A complete walkthrough through the best commission I ever got to draw and which will be TOUGH to beat! The mission: draw two cats, one of them a bard, flying on a pegasus and fighting a dragon.
Heck, I love this one. <3
Traditional art on mixed media paper.
"BREAKING: We just filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint, calling for an investigation into Mastercard’s policies discriminating against online sex workers."
YOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, I don't care what you think about porn - you should still be supporting the ACLU in this. Because it meant that EVERY WEBSITE had to make sure no one was selling art that ANYONE called sexy, or risk being unable to process credit cards.
And enforcement was completely haywire. One person might get their account blocked because a bra strap showed, while another person showed closeups of genatilia with no problem. No one has EVER came up with a way to moderate this in a cost-effective way, so it is all based on user complaints and AI - and both overwhelmingly target minority artists. It is pretty easy for male-female porn to sneak by unreported, but two guys kissing fully clothed? Or a black swimsuit model showing a bit more cleavage than some asshole thought was appropriate?
And of course big name movie and game companies could include all sorts of sexy content in mainstream media while even a hint of it got the little independent guys banned.
On top of that, a lot of EDUCATIONAL material got taken down. Want to know what different STDs look like? How to treat an injury to the groin?
A lot of ancient art got blocked too. A lot of cultures - including most of Europe for a long time! - don't have the nudity taboos modern America has, and a lot of the best, most technically skilled and historically important art has - gasp! - nipples bared and cocks out. For most of history, that was not a big deal.
It is still extraordinarily easy to access porn, so the ban did nothing except make it harder for independent artists to survive, in every form of media, and make it more difficult for people to check the health of their bodies.
(Last but not least, I am of the opinion that it is very healthy for people to know what all sorts of different bodies look like, and sexual desire is perfectly natural and does not need to be hidden like it is shameful. I know that is controversial. But even if you think people should never see anyone naked except their wife or husband, it should still be very obvious that this policy did a lot of harm and zero good.)
would you guys like to see the greatest beanie baby poem ever written
For the record, this is runner:
Not at all what I thought it would be.
Exactly what I thought it would be.
Do Not call me a liar on my own post again!
It is a real poem! And it is magnificent.
oh thank christ they’re back again
Just fyi for everyone the new strain DOES have the capability to do breakthrough infections (meaning if you’ve had your shots or COVID within the last two or three months you can get it again - only 2 confirmed cases in the US as of this morning though), no we don’t know if the new vaccine coming in September will be protective enough, and yes a lot of our overarching medical bodies are letting us doctors know that those who are elderly and/or are immunocompromised should be wearing a mask.
"Only 2 confirmed cases in the US as of this morning" is wildly incorrect.
To put concrete numbers to it, we reached a low of 6313 weekly hospital admissions on the week ending June 24th, and have now doubled to 12,613.
Lest you think COVID is only a problem for the poor folks with "pre existing risks", please consider the increasingly troubling research on COVID's impact on heart issues,and immune system damage even in "healthy" people.
The pandemic never ended. It simply got too expensive to care about the wellbeing of the working class. But we continue to see a toll in excess mortality, and a rising wave of long term disablement that is already stress testing medical infrastructure.
Please wear a mask (N95 or equivalent to avoid infection with one way masking).
my household caught this new strain and its been two weeks of no one able to do basic home or self care. it's bad, shit started like a cold and now i have trouble getting my body out of a prone position, others can't breathe or taste. mask up
lil preview of a commission i've got goin atm
sgonna look cool as fuck when its done :>
ohgh god my eyes, have an update
Dude you genuinely inspire me, but also how the fuck does one even start doing a piece this complex? I get overwhelmed just thinking about it
start by drafting where the text goes, pull up a minimum of 6 reference images and just start to go hogwild idk
oughgh its 5 am and im an idiot but GUESS WHATS DONE
THIS OSTENTEATIOUS BASTARD!
thoughts?
damn.
oh btw im still on holiday atm but when I get back, would yall like this to become a print? I can redesign the thing and release it by like, late september
