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I've stumbled into a style of doing sketchbook pages that I'm really enjoying.
Here are some more:
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I made another cake.
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I keep waiting for someone to make a t-shirt that says THROCKMORTON but in the THRASHER font.
Thrasher uses Banco with some flames added on top and this is a killer idea that I totally want to see executed but I’m also not about to spend fifty bucks on a font for it.
@argumate stop infecting my brain with your terrible ideas
i’ve got a redbubble under “missdemeanor” and this is up on there but I’m not really super interested in selling it so much as I am in the THROCKMORTON sticker that I ordered to put on my skateboard.
however if you do pop over to my redbubble be sure to check out the owl/tarantula hybrid drawing that is also based on tumblr teen argumate.
I’m still waiting for my tank top.
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Welp. RIP to everyone who thought learning embroidery was going to help me be a nicer young lady.
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I used to have this old MAD anthology that had a foreword by Bill Gaines that talked about comics codes and censorship and comedy and I *loved* that anthology and I read MAD for years and years and I was just thinking about how in my high school art class we had an assignment where we had to use our first and last initial (A and K for me) and I decided to do a faux horror movie poster that referenced an image that was in that MAD anthology foreword. This image, actually:
That Crime SuspenStores cover came up when I searched "Bill Gaines Cartoon," I wasn't even expecting to find it, how funny.
Anyway, so my poster was going to be AttacK of the Killer Jocks with AttacK written in an arch to highlight the first and last letters, and the central image was going to be a person with an axe wearing football pads holding a decapitated cheerleader's head. It was supposed to be funny and over the top, like, zombie-movie "night of the living dead"/"attack of the killer jocks" stuff. Very tongue in cheek. It was about the level of gore that was in that Crime Stories cover, but this was the year after Columbine so my teacher failed me on the assignment and I had to talk to the school guidance counselors.
Anyway I was thinking about that because I just remembered this piece:
That I drew in 2017 that I only just now realized was directly (if unconsciously) inspired by that same Crime SuspenStories cover that I got in trouble for mimicking as a fourteen-year-old in 2000.
And I was thinking about 'goth phases' and artistic influence and growth Bernie Wrightson and metal album covers and the weird little things that stick with you through the years and I think what I've come to with these thoughts is that I should totally redraw that high school project and make it even gorier when I do.
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I saw that eye tree gif earlier and it gave me an idea.
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This would have made more sense yesterday, but I made a conversation heart stamp.
Also these are scented highlighters, so the page smells like candy now.
RAT ION
Okay I did the rest of it.
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In case it's news to you that I do art stuff (because I basically don't post art stuff anymore) here's some art stuff I made:
Duolingo titty owl is the first thing I've drawn in 4 months.
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Anonymous asked:
I can't hold a pencil because of pain in my hands. It's literally impossible for me without excrusiating pain. But sure everyone can learn artistic skills. Right
Motherfucker I broke my goddamned spine. Do you know how hard it is to practice or find motivation to practice when you can’t *sit*?
I have to draw in short bursts because my carpal tunnel is severe enough that it takes about three minutes for me to lose the feeling in my fingers when my hands are more elevated than my elbows. I’ve largely had to stop reading books because I can’t really hold them up anymore.
I made a comic about chronic pain and modified techniques and simplified illustrations once and when it got published commenters were shitting on me for not drawing hands on the characters. In my comic about needing to modify my life to accommodate chronic pain.
I am very sympathetic to chronic pain and disability because I know exactly what it’s like trying to be a creator and dealing with it when your body is literally blocking the path.
But yes, everybody can learn artistic skills if they want to learn artistic skills - the catch is that it might not be the specific artistic skills you imagine when you think of “art skills.”
(it turns out that a lot of art skills are actually ways of looking at things, a bit of color theory, understanding perspective, and being able to arrange basic composition, none of which you need to hold a pencil for)
It fucking *sucks* that you can’t hold a pencil, that sounds like a really difficult amount of pain to deal with and I bet that makes your day a lot harder than mine is on average.
But it seems like you’re able to manipulate pointing devices well enough to send negativity through anons on tumblr; have you considered digital art using a mouse or a touchpad if that’s less painful? If you want to create art have you tried typographic art? If you can’t learn the skills to be a visual artist have you considered practicing skills to be a writer?
If you want to be a visual artist there are pixel art programs that don’t rely on the same sort of sustained fine motor control that many traditional media do. If you’d like to see if that’s doable for you here’s a totally free browser-based program.
I’m not going to pretend that it’s going to be easy for you to be the kind of artist you want to be. I’m not going to pretend there aren’t some options that are going to be unattainable for you. There are things that you physically can’t do because of your disability and you know it.
But “art” as a general concept and “acquisition of artistic skills through practice” are not things that I believe are limited by physical media or ability (and there is a global community of disabled artists who I’m pretty sure would agree that your access to art shouldn’t be limited by your disability). There are hundreds of kinds of art that you can do without ever having to manipulate physical media and several kinds of assistive technologies to help if you *do* want to manipulate physical media and it’s unfortunate that you believe that there is no form of art that you can learn or practice. That sounds like a really upsetting headspace to be in and it must be difficult to deal with.
And honestly if that’s how you feel my advice to you is to do something about it TODAY. You sound like you’re depressed and feeling helpless, like you’re entrenched in the understanding that you have no agency.
So pick your favorite unpopular character and write a poem about them. If you can type and use a mouse make a moodboard for them. Write a joke that you think they would tell. If it’s not a very good poem or moodboard or joke that’s okay, you can try again tomorrow and you’ll be better at it then than you were today.
Good luck.
[Image description: a simplified, pixel-art version of the third panel of the Gru’s Plan meme that says “i hope you feel the same hope for you that i do.”]
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Happy this absolutely isn't what I had planned for mermay.
Image Description: A six-panel comic.
First Panel Image: A very simple drawing of a mermaid. Text: I don't want to draw mermaids.
Second Panel Image: A close-up image of the corner of a notebook with a checklist; most boxes are un-checked, one unchecked box says "Draw Mer-" and the words trail off the page. Text: But I wrote it down in a list so now I have to.
Third Panel Image: A standard, half-human, half-fish, human-sized mer-person with large eyes and sharp teeth clutching a notebook in their hands and chewing on the corner of the journal. Text: It's a bad reason to do something I don't want to do.
Fourth Panel Image: An unusual mer-person, which is half-lobster, half-human, with long antennae on their forehead and large claws with mottled patches of color on their arm and round, protruding black eyes, clutches a notebook in one of their claws. Text: But it's easy. Or, at least easier than the other things I didn't want to do this month.
Fifth Panel Image: A school of four tiny half-fish, half-human merpeople look at a notebook that is hanging from a hook. Text: I know I don't have to do it, I know my life isn't a task list, I know I'm making things hard for myself.
Sixth Panel Image: The cartoonist's head sticking out of a body of water, they are holding a notebook in one hand. There is a tail sticking out of the body of water at the bottom of the panel, suggesting that the cartoonist may be a mer-person or that there is a mer-person or perhaps a large fish swimming past the cartoonist. Text: But if I didn't want to check this box, nobody would have made this comic.
/end image description
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Okay so I've been collecting these mint tins and covering them with cute fabric and if I use the rubber stamp material I've got and I cut the stamps small enough I might have room for a stamp pad and a full single-case alphabet in one tin; if not then I can for sure get a full single-case alphabet in each one and if I cut two cases maybe I can affix the tins to one another.
The ones with the ship and the shark have really strong magnets on the back and I've been using them on our server rack full of dead equipment to hold my phone at head height while I film videos for class.
I also put bat fabric and glow in the dark googly eyes on one for my neice to put her "treasures" in and it's full of barbie shoes and shiny rocks and she carries it everywhere.
I was going to make one for each of my family members and make them each a special zine but then it turned out that none of them actually like handmade gifts so I said fuck it and now I've got all these spare decorated tins.
Eyyy
Now I wanna make a bunch of twin peaks stamps.
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I dunno I've just been in the mood to make zines recently.
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A couple of my pens broke so I made them into a bisexual disaster zine with a nod to Keith Haring.
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Tiny zine about tiny bastard
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Anonymous asked:
I like your zines and how you spread them, is there a reason for why you make them folded? Can you show us?
Thanks!
The 8-page zine fold is a super easy way to make a multi-page book from a single sheet of paper with printing on one side, which makes them very easy to photocopy and distribute cheaply.
I've been using half-sheets to keep myself motivated (smaller drawings take less time) and here's how you can do it:
1 - lay out your paper in a landscape orientation
2 - fold it in half hotdog style
3 - fold it in half hamburger style
4 - fold it in half hamburger style again (it should now be book-shaped
5 - unfold and lay flat to cut (landscape orientation)
6 - cut the horizontal line ONLY on the two central panels
7 - re-fold the page hotdog style and pull the cut open in a diamond shape
8 - flatten open? It's hard to describe but basically flatten the diamond shape like this:
9 - lay flat and fold hamburger still into a book shape with turning pages
I hope that makes sense.
I made a video on how to do a couple of different zine types a few years ago - I’ve made mini coloring books from the quarter page stapled fold and plenty of eight page zines.
Eight pager starts at about 4:15.