I’m actually at this strange point in my professional life where I’m trying to fix the tap. When the Undertow takes me, art of any kind stops.  Being around other artists, taking a new workshop / sitting in on a class, sometimes playing a new RPG will get the creative juices flowing again. Sometimes a change of pace, or a change of location, or a ( Read more... )

You know, Jessica Hische actually spoke about this very topic.

There are times where I wonder if the line is all that clear. Your art style is an amalgamation of all the influences that have come into your life. There are certainly the two ends of the spectrum.

On one end, you have the people who trace someone’s work and then call it their own, ( Read more... )

What does art have to do with the soul? What a pretentious as fuck question. I don’t even know that I want to dignify it with an answer. Ugh.

Is artistic ability learned or inherent?

I grew up drawing in public, my pencil on the paper, and I’ve heard it all. “Did you draw that? I wish I could draw. I can’t even draw a stick figure.” Before art ( Read more... )

Being an artist, I am moved by a LOT of art. So I went through the galleries of some artists that really helped me grow back in the day, and how they continue to do so. So I picked the pieces that spoke most to me, both back then, and also do so now.

SOMNAMBULIST by Becky Cloonan


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::rolls her eyes:: Really? As someone who has been eyeballs deep in art and music and such since fifth grade (then got a bachelor’s in it, then made it my profession), I’m going to find this chapter particularly droll.

Art is anything that invokes an emotional response, be it love, or wonder, or hate, or fear, or disgust. Even if it is terrible, ( Read more... )

Your soul is that thing that ties you to all planes. It’s the part of you that has nothing to do with your physical body. It’s existed since the beginning of time and will continue to exist. It does not have gender: it is beyond such trivial physical aspects. Sure, it may seem imbalanced in some way. Perhaps it is more yin than yang. Perhaps it is ( Read more... )

I am a firm believer in mind-over-matter.

I mentioned in the post about Reason and Faith that I used to be a diviner, but I chant to find the answers within. I’m not into just asking the universe for stuff without giving something first.

I actually mentioned this in LJ before, as it actually happened, but I’ll recount it here for the purpose of ( Read more... )

To continue on the Buddhist ideology that Sako subscribes to:

The Buddhist concept of karma is where my idea of destiny and free will comes from.

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I spent my youth dabbling in a smattering of religions. This was partly because I was trying to find explanations as to what sort of God would rain horror upon the ( Read more... )

I don’t know that I have much in the line of discrepancies between my sense of reason and my spirituality.

My father is second generation Soka Gakkai Buddhist. My mother was raised Lutheran, but found discrepancies with her own sense of reason and the faith, so if she’s not agnostic, she’s atheist. When I was born, my father shouted “She’s going to ( Read more... )