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a mildmay prayer ft. the very cool folk costume of Hrvatska Posavina

#traditional art #slavic #slavic folklore #croatia #croatian #traditional #traditional costume #folklore #watercolor #drawing #sketchbook #illustration

final bow

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wyrmy guy

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lucybellwood

As some of you might recall from this essay, I spent the latter half of 2025 working on a comic for the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Tania Sammons, a curator at the museum who had previously licensed my guide to sailors’ tattoos for a show, wrote to me with an irresistible pitch: four cartoonists would be hired, assigned a vessel from the museum's extensive collection of models, then given six months to produce a short comic for publication in an anthology alongside an accompanying museum display.

How could I say no?

My original brief was to research the Anne, the ship that brought the first colonists to Georgia, but in the aftermath of my dad's death the story took off in directions I couldn't have foreseen.

I'm releasing the whole comic online to coincide with the opening of Drawn to the Sea, the exhibition in Savannah. If you're in the area this week (or anytime over the next nine months!) you can stop in and see all the amazing work that came from myself and fellow artists Avery Hick, Rich King, and Sharon Norwood. Details about the museum show are here.

In the meantime, here's a very personal comic.

Content Warning: this piece deals with suicide and parental mortality. Readers with trypophobia may want to skip pages 14 and 15.

Thanks for reading <3

lucybellwood

Evening reblog! Many thanks to everyone who shared such thoughtful feedback on this one 💛

sokol

#artists on tumblr #slavic #croatian #slavic folklore #watercolor #art #traditional art #small artist #birds #falcon

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martyfive

around a year ago i realised i actually needed to design the space station for my story. and i haven’t ever created anything like that from scratch in my entire life. that day there was an attempt to shape it like a ball. then, certain conclusions were made:

i saw people drawing spaceships out of mundane objects like shampoo bottles, and i wanted to do something like that too, but none of the objects were speaking to me. i realised i had no idea what i was doing, so i went to do something else for a year, not really thinking about it and hoping for the best. last week i thought about this whole idea again, and it suddenly struck me:

a clothespin.

as a kid i spent some time obsessing over plastic clothespins with rings. i thought they looked like planes or weird skyscrapers when put on top of each other. i was throwing them out of our fifth floor kitchen window to see if they could fly. the only thing flying there was my mother’s disappointment in my behaviour, but that didn’t matter.

so with the idea of a giant space station shaped like a clothespin, i went into the process. here’s how that worked out:

and here’s some more process:

needless to say, i’m very happy with it. she’s just perfect.

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two headed Maip

sketch dump (i have 3 exams i haven't studied for)

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algebraic-dumbass

we've heard of top surgery and bottom surgery, but what about charm surgery, strange surgery, up surgery and down surgery

please stay

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ebb-is-learning

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?