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[kradeelav]

I think i've successfully resisted the idea that my artwork has to be within a "brand" (at least compared to 2-3 years ago), and i'm really loving the ... bite? that i'm seeing grow in my art year over year. "sleaze" is one of the few words that I'll consistently use to describe it.

but i'm always a little curious as to what's like. that thematic thread that loops it all together. not "technical" wise so much (a fondness for inky darks, neons, expressive emotions etc), but the "feeling" themes, abstract tropes that keep popping up. Some artists are deliciously obvious where there's a sense of adventure and happy-end freedom, sometimes it's as short of a word as "defiance", sometimes it's a keen sense of, mm - story-with-taboo when the artist plays with achingly close fraught relationships and the fuckery within.

it's hard to see from the inside because I always think I'm wildly swinging from like, gunplay one day to, say "vanilla" fire emblem drawings but I know there's something that links both, because what would the appeal be otherwise?

anyway if you have the bandwidth and have seen my shit, i'd be curious as to what you think it is. :v

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[seasaltmemories_14]

This is just my swing at it, but there's always I think a tension between power and ease, I feel like this is obvious in the gunplay/fashkink stuff, but even in your more relaxed pieces, there's still this sense of confidence I would say, like the subject is luxuriating in the fact they know they are the scariest/most badass thing around

[kradeelav]

power and *ease*, oooh that's a fascinating way of putting it, and would agree. this pairs really well with somebody else mentioning 'affable evilness' which i have to grin at because yea, that's a thing i look for and it seems like it's reflected in the works as well, heh.

thanks so much for your thoughts, this is super interesting to hear!