#artmake

[imitchi]

Prompt sharing : whimsical illustration of jinx with her blue hair holding it as a messy bunwith a messy bun holding a cup feeling upset standing in a white background wearing oversized jumper ultra render watercolor background by Glen Keane:1.2), loose Disney-style, Disney, icon character of league of legends jinx if you like what i do you can always support me with a like, comment, or a coffee ↷ click here to buy me a ☕

[ianfulgar]

In one of my journeys through Bali, I discovered a captivating scene in a modern hotel courtyard. A towering concrete sculpture, evoking an alien giant, complemented the hotel's low-rise architecture adorned with a sun-shading lattice made from natural wood. This thoughtful integration of art and sustainable materials enhances the visual appeal and conveys a strong message about the semantics and meanings of a place. It prompts a community discussion on how art can influence the perception and functionality of architectural spaces. Do you think integrating art with architecture should always serve a thematic and functional purpose?

[kiisaes]

"doomed by the narrative yaoi" yeah ok buddy (un-dooms the narrative)

[chasani]

this is it right

[snackugaki]

[comedyloser]

he’s not obsessed

[proudartmaker]

I forgot to post these drawings on Tumblr and IG. They are artworks related to the Songkran festival that took place last month. However, because I was very busy and my phone had issues, the comic part of the work was delayed. Sorry.😔

These are comics part.

[doctorpasta]

[starfragment1979]

I've kept a journal since 1995, and I've been using composition books exclusively for more than twenty years because I can decorate the cover.

In 2023 I had a big downturn in my health where I became housebound, and as a result wasn't really journaling as much, because how often can you write, "I feel like shit, everything hurts, I can't sleep and I want to die"? And coincidentally, I didn't really like the cover I made for the journal I was using, which really only added to not wanting to write in it.

But I finally filled it up and started a new one earlier this year, which meant I had a new cover to decorate. This time I consciously tried for something more cheerful and with brighter colors. And I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Honestly, my health had only gotten worse -- I'm currently mostly bedbound except for meals and bathroom visits, and struggling a lot after a maybe-virus in early November. But I am trying to hang on, and trying to be optimistic.

[blujayonthewing]

[steeples fingers in front of my face] do I. work on art. or do I work on fixing my sleep schedule.

[michaelmathewsart]

“Material 05"

[Fragments series)

by michael mathews

mixed media & collage on yupo paper

10x12 inches

2024

www.michaelmathewsart.com

[ianfulgar]

While researching in Bali, I encountered an extraordinary contemporary sculpture set within the courtyard of a low-rise hotel. The sculpture, a concrete figure that seemed to march forward, stood against a backdrop of sun-shading lattice constructed from locally sourced wood. This artistic and architectural blend creates a visually compelling and environmentally conscious space. The presence of such art within an architectural context can significantly impact the ambiance and user experience, fostering a deeper connection with the place. How essential is it for art to be integrated into architectural design? Should there be a deliberate effort to align the themes of art and architecture within a complex? . .

[ezrazone]

making this non-rebloggable and may delete it, but i do want to talk about my first experience as a literary critic because i think it matters despite my wanting nothing to do with the subject of the piece for as long as i live. this is not a callout or a call to action. please be advised to leave this guy alone. i can forgive them now that their behavior towards me has stopped.

this past winter, ahead of my first article as a comics critic, i very naively hoped to have a conversation with another cartoonist about the philosophical ideas their latest book is wrestling with. i ended up having a tense but respectful discussion with the author, which they then chose to lie about to both their twitter audience for sympathy and then in outrage via emails to my editor at the online journal in hopes of having me blacklisted or getting the review censored or scrubbed. it went nowhere (except a small handful of petty comments on the article itself, parroting the version of events that the author invented for twitter) and an internal investigation at the journal, which yielded the obvious (that the claims were completely fabricated, as evidenced by our written correspondences on either side of an uncomfortable phone-call and the actual review which is critical but not malicious or personal).

i think it’s very easy to get wrapped up in the indignity of the experience and the horror-magnet of this individual personality. i think i got off pretty easy; this is not someone with a great deal of power or influence (i am far from the first person to trigger their tar-pit behavior on twitter), it never followed me to other social media, and i got to keep my article up because it was fair and professional. i still have my job as a freelancer with the journal.

but i think something matters from my experience, beyond the interpersonal confusion - i cannot possibly understand why they behaved the way they did and will lose my mind if i try. but what i do have is new insight into the way that people are prone to covet acceptance via professional work, how the myth of creating something genius in isolation promises to resolve all of your personal and spiritual issues - and how “bad reception” (or merely insightful reception, or reception you personally disagree with as a creative worker) appears to threaten your safety and your sanity.

being begged by someone who has published multiple substantial graphic novels - achievements i am nowhere close to undertaking myself at this point in my creative development - not to “cancel them” by writing a completely warranted review of their hugely ambitious comics project was like having a bucket of ice water dumped on my own delusions of grandeur. this awful social interaction has begun a chain reaction of ego deaths in me that only seem to accelerate as i wrangle pieces of my health from the jaws of my long covid crash last year.

i cannot possibly care about being Da King of Comics anymore. it’s just fucking comics.

anyways you can read my review on SOLRAD. and you are obviously advised to leave the artist alone. i think it’s very cool, actually, that i was able to walk away from an encounter like that knowing that 1) i treated this person during our actual encounters with respect, compassion, curiosity and consideration and 2) that i would write a fair review no matter how much they thrashed and cursed me and begged me to become a part of their annihilation fantasies. i have never felt more clear on who i am or what my work is capable of.

i hope by sharing about my experience that i do not re-provoke this person, since writing the review at all sent them into a blackout rage of self-pity and entitlement for several weeks. i have never described them publicly as they actually treated me, but i don’t think i’ve become a better person by sitting on it. maybe this can be part of me letting them go.

i still find the book interesting. i could have written an article that was 5x the length of the one on SOLRAD and not even scratched the surface of how meaningful the book is to me. isn’t that kind of sad, that these characters could have lived on through me or through anybody? i could have made comics about it, new drawings and illustrations to heighten the things that worked while acknowledging the things that cannot work.

we are so culturally petrified of subjective audience experiences and transformative work. we are so wedded to our own egos, to being regarded as individually pure and infallible. it’s a huge disservice to the work we actually make, which is so much bigger than this individual’s emotional response to embarrassing themselves in front of a colleague.

they admitted to me over the phone that they had not read any single philosopher name-checked in their book. they had only listened to breadtube playlists. i had not pressed very hard; just listened, just observed them openly. the next four months would be colored by their own horror at this admission of their own incuriosity and what they feared i might do with it. they’d call me an “adult bully” in their twitter takedown, hreatening to “kick their corpse” by calling them “a bigot” and by “refusing to explain why”. i had only accepted them as they were and promised to treat their work with respect and dignity.

i declined, over the phone, to give this person experiencing severe emotional distress a new reading list. they reacted as if, because they perceived me as “knowing better”, i was doing violence to them by not immediately teaching them all that i know. instead, i outright rejected the framing that there was something wrong with their book because they had not “read enough” and instead tended to their emotional well-being, reassuring them that i cared for their future as an artist and took the review seriously. they were able to calm down as we spoke and they thanked me for being a safe person. they seem to have changed their mind later, after the story underwent several escalating permutations.

we’re all doing enough. we can do more, when we accept that our work is already in other people’s hands. my plea to the proto anne rices of the world. rice said she obliterated all of that fan work and fan discussion from the internet with her massive legal financial and social power because she was worried that reading something about her work might cause her writer’s block.

you can make something exceptionally wonderful and it will matter very little if you cannot share it. allow it to be witnessed. allow somebody to disagree with it. make work with the expectation that most people will not understand it. world peace my final message etc

[chasani]

drew this as a gift :3

[snackugaki]

surprise my other hobbies are window shopping and fashion