hi, it's me, your trans uncle

Taylor | 30s | he/they | a gentleman | trans artist | mostly Zukka

[calcazars]

let it be known that i touch grass frequently and I’m still like this.

[transuncletaylor]

I wanted to do an art throughout the years to show myself how much I have learned and how my style has developed. It's amazing that just nearly 6 years ago I was like let's make that boy gay and stupid, which is pretty much canon anyways

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I found my original brush set for procreate and redownloaded it. My brain is like, how do we draw cleaned up lineart again??? What is this?? How the flip do you draw eyebrows 😂 but I'm excited for all of this!

[cattoonxd]

Child of war

[colesza1]

modern katara because ive been yearning go draw the atla cast in modern cozy clothes anyway 🌊🐟

[fartsofneil]

…

I’m not apologizing.

[beanaroony-deactivated20140607]

WHAT IS THIS I’M DYING WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME! 

[transuncletaylor]

Practice sketches to get back into art. Dragon Zuko is trying so hard to not just pick up Sokka and carry him to their nest. Inspired by @syciaralynx fic How to Date Your Dragon

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I started drawing a Zuko and everything felt wrong until I turned that smile upside down into a frown

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Finished my first week back at work, got some reference photos for some drawing practice, iPad and pencil all charged, gonna take a nap first 🤩

[seasideoranges]

doobles pt 1

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[ceresstardraws]

agni stop it you're gonna kill him

i am back from the dead this time with zukka

my lack of basic practice is showing in how long it takes me to complete stuff right now, but the end results are still fun. i just wish it didn't take 20+ hours to get to this output. the lack of practice is showing in other places that i am very aware of but i won't harp on them.

absolutely obsessed with the colors on this one oh my looord. i had to reign myself in from doing some crazy lighting stuff, but if i ever go back to this i will absolutely do some more rendering and play with lighting. i have the layer with my alternate coloring still in the procreate file waiting for me to come back to it.

i'm also in the process of opening a redbubble if anyone is interested! if there are better platforms i should know about, please tell me, redbubble just had the lowest barrier to entry so i slapped some stuff on there real quick today and my account is in the review period. is inprnt any good?

i'm also always a bit scared to have the audacity to try and sell fanart of copywritten characters, but it's the only art i have right now and plenty of other people have the audacity so,,, 😬

thinking about making a vgen account, but i'm not entirely sure yet what i would offer because i feel like i need way more practice before i feel comfortable doing commissions. i think that will be for a little later down the line when i feel more comfortable doing quick sketches and doodles digitally, because i'm still not there yet .

regardless i am a poor student + i need some semblance of any income at all that i can achieve remotely so,,, i have a kofi! i don't have any rewards system set up (i don't think that's really the point of kofi anyway), nor am i expecting literally anything, but since kofi has membership options, i'm thinking about setting that up in the future as well!

love you! and love zukka! goodnight! mwah!

[transuncletaylor]

Please I'm crying, why is this like a magical girl power up sequence

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Of course Zuko has the most dramatic ass way of falling

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[theroundbartable]

Everything you know, might be smth somone else just found out about.

[akinmytua2]

Stacy did a lot for diabetes representation but also for kids to have autonomy over medical decisions. She actually gets the doctor SHE chooses at one point because, if I remember correctly, she sneaks out to go to the doctor. And Stacy had diabetes in the 80s. Before most of the stuff we have now. No insulin pumps or cgms.

[meatsweat07]

modern!zuko would rock a wolf cut imo