My favourite of Rodin’s works were the hand fragments. There were so many, some broken off and discarded from larger works like the Gates of Hell, others as studies for poses and casts. Hands are my favourite of all the body’s shapes, with their endless, endless holding 

Design by: @pleasureparadox.png 

If you are a creative of any means - a writer, a painter, a content creator, whatever - please do not overlook the need to consume what we love as much as we create what we love.

It’s so easy to feel as though writing a story or filling your portfolio or streaming a game is your form of refreshment. Why? Because it is borne from our passions. But loving something does not keep it from depleting you. Find a means to refuel in your field without simultaneously pouring out.

If you’re a writer? Put down the pen and pick up a book. If you’re an artist? Put down the brush and pick up a movie. If you’re a streamer? Put down the camera and pick up a controller.

We are not infinite. Respect your own limitations. Replenish yourself.

Possums are great because depending on how you look at them, they’re either horrible things, or just soft fluffy dudes with love instead of brain cells (table below)

whatever you do, keep making art. write in clichés. paint in colours that are too bright. speak in poetry. sketch everything. allow yourself to make mistakes. grow. hold tight to it when everything goes wrong - whatever else happens, you’ll always have the art.

HANDS SPEAK SECRETS (acrylic on paper) https://www.instagram.com/sunlightafterdark/?hl=en

Good morning I drew a sleepy cat

APRIL FOOLS THEY ARE A SNAKE WISHING YOU A NICE DAY !!!

a couple paintings/rain studies I did

male nude - gustav klimt (1880) // 9x01 // the dying gladiator - pierre julian (1799) // patroclus - jacques-louis david (1780) // 9x03 // male back with flag - michelangelo (1504)

Lonely Eyes - The Front Bottoms https://www.instagram.com/sunlightafterdark/?hl=en

Autumn Things (2020)

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open."

- Charles Baudelaire

• 06/07/20 •

My desk is a mess.

I hate to break it to ya, guys, but

You're all so creative and everything you wrote, drew and created made the world a tad bit more beautiful

Don't ever stop, you little chunks of mess and fabulousness, because in this world today, we need every single drop of beauty we can get

A Country Morning (2020)

I was drawing and I turned to see my cat so I dropped everything and drew what I saw

12/04/2020;

creativity counts for something right?

because ppl are always pressed about the books facing the wrong way, here’s a new monstrosity joining in; the reverse side of a canvas (’cause I pretty much gave up on the thing I was painting on it lol)

October in the Kitchen (2020)