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What’s your best advice for getting out of artblock?
Genuinely…? Fuck around and find out.
The source of art block can be many things, including real life stressors, a growing awareness that you haven’t done anything ‘new’ in [period of time], and the feeling like you’ve hit the end of the road with a fandom you’ve referred to as your identity for [possibly different period of time]. It is my firm belief that sometimes, you have to pick up something new for the sake of it being NEW.
This is not advocating for you to jump fandom to fandom like streaming services jump IPs and copyrighted shows. That will probably exacerbate the block, and give you a headache on top.
But from where does one start fucking around? How do you fuck around without wasting time?
That’s why the ‘find out’ is included with the advice. You’re not gonna know whether something was worth the time until you reach the end (of your patience, of the activity, take your pick).
I dunno. I think there’s a valid point for letting the art block go away naturally as it’s usually an indicator that you’re on the edge/in the midst of burn-out, and not trying to brute-force your way through it, but if you’re like me, you wanna get the block done with NOW. And my best method for that is fucking around (to find out).
An example where this worked: the Little Lion Man animatic, when I usually never make art for Dimension 20, which eventually blossomed into 100+ panels because I couldn’t help myself from trying to capitalize on the musical beats
An example where this hasn’t worked: I checked out something like ‘100 Animals to Draw’ on Libby in the hopes that it’d help with BNHA Redwall AU. This did not pan out the way I wanted it to, and now I have awful permanent doodles of misshapen animals in my journal.
If you REALLY want a direction and you've got a convenient blorbo, this is a link to Catalogs & Wishbooks. Pick a Sears/JCPenney/Montgomery Ward year, find the range of pages where they're marketing clothes, and use a number randomizer to determine what you should draw on your blorbo.
I PASSED MY EXAMS!!! THEY LET ME GET A MASTER’S DEGREE!!! YAYYYYYY
my number one least canonical depiction in the animatic and anything i do related to cloudward ho henceforth is the addition of a hull to the zephyr mark i. rick perry and co. did magic to make the maxi figure work with the proportions and constraints, but i think there has to be some kind of below-deck area. re: lack of hand/guard rails, though, that one is funny enough to leave alone. comfrey macleod said 'FUCK OSHA WE BALL'
btw there's a deck chair out in front where i think marya's workshop/monty's lab/potentially the medical bay is, and that's definitely a monty hang-out spot.
when an author says in her memoir that she had a livejournal for 10 years and writes the majority of her text in episodic, montage-like, flashbacking slices of memory in 99% second person point of view, i must admit that i started wondering if she has an ao3 account
i am not gosling pilled i am not gosling pilled i will not sneakily open a .txt doc on my worksite pc to start drafting a courtland gentry | sierra six (the gray man) is assigned to assassinate stratt because he is literally twins with ryland grace and it’s like a 2-for-1 deal to also phase out the Sierra program because there would be no possible extraction out of stratt’s vat but it’s fine because she’s OBVIOUSLY evil—hey, six, what are you doing. did you just defect. did you just personally upgrade stratt’s security and make it virtually impossible for infiltrators to sneak into the astrophage labs. ohhh when the Hail Mary flies you are SOOO being extradited and sent to—hey. Where is he. DID HE JUST JOIN THE HAIL MARY CREW WHILE IN A COMA. WHAT IS AN ASSASSIN DOING IN SPACE. (protecting his brother ☺️🫡 but i think it’d be funny if stratt’s plan was to tranq gentry’s ass first, then pack him into the hail mary as a preemptive apology to grace)
i've got to stop reading sad shit in public i can't be crying right before i order a breakfast plate...
as reward for enduring backyard houeswarming party in fly-ridden redacted socal i have cracked open a can of vodka seltzer mixer and it is time??? to have fun and be myself on tumblr!!!