A Hallway Rug, Made With Yarn From Old T-shirts. It’s Roughly 8ft Long And Took About A Day To Make.

Awwww hell yeah we getting somewhere now

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original illustration - face 2

available for $35

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Buy art from these LGBTQ artists and more at this year's Art Auction — Lavender Rights Project

Photo: Two Princes by Eric Chan; Starting bid - $300 Check out these artists and more at this year’s LGBTQ Art Auction on Saturday, November 9 from 6:00-9:00pm (doors @ 5:30pm) at the Hillman City Collaboratory - Buy tickets

Check it out! I'm one of the featured artists for the Lavender Rights Project art auction, benefiting a legal clinic providing low-cost assistance for queer people and other marginalized groups.

"Alone and Forsaken" by 16 Horsepower

Some Toshinoris and an Aizawa.

Titles for this page “Aizawa is trans. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.” or “Aizawa Emerges from His Sleeping Bag to Shame Mankind.”

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the first sketch of alien moon, fueled by boredom during the closing shift.

originally, I gave them really long fingers, but eventually I decided against that.

and also a very silly short comic.

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I’m working on drawings for several zines that I hope to get riosgraph printed. I thought a neat way to get some interest for these future projects would be to show my work.

Watch me draw and listen to me ramble!

The face I’m drawing comes from a photo in “Artist’s Models 8: Practical Poses for the Working Artist.”

...aaaand here’s what I’m aiming for the final pieces to look like.

Also, I should have more copies of my “R. J. Hill: Therapist” comic for sale later in the week.

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"queer coding" and here I thought you were actually cool

I turn 30 this year. I am freed from the burden of giving a shit about being cool. 

how do you feel about your bart/chris/bobby comic being low-key iconic in some circles? I just read it again and it really brings me totears

I'm glad you find the comic so meaningful.

On one hand, it's gratifying as an artist, to know that my work has resonated with so many people. Based on some of the messages I've gotten from people, the comic has been part of how they processed their own childhood experiences or part of what inspires them to start their own therapy. That's amazing! It's not like I set out with that being the goal of the comic or anything!

On the other hand, it's given me a small experience of "death of the author." I didn't conceive of the comic as a sweeping critique of the "nuclear family animated comedy" or depictions of violence, trauma, or abusive relationships in media. I have LOTS of complex and contradictory opinions on "difficult" subjects in art. I created the comic while taking a class on family and couples therapy, and was inspired by the class to explore how real family/relationship dynamics might occur if I approached these cartoons as real families. I think a lot of people get this backwards -- they see the comic as using a lens of psychology/counseling to critique popular media. My actual experience of thinking up the comic was using popular media to explore what I was learning about psychology/counseling.

That said, I recognize that once something is out in the world, I can't completely control how it's interpreted or used. The positive messages I've received greatly outweigh my ambivalence about how some people view/interpret the comic.

My boyfriend got me a rigid heddle loom for my 30th birthday. I’ve been working on my first piece. I think I started with the instructions for a scarf?? So this is probably going to be very long and I have no actual plan, I’m just getting a feel for things. It’ll be a surprise when I get to unroll the whole thing.