Rainbow Whimsy

Listen. If your fandom doesn’t give birth to wonderfully darling abomination creatures like Longessek, what’s the point even?

I love me one long, long magic boi.

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hat-engineer

22nd

genuine art advice:

put as least amount of time into the face as possible
try not to rely too heavily on digital art "tricks"
never hone in on one area until youre almost done
if youre not having fun drawing, ask yourself why and find a solution
kill the ogre before it can get inside your house
always consider where a technique would and wouldnt work

22nd

Advice on killing the ogre will be another post.

Source: 22nd

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dadalux

Miles Johnston

starryeyedbisexual

That last MBMBAM episode title immediately fuck up anyone else? Because I laughed for three minutes before even starting the episode

(Ep. 529)

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nuredhel

gretchensinister

I need people to understand…that if you believe in paying people a livable hourly wage…most hand-knitted clothing should cost hundreds of dollars

glasurgeist

It’s absolutely wild how the same people that will champion livable wage will turn around and tell artists, crafters, and musicians “I don’t know, I just think you’re really overcharging for something that’s non-essential :/” before asking for a friends and family discounts.

seductivejellyfish

It’s a really hard journey to reprogram your mind to this idea-but clothes should be really expensive.

The attitude we have these days towards clothes, the amount we own, how cheap they are, are all a product of industrial levels of slave labor in the garment industry.

One set of clothing, if it is well made and made of good materials, should last you years and years. It is an investment. For most of the history of clothing, that’s how this worked.

A single blouse made well at a living wage should cost around $180. Get used to that. Follow indie makers. Look at their costs, at their materials, at the hours they work. Retrain your brain over and over again to recognize that Clothes. Are. Expensive. And they should be! Because you aren’t meant to be buying new clothing all the time.

(Also, please not that this comment is absolutely NOT about telling you that you should right now be buying expensive indie sustainable clothing. That obviously is not feasible for most people. It’s about building a new mindset to recognize how the world should look in a more sustainable and ethical future. And definitely to tell you that you should not ever whine about the prices for indie clothes. Fast fashion clothes that cost hundreds of dollars often do so because the price is inflated for prestige and the workers are still being paid pennies. This comment is also not about that)

twinklingray

I still wear my Grandfathers Pendleton shirts that he bought in… wait for it… 1890.
I’m sure he paid a months wages for that shirt, but it has survived generations. Anything I buy from Walmart tears in the washer within a month.
This is what’s called a poor tax.
A rich man buys a $200 pair of shoes and can wear them for a lifetime. A poor man buys a $20 pair of shoes and can wear them for 6 months at best.
Who made the best deal? Yep, the rich man who sold the poor man 80 pairs of $20 shoes for $2600 dollars in the same time period the rich man only spent $200 on his.
Living costs more if your poor.

nuredhel

Today we take cloth for granted, we are surrounded by it and it is cheap. But just a couple of generations ago it wasnt like that at all. cloth was expensive, and fine cloth even more so. there is a reason why kings and nobility wore such elaborate clothes with lots of excess cloth. They used it as a way to show off their wealth and status. Back in the late 18 hundreds the years pay for a servant maid working on the larger farms were a pair of shoes, a few feet of wool cloth and maybe a few coins if she was lucky. Making cloth was time consuming and it did require a lot of resources. If you wanted wool cloth you needed sheep, which needs to be fed and taken care off, they need a barn, they need a person who can take care of them and knows if anything is wrong with them. Then they need to be shorn at least once a year which was a tough job, no electric shears back then. The wool had to be washed which was a grand job if the sheep had been in an environment with lots of stuff which could get stuck in the wool, mud and shit the worst,. The wool would need to be combed by someone who knew exactly what she or he was doing, the fibres had to be placed in the right direction before it was spun. Spinning was also a very important process which did require skill. Then the yarn had to be dyed and often several times to get a rich colour and then it was time for the weave. Weavers were specialists and it takes time to weave good cloth. It isnt as straight forward as you may think. My mother in law worked at a factory which does produce cloth for furniture and for special dresses. She is an expert and once she got into a heated argument with one of the other weavers because she had been on a vacation and when she came back she did discover that teh other weaver had made a mistake. It was seemingly unimportant, just the wrong number of strings in one part of the pattern but she saw it immediately. The boss came and saw and the entire cloth had to be used for something else, it was useless for its intended purpose. Just a few wrong strings and cloth worth several tens of thousands had to be cut off the weave and the weave re done. Did you know that weaves were the first computers? The cards used to control the pattern of jacquard weaves were the start of programming.

And when we come to cotton and linnen the situation is the same, before people had cotton they used bog cotton which has to be gathered, cleaned and treated just like ordinary wool. Linnen comes from flax which has to be sowed, watered, taken care off during the growth season and then cut and treated. The stems has to be handled in a special manner to separate the fibres and it is very time consuming and very tough work. It is a fact that ancient cultures like the egyptians were capable of creating linnen cloth way finer than we can today and we havent yet been able to figure out just how. So cloth was a very expensive thing indeed and the techniques used to transform simple fibres into something useful both difficult and a source of status for those who did it. Today it is different, these techniques have become “womens work” and it is suddenly unimportant. I lady i knew worked with a very ancient technique which makes cloth out of fishing nets and such and it is very difficult and takes a long time. She saw some pieces of such work at a used stuff market and blew a fuse when she saw that the man who was responsible for the sale didnt charge more than just a few bucks for them. He thought it was knitting or some other “old wives tecnnique” and not worth much at all. So when clothes and stuff become mass produced and cheap the value of good work goes down, old techniques die out because so very few see any point in learning them and keeping them alive,. And that is a bloody shame the way i see it.

Source: gretchensinister

Rainbow Whimsy

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.