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i had a dream about this pet cryptid a while ago and it was so beautiful i had to draw it

Alex portrait sketch.

#Minecraft #Minecraft Alex #fanart #sketch #portrait #fyp

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I CAN'T WAAAIIIIITT FOR HALLOWEEN!!!

My Jack portrait plus some tumblr filters just for fun, lol.

#tgaobam #jack o lantern #fanart #fyp #filters

A portrait of Jack O Lantern I drew a few weeks ago. He’s one of my favorite characters, along with Mandy and Eris.

#tgaobam #jack o lantern #fanart #fyp

These are just a couple of sketches for some unfinished projects. The first is a reimagining of Sunset Shimmer if she was never redeemed (but in human form), the second is that cursed painting from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

Very much the opposite sides of the spectrum of how I want my art to look.

#sketch #WIP #fanart #redesign

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Now, unlike Michael Newton’s book of hope, I appreciate the clarity of this book’s title: Encyclopedia of Things that Never Where (1985). Stating that definitively really gets all that belief malarkey out of the way and lets us appreciate these things on their own imaginary terms (as Georgess McHargue encouraged us to do on Monday).

This book is more like a collection of several small topical encyclopedias, each discrete from the others and in their own alphabetical order. Nor do they necessarily make a perfect or intuitive sense all the way through. Things of the Cosmos is mostly gods of major mythologies, but also King Arthur and his knights. Things of the Ground and Underground collects faeries and tree spirits, but also the manticore, Minotaur and Sphinx. Things of Wonderland seems to imply things from literature, but really it collects all manner of fantastical places, from fiction, but also from legend. Things of Magic, Science and Invention could just as well have been called Things and left it at that; it collects notable items, from Thor’s hammer to Jekyll’s potion to the many unusual uses for nails. Things of Water, Sky and Air covers all the creatures not detailed in Earth chapter — Grendel is here, griffins, too, and all the sea serpents. Finally, Things of the Night details the undead and other creatures who hide from the sun, whether they go bump or not.

Robert Ingpen’s art throughout is a pure joy. There are so many illustrations, the book is awash in them, and they’re all amazing, often subverting expectation but also remaining recognizable. There’s a warmth to it, like sitting by a fire, and he has a real talent for collaging together different elements that feels less museum-like and more evokes the crowded study of an eccentric scholar. I can’t imagine the amount of time it took to put together this portfolio, but it was well worth it. It’s a treasure.

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Robert Ingpen's illustration of that Aztec god felt very familar to me, so I looked it up - it seems likely he swiped the mask from this 1976 Dean Ellis cover for To Live Forever by Jack Vance. But perhaps they were both using the same reference material?

People honestly need to stop playing Roblox. I don’t trust for one second that the head has actually stopped predators from using their game.

#Roblox

We seriously need more female leads in Minecraft args, and nonbinary leads. It’s so weird that the genre is just centered on dudes, where’s the girls?

#Minecraft #minecraft arg

I find it so weird that VivziePop gets criticized for drawing super skinny characters, but I never hear the same about Jhonen Vasquez or Tim Burton. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places.

(I understand that there should be more body diversity, but why is Vivz getting criticized when Vasquez or Burton have similar styles?)

#art criticism #art #cartoons

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Alexander McQueen AW 1998 “Joan”

Inspired by the murders of Joan of Arc and of the Romanov family, Alexander McQueen’s Fall 1998 show took on a dark, sinister feeling. Models had peroxide blonde hair worn in medieval-inspired styles (sans eyebrows), and sported blood-red contact lenses. The collection itself was very tough; tailored, sequined, patterned with prints of the Romanov children. In keeping with the Joan of Arc theme, several models wore dresses of chainmail, and the color palette featured blood red, black, and silver. His signature tartan was present, and the red lace dress covering the face was worn by Lady Gaga at the MTV awards a decade later. There were even pieces of armor, as shown above in the fourth figure. It was the finale of the show, however, that would garner the most attention. The final model, wearing a beaded red dress that covered her face, was encircled in a ring of fire (a direct reference to Joan of Arc, who was burned a the stake). She writhed and moved around as the fire grew.

In the words of Andrew Bolton:

“The finale of this particular collection involved a woman walking down the runway styled like molten ash that has solidified. And at the end of it, she had centered herself on the catwalk and a ring of fire sprung up around her. The collection itself had many references to Joan of Arc—garments that were made out of chainmail, but also garments inspired by menswear. Joan of Arc was famous for contravening the conventions of gender in her dress. McQueen rarely used supermodels, beyond Kate Moss. He preferred models who were not that well known, or if they were, he liked disguising their features on the runway with treatments that in a way obliterated their identities. So this particular piece is quite typical of McQueen in terms of the fact that it is covering her face. We are totally unaware of who the actual model is. He did really want the artist to focus more on the artistry of the clothes, rather than the identity of the model.”