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happy talk shop tuesday! do you have any habits or routines for when you create? is your creative state just kind of a "go with the flow" situation or do you try to adhere to any kind of schedule or something similar?
i think my main and only routine is cleaning out the desk and giving myself some literal space. drawing is usually sporadic and rarely thought through for me but if i want to draw and my desk is a mess, i have to clean it up a bit to put down supplies or graphic tablet.
last year i had somewhat of a habit of drawing for two hours in the late evening and turning in for a day immediately afterwards. it worked really well until my schedule got changed, so now i have a lot less time for it. fingers crossed for better luck during summer break
#missing good ole times of drawing somewhat regularly i miss doodling my blorbos#very interesting ask thank you!#talk shop tuesday#inbox#.mypost
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talk shop cheeeewsday !! what are the most time-consuming/harder vs quick/easier parts of drawing for you? have these changed as you've progressed as an artist?
after giving it a thought (and remembering some of my latest wips), the most time consuming part is looking up references.
even when drawing from imagination or having a one specific photo that i was planning on following to a t, new ideas intervene and i tend to change elements or add something and that's where the search begins. could be anatomy problem, perspectives, cloths folds or some other things that is hard to pluck out of your mind and make it look believable enough on paper. stock images my beloveds, they literally have everything you could ever need in a reference, always my go to but alas, their search system it's so bad.
and using less references and pulling out ideas without one is defo my biggest progress because before that i could barely draw without something to fall back on. again, still using refs but im not limited to them.
as for easiest, id say first draft sketching and line-art but both depend on mood and complexity of a piece. blocking out shapes is fun and helps visualise ithe dea and where it will go from there. lining/inking stage is fun for its line weight and control, i just find it oddly satisfying, especially after seeing the results of "combing" sketchy lines into more coherent ones.
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Talk shop Tuesday! How do you feel about your older pieces? To make a Drawfee reference, on a scale from Karina (extremely fond of/affectionate towards old art) to Julia ("if I see it again it's going in the bin"), how do you engage with your earlier art?
i'd say it depends. my childhood drawings when i was like 4 and was drawing green cheetahs and overly specific birds from my region because i had The Encyclopedia™? love them, cherish them.
anything from middle school needs to be burned and never be seen again. mostly because of associations that come with that time but i still find some of them quite endearing (where it starred and where it's now etc etc), but id rather not look at it (:
stuff from around last 5 or so years either baffles me because how tf i did it back then, or i see too many things that i would've done differently and it holds me back from really appreciating it, or i will have very mixed feelings about it but not burn it kind of feeling. it's like looking at your old art and not recognising it?
out of all of these i engage the most with my “consciously making art” era which are these latest 5 or so years. mostly because some of it is online and they tend to circle all the time and people keep engaging with them. and it's easier to look them up rather than go out of my way to find my older albums and sketchbooks
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Talk Shop Tuesday
Talk Shop Tuesday: the day of the week where you send fan creators (fic writers, fan artists, anyone that creates things for your fandom) questions about what they do! It can be fic-specific or general but either way: send them a question talking "shop" about the things they create! You never know what you might learn!
Rules:
send asks to creators in your fandom
share this post
have fun
#talk shop tuesday#missed it last time but we're back#i'll answer those questions that were asked to me last week too
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Last Line Challenge
Rules: in a new post, show the last lines you wrote (or drew) and tag however many more people you would like
thank you @theladysherlock for the tag! here's something from recent drawing session in aggie io with edmeom (lucy and lockwood have no idea what george is talking about)
[id from alt text: digital sketch of george cubbins (Lockwood and Co books) sitting at the table and explaining something to near standing lucy and lockwood. table is covered with thinking-cloth and there're various papers and a mug on it./end id]
tags that are fully optional: @edmeom @selkyspirit @skullism @lunyselene-art and whoever feels like it
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So many of my ships are a asshole shipped with a slightly nicer asshole. One is a jerk and doesn’t care what other people think. Meanwhile the other person is giving the appearance of nice but is also an ass.
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Last Line Challenge
Rules: in a new post, show the last lines you wrote (or drew) and tag however many more people you would like
thank you @theladysherlock for the tag! here's something from recent drawing session in aggie io with edmeom (lucy and lockwood have no idea what george is talking about)
[id from alt text: digital sketch of george cubbins (Lockwood and Co books) sitting at the table and explaining something to near standing lucy and lockwood. table is covered with thinking-cloth and there're various papers and a mug on it./end id]
tags that are fully optional: @edmeom @selkyspirit @skullism @lunyselene-art and whoever feels like it
#tag game#lockwood and co#l&co#george cubbins#lucy carlyle#anthony lockwood#lockwood and co fanart#aggie.io#digital art#sketch#described#id in alt text#artpost#.mypost
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What I Want You To Know About Long COVID
Well lads, I've been suffering from Long COVID for over a year now. My life is at a complete standstill. I'm 25 years old and I'm too sick to go back to school, I can't work, I had to move back in with my parents and I'm still stuck here.
Here are just a few things I wish people knew about Long COVID, including things I didn't know myself until I got it.
COVID destroys your immune system. Yes, even if you don't have Long COVID. Are you getting sick more often now? When you get sick, does it last longer? There are many studies showing that COVID causes t cell depletion, even in mild COVID cases! T cells are how your body remembers how to fight off infections you've had before so losing those cells? Bad news.
Your initial infection can be mild and you can still get Long COVID. Right from Yale Medicine, "Most people with Long COVID had mild acute COVID." (This is also a good link for a basic Long COVID overview).
There can be a gap of time between when you "get better" from the initial COVID infection to the onset of Long COVID symptoms. Some people get sick with an initial COVID infection and never get better. Some get better and then weeks or months later start developing Long COVID symptoms. Long COVID symptoms can even fluctuate over time, can go away for months and then suddenly come back.
So many people have Long COVID and don't realize it. Do you feel more tired lately but no matter how much you sleep, nothing helps? Is it harder to concentrate at work or school? Can you just not think like you used to? You could have Long COVID and not even know it. Even mild post-COVID symptoms are still Long COVID.
COVID can do anything to your body. Long COVID has over 200 recognized symptoms and can affect basically any part or system of your body. There is no one mechanism or cause of Long COVID which unfortunately also means there's no one cure either.
The effects of COVID are cumulative. Each COVID reinfection increases your chances of developing Long COVID. COVID is also affecting your body in other ways, yes, even if you're otherwise young and healthy! "Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death".
Once you have Long COVID, repeat COVID infections will make your symptoms worse. "80% [of Long COVID patients] saw their symptoms worsen [from reinfection]. In 60% of people who were in recovery or remission from Long COVID, reinfection caused a recurrence of Long COVID."
There is a lot more I want to say about Long COVID but I want to keep this post at least somewhat manageable to read. Like how when COVID is contracted during pregnancy, those COVID-exposed fetuses have a 6.3-fold increased risk of motor developmental delays, or that another study found 50% of babies exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays.
You need to keep caring about COVID, for others around you and also for yourself even if you're "healthy". Everyone is at risk. And don't forget 40-60% of COVID infections are asymptomatic, which is why masking even if you feel fine is crucial. The only way right now to not get Long COVID is to not get COVID in the first place. It's not too late, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! I know it's easy to get distracted by things in your life that seem more real than the possibility of getting sick some time in the future, and the peer pressure to not mask can be intense. But it only feels less real or less important until your entire life is having Long COVID. Trust me.
I know this is a complicated issue, many people can't afford to stay home when sick even if they want to because of their jobs, there are disgusting policies trying to ban wearing masks, but please if you can. Keep masking. Masking works, masking saves lives.
This post got a bit longer than I wanted so below the cut is a non-exhaustive list of my Long COVID symptoms and some of my experiences as one of the "healthy young people" who got "unlucky". cw brief mention of suicidal ideation.
Welcome to the Thunderdome that is my body with Long COVID. Keep in mind these are just my experiences and symptoms, Long COVID can cause any range of symptoms at varying severities.
Dysautonomia: Exercise intolerance, Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), fatigue, and heat intolerance. What do those things mean? Here's some specific examples. Absolutely terrible circulation I am so cold all the time but also, if I get a little too warm I will pass out. Eating hot food makes my heart rate spike, I sweat, my body feels heavy. Blood pooling and pins and needles in my feet when I walk. Don't even think about exercising past walking, it's impossible. I used to work out an hour a day 4 times a week and now walking up one flight of stairs makes my heart pound and I can't breathe. Can't take even just warm showers anymore or I will pass out. Heat rashes from being in the sun for 10 minutes.
Digestive issues: Honestly too many to name but: constant bloating, extreme nausea, constipation, slow motility, lack of appetite, just so much cramping and pain. I lost 18 pounds from Long COVID, as someone who was already considered underweight their entire life, and almost had to get a shunt put into my chest to deliver nutrients because I was nearly completely unable to eat. For the first 6 months of Long COVID, if I could manage 600 calories a day, that was a good day.
Histamine intolerance: Oh boy. My worst symptoms, I don't even know where to start with it. If you know Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) it's very similar. I can only eat 19 foods. If i eat a single bite of something not on that list, it's 48 hours of absolute hell. Coughing, migraines, itchy eyes, such extreme nausea I cannot even describe it, panic/feeling of doom, racing heart rate, derealization, rash, uncontrollable muscle tremors. I only learned about histamine intolerance 5 months into having Long COVID so before that, I was experiencing these symptoms nearly every single day. Terrifying isn't even a strong enough word to describe how it felt to experience all this and have no idea what it was, how to stop it, or if it would ever stop. Really dark times.
Neurological issues: More of that derealization. Inability to concentrate. Anxiety. OCD-like symptoms such as thoughts getting "stuck" in my head, repeating 24/7 completely unable to stop them, genuinely felt like my brain had cracked open and I had lost my mind. Constant dizziness like I'm on a boat.
Sleep issues: I sleep like garbage. I have insomnia, I wake up dozens of times every night and every single time I sleep I have intensely vivid dreams. I can't sleep longer than 7 hours total no matter how exhausted I am. It is exhausting. I'm exhausted, I'm so so tired.
And finally. Just. Really intense suicidal ideation. My body, my health, my entire life has been stolen from me because someone else decided my life was worth less to them than wearing a mask or staying home if they feel sick. Before I got Long COVID, I was preparing to go to South Korea to teach English, then on to a PhD in neurolinguistics, I was supposed to meet my long distance partner and had already booked plane tickets when I got sick. All of that has been destroyed.
Most of us with Long COVID are stuck in a cycle of being extremely sick, then if you're lucky you'll slowly get better over months, just to get reinfected and go right back where you started or worse. Honestly, I'm not scared of dying from COVID. I'm scared of living for a long time, suffering from Long COVID the entire time. This isn't living.
I don't know how to end this now. I'm still fighting, I'm trying experimental treatments, I'm not giving up yet. I hope everyone reading this stays healthy and well.
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Say it with me, kids, "I do not deserve this pain. I am in chronic pain due to forces outside of my control. I should not have to earn pain relief. I am good. I do not deserve to be shamed for my pain. It is not my fault."
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Lucy: Do you ever realize how infuriating you are??
Skull: No, actually, self-awareness isn’t really my thing.
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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:
"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash)
"following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you
"random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you
"For You" - you found this on the For You page
"recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post
"other" - you found this post some other way. comment how?
"reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post
"reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post
with that out of the way:
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valuable type 3 skull jar demoted to armrest
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evil depeche mode enjoy the violence
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On the meta level William died and his remains were used to make Philip, Caleb, and Hunter. On the textual level Caleb was murdered to make Hunter. In this essay on the process of creation-
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Uh, of course I have straight As!
-Agender
-Aromantic
-Asexual
-Autistic
-Anxious
-Asthmatic
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