therealfeedback:

brony-chef-rei:

Just found out that a friend who had her gall bladder removed in emergency surgery the other day (she had 6 massive gall stones) was told by the surgeon that if she hadn’t of had it done within the next week, she would have been killed by it..

like, seriously.. holy.. fucking… shit….

She’s been living in pain for over a year because of this thing, but because of how fucked up the US healthcare system is, she hasn’t been able to have the surgery to remove it..
It took it ALMOST FUCKING KILLING HER before anything was done..

if that’s not massively fucked up, I don’t know what is..

I’m not entirely sure I 100% agree with all the workings of the ACA, but I most certainly 100% support free, tax-funded healthcare. Situations like this where it takes crippling pain to get people to pay up for proper medical care and where once-treatable conditions worsen to the point of permanent harm happen far more often than a first-world country should allow. Glad your friend’s going to make it, and by the sounds of it should recover.

I won’t claim to know much about the US system, but I’ll agree, the AHA has a lot of issues, but it’s a starting point.

the fact what would have been a simple, fast and safe procedure was allowed to become so risky beggers belief for me.
But I’m just so glad she finally got it sorted, and that now she’ll be able to go about doing everything without dealing with the constant pain.

Just found out that a friend who had her gall bladder removed in emergency surgery the other day (she had 6 massive gall stones) was told by the surgeon that if she hadn’t of had it done within the next week, she would have been killed by it..

like, seriously.. holy.. fucking… shit….

She’s been living in pain for over a year because of this thing, but because of how fucked up the US healthcare system is, she hasn’t been able to have the surgery to remove it..
It took it ALMOST FUCKING KILLING HER before anything was done..

if that’s not massively fucked up, I don’t know what is..

Days like today I wish I was a millionaire at or similar…
Just so I could go to my friends who need money, hand them a stack going “here, take it, you need it”..

madacon:

Well some tips…

I think drawing ponys are mostly circles. Alot and lot of circles.

I normaly start with a circle for the head and add a cross to got a direction where the nose and eyes are gonna be.

I don´t completely follow the circle while drawing it. I just use it as some kind of guideline.

The ear gives the pony alot of character, because its a eye catcher. You can make them big and fluffy to make it look cute or short and pointy to give it a bit of a rougher tone.

The hair is something what (I think atleast) everyone have a bit to experiment with. If you want to draw it show accurate then there are tons of material out there to get some reference. I prefer to do the hair my way, which simply means trying so long until you happy with the result.

(Pinkies hair here is just a result of some drawing accidents which I liked and builded up until I got this kind of mane)

The body are just more circles.

Just two circle for the front and the back, which a connected with a curved line. I always try to imagine there the bones are and add legs in a fitting position.

the tail is pretty much the same rule as the mane… It just needs to be way bigger! no? just me? … ok…

– Drawing is a skill and can be learned by anybody. You just need to keep going and build up confidence about your work. Learn to work with critique.

– Keep your old sketch books. You can use them to get some ideas for your current drawings or atleast show yourself how much you improved.

– Look up at other peoples art, tutorial videos and don´t be shy to ask them about certain things. Most artist don´t bite and will gladly answer you questions, but don´t bother them if they don´t feel like talking right now. 😉 (if its and askblog, ask on the modblog for tips.)

– All in all. Be nice, be friendly. Do your thing and have fun while drawing. Nothing else matters. 😀

Everyone started small. 😉

– Some of my personal tutorial images I use

– Drawing tutorial´s (by sycra)

(thats are just my way of drawing. Other people do way better tutorials then me, give them a watch aswell. >.<)

Let me know if this was any helpful. 😛