shout out to south asians: asians from india, pakistan, sri lanka, bangladesh, afghanistan, bhutan, maldives.
shout out to ignored east asians from countries less romanticized than china, japan, and south korea: to mongolia, taiwan, vietnam, and further southeast to singapore, malaysia, the phillipines, east timor, brunei, cambodia, myanmar, laos, thailand.
shout out to ethnic groups within more known asian countries, like the tibetan people in china and the ainu and ryukyuan people in japan.
shout out to russian asians. shout out to central asians in former soviet countries, to people from kazakhstan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan.
shout out to western asians in countries that don’t fit neatly into trivial western/european geographical boundaries of the middle east, of south asia, of europe, of africa.
shout out to mixed asians, to latinax asians, to black asians, to indigenous asians, to mixed south and east asians, and every combination.
asian people are more than just the same few ethnicities shown on tv.
REAL TALK: WE ALL NEED TO STOP SHOPPING AT HOT TOPIC
THEY STEAL ART
THEIR SIZING IS PRETTY RIDICULOUS.
THEY QUIT SELLING GOTH AND PUNK SHIT ALTOGETHER.
AND THIS LATEST SHIT STORM
MARKETING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS. HOW LOVELY.
Hot topic went down the shitter long ago and it’s time to find a new place to get your totally awesome fandom inspired t-shirts and goth gear. Here are some sites where you can get your expressive clothing without feeding into this corporate shit monster of a store. Most if not all of the art on these sites are posted by the original artist. (I’m not sure about the goth stuff, you might have to check, some are brand name though so it should be fine)
The Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 — a series of government imposed mechanisms that sugar prices above those of the international market — is comprised of four key pillars, including price support loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, marketing allotments (a limit of how much sugar can be sold), and the Feedstock Flexibility program, which allows the USDA to purchase sugar out of the market. Lastly, and arguably most disruptive, are tariff rate quotas, which limit the amount of raw and refined sugar that is allowed to be imported duty free through preference programs.
U.S. sugar policy thus justifiably furthers suspicions among the citizenry that the federal government is more concerned with advancing the narrow interests of well-connected groups such as sugar producers than promoting the country’s general welfare. After all, government market manipulation results in domestic sugar prices twice those of the world sugar market — not to speak of the downstream costs of all the American-made products that rely on sugar.
The most common justification is an alleged need for price stability to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of past years. Additionally, the sugar industry warns that unilaterally disarming sugar supports would result in the U.S. becoming dependent on subsidized foreign suppliers and would prove devastating to the domestic sugar industry. Yet the experience of sugar industries in countries with much more free market approaches like Australia, one of the world’s largest sugar exporters, makes these warnings likely overwrought.
A sane sugar policy by the United States would be no sugar program at all. Sadly, that’s not currently on offer. What is available, however, is legislation that takes a notable step toward a sugar policy oriented to consumers and markets rather than lobbyists and politicians. While not ideal, it is a very real opportunity to pare down a particularly insidious symbol of narrow self-interest triumphing over the common good.
The Sugar Modernization Act of 2017 proposes the sugar program operate on a zero net cost basis to the federal government, the repeal of both marketing allotments and the Feedstock Flexibility program, and to loosen tariff quota rates—a change that would translate into increased imports and lower sugar prices.
There are some solutions and workarounds for turning off Windows Ink, which seems to be the root of the problem of making people’s pens go crazy. It will make your tablet actually start working decently again with your normal commands/gestures, but due to some kind of bug or whatever, turning off Windows Ink also disables pen pressure. So how do fix for a workaround? The first is the Photoshop Fix that was found by @mandyjacek(click for the thread!) where you have to go into Photoshop’s files and add in a txt file you can write very simply yourself that forces Photoshop to use the TabletPC API instead of the WinTab API. After a restart, it began working for me again more or less like it should.
The Second is in SAI:
i was almost as if the developer knew there were gonna be some bullshittin’ down the road and gave us an option.
I haven’t seen a fix for CLIP STUDIO or other art programs yet, but this is at least a start until Windows and Wacom get get back to seeing one another eye-to-eye again.
These have at least worked for me, and I hope for you all as well.
not sure if this has been found already but i found something that worked for for me with CLIP STUDIO.
first turn OFF windows ink!
Then open CLIP STUDIO and go into PREFERENCES
Finally go onto the Tablet option. from there change it from TabletPC to Wintab!
hopefully this will work for you if you use clipstudio!
Reblogging for the Clip Fix!
Gotta try that PS and Sai one!
I will say the most recent update did not affect my system since I run off of Windows 7, BUT this is helpful for anyone who is having issues
Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase.
“I won’t be available.”
Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.
If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.
Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.
The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.
If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else.
But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.
“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”
“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)
“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”
“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”
If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.
What advice would you give to someone who has had an art block for 3 years now? I am at an important part of life which requires me to produce and improve art constantly but ive had this block for around 3 years now where I cant draw and I dont like anything I produce. Last year I only drew 1/10th of what I use to yet I have more time to draw nowadays but dont. Any advice? My portfolio is lacking and I havent produced much art for my career. Thanks and love your work + advice. Keep it up.
I think it’s time to do a big check-in with yourself about exactly what is happening. The process of creating art, normally a fluid process, is being stopped up and blocked somewhere along the line. Let’s analyze this and figure out where it might be happening.
The timeline that gets you from “not making art” to “making art” might seem simple, but in actuality it isn’t.
Let’s go over the timeline in its most broken down form.
1) Having time that is free from vital activities such as working to survive, paying bills, eating, sleeping, and child-care. AKA “Having Free Time”.
2) Stopping your current non-vital activity to switch gears and work on art.
3) Getting yourself to a location where art can be created comfortably, free of distractions.
4) Gathering the materials necessary to make art.
5) Getting into a mental state that is conducive to making art. A person who is grieving a loved one, fearing for their safety, etc may be unable to create art for extended periods of time.
6) Doing any necessary preparation of materials such as turning on a computer, hooking up a tablet, or priming a canvas with gesso.
7) Coming up with an idea. This process could be an entire post of its own. This is a skill that needs to be developed alongside technical skills.
8) Gathering necessary references to develop and execute your idea.
9) Putting the first marks on your page. Conquering the fear of the blank page.
10) Overcoming hurdles such as an initial sketch being unsuccessful.
WOW! There are a lot of opportunities for things to go wrong here. I think step one is figure out exactly which point on this timeline is causing you trouble. What step have you been unable to overcome? You mentioned that you have free time now, so Step 1 isn’t the problem for you.
Is switching gears the problem, Step 2? A person could, for example, spend their free time entirely playing video games, and may have a hard time switching gears from video games to go work on art.
If that isn’t the problem, move on to Step 3… do you have a place where you can comfortably make art without distractions? Are there people coming in and out of the room constantly? Is there always noise? If so, can you work toward finding a different location to create art?
Etc, etc. Go down this list and logically solve each one of these steps. If you can, make it as easy as possible to go through each one of these steps. Have a location set up with your materials already available and prepared. Have a list of ideas of things that you want to draw as they come to you through your day. Write down every time you are inspired and why to go back to this when you feel uninspired. Have a list of things to practice with direct references for when ideas are lacking. Gather references ahead of time and have a folder of them that is easily accessible. And so on and so forth.
