Missing the sky

Barbie on Skates! (1992)

Study.

Artober 31: Cowboy Mothman

Happy Halloween!

A Helping Hand

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people's art more than your own:

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don't be so hard on yourself: it's probably just that you can't see the magic right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

happy holidays from garfield and miku (:

Finally

You're successfully distilled something iniquitous

...you're won't be able to keep it containted for long.

Im really proud of this piece!

hate it when matt does cool stuff with his lore. im left to draw immaterial concepts of ancient gods

I added the finishing touches to on my raptor piece 🦖🪡 by Bustedflush91

style exercise using my favourite thirst trap subject based on this art. i thought it came out nice :)

I 💖 reindeer 🔔🦌🎀

There is nature and artifice and the path is their child. The seeds of architecture take root where they must, and must be pruned carefully.

Famcy elf man

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.