swan born by leda

Remember that if you get stonewalled and hung up on in just 2 minutes, if enough people do that? That is a whole lot of batches of 2 minutes.

EVERY SINGLE CALL in a call center is monitored and metric measured, no matter how short. You are still ruining some middle manager's metric goals.

Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety

Smth smth petrichor

Relatedly, I think about this post in regards to this game a lot.

Reminder that we haven't actually seen any results yet.

Itch reindexing free NSFW content and Valve making a public statement are not results, they're distractions.

The *bare minimum results* is a retraction of the restrictions placed on Itch and Steam.

0.92.

new chapter - new thread

a digital sketch from an over the shoulder POV of a man pressing his cock to a cunt of a very flustered fuzzy feller, whos keeping their legs open by holding their ankles and knees bent.

a digital b&w comic page of Ghost (from C.O.D.) pounding a comrade (OC) into a small cot of a bed. Both are only partially undressed, hasty to feel each other as much as they can in the little time that they can afford to spare. the page starts with their flushed faces, the main scene overlapping some edges on detail panels. on the right there is a close up of his member inside of his partner, slippery with pussy juices. the bottom left panels show Ghost leaning in closer, a string of saliva connecting their mouths, indicating a recently shared kiss. and the very last one beneath it shows the two holding each others hands during the steamy act.

(DEPICTING OCXCANON) a digital coloured illustration/comic page of a druid (OC) pleasuring themselves as they think about their new friend Grog, specifically his muscular scar torn back, how his touch is always reassuring and welcome, the size of his hands, how inviting his lips are, especially when covered in blood after intense battle and how sweet his eyes always are. between these panels there are close ups of the druids cunt being rubbed and fingered by their own hand. everything is partially adorned with sparkles.

a traditional pencil drawing of a naked rodeo clown wearing only cowboy shoes, hat, a squirty flower and clown make up, sitting legs spread to show off his glistening torso and cOCK. the figure is surrounded with scribbly stars.

heard its #PORNFOLIO DAY hello im skai and i love drawing people getting busy with each other or with themselves 💕✨💦

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Jay this is incredible! Your penchant for motion and dynamism is always so awe inspiring
I can’t wait to see how this develops!

Thank you Remus 🥺 you’re too kind 💖

Absolutely!
It’s a job and a half breaking ourselves out of learned behaviors to return to fundamentals so we can know and study those rules but it pays off in spades

/serious

do not just put your account number or card number in an email. reps are being poorly trained or are tired. please do not put your information in channels that are not secure.

Thank youuu I love him too 🥺

Thank you Dodd 🥺🥺💖💖

A dry floor in a wet time such as this…truly a gift…cherish her for me

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

Raphael salaryman stickers have been restocked!

#yaoiday
#dnd
#ocs

Art is so depthy and complex and overwhelming but I love love love to chatter about it
Go make something cool while you harass payment processors tonight 💖

Most of us simply do not have the time or resources to dive into rigorous study for every little thing we want to capture - we make conscious and unconscious decisions of what deserves that degree of focus, and that's only our business
I just find it fun to talk about

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' La Grande Odalisque, 1814 A nude woman reclines with her back to the viewer. Her torso is exceptionally long, curving as she draws her legs up. She's surrounded by blue drapes in a dark room, a rich, yellow gown and a white chemise piled behind her upon a fur.

When you have the knowledge base of understanding your subject, it's easier to
Break the leg for more dynamic posing
Render impossible light for a surreal bend
Contort the body to draw the eye along the canvas
La Grande Odalisque famously has bonkers anatomy that works because of its execution

We don't know what we don't know, and that's why art is so much learning and studying and problem solving - every new first opens a greater doorway to more study and understanding.
I think that's cool!
After a certain level of skill, most of your decisions become about your own taste.

And listen, we make value judgements with every part and piece. It's okay to decide "I don't care enough about this saddle to make sure I'm putting it in the right spot, with the proper accompanying tack, with the right stirrups, etc"
That's okay!

What is anatomically, physically correct is not always aesthetically pleasing and vice versa

It's not enough to look at the reference, you have to study it, try to understand it, and potentially look deeper into The Thing to understand *why* it looks the way that it does.

A photo of japanese bodybuilder Naotaka Yokokawa throwing an opening pitch during a baseball game. He's wearing a blue, velvet speed, sneakers, and a baseball cap. He has a baseball catcher's mitt loosely held on one hand.

This photo of Naotaka Yokokawa throwing a pitch is a great example of a relatively poor reference if you're going 1:1 with it - Good for motion, bad for direct anatomy. You'd need to have the knowledge base to rework this into something that doesn't read as awkwardly as it does in the photo.

Not only are photos not always true to life, they can often capture and distort in ways you might not realize
And sometimes photos are true to life but capture something buckwild that isn't aesthetically pleasing or even recognizable

One of my first lessons under my favorite teacher was to bring in photos and artworks that we felt exemplified good anatomy
Then he broke down how to identify Good References
Not every photo or old masterwork is a viable reference - you need to be able to source the correct information you need

You see knotted armpits and backwards legs and twisted necks because while you can look at something on a surface level, you may not be understanding the mechanics of the thing beneath the visible flesh

Those components may as well be meaningless. A person who's never handled or studied a gun isn't going to understand how its parts depend on one another to create the whole if they don't break away from just looking at it to instead study, properly study
This applies to anatomy too of course

It's not about people NOT looking at references
It's about people not *understanding* their reference
You can look at a gun, a car, a saddle, a costume and see it, sure. You can identify the shapes and the visual components.
But if you're not taking the time to research it, to break it down-