#paper drag

[dyke-in-crisis]

drag king look based off Ianthe Tridentarius I made for a paper drag race recently 🤺 definitely one of my favorite designs I’ve made during the race and I scored second place with this :)

commissions are open

[turowa]

my drag oc, her name is Kiki Siu

[snowblosm]

okay last bundle of paper drag for now :]

[shitswiftiessay]

i’m dead 💀💀💀💀💀

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[k3nnyonly1]

I been watching the Basics In Behavior Animation Video nonstop and i really like the animationNNNNNN Let me put the link for you guys to check it out! THeir style is so cool!! So cool that I have to draw them into WH version The last guy is my WH oc! His name is Drag web! :DD Basic In Behavior by The Living Tombstone Animation by Kaatie

[skunkes]

sorry to bother! on may 18th, you posted a drawing of silco (i think) with long hair saying you were showing some brushes to a friend. i love the watercolor texture of the brushes you used to color, are they a custom brush or just the default watercolor brush in csp with some kind of overlay and blended together in parts??

They were defaults, since I was showing her mine and other examples of how good the defaults can look!

(they say "2" at the end bc i had initially deleted them and had to readd them)

Along with this I use a paper texture from this csp marker brush pack! The one in the "update" folder, it has the words "soft light" in it. I use this paper texture for everything, it's my favorite one I've found and it carries my work sometimes!

The markers themselves are quite good too!!!!

[numberonetacostan]

jealousy

[aceofspades-sml]

I am not sure why we are still having this conversation but um. I'm begging you to stop making Davey everybody's mom

[jfuentesart99]

Blacktober 2024, No. 4 - ✨Rosalina✨ (Super Mario)

[dyke-in-crisis]

Three Of Swords Drag King edition ⚔️

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[amazingdeadfish]

Do u think u could make an opera version of mayor? I've seen a few artists make diff opera wukong/Mac designs but I think a opera mayor design would look very cool :D

Not gonna lie, I was nervous to do this, but, I don't regret trying out this challenge.

RAMBLES + (literally only two) REFERANCES BELOW THE CUT:

The costume is based on the classic armor outfit in Chinese Peking Opera. Since, we all know that the Mayor doesn't actually have that many identifiable characteristics or, much of a role in the LMK show other than being LBD's foot soldier or, thrall. So, I had to reflect that in what's probably an incredibly basic interpretation for what their design could be (because if you actually see the insane level amount of detail in peking opera outfits, you'll understand that this drawing is heavily simplified and lacks detail).

The mask, is, also simple. I tried to look at numerous references and get my head around the insane amount of possibilities of patterns and designs and what they mean, as well as what the colours symbolize, but all that's important is that blue symbolizes stoicism, black for integrity, and white symbolizes evil (but of course these meanings for colours have leeway in between depending on what source you look at. There is no definitive answer).

The mask is also important because it creates the most visual distinction from Mayor being a Jing instead of a Sheng (male protagonist). And, even though it's a basic mask, I did create it to imply an almost 'skull' shape to it. But it's discrete and, you have to be looking for it to be there (which I suppose fits because, Mayor being LBD's thrall wasn't revealed straight away)

Now okay look, I'm- I'm not an expert on peking opera at all, I had to do a bit or research to do this in order to actually understand what I am doing when it comes to designing an outfit for Mayor. You might see a hint of his Chief costume in the chest plate I decided to keep, and all those skull motifs to show that he is a thrall of Lady Bone Demon. But in short, he is a warrior, a soldier, a chief of war, and he fights and works for Lady Bone Demon. He is to be a character with heavy, dramatic armor, and a mask to not only symbolize his role in whatever theatre show he lands himself in, but also for the shrouded identity he has and, well, not exactly being the most in-depth or open character in the show :))).

Anyways, here's a beta design back when I legitimately had no idea what I was doing and had done like zero research apart from looking at references I lied and, thinking Mayor would have a 'lighter (less heavy) and less decorative outfit (clearly I changed my mind later on):

I am, glad I did not follow through with this design. This is, not a peking opera outfit. Not a conventional one at least, that would reflect who the Mayor is (because this mf is conventional as hell, fitting in with modern times with his suit and all).

And here are the, uh, two references I used (obviously there's more but, these two were the ones I really picked apart and analyzed and, have clearly referenced):

And yes, I copied the pose on the right.

Design is welcome for critique (again, I am not an expert on peking opera (it's such a vast, complex, and wonderful artform that the more I found out the more I was intimidated by) and possibly subjected to be redesigned later on should I look back on this months-years later and cringe horrifically.

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[snowblosm]

more of my paper drag looks of this era !

[jinkxndela]

Jinkx Monsoon for Paper Magazine x

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