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art blog :3 shey/them mostly posting my OCs/comic dev, occasional fan art!

[catsyup]

I'm animus, you can call me ani ☆!

☆ main account: @ecologicallyniche

☆ art commissions through ko-fi

☆ toyhou.se account (come see my children!!)

[kawadastudios]

Concept art of Athena's default sprite from Extra Credits with Athena.

After deciding that outfit 1 would become Athena's default sprite, we still felt that it was missing a few details that would give it the same character as Medusa's design.

The first addition was a red sash, which we wrapped around Athena's robes to break up the white a little more and tie the design together with her helmet and the red trimmings added throughout the outfit.

More importantly, the second addition was a miniature version of Athena's Aegis. Unlike in many retellings of Greek mythology, where the Aegis bears the head of Medusa, in Extra Credits with Athena it instead bears the head of Pallas, Athena's childhood friend, whom she accidentally slew during a sparring match. Athena honours her memory by carrying a replica of the Aegis close to her heart at all times.

We ran into more than a few headaches with Athena's default sprite, repeatedly resizing the helmet, sash, brooch and chin until everything finally felt right. We were able to let Athena's auburn hair fall past her shoulders and let Pallas's face peek through from the Aegis.

Art by @stealingpotatoes

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

[ama-kitkat123]

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

[penanatomy-studies]

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

[zheida]

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

[iascus]

Reblogging to spread awareness

[my-art-tutorial-blog]

the goldmine folks

[robogart]

Hello beautiful people! 💖💖💖

I have a new CSP brush pack I've made that's very Canvas-Painting focused with some yummy textures! Available on my itchio now for 2 buckaroos! 🥳💕💖

[caprart1]

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

[amyrosedefensesquad]

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

[ficsinhistory]

Best advice ever!

[catsyup]

in honor of Make A Terrible Comic Day 2026 i have completed this masterpiece that's been on my backburner for that long

the horrors of having to count while doing something since 6 7 entered the zeitgheist

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[redlipstickresurrected]

Dongni Hou aka 侯冬妮 aka Hou Dongni (Chinese b. 1987, Fuxin, Liaoning Province, China, based Paris, France) - Your new Life is going to cost you your old one. -Brianna Wiest, 2025, Paintings: Tempera on Canvas

[oolong---latte]

graves!

[pocketseizure]

Princess Zelda one-hand wielding a greatsword my beloved

[riotdyke]

Man, remember when Free The Nipple was a thing and there was an actual substantial amount of feminists who believed even public nudity wasn't inherently sexual and now if you date a short person hundreds of anonymous idiots online will call you a pedophile.

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[nonaferatu]

the "cancer belt" is also just a metric for black/brown population density and that is a function of a racist society

[nonaferatu]

@theejuggler : #same shit going on with data centers right now

One of the reasons (arguably the primary reason) that Flint Michigan has had decades of poor-quality water is because of automobile manufacturing utilizing lead in their production and gasoline and then dumping it into the river.

Data centers also need a lot of water to function and we know time and time again from history that companies will sooner poison everyone in a zip code than safely process industrial waste.

[fotojournalismus]

The Tsaatan (Dukha) Reindeer Nomads from the Mongolian North, or the Dark Heavens.

Photographs by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami

[mousidy]

so many of you really do think that you can be born with an organ that makes you a rapist, and you don't seem to understand that sexual abuse is a product of imbalances of power

[mousidy]

not that you're ever willing to have a conversation about how trans women, being an incredibly disempowered class, face extraordinarily high rates of violence

[mousidy]

if we actually addressed the real systems that enable sexual abuse, then you wouldn't be able to abuse trans women with impunity anymore, and we can't have that! rape organ it is then

[mousidy]

all the feminist progress made in the 2010s truly was sacrificed on the altar of transmisogyny. no, the patriarchy isn't to blame for women's oppression, we actually need the patriarchy to help us take down those trannies, the real threats to women!

[sinfulanomaly-deactivated202606]

It cannot be stated firmly enough that in the US (and soon the UK) that TERFs have no just eliminated the right to abortion but have shepherded people into power who are actively working to make it illegal for women to vote. All feminist progress for the last century could evaporate within our lifetimes just to spite us.

[whirlpool-blogs]

two-time olympian anita alvarez fainting mid-competition and being rescued by her coach

[queer-fae]

some fern embroidery for spring <3

i’m going to an ostara celebration today! this is the second time that i’ve embroidered ferns, and i’m happy with how it turned out. i started with a darker green and integrated a lighter color as i got closer to the ends of the fronds to create a gradient :)

[ratbuchet]

psa for fellow formal wear enthusiasts