unfortunately, one of the cooler religions. what is jesus had a flaming heart with a crown of thorns and there was blood everywhere. what if mary was stabbed with 12 swords. what if st sebastian suffered in a homoerotic pose. many people are asking this, and more

🍉 Bashar Murad - MASKHARA بشار مراد مسخرة

From a 2021 interview with Bashar, where he explains some of the choices behind his music video for Maskhara:

[...] Meanwhile, the coffee cup reading is a metaphor of family expectations, and the pink outfits, the pink lighting and filters, and pink roses stuffed into a military tank are a nod to pinkwashing – the promotion of the queer-friendliness of a political entity to distract from human rights abuses. As a gay Palestinian himself, the latter hits close to home. In 2019, Bashar attracted global headlines through his involvement in Globalvision, an alternative concert that was livestreamed simultaneously with Eurovision in Tel Aviv – which had been plagued with pinkwashing controversy. "We didn't get the same number of viewers as Eurovision, but it still felt like we were doing something important," Bashar recalls. "Eurovision is a very queer event. It's also a musical event, so it was not just pinkwashing, it was also artwashing. As a gay artist, it was so important for me to make a statement. "They were also emphasising the fact that Eurovision is not political when it's the epitome of politics. It's different countries voting for and against each other and flags being waved everywhere. "But when it comes to Palestine and our voices, we were shut down. We were told that no, this is not a political event, this is a party and this is a happy event."

. . . continues at The New Arab (5 Mar 2021)

“Emergência” (Emergency) - “Break in case of emergency” by Colectivo da Rainha, 2011.

Lloyd Schwartz, from The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow; “Who's on first?”

[Text ID: "Do you love me?" / "Of course—; but I resent it."]

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map i made.

I live in a yaoi state 😔

guys i just got the best anon ever idk if i can post this i want to keep it framed in my inbox forever.

the problem with not voting in order to send the message that you hate all the candidates and the entire system and therefore refuse to participate is that it's completely indistinguishable, as a signal, from not bothering to vote because you think the system is great and all the candidates are great and you'd be fine with any of them. so you might want to rethink the strategy there

Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

I didn't delete my last reblog. wtf.

This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

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