#folded pen

[penpanoply]

Just trying to get back in the art groove

[valtsv]

i will say one of the best results of actually practicing drawing on a regular basis apart from getting better at it (painfully slowly) is that it changes the way you see the world. i can't look at anything now without trying to break it down and translate it into art, if only in my imagination. my fingers really do itch whenever they aren't holding a pen.

[time-slink]

out here playing dress-up

[yutaan]

Ink/flat color commission of the client's party-member's aasimar mage, Elizabeth! She's a scholarly sweetheart who loves wizard-inspired fashion. Can you tell I enjoyed the heck out of drawing her clothes?? ✨

[nightmarearian]

Done (heavy quotation marks) with monster Ody @evergreen292 ;)

tbh I couldn’t for the life of me pick a color palette I liked And Render it so I gave up on color. Enjoy the half assery.

Tbh I’ve just been call it Ithacan Naga, but it’s objectively it’s a mix of snake, owl/bird, and human. So 🤷.

Tbh the wings are supposed to be white/gray-brown, cause owls & Hermes, while his scales are supposed to be an oscillating scale from sea green-blue to purple-tinted gray. Uhm. Evidently that sorta didn’t happen but also did. So.

The purple/grayer scales are gonna be more around with the feathers and wings.

Those fin colors are. Too blue and too bright but I love the colors themselves so they’re staying for now.

Uhm. That’s it for now, ig. I’m sorta on a timer rn and I’m tired so <3

The writing bit with this is still in the works (😭)

[baylardian-1]

just a bird papa and his little fur baby

[theoutcastrogue]

Slide & Box Knives, early 19th century

Oooh, knives with secret compartments! I'm not sure what these are for, exactly. I think they are quite small, they look like tiny penknives, so nothing big could fit in the box. Smelling salts? Cocaine? Who knows.

Image from the book Explanation or Key, to the various manufactories of Sheffield, with engravings of each article, designed for the utility of merchants, wholesale ironmongers, and travellers (Sheffield, 1816) [x]

[penpanoply]

[daftpatience]

it's so over for me now that I know I can get these

[bensboards]

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Themed Stimboard 🎹 with assorted gifs in red / black / white

🎹 : ★|☆|★ - ☆|★|☆ - ★|☆|★ i think someone had actually requested this before i cleared my inbox so i feel bad i cant properly do their request but ive been wanting to make this one for a while anyway so here we are! i just based it on the album cover to make it a little easier

[dollypopup]

thinking about the 'I would never court Penelope Featherington' scene again and how angry our fandom has been at Colin for it for the last two years and wondering. . .what exactly was he meant to say?

Lord Fife and his friends are *slimy*. They are gross. They have 0 respect for women. Fife isn't *Colin's* friend. Fife is *Anthony's* friend. Fife runs in Anthony's circles. Misogynistic circles with misogynistic language. Fife and Co. are out here saying the debutantes are only good for being 'wed, bed, and bred'. Fife is the one out here, well into his 30s and with an established title, fucking an 18 year woman raw on her first year out in the marriage mart with 0 intention to marry her. That is 10000% an act of violence in this society. And you *know* he's bragging about it. Hell, he was probably bragging about it right before he asked Colin about Penelope.

Colin's not in those circles. Colin has female friends. Colin respects his mother. Colin cares for his sisters. The worst thing Colin has EVER said about a woman was to call her 'cruel'.

So. . .what is Colin meant to say? "No, we're just friends" isn't going to fly for people like Fife. As IF he wouldn't reply with 'Yeah, suuuuuure, wink wink nudge nudge'. Thus ruining Penelope and fucking over her future completely. A lesser man than Colin would have let them think what they wanted, and that would have still ruined Penelope in their eyes. Silence? Incriminating.

And he doesn't want FIFE of all people to know about his close friendship with Penelope. Fife who has never once been seen respecting a woman. Fife who has never once viewed a woman as a person and not a sexual conquest. Penelope is a safe place for Colin. Is precious to him. He KNOWS that conversation could have destroyed her reputation.

People talk about how he 'ruined her prospects', but in actuality, Colin responding the way he did. . .likely SAVED her prospects. There was NOTHING he could have said except for a vehement refusal, completely shutting down the conversation, that would have spared her from their judgement and cruelty. Sure, they laughed, and maybe it was at Pen. Maybe it was at Colin. (frankly, how good of a twist would it be if they WERE laughing at Colin? Colin the 'green' boy back from his travels after being oh so gullible and getting lied to by his ex fiance? Anthony made fun of Colin for being a virgin, we think these men, all 10+ years older than him, wouldn't do the same?) But at least they didn't go 'yeah, I guess she's a ruined woman' about it, because that *would* have destroyed her reputation

We talk about how Colin could have worded it differently, but honestly?

I think he said the exact right thing in those circumstances

[shelbyshaper-art]

You ever get an idea for an art piece that is so sad you have to wonder if it’s worth the emotional trauma to create it and bestow it upon the world

[vlasdygoth]

sketchies

[plumbus-central]

heres some loosey goosey doodles from my sketchbook

last 2 are from an unfinished n/s/f/w comic where minnie wakes rick up for morning sex, im posting it just for the rick reaction face lol

[catsseatheadrest]

Some sketches from this semester of a Scottish fold, done by yours truly.

🚬🐺

2024.

[dj-of-the-coven]

mutuals if you see this then reblog and tell me in the tags what weird shit you have in your bag right now