Without love there is no meaning

i have a bit of art block so i just play dress up with hanzo lol

(wake with the sunrise

Half Life VR AI but the AI makes fun of your YouTube habits. (Audio is from the second Cast Commentary)

EDIT: Here's a new version where I don't mix up Scorpy and Gir's voices!

☞ About ExVotos o Retablitos (Votive paintings)

An exvoto is an illustrated object offered by a person to a divinity fulfilling a promise made after such divinity made something come true, usually something that cannot be obtained through natural methods. 

It can also be seen as a way to admire or revere a saint for making wishes come true. They have been a long standing Mexican tradition, and they are vital to understand Mexican culture. A lot of exvotos talk about and represent Mexican nature, including mountains, animals, rivers, lakes, etc.

Some are funny, some are hearbreaking and some are very representative of our country, in its best and worst ways. 

In this way of connecting humans with divinities, the narrator is not the priest or nun anymore but the normal person. They are free to tell the story and the wish as they want. This includes also the way of speaking and the spelling or lack thereof.

I grew up seeing these everywhere but never until a few years ago did I understood their importance, value and beauty. 

I have a couple hanging up on my walls back home in Mexico, and I’m thinking about doing one myself. 

Info taken out of here 

Exvotos taken out of IG account @retablitos

“A Francisco Ramírez lo agarraron robando una tienda y el pueblo ya lo quería linchar agradece infinitamente en este retablo a San Elias que las autoridas llegaron a tiempo y lo salvaron de petatiarse.”

“Aredio Rodriguez dedica esta laminita pues al tratar de llegar a los EUA casi morimos pues el río Bravo venía con mucha agua todo por la culpa de Donald Trump gringo loco racista kukusklan quiere hacer el muro “México” es todo su pais. Los Angeles California a 16 de agosto del 2017.”

“El señor Catarino Pacheco agradece con mucho fervor en este retablo al Señor de la misericordia de que salvó la vida cuando el Terremoto tumbo su jacal y solo se le murieron dos marranos del chiquero”

Death and Life

Rounding out the year with old man yaoi had not been on my bingo card, but here we are.

I realized I never got around to draw adult bunny from Post Covid and I totally regret that cos they're so fun to draw! Also, drawing Kenny as a chubby man is so cathartic, my boy deserves the pounds!!! (and good anatomy practice to boot)