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Ben He/Him 23 🏳️‍🌈 Having fun and updating horribly

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Birthday card for my sister

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Quick morning sketch of a horned god. Took some inspiration from depictions of Pan, cernunnos, and the Minotaur.

Love drawing weird little monsters. Probably because I’m terrible at human proportions and these little guys you can make look however!

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OLD MAPS part 2 (part 1 right before this!)

You can see I repeat names a lot as I make maps, trying to make the perfect map for each name. I was young and would become obsessed with these places, daydreaming about them for hours. I’d write character sketches and histories for them.

Anyways, enjoy the work of 12-17 year old me.

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OLD MAPS part 1

I kind of had a problem as a kid living entirely in my head and in the worlds I illustrated for myself. They were high fantasy lands full of other cultures and magics, dragons and beasts and heroes.

For someone who was lonely and read too much I have to say, I think I got pretty good at doing these maps. I’d doodle sections of them and little characters in the margins of work at school.

Here’s the first of a huge number of maps from when I was in middle and high school that I just rediscovered in a box in my closet.

**forgive the shadows and the lack of color. I have my phone in black and white so everything is pretty bland and I also used to only have pencils when I was younger so I did everything with number 2 pencils haha.

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Concept map for a story based in part on Filipino folklore. Doodled some characters around the edge to help build an idea of each island in my head. Still working on this though!

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“Love Yourself/With My Whole Heart” 7-inch Returns on Hand-Poured Rainbow Swirl Vinyl

"Happy Pride! 🌈

Asthmatic Kitty Records is re-issuing Sufjan’s 2019 release “Love Yourself / With My Whole Heart” 7” on vibrant hand poured rainbow swirl vinyl. Each piece of vinyl is unique and available for pre-order now. Additionally, AKR is releasing a cool cream colorway of the popular Sufjan Stevens Rainbow T-Shirt and a “Love Yourself” Nalgene Water Bottle - both items now available for purchase in the AKR store. You can also stream Sufjan's never-before-heard "Love Yourself (1999 Electronic Demo)" wherever you listen to music.

A portion of the proceeds from the 7", t-shirt and bottle will be donated to charities that support LBGTQ+ youth

-AKR"

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Been getting into reading about folklore the last few weeks. I’m part Polish and wanted to study some stories from Poland, and the one I kept finding was about the Wawel Dragon, a dragon roused when people forgot the ancient stories of a dragon in a cave under Wawel Hill, venturing into the cave to prove that it doesn’t exist.

In one version, a shoemaker named Krak or Krok saves his town from the terrible dragon living under Wawel Hill by feeding it a cow corpse filled with sulfur that can’t be smothered by water. The dragon, trying to calm the fire in its throat with the waters of the Vistula, is consumed by fire. Krak becomes king and his city is named Kraków after him.

In another, Krak is already king and it is either his idea or his son’s idea to slay the dragon with sulfur. In some of these versions Krak dies and his daughter Wanda is made the ruler of the Lechitic peoples. This story seems to be the older version, traced to the early Middle Ages, though both stories have roots in older stories and legends from other lands, showing Poland’s long history as a meeting place of the east and west.

I wanted the affect of this drawing to look like a wood cutting, with the man and the flag being very stylized, but set in front of a more realistic looking dragon. I feel like that’s what folklore is to me: a veneer of magic over the terror and beauty of being alive. Truth, from the corner of your eye.

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Goblin prince

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Gachiakuta OCs pt 1

Image 1: Gerrimun Fender, vital instrument: fountain pen. Uses his vital instrument to create illusions only he can see through.

Image 2: Keyer Siblings Dunve and Spike. Their dad taught them baseball before being killed in a trash rain. They awoke to their potential when sifting through the ruins of their home and were able to retrieve their old baseball equipment. Their intruments are pretty simple: smash, and smash from farther away.

Image 3: Gess Alerby, vital instrument: needle and thread. They grew up sewing together old clothes and dolls for their younger siblings. The needle and thread allows them to stitch together disparate objects for just a few moments, creating impossible architectures used to scale heights.

Side note: I feel like I’m getting better at using my alcohol markers. I want to try blending colors next!

Should I do a part 2?

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The war is not over !!!!!

Gaza is still bleeding !!!!

Donation link for a family from Gaza

People keep saying there’s a ceasefire but every single day we wake up to another explosion, another family destroyed, another name added to the list of martyrs. I’m writing this because the world thinks Gaza is “calm” now.

It’s not. The bombs didn’t stop. The drones didn’t stop. The funerals didn’t stop.

During this so-called ceasefire, dozens of people were killed. Homes were burned. Children were pulled from under the rubble. You’ll see the photos I’m adding below - all taken during the “pause”. This is what our reality looks like.

My own family is suffering too. We lost relatives. We lost our home.

312 Palestinians have been killed, entire families wiped out during a time that was supposed to bring safety.!

Here is the donation link for my family’s emergency fund:

https://chuffed.org/project/145440-help-anass-family-survive-and-rebuild-after-gaza-war

Stand with Anas family , Help them survive Gaza’s crisis🙏💔

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Your support is literally life saving for us.

Thank you for not looking away.

Thank you for keeping Gaza alive in your heart.

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Transformation

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Playing with my alcohol markers and also practicing with draping fabrics. I love drawing cloaks. I just need to get better at it!

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Padme, Anakin, and Emperor Palpatine

During my ROTS rewatch I realized my two favorite shots from the movie are the one of Anakin marching to the Jedi temple, and the opening shot of Coruscant. I semi-combined them and did my own takes on the characters. It’s a little unfinished but I was trying to watch the movie!

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Mushroomlings

Whatever kind of fae these are I hope they bring some whimsy to your day

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My take on Yoda!

Just rewatched ROTS for the hundredth time while I was doodling and had so much fun with this one. Need to work on fabrics but i had fun with his blue cloak.

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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“Wha do you want me to draw next?”

“Idk maybe an anthropomorphic bear sipping tea at a cafe”

“…..”