Since I'm pondering another round of figure drawing tips, I'm looking through my old notes from the "Fantastic Figure Drawing" class I used to teach to see how I handled this a decade ago. Along the way, I unearthed this entertaining scale chart...

*bangs pots and pans* Read my stuff!

One thing that struck me in this viewing was how beautifully designed the giant’s head was- the rocketeer style fin on his brow hits the mark so nicely

Austin and I have both started wearing dad/mom tennis shoes for comfort and I am elated to report we still find each other very sexy

Jucika on a date

Yall remember moon over June?

Jack Davis - 1970s. I used to think this was a self-portrait, but just now found out it was for a set of cards of various football team characters. This is Nervous Nate, General Manager. #wardsmorguefile

So like, I’m finding that this is kinda misleading. Apparently Townsend had been trying to get this story adapted into a musical since the 70s and kept failing miserably

"CARRION MY WAYWARD SON" https://bonequest.com/9899

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

Mary Kate & Ashley: The case of the Demon Core

Watched the iron giant for the first time since I was 7, and this movie is so beautiful it made me feel physically sick

I’m getting a lot of mileage out of watching movies and letting myself cry at them lately

Watched the iron giant for the first time since I was 7, and this movie is so beautiful it made me feel physically sick

Mary Kate & Ashley: The case of the Demon Core

From start to finish with these guys I think I uncovered the style I wanna go with… scary. Fun!

Gnawing a fence rn

My therapist asked to see this project when the comic is done. Should I show her, chat?

Gotta learn how to draw shittin ass dogs, goddamn it

I’ll be rocking and rolling on stuff and all the sudden hit a wall where it’s like “nah I actually don’t wanna keep doing this right now”

He does it for the devilment!!!

"POTATO BUCKET" https://bonequest.com/9898

Ferenz Pinter's Maigret covers

Besides mini prints, I made poké dessert stickers for me and like… 2 other people who also like Staryu/Starmie 💖🌊🌟🌟😂 lmao It’s so hard to find any cute merch of them 💀😭

should i buzz him in?

Spending the day finding out that I actually quite like American folk music

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Trying out some things stylistically and getting extremely mad at myself for being super close but not quite there

I think to be a volcanologist you must be clinically insane, most likely

highly recommend pairing “into the fire” with “the fire within”. The first is a lovely anthropological piece with so many tangents it shocked me. The second is what I expected the first to be, but with the framing focused around two specific volcanologists

highly recommend pairing “into the fire” with “the fire within”. The first is a lovely anthropological piece with so many tangents it shocked me. The second is what I expected the first to be, but with the framing focused around two specific volcanologists

Side note: people really need to stop it with the algospeak. I cannot take you seriously if you refer to rape as "grape" in some quest to avoid something something "the algorithm."

Werner Herzog: What if my documentary about volcanoes took a thirty minute detour into North Korean culture? Me: Wow I’ve never had anyone understand me like this man

Trying out some things stylistically and getting extremely mad at myself for being super close but not quite there

will never rebuild my twitter follower count on any new platforms as i am simply no longer that mentally ill

I fantasize about making a comic with real adhesive screen tones but I think it would just be so prohibitively expensive :(

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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

I have been deeply anxious about a situation for the last two weeks. It’s resolved entirely in my favor, yet the echoes of my nervousness are still here. I have to keep reminding myself the threat is no longer active

I think a lot about how illustration rates have been stagnant since basically the form was invented, and the great gatsby was inspired by JC Leyendeckers legendary mansion parties

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

Thanks so much to @portablecity.bsky.social for being a great AD, here's one of two of the illustrations I did for Swords Without Master and you guys have no idea what cool shit you're in for. People have been cranking out the most gorgeous work for that thing

Everyone I am a fool: the 1/4 inch allowances are only on the areas with bias binding

Playing to an empty room with this one, but this sewing pattern has me using 1/4” seam allowances. Girl what. Double that shit and bring it back to me

Illustration by Jerry Smath, 1961. #wardsmorguefile

Austin likes wrestling and I’ve become enamored with this satanic weird 50s b-movie guy named danhausen

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Sewing something new. I’ve been sitting on both of those GORGEOUS fabrics for like four years, it only occurred to me today to pair them

Trying to make an evil man and I just know everyone is gonna want to fuck him