Pen & Paper

Traditional and digital art, illustration, writing, poetry, video games, fashion, TV, movies, visual inspiration.

[urgetocreate]

Keiran Brennan Hinton (Canadian b. 1992), Table for Two, 2023, Oil on linen

[silicon65]

Me

mixed media

[pansylair]

Some new trinket dishes all set to go for the Forest and Found artisan market at Side Launch Brewing today!

📍695 Sovereign Road, London, ON ⌚ 12 - 6 PM !

[pansylair]

omg also crazy timing, happy International Horseshoe Crab Day !!!! Celebrate the wet arthropods with me!

[silicon65]

Rotting Dragon

[urgetocreate]

Nikita Chan (Chinese/American), Keeper of the Secret Garden, 2026, Color pencil on paper

[vendal-construct]

We Do Not Like The Concrete Tomb.

[vendal-construct]

This is our most popular post and we've seen more than one person tag it as "unreality." We understand why one might think that but we assure you: it was not.

These facilities chew you up. They suck the life from you and grind your body to dust to extract every ounce of profit they can.

These places destroy the body, the mind, and the soul.

[rezdragon]

Usually I save comments like this for the tags, but I must add how much I fucking love this.

As someone who works at UPS, this captures the hopelessness of these jobs. Just endlessly busy, grueling work that wears on your mind and body. Meanwhile, the people who receive the fruits of your labor don't even think you exist, or even worse yet, blame you for the destruction of their wares (when it's not even our fault most of the time).

This speaks to how invisible UPS, FedEx, Amazon, USPS, warehouse workers in general are to the public, and how those companies want to keep it that way. There is a cost to "fast and free delivery", and that cost is the emotional and physical toll of the people, actual real fucking people, working these jobs.

They're also dangerous, in case you didn't realize. Amazon warehouses have had to evacuate because bear spray got into the HVAC system. At UPS, I have a "Death and disembowelment" insurance because a 60 pound box of furniture comes down the chute at incredible speeds due to its weight and could break my bones if I'm not paying attention. You can also get trapped inside of trailers, buried behind mountains of packages or even jammed up against your wall because the brake on your rollers is broken. I've had packages show up to my door with drops of my coworkers' blood on them.

There is a cost. This is a reality.

[bedupolker]

Yep, Utah Senate, the drought is definitely being caused by someone with a leaky faucet and nothing that starts with a "D" and rhymes with "betacenter"

[bedupolker]

I went on their website and. incheresting. okay.

[iliothermia]

[nocturneandbone]

double exposure of the full moon on 35mm film

[tomoleary]

Bill Sienkiewicz — Unpublished Thor Cover (c.1980s) Source

[svndvn]

paitings to exercize, Im trying find a brushwork that feels more like mine, always aiming for a very "traditionnal" look, between gouache and watercolors

[isvoc]

All of the projects are finally getting released and I'm so happy to share all the fun work I've been nibbling at in not so distant past!

Here's the first bundle of the illustrations I made for traditionally published version of 'Of Blood and Fire' by Ryan Cahill! The Bound and The Broken has been a series that has been very close ever since I first read it and it's so fun to be able to illustrate the characters for Ryan! This is part one with Valerys being a tiny savage baby ✨ No rabbit leg can feel safe. Babies can be such messy eaters.

More coming soon! 🫀

[fightingbymoonlight]

Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Youdidn'twriteit.Youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.

[enchantedbook]

'Wild Beast Wood' by Sidney Sime, (1865 - 1941)

[voyaging-too]

It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.

[salmon-n-hazel]

Cypress Vine

Shop print INPRNT | Scarves & Bandana: Ko-Fi

[fleebites]

junicorn

day 25

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