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bombrushblushin · 2 months ago

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Oooooo I'd love to know more about your fallout OCs, if you wanna share! Do you mind giving a run-down on them? Red looks so cool :O Love characters with bows!

THANK YOUUU!! ill give info (featuring a few doodles as well) on all of them below the cut!!! beware, a lot of yapping incoming

Red

shes absolutely one of my favorites despite her being my newest and least drawn, she actually just started as a character by me telling my friend id play 76 if he made me an archer ghoul build, which he in fact did

before the war she was a bowhunter living in kentucky, she was going on a hunting trip in a forest in kentuckys appalachian region when the bombs dropped

for a good while she just wandered in ky before deciding to explore more of appalachia in the 2100s

gradually over this time period she underwent ghoulification (as can probably be seen by her design /j)

she got her pip-boy from a dead vault 76 dweller she found soon after entering west virginia, depending on whether or not i really want 76 to be fully canon to my personal interpretation of the lore she also finds the overseers holotape message you find at the start telling you about the whole silo mission thing

after many years she decides to start making a guide on the newly evolved wildlife in appalachia, moiras wasteland survival guide style

when she finishes appalachias wildlife guide, she decides to journey to other regions of the wasteland to make more guides for each!! theyve taken a long time for whatever reasons, and for the fun of it she happens to be in a region during its main story (so california for 1 + 2, capital wasteland for 3, etc). because of this shes met all my other characters and theyve all had a part in making their regions wildlife guide!!

the bow and arrow is her only weapon EVER. because i just like archery :] shes drawn with so many arrows because she genuinely keeps a crazy amount of arrows on her. she is NOT running out of arrows. inspired by me really hoarding arrows in 76 to the point of it actually starting to impact my carry weight

she was named after the red tailed hawk (which are common in kentucky!!)

she has been attacked by mothman multiple times. the first time scared the absolute shit out of her (based on whats happened to me in 76)

Kestrel Shepherd

unfortunately i really dont have much information on him or peregrine because i havent played through fallout 1 and 2 as much (because im bad at it 💔💔💔)

he was named after the american kestrel (the coloring reminded me a little bit of the vault jumpsuit)

hes also actually my shortest character because of this at 5'5

kestrel is transmasc!! he finds this out in the middle of looking for the waterchip during some late night conversation with ian and tycho

that was inspired by me originally having him set as female when i started fallout 1 and then how in fallout 2 all mentions of the vault dweller refer to him as male

where does he get hrt in the wasteland??? idk!!! maybe the followers of the apocalypse or something!!

most stressed man ever. he constantly eyed the reminder of how much time he had to find the chip

despite that, still tried to help out wherever he could

Peregrine Shepherd

like with kestrel i dont have as much for her due to my severe lack of skill, but shes one my favorite designs

named after the peregrine falcon because she has a 10 in agility!!

most likely focused more on melee fighting

her yellow body art is common in arroyo! its inspired by kestrels vault jumpsuit mostly. the obvious yellow stripe around the neck and down part of the middle of the chest, alongside the right shoulder side having bits resembling the gear notches on vault doors, the left shoulder has curves made to resemble the pauldron from the armored vault suit, and then both arms have marks inspired by the pip-boy (the one on peregrines left arm just gets covered by the actual pip-boy)

she loves to make jewelry! she made all of her allies something usually with blue, yellow, and green beads like her own. goris got little dangly things from his horns, marcus got a large necklace (which he still wears by the time of new vegas!), cassidy got a few bracelets (he acted annoyed by the idea of it which was why he got small bracelets, but secretly he really cherished them), and ill be SO honest i still havent really decided whats made for sulik. this also goes to explain her main party LMAO

you know that classic promo image with the decorated t-51 helmet? she ABSOLUTELY has that. because of this she also decorated the APA she got from Navarro (which she also kept after the story. id imagine it becomes treated as a very important object like kestrels jumpsuit did)

peregrine had a LOT of doubt in her abilities, especially early on. she barely scraped past the temple of trials and talked cameron out of the final fight, something which she thinks about a lot. she wonders if she really should be the one searching for the geck.

Shiva Corvus

the second ever fallout character i made, one of my funniest moments was me finding out i had actually made my courier the same age as her, to which these messages came to be:

she took after her dad a LOT. she always had an interest in medicine, science, and helping others, so it came as no surprise when the goat test declared her as another vault medical assistant

shiva, especially when younger, would talk about the idea of leaving the vault to offer help to people on the surface. james tried to shoot down that idea VERY fast

as the medical assistant, shiva was actually taught a lot more than she wouldve been at that time as james was trying to set her up with everything she would need to know to hopefully take his place (or be jonas' assistant) when he left the vault

her last name is the genus crows fall under. i ended up associating crows with her because of the "one for sorrow" rhyme, which i found out was actually originally about magpies but i had first heard it as counting crows so the crow theme stuck

while caring a lot for others, she was also very easy to anger, alongside feeling that fighting someone was perfectly fine if they deserved it in her eyes. she got into a lot of fights with butch and his friends when younger, and after project purity was taken held a lot of anger towards the enclave and attacked them whenever she could. while in the vault butch every once in a while would come into the clinic while she was working to mess with her knowing she couldnt do anything back (damn you hippocratic oath and general healthcare code of ethics! /j)

thinking of the enclave, after they come in she immediately got power armor training from the brotherhood, nuked a random enclave patrol, and stole their power armor. she continued using anything stolen from them to the very end of the game. she thought her ass was DONE FOR when she got ambushed by them in vault 87 knowing she was equipped entirely with stolen enclave equipment.

shiva was the greatest example of being too stubborn to die. she was close to death SO MUCH (probably her 3 luck /j) but would always push through somehow

about that, she keeps the original non-broken steel ending of the game and dies after turning on the purifier (the pitt and point lookout ARE canon for her though, just fall at some point during the main story, most likely between the time after trouble on the homefront and searching vault 87)

Callie Harris

she originated from me wanting to play broken steel but wanting shiva to stay dead in the story 💔💔💔

she grew up in vault 101, amata and shiva were her best friends

her name comes from callie splatoon and the harris' hawk. the callie part is actually because shiva originated as a splatoon character who was an octarian soldier who befriended callie during splatoon 2s story mode, and it was just a silly reference to that. she holds no other connections to callie cuttlefish

she has always been protective, very often also getting into fights with the tunnel snakes while growing up. this also affected her goat outcome and she ended up in vault security

the day shiva had to escape the vault, she tried to lead some security guards on a wild goose chase through the vault to give shiva time to get out. she was also in amatas group wanting to open the vault, and actually stole some gear from the security storage to protect them

after amata became the overseer and the vault was opened, callie left to start exploring the wasteland herself. at some point outside she meets back up with shiva and they travel together for a while

callie joined the brotherhood of steel and started training around the time shiva leaves for shenanigans in the pitt and point lookout. she shows enough potential to be let into the lyons pride too (first pride initiate to not die a horrible death /j)

she was involved in the battle for project purity + spent the two weeks afterwards waiting in the medical unit of the citadel by shiva (but like i said, she dies. skill issue /j)

she gets promoted to a knight afterwards and then goes on to take the lone wanderers role in broken steel

after maxson becomes the elder it becomes clear that hes taking it in a different direction than elder lyons, of which lyons' was the one callie had joined the brotherhood to support. by the time of fallout 4 callie has left the brotherhood, but kept all of her gear and continues wandering the wasteland to protect anyone she finds

i havent had much time to develop this more but callie, amata, and shiva all had crushes on each other for a long time. nothing ever gets to come of it, NONE of them ever admit any feelings

Cillian Osprey

my very first fallout character!!! she actually originally was a splatoon oc (new agent 3) who i made my courier after a bit of playing as a joke, and now theyre the more developed cillian. whoopsies

as is probably usual for couriers she got some wacky amnesia from benny, she doesnt remember many life events before the delivery. they really dont mind it though for most of the story, until lonesome road aw yeahhh

she used to be skilled with pistols before the head injury, afterwards found them more difficult. they still tried to use guns for a while until the Straight Razor Incident. that was when they got attacked by a random raider outside of nipton, ran out of ammo, and resorted to just rushing them with a random straight razor they had (actual thing that happened to me in game). this was the moment cillian switched to being purely melee for the most part

their main weapon is the super sledge oh, baby!!! after old world blues they also start using christines sniper a lot

mentioning dlcs, in cillians version of the story they all come after the second battle of hoover dam, and VERY different order for the most part. for her it goes main story -> honest hearts -> old world blues -> dead money -> lonesome road

shes also my strongest character with a full 10 strength

her last name is a remnant from her splatoon oc days, i like to say she saw an osprey in a book and thought it and the name was cool and thus decided to make it that

they sided with the ncr but arent really on any side id say. they dont feel like theyre really fit to lead an independent vegas for example

for a faction they most definitely are allies with, they are with the followers of the apocalypse!! they actually also hold a good amount of medical knowledge (had both a great and terrible time in big mt researching lobotomization) and after the entire story remains a courier with the followers!!

theyre good friends with all of the companions but especially veronica. veronica taught her most of what she knows about unarmed fighting and they just probably got up to plenty of shenanigans together

Nora Sparrow

ill be so honest she makes the least sense of anyone here probably. my fallout 4 opinions are all over the place and i probably will eventually deviate from canon a LOT as i make more stuff about it

she actually holds a small resemblance to me because i decided to try to make the character look like me at first, but once i was deeper into the main quest i finally decided to just make her into a separate character and tried to change some details. she still has my nose and eye color though

she isnt a lawyer in my version!! my nora instead also has a military background, first as a sniper and then later becoming a power armor engineer

that plays a lot into how she is after leaving vault 111 too. she mainly uses a sniper rifle (which i named the mind opener) and occasionally anything else on the off chance of running out of ammo for her main weapon

nora has a hugeee interest in power armor. she has an entire collection in sanctuary hills and tinkers with it a lot (its kinda one of her connections to her old life LMAO)

she actually usually introduces herself as just sparrow (especially as the general of the minutemen) to the point a good amount of people think sparrow is her first name

piper romance. i ❤️ piper

she joined the brotherhood for a bit. mostly for the free t-60. but she did think they sounded good for a while until eventually thinking "okayyy theyre a little extreme" and basically stopping going to them (outside of occasional prydwen visits for the shop)

despite that she never technically left them. after the minutemen blow up the institute she eventually visited the prydwen again and was immediately called to talk to a very angry maxson. she really did try to keep the relationship between the minutemen + bos stable but was unsuccessful. cue artillery fire on the prydwen

name wise had the absolute least thought. i kept nora because i think its pretty and sparrow was from when i was playing as basically myself, didnt want to just go with robin, and thought "well sparrow sounds nice too"

shes also a silver shroud fan. she had a decent amount of fun pretending to be him early on in the quest

probably wouldve added more doodles but i hit the mobile image limit and didnt feel like sending a bunch to myself on a different platform to get past it LMAOOOOO

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onmymasa22 · 5 months ago

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I had a convo with a friend this week about art. She likes art where she gives some

I wasnt prepared for such a sucky conversation. Thats what made me crazy.

None of was telling me i wasnt good.

I can start working at 5 today and still be ok. I can collect myself until 5. This was such a hard conversation to have. Am i good. Yes im good. I was overwhelmed. But im ok. I am a good artist. This conversation sucked. And it ended. Thats it. Do u want to shrivel into a ball. Yes. Ok. So shrivel. Be emotional and make shells. That convo was a lot on sn empty stomach. Have coffee

Then eat lunch

Then take a shower and get over the convo, shave, epilate, do all the things. Put on the thing to shower. Have eggs and tuna and malawach

. Is what i did enough. And then the feeling of- no its enough which goes straight into u r not enough. Because u put urself on a place. Ur time ur thought while working. Its al in there. And all u want it to b is enough. And then ur told its not enough. And oh my gosh. Whst a feeling that is. A very very humbling conversation thst took me a little bit off guard. And it wasnt meant to destroy me. And at the end they said -kol hakavod. As if every artist needs to make it through this convo to build tougher and tougher skin. And good for u that u took it like an adult.

When u had a high anxiety day plus u took ur meds and its 11pm and the last time u had anything but coffee was lunch yesterday and u freak out that a noise u hear in the kitchen it some kind of bug but u remember 2 later that

Its really a normal human fear to not be enough. Like one of my biggest fears. Am i enough. And when ur in artschool making art that u take so personally, ur constantly questioning is what i did enough. And theres no real answer to that. But when someone tells u that its not enough, u automatically feel like theyre saying u r not enough. Thats why ur constantly building elephant skin. Whether they tell that what u spent hours on looks pediatric. Or that u need to make more or bigger for it to be something. Cuz right now, its not enough. Its people looking at it and saying "ok, and...?" and u listen to feedback and u smile and shut up so u dont fall apart. But in the end, man its humbling and its excruciatingly painful for one of ur biggest fears to not be enough, and then thats what ur told. And u process slowly. U have an anxious day. And maybe you'll cry. Maybe you'll cry the next day. And what keeps u going, even when ur body is tense and ur naucious, is that this is the process. And u need to hear it. Over and over again. Ur lesson plan isnt good enough. Ur art isnt wow enough. Ur music isnt orginal enough. Ur bits arent funny enough. Ur writing isnt edited enough. Making it through those conversations alive r as important as excelling at ur work. And everyone wows u. And everyone claps for u. And ur on top of the world. If u can get through both, ur gonna be alright.

I havent plaid guitar. Abd its not like its in a case or i have to get the capo out. The capo is on fret 2. Waiting for me.

Honestly making it through school is such a team effort- from sharing testsn or if ur in the country taking them together, having a chabadnikit take ur test for u on chassidus, to giving ur friend pics for an exhibit shes supposed to do a wrote up on so she doesnt have to go out in the cold, to using ai to help with wroting a conclusion cuz u suck at em, to sharing art supplies, to eating eachothers food,

I had a convo with a friend this week on how intimacy meets art. She likes this new wave of Instagramable art thats filled with installations and lightshows. A platform for people to enter it. And i was like, its a shame tho if ur using this to stay in ur comfort zone. Where u dont want something to get so personal so u branch out to have other people involved somehow, discussing about them. Sometimes thats why ppl are drawn to photography- the camera is facing others, not themselves. Their eyes are closed in pictures or they are facing away so the viewer cant really see them. But theres also something beautiful about art when its raw and intimate. Its like certain poetry, certain voices, certain kinds of choreography, certain melodies of an instrument, certain art. Where u know that someone put their heart on a plate for u to witness and hopefully appreciate. For u to really see them. And its scary as fuck. But as artists, who are we if we dont show ourselves. If we let others into our mind and look around a bit, they can still stay strangers, but maybe they'll leave a note that will impact the way we see ourselves. Because honestly i came to the conclusion that an art degree, unlike other degrees, is really a degree in learning who u r, what u think and how u feel about things.

I was talking to a friend

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freebooter4ever · 2 years ago

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So you guys know i (try to) post daily doodles, and i have said before that i draw for about 2-3 hrs every night. BUT that also means i dont post about like 80-90% of the drawings i do each night. Today though, i've been thinking about A*I and my own relationship with drawing, and how utterly baffled i am that anyone would want to use it to like...draw for them..and how the concept that *tell a computer what art to do so i dont have to do it* is alien to me. So here's ALL the drawings i did tonight. The bottom one is the last one i did and the one i would normally post. And i want to talk about A*I without talking about good or bad end product. Because i dont care if im making the shittiest art in the universe - i still wouldn't use A*I. Not even as a ‘tool’.

If you've been around here for a while you know i have a love/hate relationship with my art. I write too, but writing doesnt make me so frustrated and angry that i want to throw my computer out a second story window. HOWEVER. There is a huge caveat to that anger.

It happens after.

You could look at it a little like hockey. Every game is fresh, right? I mean god knows the US made an entire movie about how every game is a new game and the odds could always fall in your favor no matter how stacked against you. So every drawing i go into it excited - like LOOK at that reference material, its gorgeous. The gesture is beautiful, the post is interesting, there is something about it that is just begging to be drawn. But then say you hit intermission in the hockey game and the opposing team scored a few points. And i step back and look at the drawing and realize i started to go wrong somewhere along the way. But its too late now, you gotta commit and keep going. And you do but somehow the final score is STILL 6 to 0 and thats when i want to flush all my art down the toilet and never look at it again. But its okay because the next drawing is going to start with a blank canvas and who cares what happened last time.

Ok maybe a bad example.

The product is never really what drives me to draw - i mean, sure i do like it a heck of a lot better when i have something /anything/ that i can post to show that im sticking with my everyday doodle. But its not a requirement to doodling. The process of drawing is always fun. Its when i come out of it and look at the stupid thing that im like ‘well fuck i fucked that one up again didnt i’, and THEN i get annoyed lol.

I dont sit there consumed with frustration over ‘gee i dont know what to draw’. This is never an issue. I HAVE TOO MUCH TO DRAW. Sometimes i avoid certain gifs/photos because in the back of my mind im like ‘yeah no, i havent leveled up that far yet, i cant do that justice’. But i dont want to admit the sheer number of images of geno alone i have saved. I think my biggest reference folder is still aoki and that has over two thousand screenshots - i dont think anyone will ever surpass that LOL. I have a never ending supply of practice art to be done.

The frustration comes when i have an image in my head and i want to get it down on paper so-to-speak (computer whatever). So - when im NOT using reference (or at least not an exact one) and am making an ‘illustration’ (ish). But again, the process isn't the issue. I like the act of drawing, i like the image in my head slowly taking shape, i like how vividly i can see it. Yall know how obsessed i am with personality - that's not just part of the drawing, that IS the drawing. And each deicision in the illustration is defined by the personality/character.

A computer can't fucking do this.

Could i maybe tell a computer ‘draw geno in the shower’. Sure. And it probably could. And if i didnt care about the process - if all i wanted was a very good drawing of geno in the shower....that probably would be fine. Maybe great even. Maybe it would be the best damn drawing of geno in the shower ever. And then i'd feel like shit because a machine is producing art that is more valuable to other people than mine ever will be. But holy fucking shit that ruins the entire POINT of drawing???? Why would you do that?

I mean, im sure yall can infer the entire point of the act of drawing geno in the shower. He's hot, he's wet. ANYWAY.

In my opinion, a person who wants the end product and doesn't care about the process of getting there....that person is not an artist. That person is someone who enjoys art, and probably thinks they have a lot of good ideas to make into art, but who doesn't feel that pull to make art themselves. They just want to buy art. And they want it cheap. And mindless computers being trained in seconds on the decades of creativity and hard work of art masters is a heck of a lot cheaper than a human.

And the hardest part of all this for me is how worthless this makes me feel - nobody wants you, they want that automatic button. Kinda like my dad that way (haha)

#geno #doodles

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a-very-tired-raven · 2 years ago

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Okay, since ive been getting a lot of love for my ary lately, id like to give you guys some top ary blogs ive followed for years, that i feel they dont get enough love.

Keep in mind that these are not in order from best to least, just in numbered order to make things easy.

(Another thing! While i may have found the majority of these blogs from undertale content, i need you to understand that a lot of these either dont do undertale art as frequently as they used to, or not at all. So please dont go in expecting that these are all undertale blogs based on MY intrests. Thank you.)

1. @springbon-t-art /@thecoolerspringbon-t has WONDERFUL roundhouse like style, and her fanart and characters range from all over(cuphead and bendy and the ink machine are just two examples, she has so much more unrecognized works and animatics on youtube that i think deserves much more love)

2. @twitchydoodle i havent visted this wonderful blog in a while, but i have followed for a good time(lets just say for a few years lol) so i cant say for sure what art is posted there at this moment, HOWEVER, i CAN say that twitchy has a Breathtaking art style, and has some of the most interesting and fleshed out ocs!!! Definitely check em out!

3. @calcium-cat i know cals been gettin a little bit more attention over the last year or so, but i still think she deserves much more recognition for her art. She has wonderful and thought out fanfics, not to mention the funny and well drawn fanart she posts for them!

4. @glitchysquidd I dont pop in as often as i used to, but glitchy's blog is one ive looked up to for a while. Here you can find very well written fnaf fics and fanart, chill energ(not to mention hilarious shenanigans),and a very unique and distinct artstyle.(seriously broski ive used your art for reference so many time 😭🤚🏽-). I suggest you guys head down to the basement and enjoy the tour.

5. @meatygutsy oh gee where do i even start- this blog has some of the most unique and well thought out ocs i think ive seen in a very long time. The artstyle here and style of coloring and shading is like nothing else. All of the colors pop and go together just right, not to mention the well fleshed out backstorys of each character.

6.@glaucus22 while this blog certainly isnt as active as it used to be, this is yet another artist that ive used as reference for countless times. They have a very distinct artstyle, and put much thought into their characters and their lore. I highly recommend going through the art tags here and taking a peek, along with a reblog or two!!!

7. @ijustwannahavefunn another blog with VERY well thought out and styled ocs, and a to die for artstyle. I also recommend checkjng out their youtube channel, which has VERY smooth animations and animatics. Definitely a hidden gem.

8. @vrnicky is a very good friend of mine that is WAY WAY WAY too unrecognized. They dont get NEARLY enough love for the anount of love and hard work they out into their characters and art. Please show em some love for me!!!

9. @loupy-mongoose is a favorite pokemon ary blog of mine. While you might find mostly mewtwo and mew stuff, please know that this is because of this creators mewtwo comic. You may know what im takling about if you know about similar more popular blogs (@/xxtc-96xx @/mewtwoandme and more ) but what separates this blog from many others is their very very different story, and an artstyle that'll put you at ease. Not to mention unique and well thought out mew and mewtwo designs.

And lastly, for now at least ,10. @whiteartblood an art blog that i havent visted in a couple months. This creator has some of the best undertale art i swear. One of my favorite styles!! A very lovely and instantly recognizable artstyle(that again, i have used for reference...i dont even know how many times), and even better ocs.

Now i know there are so many more blogs that are deserving of recognition, but its late and i cant look up 50 usernames at the moment.

However, while you are not obligated to, I sincerely hope you go show these guys some love(and reblogs!!!!!!!) For me. These guys have been a very big influence on my art, artists ive looked up to for YEARS now, and luckly for me some of them even being friends of mine, which im so very thankful for.

Ill definitely be making another post like this, with more writing inclusion and even more deeply hidden gems that require some digging.

I apologize for any typos that are unfortunately guaranteed as thats kind've what im known for lmao <- has made a fool of herself countless times) and i cant help but feel nervous that these talented people will see them, but know ive done the best ive can.

Thank you, and have a great time everyone!

#jeep.jeep #covencalls

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janthonyashtoreth · 6 years ago

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Another big batch of asks!

Answering a bunch of asks under the cut! Most of them are ink and flowers centric. I hope you all are doing well <3

anonymous asked: wait wait hold up Anathema works in Azra's tattoo parlour?? amazing, when i was thinking of making my own florist/tattoo artist au, i also had Anathema be Aziraphale's apprentice :D i like when these two are friends. do you have any more headcanons about Anathema in ink and flowers?

she does!! she was doing an apprenticeship under him but has since graduated to doing her own thing (but she still works at his parlor). i can’t get into the whole plot because spoilers but angels/demons and agnes nutter’s prophecies still exist in the iaf universe, but anathema isn’t her descendant. instead, anathema is a wickedly smart computer genius and her boyfriend newt is an endearing but kind of inept descendent of agnes. anathema was azra’s good friend-turned-wingwoman once anthony shows up. i love her

anonymous asked: concept: aziraphale seeing crowley presenting femininely for the first time how'd you think he'd react? in your flower shop tattoo artist au

anonymous asked: OKAY totally not asking bc i may or may not have been thinkin abt this for like. too long. but would anthony have to like, come out as genderfluid to azra/how would azra react to seeing anthony present more fem for the first time

ooo ive been thinking about this as well! i dont think anthony would necessarily have a “coming out moment”, they just kind of do what they want. if they feel like presenting fem or using different pronouns they would just. do it. and azra would just kind of roll with it. i like to think that the first time anthony presented fem she got all dressed up for date night and didn’t tell azra and azra just Stares bc,,,, wow anthony is just gorgeous like that!! azra’s dead!!!

anonymous asked: You're a cutie pie. That's it. That's the fact.

:’ ) you’re a sweety pie!!!

anonymous asked: i deadass tried for 20 minutes to make the finger heart...... how did your friend do it......

i have absolutely no idea and it hurts my brain,,,

anonymous asked: Wahoo

wahoo.....

@alligatorsnbats asked: OK, so what's Oscar's thoughts on Anthony?

oscar LOVES anthony... he’s the worlds most apathetic cat but he actively seeks anthony out when hes around. azra is only slightly salty about it

anonymous asked: Is Anthony cross eyed?

he’s not! i made him a little bit cross-eyed in my latest post on purpose bc he was flustered but i dont know if it came across very well ;;

anonymous asked: not to be *THAT* bitch who comes into your ask box and gushes over your art but i love the way you colour things and your clean line work?? mwah. i wish i could draw like you its just so lovely

bfdkjfdh im cry,,,, just keep practicing my friend!!! i promise it’ll get you where you want to go. the last couple of months have been really nice for me in my ~art journey~ because its the first time i’ve ever really liked stuff that i’ve drawn. ive been drawing for about 7-8 years and this is only just happening and it varies so much from person to person!! some people get to where they want to go in 2 years, some people take 20. just don’t stop practicing!!

anonymous asked: your human!crowley deserves infinite appreciation and the fact that he has coloboma: that right there! is! good shit! he has snake eyes,,,, but as a human. u are a genius good sir and your art is a blessing 👌👌👌

haha thank you!! i think coloboma (i know how to spell it now!!) is such an interesting condition and it’s kind of underused for human aus!!! its so dope!!!

@bolitakawaii-senpai asked: what would crowley's and azi's fav emojies from the cursed emojis??

asking the real questions out here..... i think crowley’s would be the one with all of the teeth and aziraphale’s (assuming he knows what they are in the first place) would be the really cute one with big eyes and the pink hairbow

anonymous asked: concept for the ink and flowers au: something happens to crowley (imma b honest i have no idea) and has a lowkey crisis and chops all his hair off and just. joins his pet snake and snakes around the nursery untill azra comes in seeing crowley crying and cuddling his snake and yeah idk enjoy my the weird shit my brain comes up with

jhuyhaijodfaydgsihfujoi RIP TO THE HAIR...... i love the angst potential (and i can come up with a few reasons for the angst, but i digress) but i dont think i could part with anthony’s hair,,, i love it too much

anonymous asked: I can't handle your ink and flowers Aziraphale. I can't. His hair is TOO fluffy. His face is TOO squishy. He is EXTREMELY friend shaped. His glasses and his eyes are bright like SPARKLES. Every time I see him I want to go feral and show all my friends. I would hug him without letting go of given the chance. 1000000000/10. 💜🐝

anonymous asked: I have a cat just like Oscar (big himbo) and I got him some knit hats for Christmas and he's gonna hate me but I can't wait to dress him up like a little bee so: does Azra ever give Oscar like costumes or footies just for fun? If yes, does Oscar love or hate? 💜🐝

isldakfj im grouping these two together bc im assuming ur the same person anon!! i love your signature!!

you’re correct. his hair IS too fluffy, and he IS entirely too friend shaped. he has the BRIGHTEST eyes. i cant contain my rabid love for him and it spills out into the art. i can’t help it. he gives the best hugs

SLADKFJ YES HE DOES..... IVE BEEN MEANING TO DRAW THIS FOR A HOT MINUTE,,,, as i mentioned earlier oscar is the world’s most apathetic cat so i dont think he would care that much but he’s not super happy about it

anonymous asked: Y'know what? I'm too tired so say smth clever so just know that I love you and your art is amazing 💕💕 PS: i love that you also tag them as Ineffable partners (i guess the point is to be gender neutral)

i love you as well anon,,, and yeah i like the ineffable partners tag! i find that it fits more with their relationship for some reason. though i still tag as ineffable husbands since its such a popular tag lksdfjdfknjbh

anonymous asked: Hello! Fist of all thank you for yor art, you are one of my favorite artists in this fandom and I have Feelings about the Ink and Flowers AU. Second: Don't feel pressured to post daily, we understand that life is complicated and art can be difficult sometimes. Take care! You're the best!

anon i would die for you!!! i never imagined that i would ever be one of anyone’s favorite artists,,,,, im speechless,,,,,,,,

and yeah unfortunately i dont think ill be able to post every other day once this coming semester starts :( i’ll probably have to cut back to once every 3. but there’s more ink and flowers coming at u guys so!! stay tuned for that

anonymous asked: Good omens characters having a game night?

i know this was sent in for the au prompts i asked for but. i dont think im physically capable of capturing the pure chaos that would ensue from this. holy shit it would be so feral.

thank you to anyone who read this whole thing!! i read all of my asks as soon as i get them and i have a lot that i’ve been sitting on for a while. if you sent me something i promise i haven’t forgotten about it!! if you’ve sent something in that you were expecting a response to and i havent responded, just send it again to be safe in case tumblr ate it

i love all of you! <3

#ask me anything #anonymous #not art #ink and flowers au #bolitakawaii-senpai #alligatorsnbats

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🖊 !!!

!!! oh man i really wanna talk about morten because for all i draw of him i dont talk about him enough. here’s a pretty recent screenshot of him in Skyrim, the game i made him in:

his full name is Morten Alexander Iversen, and i originally made him uuuhhhh over 6 years ago, i dont really remember but it was the first time i played skyrim–i actually named him after the lead singer of A ha, Morten Harket lmao, because i wanted him to fully encapsulate that like Nordic / Norwegian vibe (and also at the time i had an obsession with a ha and lbr it never went away); his last name is just a name i found, and his middle name is a reference to my own last name!

some general info: he’s got shoulder-length black hair that he does fishtail braids with, one on either side of his head that follow the curve of his head until he reaches the back of his ears, and then he lets it down; he also has light blue eyes, a Pretty full beard, and several scars on his nose (they might be hard to see in that picture but i draw them pretty prominently). he’s probably about 7 feet tall in-game, but in any modern retelling i do with him, he’s about 6′2″. he also has a deep voice but no, like, traditional nordic accent. if you can imagine like an east coast accent that isnt quite southern, isnt quite northern, it’s like…. somewhere in there. in the game, he tends to wear heavy armor, but he prefers using a bow for most situations and then switches to a sword with his right hand and ice / fire magic with his left hand. i dont wanna fill up my followers’ dashboards, so if you’re interested in reading about him, i put it all under the read more! :D

so in the game, he’s a nord as i said, but he doesn’t completely align with the nords–i have an ENTIRE sociological mock-up of the culture of nords in skyrim, and to sum it up, they’re very conservative, theyre close-minded, and they dont care for people (even among their OWN people) with mental illness / disabilities, people who arent so much power- / dominance-oriented, or, say it with me now: gays. on that list, morten falls under all three! hat trick!! so he kind of keeps away from his brethren in that regard; he’s also a very quiet person overall and prefers to not be in big crowds or even in big open spaces, he really likes his solitude. which is tough when youre the dragonborn and everyone knows it rip

speaking of being dragonborn, i imagine that his dragon is like…. an entire personality within himself. not that it has really any agency, but it’s a nagging sensation that draws him towards what dragons want: power, money, sex, food, naps, etc. morten’s dragon is very dominant and wants morten to go all out–it wants him to fight everything, garner lots of wealth, reach a worldwide level of notoriety, and like anything else you can imagine a greedy, power-mongering dragon might want. morten himself, however, does not want any of that; he just wants to chill. so you can imagine the duality there, huh. more physically, his dragon is like an ice-oriented dragon, so morten’s shouts (while mechanically can be whatever he wants because it’s all in the game mechanics) in my mind always have a little twist of ice. he prefers the ice-oriented shouts, and anything else not related to ice will still have little ice particles come out (even if they might be melted by fire-oriented shouts). likewise, morten’s use of magic with his hands are always ice- or cold-oriented

beyond the dragon, he has terrible memory problems, and ive worked the canon amnesia into something of like…. a trauma response? it’s way too much to go into and also has to do with some of my personal childhood experiences, so for now we’re just gonna let it be shielded by amnesia; likewise, that sort of brain-haziness also applies to present memory-storing, and morten really has trouble remembering names, dates, conversations, and even situations even as he is adventuring through Skyrim. this also applies to processing issues–he for sure has dyslexia, and not just in reading; he might hear a sentence but parse out the words in a different order–and over-stimulation, which is really why he hates being around other people or even talking to other people for a long period of time. he also suffers from depression, anxiety, and paranoia, and because of all these mental things, he really found himself becoming drawn to the Prince that oversees this general sphere of mental health: Sheogorath. during that quest where the dragonborn helps him and pelagius inside pelgius’s mind, morten was incredibly drawn to sheo and in my mind took time to sit with sheogorath at the end of the quest just to chat because sheo made him feel like…. that haze that covers his brain just lifted and let him think clearly without the stressors of the outside world affecting him. even the dragon soul stopped yelling at him in that moment because it too was soothed by sheogorath’s presence. so with that, morten grows closer to sheogorath, and in my canon, they chill out a lot in skyrim haha

i also want to say that morten grew really close with the greybeards–particularly Arngeir. Arngeir, being really the only one who Could talk to morten and who always had such helpful wisdom for him, really became something of a father figure to morten, and without needing to, morten returns a lot to the temple to just chill with arngeir, he just loves him so much.

finally, i also wanna talk about his relationships: he becomes the thane of Whiterun first and meets Lydia, and they become absolute bros. later down the line, he meets a guy (havent figured out who it is yet, might end up being an OC) who he falls for a little, and they have a thing for a long time–until this guy starts becoming really abrasive with morten and displays such a lacking in understanding of morten as someone with mental illness, so he leaves–and he’s replaced later by the beautiful and adorable Erik the Slayer, whom morten meets as the dragonborn normally does in Rorikstead, and after he gives erik’s father money for erik’s armor, and after a few months when he returns to find erik trying to become a hired mercenary, morten asks him to join him in adventuring. it takes some time, but there’s a mutual crush, there are late-night chats under the stars, drunken storytelling that involves coming-out stories and previous bad or silly relationships, and eventually a big gay kiss. and of course, a marriage in the temple of mara. i may or may not have had to hack the game with console commands to let morten marry him because he wasnt romance-able but we’re here now and they live together in the Lakeside Mansion just outside Falkreath. morten also meets Serana during the Dawnguard dlc and becomes bros with her too (and introduces her, the raging lesbian, to lydia, the rampant bisexual, and you know).

sheo is still a huge influence on morten’s life, and there are TONS of silly instances where both erik and sheo have to sit in a room together and just kind of accept the fact that on one hand morten is sleeping with an actual terrifying daedric prince and on the other hand morten is married to a boring mortal and not a fun daedric prince, can you guess which one of them holds which opinion

so right now, morten is happily married to the love of his life, he has some pals livin it up with him in the upstairs bedrooms and a prince who visits him occasionally, and his little farm is full of chickens and cows and horses and a library tower full of books and a full garden outside WITH BEES, and hes just living his best life !

thank you for asking!! i hope you enjoyed reading about my boy!! he’s my blog icon, and i love him so much. also feel free to check out my “morten tag” tag if you want to see like general vibes about him, aesthetic posts, meme shit that reminds me of him or might be something he would do or like, and art ive made that features him! and thank you again ;u;

#morten tag #tes #dragonborn #the elder scrolls skyrim #thank you so much for asking!!!!#redwoods words

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uniformbravo · 7 years ago

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“quick” life update while i wait for my ipod to charge

(do ppl even still use ipods in this day & age. whats spotify)

i never made any posts abt it but i started the new semester & im taking 2 classes, it’s funny actually bc i waited even more til the last minute than i usually do to figure out my classes & spent the 1st week of school trying to see a counselor to find out if i still needed classes and that’s a whole other story for a whole other day but long story short the answer was no but i decided to take a couple anyway

mainly because every time im not in school The Depression takes over & i just needed something to Do so im taking intermediate painting (even tho painting 1 made me want 2 die every day) and animation (even tho i’ve already decided i don’t want to be an animator????)

so heres the thing, okay, since these are classes i don’t need in order to fill any requirements or anything i had to pick them based on nothing, really, like my main reason for taking classes this semester was to give myself something to do, right. i picked painting because my friend had told me she was taking it so i was like yo i’ll just do that too bc we had fun last time & it’s a good way to stay in contact. originally that was gonna be my only class bc i knew it’d be a lot of work and time but then i talked to my school’s art counselor about transferring to another school after im graduated from here and i’d said i was maybe interested in storyboarding so we looked at schools with animation programs and i decided super last minute to just take the animation class here and Boy what a mistake

last semester i was talking on here about a computer art class i had considered taking but dropped bc it seemed kinda... shitty?? because i hated the way the teacher taught and i felt like i wasn’t gonna gain anything from the class??? well animation is taught by the same guy and hhhhhhhhh he’s so fucking unhelpful it’s such a nothing class

see i was hoping to learn some hand-drawn animation basics like timing, squash & stretch, the fucking bouncing ball assignment, shit like that, right. the teacher was like “today we’re gonna go over the 12 principles of animation” and i was like “sweet i’ve heard of that this’ll be good” & literally he brought up a list, read off most of the names, briefly described a few, and told us to google it if we wanted more info like?? holy shit dude????? thanks for nothing oh my god

i’ve been taking a lot of time practicing animating in flipnote studio on my 3ds and watching youtube videos and i’ve been learning so much more from that than anything explained by my teacher bc godddd. basically what the class boils down to is like. flash animation. so far we’ve been working in adobe illustrator and animate & i cannot stand illustrator. i know it’s a good and useful program and if i wanted to i could learn how to use it & eventually get used to it but just the way he teaches it makes me want 2 slam dunk my computer

the computer art basics class was strongly recommended to be taken before this class but tbh i don’t even think that’s the issue here because i tried to take that class and his method was the same; he does a demo on screen that you’re supposed to follow along and do with him and he explains what hes doing as he goes but he goes so fast that if u miss a step ur fucked

and it’s not just that he goes fast, it’s also that theres no understanding of the program itself, like ok u know how in math there’s all these formulas where if u just plug numbers into them it gives u the right answer? i always understood formulas better when i knew what each variable stood for & why the values were being added or multiplied together because then it made it easier to extract the information i needed from word problems and also helped me memorize the formulas themselves easier because i could make those associations between numbers and purpose. i had the groundwork of the formula, so i could apply it to all kinds of situations

this class is like, he only gives you the very specific formulas required to accomplish very specific tasks in the programs so i can’t make the connections to figure out how to perform other tasks and i get super lost every time & it’s super frustrating & i could ask for help because he comes around and helps people who need it but i sit in the back corner so he never really even looks my way so i feel like i can’t get his attention w/o speaking up or getting up to go get him & i get lost so often that it’s really just a pain to ask him every single time

i just hate when i have a problem in one of the programs & i just have absolutely no clue how to fix it or even work around it? im used to photoshop and illustrator is just so opposite that my brain doesn’t want to work with it so im. 100% floundering in this class

we have 2 assignments during the whole semester, the first was a group project where we hand draw a 3-second animation (~30 frames) and that was literally the very first thing we did in the class with no prior guidance and honestly i suspect that the only reason he assigns it is to fill the requirement for a group project (which i know is a thing bc a lot of my past teachers have talked about it being a thing) so it was literally just. a nothing project

the second assignment is our final which is a 90-second animation (~1080 frames) and we have basically the rest of the semester to work on it, so about a month and a half-ish? and all we’ve learned how to do so far is motion tweening in animate, basically. i mean we did a ball-and-string thing which was kind of different but it mostly involved a lot of copy+paste bullshit in illustrator & also like automatic shortcuts & stuff, there was really no drawing involved at all

also it’s one of those classes where everyone just kind of messes around and does their own thing like?? i saw one girl reading manga on her computer & these two dudes at my table were comparing yugioh cards & i hear like 50 thousand conversations about anime every day & i mean im not one to talk tbh but it’s just the atmosphere, it feels like u either know what ur doing or u just fuck around w/ ur friends and im in the “neither of those” category and the girl who was reading manga is in the “both” category bc every other time i’ve looked over there she’s got this amazing masterpiece on her screen that she made in illustrator & i die inside every time what the fuckkc

he showed us examples of final projects from last semester and i noticed that some of them were done traditionally or in programs that were obviously not illustrator so i asked him about it & he said it doesn’t have to be done in illustrator/animate as long as it’s 90 seconds long so Guess What i think i’m just gonna make it somewhere else lmaooo i mean i feel like it’s a missed opportunity bc i have these programs at my disposal & im not even using them but god amn. god fuckign damn

im thinking of animating it in flipnote bc that’s what i’ve been using & im pretty familiar with it by now but im not sure because there are some important things im not sure i’ll be able to accomplish with it like backgrounds (which are another requirement for the assignment) and i don’t want to back myself into a corner, especially with how little time i have to do it, so idk for sure. my other idea was to use clip studio paint but i have the pro version which only lets u use 24 frames per animation which totals out to a whopping 2 seconds so idk if i want to have to deal with that bullshit either. right now im considering making the rough animation in flipnote so i can figure out the timing & shit and then slapping it into clip studio to finalize everything (or technically i could even do that in photoshop, since im more familiar w/ it & can probably work faster there- from photoshop it’d be a matter of copying the finished frames into clip studio to export into 2-second clips & then compile those in movie maker & then bam finished animation)

so!!! it’s a lot of shit im dealing with in this class & im just like. if im doing it this way then why do i even need to show up for class. what am i even in this class for im just basically making an animation on my own time with my own resources using none of the techniques taught in the class. im only doing this animation because it’s an assignment for the class im not gaining anything from. it just seems so pointless & the only thing getting me through it is the thought that i could possibly put this in a portfolio somewhere down the line, and for that i’d want it to look nice and not rushed so im thinking that for the sake of finishing the assignment i might just use my rough animation so that i can spend more time on the “nice” version afterward

aaaanyway it’s um Late for me & i went on about this for too long but i needed to get it off my chest tbh, i’ve been thinking abt making this post for like 2 weeks so there u go. i didn’t even talk about my painting troubles good lord. if you’ve been wondering why i havent been online as much lately This is why. also bc im a huge loser and 100% of my free time has been going into watching anime bye

#retag later #me? complaining for an hour?? maybe #school /#i usually reread these & edit them to make things sound better but this time im too tired so if anything doesnt make sense sorry

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jessicakehoe · 6 years ago

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Wonder Women: 5 Canadians Bringing Diversity to Pop Culture

They move us. They shake us. They make us laugh. They make us think. In addition to our October cover star Annie Murphy, we’re highlighting the Canadian women—across fashion, culture, beauty and more—who are impressing us the most right now.

LILLY SINGH, INFLUENCER AND TALK-SHOW HOST

Of all the YouTube stars who rule over gamers, Gen Z tweens and young millennials, Lilly Singh, who hails from Scarborough, Ont., is probably the most compelling and the most deserving of mainstream success. Singh—previously known as her screen name iiSuperwomanii—used her YouTube comedy channel, where she lovingly skewered her immigrant parents, along with contemporary life, to launch a small media empire that includes world tours, film roles, endorsements and now her own late-night talk show. A Little Late with Lilly Singh will be replacing Carson Daly’s show this fall, making Singh the only woman of colour to own real estate on late-night network TV. —Greg Hudson

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Loved this sparkly look from a recent episode of #LateWithLilly. After I wore a sparkly sweater and sparkly purple lip, I got a lot of comments from people saying they could never pull this off and I’m here to tell you, you can pull anything off. So much of this show is out of my comfort zone, including some of the styles I wear. But anything gets pulled off when you wear a layer of confidence underneath it all. So hi, friendly reminder that you’re fabulous baby. Wear what you love. Wear what makes you thrive. Have fun. You can def pull it off ❤️ 📷: @wanderlust.sam

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TANISHA SCOTT, CHOREOGRAPHER

You may not recognize her name right off the bat, but you’ve definitely seen her work. Tanisha Scott is the force behind the moves in Lil Nas X’s history-making “Old Town Road” and also works regularly with Cardi B, Rihanna, Drake and the Jonas Brothers. Born in Toronto and now based in New York, Scott began her career as a featured dancer in music videos and eventually graduated to choreographer. “The journey has been filled with powerful moments,” she says. When she’s not coaching stars for their stage shows and tours, Scott can be found working with fashion brands—like Coach and Lacoste—on their commercials and making cameos in some of her clients’ music videos. She’s the dancer who appears at the end of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” sporting classic red lips (her go-to confidence booster). “Red is often associated with courage, and it’s said that when a woman puts on red lipstick, she feels invincible and unshakable,” says Scott. “Red lipstick definitely adds to my confidence. It’s my anthem.” —D’Loraine Miranda

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From the video shoot to the @bet stage! @lilnasx & @billyraycyrus it was an absolute pleasure riding with y’all 🤠🤠 Shout out @draico on the choreo collab!

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JESSIE REYEZ, SINGER-SONGWRITER

Potential energy, as you may recall from middle-school science class, is the energy stored in an object because of its position relative to the objects around it. Some examples: a wrecking ball at its zenith, a drawn bowstring… and Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez. For the past few years, she has been building energy by touring, working with big names like Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa, releasing two EPs and winning the 2018 Juno for Breakthrough Artist. And yet despite all that heat, it still feels like Reyez is on a launching pad with the countdown ticking away. Arguably, if you have been a face of Roots and count Elton John and Steven Tyler as fans, you’ve made it. But Reyez, who started out busking and playing open mics in Toronto’s Kensington Market, deserves to be much bigger than that. With her stripped-down, almost-Winehousian sound, not to mention her deeply personal lyrics that confront issues of racism, misogyny and inequality, the Toronto-based singer is perfectly suited for our present moment: She’s authentic, grounded, frighteningly hard-working…and a mass of potential. —Greg Hudson

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Liddo baby and me. YOURE NOT A REAL ONE IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED FAR AWAY YET. YOURE NOT A REAL ONE IF U DONT TAG A FRIEND WHOS NEVER HEARD OF MY SHIT TO GO WATCH IT. IF U HAVE, I apologize, I’m a Gemini it’s not my fault, youre a real one and I love u. 📸: @norman__wong

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LADAN HUSSEIN SINGER-SONGWRITER

Ladan Hussein is proof that a little danger isn’t the end of the world—or even the end of a career. Late last year, the singer-songwriter who used to release music under the stage name Cold Specks opened up about the psychotic break that led to her being diagnosed as schizophrenic. While it has become common for artists and public figures to talk about their struggles with depression, anxiety and/or addiction issues, having someone discuss a condition that most of us see as hopeless and scary feels groundbreaking and more than a little important. What’s even more significant, though, is the work Hussein is doing now. She would probably like to be known more for her music than for her medical history. Luckily, she’s back to making music, and now that her mind is clearer, it’s better than ever. —Greg Hudson

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dissolved girl

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ANIQUE JORDAN, ARTIST

Anique Jordan is an interdisciplinary artist from Toronto whose work includes Evidence, a performance based on Clara Ford, a black woman who was accused of murdering a wealthy white man, and The Feast, which brought together 100 black women and gender-nonconforming artists around an exaggerated dinner table. Black history in Canada, working-class communities and the relationship between our country’s black and Indigenous peoples are among the themes in her work, which also includes sculpture and photography. She creates what she calls “impossible images,” reinterpreting the past in order to develop a new vision of the future. “I don’t have any formal art education,” says Jordan. “When I was younger, I knew I didn’t want to work for anybody. I’ve always wanted to be able to do my own thing and to use the full capacity of my brain. What I knew was that I was creative and that I had questions that were urgent.” —Tatum Dooley

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So excited to share my piece, Malvern, has been selected for the inaugural Black Art Fair held by @niacentre on October 19th. This is an art fair, directed by and presenting the work of Black Canadian artists. The first of its kind, as far as I know. If you've never considered purchasing artwork before or want to get a sense of the art scene in Toronto, come through and check it out. As artist who is also a collector, and as someone who has run a gallery and curated some of the most amazing Canadian artists, I can say that the importance of investing in original artwork can never be understated. Come thru y'all

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