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CovenScribe

@covenscribe / covenscribe.tumblr.com

Fantasy/Horror Artist & Author, Open for asks, tag games, some requests. anti n/f/t and anti A-Eye generators. 18+ minors dni.

Obligatory message that college class is in its final 2 weeks so I wont be that active as I focus on getting my school work done but I very much love my friends here

yes my body has decided to be hell again cuz stress always makes my mystery illness(s) flare. Fingers crossed the recent mri figures it out.

So we're clear, we are well past constitutional crisis at this point, this is literally the soft coup, the only stage left is when they start ignoring the lawyer and arrest (or worse) anyone who is trying to stop them.

Of course theyre predicting a horrid tick season the season i can go out to take reference photographs

I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

never understood those futuristic/sci-fi settings where they have robot pets..... no way in hell cats are going out of business

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