Julia Marshall

www.jmarstudio.com I'm an illustrator and designer. I like cats, plants, sewing, and my Wacom.

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Rescued a truly heinous 90s PTA mom dress with shoulder pads from fashion purgatory.

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Today I remade a granny muumu into a super cute romper with pockets and I feel pretty good about my sewing skills r/n

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Nugget's Chihiro costume is done

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TBT: I love unicorns <3

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y’all I made a thing

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I’ve never seen a nice lady giant in any storybook, so here’s one with trees on her head

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I’m curious why this artist saw a need to include women but decided it’s best to make the woman white or fair toned. Like women come in a variety of skin tones why is the default always white or white passing women? You didn’t think about that? Telling.

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She’s based on my grandma. She was a very tall woman and had recently died when I drew this (just didn’t want to be a downer when I posted it). Additionally, whenever I do a fairy tale person, there are better than even odds that that person will be at least one of two things: nonwhite, not skinny, not young, and not conventionally attractive. It’s actually a rule I have to avoid bias in my art and to practice drawing many kinds of people and depicting them in a positive way (because fairy tale stuff is what I do for fun/practice. I rarely get hired to do this kind of art and am only making it for my own enjoyment.) I am sorry if you felt personally alienated by my art. It was not my intention. 

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Wow your art is amazing I apologize for the misinterpretation

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It’s cool, friend! Again, I’m sorry for how you felt. I should probably do more giant women, anyway. I’ll make sure the next one is a POC <3 

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I’ve never seen a nice lady giant in any storybook, so here’s one with trees on her head

[oliveoul-deactivated20170621]

I’m curious why this artist saw a need to include women but decided it’s best to make the woman white or fair toned. Like women come in a variety of skin tones why is the default always white or white passing women? You didn’t think about that? Telling.

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She's based on my grandma. She was a very tall woman and had recently died when I drew this (just didn’t want to be a downer when I posted it). Additionally, whenever I do a fairy tale person, there are better than even odds that that person will be at least one of two things: nonwhite, not skinny, not young, and not conventionally attractive. It’s actually a rule I have to avoid bias in my art and to practice drawing many kinds of people and depicting them in a positive way (because fairy tale stuff is what I do for fun/practice. I rarely get hired to do this kind of art and am only making it for my own enjoyment.) I am sorry if you felt personally alienated by my art. It was not my intention. 

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Super fast and loose color study. Not 100% happy with it but there are bits of it that I like!

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Someone dared me to do a Star Wars thing so I did a Star Wars thing.

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Just did my first work process time lapse video ever and kinda excited!

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I’ve started plein air painting again. The tree was painted at City Park and the ship was on the river at the fly. I was given canvases for xmas and someone gave me 2k dollars worth of expensive large tubes of oil paints that they found in a garbage bag on the street wtf!!!

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I was hired to do an inclusive children's bible and idk but it's funny to me that black Adam and Eve would be some kind of fringe/niche thing since the first humans were black. Anyway, I'm happy with this first spread and I'm especially happy with my cute curly-haired Eve because she is the cutest and the happiest and I'm not even mad that she ate that fruit she can have whatever she wants 😂

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Little commission

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When you're taking inktober a little too seriously 😂

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Scanned them!

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