HAUNT

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princess transformed into a bird to serve as the eyes of a blind fae

photocomping + painting, my characters, love em. watch the process for the princess illustration here: https://youtu.be/G2twrXm8XOU

also find me on twitter or insta these days

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hehe aisha make biscuits

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A DnD group shot commission - a party of adventurers fighting a roc as they all hurtle to the ground. Great fun to do, with a lot of little enjoyable details for each character. Currently open for commissions!

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Ladies,

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Are adoptables still cool? Do the kids still do adoptables? What about D&D themed adoptables? This is dual adoptable tiefling and painting practice for me, so if you want this character, head on over to DA here: https://www.deviantart.com/suncalf/art/Tiefling-Adoptable-Auction-854311861

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The city of Fylett, between the frozen mountains and the magma deep in the ravines below...

A very enjoyable environmental design piece commissioned for www.merisyl.com.

Commissions are open - contact me here or on twitter @lupercos if interested!

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it’s breakfast time!  it’s breakfast time!  it’s breakfast time!  it’s breakfast time!

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petsitting for my parents! from left to right: jacky snacky (cat), baz (big boy), pepper (lumpy plump girl) and buddy (he's going to get a friend soon because he's a little freak)

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made first contact with the neighbour's shy cat today

[wormscited]

my final project for my first ceramics class (last spring!) was this teapot and I am still really proud of it :^)

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all the tags people have left on this really encourage me and make me smile but these are my favorites:

[2-face]

officially, i recommend looking at a bird

i can’t help but notice that a lot of my peers and younger people don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of nature. and i don’t mean that as a “blurrhh the millennials don’t know what’s good for them, blrurrh log off and go outside” way either

what i mean is: have you ever actually taken the time to look at an animal in the yard and notice all the things that are great about it? like, there’s a difference between reblogging photos of fat birds on tumblr and doing that. you can actually get sustained joy out of staring at a pigeon or even a particularly cool tree, and it’s not taught in schools but it’s still something you can practice!!

why would you want to practice that, tumblr user 2-face? some thoughts:

the multiple studies showing the benefits to mood and stress-related health you can experience by looking at nature: not just the recently shared ‘stare at an aquarium for 10 minutes’ study but older known stuff like ‘stick your head out the window and look at a tree for 10 minutes and your blood pressure will go down and some of the symptoms of your depression and anxiety will be alleviated’

got adhd, like me? feel like you’re boiling your brain alive in a simmering pot of bad thoughts when you walk from point A to point B without having your dopamine rectangle firmly in front of your face? no problem, check this out *looks at a bush on the way* wow whoa woo-hoo

increase your empathy for other living things with this 1 easy trick (thinking about them a lot and noticing their inherent value)

if you plan to have kids you can pass this onto your children and they will likely have a better time and be less dependent on predatory technologies for their fun (read the book The Last Child In The Woods for more about that)

if you do art, your ability to draw nature could benefit from looking at nature more and understanding its nuances and then you can get commissioned to draw fursonas and make the big bucks ;)

ok so how do you practice looking at a bird, tumblr user 2-face? well stop calling me that, and:

step 1: find a bird. if you live in an urban area, this will probably be a pigeon, sparrow, or seagull. now step 2: look at that little bastard. 

examine these qualities: the shape and silhouette of the bird. how does its body shape indicate the type of flying it has to do and the places it inhabits? how does its beak indicate the type of thing it’s meant to eat? what does it actually eat now? does its beak work against it in the modern world or aid it? if you had to design a human version of the bird, what shape might the human have? 

look at its locomotion. does it fly in short bursts or long swoops? can it turn easily in midair? when it has to travel on the ground, does it walk or hop? check out the way a pigeon’s head bobs as it wanders. check out the interesting steps a starling takes. look at the little dashing run of a blackbird and how its body stays at the same level throughout. 

look at how alert it is. what is a bird looking at? what is a bird thinking? watch the blackbird delicately flip leaves to hunt for bugs. watch the pigeons congregate in little flocks and peck at the grass like hens. watch the seagulls bully each other and descend ravenously on a dropped chip. watch the sparrow fly with a tiny stick in its beak!

look how it interacts with other things. these pigeons are friends and groom each other. this blackbird is a mother, and if she thinks you are going near her children, she fakes a broken wing and hobbles away, enticing you to follow her. these sparrows all go up to the highest and wobbliest branch and turn to balance in the wind. that seagull is young and has not lost its baby feathers, and it shelters uncomfortably from the rain and begs for scraps. look at that bird pulling on a leaf, cracking a snail on a rock, playing with its neighbor. how smart they are! what can we learn from them?

repeat as often as possible.

if you feel like you’ve mastered that, here’s your advanced level looking-at-nature quest: how can you apply the above steps to less relatable things, like a tree, a rose, or a spider? what do you like about those things? what do you notice? what can we learn from them? what are their daily lives like? how can we improve our relations with them?

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Working on something that ISN'T for a client for the first time in forever. Crocodile #demon on a skittish #horse. Going on to the painting stage next! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx4TTT0AvY2/?igshid=nhx4gzv964c

[cocainesocialist]

“One day there was an anonymous present sitting on my doorstep—Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx, in a brown paper bag. A joke? Serious? And who had sent it? I never found out. Late that night, naked in bed, I leafed through it. The beginning was impenetrable, I couldn’t understand it, but when I came to the part about the lives of the workers—the coal miners, the child laborers—I could feel myself suddenly breathing more slowly. How angry he was. Page after page. Then I turned back to an earlier section, and I came to a phrase that I’d heard before, a strange, upsetting, sort of ugly phrase: this was the section on “commodity fetishism,” “the fetishism of commodities.” I wanted to understand that weird-sounding phrase, but I could tell that, to understand it, your whole life would probably have to change. His explanation was very elusive. He used the example that people say, “Twenty yards of linen are worth two pounds.” People say that about every thing that it has a certain value. This is worth that. This coat, this sweater, this cup of coffee: each thing worth some quantity of money, or some number of other things—one coat, worth three sweaters, or so much money—as if that coat, suddenly appearing on the earth, contained somewhere inside itself an amount of value, like an inner soul, as if the coat were a fetish, a physical object that contains a living spirit. But what really determines the value of a coat? The coat’s price comes from its history, the history of all the people involved in making it and selling it and all the particular relationships they had. And if we buy the coat, we, too, form relationships with all those people, and yet we hide those relationships from our own awareness by pretending we live in a world where coats have no history but just fall down from heaven with prices marked inside. “I like this coat,” we say, “It’s not expensive,” as if that were a fact about the coat and not the end of a story about all the people who made it and sold it, “I like the pictures in this magazine.”A naked woman leans over a fence. A man buys a magazine and stares at her picture. The destinies of these two are linked. The man has paid the woman to take off her clothes, to lean over the fence. The photograph contains its history—the moment the woman unbuttoned her shirt, how she felt, what the photographer said. The price of the magazine is a code that describes the relationships between all these people—the woman, the man, the publisher, the photographer—who commanded, who obeyed. The cup of coffee contains the history of the peasants who picked the beans, how some of them fainted in the heat of the sun, some were beaten, some were kicked.For two days I could see the fetishism of commodities everywhere around me. It was a strange feeling. Then on the third day I lost it, it was gone, I couldn’t see it anymore.”

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Wallace Shawn, The Fever

(To understand it, your whole life would probably have to change.)

[postmarxed]

I saw Wallace Shawn at the end of this quote and thought surely it’s a different Wallace Shawn surely it’s not the fucking dinosaur from Toy Story this can’t be the fucking Sicilian from the Princess Bride but it is. It’s the same fucking guy I just read an explanation of commodity fetishism written by Mr. Incredible’s tiny boss at the insurance company

[zvaigzdelasas]

He’s given talks at a Socialist conference too

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Had the pleasure of illustrating the album art for Just A Gent's new single, First Contact. Love getting to do sci-fi pieces!

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harpy mourning for her lost child, 30 minute sketch 

[weaver-z]

So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED

I mean

[frenchroasted]

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

[canadian-kazoo-god]

wait is that really what animorphs is about??? is that series of books that my friends used to check out soley just to show all their friends the cover really about war?

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My final charcoal illustration for #katzatelier today! Looking forward to starting oils in January #illustration #thekatzatelier #art #charcoal https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZLHz2F8qP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jcgj3csqww7k