to thine own self be true

Image description: An ink-lined watercolor painting of Cassandra Cain as Batgirl from the chest up, wearing the top of her Batgirl suit without the cowl. Her skin is light brown, her dark hair is in a short ponytail, and she’s looking to her left. The bottom of the painting at her chest is drawn to end in a V-shape, and there’s a signature for “the meaning of weird” below it. End ID.

Images: Three versions of a digital painting of Piper McLean from Heroes of Olympus, in a semi-realistic style. Piper is shown faced forward from the elbows up, angled slightly to the left. Piper is an Indigenous teen with medium brown skin, dark long hair hanging down their shoulders, dark eyes, and a wide nose. They have a stud earring with a genderqueer flag on it, a backwards beige baseball hat, and a dark gray T-shirt with white handwritten words on it that read, “Queer Indigeneity is lovely.” There are two pride pins by the shirt collar, one with the rainbow Two Spirit flag, the other with the rainbow neurodivergent infinity symbol. In the first photo, a rainbow pride flag is wrapped around their shoulders, gripped loosely in one hand and open enough in the front to see the shirt text and pins. The second two images show a version without the flag, one with a white background, the other with a light beige one. A signature above Piper’s left shoulder says “the meaning of weird.” end images.

I started this drawing last June for Piper week, it’s actually been done for ages. Happy pride month, happy Indigenous peoples history month (in Canada at least) = happy Piper month.

I put way too much effort into finishing this meme sketch, but I hope @red-productions​ and the few others who remember/know these books will appreciate my attempted humor.

image: A digital drawing in a simple painterly style, of Piper McLean in profile, from the shoulders up. They’re a Tsalagi teen with warm brown skin, loose dark hair, and dark eyes looking downward. She’s smiling, and wearing a creamy brown hat which says ᎣᏏᏲ (osiyo, “hello”) and a dark brown jacket with a “Land Back” label on the shoulder. They’re wearing one spiked earring and another with the genderqueer flag; the background is light beige, matching the whites of her eyes. end ID

Long story short, I left my laptop drawing pen at someone’s house a few months ago and it hasn’t been found, so I’ve been procrastinating drawing because of that + busyness, sooo…