Why I'm Not An Artist

This is mostly a Tumblr aggregation blog for my (Rani Baker's) Wordpress sites, but will occasionally make fun of bad mainstream comic book art and/or signal boost interesting projects and tutorials.

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Did A Portrait Of @JesskaNightmare from Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls

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Alien/HR Giger Ripoffs In 80s Video Games That Made No Sense

Alien/HR Giger Ripoffs In 80s Video Games That Made No Sense

It genuinely seems like there was a law in place in the late 80s/early 90s that every video game property had to incorporate the aesthetic of bio-mechanical erotic nightmare artist HR Giger (especially related the the Alien movie series) into their work for maximum edge. Psygnosis kinda built a whole thing out of this. As far as I know, there was only a handful of Alien-related games, and one…

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Aces High

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Three Of Swords

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Synthesizer Saturday: Prince Symbol Floppy Disk And Font

Synthesizer Saturday: Prince Symbol Floppy Disk And Font

Found this article by tech writer Anil Dash regarding a purchase of a music industry/press insider floppy disk issued when musician Prince famously changed his name to a custom symbol. This floppy disk contains a font with the symbol so writers in the music press could utilize it. Also included in the article were these instructions for use: Over at Mental Floss, they report that the font has…

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Eight Of Cups

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Sketchbook Saturday: #cutiesaturday Contribution

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Temperance

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Eight Of Wands

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Two Of Cups

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BOOM

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My Least Favorite Day On The Internet.

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Shaq Fu Liberation Site

Shaq Fu Liberation Site

There’s a website dedicated to “liberating” all copies of the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo game “Shaq Fu“, as well as deterring funding for an upcoming sequel. http://www.shaqfu.com/ Their reasoning is as follows: Reasons for LIBERATING: You prevent other generations from feeling the corruption of this game and its evil. You clear up the enormous copies of Shaq-Fu lying on the shelves in used…

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20+ Year-Old Comic On Trans Bathroom Panic &Gender Policing.

20+ Year-Old Comic On Trans Bathroom Panic &Gender Policing.

This 1995 Dykes To Watch Out For comic by Alison Bechdel (yes the same person/comic the “Bechdel/Wallace Test” concept comes from) covers the idea of “trans bathroom panic” while simultaneously illustrates the absurdity of policing the gender expression of others.

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A Lot On My Mind.

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1998 Online Petition To Release Black Cauldron On VHS

1998 Online Petition To Release Black Cauldron On VHS

Did some digging around and I found the an archived copy of the Geocities online petition I signed in 1998 to have the Disney film Black Cauldron released on VHS. There’s also a short story page which explains the history of the site and petition. I love running into artifacts of my Web 1.0 shenanigans.

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Synthesizer Saturday: Houston Tracker Calculator Chiptune Finnish chiptune composer/programmer Irrlicht Project has released a new version of his TI-80 calculator series software HoustonTracker, which turns the decades-old devices into a Tracker-like sequencer. Also, here's Bubble Bobble.