BLAH Art - welcome to my sketchbook

An aspiring artist still trying to find her style. Expect art of all forms and a lot of reblogging of things I take inspiration from!Current obsession: Takarazuka Main blog: @pamyurinthebookfox

[cy-lindric]

My illustration for the poster of Paris Citypop 2026 !

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[redlipstickresurrected]

SilllDa (Korean-Japanese, b. Japan, based South Korea) - Untitled, Digital Art

[stjohnstarling]

Ever since starting to publish romance novels I’ve been checking out the romance books at the thrift store specifically for the clinch covers, as a reference for what I might want to do with my own books.

As a culture we mocked these to extinction but I think we were just afraid of their power. The modern clinch revival still hasn't reached the heady heights of what they were doing in the 80s! The vintage covers can be really quite explicit. These ones in particular were steamy enough they had to be hidden on an inner flap.

[stjohnstarling]

This episode of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books podcast where they interview Shirley Green and Sharon Spiak, who were romance novel cover artists in the 80s, is a fascinating look at what a huge industry these covers were. Did you know they had whole photography studios full of props to make these? They’d take photos and turn those over to a painter who’d make something like a couple of these a day. They had it down to a science.

[stjohnstarling]

Here is a particular favourite of mine, also by Sharon Spiak!

[pmamtraveller]

The Mermaid Fountain in Urayasu, Japan

[obi-huan-kenobi]

Florence Welch at Target Center in Minneapolis.

📸 by Lillie Eiger

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[ewanandlianne]

柴陽花（しばじさい）

[halogencat]

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”

― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[helloelicia]

The Night All Time Broke Out (oil on canvas mounted on three dimensional panel) by Baldvin Ringsted

[thecollectibles]

Fairy tale illustrations by Nadezhda Illarionova

[lizardsmp3]

sometimes you see a tweet and know you have to draw something so fucking stupid

[pmamtraveller]

by Dora Abodi

[valeriapryanikova]

scopaesthesia; the walls are watching.

[cyanolov3]

My rendition of little red riding hood — assignment for class

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[sisaloofafump]

This is from 1966 and you can see over a hundred photos on the NYPL digital collections website. It is absolutely gorgeous. These are just a few of my favourites.

Plus Puck's face here:

[lupinsuniverse]