THE KNEES

My name is Denise & I doodle a lot. Doodles and sketches of things go here, and I usually post once a week. Current fandom Homestuck, Dangan Ronpa, and Super Dangan Ronpa 2, Kill la KILL, Ace Attorney, FLCL, Miraculous Ladybug! and original Art. ALSO, this is mostly an ART BLOG, but I reblog some stuff now and then. Enjoy, & feel free to talk to me whenever!

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🌟Z00000m 🌟 - READ TO TELEPORT is an event by @booksactually and I had a lot of fun doing up this one. Probably my favourite freelance work of 2017 back when I was balancing freelance with school... how time flies. - Thanks to @syhawv for illustrating the flying humans💃🚶‍♀️🕺🏼 (and for the guidance too) and @sulkinginmypartydress and @racylim for the art direction ❤️ #illustration #art #sgart #booksactually # https://www.instagram.com/p/BrH6IpCFPuH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=derncsmko35r

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Inktober day 10+12: Jonah and the Whale Wanted to create one image that could tell a story and got inspired by @oritoor ‘s crazy compositions. Also I kinda feel bad for Jonah but it’s a really weird tale though. - Probably my last inktober of the year. This is always crazy fun! I wasn’t around for a lot of it but thanks for the ride @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #illustration #drawing #guesstheresapastelposteveryyear #pastel https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjfgJLlifg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mxpn3ib0ly7y

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Day 9: The precious Little Honey Star People are just trying their best to win the Gold in the next Solar Sound Competition (2018). (Also they’re really just left hand drawings since my right hand is busted and I just doodle these little children while giving my right hand a break.) #inktober #inktober2018 #illustration #drawing https://www.instagram.com/p/Botdti-HYqo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19xjhx9z54mr0

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Imagine having 23 years of education just to sell 1 of your products for the price of 2? I’d say no but I’m sick of dealing with zombies on my lawn and tired of hearing their laughter through my walls, so you can bet I’m buying PETRI’s new poison product! Day 01: Poison #inktober #inktober2018 #poison #illustration #drawing https://www.instagram.com/p/BobdREdHXjD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cdy5517nt1sn

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(3/3) What A Long Boy - a comic about a boy who is 2 meters tall, was a Basketball star but also now lives on the boulevard of broken dreams because it’s mahfan like that. - I’ve been working on this baby called: “I’m More Of A Dog Person and Other Tales Of Horror” for a year and I’ve given birth to it!!! It’ll be on from 12-20 May everyday from 9am-9pm, National Design Center @ BUGIS!! Pop by, see all my peer’s bombass works and read the comic 👋👋 ⚠️: my works contain a lot of violence, gore, abuse, nudity, rape, etcetera so be forewarned! #comic #drawing #illustration #admgradshow #thenextwave #horror #graphicnovel #mclean?? #sports #drawings #sgart #art #nospoilers #tbhallthebetterartisinthespoilerypages #imtrying

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(2/3) So It’s Always Cold For You? - a comic about when a man loves a woman very much and also she wears 20 layers of scarves in Singapore because it’s always cold for her. - I’ve been working on this baby called: “I’m More Of A Dog Person and Other Tales Of Horror” for a year and I’ll be giving birth to it this Saturday, 12 May, 7pm at National Design Center!! Pop by, see all my peer’s bombass works, say hi, and read the comic 👋👋 the show will last from 12-20May so don’t worry about missing the opening night! ⚠️: my works contain a lot of violence, gore, abuse, nudity, rape, etcetera so be forewarned! #comic #drawing #illustration #admgradshow #thenextwave #horror #graphicnovel #mclean?? #cold #drawings #sgart #art #repost #becauseinstagramisbEINGWEIRD

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(2/3) So It’s Always Cold For You? - a comic about when a man loves a woman very much and also she wears 20 layers of scarves in Singapore because it’s always cold for her. - I’ve been working on this baby called: “I’m More Of A Dog Person and Other Tales Of Horror” for a year and I’ll be giving birth to it this Saturday, 12 May, 7pm at National Design Center!! Pop by, see all my peer’s bombass works, say hi, and read the comic 👋👋 the show will last from 12-20May so don’t worry about missing the opening night! ⚠️: my works contain a lot of violence, gore, abuse, nudity, rape, etcetera so be forewarned! #comic #drawing #illustration #admgradshow #thenextwave #horror #graphicnovel #mclean?? #cold #drawings #sgart #art

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(1/3) I’m More Of A Dog Person - a comic about an old woman who wants to live longer... and a cat. - I’ve been working on this baby called: “I’m More Of A Dog Person and Other Tales Of Horror” for a year and I’ll be giving birth to it this Saturday, 12 May, 7pm at National Design Center!! Pop by, see all my peer’s bombass works, say hi, and read the comic 👋👋 the show will last from 12-20May so don’t worry about missing the opening night! ⚠️: my works contain a lot of violence, gore, abuse, etcetera so be forewarned! #comic #drawing #illustration #admgradshow #thenextwave #horror #graphicnovel #mclean?? #cats #dogs #catsareweird

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Haah? Hello can speak louder I cannot hear you the wave over here very loud?? - I‘m GRADUATING!! and you can come and find out why I’ve been internally screaming for 4 years straight THIS SATURDAY at 7-10pm at National Design Center. Also tbh the best part of coming down is that you get to see five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred other amazing works by my peers. Even cooler: you can walk everywhere because it’s held at different places this year. NDC AND NLB, best of all worlds. Ok I’m terrible at advertising but anyway, come down. MRT: Bugis Location: 111 Middle Rd, Singapore 188969 Date and time: 12-20th May More info at @admshow2018 and http://www.facebook.com/admshow2018 P.S. Contact me if you’re coming down, aside from 12 May I might not be there every other day. #admshow2018 #thenextwave

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Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up. - Hamilton the Musical by Lin Manuel Miranda #hamilton #adm

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Who would enjoy the sun if it never rained? Who would yearn for the day if there were no night? / There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. - MCry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved / Leonard Cohen - #leonardcohen #glennringtved #artsciencemuseum #quotes - “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in” is the original quote I had in my list, but right before posting this I realized it sounded too... emotive/confessional to come from Hemingway? (I’m not great at describing his style aside from “simple” but this sentence didn’t sound like his). Googling it I found that the whole internet was really misquoting this quote that was barely remotely close to what Hemingway wrote, and was in fact a mix of Leonard’s lyrics from Anthem. I guess it’s always important to double check everything. This is brought to you by citethisforme.com

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Mr. Perlman: We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! / Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape. - Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino / The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath #callmebyyourname #sylviaplath #thebelljar #atterriblecombinationhaaagha

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Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human? / You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy. - Joseph Gogler / Andrea Gibson #japan #josephgogler #andreagibson #quotes #dontcloseyourselfup #weallwanttoknowhowyouare #evenifitssad #orhappy

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Maybe I will survive, and because I did not see it coming, I will stop blaming myself. I will stop blaming myself for my mangled remains / I am alone–unloved and without someone to love–the thing I feared most in the world. I have touched bottom. And I survive. I feel unlovable. But I respect that unlovable soldier–struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honorable. I respect myself. - Miriam Kramer, from “Five Seconds and Counting,” published in Anti-Heroin Chic / Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 #quotes #susansontag #miriamkramer #sunlight #light #imageofmaddiesuffering

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God damn it, there are nice things in the world — and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked. / To love our lives in our shattered ways and still be happy: this is miraculous. - Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger / A Braided Heart by Brenda Miller #japan #brendamiller #jdsalinger #quotes #sendmebacktojapan #imdying #help #anyway #fyp

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I want to thank you for never being there anymore. Your absence has forced me to find my own way. / I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them. — Unknown / Uma Thurman #japan #umathurman #osaka

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I have really vivid and epic dreams but even if they make me really really tired I like them a lot. I keep a dream diary because all the best ideas come from there - anyone else have any weird dreams? #illustation #everyoneasksmewhatshappeninginthisdrawing #idontknoweither #youtellme #dreams #cityofstars #drawing