#nice artwork too

[queermediamonday]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

*sigh* I’m back, trying to stay back. This book is awesome.

Other Ever Afters is a graphic novel that groups together comics originally published online. They are all female-centric queer fairy tales that twist the stories usually told to young girls. They center community over royalty, and the “monsters” are often on the protagonists’ side. 

Melanie Gillman is an award-winning artist who has worked on a number of queer comic books, both original fiction and as parts of a franchise. More importantly, you know her stories from social media. What first caught my attention in this book was that it contained two stories I’d seen shared around on Tumblr.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

#finding this was really a very delightful blur between my online and offline lives #like I KNOW that story! #Multiple people shared it on Tumblr some years ago! #so yeah it was nice #and apart from that too it's a very sweet book #nice artwork too #graphic novel #fairy tales #Melanie Gillman #queer fairy tales #lesbian fairy tales #queer media monday

[azherwind-art]

"Tell your favorite creators that you like their work, people usually enjoy things silently, but hate tends to be loud"

This is a phrase I just heard from Dnd shorts that captures perfectly why I often try to make the effort of commenting on posts and telling people that I enjoy their work and why Even to small creators, I advice everyone to make the extra effort to tell them, I can guarantee it makes all the difference in the world, it's not cringy or obnoxious, it'll just brighten someone's day

#text #random dambles #please don't think I only say this because of me #I'm very lucky to have gotten such nice messages and comments #I just feel like on every site I see less and less people interacting and saying how cool someone's work is #I've seen AMAZING artworks on all platforms with near to non comment #I know for a fact people engaging with your work is the favorite part of most if not all artists out there #so sad Jocat is retiring out of hearing the hate too loud

[sandwichhour]

A few more @ponymagnets redraws since they're fun style imitation practise

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#my little pony #cutie mark crusaders #rainbow dash #pinkie pie #fluttershy #source for the g3 fluttershy pic is strawberry reef #its a rlly good website if you have some spare ponies you wanna id #anyway its nice to finally learn how to draw in the takara pony art style #its sad that they didnt do too well on release. both the dolls and the artwork that came with them were really cute

[sneez]

palace storage rooms

[id: a digital drawing in a painterly style of an interior scene showing a wall hung with paintings. on the far left is a fraction of a portrait in a gold frame showing a man in a red doublet posing with a sword. the next painting is a smaller portrait in a lopsided wooden frame of a thin-faced man with long dark hair and a serious expression. the next painting shows the same man, now older and with a beard and moustache, dressed in black and standing with his hands behind his back; there is a spiderweb festooning the corner of the frame. the final painting is obscured by same man, older again and with grey in his hair, walking in front of it so he is framed within the picture. the scene is lit by a single shaft of sunlight which stops short of the figure. end id.]

#discworld #havelock vetinari #artwork #idk what im trying to say here but the image appeared in my head in perfect clarity so i had to materialise it. excise it if you will #i am happy with how it turned out too which is nice :D i normally hate my art by the time im finished but i still like this one #2024 achievements #i hope you are all having a wonderful start to the year my friends!!! i love you kiss you #^ this guy lives in my brain btw. walking around in there. cane tap tap tapping

[botanautical]

THE DARK ERA - 黒の時代

(textless version below the cut)

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bsd oda #bsd odasaku #osamu dazai and the dark era #a little dark era piece inspired by wanderer above the sea of fog by caspar david friedrich #i was intending to do a nice gentle illustration in honour of oda but it has ended up very dramatic as often happens asdffdgsd #and then i thought it would look quite cool as a book/movie cover so i added the text and made a nice mock-up! #i'm always keen to do artwork that has literary influence on the characters' birthdays so i might try to do another small little drawing #but i think i just wanted to represent how cool he is as a character! and how atmospheric and moving this arc is #i think it's the point which heightened my interest in the series - oda is so interesting and lovely #he is so fundamental to so much of the narrative too - it's quite fascinating #...also dazai is technically here but i won't tag him asdfgfdg #botanautical #tw blood

[008-edits]

milgram prisoners third anniversary icons!

(credit is not needed, but appreciated)

#before you tell me “you forgot es” NO I DIDN'T I LOVE ES SM BUT they look TINY in that anniversary artwork #so even if i tried it would be very hard to make an es pfp that looks nice and isn't too blurry 😔 i love es please trust me #so yeah this is also why i wrote “milgram prisoners” and not just “milgram” #💖self indulgent 💖 #milgram #milgram icons #haruka sakurai #yuno kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #muu kusunoki #shidou kirisaki #mahiru shiina #kazui mukuhara #amane momose #mikoto kayano #kotoko yuzuriha

[noxexistant]

newsies fandom! @glitter-ink posts ai art and stolen artwork, passing it off as their own!

i sent them a polite ask requesting them to at least modify the posts to address that it was ai in the caption or tags, and remove the stolen artwork - and they immediately blocked me, so!

block them! do not engage! don’t give their stolen stuff and ai trash any notes.

#i am trying to have fun and this fandom strangles yet another Serious Post out of me #anyway i saw too many of you in the notes of that ‘sarah artwork’ absolutely falling for it. c’mon. #also i would’ve been nicer about this but they immediately blocked me for what was a very nice message just so they could keep lying so! #newsies #newsies 1992

[edwardteacch]

a casual edward teach hair appreciation moment 🦋

#ofmd #my artwork #be nice if it’s ugly okay #i’ve been staring at it too long to tell #edward teach #blackbeard #our flag means death #ofmd fanart

[delicourse]

my full artwork for the chrysalis zine!! its currently on sale til the 15th! 🦈🦈

#Jolyne Kujo #jjba #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #stone ocean #deliart #i had a great time making this!! it was really nice to truly make a large high effort artwork #and the zine turned out wonderful!! #please do check it out! #its 10 bucks #if anything do it in solidarity of me researching all 2010 ss runways. and sharks #i had 4 alternate recolors of this. 3 different fits for jolyne. i looked up what flip phones one could possibly own in 2010 and be cool #she has orange blossom on her bc thats floridas state flower #i made my own sharks in blender to later use as a reference #and thats just the effort im not too embarrased to reveal. i felt so activated #like a wild mouse finding a hamster wheel in the woods for the first time..... #wow posted an artwork and the queen just fucuking dies. lmaoooooo

[willfullwanderer]

wonder who this is!

#art #artwork #oc #artist #dragon #wings of fire #wof #wings of fire oc #wof oc #oc: trench #at least for now idk. not too sold on it but if nothing else its his alias #seawing #anyway hi! this is an ancient seawing who rarely if ever comes up to the surface and hasnt spoken a surface language in centuries #he had a skywing animus lover way back in the day who enchanted him in order to save him #from skywings who found out about their relationship #the skywing flew off after their home was burned down and in a fit of rage trench called forth a torrential rain at the attackers #so now trench waits. and waits. and waits. for their skywing to return #they live alone and in the deeper parts of the ocean where they cant be found easily #but they keep up with Current News with their given animus abilities so theyre still in the loop #he tries to be nice but hes very secretive and knows a lot more than he lets on

[starflungwaddledee]

For 💖🎀, what about Marx? Little cute creature concealing incredible magic and uncanny features! I think he could be so mean to her ❤️

oh... anon you are very big brained for this one. he could unfortunately be so so mean to her.... and he has such pretty pretty wings! she would be enraptured instantly.

bonus eye-anim version (cw eyes/flashing gif):

#a moth to a flame... #this is maybe not especially... shippy sorry. he's just... Looming Menacingly. #the way he *always* does in my artwork.... boring. #unfortunately my marx is an intelligent eldritch meanie. *feels* a bit more than my galacta knight but no less grey in the morals. #for what it's worth i DID come up with a short comic for this prompt as well. but it's Not Nice. would y'all still want me to do it? #nothing overt or explicit. but like... manipulation i suppose. mean lies. it's not even About Her really. just a pawn. #and yes his lashes ARE getting bigger every single time i draw him. like he deserves. wings too #i gotta learn to simplify these damn hexagons #actually a very big fan of the implied parallel. cute little uncanny creature. i could do a lot with that actually. there's a lot here. #also if i had to wake up in a cold sweat about this so do the rest of you but: Starx. #Starxstrarx if you're feeling especially mischievous. try and say it aloud. it's what he'd want. you're welcome. #cw flashing #<- only under the cut. but just in case. #marx (kirby) #starstruck dee #my art #🎀💖

[sableeira]

always wanted to arrange my artworks in a gradient and since I started drawing again over a year ago, I was finally able to put this together 🫶

#did an edit like that for an old fandom with official manga art and it’s kind of breathtaking that I actually managed to make a rainbow #edit with my own art?!? everything is 2023 art except the fall skk artwork but it matched yellowish green well enough lol #you can tell which kinds of color palettes I prefer but I really want to use more warm color palettes & maybe try more desaturated palettes #some other goals: drawing more women and environment focused artworks #(but who knows how much time I’ll have this year) #bsd #bsd fanart #my art #I did start a few non-bsd related artworks but didn’t have enough patience to finish them #that’s why it’s mainly skk too… the obsession hits different… I have other non-skk pieces I like too but the color palettes were hard to #fit into this edit… #my only non bsd related artworks where some concept pieces for uni #so strange to see the random mix of styles for this past year but also nice to see little consistencies #long post

[canisalbus]

What do you think would have happened if (somehow, idk how but somehow) Machete rose to the rank of pope?

To be perfectly honest? I think most realistically he would've ruled maybe six months at best and then keeled over from stress and exhaustion.

#seriously he wouldn't want to be the pope papacy is for chumps but if he had to #he would've kicked out so many cardinals #his former colleagues riddled with corruption nepotism incompetence and moral decay #it would've upsetted so many elite families but what are they gonna do #pope's power is absolute he could totally do that #just excommunicate the whole lot #do something to get Holy See's finances in order he's been crunching numbers they aren't looking good #build sturdier foreign relations probably he's a diplomat I think he'd likely be extremely done with superfluous wars and useless bickering #maybe commission some extravagant artworks art is nice he knows to appreciate beauty when he sees it #become the senselessly rich patron to a handful of top notch artists although I think he already does that in canon timeline #I'm not sure how he'd handle the ongoing counter-reformation I guess it depends whether this was before or after the inquisition times #minimal public appearances because lord that's way too many people too many eyes being a figurehead is not his strongest suit #develop stomach ulcers get sepsis #historically it's actually not very uncommon for popes to expire relatively quickly after they're elected #they don't even have to be particularly old stuff's just tiring they get frazzled out #answered #anonymous #Machete

[bunnyfrail]

#I drew my redesign but the original is nice too! #gonner #gonner the pirate #sketch #daddy i'm a zombie #daddy im a zombie #daddy i’m a zombie #mummy i'm a zombie #mummy i’m a zombie #mummy im a zombie #miaz #diaz #fanart #art #my art #my artwork #pirate #zombie #traditional art

[sneez]

fairfax is 412 today! :D like to wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY reblog to wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[id: a digital portrait in a painterly style of a man with long dark hair, a moustache, and a small beard. he is wearing a black doublet and a white falling band, and has a scar across one side of his face. end id.]

bonus:

[id: a very simple digital drawing of the same man wearing a party hat and a badge which reads '412 today'. end id.]

#thomas fairfax #artwork #BIRTHDAY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D #i did many celebratory things today. i hope he had a nice day too #sorry i havent been around much once again my friends term has started again and i am very busy #i hope you are all well though :-) and a happy new year! since i dont think i ever said it at the time #kiss you all on head. look at thomas #fairfax

[gazoline6725]

"Freaking pigs always come in packs!"

This took much more time than I intended to spend on it but I think the overall result came out pretty cool. Experimented with my style here and I haven't drawn a Tak since July so I felt inspired.

Was inspired by this drawing from the Invader Zim art book.

Reblogs + likes are appreciated!

#invader zim #invader zim fanart #iz #fanart #digital art #artwork #clunky arting #tak and mimi #tak invader zim #I really love drawing her #I kinda like what I did with the style here #it's different but I wanted to experiment #feels nice to finish stuff after a terrible artblock too #also I know tak's sleeves are different colors but #it looked so weird when trying to tint the colors to work with my style #and I thought it looked clashy and distracting so I did her sleeves to match the main shirt she wears #also gave mimi a collar cuz I draw gir with one lol #ALSO the quote is from some.. random fandom wiki page about tak but I thought it fit enough. It's not an official line afaik.