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extra-vertebrae replied to your photo: combination sketchbook diary thing happening… Your...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:56:00 -0400

extra-vertebrae replied to your photo: combination sketchbook diary thing happening…

Your studies are such a joy to look at. Your linework is really one-of-a-kind. Please keep sharing!

Thanks so much!

haha getting feedback like this makes it really hard to stop sharing (ღ˘◡˘ღ)

actually, on the topic of line quality, I was looking through my old art, and saw some neat things going on I wish I hadn’t dropped/would like to revisit. maybe I’ll post some.

kind of old, sketching classmates during spring’s final...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:49:09 -0400

kind of old, sketching classmates during spring’s final crit.

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:37:01 -0400

manx

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:36:15 -0400

manx

combination sketchbook diary thing happening…

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:23:17 -0400

combination sketchbook diary thing happening…

weimaraners hey, for those of you not following along on...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:14:56 -0400

weimaraners

hey, for those of you not following along on snacknite (my sideblog) I’ve rebooted it, it’s now devoted to Daily Doodles. I’ll continue to post my photo studies here.

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:03:17 -0400

ghostdaddotcx: Self reblogging to add a thing I...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:35:46 -0400

ghostdaddotcx:

Self reblogging to add a thing I found:

http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-malcolm-harris/

The account @Anti_Racism_Dog didn’t last long. Twitter suspended it quickly, a fate reserved only for the most aggressive, abusive and hateful users. What could a dog – an anti-racist one, at that – do to deserve it? @Anti_Racism_Dog had one real function: to bark at racist speech on Twitter. The account responded to tweets it deemed racist with the simple response ‘bark bark bark!’ Sometimes it would send wags to supporters but that was pretty much it.

For the short time it lasted, it was amazing to watch how people reacted to @Anti_Racism_Dog. The account would respond mostly to what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva would call ‘colour-blind racism’, that is, racisms that are generally right-libertarian in orientation and justified through appeals to supposedly objective discourses like science and statistics. It’s a notoriously insidious white-supremacist ideology, a virulent strain evolved specifically to resist anti-racist language. Colour-blind racism defends itself by appeals to neutrality and meritocracy, accusing its adversaries of being ‘the real racists’. Although its moves are predictable, they’re hard to combat rhetorically since they’re able to ingest the conventional opposition scripts. Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.

@Anti_Racism_Dog inverted the usual balance of energy in online dialogs about race. Precisely because the dominant global discourse is white-supremacist, it is rhetorically easier to make a racist argument than an anti-racist one. Look at almost any comment thread or discussion board about race and you can see anti-racists working laboriously to be convincing and to play on their opponents’ ‘logical’ turf, and racists repeating the same simple lines they were taught (‘I didn’t own slaves’, ‘I’m just stating the facts’, ‘The Irish were persecuted too’, etc.) ‘Trolling’ as a certain kind of internet harassment is tied to time: the successful troll expends much less time and energy on the interaction than their targets do. It’s the most micro of micro-politics, an interpersonal tug of war for the only thing that matters. But have you ever played tug of war with a dog?

A true troll doesn’t have a position to protect because to establish one would leave it vulnerable to attack, and playing defence takes time. @Anti_Racism_Dog, by fully assuming the persona of an animal, was invulnerable to counter-attack. You can’t explain yourself to a dog and you look like an idiot trying. The only way to win is not to play but this is the colour-blind racist’s Achilles Heel: they’re compelled to defend themselves against accusations of racism. It’s the anti-racist argument that gives them content; theirs is an ideology that’s in large part a list of counter-arguments. After all, white-supremacists are already winning – their task now is to keep the same racist structures in place while making plausibly colour-blind arguments against dismantling them. @Anti_Racism_Dog was empty of anything other than accusation and so left its targets sputtering.

The account served a second purpose: as a sort of anti-racist hunting dog. @Anti_Racism_Dog quickly attracted a lot of like-minded followers who understood the dynamics at play. Whenever it would start barking at another user, this was a cue to the dog’s followers to troll the offender as well. There’s only so much one dog can do alone. Colour-blind racism is particularly dangerous because it isn’t immediately visible as such. It provokes good-faith discussion from liberals about what counts as racism, muddying the water. But @Anti_Racism_Dog’s strategy draws new lines about what constitutes acceptable discourse on race, placing colour-blind racists on the other side by speaking to them like an animal. What would be taken as totally insane in flesh space can be infuriatingly clever online.

exemplary dog

adiscoville: My first screenprint, ever. I finished it last...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:14:55 -0400

adiscoville:

My first screenprint, ever. I finished it last week. If this and the last drawing I posted show anything, it’s that I’ve got brains on the brain.

11” x 14”, 7-layer screenprint on Stonehenge Fawn paper.

THIS IS SUPER COOL AMY!! not at all what I was expecting from your description but golly did this come out great. I love how the palette is separated into two main colors with the deets in different values.

extra-vertebrae replied to your photo: trying to get the hang of drawing Hugh Dancy for… ...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:33:43 -0400

extra-vertebrae replied to your photo: trying to get the hang of drawing Hugh Dancy for…

Please post more of these! Your human figures are absolutely lovely

Aw gosh, thanks, that’s so motivating to hear!

I plan to, I’ve been drawing a lot of faces with the aim of getting more confident at portraiture (ITS HARD). It’s just the scanning bit is where things’ve been falling through.

does anyone know of a daily drawing group which focuses on animals? or just a daily studies...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:28:17 -0400

does anyone know of a daily drawing group which focuses on animals?

or just a daily studies group?

(should i start one??)

trying to get the hang of drawing Hugh Dancy for …reasons....

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:37:00 -0400

trying to get the hang of drawing Hugh Dancy for …reasons. (Hannibal fan art reasons.)

some from memory, most from photos.

(please excuse the scan lines, the comp lab scanner is psycho.)

It feels like so long since I’ve finished a piece. I’m also trying to accept the work I...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:24:08 -0400

It feels like so long since I’ve finished a piece. I’m also trying to accept the work I produce more, going off that advice given. I just need to loosen up and just make work and put it out there.

sketch for a thing I want to do in trad media. like really trad...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:21:51 -0400

sketch for a thing I want to do in trad media.

like really trad media.

illuminated manuscript media (inks and gold leaf).

pretty happy with the peacock

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:46:00 -0400

pretty happy with the peacock

hey!! so i've been a little busy, a little absent, and have unfortunately missed some of your posts but i come back to check here and there and wow you are just so great i love your insight on art and your art itself, thank you for sharing both your thoughts and images!

Fri, 31 May 2013 08:10:13 -0400

Ah gosh dude, thanks! This totally made my day :)

I too can be pretty absent on here (esp lately, taking summer classes and without my tablet pen) and you’re one of the peeps I make that added effort to check up on from time to time too, the feel is mutual :3

I have so many drawings I havent scanned/posted over the year,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:21 -0400

I have so many drawings I havent scanned/posted over the year, margin doodles etc.Debating whether or not to just dump them all.

signs point to yes

I remember one day in junior high school, we were all deciding...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:07:13 -0400

I remember one day in junior high school, we were all deciding which of the Arthur characters we would be.You probably have your own version of this memory, I’ve noticed it’s pretty standard group fare, junior high school all the way up to present, just this year overhearing fellow MICA students divvying out the roles in Disney movies amongst their friends. If the person picks the character for themselves, their justification can potentially reveal some hidden facet of their personality, and also serves social function of reinforcing everyone’s position in the group. Anyway, they unanimously picked me as Fern.

What?

I know, right? I had suspected myself to be Buster or something because well…

Everyone sees themselves as Buster. Who wouldn’t, Buster is the best and most relatable character on the show.

But Fern wasn’t even one of the main crew.

“Because you’re quiet.” was the reason Rosie gave, but in hindsight, it was equally as much because I played the same peripheral role, not really fitting in, vacillating somewhere between the group’s ensemble darkhorse and persona non grata. I came away thinking “well at least they didn’t pick me for the Brain, or Sue Ellen or smth.”

Its odd the moments that stick with you.

This memory reasserts itself from time to time—actually, I was turning it over again just yesterday and had the idea for these drawings. Also interesting is how other people’s assessments of you work back and forth on how you see yourself+ how you relate to others. I gradually ~~accepted~~ got over it, and over the years Fern grew on me (no pun). After a quick google search I think I can finally see the parallels:

artsy fartsy

Friday night in

I find conversation difficult

i famously hate most movies

(I actually prefer post-punk, but close enough I guess)

Fern

how many studies do you do every day?

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:22:02 -0400

Number of drawings is kind of a poor way to quantify it, since I go by time (at least an hour) and depending on what I choose to focus on. That may mean more time per study some days, so I’d be doing fewer drawings/hour those days.
I find a quality over quantity attitude has been more helpful.

"I just like drawing real good."

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:03:49 -0400

“I just like drawing real good.”

- me; past,present, future