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IdeaSmith
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Ideas are toys for a playful mind.

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I love drawing buildings and interiors without people because they are studies in geometry and light.

I enjoy this because drawing lets me break the rules of gravity and perspective and shade just because I like how pencil scratches look there.
#Ideart
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wisdom is good humoured and good humour is always kind.

#nowreading
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Day 14 of #Inktober: TRUNK
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Day 13 of #Inktober: DRINK
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Day 12 of #Inktober: STING
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wish I looked a little less like a stern school principal from the 80s and more like the nerds who were her favorite. It’s not the specs because people were mistaking me for “lady police” years ago. #IWear
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Day 11 of #Inktober: SHREDDED

(this was one with reference object)
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Day 10 of #Inktober: SWEEP

(Sweep is a 2-player card game and this is a winning hand).
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Day 9 of #Inktober: HEAVY
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Day 8 of #Inktober: RECKLESS
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you hear someone say they loved this book, know that they didn’t read it. It’s the laziest, most blatantly greedy and obnoxious piece of garbage I’ve experienced since Game Of Thrones dumped that last season on us just because they could. Trilogies are greedy, season/book 2 is the the worst.
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Day 7 of #Inktober: STARFISH
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Day 6 of #Inktober: PIERCE
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Day 5 of #Inktober: DEER
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Day 4 of #Inktober: MURKY
October 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Day 3 of #Inktober: CROWN
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Day 2 of #Inktober: WEAVE
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Day 1 of #Inktober:
MUSTACHE
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I know it works. #IWear
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I don’t know if I’m getting better but I’m definitely more confident about my pencil grabs of people I see and filling in the details later, in a fictional manner.

Can you tell where these are? Same location, same moment.

#PencilSketch
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Saw a Short of a dude who shaved his chest hair in the shape of a cartoon character and painted it with so much joy and thought I’d legit do that too if I lived in that body. Instead I wear makeup and idiot men think it’s for their benefit. Here’s proof.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Lunch today is morkuttu-with-marrow, carrot-potato-peas curry and rice. My cheat is the crispy savoury accompaniment is Lays instead of appalam. #PlainSalted
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Drawn from memory after I sketched the outlines on a mall visit recently. #Ideart
September 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I gave up Sally Rooney’s Normal People in sheer disgust and despair at page 202. This is such poisonous writing, to pass off a severely abused woman as asking for violent S&M and degradation. It’s victim blaming & glorifying horrible men (because she asked for it). Awful, awful book. #Books
September 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Taslima Nasrin pairs nicely with Sally Rooney. Who’d have thought?

#Books
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM