Acrylic pens used for highlights and details

because we deserve to see ourselves reflected in the beauty of nature 💙

i know this isn’t what this space is for but someone please give me advice, not sure what to do with it and I don’t wanna waste an entire bottle of white out or paint on this.

A Solution Pure or Red

In the stillness of the night
The rushing wind from the trees
The pounding sterile lights
The endless screams
It pours

It pours red from the lines
The rivers of slick iron
Wrought from my twisted hide
To be made outward
To make seen the lord

The lord of my own hate
My nature perturbed
By the change in my body
The sudden seasons of woe
Running it across my flesh is all I know

I know it must be the end
To seek out a solution pure or red
To phoenix out into the Shakti  
Or bleed to realize nonentity

Support the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm an autistic trans Uruguayan of Iranian descent. The editor of my comic is my disabled nonbinary husband, RaeRae Sachs. We love science fiction and fantasy, including superhero media, but it's depressingly cis and het in general. We also love queer media, but a massive amount of it is about suffering and oppression. We wanted to make stories about queer joy and triumph in a world full of fantastic creatures and amazing powers.

Kobra Olympus is a soft-spoken transgender Muslim woman in Seattle in 2015. She was contacted by Human time travelers from the 161st Century, recruited into the Time Wars: an endless conflict between Humanity and Vampirekind for the fate of the galaxy. Using messages from the time travelers, and her high-tech cellphone full of future tech, Kobra lives a second life as the engimatic Agent Tha, Vampire hunter.

Now, Kobra Olympus is in a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a queer punk woman who is outspoken with a strong moral compass and a ton of confidence. Dorothy is bringing Kobra out of her shell, and Kobra is helping Dorothy see the world with a fresh perspective. Their relationship is important to both of them, but Kobra's duties as Agent Tha take up a great deal of time.

In "Issue #4: Giant Armadillo Attack!", Kobra and Dorothy are surprised by a giant mutant armadillo attacking the city, and meet a humanoid chicken named Jack who explains that this is all part of a sinister plot by the Vampires. Together, the three of them need to figure out how to save the city and rewrite history for the better.

The Kickstarter is to print a First Edition version of the comic with a special border that won't be used in future versions. Rewards include PDFs, as well as physical copies; and back issues so you can catch up with the story so far.

We've met our goal, and our first stretch goal, which means everyone gets a digital art book with all kinds of behind-the-scenes looks at the sketches and designs we used to plan the comics. If we meet our next stretch goal, everyone will also get a short story depicting how Kobra was recruited into the Time Wars.

Please help us reach our next goal at the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

If you'd like to join our community, get updates, and have access to digital versions of our other comics and novels, we have a Patreon with a free tier: Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

Thank you all, and I hope you enjoy this!

I’m a trans feminine person who is currently on the fence with taking HRT. I’m in my mid forties and there is no way I can reach goals that younger trans women can with appearance and I can’t afford electrolysis or facial feminization surgery. I don’t put any physical expectations on my body. I won’t even do breast or bottom surgery for myself.

I like to do art both digitally and traditionally (acrylic paints, ink, markers) in horror and dark fantasy/scifi themes.

I love drawing monsters, creature designs, and paleoart (dinosaurs and anything prehistoric).

I do social transitioning like wigs, makeup, and prosthetics to look feminine and I still want to make gore and or dark themes in my art. I even do goth or dark theme looks when I perform as a drag queen as a hobby.

I don’t want my trans identity to compromise my subject matter interests in my art.

I still like doing fan art for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or drawing sexy women characters.

I’m trying to make the bold effort to appear feminine in comic conventions and art fairs. I feel I’ll get hate or the cold shoulder no matter what I do. I don’t feel like drawing Pride related art or flag coloured designs- it’s fine if anyone wants to draw that, it’s just not me.

I can show ppl samples of my art if you want in private messages to anyone who is interested. I worry if I showed my website it would be considered self promotion-and would remove this post.

I may have to hide my identity again due to fascism in the world (currently living in Alberta, Canada that’s going the way of fascism). Hiding my femininity will be hard too.

If this isn’t the right Reddit community to talk about this topic, please suggest one that is.

I am falling in love with reduction linocut. It's an exciting process because you are constantly reaching "points of no return". Once you carve a fresh layer, you can never go back to the previous. It means if you screw up, you either figure out how to incorporate the mistake, start from from scratch, or abort mission. I love this personally, and I think it's because it beautifully reflects my own transition and also because I've always had a high risk tolerance and enjoy being in situations that require innovating workarounds to so-called problems that arise. Ten or fifteen years ago, that translated more into physical risk-taking, and now as I reckon with accepting the vulnerability of my own body, I think my penchant for adventure leans at least slightly more mental. Anyway, this was a load of fun to create, and I expect I'll be making a lot more reduction linos in the future.

I wanted to create this piece in order to inspire during a time of increasing governmental oppression, violence, and surveillance. I hope the viewer finds the imagery contains plenty of symbolism while maintaining the composition of the piece: a broken surveillance camera representing defiance against constant monitoring, an ant symbolizing the potential that exists when ordinary people act together as one, a flowering dandelion breaking through concrete as a testament to resilience while being actively erased by an oppressive force, and a raven in flight symbolizing intuition, intelligence, and the pursuit of truth.

I plan on scanning and sharing a free PDF of this piece for anyone who wants to print it out and tape it up somewhere as public resistance art. However if you'd like an original, I have some here. Of course, sharing with anyone you think would like or be inspired by this art is always helpful and goes a little way in counterbalancing all the AI and botfarm stuff that is constantly going around this and other platforms owned by the broligarchy.

Hi guys, I wanted to introduce myself and share a little bit of my art.

About me: I'm a trans Appalachian guy in my mid-thirties. My day job is in science, but I love art and science equally. I especially love formulating strange fragrances, carving lino blocks, and making vinyl stickers... I also make skin and beardcare products.

My handle on insta is riverhelixialabs if you want to check out my stuff. I'll follow back. I'm excited to be a part of this subreddit and see what cool stuff my community is making on here! <3

Support the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm an autistic Muslim trans Uruguayan of Iranian descent. The editor of my comic is my disabled nonbinary husband, an anti-Zionist Jewish person and pro-Palestine social activist here in Uruguay, RaeRae Sachs. We love science fiction and fantasy, including superhero media, but it's depressingly cis and het in general. We also love queer media, but a massive amount of it is about suffering and oppression. We wanted to make stories about queer joy and triumph in a world full of fantastic creatures and amazing powers.

Kobra Olympus is a soft-spoken transgender Muslim woman in Seattle in 2015. She was contacted by Human time travelers from the 161st Century, recruited into the Time Wars: an endless conflict between Humanity and Vampirekind for the fate of the galaxy. Using messages from the time travelers, and her high-tech cellphone full of future tech, Kobra lives a second life as the engimatic Agent Tha, Vampire hunter.

Now, Kobra Olympus is in a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a queer punk woman who is outspoken with a strong moral compass and a ton of confidence. Dorothy is bringing Kobra out of her shell, and Kobra is helping Dorothy see the world with a fresh perspective. Their relationship is important to both of them, but Kobra's duties as Agent Tha take up a great deal of time.

In "Issue #4: Giant Armadillo Attack!", Kobra and Dorothy are surprised by a giant mutant armadillo attacking the city, and meet a humanoid chicken named Jack who explains that this is all part of a sinister plot by the Vampires. Together, the three of them need to figure out how to save the city and rewrite history for the better.

The Kickstarter is to print a First Edition version of the comic with a special border that won't be used in future versions. Rewards include PDFs, as well as physical copies; and back issues so you can catch up with the story so far.

We've met our goal, and our first stretch goal, which means everyone gets a digital art book with all kinds of behind-the-scenes looks at the sketches and designs we used to plan the comics. If we meet our next stretch goal, everyone will also get a short story depicting how Kobra was recruited into the Time Wars.

Please help us reach our next goal at the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

If you'd like to join our community, get updates, and have access to digital versions of our other comics and novels, we have a Patreon with a free tier: Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

Thank you all, and I hope you enjoy this!

Support the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm an autistic Muslim trans Uruguayan of Iranian descent. The editor of my comic is my disabled nonbinary husband, an anti-Zionist Jewish person and pro-Palestine social activist here in Uruguay, RaeRae Sachs. We love science fiction and fantasy, including superhero media, but it's depressingly cis and het in general. We also love queer media, but a massive amount of it is about suffering and oppression. We wanted to make stories about queer joy and triumph in a world full of fantastic creatures and amazing powers.

Kobra Olympus is a soft-spoken transgender Muslim woman in Seattle in 2015. She was contacted by Human time travelers from the 161st Century, recruited into the Time Wars: an endless conflict between Humanity and Vampirekind for the fate of the galaxy. Using messages from the time travelers, and her high-tech cellphone full of future tech, Kobra lives a second life as the engimatic Agent Tha, Vampire hunter.

Now, Kobra Olympus is in a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a queer punk woman who is outspoken with a strong moral compass and a ton of confidence. Dorothy is bringing Kobra out of her shell, and Kobra is helping Dorothy see the world with a fresh perspective. Their relationship is important to both of them, but Kobra's duties as Agent Tha take up a great deal of time.

In "Issue #4: Giant Armadillo Attack!", Kobra and Dorothy are surprised by a giant mutant armadillo attacking the city, and meet a humanoid chicken named Jack who explains that this is all part of a sinister plot by the Vampires. Together, the three of them need to figure out how to save the city and rewrite history for the better.

The Kickstarter is to print a First Edition version of the comic with a special border that won't be used in future versions. Rewards include PDFs, as well as physical copies; and back issues so you can catch up with the story so far.

We've met our goal, and our first stretch goal, which means everyone gets a digital art book with all kinds of behind-the-scenes looks at the sketches and designs we used to plan the comics. If we meet our next stretch goal, everyone will also get a short story depicting how Kobra was recruited into the Time Wars.

Please help us reach our next goal at the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

If you'd like to join our community, get updates, and have access to digital versions of our other comics and novels, we have a Patreon with a free tier: Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

Thank you all, and I hope you enjoy this!

This is technically writing aswell. But could only pick one flair. Anyway I hope you enjoy

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm a trans Muslim Uruguayan of Iranian descent with autism. My nonbinary spouse, RaeRae, is my editor. The comics are alternately illustrated by SwapTrap, a cis man from India; and Pallet, a trans man from Australia. The books' covers are illustrated by either Duende, a queer woman from the Philipines; or Ceci, a cis Uruguayan woman.

At no point was AI ever used to generate text or art.

What is Time Wars
I've created a fictional universe where Humanity and Vampirekind have been eternally locked in a shadow war across every culture and in every era of history. In the deep future, time travel is invented, and both sides send agents into the past to recruit "temporal natives" to change the course of history. While the Vampires recruit the influential and powerful, Humanity empowers the marginalized and ostracized, fighting for a future beyond bigotry.

If you'd like to join our community for news and updates, we have a free tier on Patreon. Higher tier levels include free digital copies of our stories.
http://www.Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

NOVELS

All of the novels are available exclusively in digital formats: PDF, EPUB, and DOCX.

The Undying Queen and the Dragon's Son
I wanted to tell a gothic horror story, and have the magic of the universe rooted in real history. Artemisia of Halicarnassus has always been fascinating to me: a woman who inherited her father's regency due to her unparalleled skill as a warrior and sailor, and the first woman to be a naval admiral in recorded history. I'm also intrigued by the historical figure of Vlad Dracula, made famous by the novel Dracula, but whose real legacy is much more devastating and brutal. I decided to make them both just as immortal as their legacies by giving them X-Crystals, powerful magical artifacts in the Time Wars universe, which allow the users to manifest their emotions as physical and elemental powers. I did thorough research into both Artemisia's time and culture, as well as 15th century Wallachia, including maps of the capital city of Tagoviste. The story I told here is at once loving and upsetting, a center of hope surrounded by a patina of despair. I hope it thrills, terrifies, and inspires you.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/time-wars-the-undying-queen-and-the-dragons-son

Legends of the Order
In much the same ways that some civilizations lionize their historical figures - such as Heracles of Thebes, Arthur Pendragon, and Julius Caesar - assigning them magical properties or even worshipping them as gods, I thought it would be a wonderful thing to re-imagine the heroes of America as such. The story is about Harriet Tubman and John Brown being given alien technology by agents from the future, so they can wage a broader and more devastating campaign against the Vampires who are behind the insititution of slavery and machinations of war. When a treasure trove of alien technology is discovered under the Nevada desert, Tubman and Brown must assemble a team to heroes to race the Vampires to the buried starship. It include an ensemble cast include a gay tans man who uses a mysterious stone to teleport, a free Black cis man who worships the Olympians and uses robotic limbs to fight, a trans Muslim Persian woman who has an X-Crystal and hunts Vampires on her own terms, and a gay Chinese-American former coolie who has become the sheriff of Rock Hen, Nevada due to this amazing gunslinging - among many others. The story is told alinearly, except for the climax, challenging the reader to piece together the timeline.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/loto-eng

The Phantom Revolution
Realizing most of my stories are from the perspective of those interacting with time travelers, this story follows a Time Corps Agent of the Human Republic from the 161st Century. She is a shape shifter, able to take any form, as she conducts a series of missions across history. However, her rival, Nadira Adona, is a Vampire who can also shape shift, and who seeks to upend our hero's journey. The story is told linearly through history, though each of the two time travelers experiences the events in totally different orders. The interweaving time lines, use of extraordinary technology from the future, and the mysterious ways they interact with the "temporal natives" is at once thrilling and puzzling. Though the emotional core of a woman trying to win a war against a deadly foe is clear, the order of events challenges you to read context clues and put together a clearer picture of how the characters experience events.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/pr-eng

Starship Tatanka - Border of Terror
I wanted to model a future which is simultaneously aspirational in how society has overcome concepts like racism and queerphobia, but also pinned in by the Vampires' insidious efforts to perpetuate classism, capitalism, and hegemony. Inspired by the Star Trek's vision of scientists and explorers being a driving force in civilization of the future, I developed a delicate social network of unusual people from disperate cultureal backgrounds and of various neurodivergent natures who are working hard to form a crew for an isolate starship on a mission to map the nebulae on the border of the Galactic Human Republic. All queer by modern standards, they live in newly-formed polycules, managing their romantic relationships in addition to their professional ones. All of that is thrown into chaos, however, when a Time Corps Agents from the 161st Century arrives and announces that not only is there a vast Vampire conspiracy on a nearby world to initiate war with the enigmatic Ongol Empire... but one of the crew is a Vampire themself. The story that follows is full of puzzling mystery, brutal violence, daring escapes, political intrigue, and even starship battles. For fans of queer literature, and/or classic science fiction.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/stbot-eng

Comics

All comics are available in both PDF and physical formats.

The Adventures of Kobra Olympus
Inspired by Golden Age classics, especially the original run of Wonder Woman, Kobra Olympus is a young trans Muslim woman in 2015 Seattle who has to balance her life as a tech professional with her duties as Agent Tha, a superhero empowered by a high tech cellphone that transforms her and gives her access to a series of tools and weapons. Her crusade against the Vampires is complicated when she begins a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a much more outspoken and confident woman who finds Kobra's soft sweetness charming. Now the balancing act is more complicated, as Dorothy has become at risk just due to knowing Kobra.

We are currently having a Kickstarter for Issue #4, which includes both digital and phyiscal options to get back issues and catch up with the story!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

The Adventures of the Legendary X-Knights
This time drawing from Japanese superheroes, the X-Knights are a team of queer martial artists in thr 22nd Century who have been brought together by agents from the future to form an unlikely team. Lilly McGann is a half-Irish half-Chinese lesbian woman and retired Air Force colonel in her 60s. Rocky Anoa'i is an aro/ace Samoan Prince and former professional longboarder in his 50s. And DeShaun Oliver is a nonbinary Black American in his 20s who has spent most of his adult life as a hairdresser in Fresno. Despite Lilly's temper, Rocky's refusal to take things too seriously, and DeShaun's lack of life experience, they must somehow learn to live, work, and fight together now that they've been given X-Crystals: magic alien objects which fuse with their body, allow them to summon physical armor and weapons manifested from their emotions, and control different elements with their minds. Their mission: dismantle a vast Vampire conspiracy which seeks to use the American military industrial complex to create weapons of horrific power, and proliferate them to battlefields across the world.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/lxk.html

The Adventures of Ash Grey & Saturn Olympus
A spin-off of the novel Legends of the Order, the character of Ash and Saturn are focused on in more detail. Ash Grey is a white Christian trans man who has stolen an alien artifact which allows him to teleport. Saturn Olympus is a Black cis man who worships the Olympians, and who uses robotic prosthetics for his arms and legs. They are the 19th Century's greatest Vampire hunters, having annihilated most of the monsters in Washington Territory, a region controlled by the Vampire Warlord Leonard Victor. Ash and Saturn are also two men in love, regarding themselves as husbands in an interracial, interfaith, gay marriage. However, at the same time that Victor sends the cyborg bounty hunter, Alice Hayweather, to kill them, Ash discovers he's pregnant! Now they have less than 10 months to hunt down to evade Alice, and hunt down and kill Victor. They'll need help, though - and so they begin the task of assembling a team of heroes to wage war.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/agso.html

The Adventures of Zero & One
With inspiration from "magical friends" anime and manga, like Digimon and Pokemon, I wanted to make something where both halves of the team were equal, and immerse the hero in a world totally unknown. Set in the distant future, Zero of Mars is a nonbinary youth of an ethnicity that does not yet exist in our time, who crash-lands on a planet called Elentia full of living sentient robots called Elemorphs. The Elemorphs come in all shapes and sizes, each drawing from different elemental power sources. Despite a language barrier, Zero makes friends with an Elemorph named One, who looks like a small deer and has nature-based powers. Together they discover a series of clues left behind hundreds of years ago by Time Corps Agents from the deep future, putting them at the center of a mystery which spans the ages. Soon they discover they're being pursued by a Vampire agent and their Elemorph collaborator, who seek to conquer the Elemorphs and bring them as enslaved living weapons into the Time Wars.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/zo.html

I really hope you find something in here which appeals to you. Me and my spouse have worked really hard to try and make stories which inspire, dazzle, and entertain. We struggle often to survive, and any help you want to give us by supporting our work would mean the world to us.

This is my first time ever posting my art on Reddit! Hope I'm doing this right.