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The magnet link contains a shitton of paid courses, books, and references. It’s a massive torrent, roughly a terabyte, but you don’t need the whole thing. Just browse the folders and pick and choose what to download.
There are 2 separate ways of thinking that artists need to learn. She need BOTH. The two ways are 3d constructive thinking, and 2d shape thinking. Both are equally important. Here’s a guide to learning both.
2D skills
Dorian Iten Accuracy Exercises
Level 1: https://youtu.be/HMX3K3YMbd8
Level 2: https://youtu.be/ecJO1LnjXpA
Level 3: https://youtu.be/LPywXVsRKT0
Accuracy guide:https://dorianiten.gumroad.com/l/accuracy?layout=profile
Use code “DORIAN” to get it for free.
The above videos + the accuracy guide is the easiest way to develop her observational abilities. No pencils, no knitting needles, no measuring shit. Just train your eyes to be so accurate you can draw anything with no effort, perfectly. This takes years.
Try at least 30 minutes a day. She shouldn’t be depressed if it comes out badly, she should just do a bit every day and try her best.
Ethan Becker Dragging Art over Reference: https://youtu.be/RXb-Y_kz2aU
The above link is the same thing, just applied to cartoons / animation industry.
These are very important, because observational skills give her the ability to duplicate her instructor’s strokes. In other words, it’s impossible to properly learn construction, gesture, anatomy, lighting, composition, color, if you cannot even emulate what the instructors are showing you. Observational skills are like reading skills for writers. Reading by itself cannot get you good writing skills, but it’s a necessary foundation that you build your writing skills upon. Reading and writing is both important for the writer, and 2d + 3d skills are both important for the artist.
3d skills
There are many ways. Hampton, Vilppu, Weston, Peter Han, Loomis, David Finch, etc. I recommend torrenting a course / downloading a book for her and getting her to follow it. Do one lesson a week. DO NOT RUSH. Repeat the homework over and over again, even if she think she’s already good at it. She wants to practice the same lesson beyond the point of boredom. When she’s done with a course, go back to the first lesson and repeat the course.
All form drawing courses pretty much teach the same things too. One is not necessarily better than the other. But some teachers might say things in a way that makes more sense to you, so it doesn’t hurt to poke around and see which works best for her.
Some courses which might interest her:
Ron Lemen: https://www.youtube.com/@RonLemen/videos
Glenn Vilppu: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Fr4y1q7nK?p=2
David Finch: https://davidfinchart.com/where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there-a-roadmap-to-professional-quality-art/
Don’t do all 3 at the same time, just pick one and stick with it.
The above links mostly concentrate on figure drawing, which is probably the best way to improve her drawing skills. If she can draw human characters, she can draw anything! Ron Lemen’s youtube is pretty much a complete, overly-detailed college course on figure drawing, so if you just do that, you’ll go from knowing nothing to knowing how to paint a figure in full tones. I, however, love Vilppu much more. I think he’s much more skilled than Ron Lemen, at least when it comes to imagination drawing. He can be difficult to get into, but the more you draw, the clearer his words become. All 3 courses are very good though, you can eventually get around to studying all of them.
Now for the David Finch roadmap, I think this is the best one to follow out of all 3, because of how concise and simple it is. Also, Finch gives you a direct transition from fundamentals into making the exact kind of art you’d like, whereas with Vilppu you’re stuck with Renaissance drawing and the transition to anime or whatever is kinda difficult. When you get to the Bridgman step, remember that you don’t have to use Bridgman, swap it out for any other anatomy book, I suggest . And make sure to use the Cognitive Drawing method instead of the more difficult, impractical method he outlines in the guide.
Other useful free online resources:
drawabox.com is a great course that’ll teach her draftsmanship, basic perspective, and construction
These two links are a collection of art resources, references, communities, channels, and video courses that cover every major subject:
https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?view
https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
Gesture drawing and quick-pose drawings are important too. Practicing this will preserve the energy in her drawings. quickposes.com
posemy.art
Honestly no one knows right now. All we can do is speculate.
After the Haiti earthquake soldiers were issued mags with live rounds but instructed not to put it in their weapon.
During Katrina most of the soldiers were walking around with empty mags.
During J6 none of the soliders were issued live rounds.
During the BLM protests many states did have their guardsmen walking around with live rounds.
I could see the DC guys walking around with live rounds in their mags, but I could also just as easily see there being no live ammo on anyone below staff sergeant. No commander wants their career killed just because one of their dumbass soldiers shot an American citizen.
How the hell did it get past the censors
suffer through US-backed death squads and thousands of your best and brightest giving their lives to free your country from a brutal military dictatorship
forty years later you fall for Mano Dura bullshit again (even though it never fucking works) and vote a dictator back into office
I am sad to report most of my fellow salvis are cucks
You could do it in the US too. There’s miles of unguarded, unpatrolled fences around bases, and they’re trivial to hop. Lots of bases also have miles and miles of unguarded, unfenced land used for ranges and field exercise. These lands are often adjacent to public lands, and it’s completely possible to hike into the base proper through that land just by taking a wrong turn on a hiking trail. Once you’re in the base you can just go to any motorpool and fuck vehicles up. During the day there’s people around, but at night there’s just an easily hopped fence. An NCO might drive by every once in a while, but that’s the only security for 99.9% of motorpools at night. Honestly, I’m surprised sabotage doesn’t happen more often.
45 as of 25 April 2025, 42 with these losses.
It’s entertainment. It never stops being funny. It’s slapstick comedy that briefly breaks the monotony of hours of standing at attention or parade rest while the colonels and generals practice fellating themselves. Sometimes they fall face first. Sometimes they fall on the person in front or behind them and we get to see two people knocked on their ass. Sometimes they crumple straight to the ground. And after they pass out, we get to see medics scramble to drag their ass to the aid station. We struggle to hold laughter in. Then the fun is over and we’re back to fantasizing about the stage collapsing during the speeches.
Yup. Drill and Ceremony isn’t really practiced once you get to your unit. It’s widely viewed as a silly waste of time. For change of command ceremonies we would get like two or three days of practice, and most of that was standing around in the heat praying someone locks their knees and passes out. Judging from r/army posts, a lot of guys had just the three days of practice. Add in how no one wants to be at a dog and pony show, and you get very sloppy marching. Sucks2suck tbh, they deserve worse.
Your kid did a good job. My only complaint would be that the words won’t be legible unless you’re right next to the person. Increase the contrast between the background and lettering, peach on white is too similar and it’ll blend in from afar. This can be done by darkening the outline around the letters, and/or darkening both the interior and outline color of the letters.