Irregular Doodles

Software Engineer by day, amateur artist by night. Follow for original art, some fanart, and reblogs of stuff I like! She/Her https://carmillapixel.carrd.co/ http://ateliercarmilla.art/

[taylornprice]

some california wildflowers!

[haridraws]

[kairosrhys]

Which one is your favourite? 😊

[fox-teeth]

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Risograph print editions are also available in my shop.

[charlesoberonn]

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

[charlesoberonn]

@heydocverdant Don't hide this gem in the tags.

[microsff]

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

[lionessfeather]

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

[thememedaddy]

[chucktaylorupset]

(via hornedchick)

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

[ullathynell]

Woodlands art book, expanded 2026 edition on Kickstarter

[camelidae]

This is Jackstock and he is the…hey wait a minute, this isn’t your book, Jackstock! You have one of your own! You can’t just trot into other people’s books and steal their- oh. Ah. Well. He’s just leapt out the window. That solves it, I guess.

If you would like to know more about Jackstock and the book he isn’t supposed to be in, check out my Kickstarter for Sail of the Menagerie!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaimiewhitbread/sail-of-the-menagerie

Sail of the Menagerie

An illustrated novel.

[allonsybadwolf]

look at how beautiful this spindle is 🐑🌈✨

(spindle is by Woodland Handcrafts and fiber is South American wool and viscose in "Taste the Rainbow" from World of Wool)

[dailyclassicart]

Carl Gustav Carus - "Moonlight over pine trees"

[selene]

💀

[mcromwell]

Echo was experimenting with making ocarinas and whistles, and this early prototype I turned into a little fat bird! It makes a delightful, single note toot-toot. Mostly I am still giggling at the tiny little bird feet.

Fat little toot-toot bird is available.

[dtaphanel]

Sketchbook January-March 2023

If you miss seeing my sketchbook pages, they are all on PATREON.

insta | masto | portfolio | prints | kofi | patreon

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[stud-yawgmoth]

My analysis of "Asimov's Tail:"

It's the inverse of Chekov's Gun ("If there's a gun on the table in act 1, it should go off in act 3" or someone like that). Asimov's Tail is like saying "If a gun goes off in act 3, it should be on the table in act 1."

You don't need that for guns because we all know what guns are. A character in a modern setting pulling out a gun to win a fight on page 120 isn't going to bother the reader. But a tail is unexpected: You need the reader to buy in to and expect the tail before it becomes plot-relevant, or it'll read like a deus ex machina.

(Another comparison is Chekov was talking about the stage, and Asimov is talking about books. Asimov's Tail may not be as applicable to the stage, where the audience can all clearly see the character's tail in his costume.)

Separately, Asimov doesn't just say "You have to describe the tail," but "Someone has to step on the tail." Your character's trait or ability that will help them in a critical moment later in the plot must also have downsides. This will make the character feel more real, even if they're fantastical and alien.

[lionessfeather]

Okay, given that tumblr is like. the only good social media. i'm just going to try to post more here again.

Finished this one .... last week? It was on my desk in a nearly-finished state for a few weeks I think, and between the notebooks I was making and the sketchbook challenge i'm doing (will post about that later today) I decided to just add the shading and call it done. I love this piece! I had some help from the sims with the perspective, and a reference from pinterest for the kettle (that reference is the full inspiration for this piece. Everything you see grew from there).

[omtai]

Im sorry I didn’t reply to your message for three weeks. I did not forget about it infact I thought about it regularly every day. It will happen again