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my file name for my last art I posted was “the longing game”

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baby Shane

[positivelyqueer]

”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

[jaseroque]

Please view Hokusai's gradual working towards The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, over a period of 39 years.

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

It's all there; Mt Fuji, the ocean, the wave. The boats are gone, but replaced with birds, flying with the wave instead of fighting against it. It's not as famous as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but that's not what motifs are for -- each successive work does not have to surpass the previous in terms of success, especially in terms of external success. They're there for you to keep playing with, keep remixing and re-experiencing, for as long as you think you have something to say.

[jaseroque]

I also want everybody to know that Google and most of the internet think that all of those paintings bar the last one are called "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa", so I had to do a sort of middling deep dive just to find their actual names. And then I was like "I don't think those translations are very accurate", so I went on a second quest to retranslate them, which was particularly difficult with painting three (A View Of Express Delivery Boats) because for some reason he titled that one entirely in hiragana, and it's all archaic words that were very hard to chase down without their corresponding kanji. Google suggested "the push-off is a transportation route", which wasn't particularly helpful.

All of which is to say that I probably spent a bit too much time on all of that, but it was fun; and at least I know what those paintings are called now.

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Created for @iceouthr's fandom fundraiser

[josephinecarttanneur]

Taking over the world

[hundredthousands-art]

8 and/or 9 for the art asks!

Thanks for the ask!!

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

Hmmm, I had a couple other ‘New Yorker illustration’ style Heated Rivalry ideas in mind, but I ended up working on some other fanart projects that scratched the same itch!

9. What are your file name conventions

I usually don’t like titling or describing or having to think of any sort of words to associate with my artwork so I usually use a default file name like “Illustration57” or the date in YYYY-MM-DD format. But if it’s a piece I can’t finish in one sitting and I know I’ll have to come back to it later, I’ll try to be more descriptive like “MTH2024b”

[i-like-eyes]

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

[mincenoodle]

MISSING THEM

[syhartstudio]

Golden hour ☀️

My first fleshed out comic panel and of course it’s a scene for Hollanov - I’m deep in the trenches of HR still and have so many fluffy cute headcanons in mind. This moment is a nod to the long game (ilya’s instagram iykyk). I also wanted to imagine shane’s dad feeling awkward at first with Ilya and gives him the camera spontaneously just to break the ice. But this inspires Ilya to take more photos and capturing all these memories he can now make with Shane

[iceouthr]

ICE OUT - Donations Open Feb 1st-14th!

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[hundredthousands-art]

hi! do you have any plans to put your heated rivalry art on redbubble or somewhere else for prints?

also i think they need to hire you to do special covers for the series. you're so talented and your art of them is so good!

Hi!

Thanks for the ask. I’ve decided to not put any more of my fanart on Redbubble/Society6, but if you’re interested in a print and you feel comfortable privately messaging me off-anon I can try to see what I can do for you!

And that’s very nice of you to say, what a vote of confidence! That means so much to me, seriously 😄

[killherfreakout]

Do you know why you feel at a disadvantage right now? Because you're standing below me. — Stoker, screenplay by Wentworth Miller

The visual representation of the shift in power between Shane & Ilya in HEATED RIVALRY — cinematography by Jackson Parrell

[faiell]

rereading old texts

[beelze0-0]

More than yesterday and less than tomorrow

Prints available here

(ID: sequential art image 1: Ilya Rozanov partially submerged in water with only his eyes above the water from Shane’s point of view image 2: Shane Hollander underwater looking up from Ilya’s point of view end ID)

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