20 | She/Her | Bisexual | Libra
The names Mazie, but I'm not really crazy at the moment, just pretty lazy.
how to draw arms ? ?
holy fuck
holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???
yes !!
but how much extend
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I NEARLY CHOKED
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finally. i can be accurate
This is too fucking great to not reblog
I give it MASCLES
BIG MACHO
LMAOOOOOO
Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:
The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!
So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:
And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:
It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting:
So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:
But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!
HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG
Licherally in the midst of drawing a guy and crying at how bad the arms are. Thanks Tumbles
I only ever saw the part where people started drawing the limbs outrageously long and genuinely wanted to know how to fix that, so I’m really thankful to see the rest.
Reblogging for my art buddies!
This is super helpful for me now :D
when tumblr is like "this post went to heaven" brother that is not where these posts go when they die
i think one of the great failures of the 2010’s social justice movement was to emphasize allyship without bringing solidarity into it
like privilege and intersectionality are important concepts, and leftists who ignore axes of oppression that aren’t strictly class-based are fucking garbage at practicing solidarity too, but when you’re focused on being a Good Ally™️ to marginalized people who are Less Privileged Than You™️, what happens a lot of the time is the Good Allies™️ treat people from those groups like another species they couldn’t possibly understand
like i’m a white cis american from an upper middle class background, i totally have my privileges and i acknowledge them, but i’m also a disabled jewish lesbian who’s talked to plenty of people from that school of allyship speaking to me as a jew or a lesbian or a woman and i find it alienating as shit. i get that people are scared of getting things wrong and lord knows i get why, but i’ll take a person earnestly fucking up over someone apologizing for the mere act of trying to understand where i’m coming from because at least the person fucking up is speaking to me human to human. it’s a lot easier to set the record straight with someone who isn’t falling over themselves apologizing for the holocaust or whatever when you’re just trying to point out that demonizing all religion when you mean hegemonic christianity throws people like muslims and jews under the bus
the emphasis on privilege and allyship at the exclusion of solidarity has also led to some vicious discourse over things that quite frankly have zero material effect on marginalized people outside of online spaces. if a bisexual woman calls herself a dyke or butch or femme or hell even a lesbian (all of which have their own histories across the queer community but i’m simplifying things for the sake of argument) what material impact does that have on me? maybe it’ll confuse straight people, but focusing on our differences and how they translate to our oppressors is just respectability politics. it distracts from what we have in common, both as women who love women and as people who all deal with the intersection of misogyny and homophobia
when you combine solidarity with an intersectional understanding of oppression, it becomes a tool to help you be a better ally and a better advocate for your own rights. when the marginalized voices you’ve been told to listen to inevitably contradict one another, an open mind and a well-developed sense of solidarity makes it a hell of a lot easier to figure out where you stand and move forward. you’ll probably still fuck up, don’t get me wrong, but if you’re operating from the assumption that you and the people you’ve allied yourself with have more in common than you do that makes you different, you’ll be better equipped to work things out human being to human being and ultimately make a positive difference when it comes time to act
I think that for every episode of bake off that has a foreign country as a theme there should be a special third judge that is just a grandma of that nationality and they should be equipped with an air horn they can toot in paul hollywood’s smug face whenever he confidently says something completely incorrect about a bake’s construction, flavour, texture, etc etc
I don't think this goes far enough. I think we should give the grandmas guns.
I became an orb of darkness, danced to some music, and ate the building of Scientology.
There was a really big cowboy-looking dude in the coffee shop, and after a while I realized he seemed to be staring at me, and I was getting uncomfortable until he suddenly startled and came over to say "I'm so sorry, ma'am, I wasn't trying to stare at you. There is a HUGE bird behind you." And lo and behold, right outside the window, there was an absolute unit of a crow.
