Was fiddling around with my Pens and this was the result. Discovering new styles is so difficult… This was inspired by Ronald Wimberly aka D-Pi. Check him out on DA and www.d-pi.com/dtv !!!
Been experimenting with brushes in photoshop… i think it turned out alright. There’s going to be a big illustration based on this kind of style! i just gotta work the kinks out.
So these girls that I work with.
Don’t get me wrong. They’re nice people. People have this idea that to be racist means you’re a bad person; to be racist means you have to be mean. To those of you who think that, I say:
LOL. You are a FOOL.
My co-workers? They’re nice girls. When they engage me in conversation, and I’m in a mood where I don’t mind talking to them, we have really nice ones. We can joke around. We can laugh together. They’re friendly. They’re smart.
They’re still racist as hell. None of the above negates that. And their niceness doesn’t negate their racism.
They’re nice to me, yeah.
They still spew the n word whenever it comes up in a song.
We have good conversations, yeah.
They spend time mocking different aspects of Blackness.
We joke around, yeah.
They still fetishize me.
They like me as a person, yeah.
They still ask invasive questions that they have no business asking.
They still treat me like I have no clue what I’m doing.
They still crack all kinds of jokes about a vernacular that they don’t realize that I speak.
They’re nice. They’re smart. But they’re still racist assholes.
Nice and racist are not mutually exclusive, nor are smart and racist. You can be both. You can be all three. You can even be them all towards the person you’re being racist towards. You can like the person and still be a racist asshole towards them. You can be nice. You can be a good person.
It doesn’t negate your racism or the fact that you’re a racist.
It’s not that difficult of a concept.
(via birdbrainblue)
because we all love shipping so much, have a ship generator!
fanfiction and fanart of your new OTP is highly encouraged.
(i got pema/feather-hat guy. hootttttt.)
tahno/mako
FUCK ITS A SIGN
shady shin/ asami
COME TO THINK OF IT THAT’S KIND OF HOT ACTUALLY
howl/korra
HOLY IUS7Y6DTRFGHJKL;
\YES
Bolin/Shady Shin
welp
toza/amon’s hot lieutenant. lmao OKAY.
equalist protester/old guy
lmfao oh my god
Amon/Aang. I win.
PEMA AND PABU WAT
Tarrlok/Tarrlok… sounds just about right.
More like Sketch of the day. If it werent for my homework i would have inked/colour this bad boy.
kill me now.
Well i might not have a 3ds but ive played Mario Tennis games (Mario Tennis Power Tour) I really wish that they did something like that. It would make the 3DS effects even more epic.. but nooo they just have battles (As far as i know.)… HOPEFULLY i do get a 3DS since my B-day just passed but meh. ill stick to walkthroughs of the game until i can play myself.
d-pi:
I think the drawing is great but I also think it’s great to ask yourself why drawing a character with dark skin would be difficult, unfamiliar or considered racist and particularly why you feel uncomfortable about it. Do you feel your body of work would vindicate you to those who may accuse you of racism? If not, why not? Why would drawing a cartoon with features that belong to many black people be considered offensive? What makes you uncomfortable about cartooning these innocuous features that belong to many people?
I think these questions are very important to ask oneself.
Once, when I was working on a DefJam project I had a white creative come up to me and say, “Uh… I thought your drawings were racist before I knew you were black.”
I love the color choices, btw.
Done using the stumpy pencil brush on the cintiq.
My goal was to do a character in my regular style that happened to have black skin. I think I was successful, but I’m worried about all of the issues with “blackface” imagery. I didn’t intend my drawing to be racist in any way, but I can see why someone would think it was. In the end I feel like it’s kind of a failed experiment.
So, failure or is it ok?
