Hellooooo everybody!!!! I'm in the process of job searching, but while I do that I've decided to open up art commissions. Examples of my work are above, and can be found in my #my art tag. All of these works are drawn in Clip Studio with a Wacom tablet. If you commission me I would send you regular updates through the thumbnail and sketching stage. There is 0 Generative AI involved in my work. If you'd like to commission me, please email me at flowersandtoads@ gmail.com (without the space)!
More details under the cut.
The standard sizes I work in are:
12inch x 12 inch square
11 inch x 17 inch rectangle
16 inch x 20 inch rectangle
However other sizes between 9x12 and 16x20 are available if you request!
I have two main styles I work in. One is a more stylized comic book style with black ink, and the other is a more realistic style that resembles a pencil drawing. They are priced differently because they require different amounts of detail and therefore less or more time. All prices are shown in USD.
For Style A, comic book the pricing is as follows:
Half body (shown top right and bottom right) - $70
Full body (shown top left) - $100
Additional characters (shown bottom left & right) +$50
adding color (shown right) + $30
Detailed background (shown bottom right) +$50
Style B, semirealism, has two rendering styles: sketched and painting.
For the sketches the pricing is as follows:
Portraits (shown bottom) are $75 for a sketch (bottom left)
Half body (shown top) are $100 for a sketch
Additional characters (shown top left) are +$50
A floral frame (shown bottom left) is +$30 for a sketch
Detailed backgrounds are +$50
a texture background or a pop of color is +$10
The black and white paintings can be seen in the bottom left example, and the pricing is as follows:
Portraits are $150
Half body paintings are $175
Additional characters are +$75
A floral frame is +$50
Detailed backgrounds are +100$
A textured background or a pop of color is +$20
A note about my work: I will do nonsexual nudity. I will NOT do NSFW, mecha, or political work. For my purposes I define political work as artwork relating to or depicting the flags of real countries, political or world leaders or activists, or relating to or depicting current real-world conflicts (ex war in Ukraine, Trump, etc etc).
I can do anthros if you want me to, but they won't look like the traditional furry style. My anthros tend to look like this:
If this is a style you're interested in, I will totally draw your fursona! It just won't look like a traditional furry.
If you'd like to commission me, please email me! Again, my email is flowersandtoads @ gmail.com without the spaces. You can dm me here but I will be more responsive if you email me.
I currently have three slots and they're all open.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
β Live Streamingβ Interactive Chatβ Private Showsβ HD Qualityβ Free Actions
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
Transcription: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (known by various slightly different names) is a memorial day that commemorates the victims of the Sinti and Romani Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of an estimated 220,000β500,000 Sinti and Romani people by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The date of 2 August was chosen for the memorial because on the night of 2β3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma, mostly women, children and elderly people, were killed in the Gypsy family camp (Zigeunerfamilienlager) at Auschwitz concentration camp. Some countries have chosen to commemorate the genocide on different dates.
I'm sorry Rroma, Romani, Sinti that your people are forgotten. I'm sorry that whenever people talk about the Holocaust and Hitler, you have to remember, too. I'm sorry that your people, your villages, your families, entire swaths of your culture were eradicated. I'm sorry that nazis, real actual nazis, believed you, too, were a problem that had to be solved.
I'm sorry that when people invoke talk about the shoah they forget about the porajmos, that they manipulate it to be about themselves, or people other than us. I'm sorry.
In August we will get back to the last Dragon Age hero, that as not their fully own event (shoutout once more to @rookappreciationweek!) And this last hero is of course our Inquisitor from Dragon Age Inquisition.
Just like with the Warden, Warden Commander, and Hawke, we will celebrate the Inquisitors of Thedas. Like always, this is an event for fanwork featuring your Inquisitor. That means this is a call for fanart, fanfiction, aethetics, stimboards, gifs... Whatever you want!
We have Rules of course, but I feel most of you already know the rules for this: no stealing, no AI, works posted will have to be new. And so on.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
β Live Streamingβ Interactive Chatβ Private Showsβ HD Qualityβ Free Actions
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
ok so OBVIOUSLY Eartha Kitt as Persephone, but who else would we cast for a vintage Hadestown?
for hades i see christopher plummer or paul robeson. for orpheus i see russ tamblyn (if god is in charge) or frank sinatra (if the studio is). hermes is gladys bentley. the fates are the kim loo sisters. eurydice is elisabeth welch.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
β Live Streamingβ Interactive Chatβ Private Showsβ HD Qualityβ Free Actions
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
I do wonder if maybe he did it intentionally so everyone would focus on the name and not the transition. Then after like a month when everyone is used to it he can reveal actually he chose Sephiroth like a normal trans white man.
maybe it's because I don't know very many trans people irl but I always thought the cliche (at least for white people who can do this more easily) name to choose when you transition was let's just say the kind of name someone would give you in a genderswap AU (but no I didn't get my understanding of this supposed cliche through genderswap AUs) be it something obvious like Jack to Jackie, Alexander to Alexandra, Michael to Michelle etc. (and vice versa of course) or slightly less obviously similar like Ashley to Ash, Aaron to Erin or Dennis to Denise (or for a specific example Glee doing a ftm transition arc (though ymmv on how it was handled something something different time) where a character goes from Shannon to Sheldon)
Thatβs a useful shorthand for storytelling, or a useful way to say βno, see itβs just a misspelling on my paperwork,β and some people do actually choose their names that way, but most donβt. Some people are hurt by hearing their deadname (the common term for the name theyβre leaving behind), some people use their new name as a way to connect with their heritage, and some people just want to have an entirely new name because the new name is delightful.
Of the couple dozen trans people whose names and deadnames I know through various circumstances, I think maybe 3 or 5 have chosen the correct gendering version of their deadname, and at least two of those already were used to the gender neutral nickname of both versions.
So, yeah, itβs a cliche, but itβs not common, if that makes sense?
I picked a new name entirely, because I always hated my deadname anyway.
That said, I was once in a transmasc discord server that had a Hayden, Baden, and Aiden. So. There definitely ARE Common Trans Cliche Names, and it's naming yourself like the y2k skater son of a Karen.
maybe im crazy but there's something i've noticed with how like. both zuko atla and hamlet (hamlet) are male characters whose stories heavily center on their struggles with trauma and guilt, who are shown to be emotional, and who i see running jokes about them being whiny bitchboys whose trauma is something to be mocked, who should've just manned up and quit whining etc etc. do you see what i'm getting at here. like. idk i've just never found it comfortable how people will make a big joke out of zuko's "obsession with honor" when it is, textually and explicitly, about him being literally exiled by his abusive father after being violently hurt by him in public and sent on a suicide mission that represents just how much his father hates him and sees him as a failure.
and people are SO eager to blame hamlet for everything in the play (which is a tragedy, thinks are kind of required to go wrong) meanwhile Claudius, the guy who murdered his brother and basically tells his grieving nephewson that its gay and stupid for him to be mourning his dead father a month after he died because its now his unclefather and motheraunt's wedding, somehow gets off scott free despite being the actual reason for the entire play's plot. you see what i'm getting at here?????
i don't want these male characters to be like, woobified and for people to pretend they've done nothing wrong, to be clear. to do that would be a disservice to these stories which put effort into making them nuanced, rich, and flawed people. but like hmmmm why are people so quick to mock traumatized emotional men for being traumatized and emotional, and specifically insinuate that they would be better people if they stopped being so emotional and affected by the objectively insane shit they are going through.
I feel like it has mostly dropped off in recent years, but the Harley Quinn show has continued it, and this is also how I feel about the jokes about Batman having manpain or being emo about his parents dying for forever.
It especially upsets me in the Harley Quinn show because if you know enough about Batman to be writing him professionally, you should know that he watched his son get murdered. Like, there's actually a pretty stark difference where Batman was portrayed as a lot softer and able to allow himself to show happiness in comics written prior to Jason dying than he has been afterwards. And yeah, I do think that part of that was the push of toxic masculinity on the part of writers and editorial to remove his "softer" parental side, but it also strikes me as a realistic depiction of a man who has lost his child very suddenly and very violently.
When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.
God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.
You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.
I also read the negative three kill count as referring to resurrecting himself and Al and was trying to figure out who the hell the third person was or if we were just counting the failed resurrection of their mom.
Not the same person as Anon, but the same question about which characters you consider Jewish who are not canonically Jewish, but for DC.
I am not the right person to ask this as I am nowhere near as familiar with DC as I am with Marvel, but I really like Perry White, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen as Jews. I think a Jewish reading of them is really neat and inspired (and the Daily Planet as a Jewish newspaper, or at least a newspaper that began as a Jewish paper, is big-brained too). Also Ras Al Ghul as a surviving member of the Banu Nadir is very good, although I am also quite a fan of Ras as a pre-Islamic polytheist.
FWIW, I headcanon Jericho as Jewish. If you don't know who he is, he's Deathstroke's son though he doesn't see the point of fighting for money, he's mute, he has the power to possess people, and he has a homoerotic thing going on with Dick Grayson that DC has recognized to varying degrees over the years. His mother's maiden name is Kane, so my "every Kane is a Cohen" rule specific to DC fits.
The fun thing about Jericho is that he and Batwoman have the exact same backstory beat for beat of being the children of wealthy military officers named Kane who were kidnapped as children because of who their fathers are, which suggests that either there are two unrelated wealthy military families named Kane or there's a nonzero chance that he and Batwoman are cousins and the Kanes just have really shitty luck
Also OP is lying about being the wrong person to ask about this bc he talks to me about Jason Todd being Jewish All The Time
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
β Live Streamingβ Interactive Chatβ Private Showsβ HD Qualityβ Free Actions
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
jumblr friends, would you say that your family culture includes either or both of the following?
conversational overlapping*
propensity for casual debate**
my family does both of these things
my family does neither of these things
goy button/secret fifth answer/i'm bald
Voting ended onAug 1
*conversational overlap is a cooperative tool where 2+ people speak at the same time in a non-competitive way. e.g., anticipating the end of a sentence and "finishing" for the other person to show that you understand
**by this, i mean that debate may occur frequently in family conversations in a way that feels fun, productive, and even playful (as opposed to being antagonistic or frustrating). this doesn't mean that your family never has stressful debates, of course!
context: i've noticed that both of these traits, which i have, can cause conflict with non-jewish friends unless i carefully moderate my speech. i've noticed these same traits in a few jewish peers. curious where you all stand!
