2024 (?) ART POST

I haven't made much art this year at all, and I don't have much to add to that statement. 

The summer heat has rendered me numb and despairing, completely unfocused and incapable of creative outlet. Soooo as usual I've sunk into playing video games, so I can't focus on the heat and despair so intensely. Comfort games are such a big help when I'm hot; I can't even put into words how badly heat affects my mental state, art is the last thing on my mind when I'm hot, I stress about it way more than your average person (but I'm beginning to suspect that it's hyperthyroid related, as it's a big symptom). There have been slight reprieves of course, we went to Colorado for a while a couple weeks ago. It WAS hot there but the place we stayed had glorious AC and so did all the vehicles. I was able to make a painting there, Stephanie bought a pile of cheap canvases & acrylic paint and we painted some cute impromptu stuff.

I ended up giving this horse to Stephanie, I owe her a lot, this was just a tiny token of appreciation. If I can bother her to send me pics of the beautiful things she painted I'll add them later! But YEAH, that's the most recent thing I've made. There's mostly been a weird amalgamation of sketches this year; 

All standard fare, aside from staggering urge to sketch Willie Nelson. I briefly messed with some (brush!Arrtx brand) paint pens, months ago, with varying success; 

Orville Peck, Cloud FF7 and a random dude. These paint pens were a lot of fun actually ... I love the look of precise, brushy colored lines without hard edges.

In other news! I can't wait to see Orville live, holy shit, I just realized it's next month. Oh man. Very exciting. And!!!! In October, Damien Jurado will be playing at the South Pasadena Masonic Lodge, and I'm excited about that for various reasons. Lainey might come to visit again soon too! Things are looking pretty good right now aside from the heat.

Hold on, I found a few more sketches. I don't even know if these are from 2024, but I haven't uploaded anywhere in so long it doesn't really matter.

Timmy & a belfry in Salem from our visit to Mass a few months ago

 A couple comedy Brian Mays for fun. Believe it or not this helps with art block a lot and I ought to do it more. Not limited to Brian May ofc, he's just the funnest and most familiar for me to draw comedically for the time being.

 

 

Elyet & a Pedro sketch from a year ago apparently (?!). Lainey and I did a thing for a while where we sketched the same photo reference then boggled over each other's differences. I love her art so much! And Elyet there, he's a character from a story I am still writing.

 

Here are a couple bonus P5 & JJBA fanarts I found; Guido & Goro. GOD DAMN P5 is such an excellent game, the complexities of (some) of the villains are so satisfying. That being said, there's about 30 hours too much dialogue lol 😭

I am finding more random art but it's mostly crapola .. I haven't been inspired or gripped by basically anything at all this weird year, but traveling a lot. Will update with photos, youtube thoughts and yarn things later. xoxo ♥