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Gave myself a little homework! It's always a challenge to keep up with good study habits when you're already balancing work and life. While this is hardly a tutorial (nowhere near enough to comprehensive I think to qualify as one), I realized as I was sketching from reference that it might be beneficial for others if I wrote down my thoughts on how I approach drawing hands.

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OKay, so i started this on the 7th might have finished it after midnight though

I had to switch from night shift to day shift to do overtime at my job, and now I have to switch back 😭

I can't even say RIP my sleep schedule, that bitch is the memory of the ghost of a resurrected corpse at this point. My sleep schedule is a revenant slowly chasing me down. Anyways! ANother pink mermaid! I'm actually really happy with this one

Mermay day 17!

day 6

I'm not super pleased with this one either D: swings and round abouts, there's gonna be 30 of these!

Also, i should have gone to bed several hours ago and i'm falling asleep again. I feel like by the end of May i'm going to be able to paint while in REM

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Oh no she looks like player 2 Blanka

Would love to make these into keychains some day. Have more im drawing and ill post them later :)

This is very urgent so please share however you can. Islam, the mom of this family in Gaza, is eight months pregnant but has a fractured pelvis and therefore cannot give birth safely. She needs a C-section, but the conditions to perform those no longer exist in Gaza. For months women in Gaza have been getting C-sections without anaesthesia. We need to get her out before she goes into labor, which could happen at any time now. We're halfway through the goal and even if everyone just chipped in 5-10 dollars it adds up quick!

Their GFM

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

if anyone has money to spare for donations, im forwarding more links for palestinian aid

CareforGaza is a nonprofit that provides direct aid to Palestine, and you can donate directly here

Operation Olive Branch is a document that lists evacuating families that need assistance, which gives information on the families, the urgency, and tracks the progress of their fundraisers

eSims for Gaza lists very clear instructions on how to purchase e-sims to keep them connected, they are urgently in demand

Here is a project that distributes feminine hygiene kits directly to Gaza

Mutual Aid Diabetes has channels set up for you to donate insulin and medication to diabetics in Gaza, as well as lists fundraisers for diabetics seeking to evacuate

please keep sharing and adding links on this site, please add more if i'd missed any, and please don't stop talking about Palestine.

Mermay day 13

After doing the pose i though, 'gosh that's familiar, have i done this pose befo--' yesterday.

Litterally yesterday. Not even 'yesterday' in the sense that i've slept sense then. It's been like 6 hours. WEll.