1946 Portraits At Howard University

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

Sometimes a creative outlet is a fun little hobby and sometimes it's a lifelong affliction. Like I crochet because making little woven animals sparks joy and I'm a writer whether I like it or not because I'm tormented by visions

where do u get the inspiration for the people in ur fab art? do u use references, if so where from? :)

Honestly from all over the place! Most commonly nowadays, I flip through a bunch of art/photos on twitter or instagram.  I especially take advantage of the “saved” feature on instagram, which lets me look at a bunch of really pretty pictures at once.  Here’s some examples of what that might look like, with the artist’s @ ’s added in. Warning, big photo dump incoming––and it’s only a fraction of the total number that I actually have, which is definitely around 2000 or so.

I’ll also save a lot of art (read: about 800 pics at this point) to a folder on my computer.  Recently, quite a few of these have been coming from twitter; here’s a few examples of artists that I’ve had a soft spot for (handles included):

I tend to go absolutely nuts with finding stuff that inspires me, but I wouldn’t necessarily spend excessive time on it––when I say go nuts, I mean that I have a sustained interest in seeking out inspiration.  The pics I have were collected over the course of five years or so, and the ones from near the beginning are somewhat different from recent ones. 

If you’re trying to build up a collection, you likely don’t need to spend hours a day searching for this stuff (even more than twenty or thirty minutes is probably too much, unless you’re explicitly doing concept work and you need tons of references). If, while browsing tumblr or instagram or twitter, you come across a picture that really strikes you as beautiful, just save it. Over months and years of selecting choice pictures, you’ll eventually cultivate a taste in art/photos/whatever that will definitely affect the development of your style as you keep making art. Sort of a side benefit of this whole ordeal.

Have another little drawing :)

Quick Glow Tutorial <3

My cavern 9-4-16

Hey I really love your playlists and since Christmas time is getting closer I was wondering about gay Christmas music💖

thank you! gay christmas music

12 gays of christmas- bubba love sponge

a dirty gay christmas by johnny mcgovern

a lay in a manger by the kinsey sicks

a man in distress by the go-go boys

beary merry christmas by freddy freeman

crossdressing for christmas-robert wolf

dear santa, bring me a man by alaska thunderfuck & courtney act

gay christmas by tom goss

gay christmas song by sponge finger

god bless ye femmy lesbians (by the kinsey sicks)

happy lesbians in the snow by rick berlin

honey dont think your mama dont know (by brady earnhart)

homo christmas by pansy division

i saw daddy kissing santa claus - rupaul

its gonna be a gay old christmas (by sponge finger)

its ok to be gay by bill whyte

itsa very queer christmas - erin mckeown

jingle bells dont ask dont tell (by the kinsey sicks)

my brother is gay by the vandals

my first christmas as a woman (by the vandals)

river by sam smith

santa baby by alaska thunderfuck

santa baby by rupaul

santa is a gay man by big freedia

santa is an asshole by erin mckeown

self esteem by the kinsey sicks

we three queens by alaska thunderfuck

mood: when Diane Von Furstenberg said  “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be”

Cozy little studio 9/7/18

It’s a minor pet peeve, but it is everywhere today so errrr…. please keep in mind that “Rest in Peace”/RIP literally comes from a latin phrase and is a very very deeply Christian expression.

When talking about the departed, Jews say “may their memory be a blessing.”

So please, when talking about a dead person who is Jewish, try to keep in mind that RIP is a Christian phrase.

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Highlights from the December 1 YTB No. 3 Launch Party!

RISD and MICA hosted simultaneous branches of this launch party and we connected via video chat. RISD’s party was at the Exposé Gallery in downtown Providence.

All photos by Patrick Han. || Pigeon courtesy of RISD Pigeon Club.