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Sketch for a hypothetical sculpture. A mashup between Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” and Danziger’s “Nimrod”.

Degas was known misogynist, who was quoted comparing the ballet dancers he made a career out of drawing, to work horses and rats. His Little Dancer used to be one of my favorite sculptures, until I saw it last year in DC and read up about it and him, and what I learned saddened me deeply.

I carried that sadness around for a while. Yesterday I went to the Israel Museum and saw another one of my all time favorite sculptures, Nimrod. The biblical character Nimrod is described as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” But the root from which his name comes means “to rebel,” and in Talmudic literature, he is the despised idolater who erected the Tower of Babel in order to overthrow God. Danziger took the hawk on Nimrod’s shoulder from Egyptian art, underscoring the link between his sculpture and the ancient pagan world. The absence of legs likens the figure to an archaeological find, as does the reddish sandstone from Petra.

I suddenly realized how similar they look- same arm pose, same defiant, chin-up manner.

So I gave the little dancer a hawk, and cut off her “work horse” legs, and finally her defying stance is complete. She can finally rebel against her oppressors, armed with Nimrod’s mythical hunting abilities and his intent to overthrow the powers who would dominate him. Time’s up.

Guess who stumble upon the Twilight fandom and now designing her fav character? This gal. 

This started from a sudden want to explore Twilight tag on Tumblr and remembering that Alice Cullen existed. I then proceeded to marathon fanfics that has accumulated for 10 years (mostly Bellice but whatever.) Then, I also found an article that said Catherine Hardwicke actually wants a Japanese actress to play Alice for the first movie but the idea was rejected. 

So, it actually got me thinking “Yeah, what IF Alice was from Japan?” “How will her backstory going to fit with this change?” “What IF the Cullen family are not all from America or England??” With that in mind, I started brainstorming all these ideas for each Cullen’s backstory plus their design. I think I’ll post them whenever they’re ready. Anyway, I hope you guys like the design for Alice! 

Photoshop actually stop working when I was making this comic (thank god for autosave though) #comic #4koma #4panel #art #digital #photoshop #comicstrip #lol

I don’t usually draw dogs but @velvet-jellyfish‘s Missy is an exception.

(also we’re not 100% sure she’s even a dog)

inktober #24: i drew in the playground of the mall i work in, and ended up being late to work. also i’m pretty sure i creeped some parents out

SOMEONE IN NEKO ATSUME REACHED 23 CATS! TEACH ME YOUR WAYS.

batch two of my B99 inktober portraits. first batch

another big cat 🙈 for no particular reason

IKEA is a trap [Commissions are open!]

a challenge

seeing as i’m a bit busy with another theatre production recently, i’ve been neglecting drawing. i do have time though, so to motivate myself i prepared a sketchbook with the dates of March on each page, and i plan to just draw something in it every day.

i’m guessing some days i won’t have ideas for what to draw, so feel free to challenge me or send requests my way, or even reblog this. ask box always open :)