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It’s an act of courage to share something you’re not fully satisfied with—because growth comes from showing up, not from perfection.

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Claude Monet “The Manneport at High Tide”

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Gazes that speak more than words.

#CharcoalDrawing #BlackAndWhiteArt #LiteraryArt #EmotionalPortrait #FineArt #BookInspired #MysteryArt #ArtAndLiterature #DarkAesthetic #StorytellingThroughArt

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(離風藍蘭) is finally going online after screened in many international Festivals. You can now watch it on my YouTube channel!

link: https://youtu.be/qQMrOYHfUsI?si=NQRr0PIxRCqCIrCx

Please give it a go if you want to support this piece and share it around. 🫶🏻💙 — Story, directed, animated by @elliscky original music and sound design by @studiocosmophone Voice acted by @yujiajia_wang BG and color painting extra help by @liuyenchen2252 @mohammad.babakoohi

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The Wind (1895) - Edwin Austin Abbey

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Source: @pierrot

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@nandahagenaars

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Louis Derbré (1925-2011) - La Vague, 1974

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Unreachable

Wandering mind, full of creation

Meandering lines, lost in elation 

Each stroke, I broke a little inside

Each fate, I hate. My will defied

I painted this in Feb 2022 about what it's like to be an artist with repetitive strain injury. In 2008, When I was 18, I made my first comic titled 1000 Words, it was about an artist helping a little girl with a broken family similar to my own. It received such positive feedback that I changed my Environmental Science major at UCBerkeley to Art major. Ever since then, my goal has been to tell stories with my art. Stories that are important to me. My next comic, Knite, was about a boy who wants to put the stars back into the polluted skies of China, my homeland. The comic after that, Fisheye Placebo, is a cyberpunk story about living in the age of technology, about fighting censorship and propaganda.

Unfortunately, I never got to finish Knite nor Fisheye Placebo. By the time I was 24, I was drawing day and night with no regards to my health. Not only did I get repetitive strain injury in my drawing hand, but my entire health suffered. My roommates had to rush me to the ER after fainting one night. I remember looking at my swollen right hand, my fingers like sausages, not even able to hold a pen, and just cry.

I've gone to the doctors and physical therapists. One told me I have Lupus (I do not), and another told me to put ice on it. More recently, I met a friend who happens to an amazing physical therapist and he was able to help me regain a lot of use of my hand. At my worst, I could only draw an hour a week, but now I am able to draw 2 hours a day. My hand is unlikely to fully heal, but I'm so grateful to regain what I have.

To my fellow artists who suffers the same, please know you're not alone. I can't promise that it'll get better, and it's cliche to say don't give up, but I want to keep hoping that no matter what the world throws at us, we will continue to make art.

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Thomas Hart Benton  © Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Words are a shower of light... a hand full of magic...

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Michel Kikoine

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Taiwo Aina, Portrait of a woman in her kitchen. This was inspired by the challenges every girl faces when transitioning into a woman

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mihaildinisiuc - INSOMNIAC

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Enjoy the captivating photography of Australian artist @meg.cowell via @ausartcollective. ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CFjYhSXAXSL/