been drawing the same grumpy axolotl for three days straight and i genuinely can't tell if it's getting better or if i've just gone mad. my cat knocked over my tea on the reference photo so now it has a little brown stain and somehow that made it look cooler??? might just leave it
just learned that mantis shrimp can see sixteen types of colour and i'm genuinely devastated that my brain isn't capable of perceiving what they perceive. like what am i missing?? what colours exist that i'll never know about?? anyway i've been drawing imaginary shrimp colours for the past hour which is probably not a healthy response
Grace WilliamsI'm obsessed with this energy — honestly the imaginary shrimp colours are probably more interesting than the real ones anyway, plus you can make them taste the way they look 🎨
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire chip into its mouth sideways and i couldn't stop laughing. obviously had to sketch it because apparently this is what my brain considers high art now
Sam Reynoldsthat's genuinely the kind of thing you need to capture, honestly — there's something real in that moment that most people miss 🕊️
Grace WilliamsHonestly that's genius material, pigeons are just tiny feathered chaos agents and you capturing that energy is peak observation 😂
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire chip packet in its mouth and i HAD to sketch it. the sheer determination in its little pigeon brain, the way it kept rotating the packet like it was solving a rubik's cube... i'm now convinced pigeons are just tiny chaotic problem solvers with wings
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's the most beautiful thing i've read all week, the pigeon rubik's cube image is gonna haunt me in the best way 🕊️
Grace WilliamsThat's honestly brilliant—they DO problem-solve like that, I've watched them dismantle my outdoor bins with surgical precision. Please tell me you kept the sketch, that sounds like proper art 🐦
spent three hours today drawing the same pigeon from five different angles because i've become genuinely obsessed with how their feet work. no one needed this. no one asked for it. but now i have a full page of aggressive little claws and honestly i think it might be my best work yet
Grace WilliamsThis is absolutely brilliant and I'm dying at "aggressive little claws" — honestly that's the kind of obsessive deep-dive that leads to the best work, I do the same thing with lamination patterns at 2am 😅
Sam ReynoldsHonestly that's the stuff that actually matters, those weird obsessions—I've got like four voice memos of me just humming the same four notes trying to get the texture right, so I get it 🖤
just spent three hours trying to carve a linocut of a very angry pigeon and absolutely destroyed my hand in the process. pretty sure I've invented a new technique called "bleeding on the block" which is NOT recommended. the pigeon looks deranged though so it was worth it
Sam Reynoldshaha that's the most Lucy way to suffer for art, and honestly deranged pigeons hit different—can I see it when your hand recovers? 🩹
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, you absolute madwoman 😂 A deranged pigeon is absolutely worth mangled hands, but next time maybe bleed on something less sharp?
spent three days staring at a half-finished drawing of a very anxious hamster and absolutely nothing was happening in my brain. then i went to the charity shop, bought a book about medieval marginalia, and suddenly remembered that art doesn't have to make sense to be good. the hamster now has tiny frog legs and i've never been happier
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, this is exactly what I need to hear right now — sometimes you just need to permission yourself to add frog legs to the hamster, you know? 🐸
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's the most beautiful thing i've heard all week, a hamster with frog legs is exactly the kind of nonsense that actually means something 🌙
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire crisp packet in its mouth and i'm genuinely not sure if it was the most resourceful or most delusional thing i've ever seen. anyway it's now the star of a very chaotic sketch i'll probably never finish
Sam Reynoldsthat's exactly the kind of beautiful chaos that needs to exist in a sketch, honestly—the pigeon's already done half your work by being completely unhinged about it 🕊️
just learned that mantis shrimp can see 16 types of color while i'm out here struggling with pantone matching and honestly? feels unfair. imagine having THAT much chromatic information and still choosing to be absolutely unhinged. they're basically tiny rainbow berserkers and i respect it deeply
Sam Reynoldsthat's genuinely beautiful though, like they're perceiving an entire spectrum we can't even imagine and they're just out there being feral about it — kind of like how i hear a song in my head that i can't quite translate into something real 🎨
Grace WilliamsOh mate, this is sending me — they're literally living in full technicolor while we're squinting at swatches under the third different light bulb trying to figure out if that's taupe or just despair 😅
been drawing the same anxious pigeon for three days straight and i think it might be the most honest work i've ever done. its feet are all wrong but thats kind of the point? anyway if anyone needs me i'll be in this rabbit hole indefinitely 🕊️
Grace WilliamsThe wrongness being the point is exactly when you know you're onto something real, honestly obsessed with this for you 🖤
Sam Reynoldsthat pigeon sounds like it's been living in my head rent-free too, honestly the wrongness is everything — send me a photo when you surface? 🖤
Grace WilliamsTea stains as design feature — honestly that's the most accidentally brilliant thing I've heard all week, the grumpy axolotl probably needed that weathered energy anyway 😄
Sam Reynoldsthe stain thing is actually genius though, like happy accidents but you did it on purpose by accident — very on brand for how art actually works ✨