Shoenhut doll construction was fucking wild. You can show me as many examples as you want of it, and I still feel overwhelmed.
Like, their contribution to the toy industry in general is crazy, from how it was one of the biggest manufacturers in the United States to how no one outside of collectors knows of them now, but the sheer technological complexity of their play dolls is mind boggling.
This was the 1910s; ball jointing with string was the predominant method of movement, and composition was king. Shoenhut started out with toy pianos, and had only worked up to jointed dolls via their smaller scale circus line and a Teddy Roosevelt playset (yes, really).
The "All Wood Perfection Art Doll" was not only a mechanical marvel, but was specifically advertised as being durable and painted in such a way that it wouldn't (not for a while, at least) wear off or chip. They're a relic of a bygone "Made to Last Forever" mentality, and many of them can still hold their poses to this day.
A WIP I will never have time to color, unfortunately, but I would love to explore this style further and make a companion piece to it. We'll see if life lets me do it !
Making life-changing decisions in your 20s should be illegal.
people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.
any other artist out there feeling like they're fundamentally uncreative. not in a sense of being unable to make art, but in the sense that the results of your artistic labour are predictable, stagnant, a dime a dozen. like the creativity flowing through the artists you admire is a bone in their body that you were born without.
I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!
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"Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to you." Neil Gaiman, Stardust.
โจ I've loved this movie every 20 times I watched it, and I can only love it more. This scene redraw took time, but I like how it turned out. Tristan and Yvaine, happy together, for a long while...
Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours ! ๐
Jello-o Gelatin Rainbow cake recipes, 1978. General Foods, USA. Via Eudaemonius / flickr
Emoji spell for extreme good luck for the next two months
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Tuning Out the World
'Lovers' by Max Svabinsky, 1896.
Hi. I'm Ene and I draw things. Sometimes it's frogs, sometimes it's people, other times it's my every day anxieties. Most of the time, I don't draw at all.
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