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a heart is a heavy burden

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eri | 24 | she/her | menacing doodler
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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Homie gonna share this

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sometimes you just have to let yourself be a bit neurodivergent.

i hate going out, it gives me a lot of anxiety and sensory input that i dont like, and i am often forced to talk to people.

so i do this thing on more difficult days, or sometimes just for fun, where i "bring a fictional character with me". i walk and imagine Fictional Character walking next to me. they talk to me, reassure me, hype me up, whatever i need them to do.

today dean winchester came christmas shopping with me. he went over the list with me of stuff i needed to get, told me i was doing a good job every time i finished in a certain shop, reminded me to take a deep breath when i got a little overwhelmed.

and yea. its kinda silly. and i know its just me talking to myself in a different voice, but it Works! especially since all of my special interests/hyperfixations tend to be tv/movie related.

so do what you gotta do to Get Shit Done. stop holding yourself to neurotypical standards. if you need Fictional Character to tell you you're doing a good job, do it! if you need Favourite Singer to walk you to school, do it! yea it might feel silly but you're literally fighting against your own brain to get stuff done every single day. you can have a little self indulgent daydream, as a treat.

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just watched Barbie (2023) dir. greta gerwig for the first time while Very Very high with the bestie which is thee ideal mental state to experience it in my official statement is that it was very funny and clever and also very corny and cringe. it is both good and bad it is a product of itself it is a political paradox it is self-referential merchandise that is self conscious about being self-referential merchandise. i cried very hard when she first experiences the world with that old lady in the bus stop. for a movie about women's liberation it is absolutely outrageous that there were no barbie dykes but also if you've expended any amount of energy getting mad at or on behalf of the trillion dollar toy commercial well that is a very silly thing to do and you really need a hands-on hobby. have you ever tried wood carving. basically the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / there are people who have war in their countries. ignore everything i just said. none of this is important. what is important is that it was a two hour long theatre of coolty reference

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Duck Taking Flight, 2023 Chalk pastel on illustration board. 8 x 6 in. For sale! (DM me for pricing). Testing out some energetic pastel hatching on this photo of a duck I took in Confederation Park a while ago.

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