Art school for us?

So Eve and I aren't 100% sure if we're going to be able to go to art school next semester. I think I might be able to take just 2 more classes before I have to drop out. Sooo, I came up with some creative solutions, and decided to peddle my art, my talent, my crap, and my labor (for a certain price). Anyhoo, check out this little site I made to help fund Eve's last year of art school. She's worked so hard to get where she is, it would kill me to have her put off her last year when she's so close to getting the final few classes she needs.

Me on the other hand, well, I've been doing this little very non-traditional paintings (as in, very poor draftsmanship...my inner illustrator/Academy voice speaking) that I LOVE and I'm sort of okay with not taking any more classes. I definitely still want to take a few more, but I'm pretty good. Anyhoo, you can read more on the site. Check it out and buy some stuff!

Illustration Friday - Drifting

After her escape, her heart was finally at rest. She smiled until the very end...

A Three-toed sloth

A three-toed sloth, as per requested by Kipps. Enjoy the sloth madness.

In other notes, I'm nearly done with my illustration for Hyphen magazine. I'll post the final once it's published (and I make sure it's cool with the magazine).

I hope to have my Illustration Friday illustration done by tomorrow, as well as some updates to the website, and maybe a painting or two up on Etsy. We shall see, however, if all this pans out.

Privilege - an analogy

So I was over on Feministing Community reading this post about privilege, and I came across this in the comments. Despite a few typos and such, this is such an awesome analogy about privilege that I had to blog about it myself. Pretty awesome stuff.

I am a fan of the starting line/road race analogy to explain privilege to those who use the "free will pull yourself up by your bootstraps" argument.

Imagine the starting line of a race with runners representing different groups in society lined up and a finish line in the distance.
Your boyfriend would say 1.) That everyone starts at the same line because the only that matters is whether you don't call yourself a victim and perservere and 2.)Anyone who just keeps running and doesn't give up will finish the race.

The race starts.

The white, heterosexual cis-man can just run towards the finish line and he'll get there based on who he is: how in shape he is, how long he feels like stopping, whether he runs or walks or jogs. There will be relatively few obstacles outside of his own ability.

Other groups however, have hurdles to jump over, and people yelling on the sidelines that they shouldn't be running or that their technique is flawed or that their uniforms are inappropriate. Some of them are not allowed to stop running even if they are too tired to continue and some of them can't afford water to stay hydrated or proper shoes to run in.

Still others were pushed back starting line farther away from the first one because they didn't "qualify" to run in the original race with everybody else.

None of the runners gives up or complains because they are "choosing" to "overcome their circumstances and not be victims" but does that make the race fair or all the runners equally privileged/disadvantaged?

Choosing not to be a victim of circumstance is a character trait, not having to face any circumstances that could make you a victim is privilege.

Hope that helps!

-by ferocita72

Illustration Friday - Unfold

What story will unfold for our intrepid heroes as they speed along the narrow ice bridge to the Castle of Frozen Doom? (cue brooding atmospheric music).

Old, old, old Illustration Friday topic

Contagious...cuz it's a zombie yawning...like, contagious as in viral infection, as well as how yawns are contagious??!?!?! Get it? Sigh.

*edit - btw, sorry Ill Friday people. I didn't realize that the Ill.Fri. doesn't categorize all the posts, so even though I went to the correct topic, it still shows up the the most recent topic area. Whoops.

Illustration Friday - Cracked

Yeah, I missed the deadline for this, but I'm illustrating it anyway. Pretty self-explanatory.