This is the last of the scanned pen work from several years ago. It’s weird digitally colouring something you drew years ago, it’s a bit like having a conversation with yourself, “Why would you do this?” I had both tablet and laptop problems whilst I tried to finish this and now have a new laptop so I’m hoping there will be more frequent updates. I’m so glad I won’t have to do things the old fashioned way anymore by scanning my line art. Digital drawing all the way babey! PS I used to have nightmares all the time and loads of other sleep problems, but I haven’t for several years due to a course of trauma therapy. Recovery is real!
Sorry I’ve been away for so long! I’m trying to retrain, work part-time and manage 2 chronic illnesses as well as a chronic mental illness. I barely have time or energy to shower let alone draw. I’ve also had some issues with my fancy new graphics tablet but I won’t bore you with that. It’s the UK general election tomorrow and as a disabled person I’m horrified at the prospect of the Torys getting in again. Their benefit cuts, privatized capacity to work assessments have killed hundreds of thousands of disabled people. The fact that several Tory MPs have stated that disabled people deserve to be paid less shows this is a political move targeting vulnerable people. Evidence has now been leaked that they plan to fully sell the NHS as they have been doing gradually for the last decade. Under a privatized health care system I won’t be able to afford insurance or my medication, my immune system will attack me and I will die a painful death. Please, for your future and for the future of everyone in this country, vote Labour. Their policies would improve the lives of so many people and have been all costed in their manifesto. Even if you’re not disabled keep in mind that sickness and old age comes for all of us and that having children in the hospital under a privatized system costs $10,000- $30,000. The fact that a bloody anarchist is so sick of seeing their friends suffer under this system that they’re begging you to vote is proof of how shit the Torys are. You can use this image as you please for once I don’t care about credit, print it out and share as you will. PLEASE VOTE LABOUR TOMORROW FRIENDS.
Whew I was dreading uploading this and if I hadn’t spent ages on it I would just let it gather dust in my folder. I hate how this is drawn, I guess my excuse is it was several years ago. I also just noticed a spelling mistake. Hey, I couldn’t write until I was 12 alright?! Someone buy me life drawing lessons please?
I was dating a girl for a while I had intense feelings for but didn’t know how to express them. She decided she wasn’t interested in me romantically before I gave this to her, which is kind of ironic as this is a bleeding heart dove. I was processing a lot of stuff and wasn’t the best to date at that time. I’m happy to report I’ve worked through a lot since then.
I came out as non-binary 7 years ago during a period of great personal growth and turmoil. At that time my ex was very unhappy with this development and shortly after when we broke up it was a great hindrance to dating. I never think about my own gender much anymore so it’s hard to connect to what this means. I found something I’d written about this in a message to a friend, “Gender is a social phenomena that includes many factors, not all explained. Sometimes how people see my gender is out of my control, which is a negative experience but other times it’s something open to change. This has become positive for me as being trans has enriched my life in so many ways and made me more open minded/questioning.” Pretentious much? All of this old art was drawn, scanned, coloured with a graphics tablet so old it had no sensitivity and edited with an outdated version of photoshop.
This is probably my favorite comic from this period but it received very little engagement on my old Tumblr (ew Tumblr, remember that?). I started out as a feminist, read a bunch of stuff by black feminists/womanists, realised that we can never have equality under capitalism and wound up an anarcho-communist as you do.
My first post! I think I drew this 5 or 6 years ago before I developed a second chronic illness that prevented me from drawing. I was having a time of it with the Tories cutting public services and vilifying disabled people. I noticed a distinct change around the time they changed the benefit system and the justification they used for it in how people treated me. Suddenly there was a new found hatred and suspicion of disabled people. As cuts become more entrenched a wave of ODs, friends being sectioned, friends developing housing problems, multiple pals being diagnosed with chronic mental illnesses and friends falling off the wagon occurred. When I drew this I didn’t yet know this would happen.
Pink Doe Comics 