Reaching That Point In Working On A Piece Where I Lose Any Sense Of Reality And My Brain Just Chants

original illustration - fashion 1

available for $35

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CHARITY ART COMMISSIONS!

I'm opening 5 slots for 5x7in painted portrait commissions (in this style). Each piece is $45, $20 will be donated to @RAICESTEXAS, $20 will be donated to @AmazonWatch, $5 will be used for shipping the piece.

Email me at panicvolkushka@gmail.com or DM me

Patrons will receive the original painting, a high-res scan of the painting, and a screenshot receipt of the donation to RAICES and Amazon Watch.

You can make your own prints, put it on a shirt, use it as an avatar, as long as I'm credited. I will not sell prints of the pieces, I just ask that I'm able to post the image to my tumblr and other social media sites.

I haven’t posted WIP pics in awhile because it drives me crazy when those get more interest than the finished pieces but I need to show off all my cool sketches.

original illustration - face 3

available for $35

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Screenshot study of Claudia from IWTV, done with Posca and Molotow paint pens

playing around with a more stylized approach

The text in this image is from the song "Pirate Jenny" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, from the musical "The Threepenny Opera."

My favorite version is this one, by Shilpa Ray, Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis.

(This song is on the Claudia playlist that I have created. I might have created playlists for all the main characters in IWTV.)

Dreamed that I died. I immediately came back to life in a new body, but my dead body was just... laying around. I dressed my dead body in a long, navy blue dress. As I carried the body into my room, I thought "Hey! I can use this in my photography!"

As I tried to position the dead body so that I could photograph the two of us, the head on my dead body turned into a cat's head. It kept trying to bite me.

chipsandsalsalove: I would prefer batches, but whatever works best for you!

arinrowan: which option will give you more of a dopamine hit?

Batches it is, then!

details from "Shapeshiffterrr"

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In case it hasn’t been evident, I’ll take this moment to make it clear: I am not here for white supremacists/nationalists, racists, misogynists, homophobes, antisemites, antiziganists, xenophobes, TERFs, SWERFs, or any manifestation of fascism or social darwinism.

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"Pretty Bunny/Ugly Hare"

acrylic and stickers on canvas board, 14 x 18

Something of a continuation on the theme of "fuck your fascist cuteness standards."

Inspired by the Playboy Bunny as a restrictive concept of American female beauty, the different connotations of the words "bunny" and "hare," and overhearing a pregnant woman discuss her fears that her unborn child would be born with a "hare lip," because that had "just ruined" Joaquin Phoenix's face.

This is the first time that I've really tried mixing a more deliberately stylized look with traditional painting, and I am very pleased with how that turned out.

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