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@taurusii
About my art
Before I start posting any of my new works here, I'd like to briefly introduce what I have been doing so far.
The vast majority of my drawings are simply fanarts from the game "Captain Claw" or rather my own story that I have been creating for years based on the game. Most of my drawings can be found on the game's website, right here
That would be it for me, thank you for your attention!
I haven't posted sketchbook stuff recently! Pretty boring bcs I'm mostly drawing August hahaha
Threw together a quick ref for this tormented soul
What should I do...?
Looks that Kill (featuring my own Ingrid and Viktor)
Do you have a voice in mind for Clarence? At the moment I imagine him with a Big Bird voice, just with a more laissez faire cadence
Hold on a sec, let me grab a link...
Ok, This may not come as any surprise to some of you...(because I made him while listening to Soft Machine's Kevin Ayers)
Young male leopard seemingly in deep thought.
AndBeyond Kirkman’s Kamp, South Africa Photograph and caption by Dylan Pons
The face of content you can only make when you know you're dating the hottest botb contestant!!!
happy pride! 🌈☀️
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Comm for @hungry-joe!
mimi fariña <3
Cyrk (Polish circus poster, 1971, by Wiktor Gorka)
Looks that Kill (featuring my own Ingrid and Viktor)
The sunlight hit my doodle book Just Right
Portrait of the 'Mordaunt', Fourth Rate, built 1681, 46 guns, by Willem van de Velde, the Elder, circa 1683
another August! I just love drawing them sm
I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
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bumping one last time before AAPI month ends!
I was very nervous posting this because of my decision to not restrain/limit my tone in writing this comic, but I don’t regret it one bit. Thank you for your support 💖🇵🇭🇰🇷
“I Am Not Your Asian American Doll” turns one year old today! To honor its anniversary and this year’s Maysia I’ll share some of the artistic choices behind the comic.
My main inspiration was the work of feminist artist Barbara Kruger, who you may know from “your gaze hits the side of my face” and “you construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.” I wanted to pair really shocking, striking words with high-contrast monochrome images as she did.
I chose eyes (and lack thereof) as a central motif. In conversations about art and media history, the “gaze” of the audience is a way to exert power. Who is made into the passive subject, and who gets to be the all-seeing viewer? Who is the subject being portrayed for? Hiding the Asian figures’ eyes demonstrates their lack of agency and establishes them as the subject rather than the viewer.
The skyline on page 5 includes Namsan Tower, as some readers pointed out. (You may have also been clued in from the page’s respective alt text, which describes this as the Seoul skyline.) Though numerous Asian countries have been victims of imperialism several times over, Korea was specifically in mind here. It was Western powers who Korea was split into the North and South, and their colonization and exploitation has led to extreme poverty even today, despite the country’s glamorous facade and rising international stardom.
As many guessed, pink was chosen for its association with sexualization and femininity, although of course fetishization of Asian cultures affects all genders. I also wanted to pick a dark, shocking pink that reminded the viewer of blood; in fact, it is used to color blood here on page 6. I was really happy that the color palette was limited but still legible. (But drawing the large food spread on page 4 with only three shades of pink was definitely a huge challenge.)
Here are some thumbnail sketches I made when planning the comic. You can probably recognize some of the final pages — and see how others evolved!
I want to thank everyone for their overwhelming support for this comic. I never could have dreamed of such an amazing response. To my Asian siblings across the world, you made me feel less alone. To non-Asian allies who lent me their ear, thank you so much for standing with us and listening to our struggles.
Usually I’m extremely careful to write my comics in a palatable tone, but for this piece I decided to not restrain my anger. I understood that by making this decision I would be sacrificing readership, and that many people would be much less willing to listen to me because of my tone. Nevertheless, I truly believe that any and all of the harassment I received was a small price to pay for such an honest piece to be seen.
Thank you all, again! Please consider supporting my most recent fundraising project, an Inumaki Toge themed fundraiser for aid in Gaza.
Final note: THIS COMIC IS NOT FOR TERFS 🏳️⚧️
