#our house of arts

[astrolavas]

hunter watch out don't turn away there's a little misogynist behind you

(based on this meme and this beta hunter design ofc)

#scary! #the owl house #hunter toh #hunter #my art #fanart #toh art #hunter noceda #hunter deamonne #toh hunter #william #toh #anyway we won with our canon hunter fr fr

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[princessmacabre]

day 36/100 days of productivity

kitchen work/ did the dishes

cooked dinner

began reading The Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen

continued working on my YouTube channel princessmacabre

working on some new poems (some even in French)

I‘ve been also working on creating some playlists and song compilations for the other YouTube channel Our House of Arts of which I am a co-creator. Also I have been listening to Sopico‘s album « Nuages » in a loop ever since my lover introduced me to his work… go check him out!

#studyblr #booklover #books & libraries #books and writing #student life #study blog #studygram #book blog #bookblr #student #100 days of productivity #youtube #youtube channel #youtube video #our house of arts #art #art video #art vidéo

[bloomingsalma]

our home should have colours and flowers. daisy sims hilditch / christine atkins / stephen darbishire / marie-louise roosevelt pierrepont

#inspired by a conversation my gf and I had about our future home <3 #art #painting #art moodboard #art compilation #moodboard #home #house #interior #interior design #interior art #parallels #web weaving #comparisons #comparatives #art series #art mb #concepts #compilation #aestehtic #daisy sims hilditch #christine atkins #stephen darbishire #marie-louise roosevelt pierrepoint

[lupiclaws]

Just wanted to draw crossover art with some of my favorite shows y'know

#at #adventure time #hora de aventura #toh #the owl house #gf #gravity falls #infinity train #finn the human #finn mertens #jake the dog #luz noceda #dipper pines #mabel pines #tulip olsen #crossover #atimers #my art #brazilian artists #bonding together about the horrors of our worlds or something

[sabertoothwalrus]

I like to make hunter drawings that I know will eviscerate @tizzymcwizzy on the spot

#this was part of our 'tizzy watches 10 AT time episodes for every 1 TOH episode I watch' deal #but since I ran out of TOH a while ago it's just been in exchange for hunter drawings #and we just got to Fern :) so the reward was this :) #hunter #toh #the owl house #flapjack #my art #animation #clip studio paint #csp

[vidkun]

burrow

#itemlabel #sucklet #traditional art #gouache watercolor and some digital touchup #he said the dirt house was temporary but he's got grass growing on the top! #i made this for my partner for christmas it will sit on our mantle now #i will continue practicing with traditional to Grow Strong and Healthy

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[cygnus-is-tired]

Orthodontist hate him, dentist fear him! It’s NIBBLY!!!

(Unlike Nibbly you aren’t a god so don’t bite hard candy, you can and will fuck up your teeth)

#fun fact about me #my mom was an orthodontist for the first like 15-16 years of my life #you would not BELIEVE how many times my cousins would be dragged to our house at all hours of the day because they did something dumb #and broke their braces #my art #doodle #hatchetfield #nibblenephim #nibbly #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #I attempted to make his hat thing that I can’t remember the name of look glittery by using stippling #and I don’t think it works like I intended but oh well #can’t do anything about it now

[ami-v-dragnire]

Unpacking 📚🪴✨ __ My piece for the month of August as part of the @desiderata2023 calendar! A quick break from unpacking all the boxes in their South Downs cottage.

#good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable wives #ineffable partners #the colour palette was a wee bit of a challenge but i think i made it work #august is the month my fam moved into our house so i thought it was fitting to have them move into the south downs cottage too #good omens zine #crowley #ami v art #aziraphale #av art #also finished this may last year so i hope my style has improved #AND I HOPE THEY MAKE IT HERE IN S3

[the-nothing-maker]

Home is where the heart is

(Alastiel is a vampire lord NPC from @luposlipaphobya's D&D campaign, Une Cour de Chair et de Charme!)

#vampire #dungeons and dragons #dnd #traditional art #chair et charme #my art #i love it when lupo asks the big and necessary questions like #what if you were in a toxic relationship with your house ? #(which believe it or not is a theme that is getting explored TWICE in this campaign) #anyway the city our PCs live in is half-alive (technically it's a whole vampire in itself) and alastiel is its... semi willing lover ? #it's complicated #anyway he's really fucked-up and tragic and i really like him !! bone grandpa

[aulerean]

Presenting Emo Dragon and Houseplant Dragon in all their glory

#It is the year of our lord 2023 and I’m posting fanart of Dan and Phil’s dragonsonas because how can I not- #dan and phil #gamingmas #danisnotonfire #amazingphil #daniel howell #phil lester #dragon #dragons #artists on tumblr #my art #art #digital art #illustration #artist #artistsontumblr #house plant dragon #emo dragon #what has my life become #I’m kidding I can draw dragons and they made dragon designs like literally how could I NOT draw them this is so funny #obsessed

[egophiliac]

HELLOOOO HAVE YOU SEEN LILIA'S DORM CARD YETTTT

personally, what made me most gleeful about the update news is that the part 2 description implies that they forgot to invite Malleus to Lilia's farewell party. god yes rub that salt into the wound, Monday can't come soon enough

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #i've been refreshing myself on part 1 and i just want to call out one of my favorite little bits #when silver is like 'w-what. you can't leave. what about our HOUSE' #and lilia just goes 'oh yeah i don't own the house. it's just some abandoned cottage i found in the woods!' #'we've technically been squatters for the last sixteen-ish years!' #lilia you're actually kind of terrible and this is why i love you #i JUST finished grinding out 800 of those stupid juices for his sunset warrior card #time to throw my crummy little handful of remaining keys into the void i guess #thank you azul for having a birthday just in the nick of time so i can get those sweet free keys

[littledigits]

I dont think I ever uploaded these to my tumblr but I was feeling nostalgic. Hilda was a rare show because I could be involved with pre-production and had chances to play around with ideas. These were my concepts for twigs dream and some of the vibe of the deerfox dimension. At the time I was playing Gris, and loved how soft it felt while also having really sharp geometric shapes so that was a big inspiration. Our comp team ended up doing such a cool treatment where everything floated and faded in and out. we actually assembled them (and a shot from andy) as a little early pitch to help show the vibe of the episode.

#art #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda #twig #deerfox #heres some older behind the scenes stuff and jazz #we love our twiggles in this house #Youtube

[marionette-j2x]

This has been gathering dust in my WIP folder, so-

#toh #the owl house #huntlow #toh winter #toh huntlow #willow park #hunter whittebane #toh willow #toh hunter #the golden guard #hunter x willow #hunter the golden guard #golden garden #wintery junk #she carried like he was made out of grapes #our strong queen #my art #digi art #digital art #marionettej2x #mj2x #sketch #wip 4 ever me thinks

[numbuh424]

matt 🚬🥽

some slight color variations under the cut 🫶

#death note #mail jeevas #death note Matt #death note art #death note fanart #anime #manga #digital art #fanart #elle draws #classic matt screencap redraw #randomly getting really into matt in the year of our lord 2024 #I have no idea how to explain myself he's just very . #also I've been feeling kinda Eh about my art lately so I'm trying new things out again. new lineart brushes new rendering brushes all that #no room for consistency when I'm trying to beat burnout with a giant broom and shoo it out of my house so I can draw in peace