I draw things sometimes.
My Art : Jekyll and Hyde
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Diversity in YA: 5 Things Faith Erin Hicks Learned While Drawing NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG
1) Robot fight scenes are the hardest things to draw ever.
Over the past five years of working fulltime in comics, I’ve drawn a wide variety of things. Summer camps, creepy alien birds, graveyards, ships, ghosts, schools, ponies …. but nothing is as difficult to draw…
Ohhh, I know those feels about diversity.
My dad is the best Cooking Papa :)
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disney-rapunzel-merida-vanellope:
Guys, our rage is on the msn.com homepage poll.
DISNEY. DISNEY, ARE YOU LISTENING???
she looks fine both ways to me :)
I don’t get why everyone’s flipping out. They look the same.
Really? Calling us dumbasses, Brandy? No they do not look the fucking same. Those car eyes? The fucking proportions of body to head that make her skinnier? Are you fucking serious? Disney you are pissing me the fuck off.
…. Are you serious? The only difference are the eyes and that’s about it.
Seriously? Her legs are longer by making her waist higher. Her waist is also skinner, making her hips just out more in an hourglass shape. Merida had a realistic body shape for a teen. Plus the glitz on a dress she obviously hated. Disney is saying she wasn’t “pretty” enough. Whoever has been on the artistic team of late needs to be fired. Rapunzel looks weird and Belle doesn’t even look like herself anymore, and the classic princess all look Barbie-fied. Being pretty is not a bad thing at all, but they are making it a priority in marketing, giving girls yet again more unrealistic role models.
When I was a kid, the only ‘princess’ I liked was Belle because she liked reading and was brave, but I never wanted her merch because she didn’t look the same as the movie. She was always in that godawful yellow dress that she wore ONCE. When Mulan came out, I was ecstatic, because I really connected with her. She was tough and out spoken and brave and resourceful. But all the merch shows of her is in the dress in the beginning, which she wore ONCE.
Disney told me that being “princess-like” was most important, and being a boy for much of my childhood, I thought that was bullshit. That was only one cool aspect of the girls. Not the most important. It can’t be what we teach our girls to focus on—the glitz and glamour over bravery and selflessness and and shit. Not every girl fits that princess type. So they are left feeling inadequate. Believe me, that psychological shit is real, because it messed me the fuck up. It took me a long time to learn how to look girly, because I associated it with an ideal I could never have or achieve and failing to achieve that ideal brought a lot of grief to my life.
tl;dr: There definitely are differences and I am surprised that as an artist, you don’t see them. But the point is the others do—a LOT of them CHILDREN and girls, who we need to protect from this kind of bullshit.
I agree with everything except blaming/firing the art team! I severely doubt any of these changes were their decision at all. :\ They were probably doing the best they could in … incredibly restrictive circumstances.
But considering that we can’t blame the artists, I am wondering who (or what) exactly we could reasonably pin the blame on, or how an unpleasant and widespread trend like this could be addressed. The only Disney merchandise I ever bought was plushes of the animal sidekicks (+every lion character). I could never really relate to the female characters save for Mulan, and even at a young age I noticed how jenky the merchandise looked compared to the films. XD
Envy, redo of an old piece!
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
It’s good to know this happens at other target locations. Mine was never this fantastic.
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My recommendation of 5 books that can help you create a compelling story
Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…
Sylvia Plath (via ihatenietzsche)
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Quick sketch of arythusa’s Dr. Jekyll
Ahh! This is precious! He looks so self-conscious :3
I coughed and spilled cranberry juice all over my shirt when the Space Jam kicked in.
