[reeddraws]

I started this as an easy background drawing because I lost the energy to do a character today. But it ended up really motivating me and became a much better painting than I expected! . Daily drawing 2236

[alternateartreality]

City of dreams

[anxeious]

[miamaimania]

Untitled photograph ⌘ A hand waves unexpectedly from a manhole on a city street.

[dailyclassicart]

Vladimir Orlovsky - "Seascape" (c.1880)

[iemon-pxl]

"rain"

[thistimewithlove]

Javadoodles

[thistimewithlove]

I’m the last person to be like ‘canon is the bible’ and I appreciate the film as its own good production but –

There is something lost and dissatisfying in the way it ignores or even dismisses some core ideas of the novel (which were actually good, even if the book could use some serious editing ☠️)

The Creature in the novel was actually a monster. Yes, he was vulnerable and misunderstood and did kill and hurt a bunch of innocent people for his personal purpose. There’s the beauty of the book – you can make up your own mind if it was excusable, was he right or wrong in it. Maybe you need to embrace the duality of human nature. Perhaps.

The second one – which I don’t think is discussed enough – the creature was horrendous. Like, UGLY. Didn’t look like a human, was terrifying and it was pretty important to understand a lot of the book. Why were people afraid of him, couldn’t get past his appearance to discover there was a human underneath.

And it’s a universal, timeless idea.  How the ugly doesn’t get to have the luxury of the second, deeper look.  Of the benefit of the doubt. How being ugly is still demonized, having to prove one's worth. It’s a shame it was dismissed in a modern film which made the most fuckable monster you can imagine ☠️

[thistimewithlove]

Art by may.aygun

[depsidase]

[farahpxl]

some ☁️ for you

[redcurrantpreserves]

I took a lot of inspiration from Hilma af Klint for this one, and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

I was listening to Lana Del Rey/Lizzy Grant’s unreleased masterpiece “Oh Say Can You See,” while painting this and the line “nighttime is almost ours” stuck to my brain. I love the theme of dark and light, Angel and devil, “good” and “bad.”

[lamignonette]

[ahalal-uralma]

Artist: Gustaf Fjaestad

[thesnadger]

When I was in school, one of my art teachers used to say “this world needs more creators. There’s more than enough destroyers in the world today.”

Just a reminder, if you create anything–art, writing, food, machines, ideas, equations, knits, tools, gardens–the world needs you.

[sylviawitch]

This makes me happy.

Happy creating, everyone

[nixscriptum]

[the-prairies-calling-out]

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

[its-the-blob]

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind

[haunted-hideaway]

Libraries are a huge purchaser of books. Thousands of titles a year. Far more than a single reader could buy. The publishers court us. There are more libraries than McDonald’s in the US. You see a single library and, say, 20 readers. Twenty readers, maybe a few of which would have bought the book had the library not exist.

Publishers see THOUSANDS of libraries making purchases or more lucratively for publisher—renting the book either digitally or through McNaughton.

I get free Advance Reader Copies and Advance Listener Copies every month because they want me to purchase their books and recommend them to my patrons, more than they want Random Guy For Whom This Book May Be A Thing to buy the book.

The children’s graphic novel market WOULD NOT EXIST without libraries, who are the primary purchasers. Children’s graphic novels do higher numbers than adult graphic novels.

Libraries have pull in the publishing industry. A lot.

[sweetomensart]

https://www.instagram.com/sweet.omens/

lagoon creature