elicia

@elicia.bsky.social

coookieeeeeeeesss autistic artist 🌙 they/she no AI

I'm not a fan of "guys mowing lawns for views" content mostly because I hate lawns on principle, but I kind of dig Sean Stockman. Something about a white guy taking responsibility for historically neglected Black neighborhoods hits better.

beginner: round brush 😬 enthusiast: truegrit textures😮 custom brushes,😍 what are your brushes??blending tools🤩...texture overlay, pro: round brush👍

Someone told me today I should do oil paintings so I wouldn't have to worry about Al. It costs $100 to make an oil painting, Barbara. Each time.

I used a lot more acrylic inks on this one, letting the inks pour and run across the paper and then painting over the top of them once they dried. I really like the effect! "All That Will Grow" Watercolor, acrylic ink, gouache, and color pencils.

A watercolor painting of two women embracing, surrounded by star thistles. One woman has star thistle spines protruding from her body and pressing against the skin of the other woman attempting to hold her close.
Julie Dillon@juliedillon.bsky.social · 4w ago

Working on a new piece; thinking about star thistles, how in the western US they are an invasive and noxious weed that readily takes over land that has been disturbed and degraded. or something.

A pencil sketch of two women embracing, surrounded by star thistles. One woman has star thistle spines protruding from her body and pressing against the skin of the other woman attempting to hold her close.

I don't really have religious beliefs. But I've stepped on lots of plants and microbes and tiny bugs all my life. And eaten a lot of them. I think they should have the chance to eat me.

It's so amazing how well Terminator 2 holds up. Talk about a movie made with care all the way around. It still looks as good as it did in the theater.

Ethical art is art that treats everyone involved in the process (from materials to production to creative labor) fairly and with respect—not art that adheres to a specific set of content guidelines. Don't confuse genre trappings or marketing buzzwords with the real obligations we have to each other.

Oh I can't wait for August. Halloween the 1st. Horror movie season. Lazy cat sleeping with one eye open season. Dawn and dusk are the same color, the same sound of insects, and you can't tell them apart. Everything looks like you're viewing it through smoky quartz.

We report: something has gotten in the air - smoke, sand, humidity, the whole lot - and it has captured the sun some hours before dusk. A veil is drawn across the sky. There is a bit of a chill there, or at least, what counts as one these days, a little shiver in the half-light.

Digital painting of a hazy sky: low in the frame, the sun is glowing orange, partly hidden by a long, thin, dark grey cloud. There are swathes of greyish-orange cirrus muddling the sky, a smattering of small, lighter clouds to the left of the sun.

These are blemmyes! Not to be confused with the actual ancient Blemmyan people. They're an example of "white man travels to India or Africa, sees something interesting, writes home about it, and then a very long and stupid game of telephone occurs." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headles...

Headless men - Wikipedia

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Ultraviolent Ray@sarazaran.bsky.social · 4w ago

How come medieval fantasy media always features like elves and orcs and goblins and shit instead of whatever the hell this is

 illustration of a sciapod, Cyclops, blemmy, and cynocephalus as seen in The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

We report about the wind blowing across this week: some days, a breeze, and the rest of the time, a gale. The wind is chasing a cold front, west-southwest veering southwest at night, counterclockwise, ten knots in the morning and seven more in the afternoon. Always going.

Digital painting of a sunrise or sunset sky, dark purple and blue clouds rising around a bright orange blaze on the left-hand side of the frame.