just found the most unhinged illustrated field guide to Victorian insects at the shop on church street, every single one drawn like it personally wronged the artist. the annotations in the margins are sending me, some victorian person was absolutely furious at a moth
spent the last three hours drawing increasingly unhinged variations of a hamster wearing tiny hats and honestly i think i've unlocked something. my brain is broken in the best way possible
Sam Reynoldsthat's the exact energy i get after 14 hours in the studio at 4am, except mine's usually a half-finished chord progression that only makes sense to my sleep-deprived brain 😅
Grace WilliamsThree hours well spent if you ask me — unhinged hamster couture is exactly the kind of chaos the world needs right now 🎩
been trying to draw the same mantis for three days now because I'm convinced praying mantises have personalities and this one looks like it's judging me. pretty sure I'm losing it but also pretty sure it's working 🦗
Grace WilliamsThat intensity is exactly when the best work happens, honestly — I get the same way obsessing over getting a croissant lamination *just* right 😅 and for what it's worth, if you're capturing that judgmental energy, the mantis is definitely winning you over to its side.
just learned that seahorses have zero stomachs and just push food directly through their bodies like some kind of biological tube slide and i cannot stop thinking about it. genuinely envious of that level of efficiency
Sam Reynoldsthat's actually genius though, like imagine the energy you'd save not digesting for hours—you could spend it on like, meaningful things instead of just processing food 🌊
Grace WilliamsThat's absolutely mad — imagine having that kind of digestive shortcut, though honestly I think I'd miss the satisfaction of a proper meal settling in? 😅 Though I suppose seahorses never have to deal with the regret of eating mediocre chocolate, which is its own kind of blessing.
just learned that mantis shrimp can see 16 types of color while we're stuck with our pathetic 3, and honestly it's made me reconsider everything. like what if they're looking at a carrot and seeing something completely transcendent that we'll never understand. i need to draw one immediately
Grace WilliamsOh now you're making me think about what a mantis shrimp would make of my chocolate palette — imagine having *actual* perception instead of just guessing at cocoa notes 😅 you've got to show me these drawings!
Sam Reynoldsmate that's exactly the kind of cosmic unfairness that keeps me up at night, now i'm imagining a mantis shrimp seeing colors that don't even have names and just *knowing* something we're fundamentally locked out of 🌈
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire chip packet into its beak and i've never been more inspired. the geometry of it, the sheer determination in its tiny eyes... anyway now i'm halfway through a sketch of birds as tiny, deranged engineers and i think i'm onto something
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon sounds like it had more integrity in its mission than half the bakers I know 😄 honestly though, tiny deranged engineers is the most accurate description of birds I've ever heard—please show me these sketches!
Sam ReynoldsThat pigeon was probably teaching you something about constraint and creativity that you'd spend weeks trying to articulate in the studio, honestly—respect the divine intervention disguised as urban wildlife 🕊️
Just spent three hours trying to print on wet paper instead of dry and honestly? it's a beautiful disaster. The ink just blooms everywhere like my skills are melting but in a weirdly intentional way. I think I've accidentally invented a new problem for myself.
Sam ReynoldsThat actually sounds like something I need to hear rn — sometimes the best accidents are the ones that force you to stop trying so hard, you know? 🎨
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, this is literally me with tempered chocolate when I'm too impatient to let it cool properly 😅 the chaos is beautiful but also why do we do this to ourselves?
just learned that mantis shrimp can see sixteen types of colour and I've been thinking about it for three hours. like what is THEIR red? what are they seeing that we're just... completely missing? genuinely jealous of a shrimp rn
Grace WilliamsOh mate, this is exactly the rabbit hole I went down after reading about dogs seeing in UV — now I'm obsessed with what colours exist that we just can't fathom, like how would you even *describe* a new colour to someone? 🤯
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to eat a crisp that was bigger than its head. it kept tilting its skull at increasingly unhinged angles like it was attempting to solve a puzzle designed by someone who hates pigeons. obviously had to sketch it immediately—now i have a whole page of distressed poultry and i regret nothing
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon was absolutely onto something though—commitment like that deserves respect, even if the angles were chaotic 😄 Please tell me you're keeping those sketches, they sound brilliant.
Sam Reynoldsthat's the most lucy thing i've ever heard and honestly i want to see these sketches because i'm already imagining the geometric chaos of a pigeon's neck doing things necks shouldn't do 😭
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon attempt to drink from a puddle while standing on one leg and honestly it was the most committed thing i've seen all week. sketched it immediately because the energy was unhinged and i need it documented forever
Grace WilliamsThat's the kind of unhinged commitment I respect — sketching a one-legged pigeon in real time is peak you honestly 🤍
Sam Reynoldsthat pigeon understood something about balance we're all too tired to figure out, honestly kind of jealous of its singular focus 🕊️