some really helpful advice/perspectives on how elements of an image can create emotional impact. gave a lot of context to what i've heard/learned before.
this is the illustration i came up with based on the first exercise in the book (to depict a victim being attacked by birds lol):
my main takeaway from this book is that it is essential to share my work. i can't want to be a creator and simultaneously believe that no one cares what i have to say. i'm grateful for this space where i feel comfortable sharing, and i'd like to practice sharing more of my work, both on and offline~
a nice lil novella to help get me back into reading regularly. every fall, regardless of whether i'm in school or not, i feel my motivation to read/draw/make things come flooding back. Summer is such a sleepy, goopy, sluggish season for me, and this book captured those feelings so well. in many ways it was a late summer fever dream, slightly trippy and occasionally ominous, and incomplete without an ice cream from the 7/11.
03.19.25 On the other side of my (mild) aversion to long series of books is my love for a good collection of short stories. I've been looking forward to this one since I read Cursed Bunny in 2023 and so far it has been giving everything i was hoping for
the first two stories have been the perfect blend of dark comedy, sci-fi, horror
03.12.25 - some doodles of Mina and Lucy i did while listening to the audiobook today:
03.09.25 - feeling very grateful for modern medicine right about now
03.04.25 - started the audible audiobook read by Alan Cumming and Tim Curry and its been pretty fantastic so far!
was thinking about the comfort the characters find in journalling and writing down their experiences and how i'd like that (along with their amusingly dramatic language) to inspire my own journalling/snail mail practice
03.01.25 - picked up a used copy after seeing Nosferatu twice in janurary it felt like a natural progression after the bunch of vampiric media i've been watching the past few months (Interview with a Vampire, Buffy, Castlevania). When I told J i was planning on reading this they recommended Carmilla, so that's definitely next up once it comes in from my library hold
03.11.25 - surprisingly hopeful ending for a junji ito book! thematically/plot-wise not really sure what was going on but the art was fantastic and genuinely scared the poo out of me at one point so there's that
03.05.25 wah! very refreshing, short, and easy to read. a good interlude/palette cleanser between wheel of time and dracula.
this is the first book in the wheel of time series - very classic quest/adventure vibes. overall i really enjoyed it, i am glad i watched the show first though - it definitely handles some aspects of the narrative better than the book. it did feel like it was dragging a bit towards the end, but the last few chapters were pretty great!
what i liked:- "the wheel weaves as the wheel wills"
- the world philosophy/imagery of weaving, reincarnation, fate, life paths etc.
- the writing style, especially in tenser moments, is super evocative
- the world is really immersive
- small town kids seeing the world is very relatable and creates a lot of interesting dynamics and moments of growth
- relationships between the main group
- Rand is cool (sometimes too cool...)
- more nuanced characters overall
- more of Egwene, Nynaeve, and Moiraine's POV
10.27.25 - Working my way through this one slowly - I always have a hard time with grasping some of the sci-fi world building details early in series like this, but I really enjoy the characters and the vibes so I'm determined to stick it out!
11.04.25 - heheh i'm glad I was patient, it got reallly good and i'm very much invested now. the characters are all so sweet and at first i was super confused by the world and the politics, but its slowly starting to make sense! i feel like i need a chart that lays everything out though haha. maybe i'll make one 🤣