"You have to get back on the horse. Somehow, and I don’t know how this kind of thing starts, we have started to lionize horseback-not-getting-on: these casual, a priori assertions of inevitable failure, which is nothing more than a gauze draped over your own pulsing terror. Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are ( Read more... )

Thanks for the quote, Oscar Wilde! Ok, now for an end-of-the-year art meme! Because contrary to popular belief, I actually kinda maybe sorta enjoy memes. (Or at least, I feel weirdly honored when someone tags me.) Anyway, found this rather interesting and figured I should do this before it gets too far from Jan1.

( Narcissism as introspective retrospect. )

Yesterday was move #1. I spent all day schlepping luggage and cleaning rooms, until I was running on sheer force of will alone. When it was all over, I just sat in my new room and watched Doctor Who until I collapsed. (I'm almost done with Season 1 now ( Read more... )

( Art is a pain. )

Dark side of fairy tales, righto. I'm still spazzing out about this*, but I'm trying to get myself together and gather some samples.

Spicy Horse announcement, excerpt: "We prefer subtle, disturbing imagery to blood soaked gore. You must be excellent at designing using simple, stylized shapes, and have an excellent sense of color and texture ( Read more... )

More thoughts on Gunpowder development, in relation to anime. Caution: long blather including costume and race stuff.

( I never shut up. )

Summer retro arting review wotsit. Oh man, I'm such a slacker! It also looks like I have total art-ADD... but this was part of my go-with-the-flow philosophy of not forcing myself to stick to one thing from start to finish, but to strike at whatever my current fancy was. Probably not the best way to work, but it was an entirely different ( Read more... )

( On making pictures, plus a shameful plug. )

Woooo, I'm way behind on DAFT. Greebo sketch will be up later.

In other news, APE rocked my socks again. I’ll spare you the full report and just provide some brief commentary. ( Read on... )

Why why why are there so many digustingly talented artists who are younger than me?

Exhibit A: "Questionstar", aka Aysha Shehim. Pros[thetic] Aes[thetic], Daily Scribble, deviantArt, LJ.
This is the kid I kept raptly linking to when she did those amazing Trinity Blood drawings. Her work blows my mind. I mean, what the heck. The style is ( Read more... )