Anything that floats my boat

Art, design, drawing tips, character design, stupid things and everything else i find interesting. (Sometimes NSFW but allways tagged)

[mar64ds]

please watch this i love him

[catchymemes]

Spooktober in VRChat

[beans345-deactivated20211127]

[isa-ghost]

Everyone go home this one wins

[septicpunk]

For the bone brothers

[d-structive]

If I don’t reblog this: I’m dead. Avenge my death.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Hasui Kawase aka Kawase Hasui aka 川瀬 巴水 aka Kawase Bunjiro (Japanese, 1883-1957, b. Tokyo, Japan) - Woodblock Prints: Ink, Color on Paper (See each pic for info)

[aubreysux]

Anyway

[nevver]

Details, Nicholas Moegly

[dadpilled]

out of touch

✨thanesday✨

[bimboid]

[elierlick]

In 1934-1936, trans brothers Mark and David Ferrow of Yarmouth, UK, both transitioned at age 13 with full parental support. Mark medically transitioned first in 1939 at 17 and his brother soon followed. “Though we have been girls, we have both felt men at heart,” Mark told a reporter. Their stories show that trans youth can grow up to be happy, celebrated adults.

David lived in their hometown of Great Yarmouth, UK for the rest of his life. He became a local icon. At 15, he started selling books. He later ran a wildly successful bookshop until death in 2006, age 81, 68 years after transitioning. He had a daughter, Jan, who supported his work. The whole town adored him. Why, yes, that is a mug of his face. Mark, always passionate about art, joined the Kirby Muxlue Players troupe as a writer and traveled throughout the UK. His David Gower painting is currently in the UK’s National Portrait Gallery! His art still hangs in collections all over the country - although it’s almost never recognized as being by a trans artist. Mark married Edna Hall in 1942 and died in 1991, age 68, in Leicester. It’s important to mention that it’s unclear if both men are intersex despite the reports. At the time, it was customary for non-intersex trans people to claim intersex conditions in order to access care (e.g. Roberta Cowell). Regardless if they were trans or intersex and trans, I would hate their underreported stories to be forgotten!

[nevver]

Too late, Grace Miceli

[stupidpetface]

[solardrake]

type of animals in mud and Enjoying It Too

[seijass]

going to the store to buy some milk

[seijass]

returning home after buying some milk

[seijass]

drank some milk

[jolieing]

[thatiskarma]

What is going on here

[brucebocchi]

The Shining, But Cold

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

Lipstick

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

Children’s hospital :)

[loonyblobs]

[calellon]

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

case in point

this is a Hell of a downgrade 

[garbage-empress]

worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.

[higglety]

I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and

this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also

many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

magnificent

[sindri42]

Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.

She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.

[afeelgoodblog]

Blessed shark scan

[pocketgameboy]

I could use some 💪 luck

[keiths-dolls]

look at him!

[cordyceps-sapiens]

We want to luck 💪💪 you up

[safetytank]

HAHAHA OH MY GOD

who on the DA art team did the romance card for iron bull

because they STRAIGHT-UP TRACED that hand from this photo

(the best guess of source i could find was Syncrasis on Deviantart but they seem to have deleted the original)

[bunabi]

G I R L

[anythingthatfloats]

Me working in gamedev industry now faced with the crushing immpossible deadlines and knowing how reality of being forced to do 10 pictures at once looks like: "Bruh. Chill."