So TikTok removed my edit of Dylan 2 times in a row … so I leave it here.. hope you guys like it

These couples of drawings have a difference of 8 years between each other.

I just made this comparison because I don’t believe being able to develop any skill is about talent or just “having a gift”, it’s about perseverance and the wish to overcome your own limitations and get the goals you set for yourself, “making art” is not different, as anything else in life, you must fail until you start to get progress little by little, but I believe you never stop learning and evolving.

You have to be willing to make it “wrong” more times that it will turn out “right”, there’s nothing magical or exceptional about drawing, at least if you’re some Picasso or Caravaggio.

It’s true we all have different capabilities and our brains have different “kinds of intelligence”, but if you really want to get an hability like drawing, you just have to be passionate and stubborn, but also humble and open to constructive criticism.

But hey! This is just my opinion

aquilegia-vulgarys:

I’m a person who believes there should always be the right to have freedom of expression, even if sometimes is not comfortable to others, because the fact it’s not nice, doesn’t mean, that expression is looking to offend those who don’t like it. It’s only the venting of an idea or the wish to share something with others.

Since last year, after I fortuitously got to know about Susan Klebold and her journey after the crime her younger son perpetrated and his subsequent suicide. I not only developed an interest in her and what she has to say about such crime, her son and her fight to create consciousness around mental health issues, but I also felt able to look at this person in a new light, i started to see him as a human being, which took me to want to reproduce some of the photos Susan has shared of him through the years, because I wanted to represent that human, that child she raised.

However, for the first time in 20 years of having been learning to draw and have become an arts mayor, I’ve found a huge percentage of rejection and hostility towards this reproductions, people rush to conclude that my only interest is to glorify and enhance him, giving him attributes he didn’t had, pretending he didn’t do anything wrong or even believing I support or condone such atrocities.

By no means and in no moment, I’m pretending to promote these kind of ideas, but I think is sad and frustrating that those who only wish to make images or illustrations about these topics or any other that turns out to be polemic, whether is for a certain interest or just for the exercise of making any artwork, don’t have the right to share those without being attacked and referred to as deranged and sick persons who only wish to promote the actions of these persons or who only want to disrespect or disregard it’s victims and pretend they were right for acting as they did or deserve more attention than those who lost their life at their hands.

Art is a mean of expression, a way to share what we feel, what we live, what we think, what we fear, about things that makes us hurt, things we want, things we enjoy and, tho, sometimes those messages can be uncomfortable or hurtful, it’s also a right and a necessity for it to exist and generate such disconfort, this, with the objective of create a debate, generate consciousness and analysis, promote the search for learning and a better understanding of the topic it represents or sometimes just share a visual composition.

In my case, I’m not trying to take away the responsibility and concecuences of the actions this young man perpetrated, nor I pretend to force others to see him differently as what they perceive of him, I just wish I didn’t feel like I have to hide what I’ve been drawing, I wish people could see that I’m only making visual pieces about a topic that got me thinking and has helped me widen my views about some of the biggest issues of our time which is our mental health.

My personal belief is that demonizing this people is as harmful as glorifying them, I feel we should try to see them as humans, even and specially, if it is inconvenient and uncomfortable, because anyone of us could be them, anyone of us could reach their point, if we, as them, don’t get the chance to be helped, anyone of us could be as hateful and ruthless, anyone of us could get as lost as they got and pretending they were plain evil, it’s not only naive, but potentially dangerous, the last 20 years and the continuous occurrence of these kind of tragedies is sadly, the best proof we haven’t learned enough of it, we haven’t payed enough attention.

[Pictured above is an image of the Harris family, father, mother and older brother to Eric Harris, from Kevin Harris’s wedding. Circa 2004 (?)]

Basement Tapes - Evidence Item #333

“Eric: Morris, Nate, if you guys live. I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room.

— Dylan adds that they can have his things as well

Eric: Susan, sorry. Under different circumstances it would’ve been a lot different. I want you to have that fly CD.”

Only a friend of Klebold’s who was leaving for college out of state after the massacre stopped by the Klebold household to ask if he could take something that was Dylan’s; he took sunglasses.This was believed to have been Nate Dykeman.

“Gonna make the big mistake, the big mistake, with my life!” - The Big Mistake, F.L.Y.

[The image above is the F.LY. CD that is referenced by Harris above, the album is called “Bombthreat: Before She Blows.”]

Pictured is a game of hangman played by students who were in a Columbine High School classroom during the 1999 shooting by perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. 

[With the sayings of the game being… “why does this have to happen here?”, “we will get out a live!”, and “hi my name is what!”]

the influence of the columbine high school shooting

[diagram shows lines connecting shootings after april 20th, 1999, to the columbine shooting]

“Dylan had attended prom the weekend before with a big group of his friends, and I returned to my memories of that night and the next day. I’d gotten up from bed to check in with him when he got home early the morning after prom. he’d had a great night, and thanked me for buying his ticket.” - Sue Klebold, A Mother’s Reckoning

[“I’d done a good job with this kid, I’d thought to myself as I returned to my room that night….”]

“when parking spaces were being assigned for their senior year, Eric and Dylan arrived at the school at about 3:30 AM in order to get spaces close to the school” - the 11k report, 

[circled above in red is where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were parked on the day of the shooting]

[Tim Roches notes on the basement tapes.]

Dylan is said to be wearing a grey t-shirt, rumoured to be the one he is wearing above.

23 years since the Columbine High School Massacre. Rest in peace to the 13 victims who lost their hopeful lives and the 2 perpetrators who succumbed to mental health troubles.

[Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Dan Rohrbough, William Sanders, Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold]

Rare pictures of the trophy case in the library, shot by Dylan Klebold.

[Lauren Townsend and Kelly Fleming were shot directly behind and slightly to the left of the trophy case.]

dylan klebold, somewhat rare clip

The Trench Coat Diaries, magazine.

[Some information listed on the page is incorrect.]

[Littleton, “Columbine”, CO. American Shame card collection by Change the Ref]

[items found in eric harris’s car, including the toy guns they used filming their various short films.]

[Bloody socks and shoes outside of St. Anthony Hospital Central, where injured Columbine students were taken.]

[“Rare images,” Dylan Klebold working on a school play. ]

[Memorial on Rachel Scott’s car, victim of the Columbine High School massacre. Picture taken just two days after the shooting.] 

Tom Mauser - The Leaked Library Recording

At 11:34:55 perpetrator Eric Harris shot a bullet into Daniel Mauser’s hand, then at 11:34:57 Harris shot another bullet, but this time into Daniel’s face. Daniel likely died a quick death as the bullet entered his brain.

“I also heard the shots fired at 11:34:55 and 11:34:57. I sat there thinking of how that second shot ended the life of my son. Could there possibly be a more horrific, solitary sound that a parent could hear?“ - Tom Mauser, father of Daniel Mauser.

[Guns used during the Columbine High School massacre.]