DonkeyRexStudios

just a place for my hyper fixations

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welcome to my blog!!!🌸🌸🌸

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what this blog will feature: lots of fan art, opinions on books, shows, and movies, as well as all of my own creations/ideas/art.

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things I love: Star Wars, Avatar, philosophy, nature, Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Arcane, Dune, animals, Merlin, Six of Crows, and Art!

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Random sketches

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Moth tribe woman

Hare tribe woman

Spider tribe woman

I’m starting to draw random characters to piece together the aesthetics of each tribe. I’m really happy with how they turned out.

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asajj ventress

Ventress is an alopecia baddie and no one can convince me otherwise

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serpentine

they’re so devious

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just a sketch———————————————

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old sketch of my oc

old as in like three months ago

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Healing is on the horizon. But a fire comes first. Bear the Flame.

Green Ember my beloved.

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my ocsssssss

I finished some base sketches of my ocs (aka my children)

I wanna color them in eventually but I haven’t deciding everything about their designs

so behold some flat color drawings of them

also ignore the terrible quality

Also they both started out as traditional sketches which are below

They’re kinda rough but oh well

they have a large size difference due to the biological enhancements that the new species has gone through. They are larger and faster than all humans.

he is also able to flare open the spines on his neck, much like a crested lizard.

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the maze runner book vs movie

one thing that I’m not a fan of with the movies is how the flare is portrayed. I know that the books and movies are basically completely different series after the first one, but I think how they changed the flare did a disservice to the story.

the movie portrays the flare as the zombie apocalypse. it turns you into a mindless animal that has tons of weird looking roots and black eyes and black veins. you get slime coming out of your mouth. the supreme show up with being more angry and getting patches of discolored skin. it is also originally transferred through bites or scratches, like a typical zombie virus. it turns the people into mindless monsters for the characters to defeat.

in the book the flare is a disease that slowly makes you more violent, unpredictable, and savage. it slowly eats away at your brain, but you’re still you. it’s not until the very final stages where you are approaching death, or as they say, past the gone, that you fully turn into a crazy monster. but you still have moments where you regain your humanity. in between your violent rages and moments of losing control, your mind comes back to you. it makes the disease much more terrifying. they aren’t zombies, they are essentially people that swing back and forth from mentally functional to being completely rabid. their physical appearance is obviously affected by this, lots of scars and missing limbs etc. but they are still humans. we need to remember that essentially the flare attacks the brain and mind, not the body. in the book it is hard to tell if someone has the flare in mid to early stages, as there are no physical manifestations. the flare is also transmitted through the air. this is their main motivation in the second book: find a cure. the virus being transmitted through air makes it much scarier, as essentially everybody has it, and the ones that don’t soon will. it is basically an inevitable fate.

by changing the flare into the zombie apocalypse, they basically took away all of the tragedy and horror of the disease. yeah it makes u creepy and gross and a monster, but it also takes away their humanity. they are obstacles, not people. whereas in the books they are first of all people. they are people with moments where they lose control, where they are slowly going insane and are aware of what’s happening to them. they are stuffed into pens by the government, and are left to die horrible deaths. there is no hope for them, yet we see them trying to lice as best they can before the death they know they will face. they have to sleep in crowded corridors, and people that are newly infected and not exhibiting symptoms are terrorized by people who have become violent and rabid due to the disease. and those people are still shown to join into groups and gangs, and they still have some awareness of their situation, and they still stick together. they also are aware that they are being sent there to die, and they want to break into the city because the know that their treatment is wrong.

and even newt’s death is way more sad in the books. because we know that there isn’t a cure. the movie shows that newt was almost saved, but Brenda couldn’t reach him in time. but in the books he never had a chance. we see him slowly get angrier and leave, because he knows he will endanger his friends. he too knows his fate, and he goes to try to live out the rest of his life. when he meets Thomas he is close to the gone, and now has moments of complete violence and loss of control. but we see him periodically snap out of it to beg Thomas’s to kill him. we see that the flare doesn’t make you some killing zombie monster, but it makes you angry and volatile. he says all these awful things to Thomas because of the flare, he doesn’t try to eat everyone around him or smthng. he knows that Thomas is his friend and he can’t help what he says. he retains just enough awareness to know that he doesn’t want to hurt him. and when he has a moment of clarity he asks Thomas to kill him. he chooses to die rather than keep losing control. it’s just so much more tragic in the books, and it really makes you see just how dire their world is, and makes you understand and yet hate wicked even more.

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inej ghafa *** nina zenik

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I will never forgive the person responsible for giving Ventress hair.

okay it’s probably not that deep and i might be reading into this, but i actually hate how they gave my girl Ventress hair. As an Alopecian myself, I was so excited to see a bald, eyebrow-less woman being portrayed as beautiful on screen. I immediately was overjoyed. Imagine my horror when I found out they gave her the most stereotypical tough/fighter-girl side shave. Like what?

and she gets her hair back after she leaves the dark side. So being bald is a symptom of being evil??? It’s just a weird coincidence. And it enforces the stereotypes that bald girls have something wrong with them. They are often categorized as the weird, evil, jealous character, and being bald(and therefore ugly I guess?) is a symptom of being evil. So I guess she has to have hair now that she’s on a redemption arc?

bald girls literally have no one in media to look up to. Bald women are never portrayed as beautiful or desirable. So I was so excited when I found one who was. Joke’s on me I guess.

and girls with alopecia already feel like something is wrong with them, and as silly as it seems, seeing bald women be portrayed as attractive really helped boost my confidence. and just saying “ oh bald is beautiful” doesn’t make people feel better. that’s literally just what say to be nice or whatever. If u mean it show it. Give us more hot bald women. Bald people can literally do so many cool looks and makeup and hair, and yet we are still seen as “weird deformed ugly girls”. Like make it make sense. This is why my Oc has no hair or eyebrows. And she’s still hot. Same goes for Ventress.

and she was objectively ten times hotter bald.

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oc drawing

I wanted to do cool lighting

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I changed her color pallet again

I also gave her sharper features

also I know this is like the fifth time I’ve posted the drawing on the left. but I rlly like it so

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here is another doodle of my twi’lek girl

I changed the color palette a little

here she is without the jewelry

someone else is here too

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just a little kiri drawing

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Avatar art dump again?

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togrutasss

just some quick lil sketches