mrgatsby.bsky.social
Black American Alternate Historian and Afrofuturism Enthusiast. Proud part of the 80%
Read my current on going Age Of Heroes:
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/an-age-of-heroes-or-darkness-a-meta-human-timeline.97545/
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Here is my Workflow:
Hand sketch on paper
Scan & upload to Mid Journey
Used previous sketches & past work as character & style work as references
Heavy digital in-painting
Final cleanup in Photoshop.
Time Spent in total 2 days mostly due to digital inpainting issues
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If you love Southern Gothic, radical Black legacy, and heroes haunted by inheritance, Ace Ward is your next obsession. Feel free to read more about him and other heroes, gods, monsters, and villains in Age Of Heroes oh and…Welcome to Neo Atlanta. [10/10]
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Don’t just think Batman. Think Baldwin meets Lord Byron and Harper Lee with ghosts and shadows haunting the kudzu. That’s Reaper. [9/10]
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Neo-Atlanta is what happens when Faulkner meets Gotham. Haunted by legacy. Always dying but never truly dead. And yet Ace still chooses to fight for the people in it. [8/10]
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Neo Atlanta is the perfect Gothic urban hellscape. Overgrown biotech labs. Dead malls. Old shotgun houses next to gleaming skyscrapers. It’s a city haunted by progress, poverty, and memory. All divided up on racial & political lines between NAZ and Federal Zones [6/10]
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Why “Reaper”? Because in the South, death isn’t always scary it’s sacred. Reaper isn’t just a name. It’s a symbol of reckoning, of justice, of harvest. [5/10]
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Ace is involved in his community, not above it. He’s what old Southern nobility should have been rooted, responsible, and protective. He’s a young Black aristocrat fighting for a city that forgot it needed saving. [4/10]
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wealth grants Ace and his friends extreme privilege but also burdens him. He’s not Bruce Wayne rich just for aesthetics. His privilege places him at the center of a crumbling city. Southern Gothic loves stories where legacy is beautiful… and rotting. That’s Ace. [3/10]
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Ace being rich isn’t just flex it’s a direct subversion of the southern, “old money” trope which usually means white legacy and slavery, but Ace flips that on its head. He’s Black, powerful, and ancestral. His wealth comes with history, duty, and lineage [2/10]
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Because I shaved my stache recently
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“Gatsby why are you sad in this?”
They put me in charge of creating doomsday devices
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These are older I can probably dig up an old photo of my grandfather tomorrow if I had time before I head into work.
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My guess is that he was Celtic
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HC they are related
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Like I got the feeling they met before.
If they ever made a reboot of Near Dark it should be set in the Sinners’ Universe
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I mean I am referencing my own sketches as a base. Am I robbing myself here?
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I mean it’s only partially ai with me.
Drawing (badly)—> using it as a reference for my prompting—> in painting—>photoshop editing
All in all I wouldn’t consider most of my work say for some background shots to be “ai” art at least not completely nor would I consider it to be fully art.
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Black Americans taking away Afrikaners’ racism:
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This has been a snippet from my up coming essay on the Afro-pessimist view on trans and post humanism.