I’m extremely excited to announce that the Second Editionof my booklet, What to Expect From Your First Art History Course, is now available! The Second Edition has been revised and updated to include more information about the types of courses that you will encounter and new tips on how to prepare for exams, conduct research, and write art historical essays. You can download it as a PDF for free here, and if you find it useful, please share it with your friends & classmates! Best of luck on your art historical adventures!
The Fall semester is upon us so I am reblogging this for anyone who is taking their first art history class. Good luck!
While this isn’t really figure drawing in the traditional sense. This is just me trying to show how I see the human form, how I simplify things for myself to understand enough to move past all the bullshit and difficulty of drawing.
I’m by no means an expert in anatomy. I don’t know all the ins and outs of every damn bone, ligament or muscle. It’s all too much. A lot of this learned from sifting through tutorials and browsing the internet.
But figure drawing itself in the traditional sense is more about capturing the form. The force and flow of a pose. But I do keep a lot what I’m showing here in mind when I’m drawing from memory. I should however be doing a lot more life drawing, which is like zero at the moment. What I’m showing here can help de-mystify the human form a bit.
So basically, this little tutorial I threw together is really about these 3 SHAPES and how everything is a mix of those 3 shapes. No magic. No abiding by rules of how many heads fit into a body. It’s all just shapes.
Hope this helps. If there’s anything else you’d like to know, please send me more questions and I’ll do my best to answer them 🙂
this website SAVED MY BRAIN when i was a stressed out college student who couldn’t stop flipping out long enough to prioritize. quite a few of you are still suffering through college so i hope this helps you too!! c:
reblogging this like the wind and god bless the person who made this
i know how to do the calculation longhand or at least i used to, but hearing it from someone else always silences my irritating voice of anxiety a little better so hopefully some other people can appreciate that effect too
Yes! I love this website. It settles any nerves I might have about exams and really makes you realise – you gotta do that coursework to the very best of your ability 👌
1. Bloody – Damn. Socially acceptable to use, some of my teachers use it, and my gran does too. You can’t use this enough.
2. Arse – ass but more derogatory. You wouldn’t say this to your grandparents, generally. Parents, it depends who you are.
3. Fiver – £5. Everyone says this all the time.
4. Tenner – £10. Ditto fiver.
5. Quid – £1. Ditto tenner.
6. Grand – £1000. Obviously lesser said than fiver unless you’re Ed Sheeran or someone but people normally say this.
7. Chav – i think Americans call them townies??
8. Mum – do i need to explain? and no, we don’t say Dud.
9. Nappy – Diaper.
10. Lift – Elevator
11. Pavement – Sidewalk.
12. Cock-up – fuck up.
13. Cakehole – mouth. IE: Shut your cakehole!
14. Bloke – Man. Most people say this.
15. Knackered – tired. “I’m off to bed, me, i’m knackered.” the K is silent.
16. Pear-shaped – gone wrong. “It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped.”
17. ay-up – greeting used in the Midlands/North. sometimes used at the start of a statement or question. “Ay-up, what you doing with that?”
18. Local – nearby pub. “I’m off for a drink at the local.”
19. Fit – hot. “He’s fit, him.”
20. Bollocks – balls. Sometimes used as an exclamation, like “Shit!”
21. this is important. Fanny – vagina. FANNY DOES NOT MEAN BUTT IN ENGLAND. IF YOU CALL SOMEONE A FANNY TO SOMEONE IN THE STREET YOU MAY GET PUNCHED
22. Shag – screw. Shag is less derogatory than screw.
23. Uni – short for university. Is that your college?
24. Sixth form – Junior and Senior year at high school.
25. Secondary school – 6th grade to Sophomore year.
26. Year 10 – Freshman. Year 9 – Eighth Grade and so on.
27. Reception – Preschool.
28. Telly – television.
29. Chips – Fries.
30. Crisps – Chips.
31. Full Stop – Period. The punctuation kind.
32. Bugger – i don’t really know what this translates to. You’d say “oh bugger i’ve lost my keys.”
33. Crap – Less derogatory form of Shit.
34. Wanker – technically, this means someone who jerks off, but it’s used as an insult.
35. Dickhead – another insult.
36. Twat – Some people use this as an insult, but, as I discovered a while ago, it also means vagina.
37. Cunt – vagina. DO NOT INCLUDE THIS WORD IN ANY WRITING, IT’S THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
38. Autumn – Fall
39. Biscuit – cookie.
40. Bonnet (a car bonnet) – hood.
41. Boot (of a car) – Trunk
42. Flannel – washcloth
43. Scouser – someone from Liverpool
44. Manc – someone from Manchester
45. Geordie – Someone from Newcastle
46. Brummie – someone from Birmingham
47. Dodgy – suspicious/not quite right. “Ooh, he looks a bit dodgy/My pen’s being dodgy!”
48. Tad – A bit. “Are you cold?” “Just a tad.”
49. Ta – thank you. Used up north a lot.
50. Absobloodylutely – a very enthusiastic yes.
51. Fortnight – two weeks.
52. Gutted – Devastated
53. Chuffed – proud, happy of something someone’s done for you.
Cheeky Nandos: something you’ll never understand until you’ve been accepted into the brohood by the archbishop of banterbury and gone a night on the wazz.
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