I would love your work even if you were a snail! Hmmm.. Actually..... I wonder how "snail art" would look like, since they don't have gender issues at all. They're almost entirely blind though, that's quite a setback.
Why am I jabbering about snails? I am so sorry.
I've found out that you're a girl at the same time I've found out about your work, so... I dunno. All I can say is - it didn't surprise me that you weren't a man. But.. had you been a man, it wouldn't have surprised me either! Maybe you have a "unisex style"...? Maybe I just really don't give a shit about this sort of thing? Who knows. I would have been surprised had you been a 9 year old kid, though. That's too much for me to handle.
Not me. I am pretty racist against snails and mollusks. They slime into this country and take jobs away from decent, god-fearing bipeds and I tell you, I am flat out against it.
Stealing our jobs and our women with their flashy shells...IT AIN'T RIGHT, IT JUST AIN'T RIGHT.
My current boss says her husband is the one who flagged my portfolio as a possible employee and they both thought I was male based on the art. Many of my fans when I was producing more art were male (now everything I do is confidential until it hits print, I don't have much in the way of fans any more). I don't draw monsters. Some of my work is very cute. I have no idea why people think some artists are male/female based on the art alone. I'm pretty I amused by your story about your husband, though.
I like to think I don't assign gender to art, but I bet do. That said, I think you do a nice job of drawing topless barbarians that do not feel exploitative or somehow diminished by being their female... maybe you achieve that because you are a woman artist...? However, I've seen a fair amount of sexy art by women that feels as gratuitous as men drawing the same thing, if not more so because they don't have to edit themselves because they are drawing the same gender.... What the hell, I guess I just like how you draw.
(wow, that's a babbly post, I hope some of that made sense).
I have been mistaken for a dude many many times. Even though I have a reasonably feminine name I've had several people think I was a guy named Jess, I guess short for Jessie? Sometimes I think the confusion was because I draw porn. But other times people look at drawings I've done of myself and just don't SEE the tits! I guess they see short hair, goofy pose and they think:DUDE. It's a weird thing. I can't say I haven't made assumptions like that myself though! I've never been disappointed one way or the other but I have felt silly to have assumed.
Every time I show Oglaf.com to someone they are baffled to find out that it's a woman who draws it.
That's funny, because I think Oglaf and Platinum Grit are girly in a rip-their-faces-off-action sort of way.
I don't tend to think of art in genders if I'm not actively talking about gender and art, but I'm pretty sure "We can fix this" was my introduction to your stuff, and you were clearly drawing yourself as female... but that's just me.
Yeah, I used to have really short hair and I remember walking down the street in a skirt, blouse and with a purse and having people come up to me: "Excuse me, Sir!" Jeez, what do I have to do, walk around with my labias hanging out?
I think we all assume a lot things about an artist when we see their work, and don't get me started about academic bullshit. It's just an occupational hazard.
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Hmmm.. Actually..... I wonder how "snail art" would look like, since they don't have gender issues at all. They're almost entirely blind though, that's quite a setback.
Why am I jabbering about snails? I am so sorry.
I've found out that you're a girl at the same time I've found out about your work, so... I dunno. All I can say is - it didn't surprise me that you weren't a man. But.. had you been a man, it wouldn't have surprised me either! Maybe you have a "unisex style"...? Maybe I just really don't give a shit about this sort of thing? Who knows.
I would have been surprised had you been a 9 year old kid, though. That's too much for me to handle.
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Stealing our jobs and our women with their flashy shells...IT AIN'T RIGHT, IT JUST AIN'T RIGHT.
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*fist bump*
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(wow, that's a babbly post, I hope some of that made sense).
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Also, this drawing is excellent. I love how outsize her hat is. I have to put "wearing my enemies head as a hat" on my list of things to do.
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I have been mistaken for a dude many many times. Even though I have a reasonably feminine name I've had several people think I was a guy named Jess, I guess short for Jessie? Sometimes I think the confusion was because I draw porn. But other times people look at drawings I've done of myself and just don't SEE the tits! I guess they see short hair, goofy pose and they think:DUDE.
It's a weird thing. I can't say I haven't made assumptions like that myself though! I've never been disappointed one way or the other but I have felt silly to have assumed.
Every time I show Oglaf.com to someone they are baffled to find out that it's a woman who draws it.
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I don't tend to think of art in genders if I'm not actively talking about gender and art, but I'm pretty sure "We can fix this" was my introduction to your stuff, and you were clearly drawing yourself as female... but that's just me.
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Yeah, I used to have really short hair and I remember walking down the street in a skirt, blouse and with a purse and having people come up to me: "Excuse me, Sir!" Jeez, what do I have to do, walk around with my labias hanging out?
I think we all assume a lot things about an artist when we see their work, and don't get me started about academic bullshit. It's just an occupational hazard.
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