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verflares · 10 months ago

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NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

also on inprnt :]

#light dragon #zelda #princess zelda #totk #totk spoilers #loz #loz fanart #blacked out and drew this . she is the tortured babygirl of alltime forever and always. the cosmic unfavourite. love her #ftr the pose here is the dying swan which is very thematically appropriate #but that stupid mandela catalogue/deltarune remix has been stuck in my head bcus i kept listening to it while painting. and well #my art

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quiddie · 15 days ago

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Just had a friend show me a conversation in a fan discord about Suvi as a Black American woman in the context of the fallout from the election. And honestly? Yeah. The blueprint is simple: Black women are expected to put their own priorities and emotions on hold to show up for everyone else's battles and hold endless space for everyone's feelings while simultaneously weathering attacks on our character (oh she's so angry/aggressive/violent/rude) and authority (she's a woke hire/affirmative action quota/nepobaby) without complaint. We're expected to save the day under nigh-impossible circumstance, and with fewer resources and support that is AT BEST, conditional.

So yeah, relistening to Suvi's speech in The Witness hurts now. Because that's exactly the feeling I'm wrestling with, and what I see mirrored in the Black women around me. We are exhausted and angry and sad. Those voter percentages are a betrayal of "we" that was promised by other marginalized groups when speaking of the interconnectedness of our liberation. And the unexamined expectation that we immediately rise from the depths of our despair to prepare for the next fight is a cruelty. Suvi isn't real, but if this helps lend empathy toward actual Black women in the world, then I'm glad.

#worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one #there's a reason I spent so much time scrapping with fans misremembering plot #always with the aim of painting Suvi as 'the bad/mean one' universally responsible for any party friction #i've clocked dozens upon dozens of threads maligning her and nitpicking every choice she makes #and holding her alone to a ridiculous standard of behavior #while rooting for her to experience enough pain/loss to bend her to their preferred trajectory #and dismissing her emotions as Citadel programming unworthy of consideration #it's just more fucking misogynoir at the end of the day #i saw a post calling her an abuser for not being *nice* enough to Ame when she arrived at the conclave #and all i can think is 'why do you need her to mask her VALID emotions for others' sakes?'#and then i remember she's a black woman #and i get really tired for her (and me)#don't worry #i'll return to funky lil shitposts and art reblogs soon

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psikonauti · 2 years ago

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Armando Veve (American, b. 1989)

#upl #va #art #drawing #Armando Veve #animals in art #this isn't a cyanotype #the artist says :#The process was a bit layered for this one. In short I created graphite negatives of each insect and used the black and white data to #digitally expose a cyan-painted surface. I was trying to mimic the cyanotype process while also maintaining the texture in my other drawn wo #In a sense the work exists between drawing and photo.#---his comment about the work

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riviclouds · 1 year ago

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*pets him with a slightly damp toothbrush*

#simon riley #simon ghost riley #call of duty ghost #cod ghost #i was listening to lana del rey while painting him and for a moment everything made sense #call of duty modern warfare 2 #cod mw2 #cod mwii #every time i add pure black or pure white to my painting i feel like. im committing a crime #doesn't matter how dark or bright the piece is #digital art #digital painting #fanart #medibang paint pro #i keep disappearing for months on end and you guys keep staying and waiting....#i don't deserve y'all </3

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wolfythewitch · 2 years ago

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Gapple gang

#art #fan art #fanart #mcyt #philza #acrylic painting #traditional art #had to listen to a documentary for school and then i blacked out and then there were birds #it was a cool documentary about a catholic apparition of mary #i was actually pretty entertained while painting

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icewindandboringhorror · 4 months ago

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I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

#wax seal #crafts #wax stamp #stationery #Window one is kind of stinky.. I was imagining like a swirly night sky sort of looking thing so it would be a surreal contrast of a night #sky with a window in the middle that shows a daytime sky - but the silver and purple wax kind of mixed too much together #with the black and it just looks very plain black and not all that starry or anything hjbhj.. Of course the eye is probably my favorite #since all I ever do is draw eyes and still like eye imagery for some reason. The four leaf clover is very lumpy and skrunkty but also it wa #the smallest in size out of all of them so was easier to do multiple stamps of just to try it out.#The heart with eyes wax is actually more swirly in person. I wanted it to be a mix of light pink and red and white. and the wax #did kind of all blend together but in person you can definitely see MORE of the intentional swirlyness. in this it just looks plain pink.#I was going to do one eye in the heart but it looked weird. but now two seems too plain. i could have done 3?? in a pattern.. hmm #alas. I wish I could make actual metal ones. With the clay i have to paint them in a thin layer of olive oil before stamping because #otherwise the wax just kind of gets stuck in the grooves of the clay and then you can't pull it up. Very wacky ''unprofessional'' looking #set up where I'm hot gluing circles of sculpey clay to short stumps of a wooden dowel that I sawed apart with a serrated bread knife #and then using an old paintbrush to put olive oil on them whilst holding a spoon over a yankee candle flame hjbjh #ANYWAY.. I think if I were middle class/rich/etc. this would be one of the main things in my crafting room is like.. SO many colors #of wax. and all different custom made stamps designed by me. which could be much more elaborate in actual metal.. muahaha.... >:)c #RHGghhh... I actually don't want to talk much about it since (this is probably just my Obsessed With My Own World Artist Delusions) I #think I have a really cool idea for a game that could genuinely be successful if i ever get to make it and I don't want to give #everything away and spoil the whole plot/concept in hopes that one day I can actually do it - BUT - a game that I'd like to make after the #visual novel I'm making now has partially to do with the main character working as a sort of writer/scribe/artist assistant in an elven #city (set in my world/with my worldbuilding species and versions of elves and etc) and I was thinking of maybe incorporating #somehow being able to collect little writing type items like these like.. you can get different wax seal patterns or pens or etc. when I do #stuff like this in Real Life it always makes me think of that like.. ouh... this is good research.. what it shall be like to be a littol #elf collecting wax seals and such.. indeed... GRR i need to be finished with my current game NOWWW... i MUST work on other #thingss... aughh... ANYWAY.. yay. accomplishment to do One Single Thing other than Sit In The Summer Heat And Rot #though also hilarious as this was the first cool-ish day that was below 80F in a while hgvh #waking up like 'wow.. i actually feel okay today?? like I could do things?? how mysterious.. I wonder why..?? :0'' Its The Weather You Fool #Tis Always The Weather

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levemetal · 6 months ago

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Watercolor test to get back into it! It's botched, especially the chair but eh. Gonna post anyway ٩( ᐛ )و

Mei Nianqing, inspired by the lovely @kimbapchan's gorgeous design of him in their swap AU <3

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #mei nianqing #i love him so much #silly old man #and calamity mnq scratches an itch i didnt know i even had #ik the hair's black in the original design but idk I wanted to make it white #it's also better for the contrast in the pic tbh #all the blacks and dark colors would have been a bit too much for this comp #then again i never said i was good at this #i knew this was botched after day 1 of painting it but i am nothing if not stubborn #i used it to test some tricks i had seen while i was at it #with mixed results as you can see LMAO #anyway have a lovely day everyone

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laazytoaster · 11 days ago

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startled but curious ape noise

i was scroling trough dear Dogman tumblr and an ask about my beloved boy mothman made me remember that i wanted to draw him so ;3333

#i drew the back of bigfoot's head only to paint it fully black lmao #also i need to draw my mothsona once in a while #dialtown #bigfoot #mothman #bigfoot dialtown #dialtown fanart #mothman fanart #art #fanart #laazytoaster

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sanflawoah · 15 days ago

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Erlang Shen portrait study

#been a while since my last painting #black myth wukong #erlang shen #yang jian #my art

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crabsnpersimmons · 30 days ago

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great questions @inkydoughnut!!

here's a close-up on Eddie's star:

the star on his chest is a light! it’s white in the centre and has a colour-changing outline that matches the colour of his other markings

no heat. back when he was a performer, he’d light up and pulse different colours according to the show and the background music, so it’s important his lights don’t produce too much heat. The glow may intensify or blink if he gets flustered—which doesn't happen often. He’s seen and experienced a lot of things. Nowadays, only his kids are able to fluster him

yes, it’s safe to touch. he has touch sensors so he does feel touch. he’d probably respond like: “haha, reaching for the stars, doll? You’re already the brightest star around.”

#ask the crab #fnaf eclipse #dca fandom #dca oc #fnaf oc #my oc Eddie #crab art #digital art #bright colours #so there's a common theme amongst most of my Eclipse OCs: body marks #Clip has speckles on his arms and legs that resemble keratosis pilaris #Echo has stripes around her body that resemble stretch marks #and for Eddie i really wanted to incorporate scars into his design #some of his markings are actual scars where the black paint has been scratched off to reveal the lights underneath #and while i was experimenting with his markings i ended up drawing a star and i liked it #it also makes sense for a performer to have a star

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royalnavyart · 3 months ago

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bargue plates - the eye x book of hours palettes

Top to bottom:

✨ Book of Hours

⚜️ Book of Hours for the Use of Paris

❣️ Book of Hours of Jean de Lannoy

🌌 The Black Hours

#I recently bought a book called “Beautiful Book Designs” by Hiroshi Unno #and while flipping through i saw that there were multiple variations of the Book of Hours #and they were all so pretty!#I WANTED TO EAT ALL THE COLORS (✧ᴗ✧)#tho there's smthing abt The Black Hours that just hits different ngl🖤#anyway played with the colors on some eye bargue plates i was drawing #i was supposed to keep drawing plates but um ... yeah #1 down ... 196 to go? \( ; v ; )/#bargue plates #eye drawing #eye painting #eye makeup #book of hours #medieval aesthetic #medieval art #art studies #color studies #my art

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cacklefrendly · 5 months ago

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@gearbroth hey. HEY....... get Leyendeckered.

(another attack on gearbroth on both Star and Skal bc THEY DREW WOCJAA PERFECTLY AND I CAN'T LET THAT STAND) (inspired by this specific piece, and a Leyendecker painting)

(original* Leyendecker painting under cut bc it's really pretty)

*i can't find a perfect clean version with good color, full detail, and no weird cropping. But this one is close!

#cackle draws #artfight #Skal's hair turned out well ngl. no im not biased.#i was originally gonna reference That One Painting everyone redraws but found this one while collecting refs and the pose!!! i love it!!!!!#everyone needs to be proud of me bc i barely did any painting. it took a Painful amount of restraint.#me 1 hour in: i'm NOT gonna paint any of this im NOT GONNA #me 48 hours in starin' at Star's hair: Hans. Get ze size 4 inking pen.#(oh yeah also the flower's a black dahlia which totally doesn't represent anything bad. yep.)

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bayazreza · 2 months ago

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Hewynn is one of those characters I really liked when I played the story for the first time. Altough it's a young looking character, it comes to me as much more melancholic. Also, I still miss her old voice, it gave it a uniqueness to her dialogs...

#afk journey #afk journey fanart #afk hewynn #i don't know if there's another “sad” fan art of hewynn but here you go i guess??#I listened to Black Water Lillies by AURORA while painting this

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calciferstims · 1 year ago

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