I haven’t been posting much because my schoolwork isn’t very interesting–a bunch of fundamental stuff and drawing from life, but I’ve been drawing stuff. I may have some sketches I’ll share in a dump soonish, but I gotta say I’m very happy with how class is going so far 😀
listen i don’t know what the hell y’all are doing to your nibs that they wear down so fast you need to put spaghetti in your stylus but please don’t do that, it could break off inside the pen and mess your pen up, and it can also scratch your cintiq screen/tablet surface and that’s a lot more expensive to fix than buying a new nib
there are extra replacement nibs in your Wacom pen stand if you bought your tablet new. go find them it’s basically a lifetime supply in there
failing that, nib replacements are like $6 for a pack of 10 on amazon if you can’t afford that i’ll fucking buy you one just don’t use spaghetti aiight
“The two portraits were made with different intentions. The first one induces power, it has the military pose represented and Senros is evidently being shown as The Inquisitor, a leader, the arm on the sword and armor. It was commissioned in order to induce the idea of influence coming from the recently formed Inquisition.
The second one was an idea of Josephine as an strategy to gain appreciation from the Orlesian nobility and even lower classes. Senros is represented as a more inoffensive figure. Almost as if he was a martyr. The Herald of Andraste. It’s religious and has the symbolism of Andraste shield being embraced by him (not as a icon as its depicted in the first one). Senros has his weapons in repose and his arm has the lion engraved, symbol of Orlais as well as the diamonds in the fabric that covers him. ”
-From “The Inquisitor Path” as written by G.H. Verdahel – the copy has scribbles and a note at the bottom “Sen hated it mine was better”
Thanks for sending it I love creating these headcanons. I don’t have my coloring tools to art finalize but in a couple days I will and maybe I make non-sketchy version of this!
Something that’s not in the CODEX is that he was purposely draw with smaller ears and his skin is lighter when colored once there’s evident prejudice over elves and racism in the Orlesian court. I didn’t add the vallaslin in the first one because of it, in the second I drew it automatically but let’s say it was the “Orlesian artist” intervention. But anyways, that’s the reason the note truly says “Senros hated it”.
Things that ACTUALLY EXISTED FOR REAL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: Non-white people, mostly those of North African and Middle Eastern heritage who were immigrants, merchants, missionaries, mercenaries advisors, and scholars; female leaders, including the famed Warrior Queen Boudicca; and queer folk, seriously, Shakespeare wrote sonnets for dudes.
Things that did NOT actually exist for real in European History: Magic, faeries, dragons, wizards.
Q.E.D. The “well, there’s no black people/brown people/women leaders/gay people in this European inspired fantasy because that would be inaccurate” rhetoric is bullshit.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YESTHIS PLEASE AND THANKS
So much fantasy is set in quasi “dark ages” feudal Europe. Can we just take a sec and realize that Europe is that asshole who gets to be a continent even though he’s not really a continent. He’s the jerk who, when he has a bad day, everyone starts calling it The Dark Ages.
FYI, “The Dark Ages” were a golden age for almost everyone else. Islam was booming, spreading and gathering up classical knowledge that would have been completely lost otherwise. China was going through a golden age of its own unter the Tang empire and Song empires, during which China grew and traded so much and so widely that they ran out of metal for coins and had to invent paper money (they also invented gunpowder). And let’s not forget that, while we have relatively few written records from this region, the evidence suggests that Africa (ALL of Africa, both around the Mediterranean and in Sub-Saharan Africa) was booming as well, creating empires of their own, trading with Islamic travelers and building gorgeous goddamn cities.
During this massively diverse time period, there were gay emperors and female emperors in China, the most traveled man in the world was an Islamic scholar and one of the wealthiest men in the world was an African Muslim king.
In other words, if you want to do dark ages fantasy, you might want to use actual history as a reference, rather than relying purely on pop culture.
I’d love to see more fantasy stuff with a Muslims as the Commonplace Culture feel.
to help with dysphoria around signing your birth name, develop an illegible signature
additional benefit: if your preferred name starts with the same letter, having an illegible enough signature means not having to learn to sign a completely different first name
When I renewed my DL the first time after picking my name, I signed with my new name. If anyone complains, I can show them its my signature. No one has ever cared.
Someone once said to me, “I hope the pain eases soon.” It struck me as the purest blessing that had ever been offered over my head – I hope the pain eases soon. It’s so gentle, so kind, so hopeful. So to everyone who’s hurting: I see how hard you’re trying, and I hope your pain will ease soon.
This is so much better than Get Well Soon too for those of us with chronic illness and PDs that won’t go away but do fluctuate
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