A Very Alien Looking Landscape.

I had injured my hand last week and I am just starting to get back into the swing of drawing again. Have some animal studies. Pygmy, shrew, Australian, honey, possum, and golden mole.

Let’s Go Wisdom!!!

WISDOM UPDATE

Bear studies.

Fontainebleau State Park, Mandeville, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

Dark misty forest that is actualy pretty.

by: 大地の風景

what if it GETS her though 😥

tiny death roll

This film is woefully underrated. I wish more of the general public would talk about it. In the circles I’m in it usually just ends up being a bunch of animators talking about it. More accurately we are usually discussing the amount of work animating a horse is lol.

Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron & the Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools allegory

Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of those movies that I feel any aspiring artist should see. The struggle of Kiki in this movie is one that ANYONE who wants to further themselves goes through, that transition from taking what you love to do to something that you make a living off of.

As artists we have all been in the place where Kiki is. That place where we can’t draw anything right, can’t paint anything right, can’t sculpt anything right, that place where everything comes out wrong over and over and we begin to question if we’re actually good enough for the talents and skills that used to come to us like second nature when we were just using them for fun. That place where we want to give up because we suddenly can’t ‘fly’ like we want to, because everything seems too difficult to do that. 

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just because it isn’t working right then and there when you want it to be. If you can always fly, then it wouldn’t make those times when you did as special. It isn’t necessarily easy to grow up, nor is it necessarily easy to live with the artistic struggle of losing inspiration. But you can’t just throw up your hands and say ‘No, I can’t do it anymore’ because you’ll NEVER fly if you do that. 

You gotta wobble before you stand.