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There's a small set of media that I can't watch/read/listen to etc. without sobbing.

Greta Gerwig's film Lady Bird, Garnet Rogers' song The Lost Ones, walkingnorth's webtoon Always Human.

Probably some others. But those are top of mind and top of heart right now.

You know what makes the best still-life? Flowers. Better than fruit, better than boxes. They're *really fun* to draw.

There's this entire Twitter genre of historical-explainer threads that are _very slightly_ wrong, not in any substantive ways, not in ways that change the essential point, but in "someone half-remembered or half-understood this, but is good at storytelling" ways.

And what does this mean for me? Nothing. I nod and pass on by. Forget it, Jake, it's Twitter.

The Kuleshov effect seems to apply to comics.

Hey so I am obsessing (OBSESSING) over this comic. It feels like what I love about Mignola's work, with a softer humanist edge. The creator cites Miyazaki as an influence, too.
https://m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-strange-tales-of-oscar-zahn/chapter-1/viewer?title_no=685&episode_no=1&webtoonType=WEBTOON

Apparently there's a print version of it in the works, so gonna get that when I can.

As a society, we still haven't gotten over contrapposto.

Drawing again. Not quite ready to share. But it feels good to do again.

The folks in my Discord have decided today to make pride-flag themed variants of the logo and I could not be happier. Real "community!" moment.

My dear cat has claimed my lap. So much for doing anything.

Remember when you could easily run out of internet and then go outside?

I really need to convey the shape of the hull here. Constitution doesn't have a lot of tumblehome, but this looks like a floating brick.

Uhh #tallships or whatever. Hashtag hashtag.

USS Constitution, from a reference. Getting better, practice by practice, I hope.

This one's a lot less dynamic than the one from imagination before, but it let me focus on getting the rigging right.

Better tools help, too: I can do dynamic pressure shading now.

A tall ship bearing down on the viewer, in simple line art. Three jibs, fore course, fore topsail, and fore topgallant visible, with the edge of the main sails visible. It's supposed to be a frigate, but you can't see the mizzen, so you might think it's a brig. A pennant flies from the foretop.

I'm trying to start drawing ships, since they're always in my heart. I'm not good yet, but I'll practice!

Been watching a lot of physical-geography YouTube lately. It strikes a nice balance: much bigger than human lifespans, but not longer than the lifespan of life-on-Earth.