Latest Posts by panic-volkushka - Page 14

a gif of the process of my self-portrait

I will post a scan of the finished piece tomorrow, when I feel like I can deal with the undertaking that scanning a wooden panel will be.

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charismaticoutcast said: These are really neat! Do you mind me asking how you put your artwork on shirts/other accessories like this? Is it silk screening? I tried doing this awhile back and failed miserablyXD

No problem!

I use a printing service -- society6. I size my images to their specifications and they print and ship the product for me. They use, at least for the cloth products, a "direct to fabric" printer. I've ordered shirts from them before, but only on white so I can't speak for the other shirt colors, and the images have always been well printed and pretty darn colorfast.

However, because they do the printing and shipping, I only get a portion of the payment. But, compared to other printing services, their prices are pretty good. At society6 a 21x28 inch print costs $35 and I earn $8.65. You can raise the prices on your prints so that you earn more, but I try not to price myself out. Compare that to the print services at DeviantArt where the standard cost of a 24x24 inch print is $45 and the artist earns $7.50.

I haven't done screenprinting before, but I have used linocuts and fabric ink. If I ever chose to sell those, other prints that I created myself, or original pieces, I would sell them somewhere like etsy or storenvy, where I would just pay for hosting on their website and would be able to set the product prices myself.

@redangusart‘s Mute Mick, flanked by heraldic lions, haloed by cigarette smoke.

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you should upload 'monster queer' on 8tracks... if you want to, of course

Done and done!

http://8tracks.com/panicvolkushka

Dreamed that I was on a road trip with some friends. The car was very full, so I had to sit crouched on the shoulder of the passenger seat. The person seated in the passenger seat looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and I think we were dating. We drove through a small southern town, and I could tell where the queer kids hung out. A bar and a hair salon and a gas station, with 80's goth queer kids hanging out in front, smoking and drinking. On one hand, I was envious that these queers knew just where to go to meet people like themselves, but on the other hand I recognized how few of them were in that small town and how isolated they must feel. We drove along a high way at night. The person shifted from looking like Benedict Cumberbatch, to looking like W., to looking like A., and then finally looking like a combination of all three of them. I told him that I wasn't good at dancing. When a song came on the radio, he pulled over on the side of the highway and left the car door open so that the music could be heard outside. On the side of the road at night, he rested his hands on the small of my back and we danced slowly. The roadtrip (and the dream) ended with us sitting in a forest clearing, dressed in togas, watching a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

charismaticoutcast said: You know, what’s funny about that is that any time I draw my cartoon self, I make sure to include my gapped tooth because I almost feel like it’s a signature of some sort.

Yeah! When I draw my own teeth (and decide to be accurate instead of just drawing them like raggedy shark teeth) I always include that my left incisor has been worn flat because I click my teeth when I'm anxious.

Two pieces from an unfinished series, circa 2008. Oil on Masonite.

Portraits of Mary-Claire and Danielle, focusing only on their teeth.

I often focus on the alignment of people's teeth and sometimes recognize people more by their teeth than other facial features. Because of this, perfectly straight white teeth seem to bore me and I have a harder time remembering people with nice teeth. I find crooked, chipped, and strange teeth to be endearing and attractive.

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Three figure drawings, circa 2009 before I dashed my parents hopes by saying "I wanna quit art school, get a bachelor's in psychology, become a counselor with a focus on art therapy, and also I'm queer as fuck."

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I just want to tell you that I appreciate you doing this. I identify with a lot of your work here, and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one that feels like this. I cried reading all of your comics, honestly.

Thank you so much.

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These messages mean a lot to me.

So I'm a huge nerd and I made a huge playlist of songs that give me feels about being transgender and queer. I take my playlists very seriously and put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into choosing and arranging the songs.

Warning -- some of these songs contain lyrics that have sexual content, violent content, mentions of sexual abuse, and content that may trigger dysphoria. Also, some of these bands or musicians have done some shitty things, and while I like their work, I don't approve of what they've done (Amanda Palmer, The Sex Pistols, Glen Danzig, Die Antwoord, I'm looking at you).

Listen to it here: Monster Queer

1. Woe to the Man Who is Different - Richard Peaslee (from "Marat/Sade") 2. Sex Changes - The Dresden Dolls 3. Body - Mother Mother 4. Kick Ass - MIKA vs RedOne 5. Respect Me - Khia 6. I Fink U Freeky - Die Antwoord 7. XXXO - M.I.A. 8. Mr. Spock - Nerf Herder 9. Dust to Dust - The Misfits 10. Son of No One - NEGATION 11. Ends. Endings. - O' God the White Whale 12. The Snake &... - Oxbow 13. Smear The Queen - Xiu Xiu 14. We're Not Gonna Take It - The Who 15. I Did It My Way - The Sex Pistols 16. You're Gonna Miss Me - Roky Erickson 17. Rejoice - Andrew Jackson Jihad 18. Dr. Troll - Xiu Xiu 19. o jarhead! o wife! - jordaan mason & the horse museum 20. For Today I Am a Boy - Antony & The Johnsons 21. Beautiful Boyz - CocoRosie 22. All Is Full Of Love - Björk 23. Lycanthropy - Patrick Wolf

the cover image is a mash-up of alchemical imagery from "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and the "Rosarium Philosophorum."

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I'd really like to tell you I'm happy I found your art blog. I guess I want to say that I find your self reflections to be really interesting and your approach as well. I just really happy to be following you! Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to message me! It really does mean a lot.

Dreamed that my eyeballs fell out. I poured some contact solution on them and popped them back in.

Dreamed that there was a really creepy monkey outside my house, so I had to bring the cats in. The monkey was yellow, had big hollow eyes, and a big smile filled with sharp teeth. It's nipples were swollen and distended as if it had been nursing recently.

Well, my "Hannibal" piece didn't get accepted to Banquet, which sucks because I worked really hard on this and I think it turned out really well.

On the positive side, I have an illustration that I worked really hard on and it turned out really well!

I was inspired by sweetmeats -- food made from offal, such as intestines, testicles and the thymus -- and floral china plates.

Also, I learned that Hugh Dancy is really fucking hard to draw. Mads Mikkelsen has such a distinctive face that he's rather easy to draw, but with Hugh, if you get some detail just a little bit off, it doesn't look like him anymore.

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Dreamed that my cat, Winnie, had kittens. I knew that cow milk actually wasn't good for kittens, so I was frantically searching the Internet to figure out what to feed them. Dreamed that I was downloading the music of a band called "Intervesante." The band's lead singers were a set of Jewish-Jamaican teenage twin girls. I really wish that band existed in real life.

I got kissed by a turtle dove upon a cold Paris manger I was waking up to my love, first moment dawning danger everything was new every sock and shoe my face and your face, tenderly renewed

tenderly renewed

"Christina's Farm" by Antony and the Johnsons

Based on a photograph of a man who survived a gunshot to the head during World War I.

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you are my son and i am saturn do you see it? this is you and me i want you to know as you're being eaten the lights will be on and that this is you and me

"Saturn" by Xiu Xiu

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I'd forgotten how much I enjoy doing these random geometric scribbles. They allow me to be obsessive-compulsive but in a very soothing manner.

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A friend texted this to me "In my dream last night you were in this enormous cardboard Halloween costume that made you look like a section of wall cut out of a retail store. You rolled around while children picked items off your outfit." What a good dream about me.

a small collage from an old sketchbook

I may add more to it at some point

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Dreamed that my maternal grandfather (who is dead) took me to the doctor to get a prescription for testosterone. My doctor was John Oliver and he told me I looked like my father. He gave me a cosmetics set in a dusty rose colored box that had gold lettering that read "Sylvia Plath."

Dreamed that I was staying at a hotel that was similar to our apartment building in manhattan — old and funky. For some reason, Benedict Cumberbatch was staying in the hotel too.

I stepped out of my room to go have a cigarette. I was wearing my red long johns. I ran into Cumberbatch in the hall. He was also wearing red long johns. I congratulated him on his excellent fashion choices and he gave me a very nice hug.

Dreamed that a soldier killed Caesar in a desert, with a single blow of a sword to the neck. Even though they were Romans, they were both dressed in medieval armor that was completely golden. The soldier went back to Rome, came out as a transgender woman and then proceeded to rule Rome better than Caesar ever had.

"Alone and Forsaken" by 16 Horsepower

My unsuccessful submission to Happiness Comix.

Musician David Eugene Edwards.

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE

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My “Keep on Truckin’ with your Transition” collage that I made for myself.

Awesome, influential people.

Diamanda Galas in the top center. Pierre et Gilles’ “Saint Sebastian” on either side. David Wojnarowicz on the left, Slyvia Rivera in the center, Antony Hegarty on the right. Marsha P. Johnson and the wings of a gynandromorphic butterfly at the bottom center.

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Horrible dream. Dreamed that a woman's body was pulled out of freezing cold water, wrapped in chains, lifted out by a crane. Her skin was grey-blue and water sluiced out of her yellow hair. Suddenly, her body began to jerk and spasm -- she was still alive. The crane dunked her back into the freezing water. The chains shook as she struggled under the water. But they went still eventually. Dreamed that I had started a relationship with a man that I met online. We were texting eachother. It started out flirty and kinky but it got darker and scarier until he was threatening and abusing me. Someone tells me that I should have known better. Dreamed that a fox was napping on a turbine on the roof. The turbine spun around slowly, revealing the fox. It blinked sleepily before getting up and walking across the roof. Dreamed that I had long, fine, bright yellow hair with red-pink ends. My hair was pulled into pigtails with elastic bands that had big red plastic balls on them. I looked like an anime magical girl.

Submission for Jar of Zines' second issue

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