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Bryn | UK | 24 | he/him | Biting and shaking Dickie Greenleaf in my mouth at all times and growling at anyone who comes within a 1m radius

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Clearlake / I Want To Walk

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your artstyle is unlike anything i've seen in fanart before and i'm absolutely in love with it. idk if you answered that already but what do you take inspiration from?

Thank you!!!

My biggest inspiration is definitely 20th century design & art. I've grown up around it and it's always what I'm drawn to most in galleries. Within this, I have a huge love of midcentury posters & advertisements (I collect magazines just to look at them) as well as cookery leaflets. Within the ad world by far my favourite artists are Bob Peak, who's had an immense influence on me, and Charles Schridde, though those are just two artists I can name, because most artists working for advertising companies of course aren't credited.

Bob Peak

Charles Schridde's advertisements for Motorola (which I also collect)

I also really like Sargent's Gassed, Picasso's Guernica, Degas (most modernist & impressionist painters really), Lucienne Day (I've grown up surrounded by her designs), the Preraphaelites & the arts and crafts movement, and the Tinga Tinga painting my grandparents have always had up in their house. I've been influenced by my parents who are both artists a lot too, I love flicking through my dads sketchbooks of collages & looking at his ceramics and the larger works by them both up in the house.

One thing I always endorse if you're an artist like me who's primarily online is getting out there & finding artists in galleries you feel connected to and draw inspiration from them. Even as a digital artist, I find traditional art far more inspiring & educational. That might just be my preference but it's really helped me!

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I knew I'd forgotten something- this pastel sketch by C.R.W. Nevinson. It's at the IWM London & I stood by it for about 20 minutes when I saw it.

The finished painting is in Canada but I like the pastel sketch more, actually. Partly because I love using pastels myself, but the shapes are defined in a way I really like.

I love the IWM's gallery because it's virtually all of the era of art I really enjoy. There is a certain tone to war art that I like a lot, everything becomes very sharp and angular.

Another thing I remembered is I really like graffiti & spotting graffiti. Martha Cooper's photographs of the movement in NYC in the 80's are really fantastic.

The UK, especially London, still has its own scenes & whenever I go down I look out for pieces on the tube cars wherever I go. I find graffiti inspiring both in style and as both an art movement and political movement.

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your artstyle is unlike anything i've seen in fanart before and i'm absolutely in love with it. idk if you answered that already but what do you take inspiration from?

Thank you!!!

My biggest inspiration is definitely 20th century design & art. I've grown up around it and it's always what I'm drawn to most in galleries. Within this, I have a huge love of midcentury posters & advertisements (I collect magazines just to look at them) as well as cookery leaflets. Within the ad world by far my favourite artists are Bob Peak, who's had an immense influence on me, and Charles Schridde, though those are just two artists I can name, because most artists working for advertising companies of course aren't credited.

Bob Peak

Charles Schridde's advertisements for Motorola (which I also collect)

I also really like Sargent's Gassed, Picasso's Guernica, Degas (most modernist & impressionist painters really), Lucienne Day (I've grown up surrounded by her designs), the Preraphaelites & the arts and crafts movement, and the Tinga Tinga painting my grandparents have always had up in their house. I've been influenced by my parents who are both artists a lot too, I love flicking through my dads sketchbooks of collages & looking at his ceramics and the larger works by them both up in the house.

One thing I always endorse if you're an artist like me who's primarily online is getting out there & finding artists in galleries you feel connected to and draw inspiration from them. Even as a digital artist, I find traditional art far more inspiring & educational. That might just be my preference but it's really helped me!

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having a really delayed fixation response to jaime lannister months after watching got. on youtube wafching clips and smiling

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fun factoid - I adore your terror art, it brings me so much joy and you lines are so crisp and your understanding of shapes is so good, its amazing. that is all, thank you

Thank you so much!!! 💖

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although i largely love terror/polar exploration fandom and think it's significantly more sensitive and thoughtful than most historically fixated spaces, there is also an undercurrent of subconscious racism and uncritical buy-in to the great man theory + belief that white men's stories no matter how relatively mundane/unremarkable are the center of everything. but then everyone thinks you're crazy for noticing it

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and if reading this post makes you angry or upset or defensive i strongly recommend doing some self-reflection on why. what are the ways you yourself may be contributing to this undercurrent? are you someone who (even subconsciously) believes in great man theory and lets that bleed through how you write about history, franklin expedition or otherwise? if you are a contributor or possess these mindsets, you aren’t a bad person but it is your responsibility to reflect and unlearn. anti-racism and anti-colonialism is a constant ongoing process for all of us. these aren’t intrinsic virtues or labels you can slap on and call done. now stop making me read microaggressions on the app i downloaded to look at pictures of solomon tozer

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Clearlake / I Want To Walk

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Careful hands

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Crying, which one of you put this in the National Maritime Museum 😭

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might've been me...

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flying strong ant day

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sergeant sweetieshaped (made by lovely lovely @jarvis-cockhead )

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i went to strong ant island and your mum was there

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semi hiatus from social medias sorry </3

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vaguely active on twitter still but still taking a break from posting here sorry. not that i like twitter more i love it here but screencaps are over there...

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zooming out never gets old

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☕️ + gothic horror genre or. opinion on genres in general

It's not my favourite in that I don't really seek it out on my own over other genres, though I can enjoy it. I'll enjoy anything if the characters themselves & psychological elements are robust enough, and gothic horror can do that quite well so I definitely prefer it to straight horror (which I rarely engage with), but it's the supernatural elements that switch me off a bit sometimes since I gravitate towards more grounded stories. I found Nosferatu 2024 incredibly moving and it was definitely one of the most visceral experiences I've had with film. The new Frankenstein I mostly enjoyed, too, but I was so deeply upset by Victor's treatment of The Creature (neither a criticism nor a praise, I just personally want that man obliterated and not in the fun way!!!) I can't really think of other examples off the top of my head.

Generally I feel genre is second to technique in how narratives are enjoyed. I can enjoy gothic horror because it employs techniques focused on psychology. I can enjoy more straight horror like Saw 2004 because of it's single room setup which is one of my all-time favourite techniques and I'll watch anything like it. And I'll enjoy anything if it's with friends

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☕️ ms sophia cracroft. go buckwild heart-like-a-wheel style

I love her & I wish everyone else did too. The usual feeling of if people can give 100% attention to background characters who hardly even speak then they should be able to dedicate a rewatch to Sophia- and also Jane, and the two of them together. I REALLY love their strange relationship & friendship and I wish it was talked about more! I like how they're clearly very close- sharing glances when Sir John speaks, the way they support each other through loss, Sophia readily admitting to Jane that she's made a mistake.

That whole scene is amazing, btw, there's so much to talk about- the way Sophia recognises the subjects of the paintings as well as any man of the admiralty, the way she seems to be looking for Francis & the dawning realisation of why he isn't there as Jane comments that you wouldn't show off your failures. I forget the exact quote but she specifically phrases it in questioning if Sophia would hang her failures/defeats in her own hypothetical waiting room, which adds a personal angle to the absence of Francis.

Aside from all the real serious analysis I love her poor, sad eyes & wholeheartedly think if there is anyone deserving of an award for most poor, sad blorbo it should be given to the character who canonically spends most of her screentime with tears in her eyes.

I'd love it if people involved her when shipping Francis with anyone else, too. She's as important to him as anyone else- if not moreso. Let her coexist!! I appreciate when people pair her with Fitzjames, but I also so love thinking of the hypothetical strange triangles that are rescue aus where Francis brings Jopson home. Many many thoughts on that...

Really wish she had got a playlist, though. I still hold out hope it might drop from nowhere one day