Skip to content

Edward Ficklin

Artist

  • Art for Sale
    • NSFW
    • Comics
    • Prints
  • About
    • Artist’s Statement
    • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • $0.00 0 items
  • Instagram
  • email

Category Archives: Musings

The erotic as continuum–not binary

Top view of tired bearded young man with book sleeping in bed at home

Why is sex, and the erotic in general, segregated in our storytelling?

Posted byeddyJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:consent, erotic, self-expression, storytellingLeave a comment on The erotic as continuum–not binary

The office, but not THAT office

close up of little statuettes of laughing buddhas and a meditating frog perched beside a laptop on a desk

Today I make one thing. I may make something different tomorrow. I close down by hitting a kind of reset button on the office, restoring it to a ready state–ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Posted byeddyNovember 1, 2022November 1, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:adaptability, home office, Sticky Notes, workspaceLeave a comment on The office, but not THAT office

Workshopping Reality

an empty wooden chair in a spotlight on an empty stage

Everything that’s not burning hot like that hothouse, not pushing and pulling to reshape us into our most glorious selves, not utterly committed and vulnerable, is the mistake, the fake, the loss, the near miss.

Posted byeddyOctober 31, 2022October 31, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:inspiration, intensity, transformationLeave a comment on Workshopping Reality

Move Better, Draw Better

Expanding my routines freed up my thinking about health and physique, freed up my body and, believe it or not, freed up my art, too.

Posted byeddyMay 19, 2022June 13, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:anatomy for artists, calisthenics, figure drawing, himbo, homoerotic art, muscular, physiqueLeave a comment on Move Better, Draw Better

Exclusively Queer?

When you start to engage with the cishet power brokers and gatekeepers, pundits and pontificators, you’ll often get the well-intentioned advice to straighten it up or go nowhere.

Posted byeddyJanuary 22, 2022May 3, 2022Posted inMusingsTags:gay, lgbtqia+, queer, queering the hero, representationLeave a comment on Exclusively Queer?

Thicc of Heart

Man pulling up gray hoodie to reveal fabulously chiseled abs

How did we come to a place where physique is the realm of toxic masculinity?

Posted byeddyNovember 27, 2021May 3, 2022Posted inComics, MusingsTags:himbo, lgbtqia+, muscle, physique, queer friendly gym, workoutLeave a comment on Thicc of Heart

The most important part of the book is—

I would never be offended to hear “I bought your book for the cover.”

Posted byeddyOctober 25, 2021January 29, 2022Posted inChasing the Flame, Comics, Musings, ProcessTags:cover art, gouache, queering the hero

Physical Resonances

What makes a guy doable? Simple, intensity.

Posted byeddyMay 1, 2021August 9, 2022Posted inMusings, Process, ShowsTags:figure drawing, homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, physique, representationLeave a comment on Physical Resonances

Thoughts on Queer Representation

Close up photo of a variety of fruits.

Just like process over product, think creator over creation.

Posted byeddyFebruary 20, 2021June 13, 2022Posted inComics, Musings, ProcessTags:gay comics, lgbtqia+, queer comics, queering the hero, representationLeave a comment on Thoughts on Queer Representation

Returnings of the year

Life outside the studio may be on hold, but the art-making continues. I’m grateful for the manifold privileges of health, safety, and security that allow this. The last year held challenges for all of us, but it would be the height of ignorance and arrogance for me to complain without at least some acknowledgement ofContinue reading “Returnings of the year”

Posted byeddyJanuary 2, 2021Posted inMusings

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Mastodon verification
Edward Ficklin, Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
 

Loading Comments...