Whomst Has Awakened Me

Left hand journal entry #2

Copied a section from a wikipedia article on sea butterflies as I see it

I made an instagram account >:o

This was my first time animating! Kind of tedious but I learned a lot :D Small changes really do make a big difference in animation

ALSO! I think you have to click on the embedded post here on Tumblr to start the video/animation -- it'll just look like a static picture otherwise

ANYWAYS here's left-hand journal entry #7: A copy of a Wikipedia article on the sea cow

Left-hand-training journal entry #8: Not a Wikipedia article this time, but a webpage from American Bird Conservancy about booted racket tails

How to make a tiramisu, step 1: dip your lady finger finch in coffee

It's a bird soaking in coffee camouflaging as latte art (◡̀_◡́)

i like that they're called java finches cuz the brown ones look like coffee

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

sleeping biski ₍ᐢ..ᐢ⑅₎ 𐰁𝗓ᶻ

Left hand journal entry #6: Today's article is about sundoooogsssss 🐕☀️🐕

Uwaw it's been awhile since I've done any left-hand writing practice. But here is today's entry: an incomplete copy of Wikipedia's article on Jammie Dodgers! 🍪🍓

A little Biski-related lore: My little character Biski loves Jammie Dodgers! She doesn't call them that though, and she makes them out of very special candy berries that grow every winter in Biski land. You can see her foraging the candy berries in this post :D

Something I struggle with in learning how to art is the inconsistency in quality of the work I produce. I can make a 'good' painting/drawing and an ugly one in the same day even if it's of a similar subject done in a similar manner. I make the first one and think I've improved and then create the second and feel like I haven't improved at all