1. What should Kareem be conscious of going in to this interview?
XX – Judgment
Karma, consequences of actions good and bad, renewal
2. What does Kareem need to know about what this job will actually be like?
XVI – The Tower (Reversed)
Desiring but fearing change, a period of hardship with reward at the end, risk versus reward
3. What is the potential long-term prospect for Kareem if this interview is successful?
III – The Empress
Blessings, finiancial security, unexpected gifts, good fortune and security
Thoughts
This job has a real chance of being a very positive career move for Kareem that should set him up for long-term security, but it will require a lot of hard work which is going to be a tough slog for some time. Also, if his resume and references aren’t in order, he won’t even get a call back. He should make sure he represents himself honestly, and that if it’s possible to omit employers that won’t remember him favourably from his resume without leaving obvious holes, he should do so, or risk losing his opportunity altogether.
why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons
Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.
So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.
So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.
Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” – they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction – they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”
I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.
Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?
renovation of my building has begun in earnest. there’s two occupied apartments left on my floor, and despite there being a HUGE SIGN taped to my door that says “DO NOT DISTURB OCCUPIED” a workman decided to open it this morning. and of course this happened while I was topless and holding a sword, because why the fuck not? 🙃🙃🙃
did you defeat him in combat to retain your warriors honor
I just gave him some really intense eye contact while he backed away and shut the door. I don’t know what he was expecting, but a half-naked woman wearing llama pajama pants, glowering furiously, and holding a sword probably wasn’t it.
Thanks a lot for your question and for enjoying my art so much ^^
May I ask, how you draw hair to be so detailed?
It depends what kind of artwork you are talking about. When I draw realistic style (without a black line art, that is to say like in this art), here is how I do it:
I define the palette. I try to use a palette as subtle and
natural as possible so that the hair looks natural, precisely. In other
words I very rarely go for a super bright yellow for blond hair.
NATURAL.
With the darker colors, I block the colors. By
“blocking the colors”, I mean blocking the shape of the hair because
hair is a shape. It’s important to draw the general shape of the hair,
whatever the haircut, before taking care of individual hair. The worst
you can do is starting to draw hair strand by strand, on a white
background. Horrible.
Then with medium size brush, I draw
the first strands, using medium tones. The idea is to give the general
texture of the hair, the strands, the curls, etc. If you try to draw
hair one by one it’s gonna look ridiculous, like in these video games of
the 1990′s where you could see every hair individually (and no, it
wasn’t a good thing. It looked fake as hell)
Then, with a
small size brush I draw the lighter colors and I refine the details.
This is where I draw the tiniest strands but not on the whole hair. Here
again, I only draw them at specific places: on the forehead, above the
general shape of the head (where the light hits), near the ears.
Finally,
I add with a round edge brush some shadows on specific places: near the
roots of the hair, the ears. That’s what is important with hair:
knowing where to place shadows and highlights (along with simplifying
some strands and detailing others)
Anyway, the important thing is to render the general impression
of the hair and focusing on details on specific parts. If you try to
draw every strands, every individual hair, it’s gonna look cheap and as
far from realistic as it can be. It’s the same process whatever the
quality of the hair: straight, curvy, wavy, etc. You just enhance
different shadows and highlights in order to create different textures.
Don’t
forget either that hair follows a pattern on the head. It grows a
certain way and it’s different according to people. When you are working
with your medium brush (step 3), you have to pay attention to “the
direction” of the hair. Look at Jensen Ackles for instance:
And of course, don’t hesitate to use a reference picture. If you want to
draw realistically it’s essential. And it doesn’t matter if you draw
an OC. Your OC is a woman with long ginger hair? Google is your friend
to show you how ginger hair reflects the light and all the information
you need on color and texture.
When I draw artworks for The Life of Bucky Barnes, it’s a completely different method because here, I do draw the hair almost strand by strand. Basically:
This is a drawing I’m working on at the moment for The LoBB, it’s Steve. So first, I define the general shape of the hair, then I draw the line art, then I block the colors (usually far darker than Steve’s actual color) and the rest is just working slowly on the details and doing some color correction from time to time. I tend to draw the root darker but it’s closer to comics than actual realistic style.
Two styles, two different methods, two different rendering. 🙂
I hope I answered your question ♥ Thanks again for enjoying my art so much ^^
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