rands and rarts

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

the joy and pain of the black experience is something only other black folks can understand in different ways, but ultimately we are united in our joy and grief no matter what. I tried not to cry drawing this piece because of the antiblackness I've been exposed to recently, I needed to get this art out.

and like, I did NOT wanna pull any punches with this. this is the two coins of the black experience from my own perspective. it's something I want to put forth bluntly. I'm not gonna hold the hand of non black ppl when it comes to depicting our grief but also our joy simultaneously.

This second picture is MUCH more accurate!

I had the exact same experience the second time I looked at this picture as the first time. I was looking like "what is this green line? Like suddenly everything is OK? It's not. Racists are still trying to push us back to 1619. Nothing has been fixed. We still need to fight. Hard!