Tarana Burke photographed by Billy & Hells for TIME’s Person of the Year, she’s the founder of the #MeTooMovement who started 10 years ago. She must be recognized for her work and should have been on the cover.
“Sexual harassment does bring shame. And I think it’s really powerful that this transfer is happening, that these women are able not just to share their shame but to put the shame where it belongs: on the perpetrator.”
THIS. Don’t let other’s bury her name. Tarana Burke started this, a black woman and most if not everybody has ignored that. So please don’t forget this woman.
Hi, and woah, thanks a lot!! Ok so I feel a bit weird answering this because I feel I’m still really clumsy with my inks, and I can’t fully make the brush do what I want it to do (my pulse is… irregular haha…), but I guess I can share some close ups of what I’ve been inking and say a few things about it… Don’t take this as advice tho, just me sharing how I try to draw.
So I have a technical issue: I keep my ink cartridge on, the tip of the brush is overflooded with ink and I can’t work properly, so I have to take it out, work, and when it’s getting dry, put the cartridge on again. This has become part of my method, and you can see it here: with the brush on full power, I draw the close figures, the panel lines and fill black masses. The lines are clear and strong, but also harder to control (I fuck up a lot). Then when it dries out, I draw the stuff that’s further from the eye, caring less and less for detail as it goes away, fading.
Another thing I do a lot is shamelessly cut the lines from further stuff before they hit the object in the front. Can help with depth. Also, I wish I was as brave with black masses as Mike Mignola is, but I do try to ink casted shadows from body parts or clothes, they help a lot make your figures feel volumetric.
A bit more on black masses: they add weight to the drawing and are super important for composition. And well, can help solve fuck ups :’) use them! More things: add detail to close terms, just scribble what’s far away. Keep it simple but clear, you still need to understand what’s happening back there (I struggle with this a lot). Another thing I’m doing a lot in these pages is playing with textures on clothes, furniture, etc. to help me with composition and separating things from each other to bring up the whole thing.
I stress a lot with my inks because I don’t feel in control of what I’m doing. I’m not as precise as those pro inkers that upload videos drawing with their brushes without getting a line out. But I have realised I’m capable of the best (and worst) when I stop caring too much and just dive into it shamelessly. So let’s afford the worst and fix it in PS later 😉 stop stressing and go for those fresh lines.
Don’t know if this can be helpful but hope at least it was interesting. Thanks for those nice words!
How is Steve Rogers like the biggest rebel and the baddest bitch who fucks the system continuously but also the most righteous and honourable man who ever lived hOW
Maybe we’ve been tricked into believing that righteous and honorable means following the rules, when it really means following a moral compass for the betterment of others regardless of the rules. And Steve Rogers exemplifies that.
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