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Queeens – Innnn – SPPAAAAACE!!!! Pansy and Gieza support Berlin’s intersectional burlesque and drag performers.

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Pansy at the Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 by Suzanne ForbesYes, that is Counselor Pansy Troi, drawn from her livestream this week!

Every Tuesday Pansy’s House of Presents is livestreaming the show that would have been performed at Monster Ronsons, raising funds to help the club and the performers. Pansy’s twitch is here.

I took a screenshot of the livestream and printed it and cut it out and used it as a background for my remote drawing, photographed and posted it while Pansy was still onscreen. This is some meta stuff babies!!!Gieza Poke for Poke House and Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 2020 by Suzanne Forbes

Gieza Poke, hostess of pre-show The Poke House, had a virtual trip to the beach!

Gieza’s twitchstream, where the evening of quarantine drag show fun starts, is here.

Niksa for Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 2020 by Suzanne ForbesWith an amazing bubble-wrap couture look, in the bathtub, Niksa!

Ruth Stoner for Poke House and Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 2020 by Suzanne ForbesPerformers included Ruth Stoner, doing their first drag show! The Poke House continues to be a platform for emerging drag performers!

Antina Christ for Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 2020 by Suzanne ForbesHere’s Antina Christ, making a delicious vegan shake!

Luna TikTok for Pansys House of Presents livestream March 31 2020 by Suzanne ForbesFabulous Luna TikTok!

Support the House and buy “Drag Saves Lives” merch here. You can see last week’s drawings of the livestream House of Presents and Pokehouse here. And the performances stay up on the Twitch channels for a week or two too!

I am so grateful to my Patrons on Patreon, whose monthly financial support lets me keep documenting Berlin’s queer, kinky, intersectional drag and burlesque performers while I work safely at home.

As usual these drawings are licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) for all to share and enjoy!

In addition, I release the copyright on each drawing to the performer shown and they may use the drawings for their own profit and pleeeasssure in any way they choose.

Feb 2020 Unterwegs – Valentine’s lovebirds, grayscale and Pencil Cleanse!

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Unterwegs with Valentines lovebirds Feb 20 2020 by Suzanne ForbesMy husband and I saw this sweet couple on the U-Bahn on Valentine’s Day.

The elegant lady was giving her partner a comforting touch on the shoulder. She noticed I was drawing them and I gave her my card, I hope she sees this!

Unterwegs Feb 20 2020 Grayscale by Suzanne ForbesTen years ago Brody, a cool person I knew in the Bay, did a Grayscale costume and makeup for Santacon.

It was so incredibly good that I have thought of her look (also known as Desaturated Santa) every time I see or type the word “Grayscale” ever since. I thought of her when I drew this grayscale unterwegs on gray paper! You really don’t see anyone reading a full-size or even a tabloid size newspaper on the subway anymore, and I miss it.

Pencil cleanse WIP by Suzanne Forbes Feb 24 2020I am conducting an occasional Pencil Cleanse.

Before I started working as a courtroom artist and then in comics, there was a period, ’89 to ’91, when I carried a sketchbook everywhere but only a mechanical pencil to draw with. All of my drawings were pencil only, or ballpoint if I ran out of leads. And they were great! They had a slow magic and a loose rhythm that my faster, rough-pencil-sketch-which-is-immediately-inked drawings of today lack.

I’d love to take a month to draw ONLY in pencil, but I just don’t dare. I don’t want to lose the chance to document a great performer because I can’t move fast enough with pencil. So instead I am doing pencil-only drawings when the stakes are low, like with unterwegs.

IT TAKES SO LONG!!!

This one is in process, with a couple hours on it already, and hundreds of corrections, perspective adjustments, and scale fixes. And yet it doesn’t look like much, right? It is the bones and vitamins of drawing, though.

You can see hundreds more unterwegs drawings celebrating life on Berlin’s public transit system here. All unterwegs drawings are courtesy of my Patrons on Patreon whose monthly financial support allows me to make this free art available!