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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i miss figure drawing class i miss it so bad...luckily there is always "draw from photo at home"

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ten minute figure drawings from today

charcoal drawing of a woman sitting on the floor facing away

charcoal drawing of a woman sitting on the floor facing to the right

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

figure drawing class is back in session<3

charcoal drawing of a woman faced from the back

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

laulurastas, song thrush! for once the english and finnish name match

watercolor painting of a brown bird with a dotted chest and red feet

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

teaching myself birds by painting them even though painting is really hard... this is a fieldfare or räkättirastas, named onomatopoetically bc it makes a räkräkräkräk sound

small watercolor painting of a yellow beaked bird with a grey head and tummy and brown chest and wings, flecked with black

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

like this is objectively cool but...but fossils though... 😭😭 i live in the paleoproterozoic zone so 2500-1600 myo

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

another major TFF highlight is desdoblándome dir natalia pájaro, so tense and gorgeous, some real "i've never seen any of this done so beautifully before" stuff

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

and some more from this month :>

charcoal sketch of a woman sitting down on the floor viewed from the right

charcoal sketch of a woman sitting down on the floor viewed from the left

charcoal sketch of a woman standing up and leabing one elbow on a stand, viewed from the right

charcoal sketch of a woman standing up and leabing one elbow on a stand, viewed from the back

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

figure drawing from january, i really like drawing the same pose from different angles

charcoal sketch of a man leant down on one elbow viewed from the right side

charcoal sketch of a man leant down on one elbow viewed from the 3/4th front

charcoal sketch of a man leant down on one elbow viewed from the left side

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

let's make more picrews of the red valley boys together!

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

obsessed with the way the layers of construction and time overlap and intersect. the oldest stone masonry parts are from the 1200s, most of the brick is from 1300-1400s

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

ok here...! apparently the only thing i listened since autumn is talking heads since they were literally all the songs that played through the slideshow

top song and she was by talking heads 46 plays

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

another angle - i know he looks all shiny but i'm trying to learn how muscles and bones and all the inside stuff works and that requires a lot of shiny ass high contrast shading 😭 anyway i figured out the legs and elbow really well here i think

charcoal drawing of the same pose from a 3/4th angle

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

pretty good 5min croquis 🫡 i love 5min croquis 🙌

charcoal sketches of a guy standing up leaning on a chair and another with his back to us sitting on the chair leaning his weight on a staff stick thing

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

prolly just making shit up by simplifying too much 😭😭 idc what happens at the knees that is none of my business

similar situation with another sketch of the guy standing and leaning on a stepladder

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

what if i used my old figure drawing sketches to teach myself how muscles work

marker sketch of a guy standing overlaid with translucent tracing paper where i've tried to sketch where the muscles would be in red

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

interesting use of "has always been" there, like i'm pretty sure the skull was part of a person once

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

another model 5min and 20min (as usual 5min is the ideal drawing time for getting a pose down without too much fuss)

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

same model and pose as last week since some people like to spend more than 15 minutes on a work - always fun to see the difference between two drawings of the same pose though

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

it's unfortunately one of those sites that was first found by an excavator instead of an archeologist so a lot of the items were found without context just in piles of sand and dirt that had been moved by the construction people :( this map of the identified gravesites gives a sense of the scale

a hand drawn map from the 1960s showing funny little stick figures in graves, there are around 50 of them in total

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

it really is a crazy site, they found something like 40+ graves and just so so much stuff, weapons and horse stuff and pots and kettles and stuff but also preserved textiles and these gorgeous glass beads<3 i saw the textiles and two of the beads irl today n__n

pieces of old textile with metal spring decorations weaved in

twelve glass beads in yellow, blue and earthy tones - some of them have a lot of detail and patterns in them

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

i drew some iron age buckle brooch things from the huge vilusenharju gravesite and came back home and realized i have pdfs with the original 1960s drawings and photos of the same exact same grave (number 8) that the stuff i was drawing is from

old timey square black and white photos showing a grave being excavated with closeups of items found in the grave such as a bunch of ash and a piece of steel for striking fire with (i can't find the english word unfortunately...)

the grave before being excavated, looks remarkably like a regular recently dug grave

hand drawn diagram of the grave showing different soil composition, items, measurements etc

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

it's his birthday you have to be nice to him

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

happy birthday warren godby 💝

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

holy moly this taught me so much about my own language - especially fascinating are the remnants of proto-germanic that have disappeared from english, german etc but are preserved in finnish words :O

Famously, Finnic languages have been very conservative in some respects, preserving elements of borrowed Proto-Germanic words that were lost from the Germanic languages themselves.
For example, the assembled evidence tells us that Proto-Germanic nouns could have the masculine singular ending *-az. It used this ending as part of its Indo-European inheritance; *-az was the Germanic counterpart to Latin -us and Ancient Greek -ος. The grammatical ending is no longer there at the end of English king, ring and lamb, but there it is, frozen like a fly in amber, at the end of Finnish kuningas, rengas and lammas.

Finnic has also been finicky about vowels. It has maintained some that linguists have independently reconstructed for Proto-Germanic. For instance, the Modern English word oar goes back to Old English ār. We’d reconstruct it further back as *airō-, with the initial vowel *ai.

The Finnish for oar? Well, it’s airo. We can piece together the Proto-Germanic skeleton from fragments strewn across its descendants, only to find the full fossil perfectly preserved in Finnish! Relatedly, English woe and one go back to their own ancestral words with *ai, which is there in Finnish vaiva ‘bother’ and ainoa ‘only’.

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

it balloonned out comically but calmed down after i poked some holes in :> this is the annual "oh shit mushroom season's about to start and i still have some from last year" pie

small mushroom pie with cheese on the top and it's like raised into a half globe over the crust lmao

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

been a while since i watched something that had a presentation this consistent and carefully thought out

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I SAW THIS FUCKING PLACE WITH MY OWN EYES, not a photo, none of that, just a lense and my retinas

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

and then look at this photo from the gemini north telescope just a few days later where we're getting so detailed of a view that you can see the shape of it and the cloud of ice and dust around it<3 just a completely different context than the first image ahhh this shit makes me emotional

a blurry image of a white, semicircular object surrounded by blotchy darkness. the center is bright and round and around it, trailing a bit more to the left is a haze of brightness, a gradient disappearing into the black

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

genuinely makes me teary eyed to look at this image, the one the observation was first made from. look at all that data! look at how small it is! it's from so far away and it's been prolly alone for like billions of years, and now we're all looking at it and learning from it and it's so significant

black and white raw image of the night sky with billions and billions of stars, tiny white dots all over the image. there's a tiny little square surrounded by all those stars, and a magnified view of the tiny square inside which there are even more little white dots, hundreds and hundreds of them, and in the middle of it, is a tiny, tiny, white speck that's marked with a red cross

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

oon bongaillu tampereella jo pari kuukaut tällasii

sähkökopin seinään on liimattu punainen tarra jossa lukee "tapetaan orpo ja purra"

samanlainen tarra toisen boksin seinässä

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

varalan perustajaporukassa vaikutti myös arkkitehti wivi lönn! wivi ei mennyt koskaan naimisiin ja sillä oli elämänsä aikana monia "läheisiä ystävättäriä" joiden kanssa se matkusteli ja asui. wivi asettui lopulta asumaan yhdessä suomen ensimmäisen naispuolisen kauppaneuvoksen hanna parviaisen kanssa

wivi lönnin matkaseurue ulkomaanmatkalla vuonna 1909: suttuisessa kuvassa yksi herrasmies ja kolme ajan mukaisiin isoihin hameisiin ja vielä isompiin hattuihin pukeutunutta naista seisoo jonkun eurooppalaisen makasiinirakennuksen/rautatieaseman/tmv edessä

wivi lönn ja hanna pakarinen istuvat pöydän ääressä yhteisessä kodissaan sulkulassa 1920- tai 1930-luvulla. wivillä on koristeellinen paita, hiukset nutturalla ja hän lukee lehteä. hannalla on ihan mieletön proto-butch-luukki, valkoinen miesten takki ja hiukset joko kiinni tai sliipattu taakse. huoneessa on elegantit jugend-huonekalut ja arts and crafts -tyylinen koristeellinen tapetti

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

just girls being girls varalan naisvoimisteluopistossa, jonka perusti vuonna 1909 joukko "naimattomia naisia" mukaan lukien johtajat anna "varalan emäntä" lilja ja anna "varalan isäntä" shreck, jotka asuivat varalassa yhteisessä asunnossa koko elämänsä ajan. kuvat on 1940-luvulta

kaksi shortseihin, sandaaleihin ja t-paitaan ja toppiin pukeutunutta naista istuu kuistin kaiteella ja nauttii silmät kiinni auringosta. taustalla näkyy pyhäjärvi

11 opiskelijaa istuu kesävaatteissa kalliolla hirsirakenteisen rakennuksen edessä. kaksi naista seisoo porukan perällä kädet toistensa ympärillä

kaks housupukuista naista seisoo kalliolla ja katselee pyhäjärvelle, toisella on päässä baskeri ja vyöllä nahkatuppeen laitettu puukko, toisella on päässä koristeellinen huivi.

kaksi naista taluttaa polkupyöriä ulos portista, taustalla näkyy lauta-aita ja edellisessä kuvassa ollut hirsirakennus. naisilla on päällään haalarihousut ja pyörille on lastattu reput

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red @redsshift.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

i got so sad when i was only able to dig up two photos of items found there, but this more than makes up for it omg omg omg

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