#art texts

[sinterhinde]

https://ethicaldative.com/

Glory on the site: EthicalDative

'Thoughts on art and language by an amateur painter and former linguist.'

Again, I have no idea how I found this site but I'm fucking glad I did. JMN gives rich and personable insights into art and poetry - in the past two months they've shared translations of Ancient Arabic poets Al-Khansā and ^Umar ibn Abī Rabī^a. This is cool to me for a lot of reasons, and this is my first time reading Arabic poetry.

My only interaction with this alphabet has been the 'mistranslated' Farsi in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School. I'm linking  Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan's great critical essay of this aspect of Acker's novel below:

https://blog.pshares.org/the-overlooked-mistranslations-in-blood-and-guts-in-high-school/

JMN accompanies the majority of their posts with line drawings, mainly bespectacled portraits. I would like all of them tattooed on me, if I could afford the food bill. They are great and I imagine JMN must provide illustrations for anthologies.

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[saszor]

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every ���X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

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edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

second way more important edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

[cancatsdraw]

yeah i'm mad

[sailing-ever-west]

the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

[their-we-go]

and i'm going to.

[s0rinsleeps]

Family scruffing pt2!

+this

[spooksier]

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

[yeehawpim]

[itsdefinitely]

some screenshot redraws

[superkursunaskr]

[comikbook]

where am i

[lgbtqtext]

[saszor]

Tutorial for drawing characters with Down syndrome!

DISCLAIMER... Please keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. It's more of an overview of features that are common in people with Down syndrome, not meaning to imply that every person with DS has all of them 👍 thanks.

If you draw any characters using this feel free to tag me!

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