Daily Doodles- Day 62- 17/06/24

Daily Doodles- Day 24- 09/05/24

The tag for this is #agdoodles

another catch-up again, but I actually drew this gal on the day! Just didn't post her in time.

I made a new friend through freelance work and we're teaching each other our skills!

He's showing me animation using Blender and I'm going to show him how to use Illustrator via vector artwork.

I drew a simpler version of this cool goth type girl for the tutorial and I decided to draw her again for the daily doodles!

An excerpt from the current story I've been writing.

She had noticed them immediately as she raised her head to breathe in the unusually cool air. They stopped her in her tracks and she nearly fell over as she missed the steep step-down on the broken sidewalk.  There were many of them and they hovered still in the sky as far as her eye could see. They were smooth, ice-grey disks with no other defining features. They almost blended in with the grey of the sky, but they were so big that they could not be missed. Carissa stared up at them, open-mouthed, hardly believing what she was seeing and hardly believing that no one else was seeing this as she wildly whipped her head around to see if anyone else was gaping up at the sky. The old lady in her yard across the street was watering her plants. The school girl in her blue uniform further up the street was giggling at her phone. The lanky man wearing a graphic t-shirt and ridiculously sagged jeans swerved around her on the sidewalk, shooting her an annoyed glance as he passed. Trinidadians were known for making a scene when they saw something out of the ordinary.  Maybe she was just seeing things.

This is still unedited, but I know I'll be keeping this section in.

every time a known man is exposed as a pedophile the left make it about identity without a care in the world for the victims.

a man on the right? we knew he was just projecting! look! it was a religious man, not a trans person or drag queen!

a man on the left? oh no! our reputation! this is going to set back trans rights since this person supports us/is trans!

rinse and repeat.

back in 2019 and before, neil gaiman was a fucking creep on here. even into 2020 and possibly beyond (i blocked him in 2019 and left the good omens fandom in 2020, abandoning the blog i had at that time to get away from the toxic atmosphere he created and continued to fuel, so i have no specific examples past that year), he wasn't doing anything to alter or denounce the disturbing atmosphere he'd fostered among newer fans. but fans from before good omens really blew him up always knew he was a creep, and we knew he was an overbearing, manipulative monster for a long time.

he would follow fans and send them messages trying to act like he was our friend, or, if he didn't think you were some kind of prospect, he would reblog your posts and spell out to you all the ways he thought you were an idiot, many of which were homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and racist. it was disgusting, and i and a lot of people blocked him so that he couldn't do that to us anymore, and we would try to warn incoming fans.

but, by the time good omens became what it is now thanks to the series, he had changed his trajectory and, i guess, finally took his pr team's advice and eased up, only answering asks in as neutral or positive a manner as he could and reblogging posts in a more "appropriate" manner. he deleted a lot of old content and became more of the "resident tumblr cryptid author" rather than Anne Rice Lite™. old fans still knew he was trash, but newer fans thought of him as one of the tumblrinas, who just happened to be a "super cool" famous author, and anyone who spoke of him in any way but positively was told we were just jealous or that we were being unduly hateful.

on top of preying on and bullying fans, he is a zionist, he is anti-library (he believes online libraries like the internet archive are bad because they prevent authors from making money), and he is just generally being a massive bigot and a terrible person. he abandoned his wife and child during the pandemic to fly across the globe to be with a younger woman, and his now-ex-wife is a terf, and he is a barely-closeted transphobe himself. neil gaiman has never been our friend.

i'm glad people are finally recognizing him for the disgusting human being he is, and at the same time my heart goes out to the people who have come forward with their stories about the physical, psychological, and emotional harm this man did to them.

I've never cared about Harry Potter or JK Rowling that much, but the fact that people were announcing that they were removing Harry Potter tattoos over her opinions, or boycotting a game and shaming anyone who didn't, or even burning books should have been what woke me up years ago. I have not heard of HP Lovecraft or worse authors getting as much hate as she has, to the point where even liking any of her work is met with scrutiny. Apparently separating the author from their work can only work if the author isn't even gently pressing against a certain dogma.

Daily Doodles- Day 174- 07/10/24

A 19-year-old Artimax on her wedding day.

I want to give her whimsical rococo vibes, you know, that washed-out pastel candy look that has everyone looking grey and ill, but pretty.

Her headpiece is vaguely ocean-themed with a coral-like structure and pearls.

I also want to do weird makeup. those splotches across her cheeks, nose and chin are going to be brightly coloured.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

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Aye, more If you find a vigilante in a dumpster by @lunamugetsu

Making manga/comic-ish art is so fun but a pain at the same time

Daily Doodles- Day 166- 29/09/24

A new character with no name! She lives in a world that functions off of magical stones that everyone except her can use. She hides the fact that the stones don't work for her, because as usual in a society, the odd ones will be shunned or even killed.

She eventually finds a small group with the same problem as her and they've claimed to have found information that leads to these magic stones being from a dark scorce.

those who can't use them can't be controlled by the darkness it seems.

That's all I got now. I was inspired by the many are called, few are chosen' line from the Bible.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

I don’t know how to break this to some of you but someone being cringe is not a crime. It’s not even a cancellable offense. Too many of y’all have lost your sense of whimsy and now give off the energy of the popular kids in school who side eyed and scoffed at anyone different. Hiding behind the veil of online anonymity has made some of you really mean for no good reason

Daily Doodles- Day 127- 22/08/24

I've been getting back into my pattern art and decided to do a little hair doodle.

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