IKEA Is A Trap [Commissions Are Open!]

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Did an art exchange with @larvastark-blog and decided to draw Gazelle from Kingsman! Such an awesome character!

Sketch for a hypothetical sculpture. A mashup between Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” and Danziger’s “Nimrod”.

Degas was known misogynist, who was quoted comparing the ballet dancers he made a career out of drawing, to work horses and rats. His Little Dancer used to be one of my favorite sculptures, until I saw it last year in DC and read up about it and him, and what I learned saddened me deeply.

I carried that sadness around for a while. Yesterday I went to the Israel Museum and saw another one of my all time favorite sculptures, Nimrod. The biblical character Nimrod is described as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” But the root from which his name comes means “to rebel,” and in Talmudic literature, he is the despised idolater who erected the Tower of Babel in order to overthrow God. Danziger took the hawk on Nimrod’s shoulder from Egyptian art, underscoring the link between his sculpture and the ancient pagan world. The absence of legs likens the figure to an archaeological find, as does the reddish sandstone from Petra.

I suddenly realized how similar they look- same arm pose, same defiant, chin-up manner.

So I gave the little dancer a hawk, and cut off her “work horse” legs, and finally her defying stance is complete. She can finally rebel against her oppressors, armed with Nimrod’s mythical hunting abilities and his intent to overthrow the powers who would dominate him. Time’s up.

And if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear, do they make a sound?

To This Day: X (video)

Maggie Stiefvater’s Top Ten Reasons to Read The Raven Cycle (by This is Teen)

In honor of The Raven Boys’ 7/30 paperback release, I have helpfully compiled a list of the top 10 reasons to start the series.

Helpful Maggie is Helpful.

Findus, digital sketch. winter here is the ideal summer

Fashion fashion fashion! Its been really fun thinking what kind of style Alice have. I think she would have more variation to her wardrobe than the others. When designing this, I actually head canon all the Cullen kids to be in university, with Alice prolly pursuing fashion or anything related to art. 

Why university you may ask. Well, its because I was thinking, isn’t it safer for them to attend uni and do night classes if they want to keep being vampire a secret? Nobody would think twice and if someone ask they can just say they have a job or something during the day. They won’t have any accidental glitter bomb moment either. Unless they do something really dramatique to attract attention which I’m guessing they would do anyways lol. But hey, I get why the OG have a high school setting (because of the target audience). 

batch two of my B99 inktober portraits. first batch

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