Sketchy Chaos

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[rysttle]

Hullo, dropping a somewhat temporary (just using it now) commission sheet!

Hi guys I dont talk abt it on posts but mutuals or discord friends has probably heard me complaining about my laptop situation haha (sorry)

It is definitely still 'usable' hence I dont want to call this an emergency situation. but by usable i mean like i can draw but if I try to, say for example, record my screen it will overheat and shut down within 5 minutes lol I tried to play sandtrix on this thing and it shut itself down too so yeah, definitely usable for art purposes (if i dont play youtube videos in the background bc that is too risky for me) but it's a bit limiting. Tho I also know everyone's probably got their own stuff to buy too so if you got other things to prioritise, definitely do that, I can manage with this ol thing

TLDR : My laptop's on its last leg but still usable tho, so i wont call this an emergency. But commissions help me save up for when I inevitably have to replace it. UPDATE: Laptop replacement has been got! No longer in any urgentness! but the comms sheet prices still work as of now so I'm leaving it out!

0/5 SLOTS OPEN FOR NOW (Will open again soon! Thanks everyone) actually feel free to just dm me lol i keep forgetting to change these

If you want something else (like, idk,, a gif? animation? painted stuff? just dm me to ask^^)

Obligatory find me on (insert social media) : i probably just used the name rysttle there lol

[rysttle]

broken space station adn rescue vessel yuri, the last surviving human and his friend on a mission to rescue him yaoi , you know how it is happy pride or something like that

bleeding guy is @polistini 's

[free-my-mindd]

What is there to celebrate -Luca Ponsato

[rysttle]

broken space station adn rescue vessel yuri, the last surviving human and his friend on a mission to rescue him yaoi , you know how it is happy pride or something like that

bleeding guy is @polistini 's

[beholding-moth]

my nonbinary butch lesbian for pride month also-

[dduane]

If you don't want LinkTree putting your imagery into AI... get out now

Just canceled my account (not that I used it that much). But I won’t permit this. Via @unaminh.bsky.social:

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

…Just so you know.

[importantpics]

[toskarinfr]

[mossworm]

I like when Pheidole ants do the thing with the head

[bloodandichorandmemes]

I was curious about how accurate this is and am pleased to report it is extremely accurate

[anchovy]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

[polistini]

posting this cuz i like how it came out, a little thing that tangentially goes along with this comic @rysttle made! A man and his weird cosmic. thing. dont worry about it

[mememaster]

[spaceyyboyy]

free him!!😢

he is trying a new look be nice ,

[beholding-moth]

HE IS SO-

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[micamone]

wait I must have missed it, what's the stump filled with fae water?

oh my god that one I'm thinking of is so old and doesn't exactly have a phrase that stands out that i can remember, but it was a long ass argument that was attatched too some aesthetic picture someone posted. Some tree, It might not have even been a stump as much as just oddly grown? to the point that there was a pool of water in it. Very pretty autumn picture, and yeah i wanted to touch it at least.

Anyways someone made a comment like "Oh, my gosh soup" or "free soup" or something like that? Or "free drink in the woods while on a walk," and- it wasn't even clean water, like there were leaves and moss growing around it and stuff. So people were like you can't drink that it's nasty, and then another more people were like you can't drink that that's fae water, like pointing out how you can't accept free gifts/foods so obviously this free forest soup was a trap.... probably came around to a similar joke as other posts with "if you drink that you belong to the faeries now" and someone going "that's the faeries problem" but also definitely someone else after that comment going "if you drink that you get dysentery" or something shgfjhbms

I wonder if i go to my archive page and just start scrolling if I'll find it ever again. I wouldn't even know what year to try

[electronic-old-men]

wait, I actually do know the post now that you've described it. I don't think I could possibly find it though. at least not with the reblog chain intact

[rysttle]

Psst this one maybe?

Reblog by @a-captions-blog · 2 images

💬 199  🔁 125849  ❤️ 124171 · [Image description: Two photos of rainwater with leaves collected in the mostly-hollowed out trunks of trees. \

[woodwool]

severely deficient in whatever vitamin makes u a person

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over