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Prince Boreal

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Calliope Painting of my friends oc Calliope

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Commission for my friend of Jem and the holograms characters Kimber and Stormer!

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Headshot Commission work for @fruitytooty of his oc's from 2021

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Commission artwork I did for @macavalon !

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Just decided to make a new blog as the old one wasn't the main one under my other email!

comradeyaoi

im not even joking rn this fucking painting made me start uncontrollably sobbing. Do you know how long it took to paint? How expensive it was? The cat was content for hours and so loved that the girl held him there and paid for him to be painted with her. Imagine having such a bond… imagine being so loved and loving so much back…

comradeyaoi

Apparently this is almost a genre of painting. Its human nature to love and cradle cats …. And the bond these cats and their people have. To sit together for hours to get a painting to attempt to immortalize the love you two shared

die-rosastrasse

Let me show you these charming paintings by a French artist Léon Comerre! I like to think these ladies were like "me and my kitty look so cute together, we must get a portrait made of us so that everyone knows how we love each other" 💕

(Also, having matching ribbons with your cat is the loveliest idea ever 🎀)

ogamagirl

Hey all!

My position at work is being eliminated - I’m working on finding other employment and there’s a chance I could move to another department, but right now nothing’s decided and there’s a real possibility I might not have a job for a while, so I’m bumping my commission info!

More examples can be found in my art tag.

My Terms and Conditions are compiled in this handy Google doc - once you’ve read through them you can shoot me an email! If you’re not able to grab a commission, a reblog would be just as awesome. Thanks for your consideration!

ogamagirl

Hey all!

My position at work is being eliminated - I’m working on finding other employment and there’s a chance I could move to another department, but right now nothing’s decided and there’s a real possibility I might not have a job for a while, so I’m bumping my commission info!

More examples can be found in my art tag.

My Terms and Conditions are compiled in this handy Google doc - once you’ve read through them you can shoot me an email! If you’re not able to grab a commission, a reblog would be just as awesome. Thanks for your consideration!

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Happy mermay!!!

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Happy mermay the second time around! This is Calliope!

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so it was Mermay, apparently! here’s a Jellyboy

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Jester Rogue Subclass by the_singular_anyone

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2020 Barbie Signature Mermaids Redesign

When Mattel announced the poll that would decide which among four designs by Angel Kent would go on to become the 2020 Barbie Signature mermaid doll, I was in agreement with many other dollblr users and Barbie fans that they were disappointing. It was obvious that they had very obviously preferred and put much more effort and attention to detail into the blue-eyed blonde white doll, while making lazy and racially insensitive design choices for the other, darker-skinned dolls. Because Mattel's brand currently boasts its inclusiveness and makes much lip service about the importance of diversity in the toybox, the designs offered in this poll and the implications in the design choices made me and others upset. Obviously, the white doll and the Ken won the first round of voting. When the pictures of the prototypes were dropped three days ago and I saw that they had whitewashed the Ken's original colors to be white and blonde, I felt so angry that I went to the drawing board and cranked out these redesigns.

As a disclaimer, I am an entertainment designer by specialty and these designs were not necessarily drawn with product design limitations in mind regarding what's realistically feasible for mass manufacturing in 1/6 scale at a budget. My take on these four dolls borrow heavily from Angel Kent's released final drawings in general scheme, and actually use the exact same eyedropped colors. They are biased in favor of my own fashion preferences and personal favorite Barbie doll features as a collector, and lean more towards an entertainment project based style. However, I do still think that my designs, at the very least, managed to avoid making questionable choices regarding potential racial sensitivity and colorism.

I didn't do these redesigns to shame anyone at Mattel, Angel Kent, or those who voted for the doll that I voted for. I did them because I think that when a company vocally stands for racial equality and strives to create a truly progressive world in 1/6 scale, their product designs should reflect that stance. And maybe if an LGBT designer of color not employed by their company can whip out a version of their product that doesn't straddle a questionable line in two and a half days just out of simple passion for the issue and love for their doll, maybe the company itself can and should be held to that higher standard they earnestly believe in.

(Follow me on Patreon for the initial sketches and WIP of these drawings, plus in-depth design breakdowns.)