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Guess who got the TAZ Graphic Novel finally! I loved the art on this panel (and the whole thing) so I really wanted to paint it in my style.

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A digital painting of Hurley and Sloane kissing in the designs of the TAZ Graphic Novel. Hurley is a tan halfling with short pink hair, she’s wearing a sleeveless vest and is very buff. Sloane is a dark skinned elf with long dark hair and winged eyeliner. The background is a light blue sky and there are pink petals surrounding them.

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Lup! (click for better quality)

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A digital painting of Lup from The Adventure Zone. She is a tan elven woman with light hair and dark eyes. She’s wearing a red robe and it and her hair are blowing to the side. She’s facing the side and her hand is out and she’s casting magic. There are red, yellow and blue abstract flames and multi colored lightning coming from her hand. The background is black with white abstract eyes in the sky.

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Cats are liquids

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A short video of a black puddle on the ground. The puddle grows up into the shape of a black cat with a long neck and yellow eyes. Behing the cat is a dark blue sky with stars and a cresent moon.

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A ballad of my suffering as a DM

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an eight pannel black and white comic showing a group of people playing DnD. The first pannel show a DM talking to their players, the DM says: “Y’all walk into a bar and you see a few folks.” The next pannel is a bar with two tables of people and a barkeep. The text below the pannel reads: “The bar is pretty crowded. There’s a half-orc woman behind the bar cleaning the counter”. The third pannel is a group of three elves sitting at a table, holding fishing roads. The text on that pannel reads: “There’s this table of elven fishers, kinda chilling and drinking some beers.” The fourth pannel shows a group of three gnomes at a table. The text reads: “There’s a group of gnomish loggers, talking and drinking at a table.” The fifth pannel is a person sitting on a stage playing a lute. The text reads: “There’s like a bard on a stage, playing a lute.” The sixth pannel is a cloaked figure in a corner, there’s smoke and magic energy coming off of them. The text reads: “And in the corner there’s this cloaked figure, wreathed in shadow, there’s smoke coming off of them and you can’t see their face.” The seventh pannel shows the group of people playing DnD again, two of the players are saying: “I wanna go talk to the bard.” and “Yeah let’s go talk to the bard”. The eighth pannel is a close up of the DM’s face with a deeply neutral expression, the players are still speaking out of frame and saying: “Is the bard hot?” “What’re they playing?” “I wanna roll to flirt with the bard” “Can I get their fantasy snapchat?”

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But the beauty of it/ was gift./ Do you see what I mean?/ You give, and you are given.

“Philip’s Birthday” by Mary Oliver

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A lineless 4 panel comic in a simplified color scheme of pale yellow, orange, teal, and dark blue. The 1st panel is of two hands holding out a gift box. The text under the panel reads: “I gave to a friend that I care for deeply something that I loved it was only a small”. The next panel is of a bone inside the box, the bone is curved in an ‘s’ shape. The text under the panel reads: “extremely shapely bone that came from the ear of a whale. It hurt a little”. The third panel is of a sunrise over the water. The text under the panel reads: “to give it away. The next morning, I went out, as usual, at sunrise”. The last panel is of a swan on the water, the shape of the swan’s neck is also ‘s’ shaped and mimics the shape of the bone from the second panel. The text under the panel reads: “and there in the harbor was a swan. I don’t know what he or she was doing there,”

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I’ve been rewatching season one of fantasy high and I just love these gals.

[image ID: three digital paintings of characters from Fantasy High. The first is of Kristen Applebees, she is a tan human with red hair and she is standing holding a staff. She is wearing a tie-dye t-shirt, jean shorts and sandals. There are small yellow sparks of magic coming out of her hand. The second painting is of Adaine Abernant, she is a pale elf with blonde hair and glasses. She is wearing a jean jacket and is holding a book under her arm. Her eyes are glowing blue and her other hand is covered in blue flame. The third painting is of Fig, she is a tiefling with dyed red hair in a braid. She is wearing a dark button down shirt, a red skirt and fish net tights. She is playing a bass guitar with flame decals and sliding forward on her knees. There is magic coming from her guitar in the shape of a sound wave.

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i’m a mitski stan first and a person second

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A digital drawing of Mitski singing into an electric guitar. The lines around her are giffed to vibrate like the strings of a guitar.

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glass is pretty weird huh

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a digital painting of red wine in a glass against a grey background

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A redo of an old piece! I like this version much better

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a purple monochrome lineless digital drawing of a person walking on a sidewalk. The person is dark-skinned and they are stopped under a street lamp, looking up at the light. The shadow behind them has come off of the ground and has many teeth and eyes and spindly arms.

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I lost my mind while painting this.

[image ID: a digital painting of a coca-cola can sitting on a table. The coke can is dripping with water and is in focus.

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this post is what finally inspired me to make an art blog and post things online! most of my stuff is classified under ‘too self-indulgent’ or ‘not good enough’. But I think this one in defo the weirdest thing I’ve made

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A painting of Waluigi being crucified. He is surrounded by Mario, Toad, Princess Peach and Wario. They all look upset, with Wario looking close to tears. The background is like the Mario games, with green grass and bushes, a blue sky and white clouds. It is captioned: “wahhh-men”.

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hey artists.

that thing you’ve wanted to make but haven’t because you don’t think anyone will like it? that anyone will share it? because it’s “too self-indulgent?” because it’s “not good enough?” 

make it. make it, please. this is me giving you permission to follow your creative soul wherever it takes you. whether it’s a drawing or a poem or a song or a dance or a short film recorded from the confines of your own apartment, please make it and send it to me so i can share, or reblog it with this post.

we need art now, more than ever, and we need each other now, more than ever. i want to fill this blog with creation and connectivity. send me what you’re making!

as always, with love,

mcelboycontent/paige alena

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i just don’t really have an excuse anymore. My girlfriend made a joke about Waluijesus (like Waluigi and Jesus) and I went with it.

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A painting of Waluigi being crucified. He is surrounded by Mario, Toad, Princess Peach and Wario. They all look upset, with Wario looking close to tears. The background is like the Mario games, with green grass and bushes, a blue sky and white clouds. It is captioned: “wahhh-men”.

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A comic about transitioning and changes.

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A 9 pannel digital art comic with a grey, pink and blue color scheme. The first pannel is a hand holding a photo of a feminine presenting person. The text on the pannel reads “When I look at old pictures of myself, I notice all the differences”. The second pannel is a masculine presenting person with short blue hair smiling. The third pannel is a close up of the person in the photo, they have long dark her. The text over the second and third pannels reads “My hair is different now”. The fourth pannel is a close-up of a nametag on a blazer that reads ‘My name is William’. The fifth pannel is a hand holding the back of the photograph which reads ‘Mary 2014’. The text over the fourth and fifth pannels reads “So is my name”. The sixth pannel is a close-up of the photograph, the person in it is wearing a blue dress. The seventh pannel is a close-up of a hand tightening a tie, the person is wearing a pink dress shirt and a blazer. The text over these two pannels reads “My clothes are different, too”. The eighth pannel is a close-up of the masculine person smiling widely. The ninth pannel is a close-up of the photograph and the person’s face. They are barely smiling. The text over the final two photographs reads “But, I think the biggest change is my smile”

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I constantly see kissing being framed as like the “peak romantic gesture”, and as an ace person who doesn’t like kissing it was always really frustrating and confusing. So here’s a series of paintings I did trying to show other romatic gestures in a really romantic style, like how kissing is almost always portrayed.

[image ID: a series of 4 digital paintings, they are all darkly light with a warm colored spotlight effect. The first painting is of two people facing each other, zoomed in on their feet and the floor, one of the people is standing on their toes. The second painting is the same two people leaning their foreheads together, one person has short white hair and the other has long dark hair. The third painting is a close-up of their waists, one has their hands around the others. The final painting is the two people holding hands. /end ID]

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this is the second in the series of ‘Mal makes fun of classical artists, who are defo way more talented than them’. Although I will maintain that this original painting is garbage. It’s Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son and I hate that painting. I’ve made this joke for years that the eyes on that painting look like muppet eyes. And the next logical step was for me to just paint it as a muppet, so I did.

[image ID: A digital painting of buff Kermit eating a smaller regular Kermit. The lighting is very dark and the smaller Kermit is leaking stuffing rather than bleeding. It is the same poses as Saturn Devouring His Son by Franscisco De Goya.

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I was doing my taxes with my mom and I misspoke.

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a four panel digital comic. The first panel shows a person with short blond hair and glasses sitting across from a table of a woman with long dark hair. There are papers skewn across the table. The person with short hair is asking “So you use HR Tax’N’Blok to do all of this?” The second panel is a close up of the woman replying “Do you mean H and R Block?”. The third panel is the person with short hair looking nervous saying “Ha ha...yeah...”. The fourth panel is a thought bubble of HR Tax’N’Blok, it’s HR Puf’N’Stuf but he’s wearing a suit, and carrying a brief case. He also has glasses, a mustache and has papers in his arms.

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Its MothMan!!!! The quote is a Nietszche quote (not because I like him [which to be clear I don’t]) but because it makes my girlfriend laugh)

[image ID: a cartoon drawing of mothman. He has big red eyes, is smiling and is very cute. The background has squares and circles in black, white and red

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