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The Gentle Push 'I'm the air at your back— You can do it.' Prints | Ko-Fi | Patreon | Bluesky

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"We're all just trying to find a place where we belong; a reason to keep going."

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Hi, it's been a while because I forgot tumblr

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Some designs of mine that are currently available on midi skirts in Maya's shop! Available size and design stock varies a bit between the US, UK, and CA stores, but you can follow Maya for more info on restocks!

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I redrew this panel from vol 2 because look at him

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I’d like to have a look at alien design in the Green Lantern mythos over time. There’s a trend towards anthropomorphism that runs in opposition to the original way of thinking about biological diversity here. 

The earliest alien GLs are clearly patterned after the same formula. Each comes from a planet where x thing became the predominant lifeform. This leads to an immediate enormous biological diversity within the corps members we’re introduced to. 

(GL 1960 #9 )

Later installments of the mythos tend more towards GLs that embody archetypes. Monks, warriors, princesses, and doctors all make additions to the corps. This is an easy short hand to characterization, and lends itself well towards one-shots and short-term dynamics.

However, it also opens the door to that oh-so-common science fiction conceit: all the aliens look like human beings. In some ways, the amount of anthropomorphism within the corps depends on the artist. But for the most part, it’s the anthropomorphic characters that get panel time. Either model can be fun, but there is one potential pitfall.

One of the repeated characteristics of the corps is its diversity. In the early days this was expressed by a lack of commonality between the GLs. They had nothing in common but their cause.

(GL 1960 #127)

More recently, Goeff puts a similar idea into words with ‘there’s not a more diverse group in existence…’ And this is literal - because the rings do select purely on merit which any sentient being might have (except when you’re Hal or Guy or Iolande or Arisia maybe or Sinestro if you like that version of his origin which you shouldn’t, in which case proximity or nepotism may have something to do with it)

(GL 2005 #21)

Too many repeated visual elements, when your written description is pure diversity, contradicts itself. 

Reducing variety in biology is part of a shift towards reduced variety generally. This ties back into my previous post about how the corps becomes increasingly structured over the course of Hal’s career. A lot of Green Lanterns these days are inter-changeable in the way they respond to situations, in their opinions, perspectives and so forth. Building literal physical differences between them is one way of combating same-ness. The archetype thing would help too.

(GL Corps Recharge #5)

(GL 2005 #24)

(GL 2021 #2)

Lately I’ve been kicking around this idea that the best way to judge superhero material (mostly the big two and mostly dc) is to evaluate how well a creative team is able to engage with and take advantage of the unique premise of the character or mythos they’re working with. (this is my big take on the totally fearless thing, but that’s a different post) Too much reworking results in something unrecognizable, while being too studious (NEVEr Fails!) could potentially result in something narratively incomprehensible. 

TLDR: more bizarre looking gls pleeeease

anyway here's a list of the (living) GLs listed in the Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Secret files (with the acknowledgement that it's not up to date) I've highlighted the ones that I can think of having done something, which is not totally reliable, but gives an initial indication of importance rather than just existence. I count 50 aliens, and 69 anthros - with 13 aliens of significance and 29 anthros

Aliens: norchavious, umitu, shorm, adsim, leezle pon, relok hag, dkrtzy RRR, Markot five, RRU-9-2, ash-pak, glif, volk, olapet, charqwep, rees-van, voz, morro, kilowog, turytt, rot lop fan, brokk, b'dg, the collective, penelops, t-cher, gk'd, chaselon, salaak, lin canar, krydel-4, oliversity, el'qa squa zreenah, perdoo, mogo, bzzd, talmadge, isamot kol, skirl, m'dahna, tomar-tu, g'hu, stel, lok neboora, amanita, skyrd, gpaak, garmin vid, palaqua, cimfet tau, zghithii,

Anthros: Matto and Amnee Pree, Raker and Kraken, lysandra, spol, tomy-fai, varix, sendrina, bruun, laira, ghr'll and xylpth, KT21, Alia, procanon kaa, vode-m, graf toren, arx, medphyll, ash, r'amey holl, von daggle, saarek, krista x, horaq nnot, aa, brik, tuebeen, taa, adam, sir deeter, okonoko, grumb, remnant nod, aori strah, sheriff mardin, boodikka, soranik, iolande, kaylark, sodam yat, meadlux, wissen, opto309v, symon terrynce, vath sarn, tagort, venizz, dalor, hal, john, guy, kyle, arisia, gretti, green man, harvid, bareer wot, lan dibbux, vandor, penn maricc, shilandra thane, droxelle, greet, lashorr, torquemada, morro

(oops the post is over but I have to add that the new corps are generally more diverse but that's another topic!)

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Be Like Ashitaka! My second piece from the Ani-May Scroll Show at Nucleus House Portland    Limited Edition 25 available  

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new drawing dropped, check out the process on my instagram!

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Leaf Litter Lads!!

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Commissioned this #CGC Signature Series sketch by #DougMahnke of #WhiteLantern #Sinestro—and the piece l is mind-blowing 🤍🖋️

#ThaalSinestro #Comics #ComicBooks #DCUniverse #DCComics

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JFE Steel West Japan Works - Fukuyama - Japan 🌏 4K link

More info on here : https://www.gem.wiki/JFE_West_Japan_Works_(Fukuyama)_steel_plant

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experimenting with dithering and gradients. used a rose drawing prompt from Sketchbook Skool

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Nights like these.

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Finished tamagotchis 👾

Excluding a couple that have some little flaws so will be able to be snagged tomorrow at a nice discount. So hard to pick a fave, but I had a really fun time with the pink coral ones.

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