#native designers

[hiwaaranit]

I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

The forest king and the postwoman

[c-rberus]

waking up from surgery🩸

the memory i have of it is so vivid & i'll never forget it as long as i live - i remember slowly coming into being, huffing in and out rapidly, feeling fire on my chest and crying all at once. it felt literally like i was finally newly born, like my life before was just in gestation.

happy pride month!

[thesilicontribesman]

Trumpet-Style Brooch, 1st to 3rd Century CE, Perth Museum, Scotland

This exceptionally large copper alloy and enamel brooch is in the 'Massive Style.' It would have been worn by a powerful, elite woman.

[mortemilla]

odo sketches

[thewatcher0nthewall]

Sixskins

[shitpostingkats]

I am once again thinking about how much Dual Destinies Apollo Justice looks like his dad.

[aisling-saoirse]

Autumn Garden, Penn State Arboretum - September 13th 2024

[lightheal]

a new ref for riet! my dearest oc who's accompanied my art journey since the start of this blog, he's my baby boy and means more than the world to me 🥺💕

[telekitnetic-art]

☕🐇 Go ahead and take a sip!! (Magnet available)

This design was a concept that I've been working on for a while now!! It's gone through a few different phases and drafts, but I think I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!! I'd like to do similar designs with other drinks too, like tea!

[hiwaaranit]

When it comes to textured hair there’s many styles, here some I’ve seen at powwows. Braided locs have to be my favorite style so far 💖

(Edit)- i didn’t communicate this very well but this is a merging of cultures. Culturally/traditionally no we didn’t have cornrows/locs these are black hairstyles, and then mixed with our hairstyles because of the influence of Afro indigenous people (the two braids)💖 having two braids for some regalia is very important and so these are hairstyles I’ve seen Afro natives wear for powwows. Not saying two pigtails are just a native thing but cultural context is important

Reminder braids are not a universal hairstyle between tribes! I’m coming from the perspective of Great Plains tribes. I just thought I might share what braided hair means to my community and people. I see people trying to make ocs or redesigns of characters who are native but don’t actually represent us too good. Reminder to always research a tribe before making a character learn their protocols and at least try to learn something new! 🌸💖🍇

I just wanna say I love our hair! It means so much to us please take care of it🥺💖

[jadafitch]

New England native shrub patterns, in spring and autumn. Featuring some lepidoptera species hosted by the plants, in their larval and adult forms. For a project that's been 4 years in the works… More details soon. Mountain Holly Northern Wild Raisin American Mountain Ash Shadbush with Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Beaked Hazelnut with Luna Moth Staghorn Sumac with Spring Azure Butterfly Red-osier Dogwood with Cecropia Moth American Witch Hazel with Eastern Tent Moth Pussy Willow with Mourning Cloak Butterfly Gray Alder with Banded Tussock Moth Big-fruit Hawthorn with Viceroy Butterfly Winterberry Holly

[bigoldeels]

there's a better world that's a-comin', I'll tell you why

[foe-paw]

BABBLE THE SPELL THAT GETS IT DONE, BABBLE IT ON COMMAND

[image description in read more]

[Image Description: a digital drawing of three white silhouettes gathered around a black book. A multi-colored glow forms the shape of a star underneath them. At each of the five points of the star, the colorful figure of a Lord in Black stands. Pokey is in blue at the bottom left, Nibbly is in pink at the top left, Blinky in purple at the top right, Tinky in yellow at the bottom right, and Wiggly stands at the top point of the star. They loom over the white silhouettes. End Description.]

[murdleandmarot]

Cats art has stalled just a tad bc of artfight (a problem I plan to remedy soon), so I just wanted to share an old Lonzo from when I was in Germany :)

[mindscapr]

Re-design of my tribes flag, thoughts?

Did this just for fun, and also because I thought our original flag is kind of ugly. I like the seal, but a flag shouldn’t be a seal slapped onto a rectangle, especially with just our name at the top in bold white.

CGP grey taught me better than that.

So here we are.

Explanation for everything:

The large eagle in the middle is there because eagles are very important to my tribe, messengers of prayer. We also own an eagle sanctuary for injured birds and distribute their sacred feathers.

The fire has two meanings, one for our name and role, Fire Keepers/People of the Place of the Fire, and the fire has seven points for the seven fires prophecy. (A very important part of our tribals history migrating across turtle island)

The eagle has a three pointed crest on their chest, one for each tribe in the three fires council that makes up the Nishnabe

The crest is in a circle, not just as a reference to the original seal but also for our dancing circles at powwows.

And finally the boarder is a medicine wheel for the four directions, seasons and sacred medicines.

Thank you for reading!!