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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
popsicle-stick
honestlyprettychill

reblog to save a liFE

jerkdouglas

Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.

Never again.

dduane

cc: @petermorwood

petermorwood

I don’t think it’s accidental that the English Cut suit seems to be worn by Mr Bond. ;->

And, though not shown on the infographic, don’t forget suits with double-breasted jackets, which have been in style for decades: here are examples from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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After the ‘70s, that style faded away until it made a return in the mid-2010s when IIRC “Kingsman” caused a real-world uptick in suits for everyday wear.

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Also NB that the Tuxedo drawing doesn’t actually show a Tuxedo, unless it’s an American terminology with which I’m not familiar. That’s a tailcoat, which has tails, is a coat and is worn with white tie.

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A Tuxedo (over here, a dinner-jacket) is in the next panel, Black vs White Tie, and doesn’t have tails, is a jacket and is worn with black tie.

Wearing the wrong thing can lead to confusion, whether accidental or snarkily deliberate.

(The link to YouTube keeps dropping off this post. If it goes away again, the clip is here. A longer version with a fuller development of what’s going on, is here.)

Interesting side-note, the tuxedo / dinner-jacket was a development of the old smoking jacket, and its name in many Continental European languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish - is still “der / le / lo / el smoking”…

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“Downton Abbey” and “Jeeves and Wooster” are good sources of info for how these looked when worn regularly at their set times of day, rather than just on special occasions as nowadays.

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster gets excellent mileage from his tailoring, wearing it properly as clothing not costume, and looks at ease in formal attire even when his only (IIRC) white-tie appearance is in the dock of a magistrate’s court.

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Even so, he seems much more comfortable (and hangover-free, mostly) in everyday suits which, though somewhat dated in details, would still look good today.

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omgthatdress

learn you some menswear

popsicle-stick
honestlyprettychill

reblog to save a liFE

jerkdouglas

Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.

Never again.

dduane

cc: @petermorwood

petermorwood

I don’t think it’s accidental that the English Cut suit seems to be worn by Mr Bond. ;->

And, though not shown on the infographic, don’t forget suits with double-breasted jackets, which have been in style for decades: here are examples from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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After the ‘70s, that style faded away until it made a return in the mid-2010s when IIRC “Kingsman” caused a real-world uptick in suits for everyday wear.

image

*****

Also NB that the Tuxedo drawing doesn’t actually show a Tuxedo, unless it’s an American terminology with which I’m not familiar. That’s a tailcoat, which has tails, is a coat and is worn with white tie.

image

A Tuxedo (over here, a dinner-jacket) is in the next panel, Black vs White Tie, and doesn’t have tails, is a jacket and is worn with black tie.

Wearing the wrong thing can lead to confusion, whether accidental or snarkily deliberate.

(The link to YouTube keeps dropping off this post. If it goes away again, the clip is here. A longer version with a fuller development of what’s going on, is here.)

Interesting side-note, the tuxedo / dinner-jacket was a development of the old smoking jacket, and its name in many Continental European languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish - is still “der / le / lo / el smoking”…

*****

“Downton Abbey” and “Jeeves and Wooster” are good sources of info for how these looked when worn regularly at their set times of day, rather than just on special occasions as nowadays.

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster gets excellent mileage from his tailoring, wearing it properly as clothing not costume, and looks at ease in formal attire even when his only (IIRC) white-tie appearance is in the dock of a magistrate’s court.

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Even so, he seems much more comfortable (and hangover-free, mostly) in everyday suits which, though somewhat dated in details, would still look good today.

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omgthatdress

learn you some menswear

popsicle-stick
honestlyprettychill

reblog to save a liFE

jerkdouglas

Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.

Never again.

dduane

cc: @petermorwood

petermorwood

I don’t think it’s accidental that the English Cut suit seems to be worn by Mr Bond. ;->

And, though not shown on the infographic, don’t forget suits with double-breasted jackets, which have been in style for decades: here are examples from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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image
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After the ‘70s, that style faded away until it made a return in the mid-2010s when IIRC “Kingsman” caused a real-world uptick in suits for everyday wear.

image

*****

Also NB that the Tuxedo drawing doesn’t actually show a Tuxedo, unless it’s an American terminology with which I’m not familiar. That’s a tailcoat, which has tails, is a coat and is worn with white tie.

image

A Tuxedo (over here, a dinner-jacket) is in the next panel, Black vs White Tie, and doesn’t have tails, is a jacket and is worn with black tie.

Wearing the wrong thing can lead to confusion, whether accidental or snarkily deliberate.

(The link to YouTube keeps dropping off this post. If it goes away again, the clip is here. A longer version with a fuller development of what’s going on, is here.)

Interesting side-note, the tuxedo / dinner-jacket was a development of the old smoking jacket, and its name in many Continental European languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish - is still “der / le / lo / el smoking”…

*****

“Downton Abbey” and “Jeeves and Wooster” are good sources of info for how these looked when worn regularly at their set times of day, rather than just on special occasions as nowadays.

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster gets excellent mileage from his tailoring, wearing it properly as clothing not costume, and looks at ease in formal attire even when his only (IIRC) white-tie appearance is in the dock of a magistrate’s court.

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Even so, he seems much more comfortable (and hangover-free, mostly) in everyday suits which, though somewhat dated in details, would still look good today.

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omgthatdress

learn you some menswear

lackadaisycats
midwinterhunt

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

narrettwist

Homie gonna share this

waffled0g

Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it

waffled0g

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If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:

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Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.

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As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.

I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

Czytaj dalej

bayokay
unboundprompts

Pirate Terms and Phrases

-> Pirate Lingo

-> A Pirate's Glossary

  • Batten Down The Hatches - tie everything down and put stuff away for a coming storm.
  • Brig - a prison on a ship.
  • Bring a Spring Upon 'er - turn the ship in a different direction
  • Broadside - the most vulnerable angle of a ship that runs the length of the boat.
  • Cutlass - a thick, heavy and rather short sword blade.
  • Dance with Jack Ketch - to hang; death at the hands of the law (Jack Ketch was a famed English executioner).
  • Davy Jones's Locker - a mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where drowned sailors are said to go.
  • Dead Men Tell No Tales - the reason given for leaving no survivors.
  • Flogging - severe beating of a person.
  • Gangplank - removable ramp between the pier and ship.
  • Give No Quarter - show no mercy.
  • Jack - flag flown at the front of the ship to show nationality.
  • Jolly Roger - black pirate flag with a white skull and crossbones.
  • Keelhaul - a punishment where someone is dragged under the ship. They are cut by the planks and barnacles on the bottom of the ship.
  • Landlubber - an inexperienced or clumsy person who doesn't have any sailing skills.
  • Letters of Marque - government-issued letters allowing privateers the right to piracy of another ship during wartime.
  • Man-O-War - a pirate ship that is decked out and prepared for battle.
  • Maroon - to leave someone stranded on a. deserted island with no supplies, typically a punishment for any crew members who disrespected the captain.
  • Mutiny - a situation in which the crew chooses a new captain, sometimes by forcibly removing the old one.
  • No Prey, No Pay - a common pirate law that meant crew members were not paid, but rather received a share of whatever loot was taken.
  • Old Salt - experienced pirate or sailor.
  • Pillage - to steal/rob a place using violence.
  • Powder Monkeys - men that performed the most dangerous work on the ship. They were treated harshly, rarely paid, and were expendable.
  • Privateer - government-appointed pirates.
  • Run A Shot Across the Bow - fire a warning shot at another boat's Captain.
  • Scurvy - a disease caused by Vitamin C Deficiency.
  • Sea Legs - when a sailor adjusts his balance from riding on a boat for a long time.
  • Strike Colors - lower a ship's flag to indicate surrender.
  • Weigh Anchor and Hoist the Mizzen - an order to the crew to pull up the anchor and get the ship sailing.



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silesianna
sassypixiestrashcan

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

solarpunk-aesthetic

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do: 

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

jellyfishdirigible

sfaira
sfaira

OC artists! Reblog this adding your characters if you like seeing other people's OC art!

From time to time I encounter complaining about how drawing oc art gives you pathethic engagement here, and I must say, my notes for OC's art are usually scarce. Everytime though there are people in the comments who love OC's! Let's connect! Reblog this with some art of your oc, scroll, check out what you like, give a follow or reblog some of those poor unfortunate souls with their traumatic lives given by artists!
Here's some of mine:

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and even if you don't have oc's but like to see them reblog anyways!
leona-florianova
meckamecha

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

cinna-bunnie

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

  1. Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
  2. Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
  3. I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

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It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

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Here's what you should set:

  • Turn off user tracking: enabled
  • Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
  • Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
  • Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
  • Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

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  • Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
  • Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

  • Allow Cortana: disabled
  • Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

  • Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

meckamecha

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

keeping for later
nearlyheadlesspeeves
chiptrillino-art

Hello! Wellcome to my sort of 2023 recap!

18 different headshots of zuko from avatar the last airbenderALT
18 different headshots of zuko from avatar the last airbenderALT
16 different headshots of zuko from avatar the last airbender. the last two slots are emptyALT
18 different headshots of sokka from avatar the last airbenderALT
15 different headshots of sokka from avatar the last airbenderALT
different headshot drawings depicting characters form avatar the last airbender. first row jee, folowed by the blue spirit, and the last two are mai and ty lee holding a fan infront of themALT
different drawings of characters form avatar the last airbender. beginning with jet, folowed by aang, yue, bato, hakoda, katara, kya, kuruk, iroh, izumi,ALT
Drawings of avatar the last airbender characters. first row. izumi, iroh, chit sang. last row. three different zukka drawings of zuko and sokka kissing in various anglesALT

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shockingly i drew more zukos then sokkas this year.... which is weird to me personally? although... i did have a sudden 'i have no clue how to draw zuko?!?!?" moment this year.

oh also..uh... i was wondering if i drew egnouth faces to make them 'turn around' and well...

animation gif puting the headshot drawings one after the other making zuko turn aroundALT
animation gif puting the headshot drawings one after the other making sokka turn aroundALT

kind of?

nearlyheadlesspeeves

Man someone give me a step by step guide on how to become a digital artist. I think art will save me. Literally.

sfaira-rebloggin

Short but genuine step by step of becoming a digital artist:

1. Get a digital art program. Krita is nice and free! Clip Studio Paint is more advanced and not free, but you can still get it as one time purchase!

2. Get a graphic tablet - it can be small and cheap first, doesn’t need to display on it’s own screen, it can be bought used, there are options!

3. Go start playing around! Doodle! Draw lines! Check out options!

4. Browse youtube for digital art tutorials, there are plenty and will help you start

5. Draw. It will take time. Hours. Years. Draw, create oc’s, worlds, studies, fanarts.

6. Post it online, preferably fanart stometimes, at most active times to gain following

Congrats! You’re a digital artist.

And if you’re worried you won’t have enough patience you can always buy a pencil and cheap paper first and start your journey traditionally. Start with things that spark joy and use reference!

Google on any step if you have doubts, you will find anwsers.

digital artist