Nice, Tash!You certainly have a gift for drawing!Just a few initial impressions:She seems a little too stick-like for my taste (maybe it's just me)... maybe a few more curves so we know whe doesn't have an eating disorder? Does she have arms? I can only see part of one arm.The eye on the left side looks a bit cocked. I love the eye on the right side, and if the other one looked like a mirror image of that on the right, it'd be perfect.Overall, I really like it/her/pixie/fairy/whatever...
I don't understand all the talk about "eating disorders", that's a fantasy character and doesn't necessarily have the same problems that we have in real life. It is a fairy tale, not socialistic realism.
My comment about "eating disorders" was meant as a joke to point out that the character was a little thinner than I preferred. Of course I know the drawing is not meant to be a realistic model, that would be absurd.
Yeah of course.I just get overly agitated from common conceptions of what is right and wrong. Like the "Catastrophe In Asia", I see it on news, I hear about it everywhere, its a hot topic. People on streets are approached and asked "What do you think about the Catastrophe In Asia?", "What are your feelings on Catastrophe In Asia?" - what can they answer? They'll say just what they're expected to. Its a rhetorical question which only exists to "prove" that we "care" thus making us feel hell of a lot better. Suffering is bad, good that we all agree! Now I'm only bringing this in as an example of the stabilization effect of consensus; anorexia seems to be theoretically despicable, but practically obtainable. We're making many things such big deals that they get tangled up with unrelated issues and the fear of being labeled as a supporter of unhealthy, unorthodox, etc., way of life/appearance/whatever, stops us from ever actually think through the subject, when the majority has already decided what the outcome should be. These issues are being held up to confirm the direction of the masses' thoughts and to strengthen idealism favourable for the "status quo".Was the Catastrophe In Asia devastating? Yes.Do I care? Yes.Did I know anyone who died? No.Am I really capable of fully empathizing? No.Have natural disasters occured before? Yes.Will natural disasters occur in the future? Yes.Are there numerous people who could use our help everyday but don't get as much attention as the Catastrophe In Asia? Yes.It doesn't matter if we're capable of caring and empathizing, as long as everyone assumes everyone does care and empathize. A lie becomes the truth when everyone believes in it and lives it.Doesn't it relieve your conscience when you can just say you "care" and "feel the pain", when the media has our attention focused on a single misfortune in certain moment in time, granting us freedom from our responsibility to make better choices everyday, being part of the shortsighted consumer culture that will sooner or later ruin living conditions on Earth due to our own idiocy, not because nature wipes out a fraction of us once in a while. Well, "at least I cared."
3) i have had a thing in my forever-long obsession with drawing cartoons that they are always very anorexic-looking, but i can't help it! it just seems to be the way they are, cos if i try making them fatter they look retarded.
Hmmmm. Maybe I'll take up drawing. I have a copy of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." Or is it "Left Side?"
All of this from a whimsical drawing? It seems you've been holding some of this in for a long time...
Do you think I should have left all that unsaid?
oh is she now well i think she should put up some pics then!ok i've been playing with wings today this is what i've come up withandare these wings better? i don't think i like the first one's, hmm will work on it further later...
People who don't smoke tobacco, obviously find the smoke of it disgusting, and because it is unhealthy to smoke, it is easy to bend people's mind into hating the smoke so much that it doesn't necessarily anymore stand on real grounds from the personal perspective of a non-smoker, but rather is a weapon used to drive through an "Opinion of Righteousness", that would be forced upon every individual with the help from the majority that has been aggravated into irrational heights of loathe and despise towards the smokers. Medically, smokers have no objections to this opinion, which is not the point. Whether you smoke or not, is your choice - whether you quit or not, is also your choice. If you go out to eat once a week and passively breathe small amounts of tobacco smoke, its not any more dangerous than the fact that you live in a city, so used to the exhaust fumes from motorized vehicles that you don't even realize what toxics you're predisposing yourself to daily. Medical, health reasons are not the main issue for passive smokers who have to suffer from the smoke. Channeling their aggressions via intolerance at the same time gaining security from other members of the same school and being used as a tool of a massive opinion-unifying campaign which would see the world to be best and most efficient if there only existed one type of people, with one type of personality, that only make choices that are already commonly approved, are their issues.
Have a look at this. You're not the only one here with artistic abilities....schmwubmahahahahahahaha. https://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=19pc2oI kid, I kid,DLu
I have gone through phases of drawing all sorts of things with wings (they're not really over) ... butterfly-wings, dragonfly-wings, bird-wings, bee-wings, scaled reptilian wings ... you name it =PMostly they come out as variations thereof, but if you're unsatisfied with whatever you can come up with out of your own creativity, I strongly recommend looking at some wildlife photographs and sketching some of the shapes! Nature is the best artist, after all.Nice work, though. I love your paintings, especially --- keep it up!If anyone's curious, here are some examples of my stuff:https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/gift.gifhttps://www.efficacio.us/kimg/draw.gifhttps://www.efficacio.us/kimg/04_11_14.jpghttps://www.efficacio.us/kimg/drawing..gif (can you see the saxophone?)https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/fairisfoulandfoulisfair.jpg
what is this saxophone you speak of....can't find it
ok this is really rough, but a non-just standing one!https://tinypic.com/1e7wj4