The First Sketch Of Alien Moon, Fueled By Boredom During The Closing Shift.

So I’ve scanned the pages of my risographed fashion study zine (you can buy that here)

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"Soft Hands"

acrylic paint and stickers on mat board

12x14

I was looking at a bunch of pictures of 'creepy cute' fashion and I was struck by how... un-creepy all of it was. It was the usual conventionally attractive, cisgender, able-bodied women wearing pastel-color clothes, with the occasional skull or drippy goo thrown in to be 'creepy.' When I saw an image of an ectrodactylic hand, I genuinely found it to be incredibly cute. The skin looked so soft and there were so many different colors in it. I wanted to paint it to show how cute it looked, how anything can be cute, even the bodies and people that others may find creepy or disturbing. Why can't this hand be cute? Why can't disabled or transgender or fat people be cute? I can assure you, they can feel cute and they can desire to be seen as cute by others. tl;dr fuck your fascist cuteness standards.

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I drew a Zevran.

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Your comic about how you used to love to draw.. I sympathize so much. It must be so difficult to process those feelings during times like these. If it is any consolation, the space your art takes up is a joyful, meaningful one in a lot of people's hearts. It's like a language guidebook that creates the foundation of a second language in the mind of the reader. I know how poisonous it can be to think of your art as needing a function, to be small and disposable yet widely used, I hope you are feeling better these days with your art and that you are able to heal. Your art has helped heal a lot of us, but more meaningful is if it is able to heal you

Thank you for sending me this.

Honestly, I think disenchantment with, and then falling back in love with, art-making has been (and probably will always be) a cyclical part of my life. It’s my own little myth of Sisyphus wherein I laboriously roll my absurd art boulder up the hill, convinced that this task matters, only to watch in despair as it rolls back down the hill. I accept that I must do this task again, that my labor doesn’t matter, but pushing the art rock up the hill was fun so I might as well do it again.

11/14/22 UPDATE: I’ve taken both “Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” off my etsy store. Both comics can be read, in their entirety, on this tumblr.

It’s here! A hard copy version of my comic -- including a ten page sequel! $5.00 + shipping

I was debating whether or not to post the sequel online. I thought maybe the sequel would be the motivator for people to buy the hard copy, but I already have mixed feelings about selling fanwork, so I’m gonna go ahead and post the sequel here.

That said, purchasing a hard copy helps me out. I’m hoping to put the money towards some color risograph zines that I can take to an upcoming comix convention.

I’m putting the sequel under a cut because, while it doesn’t contain explicit imagery, it does involve discussion of a parent making inappropriate/incestuous comments towards a child.

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This is as far as I had planned these comics going. I may revisit the idea, but probably not for awhile. Thanks for the wonderful messages that y’all have sent me!

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Practicing putting down color/shadow before putting down line – which is the exact opposite of how I normally work.

Not the worst thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Frostbite883 Q: What are your thoughts on Batman stories in general?

No particular opinion, really. There are some Batman comics that I really enjoy -- Miller’s “Dark Knight Returns” was good and the “Batman: Black & White” collections are pretty cool. “The Killing Joke” was well-written and horrifying -- which is kinda why I don’t think it needs to be the one they turn into an animated feature. Batman is one of those characters/storylines that I have no particular attachment to, but I enjoy specific, unique interpretations of the character/setting.

Here’s my first ever tapestry. Woven as a birthday gift for my lovely boyfriend, on my trash loom that I made from a thrift store picture frame.

It’s the sunset over southern prairie land.

I have got Ideas about fiber art so expect more in the future.

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Experimenting with the process of light pencil sketch, marker color, and then ink.

But the Tombow markers that I used for the skin tone roughed up the paper, making the ink blob and feather.

To the extent that I'm not posting a full shot of this drawing because it Does Not Look Good.

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TODAY!!!

@shortrunseattle starts at 11 am tomorrow!

Drop by table B10, conveniently located near the Bake Sale, where I will have my “Queer Code” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” comics, two risograph illustration collections, and my full color comic “Emet”

get them at Short Run and you’ll get them cheaper, free of shipping costs, and with the ~exciting bonus~ of meeting me