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shoomlah:

My Hatshepsut piece for the upcoming GIRLS: Fact + Fiction show, opening December 7th at the Light Grey Art Lab gallery space in Minneapolis, MN!

We were invited to draw any fictional or factual lady of our choice, so I went with Hatshepsut because, well, she’s Hatshepsut. If I am to believe all of those ancient statues of her, she looks damn fine in a pair of aviators.

I’m not going to be able to make the opening myself, but you can check out the invite for the show over on facebook if you’re so inclined and/or local. :)

PRINTS AND ART BOOK
Also worth mentioning is that the people behind Light Grey Art Lab have already set up an online store for the show! You can pick up prints of all the art, along with a limited edition art book collecting all of the pieces in the show with short blurbs about each of the featured ladies.

You can pick up a print of my piece HERE, and grab the art book HERE. Go forth and look at all the pretty art!

-C

shoomlah:

Finally sucked it up and submitted my entry to Project Rooftop’s Fantastic Four redesign contest!  I love superhero teams, especially ones who spend a lot of their time sciencing, so this was fun.

I decided to go with a midcentury-inspired/sci-fi look for their uniforms- not the most drastic change, of course, but I wanted something sleek that played around with the 4 iconography a bit more than usual.  I Also took the bodysuit-as-wearable-computer concept a bit more literally with the optional retinal HUD, and made Ben a bit of a beefcake.  Because why the hell not

shoomlah:

Reblogging old art just because I continue to get the “ummmmm I doubt Powhatan women wore skirts like that” comment ALL THE DAMN TIME

Call me out on the feathers in her hair, yes!  Even her pseudo-historical leather shirt!  But come on now, don’t immediately equate showing skin with historical inaccuracy.  Also halter tops are totally an actual thing.  And tattoos.

shoomlah:

I’ve always assumed the women in Edwardian fashion plates are just secretly pregnant.  Pretty sure that’s legit.

shoomlah:

It’s a dangerous thing to leave fandoms to their own devices for long periods of time- they tend to get stuck in this weird feedback loop of fan theories and inside jokes, eventually superseding and enveloping the source material entirely.

No fault to the people who enjoy that sort of thing, I’ve just lost track of what Watson is supposed to be made of at this point and kinda want to get back to, y’know

the mystery stuff

shoomlah:

If I were to write a children’s book about derailing on the internet it would totally have whales in it

This would be a great book for children AND politicians.

shoomlah:

marasbazaar:

Forever GPOY

mediumaevum:

Norman Rockwell, Boy reading an adventure story

(One of the best feelings in the world… I’m just going to finish this paragraph…Page… Well, only two pages until I finish the chapter… Just to see how the next one begins…No way!… *continues reading*)

1419 × 1950

I just gotta say, this is for all the people who feel like they have to put down Rockwell in order to say they like Leyendecker- “oh but Rockwell was so popular” YES, YES HE WAS, BECAUSE OF THAT GORGEOUS NONSENSE UP THERE.  It’s so easy to become numb to Rockwell’s subtle caricature when you see the paintings all the time, but goodness.  The man knew his way around a tube of oil paint.

I will gladly steal both of their magic art powers thanks,

-C

Not to mention that Leyendecker and Rockwell share a continuum of Saturday Evening Post covers — they may have stylistic differences, but they riff on a lot of the same themes.

I have immense respect for Rockwell. The man was an extraordinary storyteller, and he taught me about the importance of props and body language when it comes to establishing a story without resorting to external narration. If I can someday be even half as thoughtful as Rockwell was, I’ll be a happy artist.

shoomlah:

There are some awesome redesign contests over on Warren Ellis’ forum every once in a while and, seeing how this round was Egyptian mythology, I’m finally throwing my hat into the ring.

The idea for this particular challenge was to do a modern day version of Sakhmet, as she might appear in comics. I took a bit of a high fashion route in interpreting her traditional garb (read: ZIPPERS EVERYWHERE ZIPPERS), and what the hell! I like it.

-C