tripping over

"The name's Pol, and here I’ll be dumping some of my original art as well as diary entries. I’ve been having a hard time dealing with inner issues, so be aware of some depression-themed posts. Also my English might be awkward from time to time (or more likely all the time), but be sure that I’m trying my best!"

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Though I didn’t post that much as an artist, I enjoyed scrolling through Tumblr on a daily basis as a user. I loved diving into steamy fandoms and I loved the feeling of freedom that Tumblr used to shine with compared to the most of the russian websites. I guess all of that is gone now, and though I know that there is a reason for the changes to be made, the way they’re being made is ridiculous

Here are other places to find me:

My Instagram - sfw as well and mostly stuffed with pics of my everyday life, but is updated most frequently

My Twitter -  is kinda empty, but I guess that’s where all of the female nipples  go to now

My VK page - might be useful only for russian folks but still worth mentioning I guess

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I’ve been feeling a little bit down lately. The energy levels of my body are low, and I spent most of the time in my loft bed, under the ceiling - sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. And if not sleeping - then just lying there while drifting through vague thoughts, feeling weak and hollow.

In the evenings the house gets noisy with my family’s voices, footsteps, tv’s murmur, and shower’s humming. So I cover my ears with both hands, and the sounds become muted. I imagine myself sleeping inside a plugged bottle of blue glass. The bottle that was floating on the sea waves for years and was found on the seashore by little kids on the rainy summer morning. They didn’t know what to do of their newfound treasure, didn’t want to wake up a little human inside it, and so they put the bottle on the higher shelf of one of the bookshelves in their dad’s office. And so the bottle was forgotten.

And the little human inside it remains asleep.

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And as a little extra (or part IV) here go some of the tablet photos.

They lack that warm charm of film photography, but they are nice and beautiful in their own way.

I hope I didn’t bore you with this photo-attack, haha. I spend a lot of my time at home and as it’s rare for me to leave it - especially to the distant places of our planet - it’s easy for me to forget what a beautiful world we are living in.

And the thing is that... we are not gonna live in it for a long time, you know? Each of us, humans, has no more than one hundred years to spend here - and really it’s not that much of a time. So it really is important to live your life the way you want - to do things that give you pleasure, to go places that are beautiful and full of wonders, to keep close people who are precious to you.

I just want to keep all of these photos here, as a reminder of this.

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Part III of the “Altai Shots”

Back from the snowy mountain tops to the sunny steppe we went.

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Part II of the “Altai Shots”

The Aktue canyon Day! We spent a day climbing to the Blue Lake and were not ready for the snowing evening at the camping at the end of it, haha

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I was lucky to participate in my brother's road trip to Altai last month. And uuh I'd like to share some photos with you?

Altai is deadly beautiful in autumn colors. I was taking shots with a mini Diana camera (thanks to my buddy Lae for lending it to me ✨) as we climbed the Aktrue canyon to see the Blue Lake, wandered through rocky Mars fields and chilled on the grass of the endless Kurayskaya steppe.

We spent five days on the trip and it was... the most lifeful time of the whole year?.. During these days my heart bloomed and my mind felt at ease.

(This is Part I of the “Altai shots” posting as tumbler does not allow me to upload more than ten photos at a time, ehe)

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The Solar Train’s story is getting real 

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This sticker pack have been in progress since... uhhhhh... the end of the winter?..

And it sure is a pleasure to watch it finally ready to be printed, haha

For now I’ll show you only pieces of it’s content though ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I made labels for my family’s homemade tinctures, and I’m kind of proud of how they turned out!

Just so happened that I did them in a hurry while being sleep-deprived and dead-tired, and I felt miserable about their look in the process. But after I was able to rest and look at them reasonably I realised that I did a good job.

I’ve never studied food design and I’m really happy that I managed it fine!

(The beautiful photos are made by jktlm)

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There are couple of new stories wandering around my mind.

The first one is about a kitten who traveled to the Solar Train’s station in order to send a letter to her dead twin sister. The Solar Train’s final stop is the Sun where souls of all the creatures shine together.

The other one tells about a teen who was transformed into vampire in no proper way and lost parts of his mind in the process. It’s about how he was discovered by a morgue worker, who became his friend as well as had to deal with his former vampire girlfriend and her no less vampire family.

The first one is about Life, Hatred and the fear of losing loved ones.

The second one is about Death, Love and letting loved ones go.

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By the way here’s a process of making the “Mary and The Witch’s Flower” illustration!

I love watercolour + watercolour pencils combination - these guys work great together!

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Oh, hey, I watched “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” couple of months ago!

The movie is deliciously beautiful and I enjoyed every minute of it! Even though there were no crossed timelines as I’d expected, the storyline was no less exciting, haha

There is a special place in my heart for Ghibli films, and though I can already see that Studio Ponoc has its own way of storytelling, I’m also happy to notice that Ghibli traditions are somehow alive in their creations as well. 

I’ll be looking forward to the new studio’s films and I can only hope that they’ll be shown in my country’s cinemas!

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The lunar eclipse happened again the other week! I didn’t have a chance to witness it due to the cloudy weather, but as I scrolled through photos on my dash I remembered how I had watched the winter eclipse. And how I had a dream about it afterwards.

I dreamed about barefoot kids wandering through the forest at night. The  crimson moon was glowing above them, and kid’s blind eyes were reflecting its light. They were led by a Witch, and as the Witch was chanting quiet words, the kids repeated them in steady rhythm. And the words were forming into a song repeating and repeating itself.

I watched silently as the weird procession passed me by going deeper into woods, and then I continued my way, mumbling the catchy rhythm of the song.

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July 01, 5am

Summer’s been so good so far.

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The other day I watched the "Lu over the wall" movie and got so excited about it, that drew a fan art and thought that maybe you could enjoy it? Frankly speaking, I was kinda high while watching it, and when you're high almost every movie is marked as "exciting", but even acknowledging this fact the story about Lu is something exceptional! The combination of different animation styles is brilliant - I literally was gasping in delight while watching them fuse into each other on the screen. Not to mention my laugh or my tears during all the hilarious or heartbreaking scenes that I'm not gonna describe not to spoil them for you. And I deeply loved the setting of the story: a little fishermen town in the weird wall's shadow - what a nice place for a mermaid tale! I could add up my thoughts on "getting out of a small town" theme, that is somehow shown in the story, but let's leave it for another post, 'cos this one is all about "go and watch the movie" and not about me rambling about my life again.

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Also did some kind of 2017′s art summary! 

Some of the latest pics have not been shown in this blog yet, as they are accompanied by stories which have to be translated first, but I hope to deal with it in the nearest future so both my russian and english blogs are alive and full with all of my art and stories.

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Belated New Year of 2018!

I celebrated the day by getting a nice combo of  sickness: fever, vomit, snot and tears - all the good stuff, haha.. But still I did appreciate the fireworks blowing outside and took a moment to wish myself a happy new year.

The 2017 was not so bad, and I’ll try to make the 2018 even better!