malen · 25 y/o · he/they · artist
276 posts
ocean guys 🐟
Kai Cheng Thom, from "to the ones who didn't cry", Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
LETS TALK ABOUT THE EGO.
Canvas (101.5 X 122cm)
Commission of Moonie for Sam.
good evening please look at my favourite tattoo i've ever designed
Slightly uncanny
this is an older doodle revamped a bit. long-ish backstory below lol
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when i first made this, it was during academic season & i was grinding my art portfolio to apply for art school. every single day id just wake up, draw for hours straight, sleep and that was my whole month.
i completely ditched revising exams for this lol. i truly do love art a lot, it's the only thing i've ever been able to be relatively consistent with my whole life. so while i can't say i hated it, i really doubted myself if this was something i wanted to be pursuing for real.
for months on end, everything i drew had to have a 'purpose'—for school, work, an assigned project. nothing really for me. and while i didn't really mind, i slowly forgot why i ever started this in the first place.
it wasn't until, flipping back in old sketchbooks to hunt for more sketches to use, i encountered my old oc sketches, character designs, little doodles... and i remembered; i do this because i truly do love creating. even if it sucks sometimes, grinding for endless hours, stuck in front of the easel cramped in my doorway bc we have no other space lol, i'd still choose to do this, because it makes me happy.
i'm glad i can draw what i want now, even if for a little bit. i'm creating because i want to again :)
spring whale shark 🌷
My feelings when I was running 2 km without training it before
Painted some of my finches in acrylic! Still yet to paint the Aurora and the Owl finches (Plus the bonus canaries)
In order: Red-Cheeked Cordon Bleu, Jacarini, Strawberry Finch, Gouldian, Zebra Finch, Star Finch, Cuban Finch and Orange-Breasted Finch
one tells only lies, the other tells only truths...
Francis Bacon
Self-Portrait, 1956
Oil on canvas.
Woman Walking Her Dog (1886) by Vincent van Gogh
let's find comfort with mama
Do you feel green or red today? :D
“King Oyster Mushrooms”
Digital Painting, Made in Procreate
1887x2387px
A story about eyes.
Happy Mermay! Here’s a seaweed dude hehe
Garo (ガロ) / Seirindō (青林堂) / Apr 1974 issue
hecate 🔪
sketchbook studies
redoing the icon series with what I've learned from my American Trad practice, starting with this one
Dog
Alexis Mata — Mirage in the Sunset (oil on canvas, 2024)
Starbust
where does puppy go at night. print
practicing American Traditional with this butterfly woman by vankirk_tattoo