The River

just a heads up this is my art blog, where henceforth I mostly put only my stuff. Exceptions are mostly things I forgor to switch to my reblog blog for.

for cute creatures and other peoples arts and memes:

Light Between Shadows - Scene 2 part 3

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thats it for this scene. next time: sparring

i misspelled jinhui gdi but thats what it is. i bet wrathion brought this with him from his world travels assuming it'd be a nice makeup gift but ocourse things didn't go that well. Better to pretend he just happened to find a new arrival to the Archive before the equally well-read King did

Light Between Shadows - Scene 3, p2

oof size: large

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a powerful individual

im a doctor

i coulda sworn I posted here but i guess not!

hi everybody, i just finished my dissertation in a physical science and have been recovering from the academic burnout by... *checks notes* doing more work via job search activities! that makes a lot of sense.

i have the rest of this chapter of light between shadows thumbnailed more or less, and the script for the whole thing has been done for a while. and the urge to draw is returning like feeling coming back to numb fingers. enough that i also joined the silliest 4-round comic tournament with this thing

so those may also pop up along the way. enjoy.

Formatting comics is weird

Most of my life I drew comics on darn-near anything, mostly printerpaper. In middle school, I'd draw them on GRAPH PAPER because it made doing the paneling easier and tidy.

Nowadays, if Im doing a tournament, I still tend to format things as though for print - though I doubt I'll print most of it.

For fan works, most of it is on social media like tumblr or bsky which folks mostly read on mobile... So instead of assuming people are looking at the entire page at once, its often easier to do panel by panel in a long vertical stretch. It changes how you convey and think about time and action. ITS WEIRD. I know thats the norm for most webcomics, though much of the ones I still enjoy (tigertiger, unsounded, wilde life) still use a print page-like format.

dunno, tossing it out there for comic thoughts!

Light Between Shadows - Scene 4, p1

N'zoth's Horrific Vision of Stormwind ruffles some scales.

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i use "save as draft" to bookmark posts i wanna keep for later

boss design for goku royale 3

Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.