#lizbeth r jimenez

[syrollesse-decadence]

My fanart of Cecero from the manga SacreD by Lizbeth R. Jimenez I absolutely love this manga and the artist is so sweet. I would recommend checking out her work too ♡

#Cecero #sacred the manga #sacred #Lizbeth R Jimenez #pretty #aesthetic #my art #fanart #artists on tumblr #manga #anime #style #illustration

[sacredthemanga]

My baby is starin U down & lettin U know what's what😎 Art from my series, "SACRED"🌹 #CopicMarkers 🌹IN STORES NOW🌹 SacredTheManga.com

#anime #manga #copic #copicmarkers #markers #copicsketch #pencil #penandink #paint #pencilsketch #artists on tumblr #art #sacred the manga #sacredthemanga cecero #oseph mordwoe #my mangaka life #mangaka #mymangakalife #youtube #Lizbeth R Jimenez

[y3tzirah]

did any of y’all watch lizbeth r jimenez or anything when you were younger i wanna talk about how much i hate her with somebody who understands

[make-the-choice-be-the-voic-blog]

🖌️ Illustrating the Issue 🎨: Artworks for Freedom

Artworks for Freedom is an organization that employs the power of art to bring the issue of human trafficking to everyone’s attention. By working both locally and globally along with extensive branching connections to talented artists and supportive activists across the world, this movement is able to spread their message to empower victims and illuminate the issue through a creative assortment of art pieces: murals, comics/graphics, films, photographs, performances, conceptual art, and even textile/fibre art.

Comics/Graphics

ABOLITIONISTA!

Artists: Delilah Buckle and Lizbeth R. Jimenez

Story by: Thomas Estler

Publisher: Freedom Ladder 

ABOLITIONISTA! is a comic about a girl named Eden who wants to help her friend rise to stardom. However, when her friend vanishes, she has to undertake the role of freeing her friend from the chains of human trafficking. 

Performances

Suns are Suns

Writer: Dawn Akemi Saito, Maria Mileaf

Actress:  Dawn Akemi Saito

Suns are Suns is a solo theatre piece that is based on the factual accounts of both women and girls in the sex trafficking industry. The work utilizes text, music and Butoh-inspired movement to recount and display the complex and different responses to trauma.   

Walking in their footsteps

Artist: Kat Rohrer

Walking in their footsteps is a participatory drama that explores the stages of human trafficking. In Jacksonville, Florida, five participants are dragged into the world of human trafficking, from the deceptively friendly lures of the traffickers to the process of being dehumanized, emotionally and physically manipulated, abused and caged. 

Textile/Fibre Art

Survivors Quilt Project

The Survivors Quilt Project was created and led by Aashika Damodar, head of Survivors Connect, and involves a series of quilts that have been made from square patches of cloth, each representing the voices and experiences of victims.  Woven into the vibrant fabric are glittering sequins, colorful threads, markers, and paints, all revealing boldness, the courage to persevere and unyielding strength through years of torment and unspeakable pain.

Ensnared

Artist: Judy Kirpich

This work is part of the Anxiety series by quilter Judy Kirpich. It conveys the raw emotion of being trapped and isolated from freedom. With the usage of rusted hand dyed fabrics,  steel wool, wire, and the repeated design of slashes and crosses on the fabric Ensnared perfectly expresses the sense of alarm, outrage, and agitation in a disturbing world of trafficking. 

All images and artworks can be found at https://artworksforfreedom.org/arts-portfolio/. 

Click here to donate to Artworks for Freedom. 

“One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.”

~ Acts 18:9

[newstfionline]

Trapped in the mountains, Puerto Ricans don’t see help, or a way out

By Samantha Schmidt and Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, October 1, 2017

UTUADO, PUERTO RICO--The day Hurricane Maria swiped through these mountains, the loose, wet dirt started to tumble and roll. It broke through the gate and through the door. It moved with ferocity and determination. It covered and filled everything.

“It looked like chocolate,” said Ferdinand Ramos, a 63-year-old retired police officer whose home was directly in the path of massive landslides. The viscous mud crashed into his living room and kitchen, leaving a shin-high sludge.

Then, for almost nine days, Ramos and Norma Jimenez and members of their extended family were trapped on their property. No one came to help. Their home on the remote outskirts of this town 60 miles southwest of San Juan became a prison.

Even after they cleaned up inside, they had no way to leave--the mud, broken trees and chunks of debris had piled up outside. On Thursday--eight days after Maria had passed--a municipal utility worker cleared their street.

The family had almost run out of drinking water. Their isolated community of Caonillas had received no aid from the local or federal government, residents said. And they had no way to make the perilous trek to town; the winding roads had been obliterated and six of the family’s cars had been stored in a garage that collapsed, crushing five of the vehicles and sending the sixth sliding down the mountainside and into a river.

So their daughter decided to try hitchhiking to town, desperate for bottled water for her month-old premature baby, Diana. As Jimenez, 62, waited for her daughter to return, she rocked six-pound Diana in her arms, kissing the infant’s forehead.

“She left this morning and still hasn’t come back,” Jimenez said.

An unknown number of families are still trapped in this part of Utuado, much of which is inaccessible nearly two weeks after the storm. From the air it is clear why: Mountaintop houses are surrounded by landslides, shredded structures are scattered down mountain slopes, and residents in some areas could be seen waving frantically for help as a helicopter passed.

Some of the homes are so remote and in such rugged terrain that getting to them requires extraordinary effort by helicopter or all-terrain vehicle. Pilots can’t land in many nearby spots, making it unclear how authorities will reach people before the road infrastructure is repaired, which could take months. Residents are cut off from civilization, in some places at least a four-hour walk to the nearest store.

If aid and essential resources have been slow to reach Puerto Rico as a whole, getting help to isolated communities such as Utuado has been taking even longer. In these rural neighborhoods, tucked between mountain ranges and nestled along murky river beds, there is no telecommunication. Some residents recounted coming across Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, none carrying aid--only search-and-rescue teams seeking assessments.

These are the U.S. citizens for whom the mayor of San Juan has been crying, the people who say they have been forgotten and betrayed by their government in Washington. President Trump has been declaring the federal government’s role in Puerto Rico a success, but the people here see things very differently as they struggle to survive.

“In the towns I represent, there are people who have no water,” said an emotional Sen. Nelson Cruz Santiago, who represents the island’s southern region. “In Utuado, there is an area where the bridge was washed out and people are screaming from the other side for help. We can hear them, we can see them, but we can’t help them.”

At least three people died in mudslides in Utuado after Maria hit on Sept. 20. Many residents of the Caonillas neighborhood worry that if it rains again, the mountains and roads could buckle even more and come after them again.

Hector Ruiz, a utility worker hired by the Utuado municipality to clear its roads, is often the first outsider to encounter stranded families. With a large excavator on Friday, he cut through a mountain of debris that had fallen over Highway 140.

He estimated that it will take at least one more month to make the entire highway in Utuado accessible. Ruiz said he came across a community of about 50 homes surrounded by a broken road on one side and a lake on the other.

“They can’t get out either way,” he said.

Ana Rosa Cruz escaped from one of those isolated communities on Friday and was walking through Caonillas with her nephew. She emerged from a road covered with tall mounds of broken trees and mud. She was out of breath and exasperated, her shins covered in scratches and gashes from the trek.

Cruz, 58, had walked for about two hours just to reach an accessible road. She was carrying empty gasoline containers and had about an hour to go to reach her destination. Since the storm, Cruz had been staying at her mother’s home, which had been cut off by landslides. About nine families live there, but dozens more live even farther into the area, she said, miles away from anything.

Her mother, who has circulation problems, only had enough fuel to use her generator for two more days. She and her neighbors are forced to drink “water from the mountain or from the sky,” she said.

“If she gets sick, we can’t get her out,” Cruz said of her mother, noting that she has seen helicopters but none of them have stopped. “We just wave goodbye, because there’s nothing else we can do.”

For Lisandra Torres, 43, who lives down the road from Jimenez and Ramos, her family’s sedan is too low to the ground to make it up the muddy, rugged route--only a four-wheel-drive SUV would even have a chance. Torres walked for three hours to get to the center of Utuado on Thursday, seeking food and water. Her extended family is almost out of cash, so Torres tried to pick up their benefit checks from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children--known as WIC--to purchase food and diapers for her grandchildren. But the WIC offices in their town were closed.

“If my babies get sick, I need to buy medication,” said her daughter, Lizbeth Coraliza, 24.

A relative tried driving her sister, Angelica Coraliza, 26, to a minimart Friday in a different sedan. That car got stuck four times because of mud and road damage, and other drivers had to help. When they finally made it to the store, they found that it was sold out of water.

The Coralizas, like many other families in the Utuado area, can reach mountain springs. The cloudy water works for bathing and cleaning, but many said they wouldn’t risk drinking it and definitely wouldn’t give it to infants.

Jimenez’s daughter might not have a choice.

The young mother has been struggling to breast-feed her newborn, probably because she is stressed and not getting enough to eat, Jimenez said. If they can’t find bottled water, the family will have to start boiling water from the mountain to add to the baby’s formula.

And the shortage of food is increasingly grim. Fuljencio Guzman and his 12-year-old son, Kelvin, lost their home, its wooden structure devastated. They are staying next door at Guzman’s mother’s house.

A pantry showed the family’s only remaining nourishment: one can of beans, a few cans of tomatoes, saltine crackers and a few potatoes.

Even if they could reach the nearest grocery store, they have no cash to buy food, and no banks or cash machines in town are functioning. The Guzmans are limiting themselves to one meal a day, the father said. About 1 p.m. Friday, Kelvin ate some Chef Boyardee and rice--probably his only meal until Saturday.

Another resident, Migdalia Guzman, said she thinks the U.S. government doesn’t realize there are communities up here, away from the cities and the television cameras.

“I think they think no one is here,” Migdalia Guzman said. “But there are a lot of people here.”

On Friday afternoon, thunder clapped and dark clouds started rolling in over the mountains. It began to rain.

#Puerto Rico #Utuado #Hurricane Maria

[sagemintiart]

A little fanart of Cecero from Sacred the manga. I haven't been able to buy any volumes yet, but I've enjoyed the art and illustrations on deviantart for a few years. I enjoy the artwork as well as the story idea very much so I decided to draw some fanart bookmarker thingy up.

Materials: cardstock, crayola markers, rubbing alcohol for blending,one blick studio marker(lol), black micron ink pen, white gel pen and laminate screen paper for covering

Duration: 6 hrs

Cecero belongs to Sisero on deviantart(aka Lizbeth R Jimenez)

#traditional art #artists on tumblr #markers #sacred the manga #lizbeth r jimenez #fanart

[emidegrey]

I found some time to draw this [actually no, I didn't have time but I'd rather do this than school stuff as of the moment so... yeah] ravenreaper's fault. I love her though. <3 And the manga. Check it out guys, it's Sacred by Lizbeth Jimenez highly addictive guys * A *

#Sheko #Sheko Acirema #Sacred #Lizbeth R Jimenez #art tag

[sacredthemanga]

"SACRED"🌹 vol 2 cover art~ Can't wait 2 work w/ inks & paint again! OMG ideas are just pouring in!♡ ■AVAILABLE NOW■ www.SacredTheManga.com

#sacred the manga #gauche #colored ink #India ink #copic #copics #markers #copic markers #copic multiliner #anime #manga #mangaka #tutorials #youtube #my mangaka life #Lizbeth R Jimenez #cecero #sheko #acirema #Demerians #corpse #zombie

[sacredthemanga]

A video on my journey to create & release vol.4 of "SACRED" is coming soon (since many of you have asked for it 💕) Interview, WIP vids & more! Plz look out 4 it, dears💕 ■Y O U T U B E■ www.YouTube.com/MyMangakaLIFE

#anime #manga #screen tones #screentone #how to make manga #tutorials #India ink #ink and paper #ink and pen #quill pen #speedball ink #pen nib #cecero #sacred the manga #Lizbeth R Jimenez #my mangaka life #youtube #artist #artists on tumblr #female #female artists #mangaka #american

[sacredthemanga]

"This explains why you have such a HUGE ASS!" *SPANKS* LOL A taste of what you'll find in my series, "SACRED"🌹 AVAILABLE NOW in stores and online! ■AVAILABLE HERE■ www.SacredTheManga.com ■Read Chapters Here■ YouTube.com/MyMangakaLIFE

#sacred the manga #manga #anime #Lizbeth R Jimenez #cecero #sheko #skylar #meme #funny memes #funny #funny pics #funny gif #funny meme pictures #manga meme #anime meme #Sheko acirema #skylar hera #alumrion #my mangaka life #mymangakalife #youtube #artists on tumblr #artist #mangaka #self publishing #doujinshi #screentone #screent tone #deleter

[sacredthemanga]

I wana kiss his nose! 💋 I just wana come real close & show dat nose some luv!!😂💕 ■LINKS■ www.SacredTheManga.com www.YouTube.com/MyMangakaLIFE

#anime #manga #sacred the manga #Lizbeth R Jimenez #cecero #sheko #Acirema #copic #copics #markers #copic markers #traditional art #by hand #artist #artists on tumblr #female #demons

[sacredthemanga]

NEW VIDEO!! ♡ YAAAS!! ♡

#manga #anime #watch me #color #paint #work in progress #art wip #wip #cosplay #cosplay wip #copic #copics #markers #copic markers #sacred the manga #Lizbeth R Jimenez #my mangaka life #youtube #artists on tumblr #female artists

[sacredthemanga]

Because clothing is so over rated XD (from my published series, "SACRED") ■LINKS■ www.SacredTheManga.com www.YouTube.com/MyMangakaLIFE/

#chibi #skylar #sacred the manga #copic #copics #copic markers #Lizbeth R Jimenez #markers #kawaii #cello

[sacredthemanga]

Drawing hair is #BAE now & 4evah!!💕 ["The Making of SACRED vol.4" coming soon! Please look out for it, dears💕] ■LINKS■ www.SacredTheManga.com www.YouTube.com/MyMangakaLIFE/

#anime #manga #sacred the manga #Lizbeth R Jimenez #cecero #hair #ink #inking #pen and ink #ink and pen #ink and paper #screen tones #India ink #quill #quill pen #pen nib

[sacredthemanga]

My journey 2 create & release vol.4 of "SACRED" 💕 interview, WIP vids & more! Plz look out 4 it, dears💕 ■YouTube■ www.SacredTheManga.com

#youtube #sacred the manga #Lizbeth R Jimenez #my mangaka life #manga #anime #watch me draw #ink #ink and paper #ink and pen #screentone #manga supplies #manga making #tutorial

[sacredthemanga]

Turning my little mini copic into a video manga!! YAAAS! ♡ Please check it out if you can :D

#anime #manga #comics #funny #funny comics #funny manga #sacred the manga #lizbeth r jimenez #cecero #sheko #kayko #lalay #kayko lalay #acirema