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You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

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This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

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By Talos this cannot be happening

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“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

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turns out i am gay

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holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

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he was a llama

a llama?! he’s supposed to be dead!

The kickstarter campaign for the new book is live!! ✨ Here's a little closeup of the book cover, and the color/sketch stages it took to arrive here. :)

Sharing here as well~ I think if you enjoyed Kochab, this new book I've been drawing will be a fun one too! <3

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Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

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Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

Painting progress!

Over the course of this project, I learned to focus on subject matter that I felt I could bring to life more robustly with gouache on paper than via my digital painting approach. The pearls in the walls on this one are definitely in that category!

One of the best things i did for my gouache paintings this spring was buy some fresh new pointed round brushes, and anywhere you see careful tiny detailed rendering in my paintings, you can assume i used those for it! they were a bit of a game changer, honestly.

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

my-life-is-a-sidequest

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

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how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

New blog post on my experience colouring other artists' work for Swords Without Master! Featuring work by @mapcrow and @simon-roy :

So this Saturday I'll be tabling in front of the Arts Market on Danforth, in Toronto! I'm going to bring my easel to do some live painting (weather permitting) and I'll have originals, prints, comics, games, zines, and more! 11-6pm, come say hi and talk shop!

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Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

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"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

cardassiangoodreads

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

Painting progress!

Over the course of this project, I learned to focus on subject matter that I felt I could bring to life more robustly with gouache on paper than via my digital painting approach. The pearls in the walls on this one are definitely in that category!

myselfandsomeotherbeing

"Lesbian welders, San Francisco", n.d. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)

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how was chicago??? i can’t believe i was within goldfish radius and didn’t even know

It was fun! The big onion never disappoints

Chicago, lit. "place of the wild onion", Algonquin language groups

also. it's got Layers

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Why is there a car in that oddly empty industrial warehouse?

That's not a warehouse, that's lower lower wacker.

LAYERS

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