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We Are Super Girls

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Art dedicated to all the amazing superheroines out there, from Kara El to Barbara Gordon to Rey to Sailor Moon to the Power Puff Girls. If she's got super powers or super smarts or just fights for good with skill and luck, she's on here. If you can't find her, shoot me an Ask and I'll try to take a look.

Day 25 Favorite Monster Girl. Nagas. Who knew they’d be so fun to draw? Especially with their colors. Also I really like doing the henna designs.

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This is so cute and the pose is so deeply relatable that I immediately said, out loud, “They’re NOT FOR YOU, they’re for the PTA meeting!” and my husband nodded sagely and said “That stands for People That are Anacondas” and now I can’t stop laughing.

Cover Art | Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o

From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colorism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything. In this stunning debut picture book, actress Lupita Nyong’o creates a whimsical and heartwarming story to inspire children to see their own unique beauty.

Artwork by Vashti Harrison

Release date | Oct 15, 2019 Goodreads

Read this book. It’s beautiful and so sad how dark girls feel they aren’t beautiful. They always are. You always are.

Daughters Of Nri (The Return of the Earth Mother) (2019)

Strong-willed Naala grows up seeking adventure in her quiet and small village. While the more reserved Sinai resides in the cold and political palace of Nri. Though miles apart, both girls share an indestructible bond: they share the same blood, the same face, and possess the same unspoken magic, thought to have vanished with the lost gods.

The twin girls were separated at birth, a price paid to ensure their survival from Eze Ochichiri, the man who rules the Kingdom of Nri. Both girls are tested in ways that awaken a mystical, formidable power deep within themselves. Eventually, their paths both lead back to the mighty Eze.

by Reni K Amayo  

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Reni K Amayo was born and raised in London to two Nigerian immigrant parents. Her active imagination was the cause of many terrible nightmares, beautiful daydreams and colourful white lies. Reni has now used her gift to reimagine the Nigerian land untouched by the scars of colonialism, and instead enriched with its deep, old and powerful magic in her debut book Daughters of Nri, the first instalment of The Return Of The Earth Mother series.

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she wore her armor well it grew from her skin and kept her pristine she was a warrior but war could not touch her

The finished Cancer zodiac.  Thank you to my Patreons for making this possible!

My second entry for Month of Love!  This week’s theme was favorite love story and I gotta say, it was too hard to pick just one out of the twenty some-odd that I came up with.

I always come back to the knight/noble lady trope because I’m cheesy and it’s the best.  It’s also a Valentine’s Day image for m’lady (hah) and I because I call her that so often.

Ink and digital.

get to know me meme (royalist edition): royal facts | | Margrethe II + Lord of the Rings

When she was still heiress presumptive of Denmark, Margrethe sent her own illustrations for The Lord of the Rings to Tolkien and he was struck by how similar her illustrations were to his own. Her drawings appeared in the Danish edition of The Lord of the Rings under the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer. That way she became a Tolkien artist.