The Intention Behind It All

So the other day (read: like 5 months ago) I bought some art at a local shop and talked to the cashier a bit about the artist while checking out, at which point the cashier dropped this wonderful nugget:

"Oh I love that artist, she's local and suuuuper young, she's like, 30."

Y'all

Y'ALL

YOU ARE NEVER TO OLD TO DO THE THING. 30 IS SUPER YOUNG. 50 IS YOUNG. YOU'RE BARELY AN ADULT AT 70.

Learn new things, try new things, continue improving on the thing you're just kinda okay at. It's never "too late" to do things.

perfect places 

the concept for this has been rattling around in my head for the better part of 3 years, glad to finally actually put it on paper, so to speak.

based on lyrics from "Beneath the Mask"

Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I'm always like "why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day."

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you're inside the car, inside the situation, it's easy not to notice all the extra work you're doing just to maintain the status quo.

There's all sorts of work that we think of as "free" that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged by sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you're tired from "nothing", consider instead that you're probably in situation where you're doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

Finally finished this painting, after working on it on and off for like a month. Pretty happy with it. 

I forgot to upload it here, for all my Tumblr followers

over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs

This counts as vent art.

its a legal requirement that all nightwing drawings need fangs now srry I dont make the rules

also this is super messy but I didn’t wanna finish it so WUDHCNHA ALSO ALSO pls talk to me w the ask me anything button i wanna talk to ppl pstpsptpst