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I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D

[EDIT] this is in Adobe Photoshop, sorry for forgetting to mention that!

important follower PSA

hey all!!

ive been thinking abt this for a while, but im going to try to get off social media, and tumblr in particular. ive been on this website for….six years? yeah like six years and thats ridiculous

im trying to make some changes in my life and i think i got the push i needed to start. i wont be deleting entirely, but I will be logging off on all my platforms starting monday, and I’ll pare down this gallery to just a portfolio i can hang on to for myself. the rest will be deleted. thank you for all your wonderful support and feedback over the past few years. it was genuinely a gift to get to see people enjoy what i made.

#hiatus notice #although its more of a goodbye than a hiatus i suppose

follower (esp new follower!) PSA

(i really wish id thought ahead and made my art blog a side blog BUT alas)

my actual personal and consistently used blog is butchijabi. if u followed me back recently because u saw ud been followed by gfofficial, u should follow my personal/main, since i dont post much to this art blog anymore!! tldr - if u followed me bcus ur also a lesbian muslim PLEASE follow butchijabi which is actually my active blog!

#reblogging AGAIN bcus i changed my main URL

Please don't kill me I'm just legitimately interested in your take on The Zoo and why you saw it as racist.

hey anon,I’m not gonna kill you. I did say on that post that I wouldn’t answer questions on this, but at the same time I feel like I should give you and my followers something real to think about. To be honest, I suspect that you don’t believe The Zoo was a problem based on the way you phrased the question, and in that sense I may not be able to change your mind. But I do have a following on this blog which is mostly composed of younger people and kids, and in that way I have some responsibility to ask that my followers see this and give it genuine thought. I hope you will, too.

There are lots of posts by more concise and more studied people than me already going around, and lots of discussion and breakdown in general on SU’s persistent racism problem. If you’re feeling genuinely invested in understanding, I’d recommend some simple google searches on the very /recent/ history of human zoos and the propaganda produced by colonists and white people to justify their existence and dehumanize the (mainly) black people who were forced to live under those conditions for white amusement, and to uphold the delusion of white superiority which allowed (and still allows) the abuse of black people to happen on an institutional level.

SU is ultimately attempting to tell a broad, epic narrative about resisting colonization, and in doing so takes on the basic responsibilities that come with the tremendous cultural power of fiction. The very simple scratch of the surface is that human zoos existed, racism is built fundamentally into our culture and social structure, and those two facts alone should have meant that this episode was never produced, or even conceived.

It’s a much more complex topic than what’s here, of course, but there’s plenty of discussion to consider and plenty to think about in terms of fiction and context. My personal take on it would be reiterating the analysis of everyone who broke down this episode already and it would probably be redundant, so reading what others have already written is important if you want to understand the issue and the context that comes with it. But a factor in what makes the Zoo such a disgrace that I haven’t seen much specific discussion of - and one that’s personally very important to me - is that artists (and audiences) often don’t recognize or don’t consider the huge amount of impact that popular fictional narratives have on culture and social mindsets. It is critically important for artists to understand the impact of their work and to introspect on what it means to tell a story to hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of people.

Fiction is often a blind spot in the critical eye because most people go into experiences of fictional media with their guard down, making themselves intentionally open and vulnerable in order to really experience a story. There is very little acknowledgement or respect for what that kind of impact means and the responsibility that each artist is obligated to consider when creating for a broad audience. At the risk of being cliche but honest, creating in the public eye is in and of itself a privilege, and with all power comes responsibility - especially if you already have privilege that you haven’t given real thought to, and ESPECIALLY if you are creating for children and families on a wide scale.

This answer has gotten a little out of hand, and I know it’s pretty dense and probably difficult to parse, but I really hope you take the time to think on it bit by bit. It’s an important topic, and it’s the tip of an iceberg that can’t be separated from any fiction, full stop. - rose

inevitable

#especially with Connie calling her ma'am #su #Steven universe #my art #my comics

a v quick doodle with. a LOT of feeling

#kubo and the two strings #my art #that movie. it changed me

A Date

#I put a bullshit big on this #opalnet #su #Steven universe #su opal #su garnet #my art

wip but the lines r done at least

#I spent too long on this #my art #su #Steven universe #opalnet #wip

it feels so good to be drawing again fuck this is the first time ive got theo and Josie in the same image together with any kind of success and their energy is!!!!! so good!!!! I love them both so much I'm gonna get pumped again for this project. these two are tough and they will be worth it just look at that pure baby lesbian vibe

#my life's work #my works life #original #theo and Josie