J.M.Elam

Artist | Writer https://linktr.ee/jmelam She/her/any (BLM🏳️‍🌈🍉) Abolish🧊

[jmelam]

“These Roots Will Drown Me”

You can watch this with sound on YouTube.

(Today is Day 110 of becoming confident enough to illustrate my book.)

[teathattast]

Happy Pride!

[jmelam]

“A Memory of the Future” is an illustration for my paranormal, folk horror WIP, “Adoration: A Ghost Story” and my June wallpaper of the month.

You can grab them on my Patreon!

[jmelam]

Today is Day 111, and here’s a look back at my Procreate art process for the “Exitus Portal.”

Where do you think this portal leads?

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[heathenhollow]

As Heathen Hollow is a project that revolves around the processes of the natural world, that world itself increasingly becomes a subject of the artwork. Some miniature landscapes in gouache debuted this weekend at @blackcirclemarket , to excellent reception. The latter two paintings remain available, each is 3"x3" and comes framed. DM for an inquiry.

[teathattast]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

IC 2944, Cosmic Spirits

[elvisomar]

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

one person's "ugghh this trope is so overdone" is another person's "oooooohohohohohohohoho"

[jmelam]

Does anyone else love this part of the process?

✨Day 109 of becoming confident enough to illustrate my book.✨

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[jmelam]

Today is Day 108 of becoming confident enough to illustrate my book.

You can also watch this with sound on YouTube (for the vibes).

[writingdose]

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

[justhere4coffee]

When people call you a “snowflake” just remember they’re quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized, and that Tyler Durden isn’t the hero but a personification of the main character’s mental illness, and that his “snowflake” speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.

So basically people who say “snowflake” as an insult are quoting a domestic terrorist who blows up skyscrapers because he’s insecure about how good he is in bed.

[jmelam]

Today is Day 107 of becoming confident enough to illustrate my book.