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Second poster of the day for Artists Against Apartheid. The text is from this sermon by Reverend Munther Isaac. The photo is of Inas Abu Maamar and her niece Saly, taken by Mohammed Salem (Reuters). Here is a link to a folder with PDF, PNG, PSD, and Procreate files of the poster, as well as an image description. Again, feel free to edit/repost/print and distribute the poster, but I ask that you include the alt text/ID for accessibility.

Keep striking and keep fighting. 🇵🇸

Alt text: a black and white poster with the large slogan, in all caps, “God is buried under the rubble in Gaza.” Overlaid with the text is a photo of a woman, Inas Abu Maamar, holding the shrouded corpse of a small child, her niece, Saly. There is a border around the poster with text from a sermon by Reverend Munther Isaac, titled “God is Under the Rubble in Gaza.” End alt text.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea #artists against apartheid

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Yesterday began a global general strike for Gaza. Today, the strike continues in light of today’s UN General Assembly vote on a humanitarian ceasefire. I am spending today making posters to submit to Artists Against Apartheid, who have released multiple posters for people to print and distribute in their local areas, as well as a wheat pasting guide in their toolkit section. I’m also going to leave my own link to a folder with PDFs and PNGS of all versions of the poster, as well as PSD and Procreate files that can be edited directly, and a copy of an image description like the one below. Feel free to redistribute these posters however you like, but I must ask that you include an image description for accessibility when reposting/posting your own version. I encourage my fellow artists to close up shop to honor the strike and spend today doing the same.

In honor of Refaat Alareer’s work as a translator, many people have been translating “If I Must Die” into their own native languages. The blank version of this poster is meant for people to add their own translations of the poem.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

[Alt text: a black and white poster of the poem, “If I Must Die,” by Refaat Alareer. Around the image is a keffiyeh patterned border. The main image shows a black background with a drawing of a white kite and the poem in all caps. The second image is the same poster, but with OpenDyslexic font used for the text for accessibility purposes. The third is a textless version meant for others to add their own translations of Alareer’s poem in honor of his work as a translator. Transcription:

If I must die

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself—

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up

above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

— Refaat Alareer

Martyred 12/6/2023

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#artists against apartheid #refaat alareer #palestine #free palestine #Gaza #free gaza

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home is where your heart is, finn / and where is your heart, finn?

Alt text: A black and white drawing of Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and BMO. Their backs are to the viewer. Finn is sitting on the ground, slightly hunched over, and Jake and BMO stand on either side of him. Jake’s hand is on Finn’s shoulder and BMO’s is on his back, as if comforting Finn. End alt text

#adventure time #finn the human #finn mertens #jake the dog #bmo #been watching fionna and cake and bro im 🕳️🚶

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Alt text: a sketch of the smoker on the balcony in makeup and hair resembling Alan Cumming in Cabaret: dark lips, smoky eye shadow, and thin arched brows. He has earrings made of dangling chains and a pin holding his bangs away from his face. two dark dress straps are also visible. He tilts his head back and looks at the viewer with a slightly sad expression. End alt text

Watched Cabaret for the first time today and I am… having emotions. But a friend said that the smoker’s drag persona would probably be similar to the emcee from Cabaret and so I had to sketch it…

#disco elysium #smoker on the balcony #listening to ‘’i don’t care much’’ on repeat and resisting the urge to chew through the drywall

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[Image description: two rough digital pencil sketches. The first is of Klaasje Amandou. She is seen from the bust up, glancing over her shoulder. She’s topless and her arm is resting on a surface. She’s smiling slightly but her expression looks tired and unhappy.

The second sketch is of Klaasje and Ruby the Instigator. They are naked. Ruby is lying on her back and Klaasje is on top of her. Klaasje’s posture is stiff and her face is obscured by her hair. Ruby is looking up at her and reaching up to touch her. End description.]

Rough sketches of some disco dyke drama

#wip #disco elysium #to the anon who requested rubyklaasje: i owe you my life

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image description: another wip of the same piece as above, but now fully inked except for the frame, end description

getting somewhere…

image description: a partially inked revolutionary girl utena fanart. kiryuu nanami stands with kiryuu touga behind her and tsuwabuki mitsuru in front of her. all are in their duelist uniforms. nanami holds her knife to tsuwabuki’s throat. touga holds a fork and knife. akio’s hand rests on touga’s right shoulder, and his father’s hand touches his hair on his left. touga, tsuwabuki, and the hands are blacked out silhouettes, but nanami’s face looks shocked and alarmed. there is a frame around the piece like the rose frame from the anime, but with nanami’s egg in place of rosebuds. end description

wip (sorry nanami)

#wip #coughs up blood #im saving the frame for last because. im still pissed SKWJWHWISHDUD

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well csp just crashed and I lost all of my inking progress 🥲 in memoriam…

image description: a partially inked revolutionary girl utena fanart. kiryuu nanami stands with kiryuu touga behind her and tsuwabuki mitsuru in front of her. all are in their duelist uniforms. nanami holds her knife to tsuwabuki’s throat. touga holds a fork and knife. akio’s hand rests on touga’s right shoulder, and his father’s hand touches his hair on his left. touga, tsuwabuki, and the hands are blacked out silhouettes, but nanami’s face looks shocked and alarmed. there is a frame around the piece like the rose frame from the anime, but with nanami’s egg in place of rosebuds. end description

wip (sorry nanami)

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image description: a partially inked revolutionary girl utena fanart. kiryuu nanami stands with kiryuu touga behind her and tsuwabuki mitsuru in front of her. all are in their duelist uniforms. nanami holds her knife to tsuwabuki’s throat. touga holds a fork and knife. akio’s hand rests on touga’s right shoulder, and his father’s hand touches his hair on his left. touga, tsuwabuki, and the hands are blacked out silhouettes, but nanami’s face looks shocked and alarmed. there is a frame around the piece like the rose frame from the anime, but with nanami’s egg in place of rosebuds. end description

wip (sorry nanami)

#wip #this one is gonna be a BITCH to finish but here we go lads

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i haven’t forgotten abt this btw (also touga would in fact eat a mouse)

id: a monochrome panel from a comic wip. saionji kyouichi from revolutionary girl utena is pointing a finger offscreen and making an exaggerated face of anger/consternation. there’s a vein popping in his hand. he is quoting part of a tumblr post by user lettuce-queen-is-valid: “No they won’t because why would anyone eat a mouse that’s stupid not all men are bad and not all men are stupid you may have had a bad experience with a man but not all men are bad granted there bad men but instantly accusing all men as bad is immature I’m dating a man and he is nowhere near stupid and I know for a fact that he won’t eat a mouse and in pretty sure I could name at least five other men that won’t do something as immature as that and saying that a man will see a mouse and eat it won’t get you anywhere with a man if anything it will drive them away.” over the part where op mentions dating a man, there is a small transparent picture of kiryuu touga. end id

#wip #revolutionary girl utena #saionji kyouichi #im sorry for posting so many wips of this comic but it keeps making me laugh #if i wasn’t cursed w employment i would be finishing it rn

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fuck this post and happy birthday arisugawa juri!!

#HAPPY BDAY AGAIN JURI #might draw something else later but for now have this again

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[image description: a sketch of saionji kyouichi’s face from revolutionary girl utena, to be attempted in the style of alphonse mucha. his eyes are closed and face upturned. there are shadows around his eyes and his mouth and brows are tight. he’s going to be wearing a crown of hyacinths. in the background you can see part of the window from the chapel in episode 9. end description.]

wip 👀

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[image description: two panels from a comic wip, sketched in blue pencil. the first panel is anthy from revolutionary girl utena smiling as she quotes a part of a text post from user babyitaliano, “men will see a mouse and eat it.” the second panel is saionji looking at her in some combination of shock, horror, and consternation. he looks very silly. end description]

wip

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[image description: two images of different assignments. one is 5 expressions from the neck up, the other is 5 hairstyles from the shoulders up. for the expressions page, the subject is a girl with a knit hat, round glasses, short hair, and freckles. it’s drawn in black pencil. the expressions are excitement, shock, disgust, fear, and bashful. for excitement, she is smiling wide with stars for eyes. for shock, her glasses are askew, eyebrows cocked, and mouth puckered. for disgust, she’s grimacing with narrowed eyes and recoiling. for fear, she’s looking up at something bigger than her with an open mouth and tight brows. for bashful, she’s looking to the side with a wobbly smile, puffed cheeks, and a blush.

for the six hairstyles page, the subject is pale and freckle with pointy ears and a cartoonishly simple triangular head shape. the hair is red on all versions. the first version is the bald base, the second is braided pigtails with a center part, the third is short hair cropped around the ears with a side part, the fourth is mid length hair that curls at the ends with a side part, the fifth is long and straight hair with bangs and no visible part, and the fifth is short tousled hair with a side part. end description.]

had my hands full with schoolwork lately, so here’s some recent assignments i’ve done for my character design class! been having fun trying to keep things simple and graphic, i really want to work on making my designs more efficient and concise, if that makes any sense 🤔

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[image description: a rough sketch in blue pencil of frodo baggins. it’s a redraw of the moment in return of the king when he tries to let the ring go. he holds the ring out on its chain in front of him and a tear falls from his right eye. end description]

a frodo for stress relief...

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[image description: a painting of juri from revolutionary girl utena bowling like in episode 27. she is striking an action pose mid-bowl with a smug smile and sparkles around her head. the left corner of the painting shows three flying pins and the word “STRIKE!” in comic style lettering drawn in the same red and white as the pins. the background is orange with a beam of light like in episode 27. end description]

fuck this post and happy birthday arisugawa juri!!

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[image description: a drawing of kiryuu nanami from revolutionary girl utena. she is shown from the shoulders up in her nightgown, posed as if she’s fallen to the ground and is holding herself up. she’s colored all in blue and the only visible feature of her face is her eyes, wide and horrified. a tear falls from her right eye. behind her is a bloody red background and three silhouettes of people being impaled. on the left is touga, his hand resting on the hilt of the sword impaling him from the front. on the right is utena, reeling from being stabbed from behind. in the center is anthy, being stabbed by the million swords of hatred. end description]

can’t save you

can’t save myself

am i just another fly in the swarm?

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[image description: a pen and ink drawing of snufkin from the moomin series. it’s a redraw/study of an illustration from moominvalley in november. snufkin sits on a dock with his back to the viewer, puffing his pipe and staring out at the minimally rendered ocean. there are three wispy clouds in the sky. end description]

“perhaps they just want to be in peace for a while.”

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