Sleepless nights spent doing art

Your friendly neighborhood Ghoon. Used to stay up past everybody's bedtime. One black coffee, please!

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a cute lil illustration i had on my mind, always struggling with this question haha

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Just a little night time flying

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I began work on Life After Latte two months ago, and I haven't worked on such an expansive project for myself in many years. It's really left me with a renewed excitement for why I wanted to get into a creative career path in the first place. Here's the first concept page; not finalized yet, part of the fun with design is that nothing has to be set in stone (well, at least for a project that's done on my own time and dime haha). And if you're interested, a little bit more info about this project:

Life After Latte is a concept for a visual novel café game about life, death, and the space in-between. Patrons arrive at 'The Last Drop', a cozy witch themed café. They are wandering souls- drawn there by lingering memories, regrets, and tethered emotions holding them back from moving on. Running the café is a curious young Witch who guides people through their final journey. She imbues specialty dishes with magical ingredients derived from the memories imparted to her during conversation with each individual that enters the shop- after all, not everyone is left wandering for the same reasons. These recipes are crafted specially for each customer, allowing them to make peace with their own life and death and prepares their souls for passage into the after life. By serving up these final meals, the Witch unlocks her own memories from former lives, revealing to both herself and the player how and why it was that she wound up running this small café at the edge of the world.

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Watch this video on Twitch Live

I'm going live to draw, chill, chat and cowork~

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I've been doing so much drawing recently, I felt like I needed to shift gears and reset my creative brain. I find that switching back and forth between line and shape is always effective for me in helping to reset! Especially when I have things to complete, a little time for myself always makes me feel more on task to hit deadlines. I'm one of those people who will always have a need to create both professionally and personally, so it's always a delicate balance of making sure not to overdo it in either area. What about you? Do you find yourself satisfied just hitting deadlines in your career space, then recharge with unrelated hobbies? Or do you also tend to have a need to stay creative visually even when you're looking to wind down and recharge?

Anyways, feeling moody, feeling tired. Feeling this. Seems like every year things are changing around me in ways that I can't keep up with. I'm a bit tired, I think haha!

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Enjoying doing some painting this summer based off some cute photos on Pinterest, hoping the summer weather holds on a little while longer

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Having a nice summer drawing and painting...! Trying to rework my sorely outdated portfolio haha

[ehrenenglish]

Three of my recent cephalopod paintings, in order of creation. Nautilus on blank skateboard, Kraken on wood panel, Japanese Firefly Squid on blank skateboard.

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So sickkkk

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I did a buncha these as a parting gift for my team T T I'll miss working on Loud a lot.

[makeshiftlove]

I bought a hat for ✧･ﾟ: * fashi0n ✧˖°.

(tbh i already did a bunch of outdoor chores with it tho)

[k-eke]

COMING!!

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Lady Knights always bringing me joy. This year I want to get back to more painterly but graphic illustration! I have a lot of ground to cover but I want to make sure I have fun, too!   “An acrid smoke, sour with the taste of rain, rolls through the shallow hills of the battlefield…”

[panelperday]

Some would tell you the Folk are stringless puppets, bound by a nameless magic to this ancient forest. But no spell has ever broken one free, nor has any wizard learned by what means their minds and bodies are held captive…

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I’ve been enjoying rewatching recently 💖

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💋

[mintaii]

the moon

[stimman4000]

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[wildlyunlikelybabe]

I suddenly understand why jewelry is expensive

[pwntishness]

Hopefully people will start to realize why trades in general are so expensive. You're paying for someone's experience to make a good finished product that takes skill and years of practice.

However there is also a giant gap that needs to be filled in trades. As people are aging out of jobs like tailors, carpenters, bookbinders, leatherworkers, etc, there aren't enough young people going INTO the trades to repopulate the jobs.

Please. Please. Consider going into trades.

[wemblingfool]

These are the kinds of jobs people "fall into," because they aren't visible, and are never talked about.

Kids never grow up telling people they want to be a bookbinder. They don't know they even exist. And schools never ever present them as valid options. And if they do talk about them, they are treated as invalid compaired to NFL Linebacker, President, and Brain Surgeon. After all "jewelry maker" is something people do to supplement their "burger flipping" income, and not an extension of blacksmithing.

But that's the crux of it, isn't it? Crafting and trade skills are an extension of artistic skills, which are often seen as completely invalid, and a total waist of time.

[foreheadkissesforzewu-jun]

As the daughter of a professional bookbinder/book restorer, I had to reblog.

[abz-j-harding]

reblogging because I was in a course at college that covered Artisan skills such as these. I have friends who have since gone on to do Jewellery, Carpentry, Ceramics, Glasswork AND Blacksmithing. Ironically I ‘fell into’ comics. 

windows to Artisan jobs are still around, the rising interest of upcycling and restoration has brought young folk into doing them.

Boosting because Artisan trades should be valued and carried on.