TQ, artist aspect @TQ@mastodon.art

Here's the finished treescape in my tan notebook from Fairmount Park #sketchbook #mastoart

honestly, given the reactions that the phrase "OK, Boomer" have been getting in the media, you'd think packs of teens have been systematically targeting elderly people for brutal street muggings or something. but, no... it's just a phrase, and a mild one at that. why is it so upsetting?

because it's not rebellious or confrontational, which are things older people are used to getting from younger people. it's straight-up *dismissive*. and it's not something we, GenX, the first-generation children of the Boomers, ever had the chance to express.

our rebellion was taken away, repackaged, and sold back to us when we were too young to know what it was for or why it could be powerful. we grew up feeling helpless and hopeless, trapped in a world where we had nothing meaningful to say and nothing useful to do because Doom was Nigh--the ozone layer, nuclear war, the Y2K bug, politicians that hated us sending us off to wars for blatant lies. Boomers got to have their Swinging 60s--we grew up under the specter of AIDS. we were isolated from each other, so we never realized that we weren't alone. and when we were finally able to get our own voice out into the popular culture, we spoke obliquely of isolation, depression, inward-turned knives.

Been thinking about "OK Boomer" and why it seems so much more potent than the "Whatever, Grandpa" dismissal of previous generations. I think the difference is "OK Boomer" rejects not just the singular position as out of touch, but also encodes a rejection of an entire culture: you aren't just out of touch, your opinion arises from a worldview that is deemed invalid a priori. Your position is untenable *because* it arises from a cultural paradigm now considered fundamentally harmful. Savage.

This is only tangential to Mads' thread about bodies, but we lost something specific when clothing became mass produced instead of made to order, you can really internalize the idea that you're too short/fat/etc for "normal" clothes

It's a shame to hear people say they just need to lose 10 pounds to make things fit, when the shapes you can cut fabric into are easily changeable, but the idea that you are wrong and the clothes are right is pervasive

2 More - it’s hard to draw the face in only 5 minutes. It always took me one minute longer for the final touch. #DailySketchChallenge / #30FacesChallenge

RT @c780162@twitter.com

Yo! I am a #conceptartist/character designer/#keyframes guy available for some remote #freelance work beginning November. Preferably #games/#animation. DM or email me if interest! :) See more work @ https://www.artstation.com/c780162 but this is really my current style!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/c780162/status/1187787424577019904

I forgot to post this one too.

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#Inktober
#Inktober2019
#MastoArt

After at least a year I finished this piece.... and im happy, because I was a little bit annoyed by it. And now I like it. Maybe, I’m going to do some details later on.... but for now, finished. #art #mastoart #sketching #inking #floralart

Today’s #30FacesChallenge #DailySketchChallenge with the iPad an Procreate. First sketch under 5 minutes, final result way more. At least I caught the facial expression better than yesterday #art #mastoart #digitalsketching #inking

Finally got my tan paper! Erbenochile Erbeni is a trilobite known for its tall eyes, which contain over 400 lenses and have eye shades, indicating that the species was active during the day. #sciart #mastoart #illustration

WIP of some dead and alive trees from the park today 😺 #sketchbook #mastoart