A great stream! I’ve decided to do the Food Paint Challenge from Instagram on Tuesdays to push my digital paint skills and play with more brushes 💪🏻 definitely learned from this one and I think it turned out well!! 🍎🎨🖌️
Check out the tag on Instagram (and the account of the hosts) to see other people’s interpretations of the reference photo! It’s really cool to see a bunch of different styles!
Trying my hand again at some digital art once again cuz I really wanted to draw Gem with her season 10 aesthetic :) I’m really excited to do some watercolor pieces of her base too!
I’m back! After a month spent in and out of the hospital not getting any painting done I’ve decided we’re gonna brute force it, baby. I’m doing Huevember!
Huevember is a challenge where you do 30 paintings in 30 days and each one is a different colour/hue. Mine is gonna be mcyt themed because of course it is. I’m only spending a day on each painting so they’re gonna be quick, rough, and of whatever strikes my fancy—remember last year when I got sick and did 12 portraits in 12 days? It’s like that, only bigger! I’m very excited to see what comes of it and I hope you follow along!
Starting with Day 1: Don’t listen to the whispers…
This may be the prettiest Liu Qingge I’ve ever drawn…idk is he too pretty? I know that’s his thing but I may have gone a bit overboard. 😅 But the minute @neonghostcat gave us that bath scene my brain was seized by a “paint me like one of your French girls” moment & I decided to just go all out 🤣
The way he was so ready & willing to pose for his own xianxia nudes…Iconic™.
Hang in there Liu Qingge, Shen Yuan’s almost there…
"Nine women can't make a baby in a month!" - Taliesin Jaffe
Jester's Eiselcross stockings, handknit by me! @ionarts_cosplay on Instagram
Jester commissioned these stockings in Rexxentrum over (I think) a single day. Taliesin's joke always stuck with me because there's really no way to speed up knitting - these took me two months to design a pattern and knit. The opportunity to attend the Echoes of the Solstice live show inspired me to knit the stockings, and knitting them inspired me to take on the rest of this challenging cosplay! Who knew painting yourself blue could be so fun?
I've considered the prevailing opinion a lot of folks seem to have that yasha never rages anymore and there's some fun in asking when is the last time in her life she's gone six months without raging, but I can't help it. It feels disingenuous to the whole story of her finding and claiming her own strength and purpose to relegate her rage to something as simple as a symbol of trauma. I don't think it's been six months since she's raged. I don't think it's been six days. I think a free and happy Yasha is a passionate Yasha who puts herself entirely into everything she does and I don't really think the veggies get a free pass, yanno. I think she rages when she's excited and she rages when it's going to impress a bunch of kids. She rages when the lasagna bakes all the way through for the first time and when she bangs her hip on the edge of the kitchen table she raged to cut from the wood herself.
Yasha's story was never about healing from her rage or turning away from violence. It's always been a part of her and it's part and parcel with the strength she's proud of. She was never only strong because she had to be. She was always strong, and also she had to be. The fact that she gets to choose - narratively, because she's free, and mechanically since her rage is now indefinite - is all that matters. She didn't get those scars from gardening, and she didn't get a Chainbreaker tattoo in memoriam of a purpose and a role as the avatar of the stormlord that she'd only just embraced when we last saw her.
We got a glimpse into their lives. That's all it was, a glimpse. A random day in which happiness looked like rubbing Beau's feet and picking flowers from their garden. There are so many ways to find joy every day and I don't see any reason that what brought it out in her before - what she could do, who she could be on her own terms with all of her might at her own control - should be completely discarded in favor of viewing all of her accomplishments as synonymous with trauma and things to be left behind. It just doesn't track to me.