A horror sketch.
It’s the beginning of fire season, so I’m going to share this memory and some advice I learned the hard way.
In fall 2020 the wild fires on the west coast were so bad that you could barely see 15 feet at times. Where I lived the aqi hit 590 at one point. We could not evacuate and we had no insulation in our house.
The gas masks saved us. Me and my roommates taped our windows shut and wore respirators in the house for a week. I did this sketch of them while we were watching the muppet movie one night.
Most of you will have experience a fire or smoke storm at some point, this is not going away. Smoke inhalation can have permanent and long term effects.
Get a respirator mask, and get replacement filters for organic and biological material. They can be as cheep as $12, and even if you don’t think you’re at risk, it is not something you want to find out you need afterwards. If you can afford to, get extras. Someone you know might need it.
Also useful at protests, just saying…
I made this journal for @sixgills birthday in about 4 hours on Sunday.
Made entirely from second had and repurposed crafting supplies, including leather, covid mask elastic, part of an ikea shelf, and 4 types of paper.
There was little to no planing involved, this was pure vibes.
I went on a picnic at a park with my partner today and did some colored pencil sketching of the light in the trees. Colored pencil on watercolor paper was trying.
Colored pencil sketch I did during a meeting ✨
Colored pencil portrait commission of Marley for Tracy M. Marley is an cute fellow with the prettiest golden fur!
Sitting in front of the heater at midnight eating tiny powdered doughnuts.
But the the advertisements on this leftists podcast about water safety and purification I’m listening to are a ketamine psychedelic therapy treatment and a scammy sound gold investment company that seems to be targeting near to retirement people???
I’m feeling kind of existential but the doughnuts are super hitting the spot.
After 15 years of insisting she’s not an artist by comparing her work to mine, by younger sister has started a pretty successful business in color-pencil pet portraiture, a field I have NEVER thought about going into.
Stop comparing yourself to other people, make art.
Watercolor lighting exercise painting I did a while ago + the extremely sloppy work space from making it. I think I might have been in a zoom meeting during this one.
Tumblr’s fun because I’ve been on here for over a decade, but no one will let the old posts die. I’ll be scrolling during lunch and it’s just like WHAM REMEMBER THIS and it’s the exact same fucking post from ten years ago, just with newer responses getting progressively more confused.
Everybody look at how cool my cat is. Leash walking a cat never gets old.
✨A woven yarn tapestry of the Shire✨
Kim x Shego is one of my oldest and dearest ships.
I was trying to decide on an outfit a few weeks ago and sketched this to send my sisters because I wasn’t home with my cloths for photos.
These are a couple sheets of thumbnail development for the prompts ‘too many choices’ and ‘passive vs. active’. Part of a visual ideation course I did last year. I am a fan of the iterative sketch vibe though, thought some of you might enjoy too.