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2023-01-28 10:59 am

Drawesome challenge #51 - Fantasy BIPOC character

Drawesome is a friendly, multifandom art community, and sets a monthly challenge. I haven't actually managed to do a fill for an age, but am just scraping in at the end of this one. 😂

Here's a charcoal drawing of an African dryad.

POC dryad

For those who like to know - it's on a roughish 100% cotton rag paper which I wouldn't use again for this media, it didn't work that well. I used ordinary charcoal, a blending stump (and my hand!) and a kneaded eraser.
Inspiration - mainly Adam Riches scribbly art style 
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2014-06-20 09:08 am

Art meme #5 - Sam for sweet_lyri

My final fill for the limited palette challenge is Sam for sweet_lyri.
This has been a fun thing to do! I might try this again in a little while - watch this space.
Here's Sam's palette (#12 the same as Lisa's)
 photo lisasamtessapalette_zpseb3b5b39.jpgSam teaser  photo Sampalette2crop_zpsd978d857.jpg
Large images under the cut )
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2014-05-29 04:08 pm

Dean Winchester - a conundrum?

Thanks to tarynelliott for pointing out this fascinating study of Dean Winchester by someone who sits outside (or at least on the edge) of fandom. I think she hits a lot of nails on the head here, particularly about some of our reactions to recent and not so recent storylines. And a lot of what she says makes sense of some of the gender-bending fanfics too.
Read it here.