#blacker art

[agentredfort]

i reread pick your poison earlier this week, and my favorite bits of these books are the 'ruby busts the case wide open while everybody stares at her' scenes. also, any excuse to draw blacker.

[Image description: A digital comic of a scene from Ruby Redfort: Pick your Poison. The style is very colourful with small doodles and blocks of colour in the background to fill up panel space.

Page 1: Ruby and Blacker enter a lab where Agent SJ is sitting. She smiles at them and asks, "More 'possibly poisoned' beverages?". Ruby responds while looking at the soda bottle she is holding, "Yeah. I mean... I doubt it is." Handing the bottle to SJ she continues, "Actually, I think the bottle contains some kind of code." SJ adjusts the goggles on her head with a questioning expression. The rest of the page is taken up by one large panel filled with doodles and arrows illustrating Ruby's train of thought as she says, "I think it's contained in the taste? Or rather, the flavours." In the background is a map of Twinford, drawing of a man drinking and a diagram of a plastic bottle. "When the guy sipped it, he seemed to be analysing it, trying to decipher what was in it... And once he figured it out, he wrote it down." Several arrows, flies and bubble-like circles float around the dialogue boxes. "Oh, yeah, and there's what's printed printed on the reverse of the label. You can see it through the liquid... FOUR GREAT TASTES SINCE 1922. I'm sure it means more than what it seems to mean, if you know what I mean?"

Page 2: The comic returns to individual square panels as Ruby's ramble comes to an end. Blacker and SJ stand in silence for a moment, looking at Ruby. She asks "...Am I rambling?", and Blacker scratches his head and smiles as he replies, "Only a little. But I follow you." Ruby says, "That's good," and then gestures, saying "So anyway, before I taste it for myself, I'd like to know for certain that one of the ingredients isn't toxic." (A label pointing to her states that she is "getting better at impulse control".) Blacker lets out a small laugh and SJ walks away holding the bottle, saying "Always wise." At the bottom of this page, under the panels is a row of two soda bottles and several science beakers labelled "salty","sweet", "bitter" and "sour". /End description]

(original scene under cut)

#ruby redfort #ruby #blacker #sj #my art #pick your poison #i probably could have picked a much more interesting scene to do an entire comic with #unfortunately i'm biased towards all of the cozy little moments in some obscure little spectrum lab. i like it when ruby and blacker chill #image described #thank you toad on discord for doing the ID!!!

[twigsagi101]

My piece for the @omoriblackspacezine and I was assigned the hellmari room! It was so fun being apart of this working with wonderful artists and friends!!

#omori #omori game #omori fanart #omori sunny #omori hellmari #black space #blacker space #video game #zine #fandom zine #art #twigsagi

[beedokart]

Glass and Severian are probably a very chaotic combination.

Warren and Thecla would be more chill.

#the book of the new sun #severian #inhibitor phase #revelation space #warglass #apparently the new sun series is a favourite of alastair reynolds’? #so there were probably direct influences #honestly mostly doing this so I could draw Severian’s blacker than black cloak #by colouring it the same as line art

[boyybites]

Going back over the design process for the main cast of that book I'm very tempted to write about, for my black followers, are there certain things, clothing, physical traits, etc that you guys would like to suggest I add to these characters design wise?

#ki screams #not art #im going back thru and tryna like...make them visibly blacker if that makes sense #the setting is like...high fantasy with a bit of modern future thrown in but faintly #but overall for the main cast i want them all to look like ppl youve seen on the street at least once in your life #im very curious to know what you all would like to see represented in a cast of black characters

[payaso-gomi]

Some semi-finished and wip perler projects!

Nervous abt ironing Dr Girlfriend, wish me luck!

#my little pony #rainbow dash #fluttershy #venture bros #dr girlfriend #dr mrs the monarch #team fortress 2 #tf2 spy #tf2 sniper #perler beads #my art #i bought a BIG bag of blacker perler beads and im #very excited #planning to go to libcon this year as a vendor and making stuff for that

[birdybirdnerd]

ough... narrator my beloved

got consumed with a sudden need to draw ten minutes before i needed to go to bed so i doodled the narrator from my fic somewhere else pre and post leaving the parable. it's not the best but apparently the only art i can do right now is shitty ten minutes doodles in my sketchbook despite spending half an hour the other day resetting my tablet to work with my decade old Mac and downloading krita since i cant get sai on it but whatever

#personal #my art #the stanley parable #tsp narrator #god. these colored pencils are garbage they're missing the black one which is HALF THIS DUDES WARDROBE #let's playa game called how many colors do you need to mix to get something resembling black GO #the answer is four. four different colors #then futz around with your phones photo editor filters to make it blacker #and even then it still looks brown #okayi sleep now #somewhere else

[straightuppotato-art]

Tried some Grayson Wacker Blacks as Aaron Taylor-Johnsons (from this post @/filmreel)

#I CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DRAW THIS MAN #SCREAMING AND SHOUTING #WHATEVER. I DONT EVEN CARE. #art that i do #artists on tumblr #mind blind #interactive fiction #Mind blind if #Grayson Black #Gray Black #I call him Grayson Wacker Blacker sometimes lol

[usagijay]

REALIZED I HAVEN’T POSTED THESE BARON DOODLES OOP-

#bun arts #anarchy reigns #fan art #max anarchy #blacker baron

[dxppercxdxver]

this isn’t meant to be taken particularly seriously but i’ve decided i wanna spitball my thoughts abt the saf to rr timeline on here

because of the proximity of the timelines (1957 to 1961 and 1973 respectively) and the knowledge that all respective agents must have been working for their agencies for several decades beforehand, clearly spectrum formed before any characters from the a.s.s. of saf could have had a hand in their operations, which is fair enough

honestly they would probably have to operate pretty much independently of each other, but it’s definitely implied the us government is vaguely aware of spectrum but it’s not worth their time to Get Involved, so it may very well be on cynthia’s radar but like. not her monkeys not her circus kind of thing

i think the most convenient way to get them together would be like. spectrum’s rogues gallery has a few ties to chimera so they’ve kind of been on spectrum’s radar for the last few years or so, but things really come to a head in the late 70s and curt, who’s well into his deserved retirement at this point, is contacted by spectrum being like “Hey You Faced Chimera And Lived Come Consult With Us” and is basically dragged into traveling to twinford to assist with the villain of the week

also continuing on my stupid train of “curt and hitch wound up on a similar mission when they were junior operatives and were A Thing for about a year before scheduling and various professional conflicts broke them apart although it was on amicable terms and now they don’t really know what the other is up to” i just think it would be So Funny for curt and hitch to be catching up in the canteen late some night tracking down clues and figuring out what they’ve been up to in the ~20 years since they’d last seen each other and just. blinking in some strange non-surprise at what in the hell their exes have been doing

curt: got damn near married to an agent from mi6, left him to die, fell into an extreme guilty spiral after his death, came back to find out the big bad Was that former agent, had to kill him, has been covertly operating outside the a.s.s. for years to take down chimera while wading through awful grief (and also his friends are in gay love)

hitch: got a boyfriend and girlfriend, girlfriend forced to kill boyfriend, they break up, hitch acquires approximately six children while working through his own guilt, surprise the boyfriend isn’t dead oh wait yes he is, gets two new boyfriends, and he still has six kids

i just think they should be friends dammit

miscellaneous other thoughts: barb and froghorn are bristly at first but once their autisms Click they’re Inseparable like they’re talking constantly; lb wants to hire susan but unfortunately susan still very much is working for cynthia (lb puts in a request to hire susan on a temp basis and through that cynthia and lb become gay people pen pals); mrs. mega finds herself adopting about twelve more people, including lb, which she doesn’t know how to handle (mrs. mega also tries to put tatiana with hitch when it’s clear curt’s not interested)

anyway that’s all i got for now :)

#radio free junebug #my writing #sorta #spies are forever #ruby redfort #curt mega #cynthia houston #owen carvour #the informant #barb larvernor #tatiana slozhno #art hitchen zachery #loveday byrd #miles froghorn #agent blacker #long post

[takem46]

Meet Gloria Bonnie Millard, local actress and cat lover

#I’m super proud of this drawing #look oh my goddd she turned out so pretty 💕💕💖 #I do wish her hair was like blacker tho (it looks like black-gray to me) #but her hair and eyes would blender together so ig it’s for the best #blend* #art #traditional art #my artwork #my art #artists on tumblr #oc #oc artwork #my oc #original character #character design

[agentredfort]

just Spectrum things

[image description: four colorful digital doodles with ruby and various members of spectrum. in the first, hitch is ruffling her hair as she ducks away and grins. in the second, she's sprawled halfway across a table, pointing at something blacker's writing down as they two of them talk in unintelligible mathematical scribbles. in the third, she and LB are having a staring competition from either end of a table - LB is leaning back in her chair while ruby is leaning forward. in the last, ruby and SJ are both wearing lab safety goggles and looking delighted as they make a bunsen burner flame rainbow. end ID.]

#ruby redfort #my art #hitch #ruby #blacker #LB #SJ #image described

[blackexcellence]

Art by @lehuckbadu

African Hair Threading

Hair Threading has been part of the Black hair scene for many generations. It consists of wrapping sectioned hair in thread. This method of wrapping the hair in thread strengthens the hair without excessive manipulation, which is beneficial for your strands. Not only does the style strengthen the hair, but it also promotes growth.

The style comes from Sub-Saharan African countries and grew its popularity in West Africa, particularly, South Nigeria. Learn more here

Art by Izzakko via @blacklacerabbit

Bantu Knots and Hi-Top Fades

The Zulu people of southern Africa originated Bantu knots, a hairstyle where the hair is sectioned off, twisted, and wrapped in such a way that the hair stacks upon itself to form a spiraled knot (Source). Learn the history of Bantu Knots

The hi-top fade or flattop originated in the U.S. military around the ‘40s and ‘50s. By the mid-eighties, Black barbers began to reimagine the hairstyle, and due to its resemblance to Queen Nefertiti’s Empress headpiece, some speculated the hairstyle's origin. The hairstyle grew as a trend when worn by the like of Grace Jones, Doug E. Fresh, and Salt-N-Peppa.

Art by LaQuecya Allen via @nappy-by-nature

Afro

As far as hairstyles go, there's nothing Blacker than the Afro. In the 1960s, after decades of subjecting themselves to European beauty standards, Black folks decided to take back their hair. This newfound self-acceptance was widely known as the Black Is Beautiful movement, which sprang from the Black Power movement. The 'fro was rocked by Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, and Jesse Jackson while fighting oppression; the hairstyle quickly emerged as a symbol of Black beauty, liberation, and pride.

Remember: tag your Black hair art with #BlackExcellence365 for a chance to be featured!

And keep your eyes out for next month's theme... 👀

#blackexcellence365 #blackjoyisblackexcellence #blackjoy #blackexcellence #black excellnece #black excellence 365 #all black everything #celebrating black history month #celebrating black culture #black culture #black lives matter #today in black excellence #black artist on tumblr #blktumblr #black hair #black tumblr

[villiedoom]

«In the very heart of the Dark Forest, where no man has gone before, ancient mystical spirits live - they are all children of darkness, and one of them, who is blacker than the night, guards and protects them – his name is Morr, and his spirit is Darkness itself. While he is alive, no one dares to harm his children and his Forest. He hides them in the darkness, helping them to escape from the enemies or defeat them, feeding his forest with their blood»

...

Personal illustration for my "the Old Tale" story, which seems to be becoming too big and important part of my art, as well as the Varlafs - my other fictional creatures, not Vaerafes (though they are quite similar in how I draw them)

This dark spirit came to me in a really very vivid and interesting insight, putting so many details into place, being part of one of the characters' backstory, and even the whole lore backstory. Despite his appearance, he wasn’t so bloodthirsty in the past, being more of a guardian of the dark forest and its children.

#art #drawing #fantasy #dark #darkness #dark forest #mystical #spirit #oc #original character #original art #original story #varlaf

[thebunnybooknook]

Books that Deserve to be Inducted into 'Girlblogger' Coquette Canon

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. 

Jane & Prudence by Barbara Pym

This early novel by Barbara Pym captures the charm and folly of English middle-class life. The two title characters share a devoted friendship based on memories of Oxford school days, poetry and their neighbors' private affairs- all discussed over leisurely lunches. And they share a common goal: finding a suitable mate for Prudence.

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. In this famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton

Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance—but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette's desire to escape the shadow of her ballet-star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever. When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.

The Nun by Denis Diderot

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.

The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman

"The tragedy of her life was that she was too black," declares the narrator at the start of this powerful novel of intraracial prejudice. Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame, not because her skin is black, but because it's too black. No one among her family, teachers, and friends has a word of consolation or hope for the despised and rejected girl. With nothing to lose, eighteen-year-old Emma Lou leaves her home in Idaho, seeking love and acceptance on a journey that ultimately leads her to the legendary community of the Harlem Renaissance. A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, The Blacker the Berry was the first novel to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. Author Wallace Thurman, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, vividly recaptures the era's mood and spirit. His portrait of a young woman adrift in the city forms an enduringly relevant reflection of the search for racial, sexual, and cultural identity.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Innocents by Cathy Coote

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher; together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable.

The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey

At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.

Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.

#coquette #coquette aesthetic #bunnyburrow

[ask-spectrum-coding]

RUBY: Jeez louise, it feels like forever since we touched this question box. Hi! Did you miss us?

FROGHORN: I'll tell you what I didn't miss: hearing your incessant, irrelevant, and frankly dangerously illegal question-answering during work hours. Why don't you go break your governmental NDA on your own time?

RUBY: Because it's more fun doing it behind LB's back, obviously.

BLACKER: We've already established you live life on the edge, yes.

((WE'RE BACK! The coding team is back in business, at least for a little while - now with vastly improved art, and a refreshed obsession for the fandom! The rules for this rebooted ask blog are as follows:

No NSFW asks! This is a kid's book series, so we're going to try to stay clear of that sort of thing. Swearing is all right, though.

Canon relationships only - no asks about noncanon shipping. Don't expect too much romance out of this.

I reserve the right to just not answer any asks I don't have the energy/drive to reply to. If I haven't replied to an ask, that either means I'm slowly working on it, or I just don't feel like answering. Don't take it personally - feel free to ask something else in the meantime.

Please don't spam. See above.

I'm doing this blog for fun, and I have no idea how long I'll have the motivation to keep it up this time round. Just enjoy it while it lasts.

With all that out of the way... SEND IN THOSE QUESTIONS.))

#ruby redfort #ask spectrum coding #ch: (bubblegum girl) #ch: (donut man) #ch: (the silent g) #image described (in alt text)

[tremendouskoalachild]

Evolution of Vernestra Rwoh art

April 2020: concept art reveal (art by who? i haven't been able to find out).

Notably, her lightsaber is blue in this art. Her hair is ambiguously black/purple and tied in a bun.

January 2021: first appearance (cameo in Light of the Jedi and main cast in A Test of Courage) - pictured on AToC cover and interior art by Petur Antonsson.

Vernestra is wearing her concept art clothing but her lightsaber has her final purple color. Her hair is purple as well and in a distinctive long ponytail.

February to May 2021: The High Republic comic appearances as a minor character, with art by Ario Anindito.

Her tattoos are present in the previous art but more visible here. She is wearing her hair similar to her original concept art. This is also the first time we've seen Vernestra in the brown outer robes.

June 2021: variant cover of The High Republic issue 6 by Marco Turini.

July 2021: cover of Out of the Shadows by Ario Anindito and Grzegorz Krysiński.

Vernestra's hair seems pinker here, though it's probably because of her lightsaber's reflection.

December 2021: Vernestra's story in The High Republic Adventures Annual 2021. Cover by Stefano Simeone and variant by Derek Charm, art by Yael Nathan.

This story takes place an undefined number of years before the main book plot, and lets us see Vernestra's Padawan braid. Her hair is a lot purpler on the covers and blacker in the comic. She is also wearing a Stellan-style white cloak over her robes.

January 2022: Mission to Disaster with art by Petur Antonsson.

She looks similar to the illustrator's previous work on A Test of Courage, though we get a good look at her outer robes this time.

February 2023: the reference book Chronicles of the Jedi with art by Yihyoung Li.

Here we see Vernestra in ceremonial Jedi robes, standing next to her taller student, having a hyperspace vision, and wielding her lightwhip. All iconic aspects of her character.

April 2023: new concept art at Star Wars Celebration.

The colors are a lot more vibrant than in the original art. It is also one of the very few times we see her smiling instead of calmly focused or in combat.

April 2023: YA boxset cover art by Tara Phillips.

This is the closest close-up we've seen of Vernestra, showing her tattoos in detail.

October 2023: Japanese edition of Out of the Shadows, with art by 5Health.

The cover art especially makes her eyes look blue-ish.

November 2023: phase 3 concept art by Ario Anindito.

Big change! First time we've seen her outside of Jedi clothing. Her hair is very purple, and obviously shorter.

March 2024: cover art for Defy the Storm by Corey Brickley.

First canon appearance of her phase 3 look, closely following the concept art.

#thr #the high republic #vernestra rwoh #this was just gonna be a comparison of her hairstyles before the acolyte debuts her bald look but i fell down a rabbit hole #so many talented artists took a crack at her appearance and i love every one