#art themes

[artchallengegame]

Day 8 themes

Fashion: the 1950s

Breaking the rules

Sloth

Amazon

Hero

Cloud city

Day 9 preview: Color scheme, Instinct, Cow, Sahara, Satellite, Medium: Weird or unconventional

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[canisalbus]

✦ Picciriddu ✦

[ink-stains-and-constellations]

Icarus has become a theme in a lot of my art, and a bit of a symbol for me.

It started a while ago, when my anxiety was really bad and I was in the process of making some big decisions. In some of my writing and art, I started referencing Icarus in relation to my feelings about my situation. I wanted to fly, I wanted to touch the sun, but I was too scared to even attempt it, because I was scared that my wings would burn and I would fall. I shared some of my writing about it with my partner, and she answered that as long as I had someone to catch me when I fell, I'd be fine.

After that, the meaning started slowly changing, and I went from 'Icarus fell' to 'what if the sun caught Icarus as he fell' to 'Icarus fell, but before that, he flew'. It's become a reminder of 'you'll never know if you don't try'. If you stay safely on the ground, then sure, you'll never risk falling from the sky, but nor will you get to experience flight. Is it really living if all you're doing is surviving?

I know it's not what the original story was about. But I like it. I tend to let fear hold me back, but I think I'd rather fly and deal with the risk of falling than stay trapped on the ground because I'm scared of what might happen. Who knows, maybe I will touch the sun. And even if I don't, even if I fall, I have people who will catch me.

[evercelle]

but the show must go on

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Springtrap and Vanny talk to Huntress in DBD..

[soaked-doors]

twitta dump. don’t have a lot of time for super polished pieces these days

[wolfythewitch]

Quick sketch, wanted to draw my sona possessed by bill lol

[ash-and-starlight]

humble contribution

[abilitayy]

frye becomes a theme park influencer

[clowns0up-felix]

A while back I watched a yt video where wild saw wind for a second in the fog while colgera battle theme played and I had to draw it,, made me tear up fr (drawing is a bit older btw)

Title of the of video: how that one part of colgera's theme felt (Zelda TOTK animation) -by Hey.SailorBoy!

Please please please check it out

[artchallengegame]

Day 16 themes

A full page of something you are bad at drawing

Silence

Hummingbird

Rivendell

Trip

Create an original Pokemon

Day 17 preview: Style: Pop art, Drive, Duck, Great Wall of China, Jewel-encrusted, Flying Machine

[lucidloving]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

[ultramarinaa]

Read a cute and funny fanfic about Halloween office party which gave me this idea lol

John didn’t even try, his first idea was to put a sticker “NotJohn” but then figured out it might be in poor taste

[wasyago]

ooooohhhh who lives in a small tugboat out on the sea?

ge-mi-ni-tay

[bixels]

End-of-Splatoon thoughts.

Thinking about how since the very start, Splatoon has had a feature where players can draw and post artwork and spot them as graffiti on walls or billboards. Or how the weapons have always been paint brushes and rollers and ballpoint pens. Since its inception, Splatoon has been dedicated to engaging its players with the act of creation and creative expression, showing them how their art can build communities and (literally) change the world.

Thinking about finding golden human-made music discs buried underground for thousands of years, and a grand finale music festival. About the Voyager Golden Records. About those human handprints etched into concrete in Alterna. Did those human artists know it would end like this? First a fiery death and then, eventually, a worldwide celebration of music to represent our shared past, present, and future. Did they know that their songs, insignificant in the face of extinction, would one day become the solution that will save the next dominant life-form from the same fate?

Thinking about how eerily similar the Octarian domes are to Alterna. About how close Inklings and Octolings were to repeating the same mistakes as humans. But their doomed fates were undone not by some miracle technology or military power or a rocket, but by music.

Thinking about how humans wiped themselves out with war, and our parting gifts were liquid crystals that somehow paired with the DNA of primeval inklings and somehow infused them with our memories and culture and a Song. And 12,000 years in the future, that same Song will end a war.

Thinking about how art and music and punk culture and rock & roll and friendly competition and petty arguments and water guns aren’t uniquely human concepts, but the fundamental qualities of intelligent life. An inheritable spirit that can cross evolutionary bounds.

Thinking about the theme of Splatoon, that art and music and fun will not die with the human race. That every piece of art we create is a seed we sow for future generations to reap. That our legacy is ingrained into the crust of the earth. That long after we’re gone, the oceans will remember, and they’ll pick up where we left off.

Thinking about how Splatoon says that the essence of humanity –– the thing that will outlive us –– isn't war or prejudice or destruction or greed, it's a song.