#art(?) process

[phambidex]

I keep trying to sort of clean things up, draw things that look more conventionally good. But I find consistently that I like it best when I leave all the mess just there. There's so much stuff that is just so glossy, so overly perfect right now, maybe. Too much AI Ozempic plastic everything in the world and maybe sometimes a drawing should have stretch marks.

[phambidex]

I can't believe it turns out people like pictures of smooching. Who could have guessed this.

[phambidex]

Normal colors apparently didn't impress anybody but my friends so we're back to making your eyes bleed so you know you're alive.

No, not really, sometimes this is just the color things are today.

[phambidex]

Working on more Dan/Audrey and simultaneously like no this is the most genius I have ever been and also why do I attempt to do anything because this is actually garbage. But overall it is affirming my decision that even if it is bad, it is nice to be able to make some kind of picture of the thing I was imagining should exist when my brain refuses to make that picture? Like it was a wholly theoretical image. And now it's an actual one. Even if it's a bad one. Wow.

[phambidex]

My Dan-as-Audrey-Hepburn agenda is being seriously complicated by my brain's active dislike of any shade of actual gray.

[phambidex]

What I am learning is that Tumblr really appreciates art and also that I should specify when they're rats even if I think in context that obviously they're rats. Although they would also make cute mice! I am not actually good at drawing so I'm just glad they're recognizably Rodentia.

[phambidex]

Every time somebody says or tags something about the colors I'm delighted because it's proof I'm not just gaslighting myself.