#Mixter Draws

[mixter-crown]

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The kid and the leveret ~ Performance mode: on !

>> Part One (unmasked version) (1/3)

>>THIS POST is Part Two (2/3)

>> Part Three (Bellstrum version) (3/3)

[megamixter]

Gift art for my husband to ring in the new year! Here's to a better 2024!

[Image ID: A digital art drawing of an Umbreon and an Espeon from Pokemon. Both Pokemon are sitting in a field of grass under a blue sky. The Umbreon is laying on the ground with a love ball in it's mouth and looking at the Espeon in a playful way. The Espeon is standing up and looking at the Umbreon with a neutral expression. /. End ID]

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Look! Art! And 1,000+ Pages of Context! If you want it!

It's got artifacts because Glaze. I'm sorry.

Glaze is working less-than-perfectly. It might be the style, something about those flat colours and the detailed gold edging/overlay. I haven't done what I need to get it to run on GPU, but that's just supposed to make it faster. I'm willing to put up with the artifacts for Tumblr and the site - I guess - but it's demotivating to have to make my art crappier so it won't be used for evil. I wanted to give all this stuff away to human beings, ya know?

Anyways, this took me forever, and I drew part of it on a boat! Mixter Poor-Fine-Motor-Skills draws just as well while rolling with the waves! Oh, I wanna live on a boat soooo bad right now. Of the housing options we can afford, that seems the most awesome. I will be back to tell you about my two nights on Fort Autism when I have more spoons for it.

That's clearly David Valentine in the purple coat, and that mysterious figure with the green hands is Erik with David on board - and a blond wig and a crap-ton of concealer so he can pass. Honestly, I think half of why it took me so long is how wrong Erik looks. He should look wrong - David doesn't belong there and he needs to GTFO - but it's freakin me out, man.

My ambition is to give every Invisible their own little halo, so you can tell them apart no matter who they're wearing. I'm so bad at keeping up with the illustrations and I get so easily frustrated that I don't know if I'll manage. (I have another eye appointment at the end of April. We'll see if I get help with how hard and painful it is for me to focus, or more "You're doing fine! Just keep doing what you're doing!")

Random Tumblrite, if you should stray across this, David and Erik hail from Tin Soldier and Soldier On, a web serial I write. It's in desperate need of readers and supporters. Tin Soldier is the first part, and it's pretty much complete, but lacking soooo many illustrations. Soldier On is in progress - slow, halting progress as my various issues allow. You'll find them here:

And there's a new instalment today!

But the above is an illustration for The Taming of the Twit. And I'm not doin these in order. There are A LOT of missing illustrations. I wish someone could do 'em for me, but I don't have the money for that many commissions. If you wanna partner up with me on spec (I guess I get about $15 CAD a month and you can have some of that??) for god's sake let me know!

I'll probably reblog this tomorrow, this is a bit of an odd time for me to blog things and it might get missed.

[silvershewolf247]

Am I crazy, or could you draw a weird parallel between Chucky & Mixter's relationship and Chucky & Andy's relationship.

[eyobis-andthe-bunnycats]

A birthday gift for a long time friend @megamixter

[ID Start: an ink drawing of Sabrina handing a birthday cake over to a pleasantly smiling Mixter. Sabrina is a lynx like creature with Pronghorn antlers and hare-like nose, paws and ears and is smiling with her mouth open. She has stripes on her face and arms. Mixter is a lioness with a lighter chest, muzzle, and paw tips and dark eye spots. Mixter also has a party hat on. The cake has one layer, two candles, and "yay!" written in caps on it. /End ID.]

[pyjamac]

bathtime baby

[wooshofficial]

Just. What is happening with everything. Like. There’s so much. Everything. I....should take a break. I really should. But I can’t, and at the same time I know I have to. Like, if I want to actually survive this period of hell on earth I have to take a break but. I can’t bring myself to do it. I just....why? Why now? Why here? Why everyone? It’s all of a bunch of garbled evil nonsense and....I’m on a rant again aren’t I.

Anyways, no more mixter mean Woosh, I’ll draw y’all something. It’ll make me happy. I guess. Just please, please, please, send me asks.

[mixtersstudy]

Hello!

I've had this studyblr for a while but it's been pretty empty until now. Time for some proper introductions!

My name is Mixter, I'm a junior in college majoring in animal science. The original plan was to become a veterinarian, but I've recently taken an interest in accounting and may study that after I get my degree.

I'm 23, recently engaged, and a Pisces. I love animals and drawing, and I'm trying to pick up bullet journaling as a hobby. I'm a perfectionist so it's been difficult for me to make weekly entries, but I hope this blog will help me get over my fear of imperfection!

My next quarter of school starts in a few days, and I'll be taking physiology, genetics, and the second half of organic chemistry. I also work on the weekends so I'm prepared for a hectic schedule coming up. I'm a master procrastinator, so I'm going to be making a lot of changes for 2019.

I'm pretty easy going and love to meet new people, so send me a message if you'd like to chat or have any questions!

I wish everyone luck with upcoming studies!

[mixter-crown]

ITS FINALLY DONE ! BELLSTRUM!

The meme has died out but my adoration for this silly married couple is thriving as ever !! Thank you for ur patience if you've been waiting for it from the colentine version 🙇🙇🙇

>> Part One (unmasked colentine version) (1/3)

>> Part Two (masked colentine version) (2/3)

>> THIS POST is Part Three (3/3)

[megamixter]

I'm a sucker for Vaporwave and sad little critters <3

[mordeadarkesswitch]

Good reminder for little witchies with self harm trouble

Here's a lovely spell that I use when feeling the particular itch.

Combine lavender oil and frankincense oil with almond oil set this mixter to charge with a quarts for a while charging it with kindness, love and positivity (if this part is particularly hard some days, I sing to it)

once you feel the energy you may take a bobby pin or qtip dipping it in the oil, draw lines on your skin while saying

Heart of sadness

Mind so full

Break this madness

Make me whole

I then rub the oil in as a kind gesture to myself it is soothing and also helps with scar tissue.

[megadarkbouquettidalwavethings]

The Rise of the Social Media Fembot

Poppy’s YouTube videos have been viewed more than 257 million times, and now her persona is permeating the culture: She’s logged a “Today” show appearance, a Times Square billboard, a Comedy Central Snapchat series and a Sanrio sponsorship. She’s now in the midst of an American concert tour and starring in a web series pilot, “I’m Poppy,” on YouTube’s paid subscription tier, YouTube Red.

“Am I okay?” Video by Poppy

The commentary of Poppy is not exactly subtle, but the performance of the woman behind her — the 23-year-old Moriah Pereira — is eerily fascinating. (Titanic Sinclair, her creator-handler-director figure, is played by the 30-year-old Corey Mixter.) Poppy’s voice has the soothing affect of an A.S.M.R. video, those recordings of rustles and whispers capable of evoking tingling sensations on the back of your neck. The way she pauses and freezes between statements — as if she’s downloading a new dialogue program and recalibrating her expression to fit it — is uncanny.

If Poppy is a person who acts like a robot, Lil Miquela is a C.G.I. creation posing as a human being. She’s a computer-animated Instagram model edited into real backgrounds, posed with real people and dressed in real streetwear that you can buy, too. Her look — enormous matte lips, thick eyebrows, a dusting of freckles on her Barbie-smooth skin — is an exaggerated version of the beauty standard that’s swept the platform, making its most-followed women look oddly similar and a little bit unreal. Now she has her own side hustle, too, a series of clubby singles featuring her heavily Auto-Tuned voice. Miquela draws out tensions about the authenticity of social media performance; sometimes she filters her face through stylized anime beauty apps, layering artifice on artifice. She doesn’t say much, but in a rare phone interview posted on YouTube, a woman calling herself Miquela parried a question about her fakeness with a provocation: “Can you name one person on Instagram who does not digitally edit their photos?”

Fembots are being designed to look more like internet stars, but perhaps internet stars are being designed to look like fembots, too. Take Kylie Jenner, who now ranks among Instagram’s most popular users — she recently topped 100 million followers — and who holds great sway over the platform’s aesthetic, which she molds through example but also via sales of her wildly popular Kylie Cosmetics line. Clicking through an image gallery of Ms. Jenner’s changing looks over time — watching her lips balloon with fillers, her skin tone deepen, her eyes pop open and her facial features chisel — gives the sensation of a model’s upgrading. A fan of wigs, Ms. Jenner changes her hair color so frequently (often into shades of neon or sorbet) that it recalls the ease of a Photoshop click and the appeal of an endlessly customizable object. It’s so typical for Ms. Jenner to appear on Instagram with her phone in the shot that she begins to evoke the image of a cyborg, device permanently attached to her hand.

Then there’s Ms. Jenner’s affect: blank. She posts video clips of repetitive motions that loop over and over again — freshly manicured fingers stroking a piece of fur, a glittery eyelid half-opening — giving her an animatronic vibe. In a 2015 feature for Interview magazine, Chris Wallace, then the senior editor, described Ms. Jenner as “almost sex-doll sanguine.” On the cover, she appeared clad in latex fetish gear, posed in a wooden shipping container or tucked under a man’s arm, staring into the middle distance.

Though the field of artificial intelligence is bent on creating robots that seem realistic — ones that can pass the Turing test by persuasively mimicking human beings in conversation — the subfield of fembot creation seems more fixated on creating something physically perfect but mentally deficient. In the online magazine Real Life, Janna Avner smartly noted that the fembot creator “turns the limitations of bot technology into a kind of strength.” The failure of artificial intelligence to actually match human intelligence is a feature, not a bug. The sex robot memes on Twitter play off the moment when the doll becomes sentient, when she begins criticizing her owner or asking about their relationship status, at which point he lunges for the reset button or unplugs her.

The idealized digital women of film and television — “Her,” “Ex Machina,” and “Westworld” — become nightmares when they acquire minds of their own. But our cyborg internet stars are suspended on the web without a redemption narrative. Followers of Poppy, Lil Miquela and Kylie Jenner can be consumed by the mysteries of their origin stories. Who is the architect of Poppy’s satirical project? Is Lil Miquela based on a mysterious real woman’s photographs, or was she materialized out of nothing? Which plastic surgery procedures has Ms. Jenner had? What filters does she use?

In the pilot for “I’m Poppy,” a Hollywood figure asks: “Where did she come from? Who is she with?” The answers elude him, but when he hears she has 50 million followers, he decides: “She’s perfect.” The follower count justifies the star’s existence, and their interactions animate and regenerate the star’s persona.

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On her reality series, E!’s “Life of Kylie,” Ms. Jenner has said that her followers drive her pressure to post more and better selfies to Instagram and that she’ll delete images that don’t instantly please, turning her own image into a site of crowd curation. It’s as if her fans themselves are molding her to their specifications.

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AMANDA HESS

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[chelseatara]

Brittany Alexandria Sheets, known professionally as Mars Argo, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, photographer, and Internet personality. She is prominently known for her portrayal of fictionalised stage personas of herself on YouTube.

She is also known as the lead singer of the band Mars Argo, named after her main stage persona.

Mars Argo released their debut album, Technology Is a Dead Bird, in November 6, 2009. In a 2013 Vice article the band stated that they were working on their own TV show, but this was later abandoned.

Besides releasing music, Mars Argo (herself) self produced, wrote, and directed content for her YouTube channel, once co-operated by her former partner Titanic Sinclair. The channel's content was often satirical, revolving around society and Internet culture. However, after the duo broke up, all but three videos were removed from the channel. The only videos that still remain on her Grocerybagdottv channel to this day are "Using You", "Runaway Runaway" and "Delete Your Facebook".

The band took a hiatus in 2015, subsequently breaking up afterward.

Sinclair went on to allegedly replicate the Mars Argo project with another actress and musician, bringing into question notions around online identity theft, the lines between artistic freedom and copyright infringement, making art about our personal lives and the infringement on the privacy of others. Sinclair directed many videos that referenced Mars Argo to those ‘in’ the know. Later, it was revealed that Argo was not ‘in’ on these choices and was actually being harassed by Sinclair and his new partner.

- Do we own our online brand/online personas?

- Where is the line between our ‘real’ self and our ‘online’ self?

- Where do we draw the line at appropriated art and harassment?

- Is it possible to ‘steal’ someone else’s online persona? What are the ethics around this?

- In a post-covid age where people have largely been forced online, how will the inflated culture of online self-representation and self-branding change?

- Are there any other cases of someone’s online persona being ‘stolen’? (Or appropriated extensively against their will?)

- How far can artists go when making art about previous partners? At what point does making art about people from our past become intrusive and harrassing? (Think of all the art Tracey Emin has made about her past partners, songs that Taylor Swift has written about her past partners, etc)

- Following on from above, how has the internet changed the way in which art is recieved by viewers and subjects alike? (In this case, people sought out the character of Mars Argo after discovering who Titanic Sinclair was, resulting in Sheets - the real person - receiving harassment and unwanted attention, which she argued was the intention of her abusive ex-partner, Mixter).

- Sheets sued Mixter and his new protégée in 2018 and settled with all the rights to the Mars Argo character and project. This is how this story was resolved. Does this set a precedent for online characters in the future?

- Do we own the characters we create in the same way we own paintings or drawings we make?

- Are our online self-representations (no matter how curated or not) actually characters we have created, perhaps unwittingly?

I’m interested in these discussions because of my interest in internet art and the tendancy for media appropiration to be a common practice of net art. New media art in general likes to borrow from the medium, platform or other works of the medium in order to manipulate and generate them into new works. Where does this practice of appropriation and ‘borrowing’ of content cross over into straight up copyright infringement?

[violettesiren]

Paint the sky midnight black! Hang the moon

In the highest tree!

Scatter the flowers of June

Irrecoverably!

Drop three stars in a fathomless pool!

Let a white cloud pass,

Soft as a breeze and cool,

Over the grass!

Leave open the rose-trellised gate

For mad Harlequin!

Hush! Draw the swift curtain of Fate—

Let the play begin!

Prologue by Florence Kilpatrick Mixter

[mixter-crown]

✨🐇 🪕🐐 🎶✨

Will you be my lalalala to my pararapa? /Ref

Finaly finished this heheehehheh ✨✨✨

>>THIS POST is Part One (1/3)

>> Part Two (Masked version) (2/3)

>> Part Three (Bellstrum version) (3/3)

Thank you @/afernspud for the inspo on twt :>

Ocs by @yaelokre !!

Here's the reference pic (op cannot be found)

Okie see ya!!

[mixter-crown]

The Lark, a group dedicated to The Harkers, and also a bunch of skrunkles (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~✨🌳🐐🐰🫎✨

Here's close ups! :

Kingsley ! He's showing if his wealth (I didn't realize the cricket currency are actual crickets until right before posting lol)

Added: oh btw Yarrow and Story are part of the Harkers, not the Lark. I kinda implied that they did whoops-

Clémentine! Their mask and hair were fun to draw :>>

Cole ! I miscalculated how long her ears would be so I redrew him a bunch hehe

Perrine ! I didn't have much reference for her but I think I did her well 🤗

Story and Yarrow ! Yarrow was the most fun to draw honestly :D i also dk how to draw horns but it is satisfying to see the symmetry. (+Story is definitely standing on a stool !!)

Thanks for looking though my art ^^ this is like the only thing I'm drawing rn and helped with my art block :>