doaasadek:

I got my heart broken and I survived, I failed 3 courses in university and graduated, I got rejected in the very first job I applied for and got promoted yesterday, I went through hard times with my family but then two years later, we laughed our hearts out over lunch, The closest friends disappointed me several times but I made new friends and loved them with all my heart. I did it once, I can do it again.

alexandrareadsthings:

altonzm:

tbh in general there’s a lot of writing about depression which talks about recovery as a form of reclamation, like there’s this ur-personality that exists inside you that thru the power of kale/this $14.99 audiobook you’ll rediscover

I think for those of us who’ve suffered traumatic events or abuse in childhood, that can be pretty alienating bc there is no golden ‘before’ period to reclaim, but even more than that I dont think it’s apt for anyone with depression

if there is such a thing as genuine recovery, then that process by necessity renders you an entirely different person from who you were before, w a knowledge of sadness you didn’t have previously. nobody reclaims what they were before depression, if indeed there was a before

I think focusing on reclamation is a mistake and makes people feel like failures for not being some mythical version of themselves. the focus should be on building something new & syncretic, not fruitlessly attempting to wipe yourself clean of experiences that are fundamentally indelible

there is no golden ‘before’ 

I’m gonna cry because no one ever gets that, thank you for giving me more apt words to describe what that means rather than just telling someone “I don’t remember before anymore” because they insist there’s a golden period to reclaim and will accept that I don’t remember it easier than they’ll accept that there was never was one 

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burymewithmyplanner:

advice for artist studyblrs from an old broke artist: study the shit out of color theory. really. Because not only it will make everything you do more engaging, but it will save you SO MUCH MONEY IN THE FUTURE because you can go by with 4 or 6 basic pigment in your palette and still mix everything you need.

(I say 4 or 6 based on what media you’re using, you can either go by with a cyan-magenta-primary yellow-black like printers or for a wider range for mediums like watercolor and acrylics and oil you can go with a cerulean, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, hansa yellow, quinacridone and ultramarine…)

Really, I’m thanking my teacher every day for those extenuating color mixing exercises because otherwise I’d go broke with buying those goddamn expensive silk colors….

Resources for color theory:

• Aquasixio’s tutorial on deviantart is very old but still VERY valid (download button on the left to see it bigger)
  
• This video is pretty clear
• quick and dirty color theory

As they talk about different aspects of color theory I’d say watch them all

also this book is absolutely the best: Blue and Yellow don’t make Green by Michael Wilcox 

Those who actually want to invest a lot (really expensive), there’s this industry-level course (which means the teacher is art director at dreamworks and worked in disney as well, so yeah, expensive) but REALLY worth it: Designing with color and light by Nathan Fowkes

One of the best exercises you can do to learn how to mix traditional colors properly is take a magazine, cut pieces of paper from it, they must be flat colors! any flat color, the more small pieces the better. then glue them all on a sheet of paper and try to mix pigments to copy that color. The more you try to copy the easier it will get in the end. obviously.

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burymewithmyplanner:

advice for artist studyblrs from an old broke artist: study the shit out of color theory. really. Because not only it will make everything you do more engaging, but it will save you SO MUCH MONEY IN THE FUTURE because you can go by with 4 or 6 basic pigment in your palette and still mix everything you need.

(I say 4 or 6 based on what media you’re using, you can either go by with a cyan-magenta-primary yellow-black like printers or for a wider range for mediums like watercolor and acrylics and oil you can go with a cerulean, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, hansa yellow, quinacridone and ultramarine…)

Really, I’m thanking my teacher every day for those extenuating color mixing exercises because otherwise I’d go broke with buying those goddamn expensive silk colors….

Resources for color theory:

• Aquasixio’s tutorial on deviantart is very old but still VERY valid (download button on the left to see it bigger)
  
• This video is pretty clear
• quick and dirty color theory

As they talk about different aspects of color theory I’d say watch them all

also this book is absolutely the best: Blue and Yellow don’t make Green by Michael Wilcox 

Those who actually want to invest a lot (really expensive), there’s this industry-level course (which means the teacher is art director at dreamworks and worked in disney as well, so yeah, expensive) but REALLY worth it: Designing with color and light by Nathan Fowkes

One of the best exercises you can do to learn how to mix traditional colors properly is take a magazine, cut pieces of paper from it, they must be flat colors! any flat color, the more small pieces the better. then glue them all on a sheet of paper and try to mix pigments to copy that color. The more you try to copy the easier it will get in the end. obviously.

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