All – Page 5 – Douglysium

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

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

11 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

11 months ago

My OC Kazumaki, a black woman with gray hair done up in dreads resembling a tornado twisting through the air as she flies towards the camera making a stereotypical “crazy” expression as her black tongue hangs out of her mouth, which is filled with sharp teeth. She is using the pointer finger of her right hand to make a swirling motion next to her temple and her left hand is holding a wooden crutch. A scarf resembling clouds billows around her and she wears clothes with baggy torn up sleeves that look like they were stitched onto a lighter gray shirt. Her dress twirls with her spinning and its edges end in rags. She wears stockings and pointy gray “Christmas elf” type shoes with bells at their tips. She is also wearing golden earrings that resemble a windchime and as she spins through the air a destructive whirl of wind follows, bending and breaking trees as the ground is torn asunder with debris flying into the air. Same as the last image except without the whirl of wind and shading.

Belated Blacktober 15: Kazumaki “Loopy”

11 months ago

A chibi person wearing silver knight armor doing a capoeira move. They have one hand on the ground with both feet in the air while one hand holds their left leg as their body is angled almost parallel to the ground, with their lower body being slightly raised up. A red glint shines from the right eye hole of the helmet and a sparkle shines from their left foot. Movement lines along with a cloud of dust allude to the motion used to kick their lower body off the ground. The environment looks like old ruins with a brown rustic ground and the shapes of buildings in the background.

A Knight Doing Capoeira

11 months ago