JULY 2024-NOW ART

19/09/2024
A lemur artist. Best known for his series of 'fossa paintings', exploring the nature of violence in natural society through abstract imagery, his works have been featured in the MMOMA (Madagascar Musuem of Modern Art) and in private collections worldwide.

23/08/2024
"Moi j'aimerai longtemps/lorsque reviens le temps/Le temps de la rentree..."
A design based off the severely underrated anime Hisone and Masotan, and old motorcycle graphics, which have become a minor visual fascination of mine recently. I am so proud of how this turned out, I feel like I'm really starting to find my groove with digital art after years of thinking I just can't wrap my head around it. There's like one thing here I'm finicky about at my current skill-level and it's so minor it's not worth mentioning. Hard work pays off!

This show is so, so good and really I think it's lack of popularity is just due to unlucky circumstance (Netflix-only release overseas, hard-to-parse official subtitles (seriously please watch with fansubs), airing in the weird bridge years between 2000-2010s 'anime fan' culture and modern widespread popularity of anime as a replacement for the genre crap Hollywood isn't making, typical weeb misogyny.) It's stylish, it's shmaltzy, it's super-sweet, it's almost a magical girl show with dragons about self-improvement as a form of self-love and how relationships help and hurt people simultaneously and it fucking rocks.
It's dragons occupy one of the most interesting spaces I've seen such beasts in in non-folkloric fiction--to go into detail would be spoiling it, I think, and the more blind you watch this the better. They are so damn cute too. Futomomo's my favourite I think but I would die for any of them. Even the lyrics of the ED (a cover of the France Gall song I linked above) have a bunch of interesting readings relating to the show's themes, I think. I wish I could spoiler tag on my site because I am itching to talk more about this show!!
The 'White Hearts' title is a slight variation on the show's describing the D-pilot personality types as 'white lovers', pure of heart but 'blank' in terms of self-identity and desperate for approval and affection; I thought the original phrasing might come off a little worrying next to the motorcycle imagery though :b. Here's an alternate version that calls them the Gifu Air Base Dragonriders Club because I liked the sound of that too and couldn't decide.