Well? Art thou?

Good morning everyone!

a thank you at this point would be unexpected and startling! according to my research, you guys domesticated the horse and invented the plough. nice! we still use those!

January 31st, 2011 [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

there's a stoat hiding in that last one

Make art, with whatever you have. Use scrap cardboard and tape and build something; doodle in your notebooks, make a beautiful dinner, grow a plant, write, paint your nails. Learn to whittle, to knit, to cut straight lines, to sew, to cook, to run at a problem and not solve it the first time. Learn to try again.

Make things the wrong way.

If it works, do it again, better. If it doesn't, do it again, different. Draw badly. Look at the way the light hits something and try to figure out the colors it makes. Watch the way strangers walk and how the weight of them shifts in motion.

Creating art--beautiful things, ugly things, silly things--is not something that you should be leaving to people who are better at it or can afford the expensive materials or have a deep message or whatever. Do it anyway. Do it worse, do it cheaply, do it just for the joy of doing it. The work itself has merit. The work itself is rewarding. Make art.

here's the book-seller article. you have to sign up for a free account to read it, so I'll just give an overview.

The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo: an evil alien brain-slug gets isekaid to a fantasy world where he encounters a spider-centaur. they have graphic sex (and yes, the spider uses his pedipalps). this one will be out in March 2027

Anna Stewart is Not Human: a changeling story that is definitely not a clumsy metaphor for autism. I get to illustrate this one!!! it'll be out October 2027