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Lineart was a commission, drawn by the lovely @zeearts. Color by me :)

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Honored to have Zee as one of our talented contributor artists. You'll see their stunning piece in our SFW book. Make sure to visit their magical portfolio below! 💜

Hello! I’ve been dithering on whether to put this up, but people have asked me about it (and one of you have somehow found me anyway??? I love you), so here it is!

I don’t have a lot of time to open commissions yet, but if you appreciate my work I’ve been putting up, please consider keeping me alive donating any amount! No pressure, though! I am happy enough that you guys are following me and liking/reblogging my work 💖

If or when I’m ever in between jobs, I’ll rework my commission price list, and finally get that pesky online shop up (if you guys have suggestions on what online store platform to use, that would be extremely helpful, too!) Until then, this will suffice for now!

7 January 2017 | Gency Week Day 6 Prompt: Kiss

Remember to tag all your posts/submissions as #GencyWeek !

I usually enjoy compiling my year in review posts, but for 2018 I was really hesitant to start (not counting the fact that I fell really sick at the end of the year + new years LOL).

Due to how often I fell sick, cycled through medication that left me bone tired (especially after a full time job of drawing for productions), it led me to believe I didn't do anything at all for 2018. It made me feel kinda worthless (which shouldn't be the case, as I am drawing daily, just not able to share them), especially when I couldn't make it for 2018's Inktober challenge.

I finally sucked up my anxiety and fear of not being enough and scrolled through my blog, only to be pleasantly surprised that despite everything I was going through, I still managed to get something done every month, be it a sketch or a speed paint. And that made me feel a lot better.

A gorgeous commissioned art by @zeearts earlier this month. I am obsessed with the angel wings from #Lucifer, with auroras, rainbows, stars, space and flight and wanted all of that crammed in to this piece, and Zee pulled it all off perfectly. I also wanted to see an angel who is plus-sized. Looks a bit like me but much better put together, and magical :) They are wearing the kind of flared tunic seen on lares familiares (because I love that look and I think it works for all genders - and also because lares were household gods who protected the entire household they were installed in - family and servants and pets alike, rewarded kindness and compassion, and sometimes even worked to guide malicious household members to better behavior. They are almost always depicted in dancer’s poses, which is extra delightful). Sparkly, and reflecting wing and sky colors, because I saw Zee’s fanstastic stardust dress art and desperately wanted some of that gloriousness here, too.

[This is a character who loves to dance and play and is full of love and delight in the world, but is also fierce and fiercely protective. They are at heart sad and very alone, and constantly, terribly aware that kindness and joy and even love won’t always fix terrible things. Or stop terrible from happening. Even so, they will always have love and kindness and joy, and dancing, and the stars, to share with you. They’re a bit battered and worn down from eons of fighting on existential, psychological, emotional AND literal planes. Everything hurts. But that’s because they care, and they decline to ever not care.

There are better and probably more concise ways to say all of this. Boils down to: a flamboyant, bright-spirited, warm-hearted, solitary, galaxy angel

. . . arghhh, I need to work on this description more.

They are shown at a distance instead of close up because I wanted a sense of scope of this angel spreading their wings over a wide swathe of sky, and also because while they’re there for the world, they’re also sort of figuratively distant

(like the angels on Lucifer, may not mean badly, may be full of love and compassion - like Azrael - but are, no matter what their inner psyche is - somehow always on a fairly steep learning curve when it comes to connecting with anyone. And that can be really kinda alienating and off-putting at first)