Flying Mind

there's nothing you can do to me i wouldn't do to myself 🩸

the long-project i have been working on for fall/winter collection this year!!

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Winged & Wicked, a duality of one's heart ; my own obsession to wing aesthetic finally brought to final stages lol 🪽🩸 the products are actually better to be seen in person but we can only do photoshoot by later on this month, but i really cant wait to share the real oness!!!!!

Introducing February's Patreon-exclusive pin!

Info:

Those who subscribe to Tier III will receive a different enamel pin each month, along with everything else included in the previous tiers. Pins sent out each month are limited in quantity! Pin designs will not repeated, so if you miss out on a previous month's pin, you won't have a chance to get it in the future.

This tier is limited to 50 subscribers, US residents only (for now) ---

About the pin:  Derived from my piece "Seraphim" (2020) from my Choir series, "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus" (holy, holy, holy), is a proclamation by 'heavenly beings'. In medieval manuscripts, words so prolific in their use were abbreviated to save space on rare and valuable parchment. In this case, the composition of this pin forced the shortening of "sanctus" to "SCS". Another example, "spiritus sanctus (the Holy Spirit; every scribe in the Middle Ages would know that one) became "SPS SCS". These pins are only available from February 1-28.

P.S. There is still time to grab a January pin! By tomorrow, they'll be unavailable.

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I'm on Bluesky!

(I Will Love You) The Way Dogs Love Men - Simon Angel

Oil on canvas, 2024

Hi! I just found your art and it’s so beautiful, I just have two questions- where do you find your pose references (do you take them yourself or look somewhere online)? And how do you paint lighting so well, especially on faces? Thank you and I hope you have a nice day ❤️

Hi there! I do both, I take pictures of stuff like my hands, poses, etc. and I also look online to find similar poses to get as many angles as I can. 

For painting lighting, I look at photo references of lighting where it’s close to what I’m painting. Stuff like the turning shadow, rebound light, cast shadow; see if you can identify those in references or other objects. I’d also look at Bargue plates (ex down below), especially for faces. Lighting on faces is a bit more complex because there are so many planes at different angles, but hey, that’s what makes it interesting too. It definitely helps to look at facial structure drawings and sculptures. Knowing where the planes of the face are is important when you’re painting light on faces. 

I love Bargue :)

“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

Guanyin by Yuming Li

messy pages

perfect birthday card for your non binary girlfriend, butch lover, or t4t situationship x

I submitted this for a design assignment at school where the brief was to make a birthday card :)<3