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fashionably late to the party with guyanese miku RAHHHH 🇬🇾🇬🇾
This year I participated in a course that took me to the Rupinuni region of Guyana. Here are some excerpts from a sketchbook I kept during my time there.
Most of these are fantasy creatures inspired by the fauna of the region.
Couple of cartoony spinosaurus from my Guyana sketchbook.
Went for the humpbacked approach rather than sail-backed.
The Girl I Wish I Could Know (Sad girl story edited better)
A girl was sitting a couple of desks down. She had her hair in a long brown braid, with violets tucked into it. I didn't pay much attention to her, but I did steal a glance occasionally. The girl next to me was nice enough. We talked about school. It's boring as usual. She said she’s excited about the break from school next month. I’m not. I glanced at the first girl and considered talking to her. But it’s too late, the bell rings and I have to go.
The classroom was quiet, filled with students working on poetry assignments. Everyone was quietly skimming through their chosen poems. Everyone, except for one girl who memorized her lines. My heart skips for a second as I recognize her from earlier. She stared straight ahead, eyes glued to the empty chalkboard, her lips pressed into a thin line. As the other students took their turns, I watched silently, waiting for mine.
It was almost like she was making a show of not looking my way. Instead she twirled one of the violets between her two fingers. No one else knows they’re my favorites.
People fall out of love all the time. Ask anyone. Or better yet, ask someone who’s fresh out of a relationship. They’ll have a lot to say.
They drift apart. Or have different priorities. Sometimes people cheat or lie, sometimes they argue, sometimes they just change.
But that didn’t happen to us.
The teacher called her up. She made eye contact with me for just a second before she read. Maybe she didn’t realize it or maybe I just imagined it; but it almost felt like she was talking to me. She said:
“The sun can rarely meet the moon
And when it happens everyone stands to stare
They hold their roses new in bloom
And wonder if they’d ever dare"
She pauses.
"In another life we’d meet again
Have a story with a happier end."
She hesitates again. The teacher tells her to continue.
"None of this was my making
To keep those two away
Was another's undertaking”
My eyes followed her as she walked back to her seat. I wonder if she realized that she dropped the violet she was holding. It's almost funny, in a sick way. Do you know what they call our soft young love?
They call it “gross indecency.”
They call it a felony.
(BTW IM SUBMITTING THIS FOR A CONTEST SO ANY FEEDBACK WOULD BE APPRECIATED)
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The design shown here is actually the founder of our creative studio @canmking
He was given the opportunity to start his own online radio show with an organisation called LWSTD - FM, which he called "Music ain't a sound, it's a feeling".
The designer in our team was given the tough task of adding finer details for this illustration design. With things such as the chains, watch, rings and clothes!
Additionally, put in a city backdrop followed by two big pillars and speakers all around. Think of a Hi-Fi music system, emphasising CANMKING's love for music.
Let's not forget the music keyboard on the floor, as well as the microphone to the left and a laptop with the Guyanese flag for representation where CANMKING is from.
Took a LOT of rough drafts, but our designer finally got it to a high standard.
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