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This tapestry has been worked on almost entirely while riding the bus.
It’ll be a hamsa, eventually.
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Some experiments with pencil and Posca marker.
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hot damn!
These are my breasts and nipples, complete with acne, moles, and hair. Will this image violate tumblr’s new content rules?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
I am a transgender man. I have not had the opportunity or the money to have top surgery. I am excruciatingly aware that the “gender presentation” of my nipples is in the eye of the beholder. Disconnected from the context of the rest of my body and gendered presentation, they look like “female-presenting” nipples. Hell, there are plenty of cisgender women with more chest hair than me.
Are we going to determine the “gender presentation” of my nipples based on my legal gender? That’s debatable too. My most recent legal IDs list my gender as “male,” but my birth certificate lists my gender as “female.” I cannot change the gender on my birth certificate without going back to the state where I was born and getting an order from a judge, and paying a fee. Until I have the time to and money to do that, there will always be at least one legal document where I am still considered female.
Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.
I would say this painting has artistic merit, at the very least from a technical standpoint. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would see no artistic merit in this painting, regardless of technical skill. The line between “nudity found in art” and “adult content” is as indistinct as the line between “naked” and “nude.” Tumblr and Facebook’s new policies stem from SESTA/FOSTA [LINK] and corporate monopolies [LINK].
Policies meant to curtail sex work always hurt more than they help, whether the sex work is voluntary, coerced, or forced. Example: NYC, LA, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have all had/have laws that allow possession of multiple condoms to be considered evidence of prostitution, resulting in arrest or the confiscation of the condoms. So, no safe sex if you’re doing sex work, I guess?
Policies like these disproportionately effect people and communities who are viewed as being “inherently sexual” or “overly sexual.” Facebook’s overzealous new policy prohibits reference to “sexual preferences.” I will bet money that policy won’t be enforced when a cis het man makes a status update about “I like girls with [insert physical attribute here],” but it will be enforced when a queer person refers to a top, a bottom, a switch, a Daddy, a [insert relational attribute here].
As to what constitutes art and how that concept gets weaponized against LGBTQ people (and other oppressed groups, I’d argue), just read about the history of conservative loathing for the National Endowment for the Arts [LINK].
I don’t think my little protest painting will make tumblr and their corporate overlords change their minds. But I couldn’t not express my opinion on this.
I don’t know if this blog will get flagged or deleted or whatever. I’ll keep using tumblr until I no longer have a reason to. But, just in case, I’ll be setting up a pillowfort, and maybe a poizen. In the meantime, you can keep up with my shitpost tweets HERE.
These are my breasts and nipples, complete with acne, moles, and hair. Will this image violate tumblr’s new content rules?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
I am a transgender man. I have not had the opportunity or the money to have top surgery. I am excruciatingly aware that the “gender presentation” of my nipples is in the eye of the beholder. Disconnected from the context of the rest of my body and gendered presentation, they look like “female-presenting” nipples. Hell, there are plenty of cisgender women with more chest hair than me.
Are we going to determine the “gender presentation” of my nipples based on my legal gender? That’s debatable too. My most recent legal IDs list my gender as “male,” but my birth certificate lists my gender as “female.” I cannot change the gender on my birth certificate without going back to the state where I was born and getting an order from a judge, and paying a fee. Until I have the time to and money to do that, there will always be at least one legal document where I am still considered female.
Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.
I would say this painting has artistic merit, at the very least from a technical standpoint. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would see no artistic merit in this painting, regardless of technical skill. The line between “nudity found in art” and “adult content” is as indistinct as the line between “naked” and “nude.” Tumblr and Facebook’s new policies stem from SESTA/FOSTA [LINK] and corporate monopolies [LINK].
Policies meant to curtail sex work always hurt more than they help, whether the sex work is voluntary, coerced, or forced. Example: NYC, LA, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have all had/have laws that allow possession of multiple condoms to be considered evidence of prostitution, resulting in arrest or the confiscation of the condoms. So, no safe sex if you're doing sex work, I guess?
Policies like these disproportionately effect people and communities who are viewed as being "inherently sexual" or "overly sexual." Facebook's overzealous new policy prohibits reference to "sexual preferences." I will bet money that policy won't be enforced when a cis het man makes a status update about "I like girls with [insert physical attribute here]," but it will be enforced when a queer person refers to a top, a bottom, a switch, a Daddy, a [insert relational attribute here].
As to what constitutes art and how that concept gets weaponized against LGBTQ people (and other oppressed groups, I'd argue), just read about the history of conservative loathing for the National Endowment for the Arts [LINK].
I don't think my little protest painting will make tumblr and their corporate overlords change their minds. But I couldn't not express my opinion on this.
I don't know if this blog will get flagged or deleted or whatever. I'll keep using tumblr until I no longer have a reason to. But, just in case, I'll be setting up a pillowfort, and maybe a poizen. In the meantime, you can keep up with my shitpost tweets HERE.
Second in my series of practice portraits.
It's funny... most people won't buy portraits of random people but people won't commission you to do portraits if they can't see other portraits you've done. So I'm making portraits that will just sit in my room lol.
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Are you ever going to make a follow-up to the therapy comic? I'd really like to see how the clients are doing and how the next session went!
Thank you! It means a lot that you enjoyed the comic so much that you’d want to read more!
That being said, I don’t know if I’ll do more with that idea, honestly. It was never intended to be a series. I was inspired by the content of my graduate studies and the idea came to me almost fully-formed, which is a rarity for me when it comes to comics.I feel like I said what I wanted to say with that comic. I mean, maybe if the mood strikes again, I might make more, but I don’t have plans for it.
I found this blog on imgur as a link when some one posted your comic about Bart and Chris being a couple. I loved it such an interesting idea and a good way to approach those issues. Also I totally ship Bart and Chris now lol
I’m sorry I’m responding to this so late, but thank you!
My struggle is being willing to let go of details, of not getting too “precious” with it. Getting there with that hand... still working too much into parts of the face.
I remember reading something where a guy noticed that one class of 5 year olds produced more aesthetically pleasing art than other classes. When asked why her students’ art had better compositions and color choices, the teacher replied “Because I know when to take the piece away.”
Trying to keep this in mind. Don’t overwork. Let things go. Take it away.
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I am the lone weirdo who hates glossy paint and hates glossy varnish and wants everything matte so I can see the colors properly!!
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Inktober day 10.
Drawn with sharpie in between appointments.
May turn this into a proper design at some point.
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Inktober day 9.
Not every day is a good drawing day.
This guy on the bus had the most dramatic and elegant unibrow.
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Inktober day 6.
Some rocks
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Inktober day 5. Some faces and some class notes.
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Inktober day 4. Another interior.
This would have worked better as a painting. It’s the color composition of interiors that interests me.
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Inktober day 3. Sketch of an 80s era Fredrick’s of Hollywood print ad that looked like pin-up art for “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?”
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Inktober day 2. Usually I’m a pissbaby who avoids drawing backgrounds, but drawing creepy, grungy interiors is fun. Might paint about it.
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I’m calling this done! Just needs some varnish and I can do a good scan.
Sure would love it if the tumblr app would quit posting pics as a ugly low res text posts...
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As much as I would like to do a big fancy project for Inktober I’m also being realistic that won’t happen, between workstudy & internship. So if I do a page of ink doodles a day, that’ll be an accomplishment.
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Local idiot SHOCKED that it’s more enjoyable to paint, rather than complain about not having the time to paint.
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Updates from my sketchbook. Mostly drawn while on the bus.
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you’re welcome!
Thanks to @panic-volkushka your comic and the free doodle.
I enjoin anyone seeing this to check out his work, great stuff. Check out his Etsy, he has comics like these.
Thanks again and a sweet new year. 💜
Was looking over my old posts and had a moment where I was like “Dang, I am actually a pretty good painter and this is a pretty cool painting.”
Only took four years distance from the actual creation of the piece to feel that way about it! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
“Pretty Bunny/Ugly Hare”
acrylic and stickers on canvas board, 14 x 18
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Something of a continuation on the theme of “fuck your fascist cuteness standards.”
Inspired by the Playboy Bunny as a restrictive concept of American female beauty, the different connotations of the words “bunny” and “hare,” and overhearing a pregnant woman discuss her fears that her unborn child would be born with a “hare lip,” because that had “just ruined” Joaquin Phoenix’s face.
Slightly dissatisfied with this painting, actually. I have a tendency to push shadows darker than I would like, and that happened in this piece. I want to develop an ability to work with paler palettes.
However, this is the first time that I’ve really tried mixing a more deliberately stylized look with traditional painting, and I am very pleased with how that turned out.
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Some sketchbook pages.
If anyone is interested in getting these as a print or something, just let me know and I can add it to my society6 account.
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Here’s my first ever tapestry. Woven as a birthday gift for my lovely boyfriend, on my trash loom that I made from a thrift store picture frame.
It’s the sunset over southern prairie land.
I have got Ideas about fiber art so expect more in the future.
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Sketches for an in-progress Topical Comic about cis people being cast to play trans people.
As a trans guy who was raised in the theater and has a mom who’s an actress I have lots of Opinions on this subject.
To the right, you can see my mom when she was a Dolly Parton impersonator. And when she was in a Greek tragedy and shaved an inch off her hairline to recreate Greek hairstyles. And when she was in Candide.
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Another hour’s worth of work into this. Coming along nicely...
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Between my internship and the Asbestos Apartment Boogaloo, I haven’t really gotten to work on a painting since March.
My first run at this portrait, about 2 hrs of work, not including the initial sketch. Trying to get faster and looser with portraits.
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