Looking up, not only artists you admire and love, but ones you actually hate and aren't interested in is pretty good too, actually. Because your brain will go, this is awful, or incomplete, or why would they put those two colors together. But in reality, it's just a different art style, and it's just not your thing.
As a professional this is great, because it lets me know I'm being TOO hard on myself when I think my artwork is not up to the standard I want, ie. Art I look up to.
oh im just gonna do a quick warmup-- (succumbs to insanity)
moar ⬇️
knuckles and his twin brother cuckles who has every disease
⬆️⬆️⬆️ how it's going currently
unfortunately i didn't record the process of drawing knuckles bc i forgor but here's a speedpaint of sonic if anyone's interested in the rendering process. I am ignoring the existence of hands.
the song is life's coming in slow by nothing but thieves (i've wanted to use it for ages effgsgsgrf)
i also realized i'm gonna have to redo the entire floor bc i want larger slabs there, and i'll try to do a mosaic but idk how that'll go
let’s meet at the confluence is a suggestion to all Calgarians to consider the site where the Elbow flows into the Bow river and question how settler-colonial history is privileged in public and site specific art. The piece references the different histories of gathering at the confluence of the waters, histories that long predate Calgary, Alberta. Despite histories of Indigenous uses of the land, queer cruising, sex work, trade, the arrival of the railway, and the North West Mounted Police, the site of the confluence is often overlooked and rarely used as the great meeting place that it once was. The simple map and text invites an audience of all backgrounds, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, to make their way from the The New Gallery along the Bow river to the confluence viewpoint and to consider their proximity to one another. The text is in English and the word confluence is repeated in multiple languages including Blackfoot, Cantonese, and Cree to honour the artist’s Michif roots and the specific location of the billboard on Treaty 7 and in Chinatown, pointing to the history of many different people living along the rivers.