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(Thank you for asking me to do this! ♥♥ Also I think Discord totally forked up the compression, if you want to replace with a less blurry version I will send you one. 😂)

Nine of Swords

Upright: anxiety, hopelessness, trauma Reversed: hope, reaching out, despair

[Absolutely thrilled to have this gorgeous piece by one of my best favourite people on the planet, @theninabird, to add to the deck! I hope you enjoyed making it, ahh, the symbolism is top notch and the trauma is SO REAL. I love how right side up, there’s that hopelessness of him falling into the swords even though he reaches- but reversed, he’s falling into her hands. It’s perfect.]

#my art #wolf and fox #wolf and fox tarot #tarot card art

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A little video for my final project in After Effects class! Went into it without a clear idea beyond “animal character, environment... After Effects???” But I’m really happy with how it turned out. Somewhere near the 11th hour I realized, “OH, this could be the start screen of a made-up video game!” And now I want to play this made-up video game. Drat.

Music by Alexi Murdoch, my favorite morning drawing music. Also, I was heavily inspired by the amazing geometric fox designs of an artist called Skia (ty Babs!) when making this, and it probably shows! (I feel like it’s better to call it out myself than pretend it isn’t there?? But also, I have, like, 5 followers [love u all] and so it probably doesn’t matter AT ALL?)

#animation #fox #after effects

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They look so good all together like this. 🤩

The cards so far! With the first one, Three of Swords, (that kinda kicked off the whole project for me) being a piece I commissioned from the splendid @artist-rat and the rest muddled through by myself, working things out along the way hahaha. I definitely plan to have more ‘guest cards’ feature, and am totally dreaming big and super ambitious when I imagine having a whole tarot deck some day. Whether or not the momentum keeps up and I actually achieve it is anyone’s guess but I’m a little bit obsessed with how they all look together and I think whatever I wind up with is gonna be a pretty neat little set.

#other people's fabulous art #tarot #tarot cards

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They’re aliiiiive! An artsy alpaca and a “mean girl” ocelot. Characters created for an assignment that have proven useful for lots of other exercises!

If you’re on Instagram, I tend to update more regularly over there and would love to follow my Tumblr friends. https://instagram.com/theninabird !

#animation #animated #2danimation #artists on tumblr #character design #original character #my art

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7 Comfort Films

Woke up, saw the tag, immediately had to do this because: perfect procrastination! YAY.

Most of my favorite movies fall into the comfort category because I don’t really like to be challenged or upset by my entertainment, hahaha. And I had to rule out certain choices that might seem like they’d be comfort movies for me (namely: The Lion King) because they cause me to ugly cry on every viewing. These 7 movies only make me cry a LITTLE.

1. Practical Magic 2. Away We Go 3. Legally Blonde 4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall 5. Little Women (1994 PLEASE) 6. 13 Going on 30 7. When Harry Met Sally

Honorable Mention: Wet Hot American Summer, Clueless, The Princess Diaries

And of course I’mma do the BONUS, 7 comfort TV shows, because that is much easier for me:

1. Gilmore Girls, forever and ever, to the point of absurdity 2. Friends 3. Parks and Recreation 4. Grand Designs 5. The Mindy Project 6. Portlandia 7. Dawson’s Creek, as of this year

If it’s not clear: I like light, fluffy, funny stories. Not too much death or drama these days. I do love animation but it’s hard for me to watch it in the background/without a lot of feelings. 

As for tags.. @shahfla​ (double tag!!), @clubgetright​, @darkelitekaren! If you feel like doing it. And you don’t need to include images, I was just inspired by @dingoat.

#comfort movies #fun

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One year since moving to a home surrounded by trees, I’m thinking about what they mean to me. Protection, steadfastness, neutrality. When I’m feeling worried or angry, I picture myself as a tree: rooted, present, open limbs outstretched. Or I go outside and watch their branches gently bob in the wind. The world changes around them, but they keep standing quietly. I hope there are always trees.

#comic #illustration #drawing #digital art #visdev #visual design #my art

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Nothing looks pretty as the winter stars a-glittering shining on the freshly fallen snow When the blue light of the moon is giving off a loving winterglow

#visdev #visual development #concept art #illustration #my art

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Lol, is this the root of my desire to make meaningful art?

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love love love

The wolf will leave from child asleep The wolf will run ‘til rising sun The wolf will guide you in your dreams, run free

#other people's fabulous art

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What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

#big fish #film study #painting study #take that feelings #i painted you out of my system #my art

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listening to music that makes me Feel Things, and wanting to make art of Comparable Feeling, but obviously not being able to make anything of value in the 2 minutes and 41 seconds that the track is playing, and so drawing myself as a cartoon imagining that my soul is a wolf with its face in the wind: a self portrait.

#is this anything #the music was the big fish soundtrack #sigh

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A wuff. A wolf? That's what I said, a wuff.

#animation #2d animation #my art

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One is silver, the other’s gold

(the last wolf... for now.)

#acrylic #acrylic painting #wolf #awooo #red wolf #artists on tumblr #my art

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warm skin,

wolf grin,

and where were you?

where were you?

(wolf #2)

#wolf #animal art #animal artist #wolves #acrylic painting #painting #my art

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Me, 100 times a day, any time there’s even a slight chance of snow in the forecast.

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Wait... didn’t we... INVENT THIS DOUBLE ENTENDRE?

(Also, you tagging me has compelled me to post an AMAZING RP between you, me, Shah, and Zillah, that I rediscovered the other day. One moment please.)

Hey, why don’t we get out of here and *seductive voice* go questing.

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WOLF. Pink. 🌷🧠🐖🎀🌸

#white wolf #wolf art #acrylic painting #animal artist #animal art