Skylar's Art

illustration by Daniel Danger

this is genius!!!!

performer: @abby_seim 

disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I'm just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

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Eighth Generation is what modern Native American design looks like without cultural appropriation 

How to procure Native-American-and-First-Nation-themed items without entitlement or cultural appropriation in one easy step.

BUY THE THINGS DIRECTLY FROM THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

Because if they’re selling these representations of their culture and being fairly compensated, you’re not appropriating, you’re appreciating. And helping good folks make a living while you’re at it.

https://eighthgeneration.com 

(Link 1, link 2)

ancient interpretations of colour is so different from our own (in the modern west, anyway) and it’s incredibly interesting! colour-descriptors were metaphors, it indicated (most commonly) the shade/tint of colours (forgive me, I am a classicist not an artist so my colour theory vocab is lacking)

but tl;dr if you didn’t read the articles, we translate a bunch of Greek (and Latin) colour words to match modern colour words in ways that either don’t really make sense to us or just lock colours onto things. Like with Achilles’ “blonde” hair.

Hector’s hair in the Iliad is described with a word that’s often translated to “blue” - he almost certainly didn’t have blue hair, in the Greek it’s a word that’s synonymous with dark, or sky-like sometimes.

two of Homer’s most famous colour epithets are “the wine-dark sea” and “rosy-fingered dawn”, and there’s so much built on them. No one’s saying that the sea is a burgundy colour, but it’s dark and deep, and in the wide Greek wine cups, you can swill your wine to make it look like a stormy sea easily. And sometimes the sunrise is pink, but not always, but you can immediately picture the tendrils of that rosey/orangey sky in the morning.

If you want to see more pictures, they’re under my “crocheting” tag.

Acrylic yarn for the exterior, polyester fill for the interior; if you’d want something different, we can discuss it.

I can do mousies in the colours of most Pride flags, not just the ones shown; if you’re wondering about a particular one, feel free to ask.

I charge five dollars per mousie, plus the cost of shipping (ten dollars for a “small package”). Specifically for Pride month, instead of charging per mousie, I ask for a donation in that amount to Amnesty International; I would be making zero profit off of this. For larger orders I’ll also lower how much I charge you for shipping; I recommend finding someone to share an order with, if you only want one or two.

Interested? Send me a message and we can talk.

Yes I do more Pride colours than the ones shown there, yes I can do colour variations if you want something more pastel or dark or whatever.

Yes I ship to anywhere in the world that gets postal service. (EDIT: I can ship to anywhere in the world that Canada Post will ship to, which is most places but technically not “everywhere” these days; Canada, the States, and the UK are definitely fine.)

dressmakers, tailors, cosplayers, historical costumers, and generally any people who sew are artists

people who work with fiber (knitting, crocheting, etc.) are artists

embroiderers are artists

weavers are artists

lacemakers are artists

shoemakers are artists

leatherworkers are artists

textile, clothing, and fiber arts are still art forms, even though they’ve historically been devalued in many societies