I Spent Probably Way Too Long Working On Creating This Gif With Ffmpeg. I Wanted The File To Be Small

I spent probably way too long working on creating this gif with ffmpeg. I wanted the file to be small enough that you could upload it anywhere, while still capturing the beauty of this moment. I give you....owlbear cub as seen in my durge play-through. I always save owlbear cub even if I'm doing an evil run, because look at this perfect nugget. Just look at him. 😤

"No, BAD CIS" I drew this after someone in one of my trans support groups joked about spraying a friend with water every time they got their pronouns wrong. I posted it to the group and someone said they would get a tattoo of it. And ya know what? Good. Let the cis know they're on notice. 😌

Baby toucan I drew because they just looked so darn cute.

reference photo of said baby toucan. It's sad how much of my art is doing a search for baby animal, falling in love, being forced to draw said baby animal for the next 4 hours till I'm calm enough to live again... Should everything I draw be tagged as myart? like... I'm not posting other people's art directly unless reblogs count? idk

A shark puppy I drew a few years ago. He kinda reminds me of street sharks, like if they had a dog. For those not aware here's what street sharks looked like:

So, my last post was hidden even though it was tagged as mature, and I'm still not entirely sure how nudity works on this platform, so instead I'll censor stuff in a goofy way and just note that vivaciousdomo on deviantart has more uncensored stuff 🤷

This was really important for me to read. I'm dyslexic and it takes a long time for me to read things, so I'm only on Lesson 5 right now, but this post has been really enlightening. It's also made me more mad at Baldur's Gate 3 (it's the main game I'm playing right now, and Black characters only get a very select few hairstyles and they don't feel done with care - also the lighting on darker skin tones is bad). It's nice to learn more regardless. If this has taught me anything it's that Larian should hire more Black artists, like, a lot more, and their non-Black artists should be required to take training from a well-paid Black art teacher. I also need to do better personally. Can't grow without discomfort, so I'll be spending more time on trying to draw some more Black characters, and I'll try to explicitly follow more Black artists. (I just started my tumblr last week, so very open to suggestions of Black people who draw fantasy especially!) Edit: It's not uncomfortable to draw Black characters. I meant it was uncomfortable to realize I have more internalized racism in my art than I realized.

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Lesson 1: "White Man Painted Black"?

Lesson 1.5: "Hair for Thought"- how visualizing affects your writing

Lesson 2: “That One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!” Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)

Lesson 2.1: Addendum to Hair pt 1

Lesson 2: "It Takes HOW LONG?" Black Hair is an Art (pt.2)

Application! Ice's Lazy Loc Wash Routine

Application! How to: Simplified Braid

Application! Daisy E's Simplified Hair Drawing

Lesson 3: "Defying the Default"- Skin Tones and the Presence of Black Characters

Application! What are Black fans looking for in Commissions?

Lesson 4: "Do Black People Blush?" Bringing brown complexions to life

Application! Humanæ- Resource for Skin Palettes!

Lesson 5: "The Same Place As the Music" Lighting & Color

Lesson 6: "Let's Have A Talk, First" Stereotypes, pt 1

Lesson 6: “Why’s she so rude?” (She’s Not)- Stereotypes, pt 2

Lesson 6: "Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)"- Stereotypes, pt 3

Application! How to Spot a Stereotype: An Example

Lesson 7: "That's the Black one!"- Imagery and "Black-Coded" Characters

Lesson 8: “Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?” Multiethnic and Multicultural Blackness

Lesson 9: “Romance Will Not Solve Racism”- Interracial/Biracial/Blended Black and White Relationships and Families