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INTRO POST!

Hello! I'm relatively new here, and this is my very first time attempting to post art to the internet. I have a lot of stuff I'd like to share in terms of comics, stories, original characters, fanart (hopefully-- think podcasts, Project Hail Mary, Half Life, and a ton of other stuff), as well as any art reference-related reblogs n such, and I hope you'll be willing to join me as I figure myself and my art out on here. I am primarily a traditional artist (but am trying to learn digital), am self-taught, and mostly do comics whenever I have the time (there are several long stories I've been working on for years that I'd love to share bits about whenever I get the nerve to, so let me know if you'd ever like to know). Favorite medium is BIC pens and Pilot pens on the grungiest goddamn paper I can get my hands on, for some reason, but ink in general is fun as hell!

artfight is tetrachroman (will be searchable on July 29th, because I unfortunately put in the wrong username when I first created my account…). Search for “Jhriah Mezzanine Birdcrop” and you’ll find my sole character on there.

Relevant tags and additional information under the cut!

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”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

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Please view Hokusai's gradual working towards The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, over a period of 39 years.

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

It's all there; Mt Fuji, the ocean, the wave. The boats are gone, but replaced with birds, flying with the wave instead of fighting against it. It's not as famous as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but that's not what motifs are for -- each successive work does not have to surpass the previous in terms of success, especially in terms of external success. They're there for you to keep playing with, keep remixing and re-experiencing, for as long as you think you have something to say.

#There are so many things I can’t draw #but I’m trying #same thing with my writing #I will be writing about the grief of losing someone even when they aren’t dead and figuring out who you are #when identity seems both more important than anything and completely arbitrary #even as you are losing and regaining yourself #along with being cared for in the worst case scenarios and caring for someone in theurs #for the rest of goddamn time #anyway this is part of why I love project Hail Mary so much ha #trcr text ref rac #trcr reblogs #my reblogs

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#ID in alt #Project Hail Mary #phm #fanfiction #fic #fic research #I dunno if I’m actually gonna end up doing this thing but y’all he canNOT eat this taumeoba on its own #image id in alt text #image id included #trip to erid

I love project Hail Mary so frickin much y’all. And thus I suspend my disbelief. HOWEVER. That man would not survive solely by eating an alien “amoeoba” (listen. Maybe taumeoba ain’t an amoeba is just what I’m sayin) straight-up, and I AM going to write a fic about. Problem is if I’m as accurate as I want to be imma inevitably get something wrong because I am Not A Biologist, but. Well I will do my best. Thus, while I am doing this for the fun and the love of the game, if anyone knows the science equipment Grace most likely had onboard (and what he might have been able to use to modify a taumeoba to overproduce, like, proteins n lipids n such for extraction, or to just be edible on its own), and/or knows actual stuff about biology in general, that would be great!!

EDIT: ok so apparently he has enough food ON THE WAY to Erid in the form of the coma slurry, it’s AFTER he’s THERE that’s the issue (thanks @mkmonster!!). Still if anyone knows anything let me know!

#project hail mary #trcr posts #trcr fandom rambles #Trip to erid #Taumeoba #biology #I have been reading some papers and well dear god. There’s so much I don’t know but Andy weir #while I commend you for your attention to detail where feasible and fun and for creating a really fun and interesting story for us all #you could have been a little more accurate with your taumeobas at least #anyway my current headcanon is that while he ran outta stuff toward the end #With rationing #Grace was able to supplement with vitamins for some of the essentials right up until that last year or so #And it was through the taumeoba he was able to /farm/ certain things like fats and protiens (yay papers on cellular agriculture)#before eventually either figuring out how to kill and eat them and metabolize them for calories. Also uh they don’t live indefinitely so #Grace needs to breed astrophage on a smaller scale to feed the taumeoba or he needs to breed something else to feed them #And if they eat human cells then game over for Grace he ded from the brain eatin taumeoba so like that’s not an option ha #Other options include: the taumeoba ain’t the only microcreatures he got and he can breed those for either food or other nutrients #He can AgricultureTM the taumeobas to overproduce certain organic chemicals at a larger scale and then refine it into a powder like irl #he starts the autocannibalism early but it’s just like. not meat just horrible little slurries of nutrients derived from his own cells #he takes some of Rocky’s food and tries to determine if he can extract anything edible from that (maybe he can’t but it would be a good plo #misdirect) OR he takes cells from ant food he does have onboard and does something with that? He can’t mark Watney it but like. It’s someth #Anyway this is really fun to think about honestly and while I had little interest in biology before this I am starting to geek out tryna #solve this problem #who wants to solve it with me?

all I can keep thinking about is how Project Hail Mary is a horror story with a single ray of hope from Grace’s perspective. You wake up on a ship with no memory (the corpses of your friends on either side of you, but who are they?), and the more you remember, the more ways you learn you’re not coming back from this: first, because the world has most likely ended, then, because you’re lightyears away from home completely by yourself, then, because this is a suicide mission and the fact that you survived is a fluke at best. The only thing to come out of this (other than hopefully saving humanity, but you can barely remember them right now, and even when you do you won’t be around for the conclusion of that, so. What does it mean for you right now?) is someone who cares about you despite being a literal alien. And every day you wake up, you know you are trapped in a place you were forced to be in and yet can never leave unless you want to die, /knowing/ you will in a few months no matter what you do, and then even when learning there is a chance for survival it will come from the skin of your teeth: that even then you will be dying but not yet dead, and all in front of the only person who will ever understand where you’re coming from. The fear evolves then from not just your own safety but what will happen to your best friend if you don’t make it, because he can’t pilot your ship and you can’t take care of yourself the sicker you get and in order for him to even be able to help you stand on your worst days he has to go on a frickin’ EVA, essentially. Wholly dependent and still forced to be functional when you’d rather just curl up in a ball in the control room and cry. And then, after all of that, having to decide between preserving your own humanity and assimilating into the culture of the one that loves you and saved you, because you couldn’t relate to humans anymore if you tried (or at least, that’s what you tell yourself) but you’re still so human it hurts (it hurts all the time anyway, of course, but still). Enough that you know when you die, you will die hundreds of years before your best friend does, and then you will leave him on his own. How is that not a bittersweet horror?

#project hail mary #Phm #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #trcr fandom rambles #yknow. I think most people would be traumatized from just being in the Hail Mary that long. And then when you take on all that extra pressu #the vulnerability #knowing you have to know everything about how your own body works lest you die because you make a mistake by not being a /doctor/ when your #like. Honestly mans legit traumatized from the whole thing and probably has a very complicated relationship with the Hail Mary #and his time on the way to Erid

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