Gneiss Bard

Same Hat!
Same realization that it's something I can actually do, anyway

I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.

Same. Please know that I’m very mad about a very many things. My silence on any one topic or event doesn’t mean I don’t care.

I've been in hibernation mode while the seasonal troll migration comes through - they do travel in herds!

Also I apologize if you found me by way of the Kaladin fanart, I vacation on Roshar but I live in the fossil record most of the time. Worldbuilding is my Thing and that includes Earth's past

!! My favorite Jurassic creature

a theropod dinosaur crouched down in a shaded area. Focused and partly in the sunlight, watching their off-screen prey in an opening, waiting for a chance to strike

#Paleoart of an #Allosaurus stalking prey through a shaded patch. Tried not to over-render and keep it quick!

#TheDinosaurMann #illustration

Insert Yule-tyrannus puns here!

Dinosaurs + wintery themes are a favorite of mine, as ya'll know. Starting off the season with Valor and a wreath. 🎄

#paleoart (ish) #TheDinosaurMann

Embroidered brown mouse, sat on hind legs, eating a raspberry with a wheat strand nearby, all sewn onto brown linen

One of my favourite bits of embroidery I've done to date.

A digital portrait of Corythoraptor: a feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and large boney crest atop its head. Its feathers are shades of browns and white, with some brighter pink and purple coloured skin around the bright yellow eyes.

Corythoraptor.
I posted a WIP of this ludicrous animal a couple of days ago. I’m calling it finished for now. #SciArt

Currently thinking about how elephants, some of the most imposing animals on earth, tend to be afraid of mice.

Maybe hope is a mouse.

Needed this - been working on a story for four years that I've suddenly become Very Scared to release into the wild because of current events.

Boosting Kaladin while I attempt brain wrangling

Quick Edaphosaurus #paleoart sketch-painting. He's got a short neck but loads of determination! 💪

Sketch: a lemur-like primate with a long tail and big eyes sits perched on a cedar branch, in the rain. Signed, Bard

Current mood: this little guy that lives in the big misty temperate rainforests of the northwest in the world I'm writing in. He's not exactly a lemur, but did descend from Eocene primates that got introduced with a landmass collision
#worldbuilding #amwriting #sketch

OR do I just keep going and try to be less afraid? That, at the moment, seems nigh-impossible but maybe.

Currently trying to juggle Writing Decisions.
Do I censor the books I'm currently working on because I'm Afraid, or do I pivot to a wild, paleolithic, hand-axe-and-sorcery first-contact/survival thing that's been stewing for a few years?
The temptation is strong to do the latter
#writingcommunity

Chop wood, carry water.
It's a little zen, a little stoic, and my whole family's mantra right now. When you don't know what to do next, do the routine things - "chop wood, carry water." Take your meds, hydrate, get grounded, feed yourself and your pets.
Chop wood, carry water.

Ok. Let's talk about "Do not obey in advance." I have been recommending Snyder's On Tyranny to many, many people since it came out. I am planning to teach it shortly, too. It's a great book. It is very timely. But it's not perfect.

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Colored sketch: a scruffy, dark-haired man in yellow armor places a green blanket over the shoulders of his red-haired friend, who has fallen asleep at his desk. Signed, Bard.

Took this down earlier because Fear but it's back. Because I think we could all use someone looking out for us right now.
#art #sketch

From _The Fellowship of the Ring_

If there's one thing I'm learning this evening, it's that I wish I were half as brave as my protagonists.

Digital portrait of Thalassodromeus - an extinct pterosaur (a flying reptile) with a large curved crest on its head. In this illustration the animal is shown a dark grey/black with lighter stripes on its crest, and amber-coloured eye.

Almost hard to believe that this was a real animal. But it was, it soared through our skies a hundred million years ago, and it might have looked a little like this.
An illustration I worked on a couple of years ago, and which also features on the cover of my book Ex|Terra.

Update: I got a migraine halfway through the day. Ope.

Today's coping strategy involves waffling between throwing myself into writing until time ceases to exist and getting distracted by bird ID because the tree outside my window is a popular spot. So far, I think it's going well!

a pigeon profile shot when its sitting on the ground, eyes big and red and fuck what is happening

Yo I feel that. #birds

Three colored sketches of a red-haired man with copper-striped dragon wings diving, swooping, and landing safely among cacti. Signed, Bard.

Referenced a bunch of hawks and sketched some wing studies after yesterday's Write. Clothing is... meh, colors need work. And there's a lot about the wing shapes that I'm not super happy with, but that's what I get for building wings out of early synapsid sails instead of like... limbs.
#sketch

Day 2 of blowing life into these novel embers and I've finally broken the writer's block that's been stuck to me for like two months solid. My protagonist met a snake and this was the highlight of my day.
Yeehaw
#amwriting