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Are you going to come out of it with a Klein-level work? No. Dude was bonkers skilled. But I am here to tell you that if you've ever gone to Home Depot and shuffled through paint chips and been like "God, this is such a gorgeous color, I fucking love this color" and then immediately been like "...but I can't imagine painting a wall with it." and bought a can of soul-killing eggshell off-white or what the fuck ever, you absolutely can go pick up a $10 canvas from a craftstore and a $5 sample of that color and just hang 6 square feet of it on a wall and enjoy the fuck out of it.

because he will eventually.

geralt will move too fast, show off too much strength, snarl at him just a bit too harshly, and jaskier will smell like fear, and then he will leave.

and then days become weeks become months, and one day geralt comes back injured after a fight he needed a potion for (and the fact that he usually waits until the side effects have worn off before he lets jaskier see him again IS NOT INTENTIONAL SHUT UP) and staggers into the clearing, and ah. there it is. jaskier smells like fear. fine. geralt will patch himself up and pretend to go to sleep quickly so jaskier can slink off witho-

and then jaskier is tucking himself under geralt's arm and helping him sit down and babbling because he's jaskier but also trying to help and figure out what to do.

and geralt realizes the fear-smell is FOR him. not OF him.

No computers were used for these - partly because I like using my hands and partly because I have genuinely no idea how to do digital animation anyway. It seems like witchcraft.

These are life-sized because I have very little experience with figure drawing/sculpting so I just used my husband and I for proportion measurements. (Which meant I was chasing him around going “come back! Let me measure your femur!”)

@shot-thru-the-art can I ask: the wire they're hung from, does it just go anywhere the wind blows? vs being on some sort of tumbrel (I think it's called?) that spins them, I mean.

This is the most amazing thing, IDK how anyone could think it's digtal. It's too perfectly imperfect.

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

[id: behind-the-scenes photo from A New Hope from propmasters.net showing the cast and Mark Hamill (wearing jeans under his white tunic) gathered around the landspeeder, which viewed from head on shows the three wheels underneath and two mirrored panels along the sides which hide them.]/end id.

When people discuss the importance of using things, such as special plates, candles, special clothes- they will say that it's best to use them all the time, and that this makes each day special or something like that.

Which is only part of the picture if you ask me.

It's good not to hoard things forever, but if you use everything all the time, it also leaves certain special times as kind of indistinct from anything else. Like having a Christmas tree up all year kind of takes something away from it.

So here's my rephrasing: special things should have a concrete time of use, not an abstract one.

If you have an outfit you love but have it dedicated to only wear once a year on a specific day? Totally fine! You are using it, and it is contributing something to your life.

If you have plates that you'll only use 'for a special occasion' but haven't touched them in years? Evidently you don't know how to recognize a special occasion and should try and think of more specific qualifiers.

commission for @crossover15!