Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas in transit across rippling ring shadows on the planet’s northern hemisphere during that hemisphere’s winter.
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Ok, I said I was done with profiles (I think, if I didn’t say that, well, I am) but this isn’t really a proper profile anyhow. Just a minor character that I drew because a friend likes femme fatales and she the closest thing in the comic, well, she likes to cultivate the look anyhow. Typically she’s kind of a dork who likes bad puns.
Also, I might redesign that dress before she makes a comic appearance I suck at femme fatale dress design.
I might upload even more sketchy stuff later. Or I might not. Guess it’ll be a mystery based entirely on how much sketch I want to bother uploading.
I like her! She channels the good aspects of the femme fatale archetype here- liking the direct gaze, revolver and cigarette holder. It actually probably makes it better that the ‘fatale’ ness only goes so far as her look! Hah I like the idea of her looking like this but actually then being the sort of person who’d make really silly jokes and be somewhat ‘dorky’. And I like she has an actually ideology behind her beyond mere self interest.
Why is female friendship still so rare in fiction?
Something especially struck me today.
Why, is there still so little female friendship in Western fiction?
Despite the part where women are often culturally considered to be closer, more intimate and emotionally supportive friends with each other than men are, most of the time in fiction, they aren’t on the same side interacting with each other, let alone firm friends.
The female equivalent of the ‘bromance’ in fiction is shockingly rare, when you think about it, especially when it comes to the depiction of adult women. Female friendships are at once taken as a sort of unimportant ‘given’, and yet also so seldomly depicted. In Western genres that do involve female friendship, the friendship between women is usually sidelined in a narrative arc that has a heterosexual romance as its ultimate destination.
We’re still in a situation in fiction, where it’s actually weirdly uncommon for there to be two women in a story, who are on the same side, who are friends and stay friends, and who are both depicted with complexity, as characters in their own right, and not just props for some broader plot more centred on male characters. I would suppose this is partly a subset of the general problem that decent female characters who are treated as proper characters in their own right are not nearly common enough for them to often be two of them together on the same side.
It’s not easy swimming against this cultural tide and finding inspiration - I myself have disproportionately few female characters in my writing, and barely any friendships at all.
But really, this is something there absolutely needs to be more of, not least because it’s frankly unrealistic and weirdly denying of the reality of women’s lives to seldom represent the part where women can and do form good friendships and working relationships with each other. And the part where they can have amusing and entertaining and complex character conflicts and differences and similarities and in jokes and shared memories and all kinds of plot driving and interesting dynaimcs.
The Sentinels.
Created at the founding of the city to put down the first technologist uprising. Above standard city security they operate as specialists with their primary purpose still being to maintain the luddite state of the city.
They are a hivemind made up of volunteers who saw more value in serving the city than in their fellows or even their own individuality. What one knows they all know. Except in the case that one of them dies, then the knowledge and experience of that individual is wiped from their collective consciousness. They are exceptionally difficult to kill, however, and they do not remain dead long. As long as their hivemind collective is in place they are effectively immortal.
Excellent job on the design here! Always liked how you drew the Sentinels!
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(Source: mythicalogical, via timeisanilllusion)
(Source: thefckingbanana, via seafarers)
Forms in Nature by Hilden Diaz is a light sculpture that casts shadows resembling tree branches on the surrounding walls.
Plz.
Want.
Not sure if want, but this looks amazing anyhow.
The Day of the Crows(Le Jour Des Corneilles). Directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint. Made by Finalement, Melusine Productions, Walking The Dog, and Max Films Animation
Beautiful background from another 2d french animated film I hope I get to see one day.
Every time I try to draw. As my poor long suffering friends know. I should really avoid actually chatting while trying to art because this inevitably happens.
(Source: ppitte)
