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Art tumblr. Pixel, digital, traditional. I blog my art and interesting video game, comic and animation information. Message me for art commission inquiries.

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Tara Fela-Durotoye (@taradurotoye)  is a Nigerian makeup artist and lawyer. A pioneer in the bridal makeup profession in Nigeria, She launched the first bridal directory in 1999, set up international standard makeup studio, and established the first makeup school in Nigeria. She is the founder and current CEO of House of Tara International the creator of the Tara Orekelewa Beauty range, Inspired Perfume and the H.I.P Beauty range. In 2007, She was awarded the Africa SMME Award and the Entrepreneur award in South Africa.

Over the past 12 years, Mrs Tara Fela-Durotoye has been dedicated to realising her vision of building a globally respected beauty company of African origin. Tara is the Managing Director and Creative Director of HOUSE OF TARA INTERNATIONAL, a leading player in the make-up sector of Nigeria’s beauty industry. The organisation has grown into a franchise enterprise with three main lines of business namely The Make-up Studio, The Makeup School and the TARA product line comprising beauty products and professional make-up kits.

Tara is widely considered as a veteran in the beauty industry, who has pioneered the bridal make up profession in Nigeria, starting her make-up business whilst an undergraduate in the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University.

Tara is a trained and certified make-up artist of Charles Fox, Convent Garden, London. In a series of first, she launched her bridal make-up business in 1998. Thereafter, she launched the first Bridal directory in Nigeria in 1999. In 2000, Tara facilitated the first-ever series of Bridal seminars, drawing for the first time-ever in Nigeria celebrated professionals in the bridal industry to speak to brides.

She has franchise spread across Nigeria (branches in Lagos, Ibadan, Port-Harcourt and Abuja) and with emerging footprint on the West African coastal countries of Cotonou, Ghana and Senegal. She established the country’s first make up school in 2004, and also launched the TARA product line comprising a range of professional tool kits (such as make-up boxes, brushes and purses) for make-up artists and a wide range of make-up products including eye shadows, eye liner, lip gloss, foundation and powders on a brand platform promoting ethics and ethnicity, by empowering young women for economic independence without moral compromise, just as it flies the proudly Nigerian flag.

In 2008, at a record-setting celebration of her tenth anniversary in Lagos, she surprised the nation with the launch of her first perfume fragrance aptly called “Be Inspired”.

She is a highly sought after speaker at entrepreneurial platforms including conferences, TV programmes, newspaper and magazine publications and electronic media platforms. She is a favourite speaker at women business conferences, youth empowerment seminars and faith-based gatherings where she speaks on topics ranging from finding your purpose, identifying your talent, building and managing businesses, maintaining a successful career and marriage.

She is also a mentor for make-up artists and small business owners. Through her make-up school, Tara has developed and trained about 300 make-up artists who are now active players in Nigerian beauty industry. She has also succeeded in empowering over 600young ladies (most of who are in the tertiary institutions) with the Tara Orekelewa beauty representatives’ initiative that makes them financially independent, improving their self esteem while building their marketing and entrepreneurial skills.

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Happy Women’s History Month !

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She Makes Comics: A New Documentary Explores the History of Women in Comics

She Makes Comics is a new documentary about the history of female creators and fans have who shaped the comic book scene. Featuring interviews with a diverse array people including writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and former editor of DC Comics Jenette Kahn, the film gives a comprehensive overview of the accomplishments of women in the comics industry. More broadly, the film portrays comics as an evolving art form that has reflected, responded to, and influenced popular and political culture through the past 50 years.

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Me and over 200 Animators participated in the Moon Animate Make Up Project which is a collaborated remake of an episode of Sailor Moon. Seeing everyone’s styles here is awesome! It was great fun being a part of a project like this and I hope you enjoy it!

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Born today, the first Black Video Game Engineer and Designer and inventor of the modern game console, Gerald “Jerry” Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011). “At a time when the computer and video game industry was primarily filled with Caucasian males, Jerry Lawson was an innovator. He created of the first cartridge based video game console (the Fairchild Channel F), designed of one of the fir…st coin-op arcade games (Demolition Derby), was the head of Videosoft, an early independent developer for the Atari 2600, and the first African American in the video game industry to achieve such accomplishments.” Lawson was born in 1940 and grew up in a federal housing project in Queens, New York. As a kid, he operated a ham radio; as a teenager he earned money by repairing his neighbors’ television sets. As an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, Lawson designed the electronics of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, later renamed the Channel F, in 1976. Predating the release of Atari’s Video Computer System by a year, the Channel F was the first videogame machine that used interchangeable game cartridges, which Fairchild sold separately. Previous game machines like Atari’s Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey had all their games built into the hardware. Lawson’s pioneering design set the standard for the game consoles of today.

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Yep. Before him, the games were built into the machine so you could only play the games that came built in your system. Lawson made it possible for people to play multiple different video games at home. 

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The Negro artist works against an undertow of sharp criticism and misunderstanding from his own group and unintentional bribes from the whites. “Oh, be respectable, write about nice people, show how good we are,” say the Negroes. “Be stereotyped, don’t go too far, don’t shatter our illusions about you, don’t amuse us too seriously. We will pay you,” say the whites….An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he must choose….We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too…. If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn’t matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, (1926)

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Fill yourself with more kawaii images only here at Kawaii Blast, where kawaiiness keeps on blasting! 

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"April was always White!" Really?

"Well that’s wrong?"

"Well, that’s a coloring erro-

It’s a bit ambiguous if her hair is naturally curly or not but at one point April at least wasn’t the ginger haired person she is nowadays.

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Ok,…

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For all those black writers out there that write stories featuring black women as main-characters you can also check out: Valentchamber.com if you haven’t already.

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 archive of fan fiction and original stories featuring women of color.

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guys, guys. This is a thing!!!

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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown (via misswallflower)

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The Fool’s Crusade:

In the interest of fostering diversity and increasing awareness of independent African-American professionals in the comics biz, here’s a great list of titles that you might not know about. If you’re not on the list, feel free to add your title and link(s). 

ShadowLaw: comixology.com www.shadowlawonline.com http://amzn.to/1dCLm5z

Street Team #0: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5281

Black Comix: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Comix-African-American-Independent/dp/0984190651

Back in the Jay Sketchbook Vol.1: http://133art.storenvy.com/

Storm Bringers #1: http://www.stormbringers.com/

OneNation #1: http://133art.storenvy.com/

Techwatch #1&2: http://www.techwatchcomic.com/

Dread Society X: Rebirth: http://www.comicfleamarket.com/servlet/the-461/Dread-Society-X-cln—Rebirth/Detail

Midnight Marauder: The Art of Lesean Thomas: http://leseanthomas.com/

The Future: Art of Keron: http://kerongrant.net/

The Art of Mshindo Kumba I.: http://mshindo9.deviantart.com/

Corsairs Prologue: http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=8049

Miles Away: http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Away-GN-Anthony-Montgomery/dp/0930655036

Ghost Fighters: http://jomil65.deviantart.com/

Indigo: Essence of the Assassin 1.0: https://ganxy.com/i/75616/uraeus/indigo-hit-list-1-0

Black Bird: Growing Pains: http://charlie-fab.deviantart.com/

Dusu: http://www.strangercomics.com/dusu-1/

Midnight Tiger: http://www.actionlabcomics.com/midnight-tiger-joins-action-lab-lineup/

Rotten Apple: http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/21-706/Rotten-Apple-one-shot

Concrete Park: http://concretepark.com/

Number 13 (David Walker):  http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/17-953/Number-13-TPB

Miranda Mercury: http://mirandamercury.com/

Vescell: http://www.amazon.com/Vescell-1-Enrique-Carrion/dp/B005JF6SU2

Super Pro K.O.: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Pro-K-1/dp/1934964417/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320154055&sr=1-14

The Untamed: http://www.strangercomics.com/the-untamed/

The Dog Years: http://thedogyears.com/home.html

Wildfire: http://www.quinnproart.com/legends-press.html

Five Weapons: https://www.imagecomics.com/comics/releases/five-weapons-making-the-grade-tp

Lion Forge Comics: www.lionforge.com

Prodigal ch. #1-12 ARE UP ON THE THRILLBENT FOR FREE: http://thrillbent.com/comics/prodigal/prodigal-chapter-1/#1

Watson & Holmes #1-4: comixology.com

ShadowLaw: comixology.com www.shadowlawonline.com

Ajala: A series of Adventures: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4181

Azian Mixtape: http://pyroglyphics1.deviantart.com/

Punks of Rage: Remix #0: https://www.facebook.com/punxofrage/about

The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury: comixology.com

Lucius Hammer #1-2: http://ravenhammercomics.com/

Will Power #1-4: http://www.willpowercomic.com/

Powerverse: the 101 #1: http://www.willpowercomic.com/

Powerverse Chronicles: The Action Pack #1: http://www.willpowercomic.com/

Chew #1-6, Paperbacks 2&3: Comic shop/Amazon.com

Kung-Fu Skrarch! #1: comixology.com

Midnight Tiger #1: comixology.com

Molly Danger #1-2: comixology.com

Seven % #1-4: comixology.com

The Deep #1-2: comixology.com

Ghetto Manga (magazine): http://ghettomanga.blogspot.com/

Sink or Swim: http://www.arlingtontx.gov/environmentalservices/pdf/StormWater_Novella.pdf

F-00 Fighters #1-3: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82473510/F-OO-Fighters

The Horsemen: Mark of the Cloven: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GX35B0W/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Thanks to Jason Reeves for compiling this great list! Next up: a list of works by female creators!

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I drew and colored this quick sketch.

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