twinklefish:
Dude I haven’t started on my charity art book page
LOL UM, IDK BY DEFAULT I WANT TO DRAW SOMETHING WATER/OCEAN THEMED BECAUSE I’M SO PREDICTABLE…but I do want to vary things up.
Hey you guys..list some natural disaster suggestions?
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well actually, it doesn’t have to be a natural disaster.
BASICALLY
I’m only doing this because the answer character count was way too small. That and I haven’t written anything in a while and really just wanted to type some shit.
You stated that you usually go with a water/ocean theme so that’s already out of the question. I mean, it’s nice to have something your familiar with and something you like doing but sometimes, you need to step out of that safety zone sometimes.
Personally speaking, I love contrast when it comes to these things. When you usually think of water, you think of tranquility. Light rain, perhaps. A relaxing beach. That is why I love it when people are able to turn that on its head and show the destructive side of water. Hurricanes, flood, etc.
Destruction and fire go hand in hand. That’s rather bland. And so is the docile side of fire, in my opinion. Oh, wow. Warmth. It hatches eggs. No thanks.
If it were me, I would go with the destructive side of Earth, or more specifically, trees and plants.
Now hear me out. Much like water, trees are often seen as beautiful. Teeming with and harboring life. Rainforests full of animals. Swamps full of unknown creatures.
But there’s also a dark side to trees—and I’m not talking about dead trees and that Halloween bullshit.
I’m talking about ruins. Not only beautiful, tree and moss-infested ruins show both life and decay. Like a sort of purging, these plants overtake and consume something that is considered dead—something that was once a civilization—and, in a sense, bring it back to nature. To the way things were before. Like a resetting of time. Natural recycling. Reclaiming what was once rightfully part of the earth. It displays life returning to a once-dead civilization but also displays the power of nature as well.
Plants thought to be fragile and weak overtake the hard rock that were once walls. Stone floors cracking and breaking due to the sheer strength and force of the mighty roots of a tree.
Both life and death occurring at the same time and place. I think that in itself is quite beautiful.
