A few traditional drawings/painting of Marie from recent weeks.
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A few traditional drawings/painting of Marie from recent weeks.
Here’s a peek at the other internals I did for Kyell Gold’s latest novella, The Time He Desires.
It’s pretty much wall-to-wall cat drama.
The book is available in print HERE or as an e-book HERE. Whichever way you go, all sales during the month of January are being donated to the ACLU. Pick up your copy and help make a difference today!
The first of five internal illustrations for Kyell Gold’s recent release, The Time He Desires.
Sometimes connections can happen across unexpected boundaries.
The book is available in print HERE or as an e-book HERE. Whichever way you go, all sales during the month of January are being donated to the ACLU. Pick up your copy and help make a difference today!
I’ve continued to enjoy sculpting bust references for paintings, both as a fun activity in its own right and also for the insight it gives me into form and light.
Cover for my friend’s new novella, The Time He Desires, available now through Furplanet.
The story explores themes of identity through the story of a Muslim immigrant who already left one world and one life behind -- now gentrification and personal struggles threaten to take a second away. As a study on change and acceptance, and on the meaning of tolerance and belief I would recommend the book to anyone.
I’ll be posting a bit of process and some of the internal illustrations I did for the book over the next few days.
Just a brief follow-up -- everything I said before applies to how we interact with our fellow citizens as individuals. How we interact with government and activist organizations and local outreach and every other aspect of civic life is through staying educated, staying involved, and contributing whatever resources we can, whether it’s time or money or expertise or all of the above.
The night of the election, I was feeling a lot of emotions, but I set them down for five minutes to go donate to the ACLU, to donate to Planned Parenthood, and to start gathering a list of other well-run organizations serving my community and my country according to the values I share with them. I will continue to help them ensure our freedoms and safety in any way I can.
Being civil and trying to get to know your Trump-voting neighbor doesn’t mean lying down and letting legislative and executive change that you oppose happen. Getting to know your Trump-voting neighbor is a step in easing the fears and anxieties which are ultimately manifested in the laws and programs the Trump administration will likely put forward. Having those civil conversations is a step in making progress, not an endpoint after having given up.
I know emotions continue to run high now. Thanks for your time.
The case for civility
Hey guys, I’m not a political blog, and I’m not here to jump on the “you’re not welcome here if you voted for X” bandwagon. I want this space to be one that everyone can share in, and I don’t say that from a place of political neutrality (I have strong partisan feelings), or from a place of “Let’s all just sing Kumbaya” denial about the strong divisions between us.
I say it because the places where Hillary-Americans and Trump-Americans share space are already so few. Both sides have cloistered themselves in their echo chambers and spun up their narratives that not only are their opponents wrong, but dangerous. Traitorous. Evil.
I feel like what we need in order to move forward as a country is to be able to lay down our fears and our anger for just a minute and engage people on the other side of the ideological divide as human beings with fears and anger of their own. To talk to “them” the same way we talk to “us.” To our friends. I’m not saying we should all agree; we won’t. I’m just saying that if we listen to each other--speak our minds to each other not in the form of insults or even persuasion, but just calmly, candidly communicating our hopes and fears and frustrations while listening to theirs in kind, we can begin to replace those default assumptions that what animates the Other Side is evil.
Instead of arguing, share your personal story. Instead of dismissing them as ignorant (or worse, malicious), actually ask what motivates them, and let them tell you. Really listen to their answers, not to gather data for your rebuttal, but to learn who they are, what the world looks like through their eyes. Show them the basic respect one human owes another, and ask them to do the same. Because the alternative to that is to forever deal with straw men.
Building straw men will win you some elections, yes. But the day after every election, win or lose, we go back to being one country whose citizens all have to share space with one another. Indulging in straw man thinking means that you will never know what common ground you share. What positive progress can be made for the nation as a whole because it addresses the concerns of both sides. It seems like we have nothing in common, but we do--if we can bring ourselves to have those conversations.
It’s comfortable to surround yourself with like-minded people. To stick to Our websites and Our news channels and Our hashtags. But ask yourself if the comfort of keeping to your safe spaces where you never need to interact with people who think differently is worth the price of this division. Worth the inability to interact constructively with half the country, which is then directly reflected in our government’s ability to function to all our benefit as well.
Being gay has taught me all this. I know what it’s like to want to spend time with like-minded people, because it’s easy and comfortable and safe. I know what it’s like to be afraid of the Other Side, and with good cause. But I also know that there are people alive now who think differently (and vote differently) about gay people because I had a conversation with them. Not a shouting match, but a real conversation where they told me their worries about the changing cultural landscape or their faith-based reservations or their squicky feelings about sex. I told them what sex and love mean to me, and they saw that there was more in common between us than they thought. And so did I -- and that’s important! I learned that some of the people voting against marriage equality weren’t the faceless pitchfork-and-torch bearers I feared. They were people acting out of concern and what they felt was right, even if I vehemently disagreed with that view. The point is, we both saw a human, where before we saw straw men. And now those people and I vote the same way on that issue!
That’s how progress is made. That’s how hearts are won -- by giving up the preconception that your position is absolutely correct and theirs is absolutely wrong and accepting that though we have different experiences and values and goals, the vast majority of us are decent people who are trying to do what’s best for ourselves, our families, our country. The more we can see the real causes of fear and anger and resentment in this country, the more we can do to address it at the source, rather than raging against its symptoms.
tl;dr: As divided as we are, we succeed or fail as a nation. Please be decent to one another, and for every hour you spend shouting, try to spend a few minutes listening with an open heart. Thank you for reading.
I’m excited to finally share my senior thesis film, Scan the Horizon! This was a huge labor of love, and I’m excited to finally share it with all of you. Thank you again to my crew for helping out, my professors at SCAD for being there for me, and my friends and family who inspired this story! Enjoy!
This is really beautiful! Congrats, and lovely work.
Was super impressed and inspired by Zootopia, and I’ve been working for the last while on a series of postcards to bring down with me to San Diego Comic-con! I’ll be at the Sofawolf Press table, so drop on by and say hey. Hope to see you guys there!
someone stole his yugioh cards and its picture day
No.
Nope.
Not how this is ending.
Nobody cries on picture day U_U
THE END.
(Also jackalsalad’s a really good artist everybody go follow them. Sorry for stealing your sad dog man child <3)
One of my favorite models at the studio.
Another of the lovely models at the studio.
Life drawings from another model session. The male models at the studio are outnumbered about five to one, so it’s always a nice treat when one comes in.
Haven’t posted any art in a while here because I haven’t done much painting recently, but I have been doing a bunch of figure drawing from life. Not sure if folks here would be interested in seeing any of that work, but it’s been a ton of fun and a lot of learning.
I’ll probably post some of my favorites from the last few months here over the next few days. Apologies for human spam if you’re just here for the fuzzy stuff!
A quick thing for Wasp, over on Pixiv. His figure studies are always fantastic, and his work has a compelling melancholy to it. Why all the dog man ennui, I wonder? Whatever the cause, I am a fan.
This sparkly bastard.
A pic for Austin Holcomb, the author of Night Physics, a web comic well worth your attention.
At its simplest core, the comic follows dreamy manimals (and womanimals) discussing their dreams, but with a keen observer’s eye and a subtle touch for storytelling, Austin manages to squeeze in a good bit of character-building, hint at the broader relationships between them, and top it off with a bit of social commentary to boot. The gorgeous art’s a nice bonus as well.
You can read Night Physics here, or support its creation via Patreon here.