Art and Stuff by Me

I'm a poorly disciplined artist who sometimes makes things. Digital commissions open - DM me if you're interested!

[paintandpensandyarn]

Another portrait

[paintandpensandyarn]

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted here. These are some of my more recent drawings - I’m working a lot on classical realism and portraiture lately.

[sidecast-text]

dog time AKA the only reason i've been managing not to overwork myself

[sidecast-text]

death of the author except when its funny

[quiggyballs]

exactly what someone who regularly turns into a dog would say

[sidecast-text]

im having a genuine blast this is like a gender reveal party to me

[titleknown]

REBLOG IF YOU'RE EXTREMELY BURNT OUT DESPITE ALSO FEELING LIKE YOU'VE DONE NOTHING WORTHWHILE AT ALL WITH YOUR LIFE!

[wilwheaton]

This is lovely advice.

[zeebreezin]

Messing with brushes I don’t usually use to try and bust my art block… here’s a very dramatic charcoal Shaw!

[random-brushstrokes]

William P. Welsh - Burlesque Queen (1941)

[clevermanka]

Thank you @howdidyouallgetinmyroom for these glorious tags because "nowadays we can't do photos without shaving bits off of people but this painter in 1941 painted ALL of this lady by hand stroke by stroke every glorious bit and i'm so overjoyed" FUCK YES

[aromantic-diaries]

I don't think it's infantilizing to headcanon an autistic character as asexual especially since there are many autistic asexuals and a lot of them may see themselves in these characters. What should raise an eyebrow is when they get the "precious innocent baby cinnamon roll who doesn't know what sex is" treatment cause if I'm being completely honest that characterization is offensive to both autistic and asexual people

[aromantic-diaries]

Just to get this straight. An autistic person being asexual doesn't feed into the stereotype that autistic people are all too innocent and childlike and stupid to properly consent or to understand sex. Autistic asexual adults are not the ones responsible for this ableist misconception.

[haruwuchiyoo]

Fantasy authors stop using Irish/Gaeilge, Scots Gaelic/Gàidhlig and Welsh/Cymraeg in your books if you're going to miserably mispronounce them and then say "well this is just MY pronunciation of it!" when you're called out. That's not how that works. Gaeilge, Scots Gaelic and Welsh are three languages that were dangerously teetering on becoming "dead languages" because English occupation intentionally crippled them to suppress the chances of rebellion in three countries they colonized. Native languages that were banned and beaten out of people. I hate this trend, it's tacky. If you're going to use our languages to sound whimsical, learn how to pronounce them correctly, it's the absolute bare minimum. The Celtic languages aren't some little fun trendy devices to bolster and make your books more interesting.

Our languages do sound great in fantasy novels. They're beautiful and frankly magical when spoken fluently, and it's incredibly sad that although they are recovering, they still have an incredibly long way to go.

[silversteampunk]

All the items from Sunless Sea are so interesting I wanted to do my own versions of them. Some of them I wanted to base off the in-game image, and others I decided to just go entirely off the item name and do my own thing.

[paintandpensandyarn]

@viric-dreams challenged me to paint Ockham on the other side of the Parabola mirror, so this is what I came up with.

[bebs-art-gallery]

© lightbeyondtheframe

[viric-dreams]

Nite's been expanding his social circle beyond the LoN revs since coming to London. Notably, his acquaintance with @paintandpensandyarn's Myfanwy, an expert on the correspondence (knowledge he absolutely does not need to know for explosives-related purposes). And he knows exactly whom to ask when the sigils start to make too much sense...

Pictured: a man clearly not about to learn anything surprising about himself.

[swinglatte]

I always enjoy a good waistcoat lady.

[February 9, 2021]

[paintandpensandyarn]

Just a quick little sketch of Myfanwy dressing as a street urchin to go undercover. She still moonlights as a private eye from time to time

[paintandpensandyarn]

[mollybeenoel]

tiny

Mycena Roseoflava photographed by cyanesense ❦ Mycena Subcyanocephala or Light Blue Pileus photographed by cho_fungi