02-25-21 – Wonky Boi

This is a rushed and glaringly wonky sketch because I did it in-between my split shift for work tonight. Don’t @ me lol

02-24-21 – Forest Spirit

Just a lazy 20 minute moose sketch tonight.

02-23-21 – Dielectric Union

My best friend (who is an electrician) is renoing his bathroom and I’ve been helping him out with the plumbing. Tonight Jesse said I should do my drawing on the inside on of the drywall. This is hidden in the wall that houses the electrical panel and the Bathtub. A little surprise for next people who rip open the wall

02-22-21 – 2012 Dredd

I recreated a poster from the 2012 Dredd Movie but with a more saturated color that matches the comic counterpart.

02-21-21 – Lumbering Pin-Cushion

Just a quick tone study to try and train myself to draw with shapes and light rather than lines and sight.

02-20-21 – Darth Vader

This is just a quick 35 minute sketch. I’ve been thinking about the Dark Father of a far, far away galaxy a lot lately. I didn’t leave myself much time for art today but that’s okay as long as I make something!

02-19-21 – Magic Study

This is just a more challenging tone study done on my ReMarkable 2 Tablet. I think I’d do some things differently approaching this again but I feel like I’m learning lots from these studies.

02-18-21 – Persevere

I did a rough sketch of the Perseverance Rover that landed on Mars today

Boeing 787-800&900 Cockpit Layout

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Research != practice

This is a reminder to myself because I often get caught up in my own deep lore and neglect to study other cultures.

There’s a part of me that’s strangely afraid of researching other magical cultures as much as I research my own. It’s an irrational fear I have that I’d be somehow disturbing or dishonoring that culture by simply looking into its knowledge - like a fear that my brain might be “appropriating” their tradition simply by knowing anything about it.

So I have to remind myself, that looking at intentionally-written existing resources in order to see new perspectives is actually the opposite of “appropriating” that culture - if a resource was intentionally given to the world from people of that culture, then I’d actually be doing a disservice to those who cared enough to document and share their lives.

My magical investigation should, and must, go beyond self-understanding. There is a massive difference between learning and practicing; and I can practice my existing framework without ever feeling a need to “adopt” other frameworks just because I am learning lessons from other people who do practice those frameworks.

some late night sketch I did last night [04.11.21]