30 plus here. I just started drawing everyday. Little gestures to work on people. I will caution you not to take too long of a break once you have a roll going. I worked everyday to get to a certain speed and skill level then stopped for a while due to issues and lost some skill but I can still draw okay.

As you improve there will be a difference between what you can see and what you can do, your perception will improve faster than your hands. This will be frustrating but every artist deals with it and it is a sign of clear growth. If you really like what you are doing that is great but if you bage what you have made and can only see mistakes, take note of the mistakes learn from them and move on. You have more to draw.

Also please study from photo refs and real people for a good while it helps build your understanding of how things fit in space and especially the structures people and animals.

I recommend adorkastock.com for references of real people but there are plenty out there.

Just reports from longtime Redbook users saying the influx has increased scrutiny on them. No hard data as of yet since that’s kind of impossible to get.

Rednote is a Instagram like social media application. Tiktokers have been flocking to it in such numbers that it’s topping multiple app stores. Typically it is used by Chinese diaspora and mainland Chinese people to communicate but Americans are joining the app to protest the banning of tiktok.

Its causing a few issues for the social ecology of the app and the Chinese state is censoring and fencing off some of the content there as a result.

Its Chinese controlled and the US government dislikes the Chinese state. That’s pretty much it. Its pure spite for the US government.

Because tiktok still works. The majority won’t seek out something else until the day that tiktok turns off (assuming that it does.)

They could just destroy the canal in stsd of letting us have it tbh

What hostages? If there were any left they died during Israel’s bombing campaigns.

They have a legitimate point. It’s not possible, or even feasible to run elections without a functional legal system, a census, and even laying the ground work of the government that is supposed to be there. Give them time before letting the doom settle in.

People keep acting like hosting this shit and developing it is free. Its not. Donate to your instance and the development of the back end and all the opensource software you use. Bluesky has 20 million people using it it’s no surorise they are looking for a profit model that won’t scare the base off. I would rather it be subs instead of endless ads and algorithm tweaks.

Regrettably that’s probably what will happen.

I’m not sure how he could primary a Democrat unless he convinced people in that district to switch registration.

Hopefully Germany sees how shit he is at anything and rejects any party influenced by him.

If he did the shooting he has still done the work. I couldn’t care less about his positions. Ideology is a luxury.

He could literally take a train to Georgia and just hang out lmfao

I expect subscriptions soon. I don’t mind subscriptions as much as I mind advertisment honestly. Advertising is negative content for these types of services. It detracts and makes the service way less useful but subscriptions at least will fund upkeep at a greater efficiency of user per dollar than ads.

To lurkers, consider financially supporting the fediverse particukarly the homeservers you use if you aren’t running your own.

He is stupid he will call it Xcoin or something.

I recommend using bluesky like old twitter if you do use it. Follow people you’re interested in otherwise you’ll only see the most noisy types.

Is no one going to point out how hilarious this dudes name is in the context of the narratives around Trump. If SNL wrote this guy in for a joke I would call it hacky but here tf he is.

Lmfao

Is this a fresh account that you went to the discover tab on?

Oh I see. There is no point in communicating with you.

Have a nice day.