work in progress

getting married in three days, moving across the country in a month, changing my name, changing my art style, it's gonna be a whole personal rebranding saga and this is the first painting everyone's gonna see

James baldwin’s the artists struggle for identity. Btw.

weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren't creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i

Eiko Ishioka, Japanese designer (born July 12, 1938, Tokyo, Japan—died Jan. 21, 2012, Tokyo), won accolades in the worlds of theatre, film, and advertising for her sensual and compelling designs; her many honours included an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Award nominations. Ishioka began her career (1961) in the advertising division of the Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido and in the early 1970s opened her own advertising agency, where her avant-garde campaign for the boutique chain Parco made her a star in the design world. Her work as production and costume designer on the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters won her an award (shared with the cinematographer and the composer) for best artistic contribution at the Cannes Festival, and she won an Academy Award in 1993 for her costume design for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Her design for the Miles Davis album Tutu won her a Grammy Award for best album package in 1986, and she was nominated for the 1988 Tony Awards for set design and costume design for her work on the Broadway play M. Butterfly. Ishioka designed costumes for the musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark(opened 2011) and for the Cirque du Soleil show Verekai (2002). In addition, she was director of costume design of the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

two similar yet very different views from the american southwest

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988)

"The Lantern", 1979

You ever get in the mood of "I want to create but I don't want to hate myself when I inevitably can't create a work good enough to meet my unnecessary standards." Yeah how do you fucking kill that and stop it from happening

Ian Stone, Doubting Thomas, oil on linen, 12x16 in, 2023

"If you know the painting by Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, it was my direct inspiration for this piece.

A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience. 50-60 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to think or believe that being gay was a phase or a mental illness or deviance in some shape or form. It's embarrassing that the same things are being said about trans people today."

drew this on a plane 30 minutes before experiencing the most turbulent landing of my life ✌️

gouache and pencil on paper x

Flora, but make it suffocating

the new American Gothic. // artist: Criselda Vasquez.