Stuff Like This Makes Me Excited To Be A Photographer. Friends Came Over And Entertained Us By Doing

Stuff like this makes me excited to be a photographer. Friends came over and entertained us by doing fire poi and fire-eating, and I managed to get these incredible images. I need to do photography like this more often.

You guys. YOU GUUUUUYYYYYYYSSSSSS. THIS. IS. AMAZING.

Any time someone tries to tell you men in games are "just as bad" as women, you can show them Lawrence Croft in all of his banana-hammocked glory.

This makes me so happy.

Nate (Lara Croft Genderbend) by *Ulysses0302

One of the projects I'm excited about right now is co-writing an adventure for Darkening Sky, an anthology of adventures to be published by White Wolf for their Dark Ages tabletop lines. (I'm working on an adventure for Dark Ages Vampire.)

And I'm pretty excited, because it's a chance for me to do something that reflects the diversity that actually exists in medieval Europe instead of all of the whitewashed crypto-Europe you see in so many game titles. But then I see shit like this - this awful official art for the Malkavians in the new LARP book. And I'm like... really? Really?

How many awful stereotypes can you cram into one image? Female = crazy? Female and vampire = scantily clad sex object? Crazy = sex object?

It's tough, because shit like this makes doing stuff for WW kind of a losing proposition. I'm excited for Darkening Sky because I get to try to do a thing that won't perpetuate the same old awful. But it's going to be embarrassing even being peripherally associated with crap like this, because a lot of gamers aren't aware of the nuances of subcontractors, et al. They just see "White Wolf" as a monolithic thing.

When I was in art school, I was discouraged from drawing anything cartoonish or anime-like. Sometimes outright forbidden.

On the one hand, being forced to learn the foundations of anatomy without leaning on cartooning as a crutch made me a better artist. But for a long time I was sort of ashamed of my cartoon-style art. Whenever I did something that wasn't "realistic", I felt compelled to show off some of my "real" art as well. Gradually, though, my style has drifted back toward anime since graduating and I've gotten much less self-conscious about it. Even now, though, with the geek alphabet series I'm working on, I'm hesitant to promote images like this one because my more realistic stuff is "better". Which is stupid. Cartoons and anime are what sparked my passion for art, what got me to practice drawing for hours a day, what gave me the interest in going to art school in the first place. 

Anyway. Rant over. Q is finished. I'm pleased with it. The end.

My internet is full of delight this morning.

So, I decided to make Feminist Yog-Sothoth a meme.

Yes. This.

People saying “you only blog for attention” like alright you got me but what the frick are you blogging for? the great starting salary and dental plan?? ? ?