Status Report : My Brain Is Melting

do you think the obsession with ‘style consistency’ in online art communities is mostly caused by this idea that your art style needs to be easily marketable & recognizable as a brand (especially when you’re working as a freelancer). i see the /least/ amount of progress in my art whenever i try to aim for style consistency. i don’t know exactly where i’m going with this but i think there’s some sort of connection between trying to monetize/market your art & limiting your growth as an artist. and i think it’s very sad.

Feeling my master's thesis deadline looming oh so very menacingly

Too many leftists are still glorifying work for work's sake. Too many leftists have equated "performing labor" with "moral fortitude."

If your ideal society has no place for people who genuinely, fully, 100% do not want to work, or who can't work, your ideal society is not as ideal as you think. There has to be space for people who don't "contribute," there has to be space for people who don't fulfill some greater "purpose," there has to be space for people who cannot and will not ever be a part of the labor force.

I am a firm believer that laziness does not exist, and if someone is flat-out refusing to do something, there's a good reason for it. That reason could be disability, it could be fear, it could be a lack of education, it could be that they're confused or lost and don't fully understand what they're supposed to do, it could be that they don't have the skills, it could be that they're at their limit and need a break, it could be that the task is uninteresting or not relatable to them and they don't understand why it's necessary, it could be countless other reasons. "They're just lazy" is a cruel assumption that doesn't solve any problems or accomplish any tasks.

But even if I'm wrong, and laziness is real, you can't penalize "laziness" without hitting a lot of disabled or otherwise vulnerable people in the crossfire. You cannot and will not ever create a society in which everyone is a perfect worker. There has to be a way for someone to contribute absolutely nothing to the labor force, but still be taken care of instead of left to needlessly suffer.

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

Yours truly !

Autoportrait procrastination.

my father found these deer dead with their antlers tangled together in a field and i will literally never stop thinking about them

Growing up is just learning to deal with disappointment, eh ?

Also Hi ! I'm still out here, living the horrors, offline. I wanted to revive this blog and start posting again (and hopefully not disappear into oblivion once more).

So hi, I'm Nell, an independent illustrator from France. I love Drag, historical fashion, frogs, Greek mythology and soja sauce. My life is always a mess but at least it's funny.

See you around 💛🌀🐸

Museum visitors, part 1.