art is the weapon

art reference blog!

[flowerfluid]

enby/enpiflower -> flowerfluid

Finally decided on a new URL!

[inamourii]

reposting this here by request.

i want to clarify that i'm not really romanticizing this dynamic, it was kind of the whole point. 😓 the theme here isn't romance but rather delusion. i tried to make samarie unsettling and marina unusually cutesy to mimic samarie's POV to get that point across but i'm not sure if i was successful.

[itsmissing]

design comm for a "cambrian explosion wizard"

[itsmissing]

[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[sloppjockey]

**winter sale**

use coupon code 'ORIGINALSALE' for 15% off all originals

use coupon code 'PRINTSALE' for 10% off all prints on my site

Dusty Ray Paints

Fine art prints and original paintings

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[xanaxfarts]

A tarantula consumed by cordyceps

[strangegutz]

Watch your back, compa!

[sugarrushdotcomms]

hi everyone! i've added free pokemon themed valentine's cards to my shop at the links below! there's also gender variations for pikachu and eevee :)

additionally, for 1USD i will handwrite your names on the cards for you! nothing special but just a small way to support me :)

i hope you enjoy them!

download the cards here: vgen: here kofi: here

hand lettering service here: vgen: here kofi: here

[monamoni]

Peacock spiders performing mating dance.

Jumping peacock spiders are known for their vibrant colors and elaborate courtship dances. Peacock spiders hunt by stalking their prey until they are within jumping distance, then pouncing and delivering a deadly bite. They are native to Australia.

[merrigold]

calypso 🧿 cleric of anubis

(she/her)

[pixelartjourney]

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

[starryguykai]

oil spill siren

[autoenucleate]

ROLLER DERBY KISSES, Acrylic on MDF and leather, Riikka Hyvönen

[autoenucleate]

bonus: here's my favourite title out of the series

[apocalypsegay]

art tipz xoxo

[begravningslakare]

Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages - ink and colour painting on a silk handscroll from the 1870s, by Kobayashi Eitaku.

[dreaminhisheart]

kidpix goofin to destress