Anonymous asked: Banshee and number 14! Since you always draw her with an explosion of colors I was wondering what it would look like with that particular choice of color. :D
you were warned | digital | 2014
An experiment in Photoshop with Banshee.
Today’s adventure.
wild soul
an experiment with Banshee
indigobluerose asked: I usually don't comment on your Banshee work because I know it's very personal for you, and I guess I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing. I mean, not that I would have anything -negative- to say about it, not at all! But I don't know...I'm so awkward. <:)
Oh, she certainly is personal, and it’s really lovely that that’s something you recognize and clearly want to keep some respectful distance from. Really, sincerely, that’s really great, thank you.
But she’s usually a message or me desperately trying to express something or just have some kind of communication, which is a sad thing when it isn’t heard or responded to or acknowledged. I feel best about Banshee when people are reacting to her and seeing her.
Unless they find some way to sexualize her or directly insult me or make light of images of her that look obviously not intended for comedy. I’d be unhappy about that. But she’s still a weapon and a voice for me, and is very real for me as a thing I put out, so there’s nothing anyone could do that would really do her any damage for me. I let her take all the damage I nearly did myself for a good six months. She’s terrifying, but she’s shatterproof.
It’s okay if you don’t feel comfortable ‘interacting’ with her, but she’s there to be seen and responded to, and you aren’t going to upset me by doing so if you ever decide to.
Anonymous asked: Sometimes I feel a little empty, and seeing Banshee makes me smile. The way you suffuse her with color in swirls and storms, and then crackles of red in the dark is a very beautiful contrast. It's lovely when she's bloody, because it's cathartic. It speaks to the wild wounded side that feels like it's bleeding, lashing out and tearing indiscriminately, even when you're just sitting there, still in the quiet. She's brilliant, bright and angry and unapologetic, and she makes me want to be, too.
I love, love, love, hearing these things about Banshee, thank you, Thank You, in the sincerest manner you can imagine.
She doesn’t get a lot of attention on my Tumblr in favor of fandom things (both from my followers and from me lately, though I’ve sort of soft-resolved to change the latter), but I remind myself constantly that she has done incredible things for me and others, and by virtue of that alone she is worth continuing to draw and post, even if she’s barely noticed under a fannish doodle.
I’m still here because of Banshee.
The best paintings of Banshee I ever did, and the ones that sort of cracked open an artistic wall for me, were done to cope through bouts of particularly violent depression that were accompanied be serious intent to hurt myself and commit arson, so Banshee is both my feelings weaponized, and my weapon against them. She is powerful stuff, I wouldn’t let go of her for anything.
Thank you again for sharing, Anon~ <3
~you who’ll have further to fall~
My Banshee.
Yo-Yo and Banshee for Halloween~ <3
weekend~
My birthday Banshee
run devil run
My cherished Banshee.
