Work By Raine

Artistic Blogging Space for Raine Williams

[wyraine]

My body is a machine that turns old ambitious D&D sketches into very cool animations for projects.

[wyraine]

I've been very pleased about my progress on metal shading lately. My knights need more punches in contrast but otherwise I'm having a lot of fun!!

[wyraine]

I've been very good about not posting things early, so as a treat I'm sharing a snippet from an animation I've been gently pecking away at.

[wyraine]

Anyway folks here's a most recent work of one of my OCs. I still make stuff even though I hate social media 👍🏾

[raineworker]

[Original Post Here] < Instagram.

I'm going to be annoying and post this here as a black person who has had too many white and non-black friends who have needed to hear this in the past and internalize it. I didn't know about this until this video! I'll be more annoying about it going forward.

[wyraine]

Very hard to be anti-racist when you readily justify, participate in, and enable this kind of behavior. I know it's very difficult to really grasp the full weight of the consequences of this kind of behavior but I need you to understand, reader, this is bigger than simple discourse on the internet, it has real life ramifications and consequences that destroy and debilitate people of color and black people in specific.

If your first desire at discomfort is to soothe yourself, justify yourself, or prevent further reflection on your behavior, you're only posturing as any kind of ally or liberator, and are in fact, an imposter upholding the status quo. I have met so many people in my life who do not understand this, and at this point I'm merely learning the language I need to use to defend myself from this inhumane behavior.

[arachnixe]

Also while we're all talking about anti-racism, here's a helpful tip:

Performative self-flagellation over being white is not a substitute for doing serious introspection about the ways you have been complicit in or rewarded by a white-supremacist society, nor doing the work to dismantle white supremacy.

A white person chiming in to a conversation about racism to say "I'm sorry for being white" or "white people suck, I say this as a white person" is just a masturbatory way to try to assuage your own feelings of shame without actually doing anything. It doesn't make you look like "one of the good ones." It makes you look like someone who centers your own feelings about it.

[wyraine]

Universal Experience

[wyraine]

Not much to be done about it now but man. At least it's a little funny.

This kind of thing got really rampant after George Floyd's death but now that that's a distant memory, so too are white people's desires for genuine self improvement lmao. "Comfort" is more important than "progress" so to speak. I only care as much as they want to get in my face and bullshit me about it.

[wyraine]

Going to get vulnerable for a sec and share something that's been on my mind.

Abusive people of all kinds don't like it when you speak honestly about what they have said and done and how they have behaved. I'm getting this off my chest. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, I'm just sharing my experience, and what it's like to be paralyzed by the frustration and bewilderment that follows. I'm thinking maybe if I get this off my chest, I'll be able to get back to sharing.

[wyraine]

I'm not putting this in a cut. Have a dirty sketch comic that I might put into an actual comic later. I cut my ties with some legitimately racist fucks 4 years ago. They invited me in, they encouraged me to participate, ONE person started causing problems legitimately and stirring up trouble, and I became a scapegoat for a litany of things that didn't have anything to do with me. I'm not so mad about it anymore, but I know my abuser's enabler is skulking around, so now she gets to see it for herself.

[wyraine]

Going to get vulnerable for a sec and share something that's been on my mind.

Abusive people of all kinds don't like it when you speak honestly about what they have said and done and how they have behaved. I'm getting this off my chest. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, I'm just sharing my experience, and what it's like to be paralyzed by the frustration and bewilderment that follows. I'm thinking maybe if I get this off my chest, I'll be able to get back to sharing.

[wyraine]

Revamping some old ocs inbetween projects. Here's Elizah and Becker!

They are low stakes guys who are just around for my enjoyment, for now anyway. They live in an urban environment and participate in some kind of parkour/free running/ grind fiction situation, but that's as far as I'm going for now!

[wyraine]

I did that trend everyone's doing amid the search for my work-life balance... Whaddya think?

[wyraine]

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New Meet the Artist for 2026

Hey! I'm a professional artist with two art degrees. I do all kinds of work. Consider following me here or anywhere else.

My absolute goal as an independent artist is to create my own graphic novels, games, and stories. I also like doing murals and selling my products at conventions, shows, and art spaces.

My main blog is @raineworker where I upload sketches and follow people! I also do most of my community related stuff over there!

[raineworker]

for the first time ever on the internet i feel compelled to apologize for my brief absence.

🙇🏾 I'm still around, just busy. Hopefully will be able to post some things and update stuff, but I'm not pressed about it. I'm back on the 9-5 grind 😑 and while I definitely don't hate my job, it's pretty hard to do what i want after work bc of how much energy i put to work (which isn't a bad thing! but like man.)

Thanks for sticking around. 🤔 Social media and I don't normally get along but i think this year I may continue attempting to figure it out.

Happy New Year folks!

[wyraine]

Some blips from my portfolio day post over on bluesky.

[wyraine]

See you all next year! Don't look too closely at my selfie-

[raineworker]

My new job is pretty good. It's a full time thing though so I'm still figuring out work-life balance on top of finding the bandwidth to work on projects during my free time. I'm coming up with some productive results. Hopefully I'll have more to share soon...

[wyraine]

Not gone, not on a hiatus, just working!

sneak peak for the brave and the bold!

[wyraine]

Gainful employment has kept me busy (thank God), but I do look forward to getting more time to myself!