#art inspiration"

[adventuretolkienlover]

OH. MY. GOSH. My dream is to make art this beautiful and atmospheric.😍😍😍😍

Richard Chen’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Part I

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"The Betrothal Ring" by Warren B. Davis (1906)

[russenoire]

GO HARD OR GO HOME.

[drizzledrawings]

Lesbian cowboys anyone?

[mondainai]

There's a reason lionesses don't eat their young?

Hi bunjy! I have a HUMAN question—why is it that when humans see an extremely adorable thing, we get the urge to squeeze it very tightly?

there’s a good reason for that, turns out! 

when you see something cute, your brain lights up your positive emotional centers and reward centers in an electric fireworks display that leaves you feeling pretty good!

aww!

but when you see something just TOO CUTE, SO INCREDIBLY CUTE THAT YOU JUST CAN’T HANDLE IT, both these centers in your brain light up so hard that your nervous system panics and compensates by dumping in a touch of furious monkey aggression just to keep things balanced and prevent the grid from blowing out, so to speak.

awww! I’m going to rip you apart with my bare hands!

if you didn’t have this emergency cute-overload circuit-breaker preinstalled in your brainmeat, you’d just stand around sighing at babies all day and never get anything done and THAT’S not useful, so evolution has helpfully provided you with the urge to murder anything that gives you strong enough positive emotions.

[musingmanor]

Majestic beast for where the buffalo roam

[colormush]

[the-golden-comet]

Lately on my dash, I have been seeing lots of wonderful mutuals get too hard on their beautiful minds.

Lovelies, your stories and art are beautiful because they are from you, and FOR you. Stats do not determine the quality of a product. Again, some of the BEST stories on the archive I have ever read were around 100 hits, and 0-10 kudos. Some of the BEST ART I’ve seen has 0 notes.

You know how I can tell? Because the authors and artists poured their heart and soul into their craft. As long as it can inspire ONE person, you should be proud. You just radically changed the life and perspective of ONE person. That’s amazing.

Sure, you might think your art or story is “cringe” or “bad”…OR, it can be someone’s comfort piece that they go back to after a long day. You may see your stats and think, “man, nobody enjoys this,” not knowing that maybe, juuuust maybe, you have that ONE person who you’ve inspired, who loves your work, and lurks your socials awaiting for your next project. Your art, your music, YOUR story has the potential to do that, but you have to love what YOU do.

And yes, your love WILL show. Maybe not with stats, or kudos, or notes, or comments. But you may be someone’s favorite without even knowing. As long as your art is out there, it WILL reach somebody. I will try to be that somebody for a lot of you, but there is indeed A LOT of you.

In a world where media is being “consumed” for “content,” remember that ART comes from the heART (sorry not sorry for being cheesy). Artists, Writers, Poets, Musicians, Sculptors, HUMANS: Get your hearts out there for the world to see. The world needs more motivated minds. 💫

[adventuretolkienlover]

I aspire to make background art this colorful and beautiful.😍

Get yourself someone who sees you the way rottmnt artists see NYC at night

[art-tnt]

[icedoutangels]

H.R Giger’s Alien concept art (1979)

[troythecatfish]

[beelzegeist]

CREATURE CORE (1992) - PHANCURE

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"David and Saul" by Julius Kronberg (1885)

[mondainai]

He's adorable. Is it a friendly giant? Or something beyond his understanding?