#i can see it.....i can see the composotion...

[snazzi-strawberri]

I want to make an. Animatic

[k00276489]

workshop

I attended the relief Printing workshop to see different possibilities with the Lino printing. It’s great how you could play with the image and the composotion  experimenting with lines and colours. The idea of repetition of the images in a manual technique really facinates me. Here A quick Lino print.

Selfportrait in a cup.

Seminar: Image Manipulation - Relief Print

‘print is invasive’ that’s the power of the print. The idea of multiple was already at the basis of the communication and image making even before the digital tools. Propaganda posters from the past are now pieces of art, we can have copies of those posters haning of the wall at home. There are different techniques and possibilities to work on different scales and surfaces. I like the simple and clear marks of the German Expressionism woodcuts and the way they create a balanced composition between the black and white areas. Here I discovered Rona Green’s world. She explores physical appearance and the ways it can be altered trough anthropomorphism

She uses crisps lines and simplified shapes. The skin covered in tattoos is part of the identification of her bizarre creatures. They are invented characters part of her imaginative world. Green’s prints are linocut and intaglio hand painted but she also work on sculpture and painting.

[paperwick]

any chance for another tarot style guide? I'm making a card related project and your composotion tips were extremely useful!

Yes! There will be another one. It won’t be extremely soon, since my time is monopolized by work at the moment, but I am planning for it. Since starting my Patreon, I’ve had extra time to devote to more tarot and tutorials, but I’m still a bit aways from making a tutorial. Look for it by the end of the year though! I wish you luck on your project! If there’s anything you were hoping for in a tutorial in particular, shoot me a message and I’ll see if I can help out! 

[atelhaddad]

A repetitive pattern of phases I've noticed recently, it goes too deep into your guts and brains. I've experienced something similar before, recently found people labeling it as psychosis, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. I am no psychologist to determine whether the three share the same symptoms, if the person experiencing such extreme and sudden alteration of feelings could fall unto the 3 spectrums simultaneously, or if they even share a spectrum. But it is becoming too recurring that it's alarming. A believer voluntarily gives into a truth without argumentation or reasoning. A delusional believer tailors a chain of reasons to fit his beliefs. A realist -to me- is the highest form of a believer. He sees what is, names it for what it is to his attainable understanding, and accepts its existence, non existence, or even its existence on a metaphysical level. The pattern I speak of occurs when someone spends too much time inside one's head. "Recreational drugs" could be a very dangerous catalyst to the surfacing of such pattern. It starts with an immature, hyper-yea approach to loving life in all its ways, shapes and forms. What one usually overseas in such phase is the "serpent" that lies beneath. The hate that could very dangerously be the root for the immature, superficial love, the love that is very personal, selfish, and self-rewarding. Which makes such love void of its true value. Acceptance. I accept because I love, making this love unjustified. However, if I love because I accept, makes it justified, and that's no way for true love. What inspired me to write this piece is what I've come across recently on social media. Namely, the account of someone who was at a certain point a personal-favorite satirist, Hesham Mansour. A very bright person, from what I've noticed during the very brief, cyber insights I've had on his personality through his show (Al3elm wal Emaw). His facebook posts, his instagram captions, they always showed me how this person's wit and social-intelligence gave him a passport to all classes. His accounts had pictures with celebrities, blue collars, academics and even diplomats. Recently, Hesham has been raiding his accounts with posts that contained a lot of symbolism. And that was the first sign to me, however significant these symbols are, believing that they're timeless or divine throws your sanity off-course.

"Horus is here" 

"They allowed the devil to be in human form.Plenty. That's basically what Jews did, the root of their deal with the devil" "All the negativity in the world, caused by Jews, All terrorism in the world, caused by jews, All depression, darkness, also jews. They stole all the positive energy! And as of 2019, it has begun returning to its rightful owners" And finally: "Now let's kill some jews" Needless to say, Mansour's twitter account that had nearly 900k followers got suspended, sending a torrent of angry people to his instagram account's comment section, calling him an antisemite and a nazi (oh, he later posted a photo of Hitler dabbing by the way, while wearing a ribbon with a Swastika on it).

Finally, the end to put an end to all endings for me was his reply to one of the comments his earlier posted golden cross picture .. "The people posting the Israeli flag are Jews, I am the Messiah, and Doomsday is happening" 

- Hesham rode a rather quick path to fame, starting on YouTube, then Television then most recently, with politicians and diplomats. A path very few people could handle without experiencing Megalomania. He -from what appears- indulged in substance abuse as well. From his abundant use of hash or alcohol-related jokes, it was very obvious how lightly he took their input to his state of mind. He admitted in his TED talk that he consumed alcohol and drugs. His over-reading into symbolism and ancient figures, shows that his belief system was getting disrupted. Some of his tweets reflected an absurd belief that Jews have control over the universe, from the space-time continuum to the human spirit, to fate even! I doubt that the most radical of athiests would believe that man can possess such a power, let alone a believer. 

The pattern goes as follows; An average human leading an average life, gets surrounded by a different kind of people than those he's habitual to, ego inflation starts with a very toxic loop of mutual gratification between him and such a people in the circle, the circle gets bigger and suddenly one becomes more concerned with his reflection in the people's eyes than in his own mirror, more substance abuse, a sudden feeling of exclusion, a hard fall for a significant other. That fall, that very fall, is the sole reason why someone would start looking into their own mirror. All of a sudden the flaws start to appear, they become more agonizing, one thinks to oneself "the very flaws that I've been pointing my fingers at are deeply rooted within me". A shock, traumatic even to some extent. I like to refer to this fall as the first taste of true love, because it shows you who you really are and reflects how much your actions weigh against your opinions, beliefs and claims. It hits you like lightning, cannot be compared to any other feeling or emotion, and I would even go as far as calling it an awakening. At which point, one starts to feel perplexed, "How did I, of all people, lose track of my actions like that. How did I drift so far off the path I'd had drawn for myself to the point where I'm that appalling, to ME!" An episode of self-loathing, followed by another of denial take over one's brain, and their only remedy is accusation and blame. In Hesham's case, he blamed the jews for everything negative, literally.  He showed respect for Hitler's actions. The only logical explanation I can think of is that he was trying to blame someone else for everything that's going wrong with his life -I am guessing because his love wasnt reconciled by Nadine, whom he had mentioned in an earlier post on instagram- and couldn't and wouldn't accept that he's not as perfect as he thought he was when swimming in the toxic micro-reality of gratification he was living in.

A faux sense of -exaggerated- self worth starts to manifest itself, little by little, till it reaches the point of a sense of holiness, divinity or of one being a saint, simply because one is too scared to admit they've done mistakes, however small they might be. I feel for Hesham, I feel sorry for the Jews who had to read his tweets, no one should ever face this amount of hatred. I wonder if He was born in a different country, who would he direct this hate upon? If you're reading this, Hesham, I want you to know that I have never felt more empathy towards someone I've never met than I do towards you now. I will pray that this phase goes away as quickly and as smoothly as possible. Because you've just crossed the starting line of the path to true love. What's coming next is only better. You'll regain control over yourself, you'll call yourself out on the mistakes that you've made and you'll own them. You'll feel like they're beneath you and your heart will grow to unprecedented levels because -even though we never met- it shows how much love you have in you man. I will very boldly even say that you'll love the very jews you called evil and rapists and all that ugly noise. Why? Because you'll see the doing of the higher consciousness, that your claim of "Control over the spirit" is well beyond man. And that the existence of the gorgeous dance of what we all subjectively label as good and evil within ourselves and ultimately across this whole universe presents itself as a mind blowingly brilliant composotion of life, so our whole existence would evolve as one. 

Love. 

[amadryades]

Hello honey, I wanted to know if you practice a sport, or a workout routine, and if you had tips for a good diet (make healthier choices, eat less, etc.) I have a lot of trouble with my body image, I do not see my own beauty and I can't stop comparing myself to others. It's getting harder to live with such low self-esteem recently. I can't help but want a thin and good-looking body, I feel like I can't be fully happy if I stay like that, but I just don't know how to change...

Hello!I’m glad you realize that you can’t see your own beauty. I firmly believe that the root of all eating disorders and body image issues lies in psychology, so that’s what you should fix first. If your relationship with food is unhealthy, try to find the deeper cause of it: is it greed, stress, emptiness, perfectionism, the fear of losing control? Since you asked me, I do workout at the gym 2-4 times a week. I do cardio and muscle training, and I recommend the latter to everyone! Even with the lightest weight resistance you’ll see an immense difference of your body composotion, you’ll feel stronger and have fewer mood swings. But you can just find a physical activity you enjoy and practise it 2-5 times a week, even for 20 min. per session. Also, walk, if the heat allows it.

I cannot offer you any special dietary advice because everyone has their own needs ( due to my low hematocrit I have to eat a lot of protein, which I do not enjoy since I’m not a meat person). Just the basics: drink water, eat lots of fruits and veggies, minimize your soda/ low quality junk food intake… There are no banned foods, just pay attention to the portion and frequency of your high-calorie meals. Oh, and more water!You already are beautiful, I’m sure 💖