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Elia
@eliablack.bsky.social
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Hi.
I make art. (Badly, im learning)
Constantly reading comics.
Occasionally I post movie/book reviews.
📚19/30📚
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I tried make a full color piece and failed tremendously. So here's a pair of shiny legs I drew instead. #art #myart #drawing
A drawing of two lean, shiny legs. If the legs were real they would be glistening.
December 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
I started Maximum Six from yugioh. I'll completely shade and finish him at some point.
#duelmonsters #monster #yugioh #fanart #ygo #art #myart #drawing #wip
A sketch of an extremely muscular six armed humanoid with oversized arms and a ponytail kneeling on the ground with one leg. He looks angry.
December 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
#art #myart #drawing
A drawing of a muscular woman's abs and hips from her right side with lots of hatching and cross hatching.
December 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
Thanks to Luca and @trueref.bsky.social for the reference.
#art #myart #drawing
A loose sketch of a man sitting cross-legged on the ground with a mug of tea in his right hand while clutching a book to his chest with his left hand. He has glasses, a mustache, a beard, and a hat.
December 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Home alone- I don't see the appeal. 1.5⭐
Brides of Dracula- not enough brides, not enough Dracula. Also it was boring. 1.5⭐
Silent Night, Deadly Night- fun, but petered out towards the end. 2⭐
Christmas Evil- unironically decent. 2.75⭐
Reviews of all in alt text.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Home alone- why is this a classic? The concept of this movie isn't appealing, believable, or interesting enough to engage me. He's like 8, he can be home alone, its fine, the concept of this movie is structurally flawed. The movie itself wasn't bad, it just exists. 1.5/5 ⭐ Brides of Dracula- the titular Brides didn't get enough screen time. The movie notably picked up when Peter Cushing was introduced as van helsing and the last 20 or so minutes were fun, but not enough to save this movie. Mostly I was bored. 1.5/5⭐ Silent Night, Deadly night- they gave the mc a backstory that explains how he got the way he is- without it feeling like exposition- and it greatly added to the world building. The lead actor wasn't great. It started to falter towards the end but I generally liked it. 2/5⭐ Christmas evil- wow, this was a movie. As opposed to slasher films today where the mcs are just emotionless mindless killing machines, this one was obviously a human who had been beaten up by life to the point that he couldn't deal and acted out, partially due to the convoluted and antithetical bits of society that most people who grow past childhood have become too jaded or world weary to care about. Was it done in the best way? No. Will you be able to suspend your disbelief enough to see it the way I do? Probably not. In addition to that there were at least two loose ends and the ending itself was a cop-out. It felt like some scenes didn't need to be in the movie and there were other scenes that should have been in the movie. Some bits were funny. This one is hard to rate but I'll settle on a 2.75⭐ out of 5.
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
Study of The Head of Caracella by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Merry Christmas.
#art #myart #drawing
A drawing of a man with an angry and devious look, as if he's scheming something. He's looking down and to his right with a hand under his chin. It's very rough and more of a sketch/doodle. The original artist apparently based this off of a random bust and stories of the original Caracella, an emperor of Rome, and the drawing itself was a layout for a painting. I waffled on making this more abstract for a bit. It was fun to draw.
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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My tierlist of Christmas music. Songs are rated only by tiers and not their placement in tiers. Also on second thought I think God rest ye merry gentlemen should be in the top tier.
#music #tierlist #tierlistTuesday #christmas
A tierlist of holiday music.
December 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Daily art practice.
#art #myart #wip #drawing #artadventcalendar
A sketch of a very muscular man with contour hatching. Some of the hatching looks feathery, and there are multiple placement and measurement lines crossing through the left arm.
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
This looks bad but I learned a lot. I've been working out how light reacts to different skin colors for a couple of days.
#art #myart #drawing
A sketch of a smiling woman in a fur coat/cloak. Looks very rough.
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
#art #myart #drawing #artadventcalendar
A sketch of a woman's face with long curled hair staring down and to the right. She kind of looks like Michelle Yeoh when she was younger. There are block in lines for the hair and a very small messy note that I wrote about how to properly draw eyes.
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Daily art practice.
Gumby is shocked.
#art #myart #drawing
A quick drawing of gumby with a surprised look on his face.
December 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Duel- so slow, so boring. 😴
1.5 ⭐
Only the strong- way better than I thought it would be.👊
3.5 ⭐
Hellraiser- unique, sexually charged. 🥵
3.55 ⭐
Moonfall- reminiscent of a disaster movie from the 90s. 🌚
3 ⭐
Non-spoiler mini reviews of all in alt text.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Duel- from someone who likes the twilight zone, this feels like an entirely too long twilight zone episode with bad pacing. I'm not sure why this is considered a classic? Only the strong- It's nowhere near peak cinema, or even cinema, but it was a very fun movie overall. Marc Dacascos(if his name sounds familiar he's the guy that hosted Iron Chef America and did backflips in the beginning of the show) is extremely athletic and that plus the generally wholesome/corny tone carried this movie. It was nowhere near as racist or demeaning as I thought it would be given the tropes movies with the same plot/concept tend to be. Hellraiser- way more sexually charged than I thought it would be. A lot of this honestly just seems like the directors fetish? It was very visceral and carnal. Parts of it felt like a softcore pxxn from the 80s(or what I imagine they were like, I've never seen one??), parts of this felt like an off kilter romance move, parts of it felt like body horror. I'd go as far as calling this an underrated horror classic. At the same time I think this movie REALLY would have benefitted from more characterization and lore. Moonfall- If you like disaster type movies from the 70s-90s you'll probably like it. I thought it was fun.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Daily art practice.
I finished Cammy from street fighter. I think I'll do Marissa and Chun li at some point in the future. And Makoto.

#art #myart #drawing #streetfighter #capcom #fanart #artadventcalendar
A drawing of a muscular woman in a tight leotard with braids and lightning bolt patterned war paint on her thighs. Her cheeks are out and the outfit seems like it would be uncomfortable to fight in. I was going to include her forearm gauntlets and hat but the former was honestly too confusing to draw(partly because her official art isn't consistent, the original sprites weren't detailed enough, and the only official reference sheets I could find had her almost naked) and the latter just looked weird from the back angle.
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
I tried learning pixel art today. I played around with the new pixel art app I downloaded and redrew the new sunflora card in Pokémon tcg pocket.

#art #myart #pokemon #sunflora
A sentient sunflower-being sitting in a pot. It has two leaves for arms, two feet, and a large sunflower shaped head with a content look on its face.
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Daily art practice.

Mega charizard is reminding you that his new booster pack releases on #pokemontcgpocket in 2 hours.

#art #myart #drawing #pokemon
A dragon with spikes on its head is holding up two cards, one with its likeness on it.
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
This is a work in progress of Cammy from street fighter. I got tired of being confused by her forearm gauntlets so I stopped for today. I might just draw her naked tbh.
#art #myart #drawing #fanart #artadventcalendar #wip
A rough sketch of the rear view of a woman with pigtails in a singlet with a forearm gauntlet. A lot of cheek is showing.
December 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Daily art practice. Another rough concept sketch. Meant to post it last night but I fell asleep.
#art #myart #drawing
A woman in a tall fur hat and an ankle length dress. The dress has large furry parts over the wrist/lower arms, paisley patterning on the bottom, and flowy lines from the waist up. Notes are scribbled throughout.
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hamilton approached a modern day minstrel show. I couldn't get past 40 minutes of it.
The next two had great action but lacked in plot.
The third was fine. If you're a pokemon fan you'll enjoy it.
Mini reviews of all in alt text.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
My main gripe with Hamilton is that it seems to have been made to appease white liberals(and people who think like white liberals) who accept the status quo as opposed to being made by black and brown progressives who want to change the status quo. (Yes, there's a difference between being liberal and being progressive and yes, I know Lin Manuel Miranda isn't white.) I could ramble about this endlessly but I won't. On top of that the music was horrible and the rapping was atrocious. I would have given this 0 stars if I could. Feel free to @ me about this take but I probably won't respond. Dd had great animation and *great* action direction but it didn't deliver on the plot or tug on my heartstrings the way previous movies in the series did. That being said I enjoyed it as a Pokémon fan. I can only recommend the other two if you like old martial arts movies.
December 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Daily art practice. A very rough, very early concept sketch.
#art #myart #drawing
A rough front and side outline of a woman in a hat, ruffled dress, tight fitting shirt, and a loose baggy overshirt with flowers in her hair.
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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I found my stylus, I can draw again. Daily art practice.
#art #myart #drawing #sketch #artadventcalendar
A rough sketch of a very muscular man. Measurement lines are scattered throughout the drawing. I used a picture of Serge Nubret for reference.
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
Q-bee from darkstalkers. I've always loved her design. 🐝
#art #myart #drawing #wip #capcom #darkstalkers #qbee #artadventcalendar
A humanoid bee woman with large eyes, horns, and antennae sticking out of flared up hair. She has a large bee abdomen with a stinger coming out of her back and two wings.
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
20 years late, but I saw the destiny deoxys movie for the first time yesterday. I drew one to practice contours.
#art #myart #drawing #pokemon #artadventcalendar
An ovaloid egg shaped head with two deep set eyes and a long vertical protrusion where a nose would usually be. Two prongs stick out of either end of the head.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Daily art practice, prisman from yugioh. I'll shade him at some point.
#art #myart #yugioh #wip
A crystalline monster made out of floating shapes.
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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First off, that poster for inseminoid is wild.
Three of these movies were just OK-to-fine, but I really enjoyed devil doll(the one from the 60s). If you have a phobia of dolls/mannequins you maybe shouldn't watch. Mini reviews of all in alt text.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Inseminoid, 2/5. Notably produced by one of the Shaw Brothers, of martial arts movie fame. This movie had no martial arts though. I really liked the synth background track that accompanied this film, and that plus the mostly monotone opening scene set the mood well. There were some good ideas here but nothing really worked out? Honestly, you can skip this one. Humanoids from the deep, 2/5. Normal b horror movie from the 80s until a very specific scene. Don't watch this one with children, iykyk. If this movie focused on the b plot more and fleshed out the monsters I would've enjoyed this much more. I actually think it would've been better if they curbed the t & a(there was a plot reason for the t&a and it was probably the main draw when the movie released but it felt very, very shoehorned in)and upped the action. The exterminator, 2/5. This is just death wish but worse. If you like movies like that skip this and watch the exterminator 2, which is better. If you don't you can skip. The exterminations themselves were cool though. Devil doll(from the 60s, not the 30s), 3/5 but it was a 3/5 that I really liked. It was creepy, it was tense, and the mc was a legitimate creep. The one thing that brings this down was that the ending seemed rushed. Also I think most people won't be able to suspend their disbelief enough to enjoy it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
eliablack.bsky.social
Daily art practice.
#art #myart #drawing #wip
#artadventcalendar
A messy sketch of a woman in an intricate cloth dress and a short witch hat.
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM