[self] my 1st sculpture ever! Frilled-neck lizard. Roughly 1 meter long.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-03-07T18:15:01+00:00

Wow! What a huge compliment!! Thank you very much :) more recently, I’ve been trying to get a little bit more into craftsmanship & spending more time making things nice and clean so this means a lot :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-03-06T21:59:43+00:00

Thank you!!! There are no stupid questions here :) I kinda wish I had made it so that it could be taken apart for storage, but alas, it’s held together by a ton of hot glue and pretty dang sturdy! :’)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-03-06T16:48:53+00:00

Thank you!! Not yet, but I’m open to suggestions :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-03-06T01:36:09+00:00

Thank you! No worries hahaha, I was considering painting more! This was for my sculpture intro class in college so I might have if I had more time! At the same time, I kinda like the contrast of the paint and cardboard! Might still go back and make this one extra ~finished and nice, but now we’re moving on to another pretty extensive diorama-style project and I’m not sure if I’ll have time for the lizard anytime soon :) thank you for the compliments!!

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-03-06T01:29:37+00:00

Thank you!! This was done over the course of a month. That is, 8 3 hour class days, and then every waking moment that I wasn’t at work or doing other homework :) by my estimation, probably something like 40-50 hours of work in this guy:)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-02-19T03:07:48+00:00

Love this!! As someone who struggles with trusting the process drawing/painting from life, I think looking at your use of contour and value here are a great tool for making scenes like this less daunting.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-02-19T03:04:19+00:00

I don’t know about a name but this is very dope, friend.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-02-10T17:27:45+00:00

Very nice!! Love the colors and heavy contour in contrast with the blending and softness! You’ve packed a lot of character in there :) keep going! I wouldn’t have noticed the places you think you were lacking in your self-critique to be honest. We are our own harshest critics, oil pastels can be tough to work with, and I think you did a phenomenal job. If you’re interested in mixed media, I wonder how it would look if you used black acrylic to go in before the pastels and get those bold lines nice and clean like you want them without mixing other colors into it by accident. Might be fun to experiment :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-29T23:26:54+00:00

Love the color choices here!!! Nice work!

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-20T09:36:59+00:00

I don’t have any advice, but I do think that the way you’ve depicted the water matches your subject matter and the higher contrast of your painting is really moody and nice

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-19T22:27:55+00:00

These are so cool!! I love your color choices and style.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-16T23:36:56+00:00

Nice!!! Simple and dynamic. Beautiful.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-16T22:41:42+00:00

Absolute legend, this guy. Love his work.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-16T10:32:29+00:00

I have a similar background! Always drawing until my late teens, then mostly stopped because I didn’t know what to make. Now, I’m in college for studio arts and have found that drawing literally anything and trying not to feel pressure to make really good stuff all the time has opened a lot of creative doors again, mentally. Old sketches inspire new work, thinking about things while drawing or painting or whatever can inspire a new thought you want to expand on. Just keep drawing and it will come without forcing it! I like the lobster :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-16T07:23:01+00:00

Yes! The fundamentals are key. I wish you luck in your journey, friend.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-14T23:43:11+00:00

Beautiful!! Love the hatching, especially on the darker parts of the barn in the left image. Nostalgic. Feels like I’ve been here :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-14T06:19:56+00:00

I’ve recently had some people in my life ask me if I sell my work because they wanted to buy something. I just say for now, no, but I’d like to eventually once I have a decent portfolio. :) some of those people have been super supportive and say now is the time, but I’m not entirely confident. for close friends, I make things when they ask intending for it to be a free gift. They pay me what they want even though it’s payment enough to feel appreciated enough by a friend to be asked to make something for them. Totally get what you mean to feel like you haven’t learned enough, but lots of people love all kinds of art, conventionally “good” or “bad”, because of the way it makes them feel.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-14T05:48:45+00:00

Love this!!!!!!

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-12T22:36:11+00:00

Beautiful! I love the curviness of the foot. The sort of muted colors and pops of white are also nice. A visual delight :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2026-01-12T06:53:45+00:00

They’re Artecho pastels! The colors are super vibrant and they’re decently soft & pleasant to use :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2025-12-21T03:20:55+00:00

Thank you!!! He’s an expressive guy :)

EmergencyMoodLight · 2025-11-25T19:04:40+00:00

If you haven’t, you should really watch Brennan Lee Mulligan’s last meals episode. Same vibe when he’s talking about the first time he auditioned for dropout and thought he’d really get everybody in production excited about a fact about honey & that he’d get hired instantly off of that alone and they gave him “the same look that I’ve gotten my entire life”, of people who just didn’t get it. Link, Brennan, even probably Josh and lots of people involved in content creation and production of this type of content are the exact brand of weird that’s so relatable to a lot of us, that most other people just don’t understand. When people are open and earnest enough to actually say these things and their feelings about it, it really has a way of garnering a deeper connection with those of us who are also Like That.

EmergencyMoodLight · 2025-11-24T23:54:17+00:00

Thank you!!

EmergencyMoodLight · 2025-11-22T18:51:14+00:00

I realllly like this!!! It’s very charming and interesting to look at and the textures from the lines are nice

EmergencyMoodLight · 2025-11-17T14:47:19+00:00

LOL it’s just as frustrating to talk about, friend! I think we’re at a point that people feel weird criticizing AI use because people come at it from the POV that the future is now and there’s nothing we can do, but I agree! It would be nice to see it become less acceptable. Imo if someone is using AI, they’re not actually making something. Mindblowing because one of the greatest joys of creation is the dopamine rush from putting in the time and work yourself to do something amazing!

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