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it just took 45 minutes to clear my art desk enough to be able to paint

I should be kind to myself and remember that maintaining the functionality of the space is part of the work of doing art

and work takes time

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your creation will bend timelines

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starting oil paintings less than three weeks from the submission date is pure adhd hubris

i’m pretty sure the adrenaline rush is the only way i’m going to paint this parody/master study

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everyone's talking about unpacking their plurality and I keep thinking of this scene from Unico in the Island of Magic (timestamped to 48:07--52:46 [baby demons])

This scene in particular is not flashy

but a big BLINKING LIGHTS WARNING for the rest of the film

https://youtu.be/5i5JxOpYnc4?si=rUxlXyIW9OU2IOlA&t=2887

this movie fried my little lonely brain in so many ways. I revisited it for the aesthetic but now I think the aesthetic and the horror are intertwined and define one another. this might be peak cel animation, but I can’t watch it as a “comfort” film without getting a migraine.

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found my good watercolor brushes. I’d really started to worry that I’d accidentally thrown them all away, but they were safely tucked away in the lid of a cute toolbox that sat right in front of me for like a month. Organization!

dreading the ADHD tax and then not having to pay it is almost as good as a mutual plan cancellation.

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self-soothing leftovers | watercolor swatch

I’ve been spending most of my energy on social things the last couple weeks. I’m farther from home than I’ve ever been, on top of the Everything Else.

And when I’m not panicking to manage my time to socialize (even accessibly with vrchat or just vc on discord), I’m struggling to manage this house. I guess having windows is cool and all, but I miss the scale and predictability of the basement. (and the lighting, I miss predictable lighting!)

I keep finding that even when I scrape up a half hour block of “do it scared/tired/imperfect” time between chores, my brain is too fried to progress in the projects I’ve already got going.

So it’s circles of color. When I can’t think, but I know I need to paint stim, I paint circles.

I couldn’t even think in color composition, so this is just a lot of the single pigment watercolors I have. I stopped working when I couldn’t find the ultramarine [PB29] and was feeling an impending meltdown about it.

I was on voice chat while painting this—I didn’t really take alone time. I don’t think what I’m doing is sustainable, and it also isn’t enough.

Painting at all right now is a privilege, complaining is a humblebrag. Why would anyone give a shit about my art if I can’t even prioritize it? But how am I supposed to prioritize it while we’re all drowning?

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cosplay concept for Furality Somna: Princess Camille from Little Nemo (1989), turned nightmare?

i’m modeling the gown, hair, and scepter (to fit a Deira Neo) in blender rn.

color palette for this marker sketch was dictated by the markers not appearing in it (ugh should I even replace markers as they run out/fail and dry out?)

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2025 goals: fail faster, talk more (even when it's scary or embarrassing)

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I spent a lot of time in Blender this year too >>

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ID: an art flatlay of a sketch in color beside the supplies used to make it. on a notebook-sized scrap of cardboard box is painted a pinkish anthro person of unknown species in a yellow short sleeved leotard with blue jeans. Watercolor tubes and markers in primary colors (CMYK+W) are next to it.

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headed thataway | office supplies sketch on the back of a portion of a tissue box

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“1992” palette test on coloring page. watercolor. pigments PG7, PY151, PR122, PR101, PB15

sometimes I want to just test colors and not think too hard about it—so I printed a coloring page I bought a couple years ago (coloring page artist’s work now available here )

trying some new things simultaneously

-using cyan

-adding a bit of gouache in my pans to reduce shine in bronzing colors (but maintain transparency in masstone)

PG7: winsor green bs x winsor green gouache

PY151: m graham azo yellow

PR122: mission gold quin perm magenta x holbein primary magenta gouache

PR101: m graham trans red iron oxide x daniel smith lunar red rock

PB15: holbein manganese blue nova, holbein peacock blue (pg15 x pg7)

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toxiposm wiggle animation - acrylic marker + acrylic gouache on transparencies

I remember when light tables were entire tables--but this thing I've had a few years is only a quarter inch thick.

I realized I could just buy a box of transparencies (also archaic tech) and that no one could stop me from making a shitty animation in a somewhat oldschool way.

one color layer, one viseme per frame (thinking in avatar modality ig). I wanted it real wiggly and wabi-sabi, so rather than animate only the mouth, I redrew the entirety of the lineart for each viseme/frame. I just set up a looping gif of random mouth sounds to see it in action.

shirt inspired by all the Pogo Possum comics I've been reading in archives

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role models | mixed media sketch

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watercolor on the back of a kombucha box. pigments: pg7, pr122, py110, py184, pbk31, pw6