Traditional Art – Page 3 – Douglysium

A drawing of a Black woman sitting on a rock with a blanket partially draped over it. To the left of the figure is a beachside and to her right is the inside of a studio with a blanket draped from the wall. The figure has tattoos on each of her shoulders pointing and curving down towards her chest. They resemble fire and / or branches. The woman is looking down at an angle with her right foot on her left knee and her right hand on top of the right foot.

07 “Two Sides: Seaside and Inside”

10 months ago

A drawing of a woman laying on her side on top of a blanket. Behind her is another blanket hanging down from the wall.

06 “Model Study: Laying Down”

10 months ago

A drawing of a Black man resembling me. The edges of the paper were cut up withscissors to resemble cracked and shattered glass and the drawing depicts the reflection of the man reaching through the mirror and strangling his counterpart, cracking and breaking the glass in the process. The man in the real world is reaching towards some pills as he struggles against the strangulation of his reflection.

05 “Fracturing”

10 months ago

A drawing of a Black man that resembles me trying to pull themselves out of bed. Their torso is lifted up with a hand on their face while the rest of their body lays under a blanket. Their face is melting while their melting hand tries to hold it together. The elbow of the arm being used to hold the face is bulbous and weighty while the other arm is being used to lift the figure up. The blankets of the bed also resemble a crushing dirt and grass with bits of soil dropping onto the bed it covers. As the figure rises up and trails of their own body seem stuck to the bed like a viscous fluid. Behind the figure’s head is a dark shadowy form like a distorted halo of darkness and from it extends a warped line across the drawing that curves down before moving back upward, as if something is weighing the line itself down. The line has tears in it and next to the figure’s “bed” is a gravestone.

04 “Deadweight”

10 months ago

A charcoal drawing of a shadowy figure taking a picture of their reflection in a mirror. The shadowy form of a chair can be seen along with the edge of a mirror and the shine of a light reflecting off the glass.

03 “Glass Filter”

10 months ago

A charcoal drawing with an eye in the middle. On either side of the eye is a ragged line meant to resemble eyelashes bisecting the paper. The bottom half has interlocking arms and elbows with faces that are kissing. There is a mouth near the bottom framed by a handshake and on either side of the lower portion are hands holding each other. The top part of the drawing also has interlocking arms but with more violent imagery. One of the strange faces on an elbow is strangling the other and one of the arms near the mouth is grabbing the wrist of the other ehile the other two hands are balled into fists.

02 “Hold”

10 months ago

A messy charcoal drawing depicting a shadowy figure taking a picture of themselves reflected in a mirror.

01 “Filter”

10 months ago

Superus-stellas

12 months ago

A pencil sketch of Himarsaka's OC Natalie. A Black woman with dreads wearing a sweater under a lab coat. She has an excited, potentially maniacal, look on her face as a tomato-like fruit grows from under her sleeve into the palm of her left hand from a vine. In her right hand is some sort of experimental gardening hoe with wires and an electronic component. Electricity or energy crackles between its three prongs.

Belated Blacktober 8: Natalie Moss

12 months ago

A pencil sketch of my OC Viola, a Black person with an afro tied into a ponytail. They are sitting at a table organizing some kind of scrap book. They are wearing a raincoat and glasses in addition to a camera around their neck.

Belated Blacktober 7: Viola “Blue” Blewett

12 months ago