Bearbaire

scrape these barnacles, i am utterly yours.

take my lack of control and swallow it whole.

break my excuses to leave over your boney knees and free me,

Protest the Hero - Plato’s Tripartite (2013)

“Plato’s Tripartite” by Protest the Hero is a song that condemns sexual violence, victim blaming, and the justice system. Unfortunately, we live in a society that judges and shames victims of sexual assault, but shows compassion towards predators. For example, when CNN’s Candy Crowley and Poppy Harlow sympathized with the two teenage boys that raped a 16 year old girl because they had “such promising futures.” 

"You made your bed when you were born in your bones, so lay back, sweetheart, in a body you only sometimes own.  Lay back upon cold concrete floors and rest your drunken soul. What more could a lady ask for than to be treated like a hole?”

In the verse above, Protest the Hero satirically confront the idea that rape victims “ask for it” or bring it on themselves. Additionally, they touch on the fact that some men only see women as sexual objects.   Read the lyrics in full here.  Check out Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero on their Facebook and Twitter pages. 

Bravest Warriors #24 is coming out next week, with this cover I did for it! Here’s some of the process work - I included some explanations this time. I don’t know if it’ll be helpful at all or just… verbose… but hopefully there’s something useful in there :>

1. Thumbnail

2. Tight sketch

3. Rough values painted underneath the sketch

4. Value painting on top of the sketch to tighten things up

5. Flat colors! Regular area fill for set pieces, and a few color/overlay layers to quickly indicate hues in the painting

6. Set lighting: using multiply layers to indicate the overall scene lighting raking across the wall, working out how that will interact with the portrait painting and lead the eye. Also continuing to paint in regular layers on top of the portrait.

7. Warming/brightening up the scene lighting, picking out highlights on the frame, softening some form shadow edges to add dimension, adding some rimlight to Catbug. Continuing to work up the portrait. Adding occlusion shadows under the frame and curtains.

8. Using a lighten layer to better expose and unify the areas of the scene struck by light. Lightening the shadow areas a bit to raise overall tone and prevent stuff from getting lost or too dark.

Chris Farren "I’m Not Ready For Christmas" (feat. Mae Whitman) Like A Gift From God Or Whatever

Don’t stop it, bitch yr in my way!