translatingtheprintempserable:
Found on the Facebook page Affiches #GGI Posters, which is collecting images of posters, signs, and other graphics from Quebec’s student protests:
- Cover: I’m Teaching Myself about Police Officers and the Protests | Illustrated by Peter Gustanza | Adapted by Léa-Kim Châteauneuf | Vocabulary: 122 words
- Police officers sometimes find themselves breaking windows, which is part of their job.
- The greens [i.e. tuition hike supporters] are not numerous enough to protest in the streets. They’re happy that an officer is there to help them protest far from the reds.
- This officer comes to your school to teach you how to protest without getting arrested. (On chalkboard: Don’t be more than 2 [i.e. in a group] | Don’t move about | Don’t be a panda or a banana | Wear green to be visible.
- The police use a mousetrap (i.e. kettling) to arrest protesters and passersby. | The mousetrap is also a practical way to pepper-spray dangerous thugs.
- A protester seeks refuge in an alley after a police attack. | He’ll be arrested and beaten for obstruction.
- The officer tells his superior that he just gave a $640 fine to the offender.
- Luckily, Juripop comes to get the protester who has been detained for seven hours.
Translated from the original French by Translating the printemps érable.
*Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media’s extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English. These are amateur translations; we have done our best to translate these pieces fairly and coherently, but the final texts may still leave something to be desired. If you find any important errors in any of these texts, we would be very grateful if you would share them with us at translatingtheprintempsderable@gmail.com. Please read and distribute these texts in the spirit in which they were intended; that of solidarity and the sharing of information.
I tried to combine the military-style badassitude of Renner Hawkeye with the fabulosity of his classic outfit, specifically Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Hawkeye. This is what happened. Because it takes a real badass to rock the head-to-toe fuchsia look, amiright??
This is a post about drawing sexy women.
Obviously, when writing women characters, if the only thing you have in mind is their sexuality, you’re probably going to write a shitty character. That aside though, sometimes you want to draw a pin-up or convey the general sexiness of a character. I know I do.
So here we have three drawings by the inimitable Emily Carroll and three drawings by fan-favorite J. Scott Campbell. Questionable anatomy notwithstanding, Campbell’s women are posed in such a way and their expressions are meant to convey a vulnerable innocence that unknowingly makes them desirable. Many artists (predominantly male) have a habit of putting women on pedestals as unattainable objects of beauty. I know this is meant as a compliment, but it’s also somewhat dehumanizing and reduces a three-dimensional human being to an object of desire.
On the other hand, Emily’s girls, though drawn in a graphic, cartoony style, have a vitality to them that suggests full-blooded human beings. They have knowing eyes, flushed skin, full lips, They aren’t infantalized sex objects, but lusty, passionate women. Their sexuality is under their control, not a result of a “male gaze”. Rather than put them on pedestals, Emily seems more interested in mussing their hair up and fooling around with them. In short, Emily’s ladies are ladies I’d like to know, while Campbell’s are cute but probably not much fun to be around.
So yeah, when I set out to draw attractive women, I’m drawing my inspiration from Emily Carroll rather than the usual run of “good girl” artists.
Excellent advice. People sometimes have a hard time distinguishing between “sexualized” and “objectified,” the latter being the negative element to avoid when portraying a character. There is nothing wrong with a character or illustration that is dominated by sexuality, but if you portray them as an object or infantilize them, you’re not just left with a shallow product but generally a sexist and demeaning one as well.
As is evidenced above, this isn’t an issue of showing more or less skin or anything like that, but a subtler issue of execution and context. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself “is this authentic? Does this feel like a real person?” Illustrators and cartoonists alike should take note.
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DIY Screw Post Binding (Tutorial by Anne Grantski)
This form of binding is particularly useful to those of you wishing to make your own portfolios/photo albums etc :)
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