Babe&Oak

I think that’s the root of it I probably fall back too much on my creative vices maybe on comms. Ive had a Eros and Psyche piece stuck in my head for ages all mapped out so maybe I just need to put some fire there

Yes! Definitely time to refill my creative well a bit. I have a bunch of cozy and not so cozy fall movies on my watchlist I haven’t seen before so maybe I’ll start there 🙂

I think that’s a good point I need to integrate. Find areas I can positively reflect on at the minimum

Oh I’m so jealous this looks so perfect. Do you get a lot of cedar trees where you are? Here they’re all I can smell on my walks and it’s my favourite thing

Course! 🖤 I’m ok just enjoying the fall weather

Hope you’re good too 🥰

Omg so cute! Love this

Hahahah very real

That does mean a lot thank you 💕 I’m sure it’s also chronic illness woes tinting everything

My mum when in art uni had the dean say to her - if there wasn’t at least one student having an existential breakdown about their art per semester they weren’t trying enough lol

It’s just that every quarterly spin out lasts 3 months lol

Woo solidarity in this love it - it’ll help keep me accountable 🙂

I keep meaning to try clip studio - this is good motivation.

I’m just obsessed with all the beautiful texture you brought out. Your work is always amazing but these particularly are gorgeous

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦‍⬛🎨

These are so beyond stunning. What brushes did you use?

I just imagine hanging up huge huge prints of these

Haha and I’m pagan! 🙂 good I can justify it with that even though they’re not ritual candles lol

I guess it’s perfectionism mixed with imposter syndrome maybe or something else that my therapist should unpack lol 😅

#b&w 🖤

Plus the illness and pain will definitely mess with your head to soundly convince you the negative thoughts are in fact totally correct Ugg

Awe I’m sorry to hear that 💛 I’m the opposite I’m so miserable during the summer that I think I have to do everything single thing I love during fall/winter and set unreasonable demands for myself and everything and then crash lol

Oh yeah it’s completely set against weird imaginary standard I’ve made for myself based on basically nothing lol

Any kind of physical derailing that creative flow is so heartbreaking. I try to remember to give my self grace in that regard with my chronic stuff but easier said than done right?

This new shape language your integrating is fire Dan

But we still all go through that quarterly “I hate everything I’ve ever done” phase right?

Course! Love your work 🙂💕

Around hating all old work?

For me I get into this mindset of I can’t trust my own opinion. Like I tricked/fooled myself into thinking my stuff was good but i was wrong

It usually lines up w/ when I don’t prioritize new pieces so i can’t see the progress I’ve made in personal work only comms

Beautiful line of work wow

Will do 👻

Something about glad and airwick always trigger headaches for me I’m not sure what it is? It’s like something soapy in them and my head just has a fit with it

🙂💕

That’s a really lovely way to look at it. I definitely spiral into the - wait what if I was never ever good and instead just deeply delusional….. lol

That’s so much healthier. Usually I have certain ones that I can look at like - ok this has merit

But I haven’t put enough focus on personal work for a long while and I think that’s morphing my perception badly to the negative if that makes sense

Completely. I feel like it either manifests as immediate project frustration or it spirals out into all past work