SovaeArt

Art by R. Wake

[sovaeart]

[Scene: a nervous-looking older man meets with a millennial in a darkened alley.]

Millennial: what's the target?

Man: I don't know if I want to do this.

Millennial: people don't come to us until they've made up their minds.

Man: Alright. Styrofoam cups.

Millennial: Six months and they're gone.

Man: Can millennials really kill styrofoam cups?

Millennial: we can kill anything, but not cheaply.

Man: I can pay. I work for a plasti-

Millennial: I don't need to know and frankly I don't care. One of us will deliver a routing number to a Zurich account. Two billion euros, then we start.

Man: Al..alright.

Millennial: It will be your last chance to reconsider. Once the money is processed you'll have no contact with us again.

Man: I understand. It has to be done.

Millennial: Then it's sealed. The cups will join chain restaurants and diamonds in the void.

Man: Thank..thank you.

Millennial: We don't require thanks. Participation is its own trophy.

[sovaeart]

This is my entry into the 2016 Breyerfest Customs Contest. It took an incredible amount of work. They are extreme resculpts of Marwari and Phar Lap mounted into a splash base that was sculpted, molded, and cast by me. Coloring is in pastels, acrylics, and pastel pencil. Although they’re extreme customs, I was torn over whether to submit them into the Most Creative or Most Extreme divisions, and in the end I left it to a friend to decide and he chose Most Creative. I’m glad he did, because they won their division! I have two big-ass ribbons that I’m going to keep forever! It is up for auction now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Breyerfest-2016-Best-Customs-Contest-WINNER-Fighting-Breyer-Horses-LSQ-CM-Custom-/162147769739?hash=item25c0c29d8b:g:Bs8AAOSwRgJXlepR I’m SO humbled that they won because the competition was absolutely stunning. It included a wonderful little zebra, a massive and incredible Alborozo pegasus, a really clever light-up demon horse, an incredibly creative lying foal transformed into a baby giraffe, and the tiniest and most adorable sea-dragon horse you ever saw. The competition was so amazing that I actually gave up any hope of winning and to my great eternal shame, was asleep outside in my car at the time the prizes were awarded (I’d just had a medical procedure and was exhausted.) I woke up at 11pm (the time you need to collect your work lest it forever become the property of Breyer.) So I ran in to find everyone packing up and my horse witting alone in the middle of the table with not one, but TWO ribbons. I stood in confusion for a moment until an organizer approached and told me I’d won! It took a while to process that! 

I regret not spending more time meeting people, but I did meet and speak to so many amazing artists and customizers and learned so much. Breyerfest was wonderful and though I probably won’t enter the customs contest next year, I will definitely be attending again!

[sovaeart]

This is a complete resculpt of two Breyer models (Marwari and Phar Lap) It is a finalist in the Breyerfest Customs Contest. See it on display at Breyerfest on the 22nd and 23rd of June!

[sovaeart]

[sovaeart]

Lifesize unicorn bust. Sculpted from all man-made materials. Available now from: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Faux-Taxidermy-lifesize-Unicorn-head-OOAK-Fantasy-decor-sculpture-Horse-mount-/161919025717

[sovaeart]

A customized Peter Stone Yearling body. I removed the mane and tail, resculpted the face, painted and gave it a mohair mane and tail. The tail can be posed. Available on a Buy it Now that will surely go on forever~ http://www.ebay.com/itm/OOAK-Custom-Peter-Stone-Weanling-Unicorn-LSQ-Model-filly-horse-foal-breyer-size-/161916992669

[sovaeart]

I am insane, so have put this poor little thing on eBay with a no reserve 1-day auction!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/161915077783?

[sovaeart]

A custom, resculpted Breyer arabian foal!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-OOAK-Breyer-Arabian-Foal-Baby-Pegasus-CM-Horse-Model-Resculpt-Sculpture-/161910413208?

[sovaeart]

New sculpt, auction ends tonight!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161898306948

[sovaeart]

New OOAK Sculpt, available on eBay now: 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/161898306948

[sovaeart]

Are you good at drawing as well as sculpting? Is it important to have relatively decent drawing skills of you want to sculpt for a living?

I trained in drawing in college, so I can draw, though usually I just make sketches rather than finished, polished drawings. I think having a good understanding of drawing is important for sculpture but it really depends on what you sculpt.

[sovaeart]

How do keep your legs or other thin structures strong?

Hi! I use a good thick armature wire--the thicker the better.

[sovaeart]

For anyone who is on Twitter, I tweet @sovae

[egobuss-deactivated20150421]

character development 

[rais-in]

nope that would be called successful female socialisation in a patriarchal society

[egobuss-deactivated20150421]

Please do not use feminism to shame my interests.

I like pink and dresses and art and music and fashion. I also like blue and sports and comics and I choose not to wear makeup and have had short hair for the past five years. I am a person with feminine and masculine interests. I have not been socialized to be more feminine, I have adopted new interest, grown as a person and learned to embrace both my feminine and my masculine sides.

If you want to do a feminist reading on this silly ass comic about how I’ve changed over the past decade maybe you should look at why I actively avoided things typically viewed as “feminine”.

You’re not helping feminism by making me feel like I don’t have control over myself. You’re not helping feminism by shaming girls who consider themselves more feminine than masculine.

Thank you and goodbye.

[myvegansensesaretingling]

it’s truly strange that one person could look at this and see “successful female socialisation in a patriarchal society” when all I see is “shedding internalized misogyny”

tbh when I was 10 I prided myself on being a “tomboy” and only hung out with boys (and one girl who was just as tomboyish as me) because I thought “girly girls” were the scum of the earth

took me a long time to unlearn that shit, but once I started wearing dresses, I started celebrating girls of all backgrounds

[onebuttscratcher]

PSA

[borntobekings]

I’ve seen this post and the discussion that accompanies it many times, but I thought I’d see if I could apply science to it today.

Lo and behold, studies show that girls commonly go through a phase of rigid gender adherence at a very young age, and likewise often a phase of vehement gender rejection a few years later. By the time they hit ten years old, they’re often deep in the grips of the latter.

In other words, girls have already been socialized to associate the color pink, frilly dresses, and the like with femaleness at age three or four. A ten-year-old is not a bastion of pure unsullied female power and wisdom. Meanwhile, a twenty-year-old is someone who’s had time to actually think that shit over and come to her own conclusions on it instead of simply having unexamined kneejerk reactions. Those reactions in question may be representative of internalized misogyny, or they may be a juvenile act of rebellion against oppressive gender roles. I’m not sure there’s a way to study that. I’d wager it’s a combination of both.

Either way, a twenty-year-old woman wearing a pink dress is not a brainwashed drone of the patriarchy, but a person making the conscious decision to style herself as she sees fit. Whether it’s because she genuinely enjoys it or because it makes her life easier in dealing with the patriarchy, it shows character development from the young girl who eagerly embraced and then just as thoughtlessly pushed away femininity.

[branewurms]

disliking pink and dresses and frilly things for yourself is you expressing your gender the way you see fit. that’s great! telling other women that they shouldn’t like pink and dresses and frilly things is internalized misogyny, not feminism - it assumes masculine coded things as default and good and inherently desirable and feminine coded things as exceptions and bad and inherently undesirable. surely you can see how that’s misogynistic? there’s nothing revolutionary about telling women what they should or shouldn’t like. that’s what society has been doing all along.

[moonsheen]

I violently avoided skirts until I was 19 because I considered it a sign of being a TOOL OF THE PATRIARCHY and I felt girly girls were weak silly people buying into the whole thing. Then I realized I actually loved skirts and find them way comfortable and fun and use them as a way to express myself. I owned who I was far more wearing fun sundresses than I did wearing crappy sweats and jeans because I thought looking like a grubby dude and having all dude friend groups who treated me like crap ANYWAY somehow made me intellectually superior (gee, I wonder where I got THOSE toxic ideas?)

[katswenski]

I will dance for you no more.

[title2come]

First Drafts

[stormphyre]

sovaeart >.>

[diedinpompeji-deactivated201505]

PLUTO 2015

NASA

[wand-erin-gs]

I AM SCREAMING OH MY GOODNESS

[aquariusdegel]

OH MY GOD DO YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND HOW AMAZING THIS IS I HAVE BEEN READING ASTRONOMY BOOKS FOR YEARS AND EVERYTIME THERE’S JUST A PIXELLY BLUR FOR PLUTO NOT ANYMORE. NEVER AGAIN.

[little-yogi]

it’s so beautiful

[emnorthwest-deactivated20180917]

YES

[sovaeart]

These images are artist renditions, sadly :/

But I think the real thing is far more lovely: