#gripping my stylus

[inureor]

lil guyyyy!!!! :)c

[cryptidclownz]

[hinamie]

<3

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[nicstylus]

I am posting this again because LOOK AT THEM *grabs you by your hoodie strings* LOOK AT THEM I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

[justhereforeskel]

Knightskel is further in progress 🎉

Not pictured - the frankly ridiculous background I'm attempting because I have zero chill 🤦‍♀️

[b4kuch1n]

dip pen ink comm batch 4 complete! for Ezechiel, @ohwwhuv, and Leo :]

[meromessy]

AHA I HAVE AN EXCUSE TO FINISH MY SHOPPING DATE DRAWING NOW

[fitzselfships]

I wish my inflammation would calm down long enough for me to draw I WANT TK DRAW SELF SHIP ART SO BAD </3

[suokumi]

if you have a choice to sleep more or to sleep less, and I can't stress it enough, choose to sleep more, yes it's important not to oversleep, but getting proper 8 hours of sleep or close to it is also very important

[professionallydeadinside]

Why are fanchildren the first thing I think of when I get into new fandoms wasdfghgfddfghhgfdf

[chai-dye]

So so normal about what a character's music tastes says about them

[nazumichi]

love talking to my brother. here i sit wallowing in confusion and ever-present rage, wording a pent-up spiel about how the less time i’m spending drawing is kicking my mental health in the ribs, and he artfully answers with “ok but can you guess which country this flag represents.”

[seepylilthing]

WHY DO COOL PEOPLE FOLLOW ME IM SILLy ????????????

Shows off one of my pretty ink cap edits cutely . . .

[bitchapalooza]

I was so excited to go waste my money on a handful of new 3 pins tomorrow and some yummy groceries only to find out the phone bill was raised and now I have way less money than I anticipated and my tired and my stressed ass is stupidly upset about it

[prismazoa]

its so endlessly annoying that i always end up liking my drawings way better when i use a mechanical pencil on printer paper than i ever seem to be able to on a fancy tablet

[gallusrostromegalus]

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.