APPARENTLY.

SALEM.


My cat wanted to help, he sat right on the keyboard and Atiq nearly did a backflip off of the ledge he's on lol

yes that's exactly what we wanted XD

the real reason Atiq is feeling off tonight, the Chief Grump is piloting him

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I am being overrun



SEND HELP_{but not really}

_{there I go stealing Poets of the Fall lyrics for titles just like ooooollllddddd times haha}

I don't feel very good tonight. I haven't had the best evening.

...or past couple years but I learned how to have more ok days than bad after a bit and try fixing it.

Tonight I guess I was just holding in a lot of built up stress in a constantly stressed house, and someone pushed a button that just set off the anxiety and sad-sack-ery...and the best lesson I learned as a creative person throughout my life is that no matter what, create. It's my blood and breath and the best outlet I have for whatever is stuck inside my head.
Pen is the easiest thing for me to doodle in, everything comes out of it freely and I needed something that wouldn't fight me back, something that would yield to me for once.

I also hoped hopping into the Forest just to sit and maybe hang out with a few pals would do it's usual trick of relieving some stress (idk what chill-magickry I infused into Atiq when I made him but having him on a screen next to me is just so calming), BUT it wouldn't let me connect today, which prompted me to draw in my sketchbook. Because that'll show the network? I guess? lol

Also the sketchbook I was using has a weird, flat "step" at the spine instead of a curve, and tbh my eyes are super blurry so it was hard enough to edit, so sorry for the odd line in the middle, I tried haha

I did this sketch while in high school. My mom and dad draw and kept their pics hidden away in a closet. Mom's artistry came out on pillowcases, and curtains. She would take fabric paint and make ordinary cotton linen look extraordinary. Flowers, vines, and critters sometimes even a bug or two. My Dad drew in his teenage years and while as an Air Force sargeant. He drew a pic of mom when young and himself plus homes he wanted to make. So as a teenager when I showed an interest they bought me Jon Gangy. Still have the book. Other than Professor Emeritus Gary DeClue who over saw a fine arts building and created many programs for school districts no one else has published art I know of. The book like so many things in our family is our visible symbol that we too are artists mostly folk art but capable of so much more. I do have a son that does technical sketches originals that create some of the wonderful products we use today in smart phones.

Mentors for the robin which was sketched after watching many hours out my parents front door bird feeder Jon Gangy, my art teachers in Jr. High, and my mom and dad. Why I did not take art in high school? Simple. You were only allowed one elective and I did music (Dad plays guitar and the whole clan sang like a choir Baptist style) When I became a math teacher all my students where taught math art and geometry drawings which by the way is the basic foundation of art lines, squares, rectangles, spheres.

* Thought I should draw up a rough design for Khalid. I'll make a bio for him soon.