RabbitwithFangs Design
Artist, lefty femmo housewife, riot mum: my work is a lot of Tori fan-art but I also design for fema
20/01/2024
13/03/2023
"Writing "Silent All These Years" was foundational. I started writing it for Al Stewart -- the melody, not the lyrics -- because he'd asked me to write something. I allowed myself to find my voice for somebody else, but not for myself. Then [boyfriend and co-producer] Eric Rosse made me ask myself the question: How could I give a song like that away? So as I started to claim it as my own, I was able to write the words around it. I think this song became my mantra. As a child, with a dream to use her musical vision, I had been silenced by my ambition to have a career beyond the bar rooms where people spilled cocktails all over the piano. While writing "Silent" I decided that even if I had to go back to a life of performing standards in piano bars, I would rather do that than live a musical life creating music I couldn't wear well. "Silent" was almost a talisman. Which brings me back to the tale and the mermaid mythology."
[A Piano liner notes - 2006]
(This was the first digital illustration I finished that I thought was good enough to share publicly. That was nine years ago today!) ❤️ - RWF
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I'm not on Facebook much at the moment but please come visit me on Insta! ❤️
02/07/2022
Teepublic on sale!
10/04/2022
I'm really happy with how this turned out... unfortunately my laptop is on it's last legs so it's an excruciatingly slow process to to do something so simple 😅
31/12/2021
"A cosmic apocalypse/ A stab to the heart
You don't need a party for a party dress"
I'm not 100% happy with this but this lyric is appropriate so it's better than nothing.
10/12/2021
Art Vs Artist time already. Twelve small pieces/ zodiac signs were all I could manage this year: I don't want to jinx it but 2020 will be more productive.
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What’s with the fangs?
I taught myself to do digital art in 2012, when I was a) recently unemployed and b) pregnant, which is quite a potent combination. I found I was sometimes too tired for sketching and I was really enjoying art I would able to share easily via the internet. So, digital art (isn’t all art digital, if you use your fingers?) became a thing for me. I didn’t have to look for pencils or sketchpads; I had everything I needed in one place (Double Aries = not so much housework); and I could spend my time sitting down and still be productive. Lambaby is well and truly born but I don’t think you ever stop learning about art.
I love to do fan art and bait copyright owners - it’s free advertising for them - and, one day, eventually, I’ll get around to doing some more original ideas, instead of just transcribing songs or fangirling.
By the way, the image of the murderous bunny wasn’t inspired by Monty Python; I took the name from my favourite Magic Dirt song, and it’s astonishing how often the trope pops up. Sometimes, people assume a small fluffy thing must be harmless, meek and malleable. I think that’s a very foolish underestimation.