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2018 - Blog Posts
- 1/04/2018
After I accidentally deleted my first attempt at doodles (I guess I had done about half this much already) I decided to do start over so I wouldn’t have failed on day four of posting
- 1/03/2018 So after a while of drawing these I got tired of it and thought the only thing that improved was the eye brow placement. But after staring at it vs some older doodles it turns out I've really improved the stableness of all facial features
- 1/02/2018
… day 2 and I’ve watched a tutorial that was really helpful… but to actually improve I must change the practically automatic way I draw faces (it all takes longer now)
- 1/01/2018
So to make sure I will actually keep doing them I’ve decided to post my daily doodles. My goal is to do one per day (Aka have started one on the official day and finished when I go to sleep not exactly 12 am) and post them the next day or soon after if I forget
does anyone know how to find the tcc side of YouTube and not just news channel after news channel when I look up columbine?, I wanna watch video essays and Dylan & Eric’s videos not some fugly homophobic white guy on his second divorce talk about it from 2018
These are my breasts and nipples, complete with acne, moles, and hair. Will this image violate tumblr’s new content rules?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
I am a transgender man. I have not had the opportunity or the money to have top surgery. I am excruciatingly aware that the “gender presentation” of my nipples is in the eye of the beholder. Disconnected from the context of the rest of my body and gendered presentation, they look like “female-presenting” nipples. Hell, there are plenty of cisgender women with more chest hair than me.
Are we going to determine the “gender presentation” of my nipples based on my legal gender? That’s debatable too. My most recent legal IDs list my gender as “male,” but my birth certificate lists my gender as “female.” I cannot change the gender on my birth certificate without going back to the state where I was born and getting an order from a judge, and paying a fee. Until I have the time to and money to do that, there will always be at least one legal document where I am still considered female.
Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.
I would say this painting has artistic merit, at the very least from a technical standpoint. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would see no artistic merit in this painting, regardless of technical skill. The line between “nudity found in art” and “adult content” is as indistinct as the line between “naked” and “nude.” Tumblr and Facebook’s new policies stem from SESTA/FOSTA [LINK] and corporate monopolies [LINK].
Policies meant to curtail sex work always hurt more than they help, whether the sex work is voluntary, coerced, or forced. Example: NYC, LA, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have all had/have laws that allow possession of multiple condoms to be considered evidence of prostitution, resulting in arrest or the confiscation of the condoms. So, no safe sex if you're doing sex work, I guess?
Policies like these disproportionately effect people and communities who are viewed as being "inherently sexual" or "overly sexual." Facebook's overzealous new policy prohibits reference to "sexual preferences." I will bet money that policy won't be enforced when a cis het man makes a status update about "I like girls with [insert physical attribute here]," but it will be enforced when a queer person refers to a top, a bottom, a switch, a Daddy, a [insert relational attribute here].
As to what constitutes art and how that concept gets weaponized against LGBTQ people (and other oppressed groups, I'd argue), just read about the history of conservative loathing for the National Endowment for the Arts [LINK].
I don't think my little protest painting will make tumblr and their corporate overlords change their minds. But I couldn't not express my opinion on this.
I don't know if this blog will get flagged or deleted or whatever. I'll keep using tumblr until I no longer have a reason to. But, just in case, I'll be setting up a pillowfort, and maybe a poizen. In the meantime, you can keep up with my shitpost tweets HERE.
Second in my series of practice portraits.
It's funny... most people won't buy portraits of random people but people won't commission you to do portraits if they can't see other portraits you've done. So I'm making portraits that will just sit in my room lol.
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My struggle is being willing to let go of details, of not getting too “precious” with it. Getting there with that hand... still working too much into parts of the face.
I remember reading something where a guy noticed that one class of 5 year olds produced more aesthetically pleasing art than other classes. When asked why her students’ art had better compositions and color choices, the teacher replied “Because I know when to take the piece away.”
Trying to keep this in mind. Don’t overwork. Let things go. Take it away.
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I am the lone weirdo who hates glossy paint and hates glossy varnish and wants everything matte so I can see the colors properly!!
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Inktober day 10.
Drawn with sharpie in between appointments.
May turn this into a proper design at some point.
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Inktober day 9.
Not every day is a good drawing day.
This guy on the bus had the most dramatic and elegant unibrow.
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Inktober day 6.
Some rocks
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Inktober day 5. Some faces and some class notes.
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Inktober day 4. Another interior.
This would have worked better as a painting. It’s the color composition of interiors that interests me.
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Inktober day 3. Sketch of an 80s era Fredrick’s of Hollywood print ad that looked like pin-up art for “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?”
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Inktober day 2. Usually I’m a pissbaby who avoids drawing backgrounds, but drawing creepy, grungy interiors is fun. Might paint about it.
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I’m calling this done! Just needs some varnish and I can do a good scan.
Sure would love it if the tumblr app would quit posting pics as a ugly low res text posts...
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As much as I would like to do a big fancy project for Inktober I’m also being realistic that won’t happen, between workstudy & internship. So if I do a page of ink doodles a day, that’ll be an accomplishment.
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Local idiot SHOCKED that it’s more enjoyable to paint, rather than complain about not having the time to paint.
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Updates from my sketchbook. Mostly drawn while on the bus.
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Some sketchbook pages.
If anyone is interested in getting these as a print or something, just let me know and I can add it to my society6 account.
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Here’s my first ever tapestry. Woven as a birthday gift for my lovely boyfriend, on my trash loom that I made from a thrift store picture frame.
It’s the sunset over southern prairie land.
I have got Ideas about fiber art so expect more in the future.
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Sketches for an in-progress Topical Comic about cis people being cast to play trans people.
As a trans guy who was raised in the theater and has a mom who’s an actress I have lots of Opinions on this subject.
To the right, you can see my mom when she was a Dolly Parton impersonator. And when she was in a Greek tragedy and shaved an inch off her hairline to recreate Greek hairstyles. And when she was in Candide.
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Another hour’s worth of work into this. Coming along nicely...
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Between my internship and the Asbestos Apartment Boogaloo, I haven’t really gotten to work on a painting since March.
My first run at this portrait, about 2 hrs of work, not including the initial sketch. Trying to get faster and looser with portraits.
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Emet is now available for $5 as a PDF download!
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Debuted this @shortrunseattle and now it’s up for sale in my etsy
“Emet” is a short story about a woman and a Golem – $10, plus shipping 5.5 x 8.5, 12 pages, full color choose media shipping and save money!
I hope to post something about the awesome time I had at Short Run, but it might be a little while because I have about three grad school assignments I’m working on. Also there’s an election tomorrow and I will either be drowning my sorrows or celebrating having dodged the Apocalypse.
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Check it out! My comix on queer coding in horror is available as a PDF! It has a digital exclusive: A recommendation list with brief reviews of 20+ horror movies!
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Queer Code – hard copy $5!
So… this was originally gonna be a few pages explaining “queer coding” but the further I got in it, the more I had to say, so I chopped up the first few panels I made, rearranged them and added like 6 more pages.
When I heard they were making a tv version of “Preacher,” I decided to give the comics a read. I’d read some of Garth Ennis’ other stuff back in high school and I always heard him put up there with Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.
By the end of the first arc in “Preacher,” I basically had to will-power my way through the rest of the comic because I wanted to know how it ended. Despite having read the whole damn thing only a few months ago, I can barely remember any of it, except for how utterly aggravated the whole thing made me. The most POSITIVE depiction of a queer character in the whole series is of a self-loathing gay cop who can only have sex with other men when they’re beating and humiliating him. THAT’S THE MOST POSITIVE DEPICTION OF A QUEER CHARACTER.
And then I recently read some contemporary manga
“Soil” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is a serial child molester.
“One Punch-Man” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is basically a walking prison rape joke.
“I Am a Hero” – One canon queer character. A transgender man who is repeatedly misgendered and insulted and ultimately dies. But he’s not a rapist or a murderer, so yay representation?
I’ll admit, this comic is coming from a place of anger and disappointment. That the Big Names in Serious Graphic Novels (some of which I really enjoy and really influenced me) still have so much homophobic/transphobic content. That a lot of contemporary comics haven’t progressed much further. I don’t expect every queer character to be a hero, but when you have a mere handful of queer characters and the majority of them die or are villains, it’s a problem. I’d rather see a body horror metaphor for queerness than see another shitty canon queer trope.
Shout out to my fellow queer comic book makers. Even if you’re just xeroxing comics in the campus computer lab and giving them to friends, you are doing good work.
And if Garth Ennis wants to argue that “Preacher” isn’t homophobic, I am ready to throw down in the alley behind my apartment. And by “throw down,” I mean “debate.”
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