Very well, most of the time! Not sure the cat feels the same way though ;(
― z_tbd, Friday, 22 March 2024 03:48 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/R2xi2h9.jpeg
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 05:43 (one month ago) link
cow tools
yes!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
dude!!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:36 (one month ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:42 (two weeks ago) link
uh depending on your .css you might need to open that image in a new tab
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:43 (two weeks ago) link
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°
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:54 (two weeks ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:56 (two weeks ago) link
Honestly amazing
― H.P, Friday, 12 April 2024 22:30 (two weeks ago) link
go man go!
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 April 2024 00:06 (two weeks ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:21 (two weeks ago) link
Love the color on this. That big yellow eruption on the far right makes me think of something violent erupting like dragon's breath.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 14 April 2024 18:38 (two weeks ago) link
eruption erupting - ugh
thank you, appreciate that pbkr! the evil imagery on the right was partly on purpose, partly temporary layers that i left behind. the flat yellow, i think, is from one of the very first layers i put down in summer 2021, just to put down a color and have something to work off of. and the figure, i think, was based off of this engraving by gustave dore, from his Genesis series:
https://i.imgur.com/ja26DkF.jpeg
i think that's Baruch, who is a minor character whose tale i can't remember. he maybe the son of a son of a son of a son of a more famous son. i was also looking at dore's dante's inferno engravings around the same time, and also thinking about hell and evil stuff a lot because of things in my personal life. i remember doing the quickest sketch with charcoal and then adding some color (i don't drunkenly paint now, but i did then, especially that night) and moving, figuring i had a ton more work to do. but i never touched it again! people reading this who think it is bad are probably like 'yeah buddy maybe you should have' lol, and i do think i could have (could still, but won't) kept working on it and changed it into something more concrete, but i got used to the way it looked there, and i like how feels (to me) like a piece of bad threatening past, still on there
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:57 (two weeks ago) link
so many typos, i'm just going to pretend like they're all on purpose
i got zero out of ten on my last spelling quizbut my teacher gave me an 'A' for Affort
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:59 (two weeks ago) link
tangential humblebrag of the past - i won the school's spelling bee two years in a row in middle school, and "was one step away from ESPN" the second year, when i also won the regional competition. but autocorrrect ate my dog
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:01 (two weeks ago) link
anyway, thank you for saying nice things, i really do appreciate it and it always motivates me
additional umprompted lore, just because i've been looking at this thing for years and haven't really talked to anyone about it: it's funny that what turned into a david bowie look-alike on the boat started out as a version of chris killip's photo 'simon being taken out to sea for the first time since his father drowned'. i tried to do that kid's face so many times and then it became david bowie lol
https://i.imgur.com/MFdimJe.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6gV8kqH.png
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:08 (two weeks ago) link
I thought it was a self portrait!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 15 April 2024 00:50 (one week ago) link