Handsome / Some hands,
Song: @anmlcollective - FloriDada👌// It’s incredible (and a bit overwhelming) how anything can become a source of inspiration. The starting point for this animation was reconfiguring forms and words. I will post some of the background work for this one on @mild_beans (where I also posted another mini animation recently). I’ve been very inactive on Instagram for the past year, partly because of (ironically) the lack of inspiration during spring & summer and in parts because social media is terrifying. However, now I have an abundance of new things to post but feel like I’ve made this account way too small of a box for genuine exploration of ideas. That sentence made me sound like a pretentious twat. Basically what I’m saying is that I want to post but I’m afraid that nothing is good enough and the works that are “good enough” are boring me to death because they’re in no way authentic. So here is a piece of work that I felt like I could post but still really like.
#animation #handsome #animalcollective #artistsoninstagram
Love your friends like these porcelain Meissen figures from Aberdeen art gallery love each other (and themselves based on their fairly smug expressions - self love is crucial). Happy and fulfilling new year beautiful people!
🔈 Gravity by The Whitest Boy Alive • Usually I start with the music but this time the animation came first. However, as it happens @loswhitest have the most fitting lyrics again. Songs for all seasons of life. // My biggest hope to all is that you get to experience mutual gravity and maybe even try changing from the classical hand-holding into toe-holding as in the animation. Maybe influenza would spread less rapidly if we’d all just shake feet. I’d like to see all great leaders of the world locking their toes in a peaceful manner -yes, maybe even all at once! That’s besides the point. Which was that this is a wonderful song and balanced the animation nicely. Happy brain break dear people.
An addition to my “drawing friends” collection - a portrait of @sampaios.insta who managed to look like a real-life Wes Anderson character. // I know I’m going overboard with Anderson atm but bear with me - brain’s sucked dry by uni so I’m at my capacity. Less than a week left though!
Evolving, reversed. I hope that if and when I slowly change, that change will be more like growth. Like an updated version with less glitches and dozens of new features such as a built-in teleportation machine. Or simply more responsible adult-like behaviours such as planning meals, eating meals and not only making to do lists but also finishing them every once in a while.
Ps. Santa if you’re reading this, I’m serious about the built-in teleportation machine.
Several sketches of the same reference photo // as soon as the deadline was over my inspiration died too and now I’m just making a mess in my room, trying to make things but ending up unhappy with all of them. I’m grateful for reference photos that help with art block. Anyway, next assignment is coming up so in a bit I’ll have some fire under my butt again.
🔈Tunnel vision or visionless in a tunnel? The past two days were relatively frustrating, sitting in the library trying to write about the effectiveness of rehabilitation approaches to partial vision loss. Just as undecided as before reading the research papers but at least I managed to submit 24 hours early. That’s a new record. Previous submit-related record was 1 second before the deadline so I guess I’ve learned. I’m out of the tunnel for now. FREEDOM!
One of my favourite things this summer was going to national portrait gallery’s Friday lates. Drawing and studying famous paintings with other drawing enthusiasts. To me, the most striking painting in the gallery is the Self Portrait/The Model by Dame Laura Knight (1913). At its own time the painting was a topic of controversy; “HOW DARE A LADY DRAW ANOTHER LADY NUDE LIKE THE MEN DO?!“ Wild, I know.
