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This is a piece from a painting course I took and I’d like to gush about it for a second
Long ramble below:
Ok so, the piece is a shadow box. Which basically means you take found objects according to a theme, set them up in a box and play around with lighting and space.
My theme is that all of the objects are broken things I had around my dorm which are all huddled up into the corner, cowering from the looming shadows of tools. (Ref photos:)
My primary goal for this peace was expressionism. I was getting out of a pretty bad art block due to issues with the previous piece, so I wanted this one to be focused on drama, expressiveness and bullying inanimate objects. I did this by using a limited color palette, with no cool colors apart from ultramarine blue to darken, and apart from the outer walls there is no black out of the tube, itms all mixed. Secondly, I used only my largest brushes: a large gesso brush to fill in space and a large chisel tip brush for everything else. End result was to avoid being obsessive with any details and allow myself to step back and see it wholisticlly.
Overall it came out amazing. I had tons of fun working on it and I could not be happier with how it turned out. I love how it looks, the drama is amazing and I seriously think I nailed the expressive style. It looks dirty, claustrophobic and tense but overall not too overwhelming.
My favorite bit is this guy:
An artesanía of a coati gifted to me by a sibling with a broken leg. He’s such a small part but I think I did an amazing job rendering him and the lighting is amazing. I personally believe the little diva steals the show.
Lastly, I appreciate how open ended the themes are, which was pointed out by my teacher. The general theme and vibe is pretty clear, but the specific interaction can be interpreted different ways.
Personally, I was going for a theme which is personal to me which is “fixing” broken things not actually being a good thing. Both the idea of broken things not necessarily wanting to be fixed, and the fact that the tools presented are not fit for the job and rather aggressive. I’ve had a minor obsession with systematic treatment of neurodivergent people since early highschool, and have always had strong opinions about them needing to be “fixed” or “set right” at all, as well as proper solutions and support being either absent or heavy handed and out of touch with their actual needs.
During the critique, however, I heard a lot of different things. People brought up the idea of the threat being non-present and just shadows, others first thought of the fear of already being broken and the threat of being further broken, which I found interesting. The piece having many answers for different people is fuckin awesome in my opinion, and I’m so glad people could see different things in it.
Overall, I’ve just been so obsessed with this painting, and so proud of how it turned out. I just wanted to infodump about it a little. It makes me so happy and it really helped pull me out of a dark place with my art.
I have been working (very slowly) on another project, I’vee been busy but hopefully it’ll be done eventually, this was a piece that mostly started for fun to get me out of a slump, plus I haven’t gotten to draw Alex in a while.
Ok so I just binged all of assassination classroom s1 and I’m hooked and alr adding it to my tumblr tag hoard. Although tbh Nagisa gives me ace genderqueer or trans vibes, not so much a hots for Karma, but ig I’ll see in s2
And yes my assessment of Nagisa has come from early onset obsession.
I think I just need my ass kicked. Like fully just knocked around I won’t even put up a fight or defend myself. It would help me in the long run to just get my fucking ass beat.