Hello, I'm Jay 🦷 ꩜ they/them 🦈 perpetually not giving up
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I'm trying I promise I'm trying
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the fun thing about being an artist who works at home is that you make these things that Have To Be Made as spoken by The Voice and The Eyes and you don't care too much about what you're going to do with them once they are made, only that they must be made, and so you end up with a life-size 2D paper doll copy of some of your internal organs that you have to balance on top of your book shelves for the foreseeable future
#traditional art#ink#artists on tumblr#illustration#ink drawing#body horror#and i wouldnt have it any other way#wish i knew why i did this stuff#this is why my engineer dad tried to get me to study some bsc
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take this one, mixed media. A5. 2018.
#traditional art#illustration#artists on tumblr#ink#acrylic gouache#gouache#teeth#used to make art while on a lot of drugs and now I have to find a way to come back to that artistic freedom without destroying my brain
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how do people post things online without being utterly terrified? I post my art but when I write anything under it I feel so stupid and vulnerable. I want to be a part of this world that I love but I'm hideously scared of it.
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the stomach wants, super black ink on wet mounted mixed media paper. Bigger than A3 but I don't want to measure it
#illustration#traditional art#artists on tumblr#ink#ink drawing#body horror#tw body horror#look at this very cool thing I made!!!#im so proud of myself#ive been struggling with my mind a lot and I made this in an haze over the last few nights#slotted it all together in pieces
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the power at home, super black ink and opaque white on mixed media paper. 42 x 59 cm.
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Helen Joseph Street, super black ink on mixed media paper.
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a power plant with red on it because my dad didn't like the red (he works in power) super black ink and acrylic gouache on mixed media paper
#illustration#traditional art#ink#acrylic gouache#comic art#ink drawing#power plant#south africa#eskom
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the view from under a bridge near Hillbrow, Johannesburg. 2025. waterproof ink on paper.
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her aunt's pool, waterproof ink on paper.
#traditional art#illustration#ink#artists on tumblr#south africa#this is how the south african middle aged middle class decorates their pools
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the toy room, 2025. super black ink, A4.
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I've been drawing with ink without pencil drawings first, without planning too much. I'm trying to get back to something I lost when I got older and I don't know what it is.
This is a robot from an intersection outside my house. Someone gets into an accident there at least once a month. I heard this one at 2 am. I usually get up to see if I can help but I knew there wouldn't be anything I could do.
sumi super black ink, A4 mixed media paper.
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DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED
Ink on paper, 2025.
I cannot help but think how fascist regimes and interpersonal abuse function so similarly
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a wall in Johannesburg, South Africa. Super black ink on paper.
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Kelvin Power Station, Kempton Park, Gauteng. The Eyes, Everywhere, Everywhere.
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