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If you're wanting to improve your line control and you find that going slow during exercises like this still leaves your line shaky, there's other exercises you could to do work up to this where going slow isn't as difficult (an ellipse is one of the hardest shapes ngl)

More info in the alt text! 📚
a series of digital exercises, all drawn with confident controlled strokes. Make sure to practice ghosting, aka making "ghost strokes" with your drawing tool before placing an actual line down in order to plan your stroke and ensure that you're relaxed before placing. Top left: A square in perspective, finding the center and the halfway points, then drawing an ellipse inside the square. Top middle: Making two points and trying to aim a straight line in one confident stroke connecting them. To vary it up, try making 3 or more points and connecting them in a confident and clean curve. Go over these lines multiple times trying each time to get it as close to the point as possible. Top right: Same exercises as before, but freehand. Make a straight line, then try to trace it multiple times keeping it as close to the original as possible. Freehand a curve, any kind of curve, then do the same. Bottom left: Circles and ellipses. Try to connect your first one to the top, left, and one side. Then, the side of that circle or ellipse becomes the side of the next one. Repeat til the entire thing is filled up. To mix things up, add a curved or straight line inside so you're forced to draw shapes of different sizes. One confident stroke. Bottom middle: First draw a straight line, then two opposing curves on either side. Draw a thin ellipse in the center, then with each ellipse slowly widen them consistently as if you're tracing a contour in perspective. Controlled ellipses, but with relation to each other. Bottom right: More of the box and ellipse exercise. I like to do a lot of these, these were my bread and butter back in the day. Would do one page of them each morning before sketching people on the bus on my way to work.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Dr. Barr from the TOP FUCKNG ROPE
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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adhd-alien.bsky.social
5 panel comic. Panel 1: the adhd alien figure greets her brain, asking if the brain is ready for some work today. Panel 2: the brain is crying and mumbling. Panel 3: the alien is pleading with the brain that they need to get a lot of things done. Panel 4: the brain is hissing like a cat. Panel 5: the alien simply says „ok then“
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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anothermeekone.bsky.social
hey! if I send you an invoice, shut the fuck up. do not mention NSFW stuff or even the word "furry" or anything, Paypal is company of dickbags searching for any excuse to harass creators. using invoices is the smartest/best/safest way of working as a comm artist, and this is explicit targeting
witchofavalon.bsky.social WitchOfAvalon🔞 @witchofavalon.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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thirtyhelens.bsky.social
Smut artists and sex workers are crushed underfoot while AI gets a green light to steal your yearbook photo to make hard-core porn with the caption "AI GIRLS NEVER SAY NO"
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Nerdy kid at keyboard: Hi guys, I've noticed that it is International Men's Day today, and I'm confused. Why do we need a day to talk about men? We're not a marginalised group like women, queer people, or people of colour. The media is already full of stories about men. Big buff shirtless dude at keyboard: I'm glad you asked, champ. Whatever your view on men's place in society, it's still true that we face a lot of issues - like social isolation, risk of suicide, health problems, and attitudes towards sex and child rearing. Having a day to talk about those doesn't take away from anyone else's problems. In fact, having a day to talk about them helps us be more mindful, and listen better at other times. Second shirtless buff dude on a couch at his laptop: The chief here is really on to something. I want to echo what he said, and also point out that the idea we should remain silent about our problems actually contributes to a lot of our issues. We are human beings, with human needs. Seeking mutual support and understanding isn't the same thing as placing a burden on others. Especially if we're providing it for each other. Third buff dude at his laptop: Right on, my fellow kings. We've inherited a social legacy of competition and division, and a lot of what makes a man in our era is under question. IMD is a chance for us to examine and rethink what we are together, and build the bonds of solidarity and support that will make a better way possible - like in this meme. Because in our hearts, we're all curious kids and buff guys on keyboards.
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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lutraluna.bsky.social
Guess who got the job? Y'all better be calling me Professor Lutra now.
Cool GIF
ALT: Cool GIF
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November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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kukumomoart.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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toripng.com
🌐

#art
clippy drawing that reads "have you considered using your brain instead of asking chatgpt?"
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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lutraluna.bsky.social
From the Cozy Quest sale happening right now on Steam, I grabbed Terra Nil for stream today! It's an environmental strategy game about restoring degraded environments back to healthy ecosystems. I'll be going live in about 20 min. Hope to see you then!
www.twitch.tv/lutraluna
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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lucyknisley.bsky.social
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.
A sketchbook comic featuring drawings of a young teen, where the author is writing to their 15 year old self
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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ekjohnston.bsky.social
Comparing this budget to WWII budgets without mentioning that WWII budgets doubled corporate taxes AND taxed excess profits (and created like 20 crown corps to maintain wages and prices) is journalistic malpractice.
diannalgunn.bsky.social Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 2d
I'm upset that the Liberals passed an austerity budget which cuts from social programs instead of TAXING THE FUCKING RICH to fund the military and infrastructure projects he wants to fund but I am really fucking glad we're not going to have a Christmas election
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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splashzone.bsky.social
Some very excellent ideas, everyone, thank you for the brainthoughts for pose and character ideas~
Drawing of a scene with six characters of an adventuring party, having an orgy. On the left, a black armored dark knight pegs an unrepentant smug rogue. In the middle of the group a cleric lowers herself in a sitting position into the crotch of a barbarian woman. On the right, a horned bard with an eyepatch cups the head of a woman with bunny ears, tail, and feet as she sucks the bard off. Extra drawing of a chubby wizard being toyed with by a druid using plant magic to conjure vines to pleasure the both of them.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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lancerfay.bsky.social
doodlin
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
one of my favorite genres of comedy is talking very seriously to or about babies like they're just extremely small adults, and no one is doing it right now like Danny Lavery

"where in this early modern Calabrian village do you see a bike?" laid me out

www.thechatner.com/p/everything...
His love of bikes has also produced the first wrinkle in our book-reading sessions. If a particular book has a bike in it (Boats on the Bay, Baby Go Japan, Everywhere Babies) he will let me get three or four pages in before grabbing the text from me and turning to the correct page, pointing triumphantly at the bike in question, and announcing “Bike” over and over, at which point he is no longer interested in having the rest of the book read to him and would like me to put it away. It has even lead to, I am sorry to say, dubious claims. Only last night I was reading Strega Nona to him and he began to leaf through the pages, chanting “Bike” to himself with perfect earnestness. BABY [Leafing]: Bike. Bike. Bike. SELF: Where is there a bike in Strega Nona? BABY [Still confident]: Bike. SELF: Where in this early modern Calabrian village did you see a bike? Show me the bike you’re thinking of. Where is the evidence? BABY [Producing zero evidence of a bike, while admitting to precisely nothing] Bike.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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trungles.com
Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
A black and white drawing of an old woman in her kitchen, blowing three kisses over a pot of pasta.
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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verityholloway.bsky.social
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
Screenshot of a tweet by Patricia Lockwood: ""I'm pregnant!" shouts Jonathan Franzen's wife. He places a finger on her lips. "No, it is I who am pregnant," he says. "Pregnant with the next great American novel." He walks into the backyard and places a single portobello upon the grill."
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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trungles.com
Me: It’s kinda homophobic to cast terrible and powerful men as being gay for each other

The news in 2025: lol
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.

More in the piece:
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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tendermiasma.com
so many people are lending a hand to fascists when they police each other on "acceptable" nsfw content and get too scared to stand up for sw'ers and artists when the worst thay could happen to them is get called problematic by other puritans
asherelbein.bsky.social Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 7d
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 9d
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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misaonwheels.bsky.social
Marriage equality does not exist for everyone until disabled people can marry without losing their benefits.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ciciluna.bsky.social
I added a second chapter to a EmmRook fic I wrote, this time trying out Emmrich's perspective. #DragonAgeVeilguard #EmmrichVolkarin

Check it out! It's saucy! archiveofourown.org/works/654305...
Like I'm Not Here - Chapter 2 - CiciLuna - Dragon Age - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM