Best Friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ᴇᴢʀᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴀᴛs Artwork from his 1962 book The Snowy Day.

photos from 07/05/2023

hand reference sketches from 2022

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

photos of flowers from my backyard, taken on 07/14/2025

scene reference study

Warwick Reynolds (British, 1880-1926) - Prosperity

It’s really telling when a man’s immediate response to women advocating for equal rights and gender equality is to bring up things like fair fights, the ability to hit women back, or being drafted into war. If your first reaction to women wanting equality is violence or placing women in dangerous situations, perhaps you should consider self-reflection. “Feminism” and “gender equality” can be annoying for some to hear, and questions may arise like, “Aren’t women equal today? Why is this still a thing?” But the reality is that women still face social inequality and are at a higher risk of violence from men (physically, sexually, etc). Also, in many countries, women are nowhere near equal to men in terms of legal rights and autonomy. So, if your first thought is hitting women and having them join the military, you’re part of the problem.

my biggest issue with the httyd live action-and just about any live action reboot is that it seems that the live action adaptations are being made to make the original “better”? like, so many people talk about a live action spiderverse, a live action hercules, a live action PRINCE OF EGYPT (dont piss me OFF.)-like animation is a beautiful work of art, and for some reason putting real people and cgi in it is supposed to be an “upgrade”? im probably being that friend that’s too woke or whatever, but i just think it’s so disrespectful to act like something that takes so much time and effort and energy is immediately considered as lower because it is animated. animation is beautiful, and it is one of the most heartfelt art forms there are, and erasing that for the sake of a cash grab is downright degrading to animation as a medium.