Tractim - It Seems To Me I See Two Suns

dear people who follow me, a heartfelt thank you for all the support you have given me this year!! i do not have a big audience, but i’m honest when i say that i am extremely grateful for how thoughtful and kind the one i have is. i read every comment and message that you leave under my paintings, and they really make me feel happy about my art and comfortable with experimenting with new subjects and styles. i feel that in this moment of my life both my art style and the concepts behind my pieces are switching to something more deliberate, and i’m excited at the prospect to explore this new creative path in 2024 and to share the results with you

may the new year bring you clarity and serenity. thank you again 💌

necessary reblog for the birthday boy

Sixfanarts challenge (4/6) - Our beloved Virgil 🐝 

(he’s reading the aeneid to augustus…)

Do you accept request in general? Like can you draw ocs?

hi!

everybody is free to send me suggestions about what to draw and, if i like the character and i have the time and the will, i might decide to accept them. something as personalized as an oc, however, i would draw only if it were a payed commission.

i hope that my answer was exhaustive enough! don't hesitate to send another ask if something was not clear

have a lovely day 🌷

i was studying my medieval art notes and i found the sketch of a tiny boniface

I keep posting about Dionysus and Pentheus but this time you get the other side of the triad of cursed cousins, and that is Actaeon and Pentheus 🦌🦁

silly moral orel sketches :)

“You can see the stars clearly.”

[vaguely, but also more than vaguely, inspired by botticelli’s “lamentation over the dead christ” (x)]

lovely people who follow this account,

thank you so so much for having supported my art this year. it sincerely means the world to me.

i am sorry for not having been that active lately, but i have received a commission (for which i am extremely grateful and that i am loving working on) that will keep me occupied for many months. i hope i will be able to show you something about it soon.

sometimes i have some windows of free time between the feedbacks of the client and, if university or work allow me to do it, i use them to draw some personal things. for this reason i will probably still post from time to time, but i would like these kind of drawings to be less polished and demanding than the usual ones. the fact is that my mental health has not been in a good state during the second half of 2024, and to work with a more casual process when it comes to personal things is helping me a bit. aside from this, i am absolutely determined to work on myself to come back stronger than before.

i hope you will still enjoy the art that i make and, if not, i am really grateful that you have followed my blog until now 🫶🏼

thank you so much to everyone else for your patience. i wish you the most meaningful and serene 2025 ♥️

I'm Italian too, may you share what you wrote with the sketches about Pentheus and Dionysus? I'm curious about your notes

they are for sure lecture notes taken in uni, but they are from two years ago and so i'm not certain about the class they relate to... i see that they mention Pietro Bembo and in the timelapse on my ipad i can read the name of Lionello Venturi in a part that in the final version got covered, so they are very likely notes from a course about the history of art criticism. unfortunately at the moment i do not have the notebook on hand, but this weekend i have to return to my parents' house and there i will see if i manage to find it and to make some decent photos!

Thank u @tractym for letting me borrow some inspiration from Ur piece 🥺