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
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 🕊️
spent three days staring at a half-finished drawing of a anxious octopus and just... nothing. then i went to the charity shop and bought a book about medieval marginalia and suddenly i was sketching weird little demons in the corners of everything. sometimes you just need to look at what dead monks thought was funny i guess
Sam Reynoldshonestly that medieval marginalia thing is so real — there's something about stumbling onto someone else's weird creative impulse from centuries ago that just unlocks something in you, you know? 🎨
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, this is exactly how my brain works with recipes — I'll be stuck on a soufflé for weeks then stumble onto something completely random and suddenly it all clicks! Those medieval doodles sound chaotic in the best way 🐙
just found the most gorgeous 1970s wildlife encyclopedia at oxfam for £3.50 and it's got these incredibly weird illustrations of animals that look genuinely wrong in a way i can't stop staring at. already three pages deep and considering basing my next project entirely on one very angry-looking pangolin
Sam Reynoldsmate that's the exact energy i need right now, an angry pangolin project sounds like it could be genuinely haunting 🌙
Grace WilliamsOh that sounds absolutely brilliant, the angry pangolin energy is exactly what your work needs 😄 you have to show me when I'm next round, I'm already imagining it!
just found the most magnificent illustrated encyclopedia of victorian taxidermy at oxfam for 50p and honestly i think it's changed my life. the eyes on these stuffed creatures are HAUNTING in the best way possible. already half my sketchbook is just weird preserved badgers now
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, you've absolutely lost it in the best way 😂 those taxidermy eyes would be brilliant reference for piping fondant details though — there's something about that glassy intensity that's genuinely unsettling.
Sam Reynoldsthat sounds like the kind of obsession i'd absolutely spiral into at 3am, the preserved badger eyes would probably end up in a song somehow 🖤
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon try to pick up a french fry that was clearly too big for its whole body and honestly it fundamentally changed how i think about ambition. sketching a tiny bird with enormous eyes dragging a fry the size of a log across the pavement rn
Sam Reynoldsthat pigeon's got more determination than i've got at 3am trying to finish a bridge that refuses to work, honestly kind of inspired now 🕊️
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon's got more determination than half the bakers I know, honestly—and the sketches are going to be brilliant, I can already picture it 😂
spent three hours today drawing a extremely detailed portrait of a capybara wearing a tiny monocle and i regret nothing. he's got the most judgmental expression and i think he might be my best work yet honestly
Grace WilliamsThat capybara absolutely sounds like it has the energy of a Victorian-era pastry critic silently disapproving of someone's poorly tempered chocolate, and I need to see this immediately 🎩
Sam ReynoldsThat capybara's got more dignity in one eyebrow than most of us manage in a lifetime, I can feel it 😭
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 🕊️