There is just something about dark, disheveled, broody Lucifer 🔥 S2e6, the fabulous "Monster" episode. This is a commission for @/CarolHopke (Twitter) . Special thanks to @neural-cluster for the reference photo. Soft pastels on Pastelmat. *prints to come
Goofing around in my sketchbook BECAUSE I CAAAAAN! NO RUUUUULES! 🤸♀️ 😆🙃🌈🎉
Actually, as cutesy and loose as this is, this is actually a very serious study I was doing using various forms of pastel (oil pastel, chalk pastel, pan pastel, and pastel pencil) in combination with paint to prepare for a mixed media painting I’m currently working on. 🥰 I cut down a large sheet of Strathmore Pastel paper (so I wouldn’t have to make a super large piece) and practiced on it, then taped it into my Moleskine watercolor sketchbook over a page I’d previously let my nephew paint on when he was 3 (he totally destroyed my travel watercolor paints at the time lol). Then I went over it with oil pastels to make it “fit” more in my sketchbook.
I’m having so much fun playing with all of my art supplies! Wheeee! I hope this gives you permission to play today. It’s almost Friyay! 🤍
my best friend/roommate/fiancé and i have been together for over 20 years, we both love this hell site and i wanted to make a silly doodle to celebrate our queer platonic wedding 💕 (she’s pan/polyam and cis, i’m aro/ace and nonbinary)
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The reduction of Stephanie Brown down to being just a white blonde girl needs to end.That was never all she was,even back in the Robin 1993 days-Did most of her charactet revolve around Tim at first?Yes but he was literally the protagonist and she was the love interest so it was necessary to make them a big part of eachother's lives to make their romance make sense and she gets more and more fleshed out as the run goes on and this extends to her 90s Yj guest starring,her Detective Comics issues and all the Batgirl runs up until to the point where SHE HERSELF became Batgirl because that's how much of her own character she was by then.You cannot seriously call yourself a Stephanie stan if you read all those years of her life and came to the conclusion that the only important part of her character is her having a 'desirable' hair color by white standards
Stephanie Brown has anger issues and violent tendencies and self-worth issues that she tries her best cope with through presenting herself as having unflincing self-confidence that eventually became real to an extent and the reason for all of this is that she grew up with an abusive dad and a drug addict mom yet she was brave and capable enough to stand up to him by becoming a vigilante at 15 without even having powers or special training and ended up being one of the best Gotham's ever seen anyway.She loves all kinds of food,anything and everything purple and girly,weird things,sports,video games,causing chaos and art.She's a shameless flirt but that dosen't mean she goes for just anyone because she has standards for herself and she refuses to give up on anyone but especially herself even if she wants to sometimes and she got murdered as Robin but Gotham ressurected her because it believed in HER too(Idc about the 'was just in Africa' shit DC tried to pull,that's what actually makes sense with the actual lore)and she's so kind to kids that it blurrs the line between big sister figure and pseudo-mom
And yet nonstop,the Batfam fandom can't look past her hair color-It's always 'the blonde Robin' instead of the girl one,making her listen to fucking Taylor Swift as if she's a not huge feminist both in-universe and in a meta sense,calling her an 'It Girl' and 'Preppy' as if she wasn't either a normal student or a troubled kid depending on the writer and sometimes even both and weird as fuck in literally all her incarnations,reducing Tim's pure and well-intended love for her down to her being conventially attractive and even Cass can't escape it because white wlw can't understand that Stephanie and her are canonically equals on every level so they see her as nothing but Stephanie's woc cheerleader gf who has no existense outside of her
Steph's not written like a soulless Barbie doll with no personality or arcs outside of being a girl,she's multilayered and written like a PERSON.You guys are straight up somehow even more misogynistic to her than DC is and i am NOT going to keep my mouth shut while y'all call removing her entire character to make her a cishet gender stereotyped fantasy 'girlbossing' and especially not canon.This is why i give her black hair and brown eyes in my blasian design for her even though it makes her less recognizable because not only do i want her to actually look like me since half the reason i have that hc for her is that i'm black mixed and she's so much like me in so many ways but also because y'all's obsession with acting like blondeness is a personality trait is weird,gross and deeply unserious.Aaaaaand end rant