Hi, Ms. CBC! I wanted to send you this ask on a day closer to your birthday I didn't finish the drawing in time, I'm so sorry ;-;
Here's the late birthday gift! I heard you like music?
Oh, and speaking of music, I have another gift! I stumbled upon this really amazing queer Black artist pretty recently, I've only heard two of her songs and they're both absolute GODSENDS??? Her name is Precious Pepala! Her most famous song (I assume) has around 1.4 million views, but the rest only have like 500.000? Which to me is criminally underrated.
I really hope you haven't heard of her. Otherwise this would be really embarrassing. I also really hope you like the gifts!
ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
oh and that's EXACTLY how JoJo's lil salty ass be looking when you pick him up!! The effect of his fur being waves!! And that's ME!! omg!!! That's my skin tone and lips and all!! I do love listening to music! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 Oh I'm tearing up, thank you! I might make this the screensaver fr!
[ID from alt: An orange-colored snail made out of apricot jam and a jam jar for a shell, which has a wooden spoon tied to it as well as some small white flowers. The snail wears a cloth jam top as a hat with an apricot pattern on it. On the center of its chest lies an apricot seed. Several yellow stars frame the character. End ID]
I ended up spinning a thick and thin lock spun yarn going from one color gradient to the next. It was a very long six months to spin up the entire fleece. It took me a few tries to find the correct pattern to fit the yarn and how I wanted it to look as a finished project.
Moonshine Cybin, crick elf druid, lover of fungus and ambassador of decay; and youngins running amok. Their ancestors were banished to the dank shores of the crick, deep within the Living Woods, where they now live in an idyllic anarchic community, welcoming misfits from across the realm who need a home. Moonshine’s buff as fuck, wields a greatsword, casts spells, and can out-wrestle anyone. Her only canonical description is that she has a tooth gap and huge tits. I love her.
The setting of the crick in the fantasy world of Not Another D&D Podcast is based on the American south. What could be more in the spirit of the crick than drawing from the historical examples of isolated multiracial communities in the hollers of Appalachia? I gave these crick elves features from a mix of Native American, African, and European ancestry. The clothes I mostly modeled after those of poor, rural southerners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a little ren faire mixed in. It was so fun drawing the crick youngins, whose daily activities consist of running around half-naked, climbing, playing, setting things on fire, causing mayhem, and getting put in the time-out sack.
I don’t know how to effectively draw dirt with a pencil, so please imagine 300% more mud stains on the youngins, as well as adult Moonshine who probably just went fishing or wrassled with a crick bullywug.
I also kept accidentally lifting away graphite from one area as I drew another area and lightening the whole drawing, so despite continually re-lining and re-shading as I went, the skin tones ended up not as dark as I initially drew them. I had to call it here to get my submission in on time, and I'm thinking I might try a digital piece next time lol
Credit to ro-bee for the pose reference. I’ve had this art saved in my liked photos for months hoping to do a Moonshine redraw of it and I finally did! Thank you for your talent. And thank you to Ice for the challenge—I rarely draw and I’m definitely still a beginner, so this was such a great reason to get myself to do some creating. Happy birthday!!
Final picture for @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge! This is Jenny from the Hanna-Barbera animated adaptation of The Halloween Tree (originally a book by Ray Bradbury). This is one that is very near and dear to me (one of those slightly obscure movies you only see when you visit your cousins who live far away... but I finally found it on DVD a few years back~). I'd love to see this story have a modern re-telling, kids love a good Halloween story! Jenny is also a special character, because she was created for the movie; in the book, it is a group of boys who go on a journey through time and across the world to save their friend, while also learning about the origins of certain traditions and the meanings behind their various costumes. The number of kids in the movie was reduced slightly (for time, which I get), and somebody had the idea to add at least ONE girl in here... appreciated, but for a story that is about diversity (though it doesn't always handle it very well), it was still very. white. I know a lot of people who love seeing more Black witch characters (and some who are Black witches~), so here is an often forgotten character who deserves the spot-light! Oh, also; Mr Moundshroud is here (I re-designed him a tiny bit as well, for the heck of it)
I re-designed Jenny with a dark skin-tone, a broad nose done in kind of a little bump-style (to match what this movie and other Hanna-Barbera titles sometimes had going on), color and shape definition to her mouth, and hair styled in braided twists that end in little ties with small curls. I changed her outfit slightly, adding a cuffed collar to each sleeve in a peachy color that matches the sparkles of her dress, and instead of a cape (that looked too much like what Mr Moundshroud had already), she has a wrapped-shawl that works as a cloak. I also gave Jenny a more chubby body-type, she's a main character who gets to fly through the air on a broom, not just a funny side-character or a jealous villain. Jenny is a girl who is athletic and brave... except when it comes to HEIGHTS. On more than one occasion, a friend has had to talk her into going up/getting down from an apple tree. In her segment of the story, when she realizing riding a broom is a little like riding her bike, she gains the confidence to soar through the skies!
Mr Moundshroud is voiced by Leonard Nimoy, and he plays the delightfully wicked character so good! In the original design, his skin is tinted slightly green, and he has a long exaggerated nose... I thought that needed some adjusting. So instead, he is a pale cream color, with a nose that instead looks somewhat "flat" (think of him like a skeleton made of flesh. no, not a skeleton covered in muscle and skin, but the actual skeleton being the muscle with skin... only, not totally gross and creepy). He can be intimidating and mysterious, sometimes sounding harsh and menacing, but I don't think he's truly "evil". He's a... GOOD villain. We all love a good villain!
The core plot of the Halloween Tree is; a group of friends gather on Halloween night to go trick-or-treating, but notice somebody is missing... Pipkin, who is known for being the best at just about anything he does. Worried about why he's late, they go to his house and discover he's been taken to the hospital for appendicitis... but, strangely, they think they see him running through the woods? The group follows, discovering a mysterious old house, a strange man named Mr Moundshroud, and a huge tree with Jack-o-Lanterns growing on every branch! Pipkin has climbed to the time, trying to take a pumpkin that almost seems to have his face, and then he VANISHES. Mr Moundshroud is upset that "his property has been stolen", but the kids just want to rescue their friend! The glowing light in the pumpkin he took is not only his life but "time", and now Pipkin is lost somewhere in the past. Mr Moundshroud is also appalled at the evidently poor knowledge each child has about Halloween traditions and their own costume choices. So, they go on a journey together, to many different places, in many different time periods, discovering things about the world, themselves, and how to finally save Pipkin.
I'd love to see this done as an animated series (maybe 30 episodes, with a movie special as a finale, so you get 31 for all of October), up the number of kids to 9 (Pip is the 10th of the group), give everybody time to shine! Importantly, get some REAL insight about the different cultures and traditions that are explored (because while well-meaning, the book and movie can kinda fall into "turning a culture into a costume" territory. not done to be intentionally harmful, but incorrect information should at least be amended). It would be amazing to see writers/artists with these actual backgrounds sharing things that are meant to be celebrated by everyone, and explaining aspects that are more personal/not to be appropriated (also, define that while some holidays have similarities, it isn't all just "combined into Halloween. if done with some tact and sensitivity, it is also worth bringing up that uh... sometimes over here we will "absorb" a holiday, call it ours, and claim it is "secular", but that can be a backwards way of treating one religion as an acceptable default like it is "for everybody"). Some of the characters could have these backgrounds themselves, so the magical adventure would also be a personal journey. I'd like to see the art style to be kinda like the classic Hanna-Barbera style (think vintage Scooby-Doo), with the vibe of Over the Garden Wall (perhaps having input from different creators who have written different spooky stories)
@creatingblackcharacters im a day late whoops 😭. heres a lovely Black Misto for melanin beam challenge!!
While I have seen pictures of him played by Black actors, they usually still just paint the whole face white and then draw the details in black over it, I thought it would be cool to skip that and have the details in white instead! I think he turned out great :3
(also, its nice to get back to trying to draw humans again, havent done that in a little while)
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oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition
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