I drew a thing last night. It will help me make a bigger, better thing. But I like it as it is already, too.
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Art and Anxiety
Hi guys! As some of you know, my name is Olga and I am an illustrator from Russia who lives and works in England. I also struggle with anxiety which can at times be overwhelming and it really, really gets in the way of my work.
This post is about how I, as a person who draws, handle anxiety and I’d like to get a discussion going on about what you, as a person who draws or sculpts or paints or photographs or knits, do to manage your anxiety. If we share our methods, who knows, we might help each other cope better.
Please reblog this, whether you’re an artist or not. Tell me how you use your skills to cope with anxiety. Let’s help one another!
Reposting to try and reach a wider audience.
Art and Anxiety
Hi guys! As some of you know, my name is Olga and I am an illustrator from Russia who lives and works in England. I also struggle with anxiety which can at times be overwhelming and it really, really gets in the way of my work.
This post is about how I, as a person who draws, handle anxiety and I’d like to get a discussion going on about what you, as a person who draws or sculpts or paints or photographs or knits, do to manage your anxiety. If we share our methods, who knows, we might help each other cope better.
Please reblog this, whether you’re an artist or not. Tell me how you use your skills to cope with anxiety. Let’s help one another!
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Oi kids! Find the headcrab!
Temperance development; Aerialist inspired. By Siân
A POST FROM ME YO!
Lookit at Siân using colour!
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Hey guys!
I am in Russia, visiting my folks, and utterly scannerless, but not artless! I’ve put together all of my art supplies that I’ve hoarded over the years, and I’ll try to bring them back home. In the meanwhile, I’ll try to fill up an entire sketchbook in 6 days. Wish me luck!
This is a basic idea I have for The Devil card. By Siân
Hey everyone, Siân is posting some seriously dope shit on Two Of Swords right now! Go look and follow the blog if you ain’t already.
Hi, Olga here again.
Have I got something for you! This is my (more or less) finished design for The Lovers.
Some of you might be wondering how we’re going to make the cards themselves. Well, here is how it’ll go: after we design our half each, we’ll do them to scale in lino; then we’ll swap our prints and colour each other’s designs.
Siân should be posting stuff tomorrow too!
Angstspiration (n.): a feeling you get when you look at someone’s work and it is so good that it makes you angry. You then proceed to draw frantically until you sink in a pit of despair.
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The Empress, by Olga.
The final image will be a bit different from the iconic photo that I used as a reference, but this is a sample of what the complete first stage of our work
The Empress, preliminary design, by Olga.
Lookit y’all what Siân and I drew tonight! It’s a banner for our collab blog, Two Of Swords!
I absolutely adore how well our styles match.
Olga’s study for The Empress, Pina Bausch
siânaliceillustration: Some more developments to mine and Olga's collaboration:
Last night we had another Skype call as it was the end of our research period of the project. We’re now going to start drawing some basic ideas and the such.
We had both collected a lot of different research and all very interesting and we found common grounds of the both subjects we were…
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