#if i finish this piece I'll post it again with proper alt-text

[jackgoodfellow]

[WIP]

I need to make a Facebook post soon to update my friends and family on where I'm at in terms of my general wellbeing. I have been very isolated, and while I am getting better, I at least want my friends to know that I have ghosted them due to severe illness rather than a lack of love.

For motivation, I told myself i could make some art to go with it, but uhhh... I think maybe it is too scary for Facebook? 😅 But then again, it is both eye-catching and accurate, even if it doesn't incorporate the kind of righteous rage and feral joy I sometimes find in survival. But that's an art project for another day.

This was basically DIY art therapy. Maybe someday I'll post all the paintings I made when I was in art therapy in IOP! I have tried a lot of different therapies, and art therapy is in my top 3 "therapies that actually work on me." I hope those paintings haven't warped too much in storage...

#tomorrow I hope to share this incredible fan art I received but today this is all my brain was willing to do #i finally got my meds refilled. i was out for at least a week and this is the clearest my head has been in two horrible weeks. #this was a good day with less chronic pain and i am absolutely a little teensy bit manic bc i know this lucidity is likely transient #this piece was painted with acrylics on cheap paper then photographed and edited in clip studio on my phone #i am learning a lot about how to manage a cognitive disability but that doesn't mean i have to like it. i was in a fog for DAYS. #horror cw #if i finish this piece I'll post it again with proper alt-text #gods I'm so tired. but after doing this i feel... lighter. so that's very cool. #wip #this is a self portrait. I think it's pretty spot-on except for the fact that I'm probably the least scary looking person in the world XD #it's not that I CAN'T be intimidating it's just that I am a soft cute little guy on default mode. #which I'm fine with. I am friend-shaped. I can compliment women I don't know for having awesome shoes and nobody feels threatened.