it's funny, I was talking to someone last night who didn't really know what an illustrator was. so when I introduced myself as one, he gave a speech that would've probably gone over well with a gallery artist, but which was precision-tailored to make any illustrator within a 50 mile radius go into eyes-glowing-red kill mode.

his speech was about how there is a difference between craft and art, and how people can practice craft (as in, skillfully execute a painting) without it having any artistic merit.

so I'm someone who gets paid to paint waffles for restaurant menus and dinosaurs for museums exhibits, and AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! you can't make art without it being something something you've made. does that make sense? like every illustrator I know has an individual way of approaching any given imagery that is informed by a lifetime of inspiration, and of passive intake of culture, and of the specific mistakes they make because of whatever their particular mass of grey matter deems as important thing to render or unimportant, just fuck it up.

I can make something that is informed by both a century of Canadian print-making and by my own particular neurosis, and it can also be commissioned commercial imagery that I regurgitate without care because I want to pay my mortgage. everything is art, nothing isn't art, art is something sticky and impossible to shake off of you.

anyway he got very wide-eyed and said "I'm sorry if I offended you," so today I feel a bit bad for having gotten so, uh.... excited.

Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:

don’t

im sorry but what even is reblogging?????? what purpose is it for????????

💕 Pastel Dalmatians 💕

An amorphous black blob thingy that shape-shifts into any hazard related thing.

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

"Is Discord okay? Perhaps someone should check on him." -Said no one in G5

I thought I poseted these! Turns out I didn't!

Here are some older LMK drawings!

Lego Monkie Kid Sun Wukong screenshot redraw!

Moth man ( @lmkobsessedmoth ) I summon thee!!!

A gift for you :3

the authors note of all time

"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever

Drew a little something in a stationary store

I'm a little terror when i go out.

Some poor worker will be flicking through this A3 book and then get jumpscared by beach macaque.

2nd page of doodles in my actual sketchbook:

I may digitalise some of them