Double Dog Dare You To Draw Brad Dourif In His Outfit And Hairstyle From Dune '84

There’s a high-quality face smoosh in Death Machine too, AND a face-grabby kiss in Spontaneous Combustion!

I get it… I really do

Pictures of people smooshing Brad’s face. He’s got a smooshable face.

Oh my god. Oh my god this nearly made me cry ♡♡♡ Harpo is one of my faves of all time, and knowing that he was like this makes me adore him even more.

This zine has been sitting partially finished for like 3 years and i figured, you know, done is better than perfect.

The title comes from Susan Fleming: "Oscar Levant was surly, moody, and despairing. He clung to Harpo like a life raft."

i just think they're neat.

Trans coded Julian Bashir is everything to me

Toshiro Mifune in "Drunken Angel" (1948)

New Star Trek headcanon just dropped: Geordi and data regularly hang out in the dark and Geordi sometimes forgets that people need light to see

more saavedro : )

J.C. Leyendecker, famous queer artist of dapper 1920s people, across a hundred years of separation: so sometimes we need to get a little athlete, I mean a real small one, posing like he’s going to kill and eat someone, leaving no shards of bone.

Me, humble disciple: absolutely absolutely

J.C. Leyendecker: he could kill a horse by sneering. That’s how cunty he is.

Me: doin my best, boss -

J.C. Leyendecker: you must then put him in the silky underwear -

Me: of course.

Leyendecker: do your absolute best to shine up the silky, shiny, thin underwear. Oil it.

Me: I’m not great at this -

Leyendecker: think silk. Think shiny. Think, “this is how you sell clothing to straight men.”

Me: is - is it?

Leyendecker: the whip must, of course, be slightly suggestive. No, more than that. More than that. It’s important that he be provocatively catchable, AND YET - he can defend himself!

Me: got it, boss. Um - you know I’m not actually - I don’t know how to paint -

Leyendecker: shhh, I am telling you. to sell suits we also need a suit guy. we model the suit guy on a Suit Guy, one of my 1920s Suit Guys, it’ll be great.

Me: I can probably draw -

Leyendecker: suit guy could kiss him on the head. 😘 . Like that. Say that.

Me: 🫡

J.C. Leyendecker, “man and jockey clothing advertisement,” 1923. This is how we sell men’s suits, apparently.

Process of my latest rookanis piece!

Original piece and thoughts under the cut ✨

As usual I've struggled with faces, it took a ton of attempts to get either of them right (all not included lmao, trust me, I struggled). Sometimes I overworked the rendering - most notably her hair. Chiara's hair is straight and the woman in the ref has curly hair, I kept overdoing the details in ways that didn't make sense. I wish the final result was closer to his style but alas, I can try that again in a new piece!

When I overwork pieces of a painting, I rather paint the area flat and try again from scratch than trying to fix the existing rendering. By doing it a second time I try to make each brushstroke more deliberate so that I need fewer moves to show what I want. Treat that first attempt as a test run, trust yourself that you'll do better the second time around.

Was watching rules of acquisition today (the episode with Pel) and when Julian Bashir showed up at the very end of the episode I was actually stunned by his beauty because I had seen so many ferengi for 45 minutes. I forgot he was kind of gorgeous. Ferengi fuckers do not come for me. I am on your side