sketchBook&&cosplay&&shitPost

+18 content, early 30s (minors dni, pls) Watch as I post sketches of various video game characters and steadily improve my art with practice! - Deus Ex, MGS, TF2, Mass Effect, and more! -

[drizzlesdoodles]

Credit to @traskodjur for the original idea. Honestly, it's brilliant and I laughed so loudly!

Poor Hammy soaked up so many tears in ME3

[traskodjur]

Shepard's hamster must have absorbed so many liters of her tears 😭

[chemsexholmes]

Unfortunately you will talk like a tumblr user for your entire life. Sorry.

[scribblyspaceskeleton]

[warriorsmurf]

Unfortunately your kids might also talk like Tumblr users. My daughter said "Get cherished, idiot" to her cat yesterday.

[theunvanquishedzims]

Children usually do pick up their parents' native languages, yes

[iwanthermidnightz]

I need this like the air I breathe 😮‍💨

[nitewrighter]

Commissioning artists really makes you feel like a renaissance noble. Like you’ll get an email that just says “Hey sorry some things came up but I’m working on your piece and here’s a WIP” and suddenly you’re wearing sumptuous velvets and eating grapes on a reclining couch like “Ohoho! Take as long as you need, my Orpheus! My riches and time are a paltry price to pay to bring your beauty to the world! I am a ~Patron of the Arts!~”

[machinot]

Nobody calls each other “terminally online” anymore. I think that’s because everyone is terminally online now. Jobless too. And ugly as fuck. Stains all over our shirts. Stupid as well

[thescrolls-haveforetold]

school is over for 7 weeks i handed in my final assignment im free

[thescrolls-haveforetold]

i wanted to note that Nerevar’s corprus scars litter his arms, not only do those bandages protect him from, like, ashstorms, the weather, the sun, so on but it also covers up something… not shameful? rather something particularly scary about his appearance

[ambiguousimage]

Judith Disrupting Holofernes - Gentileschi x Corporate Illustration - killpony, 2021 (originally posted to reddit)

[funstyle]

"the canva child" (2023)

[ambiguousimage]

thank you so much for sharing your work!! i hope it's ok for me to share below the caption you put on it, because i found it really poignant, and i think it's worth seeing for other people too:

"i read recently that over the span of 40 years, edvard munch painted six copies and many many studies of his piece "the sick child", a painting that depicted his sister dying from tuberculosis at 15. learning about this struck me in a funny way. since graduating (and honestly just over the years) my relationship with my own art has become toxic - nothing portfolio-worthy, nothing technically impressive, nothing good enough for me or anyone else. too emo. almost all the work i made in college were goofy projects about my dead brother and suddenly realised i was in the job search world with nothing clean enough to show. employers dont want to see that. thats like realising a wild animal in their office. so i just stopped. no point. started over. ive spent a lot of time since looking into design and teaching myself ad*be illustrator. something about the coldness of some vector art (specifically this facebooky graphic style commonly referred to as "corporate memphis") appealed to me. no one has a real skin color, sometimes not even a face, just shapes and blobs. impersonal and easy to produce. oh baby. only recently did it occur to me that i "could do something fun" with that "for myself". munch's "the sick child" represents a lot to me- love, grief, survivor's guilt. the fact that he did this painting over and over was a comfort - obvs i'm no legendary painter but it was a reminder to me that it doesn't automatically make you a lousy artist to use art as an exorcist for trauma. that's actually the point🤨 girl. (where was i going with this) sooo this is my "corporate memphis clip art" take on munch's "the sick child".🤷🏻‍♀️ the strongest emotion i know in a work-friendly wrapper. big sorry for the essay but i feel like this is the first piece of mine ive liked (even if it's the artistic equivalent a muzak rendition of beethoven). it's stupid and was fun to do. yeehaw. thanks 💋 maybe ill do the scream next idk."

full disclosure: there are aspects of corporate memphis that i (oceanlandworld) actually love in an artistic sense. i love the abstraction of human form, the bright flat colors, and the lineless cutout style*! and i love seeing people do creative and interesting things with this style that was developed for bland and inoffensive uses

what you wrote about packaging "the strongest emotion [you] know in a work-friendly wrapper" really captures what is striking to me about killpony's take on gentileschi's painting. gentileschi's judiths have been meaningful to me for a long time as an expression of rage against sexual predators (more info here, cw mentions of rape) and that juxtaposition of the intensity of painful feeling in an art style designed to be soft and safe is so interesting and captivating to me.

thank you again for sharing your work!!!!

*obv corporate memphis didnt Invent those things and draws upon the history of much more interesting art but i still have a perpetual sense of attraction-repulsion to corp memph for this reason haha

[anyboli]

This page from one of my history books looks like a lesbian utopia.

Source: Reclaiming Lost Ground by Neale McGoldrick & Margaret Crocco

[anyboli]

Very similar vibes - this 1899 illustration from Puck of butchy (for the time) lesbians looking like the coolest, hottest women to ever walk the earth

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[catcrumb]

[ecm-artist]

This may take a few tries

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[loseremo]

[syzygy-yzygy]

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

[squid--pro--quo]

[wickedsick]

@demegods

[knifenymph]

change does not come from a place of comfort

[aquareaper3]

I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[bunchabears]

dissociating after a Hard(ing) day

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