it had been several weeks since I last sketched out character poses before this, which is why I went slow and messy at first.
I put a lot of emphasis on understanding movement and anatomy for this one. the most important thing was getting back into the habit of drawing, which I did succeed at!
while I would love to post just the best and most beautiful finished pieces on my blog, I find it more honest to show the bad or mediocre art that went into making the complete pieces a reality at all.
have a magnificent next 24 hours and don't worry about perfection - just doing something is enough!
all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
I can’t stop getting emotional about how tenderly a shepherd caresses his dog’s face on this marble sarcophagus from the third century
The dog’s face is just so lovingly crafted and it’s much more finely detailed than some of the other animals in the piece. The expression is pure contentment and devotion. This scene is a tiny portion of a huge elaborate sculpture but I really feel like the artist was trying to capture a specific emotion with these two. The way that you feel when you look at your dog is thousands of years old.