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Hisashi Saito, 1980

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I've been illustrating the girls from House (1977) with limited palettes because the iconography in that film is very fun and it is spooky season after all. Enjoy some doomed teens and a very evil Auntie!

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i have to come up with everything really fast

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for some reason, "you can just do an art project" unlocked a realization that "you can just make art" wasn't able to access.

like yeah i know i can set aside an afternoon and sketch a still life.

but also i can, like. select a random marine creature from a hat and then research them and then spend a bit of time in the evenings and weekends over the course of a few weeks making a diorama.

or i can make an abstract sculpture out of scrap cardboard and masking tape, and then paper mache over it, and then paint it.

or i can draw something with markers and color it in with crayons.

i dunno why it took me so long to realize that, in the same way that i can revisit the games and hobbies that i enjoyed as a kid, and i can orchestrate "presentation parties" so my friends and i can flex our slideshow animation skills, i can also Make Art, Grade School Style (and not just Grownup Art/School Style)

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If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

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Posters for my graphic design final! These are not the final versions errmm

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Sketched characters from "The Night is Short, Walk on Girl"

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Amazing Mike's Hard Lemonade couch available for $200 locally on Facebook Marketplace. I wish I had room for it.

@shiftythrifting

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There's a lot going on here.

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MF DOOM

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Working on some spot illo’s about cooking tips for Put A Egg On It magazine

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thank you bags from various delis in New York 

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I hate depressive art block so much fr. what do you mean I can't draw for months unless it's this one picture of a wizard with giant tits

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they appeared on the margin of my file

because i love them

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The electric works of Los Angeles based artist John Espinosa