Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

sorry i can't just keep telling you how much i love your work (i do) so instead i'm free associating on your pieces. feel free to tell me to stop lol

Oh not at all, can’t overstate how supported I feel and how much it means every damn time. I’m really glad you like it! :)

https://i.imgur.com/814BOvw.jpg

whoa

i love that. somehow it just hits. not that i'm some authority on your work or art in general, but maybe my favorite thing i've seen you do! doesn't seem like you have any trouble selling your paintings, but i would definitely buy that and display it prominently!!

thanks so much! the last few i've made and posted here have all been 9"x6", smaller than what i usually work with, and loosely based off of plates in a book a friend recently gave me, "the complete encyclopedia of illustration", from 1851. that last one started from this:

https://i.imgur.com/hewrh03.jpg

i initially included the double arc/rainbow and the plants on the left, but the rainbows looked cheesy and the plants were monumentally horrible so i covered them up with a box :)

doesn't seem like you have any trouble selling your paintings

minor correction: i definitely have tons of trouble selling my work!! ooof. honestly, for every piece i sell (not that many), there are generally 2-4 false alarms where someone is very interested and then sobers up the next morning and realizes that no, no they are not. lol! hey, i've been there.

but most of that trouble is on my end, lacking the willpower and confidence to continually push things out to people to sell. i did sell a decent amount when i first got started, but a lot of that was that i was out of my mind and dropped a lot of inhibitions, which led a lot of just "please buy my art, it costs this much" kind of sales. (heavily related - i think the other part of my early success was that i was going through a lot in my personal life and my friends wanted to help me out and support me through buying my art. i don't discount that at all - i think, at least for people who aren't rich, it's common to start off with heavy support from friends).

but necessity is the mother of invention doing what you've been putting off forever, so i think i will have to try to sell stuff this month just to get by. i have an awesome new part-time job (media archivist!) i'm starting in a few days, but it's only 15 hours a week so it's kind of a subsistence job, and unfortunately i completely emptied out my savings/retirement account to $0 over the past 2 years, so i don't have enough money for rent on feb 1 :( hence, if you follow me on instagram or whatever you'll probably see a renewed entrepreneurial spirit (blllllegggh!!!) over the next few weeks lol!

the good news is that if i can make it through the next 30-60 days i think i'm going to be in a good spot moving forward! and honestly, if i can sell just one of my larger paintings for $700-1200 i will be all set, i think.

(sidenote: goddamn, even a modicum of universal basic income would be a LIFECHANGER for so many people)

That piece is FANTASTIC zach. Bravo.

https://i.imgur.com/MOceRqf.jpg

just made my third flyer! this is the 'censored' version

https://i.imgur.com/s16j4XH.jpg

i am doing a big sale this afternoon on my instagram (zach_tbd on there), about 10 works on paper (mainly gouache and oil pastels) and 10 on canvas (mainly oil), if anyone is interested. if anyone has friends who might be interested in my art and are in a financial position to purchase something, please send them my way, it would be a huge help!

https://i.imgur.com/vCj3hhw.jpeg

nice quickie!

yeah, it was a 10-minute pose! enjoying a new life drawing group, we all just take turns posing so it's free <3

https://i.imgur.com/8rlZDEr.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/gRndrFE.jpeg

great as always, love the vibe

https://i.imgur.com/kshwH6W.jpeg

love it
color palette
middle distance stare

https://i.imgur.com/y0DEZ4y.gif

saw this above an atm last night:

https://i.imgur.com/OjIlmCW.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/6lrgppp.jpeg

lookin' good!

i feel like that sometimes too

Really good work

thank you!

working on a flyer

https://i.imgur.com/8cNi43o.jpeg

love it

thank u h.p.!

i finished up the flyer with the band names painted on separate cardboard pieces and places on top - with some lighting in my kitchen + my iphone the 'briefcases' cast small shadows. i might mess around with this more in the future (collaging on top of painted canvas/paper, creating more 3d space

https://i.imgur.com/5dS6R8c.jpeg

this is a kind of fun process image that i really like - kind of a transient state that has no ultimate home except for on this thread. i used the adobe photoshop "content-aware fill" tool to replace the briefcases:

https://i.imgur.com/3IQXZ4W.jpeg

Great flyer, z_tbd.

thank you PBKR!

https://i.imgur.com/G3RDdnR.jpeg

I like each one more than the last, and I always like the last a lot.

Nice face!

thank you so much h.p. i appreciate it!! i spent way too long on the face and the rest yesterday, and ended up with something i wasn't that happy with:

https://i.imgur.com/mOgnG3x.jpeg

i put some extra time to change a bunch of things, glad i did!

The extra time was worth it

https://i.imgur.com/DmOnHBz.jpeg

oops, i doxxed myself! but then i remembered that i could delete the image at the source from imgur, so i did that. oof. this is what i get for trying to post a dog drawing on a fridge

okeydokey, here's a slightly redacted version

https://i.imgur.com/hXKuy8U.jpeg

how does this dog get along with the wily cat?

Very well, most of the time! Not sure the cat feels the same way though ;(

https://i.imgur.com/R2xi2h9.jpeg

cow tools

yes!

dude!!

this was the fourth or fifth oil painting i started, i think. i finished it (or stopped working on it) a couple months ago but didn't realize it was done until this morning as i thought about whether i should make space for it or not at my new spot. i don't have a nice camera and my lights are broken so i took 5 iphone photos and stitched them together to make this closeup

https://i.imgur.com/XUeYg3s.jpeg

uh depending on your .css you might need to open that image in a new tab

hello there, for scale

https://i.imgur.com/nK0t4Aj.jpeg

the one i'm working on now is at my foot there. i keep reworking the head - unsure what goes on the end of a torso twisted 180°

https://i.imgur.com/XdxPGob.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/t3gz70f.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/TSvvU4V.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/kS3IH4R.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/2BybOzP.jpeg

Honestly amazing

go man go!

thank you! it's been 'in progress' for so long that i can no longer see it, but i'm glad to move on! it's going to be rolled up in a closet for the foreseeable future but i hope to show it in some sort of covid exhibition some day, if there ever is one. i think one of my original thoughts was to do something brutally confronting, like with a hospital bed and characters and text for some of them. i'm glad that i gave it a ton of time and made it less direct