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

Never again.

cc: @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.

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.

*****

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.

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.

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.

learn you some menswear

reblog to save a liFE

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

Never again.

cc: @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.

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.

*****

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.

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.

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.

learn you some menswear

reblog to save a liFE

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

Never again.

cc: @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.

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.

*****

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.

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.

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.

learn you some menswear

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.

Homie gonna share this

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

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

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.

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

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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

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!

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:

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.

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:

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

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.

Here's what you should set:

Windows Spotlight

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

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

News and Interests

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

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

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

Hello! Wellcome to my sort of 2023 recap!

ID in ALT text 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...

kind of?

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

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.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

fuuuuuuuuck

DO NOT SUPPORT AI

They will not stop unless we refuse to give them money. Do not support ai. Only human made art!

Ok, say you don't care about artists jobs. You suck, but I get some people truly don't care.

Here's why you should still boycott.

Game companies are spending less money and giving you an inferior product *and not charging less*

They are not paying aritsts anynore, but they are pocketing the saving and not reducing the cost to consumers.

So if you don't want to b boycott over artists being screwed, boycott over you being screwed.

Back in the spring I participated in a LinkedIn discussion on AI, and the moderators/AI shills were specifically promoting text-based AI. They were insistent that AI was only going to help with efficiency, take care of your emails and little things like that. My concern about tech writers and eventually creative writers (novelists, screen writers, etc) losing work was utterly dismissed. No no no, it's only going to replace the "unskilled" and overwhelmingly tedious tasks. One person actually likened me to a coal miner objecting to switching to cleaner power. I noted than since AI writing is inherently less interesting and therefore of lesser quality, his metaphor was garbage. The ethics of AI, which had been listed as a planned component of this discussion were never broached, though several of us brought up the theft of intellectual property and the mediocrity of creative work created by AI. They didn't touch on how allowing AI to fully run your inbox means you no longer have any connection to the answers you're sending out or the questions your staff or superiors have. They didn't even entertain questions on the environmental impact and water waste of AI. And they definitely didn't discuss what all the unemployed writers were supposed to do for work since big businesses are not known for supporting those they kick to the curb in the name of efficiency.

Don't support businesses that are replacing artists with AI.

That goes for every profession. AI will and does have uses - auto-marking multiple choice tests, for example - but it is NOT a viable alternative to human work.

Emails cannot be answered by machines because the question being asked can be beyond it's perview. Have you ever looked at an FAQ for a product and found it discusses nothing close to the issue you're having? That's an AI answering your emails.

You want AI to make art? It can, but it has no way to know if it's good, aesthetically pleasing or even relevant. It will inevitably wind up a broken mess the more specific you make the prompt and everything will look the same. You think a human person doesn't also have to sort through dozens or hundreds of AI generated images to find the one they like? Who's paying them?

As for audio art, like singing or dubbing, it doesn't replace a human being, say, reading aloud an audio book. It will never be able to grasp the subtleties of language to the point where it is passable as human. And who's going to teach it?

And writing? Fucking forget it. It will all sound the same, with no flair in names, dialogue, structure, verbiage or dialect. Let alone things like coloquial phrases, metaphorical sayings or slang. It's ugly, uninspired and lacklustre.

Plus, do you know what the penultimate flaw is in AI art of any variety?

IT'S FUCKING BORING.

People complain constantly about the MCU being the same thing, over and over. Quippy hero fights dark reflection of self, saves world. The more something happens, the more boring and mundane it becomes.

And you may argue human beings do this already. How many variants of Cinderella or Sherlock Holmes can one species take? Well, they ARE all different. BBC's Sherlock is unbearable, RDJ's Sherlock is a coked-up autistic, Elementary's Sherlock has a female Watson which completely alters the dynamic. They take different lived experiences and comtemporary values/desires into account during the creation process, which cannot happen with AI. AI only add to their datasets and are bound to work within them. They are not like JARVIS - they cannot learn organically and therefore are incapable of producing original work.

And if you override creatives and eliminate the human element, you lose any additional imput you could have had. Then everything flatlines. No one wants to see the same drol on a different day. And you entirely lose the nostalgia factor. Why pay for legacy and anniversary editions of something you put out the same version of every year? It becomes culturally irrelevant.

And we've already seen this homogenization take its toll, without the AI fuckery. The MCU is waning in movies because they're lifeless husks of bright colour, video games like Assassin's Creed are returning to the mechanics and narrative emphasis that actually made it popular, Game of Thrones taught tv showrunners exactly how quickly mishandling the narrative erases any and all cultural relevance.

Even other, "artless" industries need to avoid AI. We already have the Soviet Union and hideous mass-developed urban sprawl to show us how horrific gentrified and uniform architecture sucks the life out of an environment. Cars look more alike than ever, with a lack of colours and individualism. Home furnishings are increasingly washed out and bland.

These things require creativity, artistry, effort. AI is the antithesis to all of it.

Don't get me wrong - AI has its place. It CAN be useful in highly specific situations for highly specific tasks (running code and highlighting errors, for instance). But like the blockchain didn't replace money, banks or create a universal currency, AI cannot replace human effort.

new irrational phobia: naturally-occurring sandstone concretions found in France known as "gogottes"

a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:

hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.

donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society

30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants to do this with me!? Start now or whenever you can (now you procrastinators!). Challenge yourself and have fun at the same time!

Tag your posts with #Improvement Hell so everyone can follow along and see each other’s awesome artwork. I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D

What are you waiting for? START!

 Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!

[Update] There is now a sequel challenge, Draw All The Things!