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[lukeshemroske]

This is a drawing I made the other day while in the phone. What do you think it means?

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This is a product of thinking and feeling and intuitively painting based on visions and feelings. Not done yet I don’t think. Idk.

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The other day I let my own just create and without stopping much, free flowing. Just writing down my thoughts and ideas as they came. I came up with this. It’s a cool sketch. I like it. Again, this is very sellable, hangable, interesting, raw, expressive, automatic, cathartic pop art. Don’t be fooled by the lined notebook paper. That’s part of the appeal. I want to be a master painter genius. I am. I’m great and I love myself and believe in myself even when I have paranoia and can barely see or think straight.

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I worked at fedex for a bit and wasn’t very good at it at all. I was actually a very slow and inefficient package handler. In a very rare spur of downtime that happened, I found a pen and cardboard and drew the shaft the metal roll racks that reach from the shoot into the truck so the packages can slide into the vehicle. I drew the boxes. I remember a very calming sense of clarity and satisfaction with this drawing. This is such a lifestyle for me. Art first. That summer I’ll never forget having the best sips of yellow Gatorade that came out of water fountains after loading my first trailer or two. It was so refreshing and rewarding and I haven’t had some sort of cool, clear satisfaction like that in the form of a simple pleasure, since. That was a lot of willpower testing and overcoming for me. I always almost wish I could pause life and make a painting in a still, halted, unchanging world before hitting the start button after I’ve finished my painting. But that would ruin all the fun and challenge of swinging through tha vines of life. Tha balance. Tha game. The fun.

This could be from around 2014

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I honestly see a lot of value in this because sometimes my honest expression looks like childish scribbling.

On my way home from work one night at this car dealership, I was walking home and there’s a big hill/field/park/trail and I laid in the grass listening to music. Primarily Live forever by Oasis I think. Anyway I was laying in the grass looking in the sky and drew a sort of lava lamp goo figure touching the ground with its head in the clouds. Grounded by dreaming. Connected but envisioning greatness. Success. Space. Idk but it was emotionally turbulent or passionate so I ripped the paper with a rough drawing because I love to feel the pen scribble sometime to release. It feels really good.

Summer 2020.

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“After coming to a point that I felt unsettled, anxious, cloudy, heavy and horrible: I decided to draw.

I decided to draw whatever came to my mind fast and emotionally while thinking as I got a grasp of my consciousness.

As I began to review input and output feedback, I could enter a flow that stabbed some holes in a big heavy mental carcass and I was able to bleed it like a bloated rain cloud.

The images and stuff started pouring out. They came out roughly at first and as I kept penetrating through and thinking and analyzing and not thinking and free associating and mechanically and mindlessly drawing. My mind opened up and cleared itself out as my body did the necessary functions to achieve that clarity.

Four drawings. A spew of mental garbage that continues to clarify onto one single image of a hammerhead shark swimming in the water.

I tried to get the waterlines accurate by envisioning where the fins would displace the water to and what that would looks like.

I tried to understand how the shark swam and eventually googled it and read a bit about it and watched some video clips.

I have a better understanding of how they propel themselves through water almost like sidewinder snakes.

I drew the initial shark from memory which came out pretty good. And once I saw the video I realized a few shifts I needed to make.

I found out that hammerheads will tilt to their side and swim that way because it theoretically saves the shark energy. Ten percent less energy is used says a study from 2016.

As the hammerhead moves its hammerhead (which is famous for its two outward extending cephalofoils on either side of its head) back and fourth, it gains a 360 view of its surroundings.

The hammerheads have stereo vision like humans which means one eye is placed in a different part of the body than the other eye. But the eyes are both able to focus on the same thing at the same time which gives them incredible depth perception.

Imagine if our eyes were set more far apart, it seems like we’d be able to pick up on the depth of things and understand where they’re at in relation to us, better than we can now.

This fact PLUS their eyes can view above and below them. Add in how they swivel their heads from left to right as they swim and you’ll see how they can achieve a 360 degree view around them.

It’s a startlingly clear image brewed up from my freshly cleaned, filed and ordered subconscious.

So I shook things up and a hammerhead shark appeared to me. Hmm I wonder what that means?

Something about working smart not hard and getting a good perspective on the world around me?”

Aug. 10th, 2020 Luke Gerard Shemroske.

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This looks like a radom, fun and loose train drawing of a person and my knee and some thoughts in the air in my head and mind and parts of the train. I’m pretty sure that’s what this is. Abstraction in the ether between the bodies. Communication. You know.

From winter 2020 I believe.

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This one is pretty simple and basic. I was listening to some music and drew the artist names or song names and a drawing of spunky from roccos modern life. It says “I have nothing good to say right now, my art sucks”. Lol, I think it’s great right now but we can all relate to that. Making something and hating what you’re making cuz it’s not a Van Gogh or Picasso.

Looks like the songs that drove the drawing were Open Heart Surgery by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. National Anthem by Lana Del Ray, Cowboys From Hell by Pantera and most importantly on that day was Don’t You Ever Leave Me by Hanoi Rocks.

From July 2020 I’m pretty sure.

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This is a crazy little line drawing of a person on the train with some abstract and emotional elements. I just kind of run wkth stuff sometimes and let it come out.

2019-2020

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Here’s a drawing I did on the train. It’s of a snippet of my Swiss backpack. You can see the insignia and the zipper. It looks cool to me. Simple but cool. Smooth, classic, strange.

I used that backpack a lot before covid. I still have it. It’s nice.

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I started this drawing while watching the movie Casino and dreaming about life as a hardcore gangster. I started to think about the way men carry themselves. Like how to carry yourself like a respectable man. A confident, charismatic but solidly moral person. My mind wandered and I thought about all types of things like bodies and anatomy and veins and the nervous system and interacting with environments and other creatures and taking in and giving out signals and thoughts and the collective conscience. Our thoughts altering things affecting other things interacting with other thoughts and energies. I posted it on an ink drawing forum on Facebook to get it out there and see what people had to say. I thought maybe a lot of people would like it because I posted something a few days before on that forum and a decent group of people liked it and commented on it. I think this drawing however got like two likes. I can’t tell if I suck or if people just don’t know good art when they see it. Maybe this is too convoluted or unclear? Idk I made it so I like it so I’m sharing it.

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I work wkth an art gallery that helps artists with "disabilities". I hate that work kind of but I fit the script. So they help me by buying materials and sending them to me. Then they pick up the work I make to promote and sell it.

I asked them for a large canvas so this ones big. I can't remember the size.

This girl I talk to suggested I paint a tiger when I looked to her for what to paint. I figured I've never painted a tiger. Why not?

right before attempting this painting I had looked at some kids book illustrations by the guy who illustrated the hungry caterpillar. I remember seeing some of his art in a book I used to have so that was in mind when I made this I started it and it was cold and sad and hard to work on. I felt so Sorrowful and alone.

As I continued to make the tiger I decided it wasn't a fun subject matter for me but at that time I had captured some emotion and personality. I was ashamed of it and not sure what to think of it until my manager told me it was great and that it just needed a background so I painted those black swirls like a mint sort of funky time travel through space in an ever expanding universe

on the side of the canvas I painted a heart and wrote the word "wild" in it so I'll call this piece "Wild Heart"

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More learning how to draw.

The people in our lives won’t be here forever. This is all temporary. People have their own lives and the sun moves really fast.

This is a drawing I made this morning. It’s of my kitchen from the perspective of a chair in my living room. The figure left early into the drawing proving the ephemerality and indenting that quality into the work.

it is tough to execute in the shifting light of the sun. It moves fast and everything is so different within twenty minutes. It's a rush to get it down. Sometimes it's not exactly relaxing.

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Yesterday I woke up early and tried copying a drawing out of an anatomy book I have. It's hard to recreate something so masterful and well done.

I tried though and that's where the learning comes in. I was able to put forth my knee knowledge in the drawing I made today.

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Here is some sort of drawing of humans and signed with my name all big and stylistically. Must have had something to do with human bodies and the relationship dynamics between people in groups in society. It looks like it could be violent or sexual or mundane. Idk. im Reminding myself of the kid from wedding crashes who makes that painting lol. He was like "it's very violent! And sexual!" Hahahaha. Awesome. I think this is from 2010-2011

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This was some sort of attempt at an anotromical drawing in ball point pen before I knew the ball point pen ink would fade in the sun. Isk why I made it, I've always been trying to learn how to draw and practice and also have always been interested in the human body and anatomy. probably a quick sketch from 2010