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Cowboys vs. Modernism in Glen Baxter’s cartoons.

Come, wayward souls And wander through the darkness There is a light, for the lost and the meek Sorrow and fear are easily forgotten When you submit to the soil of the earth

Grow, tiny seed You are called to the trees Rise till your leaves fill the sky Until your sighs fill the air in the night Lift your mighty limbs And give praise to the fire

google images is probably not the best place to pick your references, unless you’re going to be critical about which ones you use. a lot of the images are lightened. i see people defend themselves for whitewashing by showing they used a reference, but that reference was lightened too. 

i’m going to use some pictures of katara i found on google images as examples: 

[id: three images of katara from avatar: the last airbender. each image is a side by side comparison of the coloring of a scene. in the first image, she is from the waist up, smiling and looking at her friends who are off camera. 

the second image is of katara sitting on a staircase, leaning down and putting her face in her left hand. she looks exhausted.

the third image is a closeup of katara’s face, with her looking up at someone off screen. the screenshots on the left of each image are picked from google images and significantly paler than the ones on the right, which were screenshotted directly from the show. end id.]

the ones on google images are paler than the show. this is also a problem i see with gif makers putting filters on katara and sokka. i would not use edited gifs as reference either.

this post is not saying you shouldn’t use google images at all for reference, or that all images found on it are bad. a lot of the katara images on google look just fine! i just wanted to bring awareness that people should not blindly trust their references and instead pick directly from the show if they can. if you do not have netflix or the atla dvds, avatarspirit has had an archive of screenshots from each episode of the show for a long time.  i also advise choosing references that have a similar background and lighting you’re going for. colors will appear differently if you’re using them on red, or blue, or etc. 

this post is not defending or giving excuses to artists who whitewash by saying they just picked bad references. this post is specifically to point out how to AVOID whitewashing by not picking bad references.

With pleasure!

Cujo is an asexual lesbian. She won’t let anyone mount her, and I haven’t seen her voluntarily squat for anyone (or me). I don’t have any cockerels running in this flock because Cujo gets very distressed by having boys trying to court her or Blossom, her girlfriend. They share food, preen each other, and nest together it’s very sweet.

Blossom, Sooty, Kath and Wanda are all bisexual hens. They squat for hens and cocks alike. Kath and Wanda are also switches who like to mount hens if they offer for them.

Ginger, Juleo, and Glenn are all bisexual cockerels. They’ll mount hens but also squat for other cocks. Before anyone says anything about ‘submissive cockerels’ Juleo is top rank cockerel and Glenn is second, they’re not just sucking up to a bigger badder rooster.

My very unkept child Morgana is 11 months old and still doesn’t present as a cockerel despite being feathered like one. I’m planning on sending a DNA sexing test off for them to find out what sex they are. They behave exactly as you’d expect a pullet to, and they’re not just being a submissive cockerel because they run around in the day with Blossom’s flock (which has no roosters in it). Blossom certainly thinks Morgana is a hen and has taken to courting them haha, she has a thing for tall long tailed women it seems. I am thinking they’re either an infertile cockerel or intersex, but either way I refer to them as genderqueer.

Sometimes classics can be improved upon.

The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries : an alternate ending for Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree by Topher Payne 💯🌳❤️