#inspirations

[maxyvert]

🌟Arenta portrait🌟

She finally got a name! 🥳 Last illustration from 2023, painted on that awful Drasca paper. The texture looks extra bad here because of glazing :'D oh nvm, I'll find out something for that...

🌟 Ko-fi - Inprnt - Patreon 🌟

[w-itchtips]

bonus tip: you can use an app like moonly to draw your tarot card of you don't have your deck with you.

[valdevia]

What are the biggest inspirations for your work? Your ideas and pieces are so unique and amazing. ^-^

Junji Ito for his approach to horror and how he can seamlessly balance body horror, cosmic horror and the absurd.

Guillermo del Toro for his takes on folklore and history, and that little bit of whimsy.

Old-school creepypasta for the method of presentation (not for the writing. God, not the writing).

Obscure internet sites made by conspiracy theorists who use badly photoshopped images as proof that giants are real. Also, all those people making videos of "duende captured on camera in real life"

My medical degree for all the medical horror it has inspired. Especially that one strange professor who spent weeks teaching us about parasites even though it wasn't strictly needed for the curriculum. Cool guy.

All the editors who wrote the weird Wikipedia articles that give me ideas.

Arthur Conan Doyle for writing a book-length essay defending a spirit photographer who he really thought was real. Inspired this!

All the archivists and museum workers doing an amazing job of digitizing history and letting everyone freely access the results of their labour. So many of my images come from seeing a cool old photo in an online archive and going "ooh I should add something here!".

And I could go on!

[geeuh]

Whitney Houston By Steven Meisel, 1986

[under-the-screen]

D. Lynch could never

[“Twin peaks”, D. Lynch, 1990-91, 2017]

[animenostalgia]

Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi on Leiji Matsumoto’s influence on her manga: 

Interview excerpt from Animerica Magazine, vol. 4, #8 (1996)

[vrieseasees]

Finally. My take on the aura sex lol

[kausun]

[fashionbooksmilano]

The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook

Patterns, Projects and Inspirations

Susan Briscoe

David & Charles, Exeter 2005, 128 pages, 21,5x28cm, paperback, ISBN 9780715318478

euro 22,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Sashiko, the traditional Japanese technique of needlework quilting, uses simple running stitch to create beautifully decorative patterns ideal for patchwork, quilting and embroidery. Sashiko (pronounced shash-ko) means 'stab stitch' and refers to the small running stitch that is worked to build up distinctive decorative patterns, of which there are hundreds. The book begins by exploring the origins of the technique to strengthen clothes and to make them warmer. Getting Started describes everything you need to begin stitching, including selecting suitable fabrics and threads, marking out patterns on the fabric, as well as the stitching technique itself. Ten project chapters show how easy it is to use sashiko patterns to make beautiful items for the home. The sashiko patterns are described in step-by-step detail in the pattern library, showing you exactly how to achieve each individual pattern with ease. Finally a gallery of work by contemporary Japanese textile artists provides extra inspiration.

25/01/24

[revoevokukil]

Je t'aime mélancolie by efferwescent

[youngveinsworld]

"We’re trying to be the band that we aren’t hearing on the radio right now. It’s sort of like a crusade. I think that, in a broader sense, we just want to play stuff that sounds real. Everything is so computerized these days and it’s all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.”

– Ryan talking about the Young Veins' sound, June 2010 (x)

[w-itchtips]

places that feel magic.

[sunburnacoustic]

I started to look into classical music and people like Philip Glass. From listening to stuff, I found out that I didn’t really like the “proper classical” stuff from around 1750, like Mozart and all that. But with Philip Glass, his music has a lot of mystery.

That was my introduction to discovering that side of music, the kind of abstract nature of music that has no lyrics and no title.

With Rachmaninoff, Lizst, and Chopin, there’s a mystery to the music, it’s much more abstract and much more able to stimulate your imagination, I think. For me, that was something I had never discovered in music. I was about 19 or 20 by then.

Matt Bellamy, on his classical influences | "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005

[spiritchill]

🖤

[barcoland]

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished. (Albert Einstein)

[drkmgs]

The fear of rejection

muse: Charlize Theron (Lady Lesso)

warning: hurt, pain, misery, bow and arrow

genre: poetry

This one got to me when I was half asleep, and I kept telling myself, I should write this down, but I didn't cause uh too tired. I have this adoration towards bows and arrows, I don't know it just reminds me of the Middle Ages. I like the aesthetic of that time, but I wouldn't want to be roaming around in that century. I chose Charlize Theron as a muse because of Lady Lesso. She gives me this energy that if she rejects you, it would be the end of the world.

Anyway, enjoy the poetry! :3

The fear of rejection

It is like a prey

scared of the hunter's arrows

The pain in its chest

caused by an arrow

fired from her bow

piercing through its heart

The arrow carries

pain

hurt

and misery

Can someone save the prey?