The message I'm taking away from the past few days is that people need to do better when setting up their annual bingo cards.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Getting in one more before Christmas – here's my take on Jovie from the movie Elf. Happy holidays, everyone!

The 1997 movie Anastasia has always had a special place in my heart because I took my mom to see it, so I figured I'd give drawing her a try. I wanted to maintain a somewhat simple look for her since that's what she had for most of the movie, but without drawing directly from the movie itself.

It's been a while since I drew Vixen, aka Mari Jiwe McCabe, from DC Comics. As I worked on this one, it became pretty evident to me that my crush on 90s era Halle Berry is still holding on strong.

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The long birthday weekend gave me a chance to do more drawing than usual, so here's another I finished up – Contemporary Shadowheart. I absolutely love her in Baldur's Gate 3, but felt like giving her a bit more modern (and slightly goth?) style.

Just a quick rendition of Quorra from Tron: Legacy. There's not a whole lot to say about it – she's just someone I've wanted to draw from a while.

This week's project – A character illustration and icons for Mars on the DnD with dee discord. I put this together in exchange for a generous donation to The Trevor Project, and had a lot of fun doing it. The biggest challenge was making her hair floofy enough.

Corrected this week's project to hopefully have platinum blonde hair: Emma Frost, of X-Men fame. As much as I wanted to put Emma in colors other than white, I couldn't bring myself to do it.

How do people in the press pool keep from laughing?

tired: great gatsby parties wired: bastille day parties

This week's project: The interplanetary thief Ada Lamar, from Beth Revis's “Chaotic Orbits” series of novellas. I just have a weak spot for female protagonists and especially ones who are thieves, so Ada has become one of my favorite characters to follow.

Philly PAWS has a pet food pantry. You can reach out to them directly if you need help. They do a lot of other stuff too, like providing vet care and temporary housing for pets. They accept monetary donations and donated supplies. phillypaws.org/paws-program...

This Leloo from ”The Fifth Element” is the result of a reference pose that didn't quite work out – the placement of the reference's hands (clasped beneath her chin) just didn't translate to the drawing. So instead I gave her a chicken to hold. Because everyone knows Leloo loves her chicken.

An early posting this week — another cel shading piece, this time of Illyana Rasputin, aka Magick of the X-Men. For some reason I just couldn’t get her too not look like a teenager to me. I was aiming for mid-20s or so.

This week I opted for a slightly more formal than usual Laura Kinney. My original intention was to have a nightclub behind her, but it didn't quite work with how I want to do these backgrounds. So instead we get a convenient brick wall with just the tiniest bit of self-aggrandizing graffiti on it.

This week's post -- Major Motoko Kusanagi of Public Security Section 9 hanging out in Tokyo with some coffee to go.

I recently did a character-art-for-map trade, so here's the Drow druid Korelei owned by Kaylinn57 on the D&D with Dee discord. I love trying to bring people's characters to life, so I was all in on this one. And it's even better when they're adorable elves.

State of the world status: When the doctor's office asks if you've felt sad or depressed in the last month, you're not sure whether the correct answer is yes or no.

This week's piece is another revisit to Harley Quinn in something other than her usual jacket and shorts. I'm experimenting with adding more layers to some of the shading to see whether it adds more depth in a good way. #harleyquinn

I don't often do big expressions, but I found a reference I wanted to try recently and with Jester's simplified design for the upcoming “The Mighty Nein” series being released, I had to give my favorite tiefling another go.

Good.

Another summery Starfire for the collection. I started this one intending to only do cel shading, but couldn't resist going all the way. So, here we are. #digitalart

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

Even some DC yuppies are heckling the shit out of these federal occupiers walking the streets in DC. I asked one person why their presence pissed them off so much. “Because fuck them, that’s why.” It’s not “Do you hear the people sing” but it has a certain salty catchiness to it.

Well, this is one way to identify yourself as a very easy target for car thieves...

At some point the "futility against body armor" ratio should make a sandwich attack a form of free speech.

I'm back on my “Superheroes in Civvies” kick, so here's Ororo Munroe taking a summer stroll. I don't usually draw her with the ridiculously long hair, but it just kind of works. I mean, when you can conjure up your own breeze to blow it around dramatically, why wouldn't you wear it like that?

A bit of a follow up to the Jean Grey piece, this time focusing on Kate (Kitty) Pryde. Use cel shading practice as an excuse to use various references for poses and outfits that I've been saving. #xmen

One of the most amusing aspects of watching the Little League World Series is how some of the players are tiny little Hobbits and then others are larger than half the guys working at your average construction site.

Takes a certain kind of person to classify an invitation to a rape island as a "privilege"

I had a hankering to draw some long legs in high boots, and this casual Jean Grey is the result. I'm still practicing cel shading, and the main lesson of this one seems to be that less is more, a complete 180 from the more is more of my usual rendering. #jeangrey

It seems every year I draw Pixie Girl at least once, so I decided this year's version would also provide a bit of practice in working with shadows. I really like how it turned out, and I'm kind of glad after almost ten years she's finally found a hairstyle she likes enough to keep.

Last month I set up a fundraising campaign on tiltify where, for a small donation to The Trevor Project (a support phoneline for LGBTQ+teens), I would draw Dungeons & Dragons tokens for the person who made the donation.

Please spread the word that Medicaid goes under a variety of names, depending on your state. 👇 Your state & loss 👇

The pain of Election Day was not knowing how bad it could get. The fury of today is knowing how bad it will get.

This is one of those I wonder whether I should replace my desk lamp with a sunlamp.

When you’re just grabbing brown people

The other members of the G7 have to be feeling a lot more at ease now that he's leaving early, right? Like when the drunk in your section at the ballpark finally gets up and leaves?

For… no reason, here’s that time Superman (Jon Kent) stood with protesters to stop the illegal deportation of refugees in Superman: Son of Kal-El #3. Art by John Timms.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday railed against the Trump administration’s unilateral deployment of the National Guard. “We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Sometimes you just have to roll with inspiration when it hits you. This time it was a post by Ginny Di (www.instagram.com/p/DKSNNAFTcO...) that led me to make this goblin version of her in the appropriate hat.

this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having

I wish it'd be more commonplace for video games to have all text be adjustable in size. We gamers are only getting older.