#thegrindragon

@thegrindragon naming a @riesenlied weapon for me. it has been years and the name stuck since :))

anyway here's the Konk-O-Matic 9000 in action (bloodier version under the cut)

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16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

Ohooh! A triple threat!

14.) Fav motifs are def things I pull into my own stuff so Aesthetically? Moons, halos, Christian imagery, arrows, and fire to name a few. Thematic ones would be queerness and parody, monstrosity and nature being deified. I like taking things seemingly mundane and making them something more. I like taking uncommon subjects and giving them a kind of transcendence cause I think there is something so remarkable about just existing sometimes and is easily forgotten in the day to day. Overly poetic and sappy? Perhaps! Haha

16.) Ohhhh hmm this is interesting cause I will admit I'm fairly critical of most steps of my process so there isn't a lot I honestly believe I'm good at. And even less that I don't enjoy doing 🤔 maybe uh lineart? I don't hate it tbh I often do enjoy it but it's kinda a necessary evil now? I don't think about lineart too hard but I do get a lot of compliments on it as well as my sketches. I do enjoy those things but I guess they become a bit second nature or monotonous haha. Though I could say the same about shading sometimes. Idk adhd, baby I'm easily bored hahaha!!

This piece is a good example in the sense the lineart was a means to an end in the sense that I drew the lineart first then played with it to create the melted effect then redrew it to nail down the lines. This one also has a nice bit of line weight variation which is fun.

20.) Idk if everyone finds it hard but I know a few of my peers really don't like doing realism in anatomy or life studies, which is totally fair! But I adore it. Theres something very satisfying about staring at a reference for a few hrs and trying to draw it with accuracy. I find a lot of inspiration from old school scientific drawing and had thought of studying it as a discipline too for a bit. I was trained in drawing first and it has become a comfort zone for me so I often do it to relax which some of my friends find insane haha! That said I really do just love investing time into a detailed drawing and see it develop. For instance this old moth drawing from 2020 I spent like uhhh 6-8 hours on this. I used a hb mechanical pencil 0.5 and did ever teeny little scale texture abd I loved every second 😅 Good to listen to podcasts too.