Totally Understand This. I Feel Like This Everyday....It's Not Fun.

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut (via planity) Just read his story Slaughterhouse five. The way he looks at life is amazing.

Titled Cystic Prowler

Art © Me

This is just a beastie that I’ve had a sketch of lying around for a while. Decided to finally get the design done and inked it with my beloved india ink. Surprisingly, these are starting to take a lot less time, probably cause I’m getting more comfortable with the medium, along with being not as stiff with mistakes.

Lots of fun and got more stuff like this in the works.

Alrighty so quick update on life: I now have a real deal art table to work at!!! My parents saw it at a garage sale for only $10; a great price so of course they took the deal! Can't wait to get cranking on art work this summer. Just gotta let school end....and get myself a chair XD

Inktober 2018 Day 19

“Scorched”

I always like seeing process pics, so have the sketch and the completed piece. I actually really like this one, even though its been a few days since I drew this one. Yay for me XD

Art © Me

Inktober 2018 Day 10

“Flowing”

I seem to have a thing for drool XD. It’s just so much fun to draw creatures losing all of their bodily fluid... or something like that.

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Inktober 2018 Day 20

“Breakable”

How in the hell did I forget to post this one?? Its one of my faves from this whole inktober project. As soon as I saw the prompt, I thought of teeth and how they are breakable in the right conditions. That and I remembered my puppy breaking one of his puppy canines as he was teething. Silly stupid pup. Gotta love them.

Art © Me

Inktober 2018 Day 29

“Double”

I’ve always loved what people can come up with for tattoo designs, so for this one, i decided to try my hand at it. I loveeeee the results.

Art © Me

Just some updates of the Beastie I've been working on. I'm so close to being done it hurts. So close. This guy's has been a fun project and learning experience in using ink, so I'm excited for my next project, which is even more detailed. Art © Ari Mortensen

Inktober 2018 Day 21

“Drain”

HE’S NOT DOING DRUGS. He just had surgery and I guess cat-people have different vein placement than us, so the IV was put there and not in his hand. I didn’t quite get the pose correct, he’s supposed to be more slouched, but eh I still like it.

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Inktober 2018 Day 25

“Prickly”

Had fun with this guy, though for some reason to me his face shape doesn’t interest me at all. Oh well, such is life and art. I did my best and it’s time to move on. I’ll have yall know that I finished Inktober on the 31st, just as always posting is the hardest part for me.