Happy pride month my fellow heretics :))
Jokes aside this is my first pride in years actually making an active choice to engage with the larger communityā I know for safety sake day to day I kinda hide in plain sight, but online has always been the outward space we can express regardless of social convention.
Even if ya feel ya havenāt done nothing, just keep on keeping on I suppose.
Below is a little (giant) intro post ->->
Names Vinceā originally short for Vincent.
Iām an oc creator, illustrator, and academic straight outta college but I keep my learning going I suppose. Iām an anthropologist and art historian at heart, as stereotypical as it can be, I love adopting techniques and themes from old media into an extremely graphic style, but will also talk peopleās ears off in the description as long as Iām given the space.
This blog isnāt just for traction, as much as Iād love to get out there, I only intend to find like-minded artists and scholars I suppose.
Identity wise I always just say Iām a weird cross between queer trans and gayā¦ if youād see me irl you maybe wouldnāt know. Most days (with coworkers), they think Iām cis guy, or atleast just a weird guy. On āenergyā days (idk Iām always some kinda ill, so not often) I wear my weird thrifted 70s stuff and ppl go āyeah just a weird trans guyā. Iām literally just like āwhateverā atp. If it came down to it, gender stuff doesnāt matter to me idk why I need to cater one way or another when I just act and like what I like. I know it matters to some, and I respect whatever they wanna be called or hold onto! I know it affects how people treat me, and now know I have both a disconnect between all my male and female peers, both saying Iām not quite ārelatableā enough for them. So I just liveā any pronouns, was og trans guy so.
I have been developing my stupid little guys forā¦ years. As much as āyearsā can seem when Iām only 22. I started everyone out when I was an awkward girl in elementary school creating characters for my friends. Now college grad, all those original folks have gone their separate paths, and over time I had adopted pieces of myself into my little guys. Now I feel they are more of me, eternally part of me, decide their own features, likes, dislikes. As I evolved into a trans guy around my mid years, I took the name of one of my favorite ocs despite their negativesā taking into account all of his qualities, it was almost as if naming myself after a close family member. They were always there when I was quiet.
I donāt dream of a massive web series. Maybe some books if I dream up the time. Mainly just some people to see and appreciate these guys..
On my studies/main topics:
I have the disservice of wanting to learn too much, especially when it comes to art. It was a benefit for me to have peers of all backgrounds and a space to explore wherever in collegeā Iām now a graduate in Museum Studies and Anthropology. I focused on more intricate and graphic styles; pattern work from Islamic art, angular stylization from the Egyptian and Mexica people, contemporary art from mostly Asia and Native Americas. When it came to more intimate research, I mainly stood where I could relate and speak without overstepping cultural boundary; in religious and occult study, as well as the study of gender throughout this.
And yeah, while maybe basic, this has been a main inspiration even past my studies to my art. While I have many characters from different areas of the world, most times inspired by local history, the main focus is still on both Christian and occult topic of Europe and the Americas. Yes another series influenced by Christian mythology I get itā¦
Hobbies/interests/main series:
I collect books; or attempt to while broke. All my textbooks, museum catalogues, and art books from school. Comic books, manga, all the way to a started collection of splatterpunk and thrillers. Other collections include: the PokƩmon (not card focused. Plushies, 6 counting, mainly vaporeons but not weird), antiques and flowers (does not match vibes. Animal skulls, jewelry, small statues, dried flowers), and vinyl (music is my actual main interest believe it or not.)
As I was saying music is my main thingā just as I love to be an encyclopedia for art historical symbolism, I also love to collect genres and bands like no tomorrow. Mainly prog metal, prog rock, even down to folk, hip-hop, and old alternative. This is coming from the dude who will forever say Tom Waits is likeā- the COOLEST guy. like broā¦ nobody knows who Tom Waits is apparently I feel old.
Off to the void this goes. Itās embarrassing for you if you read all the way thru; what are you, obsessed with me or something?
If I said anything off or unsightly once again I know this is tumblr so Iām not here to start discourse either. Iād be happy to have outright convo if things are weird but thatās all, I donāt subscribe to callouts over stupid stuff, letās please talk like adults.
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