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

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

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 quiz
but my teacher gave me an 'A' for Affort

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

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

I thought it was a self portrait!

https://i.imgur.com/wx5L2jG.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/RsRbc6l.jpeg