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me ♔♡𓉸𓋹☉ mood board for class
#me#mine#art#mood board#digital collage#personal representational art#futuristic#ancient egypt#galaxy#outer space#Diana dors#collage#I love this actually !!!#could use some tweaks and some sister boards tho
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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.
#people who tag this as 'tw scary!!!' will be blocked for missing the point + being insufferable.#my art#disabled artist#artists on tumblr#digital art#id in alt text#art#personal art#digital illustration#art on tumblr#body positivity#body positive art#drawing#illustration#ccartshare#drawing tips#drawing disabled characters#disabled representation
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its like. really not that hard.
#say it with me folks!#when we introduce diversity to (much beloved) characters#we DO NOT strip them. of their individuality#ESPECIALLY!!! YOUNG GIRLS#AND THATS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT. OF WONDLA#we want better representation. that means we're making characters poc. thats so awesome BUT HOLY FUCK#you render that effort NULL AND VOID! when you DONT INCLUDE#EVERY PIECE OF PERSONALITY#AND SELF EXPRESSION#THAT THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER HAD#i cant believe how STUPID MOVIE STUDIOS ARE#the search for wondla#wondla#adaptation#fanart#my art#text
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with how unreliable all those narrators are, the whole season might actually be a bored dreamstat’s amusing little daydream
#my art#I’m sure a smart person can write a whole ass dissertation about louis and armand’s relationship this season#but I’m just gonna continue screaming about the choice to make multiple of their kisses completely shrouded in darkness/almost a silhouette#thanks for that show I’m so normal about it#interview with the vampire#iwtv#interview with the vampire amc#iwtv amc#iwtv fanart#iwtv art#louis de pointe du lac#the vampire armand#loumand#and#dreamstat#of course of course wouldn’t want to forget our favourite most fabulous representation of Louis’ psyche#and just in case and to be safe (although I’d think it’s pretty tame considering the show)#tw: gore#tw: blood#cw: gore#cw: blood
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hello! trick or treat 👻🎃
Hello! And what's this - a continuation of the previous comic!
#stubborn cameo because he got the least amount of representation in these drawings#now BACK TO DESIGN JAIL#also paranoid is me#this is just me after watching a horror movie#also kudos to stubborn here because yknow#if someone started whispering “heart lungs liver nerves” in the dark#they are the scarier person here#automatically#trick or treating#stp#my art#stp voices#voice of the stubborn#voice of the paranoid
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♥ Ace Wolffe My Beloved ♥
#commander wolffe#wolffe#tcw#star wars#the clone wars#tcw fanart#sw tcw#clone trooper#my art#as much as I like to ship him and when he gets all bite-y in fics ace headcanons for wolffe are close and dear to my heart okay thanks#happy pride month#bit of representation for me through one of my faves because I deserve it#I very badly want to turn this into a sticker or something... not sure how the colours would fare though#tcw wolffe#I know I promised more Rex but I'm taking a bit of a turn towards the 104th when I'll have time for a bigger personal project#it will be cool if I get around to it I promise#pride flag clones
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#some kind of lizard person?#sketch#art#drawing#dark#contrast#bw#monochrome#2024#b&w#improvised#mood#quick sketch#shadows#dark academia#surreal#unfinished#expressionism#black and white#representational#sketchbook#humanoid#creature
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I dropped this before but every Moon needs a comfy pair of boxers. Here ya go Moon!
[image id: a picture of a pair of moon themed boxers with the words "naughty.. naughty.." written on them in a white, cursive font. the boxers are a dark navy blue with a gold colored band at the top, as well as gold colored stars and crescent moons scattered across it. end id.]
uhh... thanks!
#my art#daycare attendant#moondrop#dca fandom#i've seen a post of moon wearing this exact pair of underwear.... are you the same person who sent that ask??#well regardless im not gonna draw sexy moon. you will take my silly goofsters and you will like it#we need more silly goofster representation#btw.. if i drop off the face of the earth tomorrow you know why B)
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(finally posts after months of inactivity w my riddler sona)
im the riddlah bayyyebbeeeee
#my art#batman#gotham#the riddler#ed nygma#ed nigma#i have issues and diseases#riddler sona#first person to use that tag probs lol#no kidding tho as someone w ocd who has compulsions to make plays on words even tho ppl find it cringe and annoying#the riddler is some of the realest representation of that#maybe not the BEST rep. but rep
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Tutorial for drawing characters with cleft lip! Sorry that it's mostly unilateral-centric but it makes up the vast majority of resources and photos. Still tried to get tips for drawing bilateral clefts in though.
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 👍
If you draw any characters using this feel free to tag me!
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#my art#disabled artist#artists on tumblr#digital art#id in alt text#art#personal art#queer artist#drawing tutorial#drawing tips#ccartshare#drawing disabled characters#disabled representation
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people saying, oh it wasn't intended from the beginning so it wasn't intentional thus has to stay fanfiction bug me. like, shows can develop organically based on chemistry. they can surprise you and take you in a direction that wasn't planned but now just works. like, fucking, chandler and monica wasn't planned from the beginning! but the actors had chemistry and the writers tried it out and it became iconic. you don't throw something away just because it surprised you instead of being pre-planned; you cultivate whatever gold you find!
With Hollywood entertainment in particular, I think there is a lot of ignorance regarding how the creative process, production process, post-production process, and business all work. It is readily apparent that in Hollywood, there are many hands in the kitchen when it comes to creating a movie, documentary, or show. The "Original Intent" argument is weakest when it comes to Hollywood art, and in fact fails to be a viable argument in multiple areas. I will discuss how the "Original Intent" argument fails in Hollywood in more depth under the read more, using what I know from having worked in the industry myself as a writer. And to be honest, the fact I have to pull my private professional history out online, just to prove I'm not being delulu when it comes to the importance of queer subtext in film, pisses me the fuck off.
To be clear, since this whole discourse mess on my Tumblr is likely the result of someone thinking I'm an anti-sylki: I AM NOT AN ANTI. I have an extensive analysis on Sylvie as an integral character to the Loki series, Sylki in canon, and her relationship with Mobius here.
I agree with you: a lot of amazing art deviates from the original intention, especially writing. If deviating from original intent in the writing process did not exist, we would not have DRAFT REVISIONS, we would not have IMPROV, we would not have EDITORS (whose entire job hinges on giving the writer not only grammar corrections, but feedback on how to IMPROVE character, plot, and pacing, which inherently means making changes from the original intent!). This is to say nothing of the thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands, of media scholars--with actual PhDs--who spend years of their lives performing meta-analysis to write academic papers on subject matters like this. Papers that become formal publications and contribute to how queer history is taught in universities! This is no different than academic scholars analyzing women and race representation and resistance in film. Why should analyzing queer representation and resistance in film be treated any less?
LET'S TALK ABOUT ORIGINAL CREATIVE INTENT VS POWER HIEARCHY & POLITICS IN HOLLYWOOD
For context with respect to this ask, a different Tumblr user critiqued against queer subtext in one of my posts using the "original intent" argument for the Loki series and Lokius specifically. By this logic, if original intent is always honored, then the original script for Loki's S2E5 (written by Eric Martin) would not have been NUKED by the executive powers that be at Marvel. [source] But no, the original intent was not honored, it was rejected. So how does one square the primacy of original intent with original intent being rejected by people who are not the artist but the people who manage Disney's finances?
In television, "Executive Producer" (i.e. Tom Hiddleston, Michael Waldron, Eric Martin, etc.) is a title that can be given to a writer or actor who has more creative say in the execution of a story than a regular staff writer or actor on crew. It also indicates that the writer or actor is in a much higher salary range compared to their professional peers. It does NOT mean the same thing as a CORPORATE "Producer" of Kevin Feige's level, who ultimately has the FINAL SAY on what does NOT end up on the cutting room floor. The corporate Producer must take into account the wishes of corporate's shareholders and board of directors, who are often multi-million if not multi-billion global investors who need the distribution of the product to succeed internationally in countries like China, which is very anti-LGBTQAI+. This is how a script like Eric Martin's S2E5 can be nuked and the writer can be contractually gagged from talking about its specific contents by Disney, lest they be SUED TO HELL for breaking their non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
This doesn't even take into account politics.
In 2020, Ike Perlmutter, Chair of Marvel, "gave $575,000 to Trump For Victory, $35,500 to the Republican National Committee in April, $5600 for Texans For Ronny Jackson in February. 2019 saw him donate $248,000 to the Republican National Committee, $466,100 to Trump For Victory, $5,600 to Donald Trump For President." His wife, Laura, mirrored those donations. "In late 2016, he also gave $5,000,000 to the Great America PAC." [source] Ike was only recently laid off from his position in March 2023 [source]. Perlmutter was in a power-struggle at Marvel with Kevin Feige for years. Feige was promoted to Chief Creative Officer in 2019, which brought the power struggle to a head, ultimately contributing to Perlmutter's departure.
There is also Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, who was famously quoted during the Writers Guild of America strike for saying, “It’s very disturbing to me. We’ve talked about disruptive forces on this business and all the challenges we’re facing, the recovery from COVID which is ongoing, it’s not completely back. This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption”
This is the worst time in the world to negotiate to pay your writers, YOUR CREATIVE LABOR FORCE, who entertained millions of people while they were stuck in their homes for 2 years, fairly?
And these are just two men in executive power at Marvel and Disney. We're not even talking about all the other board members and shareholders. You think Tom Hiddleston, Michael Waldron, and Eric Martin have any real power compared to these guys? They do not. They are peons by comparison. And these artists (despite their "Executive Producer" title) are always at odds with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who are ultimately not artists but FINANCIERS.
Here's another quote from a studio executive that occurred during the writer's strike:
"Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it.
To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”" [source 1] [source 2]
Fortunately, this negative press and the WGA members' solidarity led to the WGA getting everything they demanded. I still have friends in the industry, specifically in the WGA and MPEG. A lot of them were indeed starved out. My friend who's a film editor is still unemployed because pre-production has only recently started to ramp up again and her profession is all in post. She has to wait for production to catch-up and finish in order to get work.
If the AMPTP is willing to use clearly unethical tactics to underpay their writers and actors (don't forget the SAG-AFTRA strike that joined later), do we really think members of the AMPTP (the studio execs) are willing to honor artists' original intent if the original intent may be "offensive to some viewers" and therefore can potentially cut into their financial bottom line?
We're not naive. We know the answer to this.
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH, KILLING EVE, AND GOOD OMENS
But what about OFMD, KE, and GO? These shows are on MAX, BBC, and Amazon Prime respectively. These corporations have a different branding image than Disney. Disney touts itself as "family friendly"; (read: on-screen LGBTQAI+ affection between two lead characters is "not family friendly"). MAX and BBC's branding type also affords them the luxury of creating content for niche audiences. Disney, on the other hand, makes additional revenue through using their plethora of licenses to make toys, additions to their theme parks, and other merch. If a parent is offended that a canonically queer character like Loki has romantic love not just for Sylvie but also for Mobius (a same-sex relationship), what are the odds of parents like them not buying Disney's merchandise? We can apply this same question to Star Wars, Pixar, and any of Disney-branded animation or live action movies. How deeply can audience offense potentially cut into Disney's bottom line? If there were no discrimination taking place, we would have LGBTQAI+ representation through a lead character in any one of their licenses already. We do not, and that is a huge red flag.
In addition, these entertainment corporations (who do not tout themselves as "family friendly") generate other sources of revenue elsewhere. Netflix generates international revenue through the production of international programming like "Squid Game" and other K-dramas such as "The Glory" or Mexican shows including, "The Surrogacy" and "Haunted: Latin America". MAX is struggling. They were bought out for that reason. With AppleTV and Hulu, their target audiences are more diverse, they offer a variety of media product, and their business strategy is ultimately different from Disney. All of this grants them more freedom in what kind of characters they choose to represent, including LGBTQAI+ characters.
Remember House and Wilson from House M.D.? That show was on FOX. We know the political alignment of FOX. Dean and Castiel from Supernatural? WB Television. Both shows came out before streaming became dominant, and thus, these shows had to cater to anyone who might happen to land on their channels. When the market demands that you cater to the widest possible audience in order to generate the largest revenue, the creatives are forced to create relatively conservative artistic product. Hence, creative censorship and our long history of queer subtext.
At Nickelodeon, the artists actually had the support of corporate to move forward with Korrasami because the final season Legend of Korra was only available online. It did not air on their channel. If that had not been the case, corporate would not have approved Korrasami. However, that approval was contingent upon the artists being subtle subtle about Korra and Asami's relationship. Even in this canon ship, the animators relied on subtext for queer romance.
Not helping Disney's case is the cancellation of "The Owl House". Why was "The Owl House" canceled? It didn't fit Disney's "brand". [source]
THE FAILURES OF THE "ORIGINAL INTENT" ARGUMENT IN HOLLYWOOD
The "Original Intent" argument fails when it comes to art in Hollywood because:
Original Intent can change, and often does change, during the creative process. This applies to all forms of art, not just Hollywood.
Multiple artists are involved in pre-production, production, and post-production. At any point in this 3-part process of filmmaking, original intent can be changed for a variety of reasons.
Studio Executives, Boards of Directors, and Corporate Shareholders have more power than the artists in Hollywood. If they think a product will not make money, they will order changes accordingly.
Disney specifically touts itself as "family friendly". Its lack of a lead character (in ANY of its live-action licenses) being in an openly queer relationship with someone who presents as the same sex, is the direct result of not wanting to lose conservative audiences.
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are common in Hollywood and prevent artists from providing specifics regarding original intent. This is done not only to safeguard corporate's intellectual property (IP), but to also safeguard their public relations image.
THE ORIGINAL INTENT ARGUMENT WEAPONIZED
The "original intent" mindset can be either very naive or very cynical, depending on the thinker's motives for choosing this belief. Naive, in that thinking creative purity actually exists (it does not) or that oppression does not still occur in Hollywood (it does). Cynical, in that either the thinker doesn't believe in artists intentionally finding ways around mass produced arts' media censorship, which has in turn created our rich history of queer subtext in film, OR the thinker wants the "original intent" argument to invalidate a change they do not like.
The last motive is the same strategy used by fans who reject Miles Morales as being a real Spider-Man. The same strategy fans use to deny that Shuri is indeed the new Black Panther. Both are tactics used to mask racism and sexism beneath the veneer of "creative purity". Fans who have internalized racism, sexism, or queer-phobia may also use this tactic at a subconscious level to protect themselves emotionally from disappointment. Finally, there are fans who use this argument to invalidate another ship, usually a queer ship that cannot be formally canonized because of corporate studio power.
Regardless of the reasoning, using this argument is frequently insidious because it perpetuates straight white male dominance in media representation.
PERSONAL LIVED EXPERIENCE
I'm an old poc queer and have worked in Hollywood long enough to know that the writers' original vision rarely ever--IF EVER--pans out as originally intended. If you ever sit through a movie and wonder why the story feels so weird in certain parts, I can guarantee you that about 2/5ths of the time, a corporate producer stepped in and messed with the original story in post-production (usually in an poor, over-worked editor's dark editing bay) and ordered reshoots the director may not have agreed with.
I've also worked in the industry long enough to know that it is an absolutely toxic work environment in which women, people of color, and queer people still struggle to get a creative foothold anywhere. My first experience pitching a script to a prospective agent involved being asked to meet at a hotel for drinks. We didn't talk about my writing at all. What I thought would be a pitch meeting was actually the writer's version of the "Hollywood casting couch". Yes, I was propositioned. No, nothing happened to me. I walked out. This happened to me in June 2008. It was not my last experience. The "Me Too" movement that came years later in 2017 was in response to situations I have encountered like this.
Those of us who succeed are very rare, and 97% of the time, the executive staff is very, very white and male. There is absolutely oppression and exploitation of all sorts still happening in Hollywood. I fucking lived it and continue to have nightmares about it.
QUEER SUBTEXT STILL EXISTS
Thus, to deny queer subtext's validity as an art form and to only accept the words of those who are either in power or limited in what they can say because of those in power, undermines not only the artists' efforts to tell the story they want to tell but cannot tell explicitly, it also undermines queer joy and queer resistance in cinema. And yes, sometimes those artists are cis straight white male allies who want to tell these stories because they simply make sense for the characters. These people are the artists, not the financiers.
It's more mature to embrace, or at least leave alone, the loud joy others experience from shipping and performing meta-analysis instead of publicly pissing on them with the profoundly weak and ignorant argument of "original intent". Don't mess with me on this. The number of scripts I have worked on that completely warped from what I wanted, and then to have my writing credit removed or stolen, still makes me sick. Yes, I'm bitter, but I'm also glad I left.
#loki#mobius#lokius#loki season 2#writing#art#asks#queer cinema#lgbt representation#lgbtqia representation#lgbtqai#lgbtqia#hollywood#politics#entertainment industry#art vs capitalism#capitalism#personal#wga#hollywood industry
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I really love your art style! I was wondering if you could draw a trans women one day as well
Thank you so much!! ��� my personal oc, lunaria, is trans! (they/them)
Generally tho, I'm not sure how to answer this bc i rarely think of my characters' gender or sexuality.. it's probably due to my own feelings about gender fluidity, but somebody could view all the creatures in my art as trans if it makes them happy, they're all definitely queer!
The only difference i could make is always trying to depict them as "visibly trans" which I'm not certain is genuine, since ppl's bodies/genitalia can be anything? but yea my redraw of the unicorn in captivity (it's still a wip) does show chest scars as well
#sorry for the long post!#I'm usually wary when it comes to representation bc i want ppl to connect with my art but i dont want to *misrepresent* by accident#my art is also personal and my experiences are limited#thank you anon <3
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my girls tricky and maewynn
#has an art history minor haver i was like#at a glance i guess a lot of the visual refs we have of bronze age mycenaean clothing are representations of important people or gods#so the average person might be dressed more simply#so i might have to use my imagination just a little#except for with maewynn.#she can wear all that because she's rich#dnd#d&d#dungeons and dragons
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Post hibernation quick art dump and it's Lucille :3
I love her so much smsnhdgshahs
#THE BRAINROT COMTINUES#also yes thats the same person in the last drawing#gemderfluid representation#oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes we both oh yes we both reached for#original character#art#oc#oc art#oc artwork#character design#cabaret#burlesque#all that jazz#chicago 2002#chicago fanart#i fucking love chicago hrnfndhghsgdgs#lesbian#sapphic#sketchy#sketch#trad art#quick drawing#1920s#1920s hollywood#1920s fashion#design#fashion#genderfluid#genderfluid oc#Lessie
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red white and royal blue was so cheesy and predictable I enjoyed it thoroughly. making banal queer romantic comedies is hard but necessary work
#sooner or later we'll start getting them with lesbians too *shakes fist in determination* imagine#nor's rambles#ALTHOUGH it would be refreshing to get a film that does not hit all these romantic comedy beats#or that would be a romantic comedy but actually good. like palm springs but gay. the big sick but gay#WHEN HARRY MET SALLY BUT GAY although that really hits the beats ahgvadhbfds#also personally i like queer stories that don't give much attention to labels and such. i think those are really important too#it's one of the reasons i'm not the biggest fan of hearstop*per (censoring so it doesn't go into the tag to ruin people's fun)#because i feel like it's just taking all the letters from the LGBTQIA and assigning each character with a letter#which is not wrong in any way and once again i am older than the intended audience it's not For Me#but i am often left craving something sort of... less defining. more free. more just being what you are and doing what you do#kind of like.. something done for the sake of the story and the art instead of just representation for the sake of representation???#that is important too!! but kinda craving stuff for us who don't really like labels as well???
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The adhd fixation changes have me in a chokehold yet again!
Photo study but make it Devious as a merman.
#please brain I wish to operate like a normal person! ;0;#and make him stripy because I use tigers as his representation#but merDevious is certainly…..something#I can’t swim but for Devious I would#his son Artemy is off lounging around somewhere for sure ;v;#I was tempted to make his subordinates random fish but I won’t rob them like that haha#mermaid#buggee art#mermay#villain oc#Devious#mermaid au#oc art#original character#artists on tumblr#fantasy art#sketch art#doodles#digital sketch#character art#oc#mermaid!au#merfolk#mermaid art#monster art
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