Brenna@TFCon

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brennabaines.ca I draw comics about sad lesbians in the ancient world. talk to me about transformers. Commissions OPEN, get in touch about freelance!

A posca market portrait of D-16 from Transformers One, with tansy flowers behind him
A table setup at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
A page from "The Tale of Paghat." A woman looks down from the top left of the page, her body and hair fading into a starry sky. From the bottom right, a woman looks up at her in profile, holding a jug. The woman at top left: I told you I knew it was the bow. What I wonder is why such a good daughter took this upon herself. You who get up early to draw the water, who brushes the dew from the barley, who knows the course of the stars.
The Table of Paghat: A Story of the Ancient Near East A woman with flowing black hair all the way to the page's edge embraces another woman, who wears a patterned one shouldered gown and clutches a bow. She looks off solemnly into the distance.
A woman with curly black, flowing hair embraces from behind a thoughtful, unhappy looking woman holding a bow and staring off.
Sunsrraker with a Decepticon insignia stands behind energy bars in a cell, smiling creepily
The cover of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East, by Amanda H. Podany.
Inset of the bottom part of the image from skeet 1, showing the pool of liquid and the woman's exposed bone and muscle on her leg as she enters the water.
photo of inanna's stone cone temple from uruk, showing coloured stone mosaics set in a reconstructed plaster wall
a top-down pencil sketch of an archaeological excavation, showing where skeletons, walls, and artifacts were found in Puabi's tomb.
A reconstructed version of Sumerian gold hairpieces (set with a crown made of stars and beaten gold leaves), as well as complex red, yellow, and blue beads hanging off her shoulders and around her waist.
A woman looks up with a dazed smile on her face, a golden halo around her head. She wears elaborate golden headpieces and jewellery, as well as strings of red, yellow, and gold beads. A beaded gold belt is around her waist. Her dress is white and splattered with the black-magenta, glowing liquid that she is stepping into. The liquid seems to be corrosive and her bones and muscle on her hands and leg are all exposed. She stands in a maroon-coloured temple, with patterns made of circular stones on the pillars.
Panel 1: A group of teenagers in school uniforms sit in an audition. Panel 2: a diver, upside down, swirls in odd liquid. Panel 3: a closeup of the diver's face, grimacing upside down. Their helmet is cracking.
Title reads "Explorations 1:15-21". Two divers holding underwater lights dive deep into liquid beside a cliff. Diver 1: can you hear me, control? It's bright down here. Control (off panel): copy, please elaborate. Diver 1: I said it's bright. It's like this stuff is...glowing gold.
A 4 panel, black and white comic page. In the first panel, a person with shoulder length blonde hair, holding a tote bag, closes a door behind her. In the second panel, a man with dark hair smokes on the steps of a front porch. In the third panel, we see the sun setting on a quiet neighbourhhood, the kind you see in suburban North America with old houses. The man smokes in the foreground, back facing us. In his fenced backyard, a dog sniffs and wags its tail. The final panel is a notepad on a desk, a pen next to it. The note reads: "the dog is in the backyard. Please don't come in the living room. Sorry."
A comic page of four panels, in black and white with the words "I was enraged in violent motion against the strong mountains and ascended them" A man in a white shirt, with dark straight hair, stands alone in an apartment. He's holding a rope, standing behind a chair. Panel 3 dialogue, as he looks at the rope: Three. No, four. Panel 4 dialogue, as he turns behind him. The rope is on the chair: Four steps? Three?
A full colour poster, depicting a woman stepping into purple-black liquid. She's dressed in a white tunic clasped over one shoulder, and wearing strings of colourful beads. Her head has a halo. She's surrounded by columns with circular patterns.
Two comic panels, one of a girl picking flowers, the other of an owl flying in front of an old forest. Other owls peek out from the trees. The panels are surrounded by flower illustrations. Flower names: lobelia siphilitica, epilobium angustifolium, pycnanthenum virginanium. Text boxes: oh...that's what it was! I'd been picking flowers when I wandered off. I don't know how long I was alone, but then I heard this voice out of nowhere... Speech bubbles: little one... Are you lost?
A comic cover reading PIT OF EDEN, depicting an ancient Babylonian statue covered in golden, heaving figures. The background is Mesopotamian inspired painting glowing bright pink.
A winding, snowy pathway through a birch forest patch
Two colourful artworks depicting women with long black hair elaborately styled, and wearing tiered flounced skirts and blouses in red, blue, and yellow. The woman on the left has exposed breasts and carries an offering of anemone flowers, and the woman on the right dances while holding a sacred item and wearing extensive jewelry.