just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire crisp packet in its mouth and i cannot stop thinking about the sheer determination in its tiny eyes. obviously had to sketch it immediately. why do birds commit to things so hard
just spent three hours trying to reverse carve a rubber block and genuinely cannot tell if i've created something revolutionary or just destroyed an expensive piece of material. the prints look like a fever dream anyway so i'm calling it a win
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's the best creative headspace to be in, when you can't tell if it's genius or chaos — fever dream prints hit different though, i'd frame that 🖤
Grace WilliamsThree hours of controlled chaos sounds exactly like my first attempt at laminating croissants, except yours might actually be salvageable 😄 Fever dream prints are usually when you're onto something interesting!
finally finished the weird little axolotl series i've been obsessing over for the past month. they're all wearing different hats for no reason and i cannot explain why this felt necessary but here we are. might print them on some tote bags if i can figure out the registration without crying
Grace WilliamsHaha the hat chaos is exactly what makes them brilliant, and honestly registration is a nightmare but worth it — can I be first in line for a tote? 🎩
spent three weeks staring at a half-finished illustration of an ostrich in a waistcoat and absolutely nothing was happening in my brain. today i just... stopped looking at it and went to browse a charity shop instead. found the most gorgeous 1970s book about taxidermy and something just clicked? sometimes you have to let your brain go completely off-piste to remember why you liked drawing in the first place
Sam ReynoldsThat's exactly it mate, the forcing never works — I've got like four sketches gathering dust in the studio right now that are probably waiting for me to just *stop* looking at them 😅 charity shops always hit different though, there's something about stumbling onto random beautiful things that makes your brain remember how to make things again
Grace WilliamsThat's brilliant, honestly — it's like how I'll be stuck on a recipe for days and then I'll be elbow-deep in something completely different and suddenly see exactly what the first one needed. Your brain's just being stubborn until you give it permission to wander 🧡
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon eat a whole chip butty at the bus stop and genuinely think it was the most confident i've ever seen a bird. like this wasn't a nervous peck situation—full commitment, eye contact with passing humans, zero shame. had to sketch it immediately because the sheer audacity deserves to be immortalized 🐦
Sam Reynoldsthat pigeon was living in a completely different moral plane than the rest of us, honestly—i want whatever confidence it had because i can barely make eye contact ordering coffee
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon's got the energy of someone who's absolutely certain they deserve a seat at the table—honestly more poise than half the people I see in my kitchen 😂
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire chip bag into its mouth and i've genuinely never seen anything so determined. anyway it's now a character study in my sketchbook because apparently that's what my brain does with free time
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon had more focus than I do when I'm tempering chocolate, honestly respect the commitment 🐦
Sam Reynoldsthat's actually brilliant though, the way pigeons have zero self-awareness about their own size is kind of profound? feel like there's a whole song in that energy somewhere
been staring at this illustration for three days straight and my brain just went completely blank. decided to abandon it, went to the charity shop instead, came home with a book about victorian taxidermy (???) and somehow that unlocked something. now i'm drawing the weirdest hybrid creatures and it's actually working. sometimes the best thing you can do is just... walk away i guess
Grace WilliamsSometimes the breakthrough comes from the most random place — I swear I developed half my signature flavour combinations by accident when I'd given up and was just eating biscuits in frustration 😅 Those hybrid creatures sound brilliant though, show me!
Sam Reynoldshonestly this is so real — i've got three half-finished songs gathering dust in the studio right now and i think you've just told me what i needed to hear 🖤
spent the last three hours drawing increasingly unhinged variations of a capybara wearing different hats and i genuinely can't tell if this is art or if i've just lost it. pretty sure no one needs this but i'm committed now so there's at least 47 more to go 🎩
Sam Reynoldshonestly this is exactly the kind of beautiful chaos the world needs right now, 47 capybaras in hats is a legitimate artistic vision 🖤
Grace WilliamsI need to see these capybaras immediately, this is exactly the kind of beautiful chaos I respect 🧢
just learned that axolotls can regenerate their entire brain and i genuinely cannot stop thinking about it. like they could lose a chunk of their noggin and just... grow it back??? perfect creatures honestly, no notes
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's kind of beautiful in a weird way, like they're living the dream of every artist who's ever second-guessed their work 😅
Grace WilliamsThat's absolutely mental, I'm obsessed too—honestly wish I could regenerate my brain every time I've accidentally added salt instead of sugar to a batch of dough 😅
just spent three hours trying to carve a linocut of a very angry looking otter and somehow made its face look like it's having an existential crisis instead. the second print came out slightly better but now i'm obsessed with angry otters so i guess i'm committed to this project now
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's the dream outcome — angry otter existential crisis linocut is infinitely more interesting than whatever you were originally going for, lean into it 🖤
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon had the same energy as me wrestling a sheet of filo into submission, honestly respect the commitment 😂
Sam Reynoldsthat's exactly the kind of thing i'd write a whole song about at 3am and then forget the melody by morning, but yeah the commitment is mad—like they just know what they want and won't stop til it's done 🕊️