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I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

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Zhao Zhao (Chinese, b. 1982)

Constellations, 2021-2022

Embroidery on silk

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The fastest way to shut down my "freelance life means I have to constantly be working" thoughts is to remind myself that if I was a boss holding a worker to the standards I hold myself to, their union would hunt me for sport and nobody would blame them.

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So normal about him

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traditional art more like wet paint was invented by big patience to sell more wait

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They said they would stay still. Then there was cucumber.

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i've just had a terrible idea

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i should draw

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Square Slake!

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Gesture drawing while my cat takes a bath. I want to use a pose like this for a painting I’m thinking about.

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Cozy guardian hours

Yes that is Falen’s jacket

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Drawing lil mushroom cuties.

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I’m working on drawing 100 hands in November! Here’s number 21-40.

I’ve moved on to working from a pack of references by adorkastock on deviantart for these and I’m really loving them. Having good photo references on hand speeds up my workflow. Just look at the muscle between the thumb and the palm. That’s such a big improvement from last time, and it makes it a lot easier to tell what the hands are doing.

I’m going slower than I hoped but I’m really loving this challenge.

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I was ​working on pose sketches for an upcoming piece, but I ended up coming up with a couple of other ideas for later.

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I’ve spent a lot of the last month practicing drawing hands and I completely missed that. I’m gonna have to try that one.

katara is down for crime just not down to get caught 😎