I did this in my dumb class passport book thing I had to do…for Mardi’s birthday today!! (Hey bro you can finally see what I drew for you in my class assignment like 3 weeks ago.)
So I drew Eleanora aka your little lady that I loved ever since I was first introduced to her like 5 years ago or something like that. I like watercolours, I like pretty ladies, and I like your characters. SO HERE YOU GO…..have a fantastic birthday!!
Only coloured a little bit of it becuase I’ll be replicating this for my big artwork project this term. Paying around with hair colour. Not sure which way I want to go.
A sketch soon-to-be watercolour painting for this art project. It’s an asexy art nouveau type of deal. Scanned in two halves.
Drawing a necklace on a naked lady feels so Titanic…
Because I love all my followers so much I figured I’d show you something I have to do for class.
It’s a self-portrait done in a freaking book I had to physically bind and now I need to fill it with things. By next Tuesday. THIS IS GOING TO BE………SOMETHING.
I’ll scan in the not-ridiculous stuff when I’m done just for you.
It’s loosely based on this photograph. And yes, that is a masking tape moustache.
The writing in the background is a bunch of quotes from (or at least references to) my favourite shows that describe me.
The quotes are: “Universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult” “Ace detective” “Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole” “Some flies are too awesome for the wall” “The floor is my friend” “I found a sandwich in one of your parks and I want to know why it didn’t have mayonnaise” and tiny fragments of “The voice says I’m almost out of minutes”.
First person to list all the shows they’re from (and in one case a reference to) get’s a sketch of their choice!! I mainly just want to see if my followers are as cool as me. Don’t disappoint!
So I was looking at my stupid DA account with the stupid name I chose in 2005 and thought “UGH I’m so embarrassed by 13-year-old me” so I thought I’d make a new one with just my nice things in it. I mean, if I want to impress people I don’t need them looking at my super lame gay stuff. That’s what Tumblr is for.
Obviously I wanted to keep my Internet identity easily recognisable, but TheRoku was already taken. So I decided “Throwing a hyphen in there would be fine, right?”
BUT THEN, the guy with theroku.da.com has a tumblr that goes the-roku.tumblr.com and I thought WHAT THAT’S SO CONFUSING
Obviously, we have indirectly cockblocked each other in our choice of usernames.
Long story short, I’ll use the same name as my sketch Tumblr, but only my sketch blog contains ridiculous stuff like this crap.
EDIT: Here is my new and improved DA account, ~TheRoku-Draws.
My Sherlock Secret Santa gift for bookworm91691.
I think it came out freaking amazing, and I’m super proud. Just remember that I did this with my temperamental tablet that keeps disconnecting itself. I have overcome unreliable electronics to create…A TACKY CHRISTMAS JUMPER! (I would actually love it irl because it’s so awful.)
MERRY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
Decided it was about time I practiced drawing my actual body shape. This is also an excuse to show you all how fashionable I am.
I generally wanted to keep my art blog just for random doodles and not really for personal stuff, but I felt like this next bit needed to be included. I will resume regular blogging the next time I update.
So watch out, it’s about to get personal up in here.
I have had lots of issues concerning my body image in the past. I’ve always been bigger, because that’s just the way I was made. Big boned and really thick legs, designed for muscle that never really developed. I used to wear baggy outfits and tried to hide everything under boy’s clothes. (I was also going through a stage where I didn’t quite understand my gender identity and flat-out refused to wear feminine clothes.) Eventually I got to the stage where I allowed myself to feel comfortable in feminine clothes because I liked them, not because I was expected to wear them. Then I realised that I actually loved skirts and shoes and all that jazz.
Then it just took some time before I was able to accept my body as it is. I recently tried a very strict (but ridiculously effective) diet, however I quickly remembered that I enjoy food too much and also realised that I don’t care anymore. My body is for me, only me, and everyone else can go suck it.
That necklace is the most important part of all my outfits because of what it means for me. I wear it every day. I got it two years ago, when I was away on holiday, and still wasn’t totally sure about my gender identity but knew it was partly male. I just felt like it was the best idea at the time. And ever since I’ve felt like it was the perfect symbol of who I am. Some people ask about it, so I tell them that it represents my genderqueer identity. Most people don’t notice it at all. But it’s not for them. It’s for me, and to remind myself that I accept who I am in all aspects of my personality.
So that’s it for my sharing for the day. Or for a while. I don’t do this that often to the Internet.
Nothing’s better for art block than finding dumb photos of the SPN cast and drawing them…