Doug Aitken creates "a portrait of the present" with Return to the Real

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

i contain multitudes (lions)

Thicc boy that want’s presents 🎁 🎄

do you consider your self made?

In a boudoir, 1885 Leon Wyczółkowski

"I'm surprised you remember where your chamber is. How long has it been?"

i think the reason i love silent protags a lot because the limitation of this staple necessitates indirect storytelling. yes it's primarily a device to allow player inserts and roleplaying, but a character's inability to state or directly show how they feel forces one to analyze much more.

when speech is filtered out, you need to reverse engineer what they could've said by how other characters reacted. Multiple choice dialogue options become concurrent thoughts in the character's mind, different facets leading to indecision, with the player only truly deciding which thought comes to the forefront.

definition comes through body language, idle animations, emotive portraits and noises of exertion. if a choice is railroaded, was the protagonist forced into it, or did they decide without player input? what do the available gameplay styles say about the character you've created? what does it mean to accept every single sidequest?

like, well and truly, making a nothing character is impossible, even in video games, because saying "yes" when asked to save the world, that's already a decision, isn't it? there is already an implication, a shadow of belief and value, in the act of playing.

PORTRAIT COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN

Hi guys! I'm opening (a few!) commission slots for semi-realistic portraits. If you're interested please check out the information in the comments of this post. Reblogs are greatly appreciated!

Atticus' parents + his older brother + younger sister update

I've been staring at Iran for two hours now...

Would Iran be a girl?? A boy?? Gnc?? I've not seen u use any pronouns for them up until now idfk how to compliment the way u draw Iran 💀

AH..... IM SO FLATTERED 🥺 you're too kind anonymous, im sure however your compliment them iran will take it smugly graciously! Here's something i drew of them recently!

as always transp below the read more!

Trying to impress her.

Is it working?

Absolutely no.

CORDELIA ESPINOZA for @squea's Corn <3

Cordelia is a somewhat strange and dreamy young woman. You will surely see her stumbling down the street because she was distracted watching the birds fly; wearing her pretty, almost anachronistic, suits and answers calls on her flip phone.

Cordelia's facts:

⠀1.⠀ Her traits are: cheerful, clumsy, art lover, bookworm and loves outdors. Her aspiration is Nerd-Brain. ⠀2.⠀ Once tried to use a smartphone. Shee became so overwhelmed that she went back to her flip phone. ⠀3.⠀ Her dream? to write a book ⠀4.⠀ Although she doesn't know for sure if occult sims exist, occultism is a topic that interests her a lot. ⠀5.⠀ Her knees are often scraped from climbing trees and from simply falling in the street. ⠀6.⠀ She measures 1'85 cm (6 feet and 0'83 inches) A modeling company once hired her for a perfume ad. ⠀7.⠀ She has done several jobs as a model, but now works as a librarian. ⠀8.⠀ Possible corn love interest? I hope so. Because without a doubt Cordelia would be interested in him. ⠀9.⠀ She's bisexual and her pronouns are she/her

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christian transmasc icon: The Ghost of Christmas Present

CHRISTMAS PRESENT also PORTRAIT WEEK

My lovely friend and I are fans of Charlie Cox and Daredevil. So this is her christmas present.