#don’t be like me kids

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

My family during Christmas: where the hell is zee?

*zee is in the bathroom smoking an ungodly amount and trying to make it through the goddamn day*

[swordbisexual]

Deleting my grouchy text posts from earlier because all I needed was a snack and some water and suddenly I feel better about life and myself and the universe.

[puppetwoman17]

“This project/paper will take a long time to do. You can’t just procrastinate til it’s a week before it’s do.”

Me: Is that a challenge?

[brittandbiscuits]

sorry if youve been asked this before but your drawings have a nice texture to them and i was wondering if it was a brush or an overlay?

Hello! Thanks for asking, most of the texture in my work comes from brushes. I use the TrueGrit Super Smooth Inker for lineart and the default Procreate Bonobo Chalk brush for coloring and creating gradients.

I do use clipping masks to create texture for things like skin. I paint a solid base layer and then add color over top with the Bonobo Chalk brush, fiddling with the opacity until I get my desired look.

Hope this helps!

[bharv]

My lack of ability to advocate for myself is killing me, actually.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Eclipse, recently reformed and on thin ice: I found the most cursed breakfast combination.

Sun: God, what did you create?

Eclipse: Ya know those blueberry pancake battered sausages on sticks?

Sun: Yes? The daycare kids like them.

Eclipse: So I want to make one with chocolate chip and bacon flavored pancake batter with spicy sausages and dip them into sausage gravy.

Sun: …

Sun: Listen, I don’t want to disown you again, please don’t.

[violetwolfraven]

Remember, kids! If you need a break and you don’t take one, eventually your body will take one for you!

[l-crimson-l]

At some point you surpass the problem of not having enough display space and you run into the new problem of not having enough Storage Space For Your Fucking Backlog

[doublesidedgemini]

I am on so many supplements and shit now and three of them are from love wellness that company really suckered me in with their marketing

[nowshesdoingitallthetime]

A vinyl is getting delivered today, meaning it’s time to clock in and sit in front of my front door all day

[guesswhattimeitis]

Me: What if I wrote a fic where Yue lived at the end of the the first season of avatar?

Also me: A short fic?

Me, again: Don’t be silly we’re rewriting large chunks of the series lore

[beanfreak]

me, five minutes ago: wow that new dragon that’s been circling the great sky island looks pretty cool, i should try and find a reference photo for it

the ENORMOUS spoiler about to appear (i am a fool and forgot that the dragons are lore related): hey 😋😋

me: wh

me, realizing how bad i just fucked up:

[moonlitcoyote]

I was talking with my bestie on art and so you get my musings here… buckle up for a long post!

I’ve been pretty forth coming on the fact I’m in Art Burnout. I’ve completed two pieces this year and I’ve had no want/drive/desire to do anything art related- I pick up a pencil, nothing flows, or executive dysfunction rears its ugly head and prevents art creation entirely, or everything I do create is wonky and bad. The need to create is still screaming at me, but cannot.

I’ve been poking around my markers as of late- a medium I know very well- one of teen me’s favorites-something I know very well.

And my brain went to “this isn’t Art.”

Yes, that was the ACTUAL thought that occurred to me. It stopped me dead in my tracks and I went “I need to examine this thought process and unpack it-ASAP.

Why is it not “Art?” It’s Marker, not paint. It’s also ink and that’s illustration.

And the penny dropped- this is a damaging thought process that’s left over from Art School.

Perhaps I was unlucky- but it was made clear to me very early that I was an illustrator, not an Artist, by using marker, ink and pencil. I wasn’t Avant Garde enough. I didn’t think conceptually and that was bad- I wanted to know the rules, learn the techniques and process before then bending them or experimenting.

So I abandoned the medium almost entirely and tried my damndest to do the paint thing, come up with grandiose concepts (fail- I just wanna draw wildlife and flowers and fantasy critters). I found a respite in Scientific Illustration, but the damage was done.

I have spent years arguing with painting, never being really happy with anything in create in those mediums. Being afraid it’s not “ART” enough. I jump around, trying to find that spark. Something that I won’t ultimately burn myself out on. My perception of Art in regard to my own work is heavily skewed.

I really feel The concept of “Fine Art” is a lie. WHO decides what art is Fine Art? Arbitrary societal views? Galleries? Art Dealers? People with money? Museums? Cause let me tell you, the art on my wall probably doesnt fit their arbitrary standard, but I’d call them Fine Art.

This really toxic view of what is and is not art is ingrained in me due to school. Illustration is as much an art as painting, illustrations are fine art. It shouldn’t be separated. I need to find a way to heal from this toxic view point that was drummed into me and put it to bed. For me, to create. Maybe unpacking this will help.

Illustration is Art. Illustration is Fine Art, be it marker, ink, colored pencil or watercolor, oils or acrylic.

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[nightowlqueen]

Ruining your sleep schedule reading a mid BL manga

[moonilit]

He got some fact checking to do