Domestika for Android

This is not an app for EDUCATION, it’s for brainwashing kids.

It’s July 6 and they are still virtue signaling on their logo. Have they considered that some parents don’t want to discuss sexuality with their 7 year olds? I’ve been putting off buying a course for 6 weeks now:

Why are they enforcing homosexual slogans on the platform?? Is it about learning new skills or brainwashing people into a crooked lifestyle?

abhorrent “activism,” subpar lessons (most of which in Spanish), and a strange business model where everything is always on a sale but sale is ending in just one day. Seems the business relies on panic buying, and doesn’t expect you to log in for longer than a day at a time (or more than once), because all the “can’t miss deals” that are ending in hours, will just reset their timers. Every single item in the store that is older than a month has a prominently-displayed, perpetually ticking timer that just repeats endlessly. Sure the sales rotate a bit, one week an item is 10% off and one 20% off and one 50% off, but there is ALWAYS a sale. The only value you get in lessons are the bundles where you pay $20 for three lessons you want, and of course this option is in a very hard to reach portion of the site not easily available on mobile. In fact I’m not sure how to get to the “custom bundle” page outside of the desktop site. Speaking of manipulation, be prepared for every demonic campaign and “current thing” to be plastered all over the site for the week it’s popular. If you ever wondered what corporate-borne “activism” project twitter and reddit were partaking in, but didn’t want to check social media, don’t worry because domestika will update their icon to match it and plaster their in-app community to remind you. As for the lessons themselves, they are made by a mostly madrid/barcelona harem of listless, aging millennials; and the lessons are of dubious quality. Usually a lot of tracing and photoshop work of sad realistic girls with piercings and tattoos or “thirsty” cartoon girls with large “assets” (though there is one watercolor artist whose instagram is filled with drawings of emaciated, nude teen boys lying contorted and dead on the floor), which is actually accurate to what most corporate “creative” jobs entail, but not the best if you want to learn how to draw. Some appear to be legitimate lessons, but those are not the ones on the top-selling page. The most popular lesson appears to be a 30 day journaling guide by an aging emo-kid teacher in Los Angeles who wears troweled-on makeup and draws grotesque skulls all day. I am not even sure what is being taught in it (and I own the lesson!), as the goal is just to draw in the same book every day for a month, but it’s always the first thing you see on the site. You are tasked with drawing the same grotesque skulls the teacher is making, to learn to “express yourself,” but I’m not entirely sure the teacher knows what “personal expression” or even other people are. My personal favorite is the “popular” English portrait artist who sells his hyper-realistic paintings for thousands of dollars a pop to new rich “celebrities,” and his secret is that he traces photographs. No, really. If there is one thing buying about a dozen lessons in this app taught me (though I won’t be buying any more due to the site’s “activism”) is that the “art world” is this bizarre, highly-exclusionary, incestuous community with no relation to the outside world whatsoever. Seems the way to get “success” as an artist is to con the first rich person you see by preying on whatever psychosexual insanity their high-society life instilled in them; the rest from there is just tracing and tweeting. Therefore the second and final thing it taught me is that learning to draw and being a popular “artist” are mutually exclusive, and that you don’t need lessons to do it. No wonder they need to make you think “THIS SALE IS GOING TO END IN FIVE MINUTES (though there will be an identical sale starting right after, BUT THAT ONE IS GOING TO END TOMORROW)!” The whole thing is very indicative of the daycare system that is the current “art” world, but not worth your time or money even if you are the easily-manipulated target demographic. If you want to learn to be a hack, you can just shave half of your head and post political things on twitter then do tracing on your breaks of either (a) sad girls with flower tattoos for prints and magazines, (b) “anime” “concept art” in dutch angles for corporate jobs and erotic “commissions” on social media, or (c) “fine art” of effeminate, nude teen boys being strangled with a plastic bag for $10000 each via “private collection” sales. You don’t have to give these guys money to do any of that; you don’t have to sift through increasingly strange lessons to do that. Yes, even if the “sale” is “ending in six hours.” If you want to actually learn to draw, there may be some lessons with merit here, but they are dug so far down a rabbit hole of exploitative tactics that it isn’t worth it (least of all to use this site to get the information). I am aware that much of the art industry subsists on going “viral” and then giving $900 seminars, and this site seems to be a steal compared to that; but if that’s the case, the only thing getting stolen is your time and money. This is the not the app or the place you are looking for.

NOPE NOPE NOPE…won’t get another dime of my money for changing the app to that pride stuff. Nope. Stuff it!!!!