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A drawing of a bearded man from the upper stomach up with his left knee pulled up to his chest.

08 “Model Study: Frame”

1 month ago

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”

1 month 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”

1 month 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”

1 month 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”

1 month 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”

1 month 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”

2 months ago

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

01 “Filter”

2 months ago

A drawing of a Black woman jumping to the left with her torso and head angled at the viewer. She has braids done in two messy buns and some of the braids on her head hang down. Two of the braids on the front have bubbles at the end and Janiya’s eyes are looking towards the viewer while she blows a bubble out of pink bubble gum. In her right hand placed in front of her chest is a small package of gumballs. Janiya is wearing a light blue top and pink baggy pants with white shoes. Her left shoe has pink laces and her right shoe light blue ones.

Belated Blacktober 17: Janiya Dallas

2 months ago

The first image is a ref of John’s front side. In contrast to what someone may first expect, he is a muscular but squat man that resembles a dwarf. He has a curly black beard full of rubble and metal shavings with brown skin and silver freckles like flecks of metal on his face. On his head is a mining helmet, complete with a flashlight, covering a hairline that is receding and turning a shade of white from stress. He is wearing a mining uniform that is orange with blue overalls. The sleeves on the arms and legs of the uniform have yellow reflective stripes for visibility. The overalls have front pockets with dynamite in one and rail spikes in the other. He wears brown steel-toed boots as well as a belt with extra pockets. In his right hand is a hammer with a strange head and his left hand is on a pickaxe at his hip. His hammer’s head has a strange train wheel-like design on its sides with pipes sticking out of the wheels’ center and pointing up. Its handle is wooden and more worn than the head. John’s hands have visible hair on the back of them and he has wide tired looking bloodshot eyes with bags under them. He is clearly being overworked and stressed while wearing an oversized backpack on his back. In the bottom left of the image is John’s color palette for reference.

Belated Blacktober 15: Steel Berserker

2 months ago