For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent at least from 10 to 30 HOURS of head on a monitor to create all of this. {and not only me, but for EVERY fan art you see on the WEB.}
And, you see all of this?? All the time I spent on this piece of - art, time of that my ONE life, spent on something that I tried hard to enjoy? (Because yeah, I could have trash it everything and instead of spent my time on “drawing” painfully and frustrating like all the other artist I hope can understands, I could have play some videogame instead. Or read.) But no, I choosed to draw cause they say to us to keep trying, to keep fighting for what we love and?…
Well, time that somehow has been shadowbanned :D until today :D when finally I’ve got a real answer from Tumblr :D finally resolving a “glitch” that hided all my recently posts from the research.
And what can I say… I’m sorry very sorry but I’m just a little bit frustrated. Yeah. But I don’t want to speak about me, I want to talk about who likes me is in the same situation:
Artist all around the web are really, really trying hard to shows the world that they exist but biggest social media are keeps cutting off any chance of visibility and in other ways, emotionally human speaking, this lead to a lot of people dropping off every hopes. Then what you say? “It’s their fault that they’re not trying hard” Well, I’m gonna tell you what this mean: sh1t.
The kind of SH*T you say when you heard that they company X want to make a remake of “that series X” and the only thing you can think of is "theres no more original ideas today. Cinema is becoming trash because they don’t know what to invent anymore. Bleah, there’s nothing new nowadays".
The truth is: THERE IS BUT ALL THE CREATORS ARE BEING DROWN DOWN BY THINGS LIKE THIS KEEPS HAPPENING. And not only shadowbanned accindetally by bots, (that ok can be understandable, moderators bots are not humans but still they should be fixed a little more.) but by also people that see things and just hit “like” and nothing else. ((((Click “Like” it’s ok, but it’s a wrong, WRONG system to support the artist you like. It’s just like say “hi” and turn your shoulders to them. From the principle, click a like is a single one-way “support” that works mostly as a save for later than anything else. And PLEASE, don’t get it wrong, I’m asking you sorry if this sounds rude to you, but with the recently visibilities issues all around the major social media, the best you can shows to support youjr favorite artist is sharing their art, share share and share.
Out there, there ARE people with very, very beautiful ideas!!! Very lovely art, very brilliant stories that are praying for that little chance to be known, but how do you thinks they can be noticed if nobody knows them? And saying “knows them”, I’m meaning: have chance to visibility on web. That’s how basically “get informed” works, sponsor works, and all possible supporters get to know the next fandom they would love. By: sharing. But if social media keeps cutting off artist that can have a lot of potentials and good materials to offer, it’s inevitable that time passing they lost hopes and will to create.
Every kind of artists are still humans, not “money” machines.
I don’t care for me, but please, support your favourite artist! SHARE!
Now, said this, and sorry for my little rant, I’m grateful that Tumblr supports helped me with this issue but I still not able to see my lasts posts on researches, so since I am not neither in mood neither have enough phisically forces to re-post all of my art from last year, I made a big one post with some of all the major pieces that receveid less attentions. I just hope you like it, and if even not please, give it a chance to be seen by someone who would, share this to spread an artist cry!
Here’s all the single posts, and if you have Xkit with timestamp you can even check yourself the dates of each post.
Thanks for reading this, sorry for all the english errors, and please stay safe out there!
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ABC is showing episode 1 “In Fair Verona, Where We Lay Our Scene” again tonight at 10:00.
So if you missed it on Monday now is your chance. If you caught it on Monday and you loved it as much as I did maybe give it a rewatch before next week’s episode.
Also it is available at abc.com if you can’t catch it tonight either. Let’s show them how much we love this show!
As of June 22nd, ya girl is now in the top 100 best seller list on Barnes & Noble! For those who don’t know, I wrote a poetry book called Brown Clay and published with B&N but I was told I wouldn’t be in store which is what I thought I was signing up for when I published with them.
When I called my local B&N, the manager was super rude & unprofessional. He said if social media made a lot of noise about my book, & proved there is a demand for my book by getting a lot of sales, they might put my book in stores! I’m not sure how many I need, but I’ve gotten 23 sales so far!
My poetry book is about love, identity, trauma, healing, sex, wlw relationships, & Black empowerment & liberation written by a Black queer writer and it’s rare we get this type of visibility in the author industry. So please, if you’re in the US or Canada, grab a copy from Barnes & Noble’s website! For international folks, I have an ebook on my ko-fi shop
New entry for Goretober ! “Arrows” and “Butcher Knife”.
To see the full picture, please visit my Patreon where I am more active. Sketches, unfinished art and such are available there. Subscribed Patreon will be able to see NSFW and Gore content.
PLEASE READ!!!I am happy to announce that I have raised $3,300 of my $5000 goal to print and distribute Itan: Part One a graphic novel based on Yoruba Oral Literature. This project has been my dream since I was 17 years old. Now is the time to make it a reality! We are so close! But I still need your help and support. Help me bring this manifestation of west African, art and thought to life. Visit itanproject.com and preorder your copy today!!!!. Special thanks to @nutrasheena for the video!!!!!!.
Creating this comic is about more that highlighting traditional Yoruba narratives. It is an exploration of African aesthetics, a blend of western and African artistic techniques. The textile and sculpture arts I use are not simple background, they are an ode to the artistic exuberance of of the Yoruba people and by extension all west african visual art forms. Too often these traditions are belittled as “craft” or “decorative” as opposed to “fine arts”. Their value only recognized when reinterpreted (often misinterpreted) through western contexts. Picasso and Matisse’s asinine obsession with a so called primitive spark ignores the the complex aesthetic and philosophical motivations behind African works of art, ignoring the need to look at it on its own terms. Coolness, spiritual agency, symbolism layered with metaphor within metaphor all are present in the hand and head of the weaver, aladire, carver and potter when they work. The same principles are present in a song, a poem, a proverb or a drumbeat. Whether uttered in Africa and the diaspora, they are imbued with aesthetic and philosophical principles that must be read on their own terms and seen through their own lens. I cannot truly explore the depths of black aesthetics without exploring the power of black arts. That is why it is so important that I make this comic the way that I am making it, To break the delusion of an aesthetic hierarchy that places european ideologies at the top. Support Itan comic today by visiting https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/itan-part-one-africa-art.
Although I havent posted updates in a while i am still hard at work finishing Itan: part one a graphic novel based yoruba oral literature. Please visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/itan-part-one-africa-art/x/15991312#/. We still have long way to go to reach our goal. Please support Itan: Part one today!
