The Demigod

Former ghostwriter, re-earning my laurels ∘
CVLT Leader

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

PREY CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO BEHAVE MORALLY.

Superiority is always found in denying the lower urges. It is the domain of predators alone, because only those with options can exercise free will.

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

@PaqWilly I think this is a valuable trait in 2026. The need to snatch 15 minutes of fame is a desperate distraction from the Craft. I fought this feeling often in my youth, but managed to refrain from capitalizing on current events in a classless way.
I want to be timeless, not current.

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

@PaqWilly More succinctly, I think popularity entails appealing to an extremely low common denominator. Inverse correlation. If everyone "gets it" then "it" probably isn't that complicated or powerful.

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

@PaqWilly Astute. I've called fame a product of marketing skill in the past, but I think there's something more base to it as well. Appealing to the kind of people who will become disciples for your art requires a certain cynicism which is often at odds with your creative ambitions.

[soli @solisolsoli]

Bob Dylan, 1964

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

This is something I notice often in my studies. Sometimes it feels like the hands are hidden or obscured to avoid detailing them, like I hid the hands in my drawings as a child.

But if I draw attention to the hands, I have to draw attention to what they are doing, as well. The impact is as important as the posture.

I made this little modifier stack while doing a study of Rayner Hoff's Nymph and Faun. A subtle but impactful amount of squeeze. I find it's my most commonly used hand effect.

[Amanita Virosa @AmanitaVirosa2]

Avoid peer pressure by becoming peerless

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Btw sorry for saying crazy stuff but I'm an artist so you basically pay me to say things that could have negative career implications for engineers and entrepreneurs

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

we literally need to build an inverse art education model that begins with the now unintuitive fact that paintings are real objects that you look at in a room, they are not images you see on your phone.

[Dune Quotes @DuneQuoteBot]

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

[— @graveair]

“The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party, and no manner, and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates, as the common air through his lungs.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Blanc @LotusFlameSword]

“Thus I glimpsed from time to time another sun quite different from that by which I had been so long blessed, a sun full of the fierce dark flames of feeling, a sun of death that would never burn the skin yet put forth a still stranger glow.”

— Mishima, Sun and Steel

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

the ancient egyptians left no musical notation. but they had musical instruments - and therefore a theory of music that was, presumably, woven into their advanced conception of the cosmos. but they wrote none of it down. totally lost with no chance of recovery. silence. brutal.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

- Aristotle

[Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ @NiccoloDaily]

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

[Dune Quotes @DuneQuoteBot]

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

I didn't realize how much sculpture influenced 3D modeling and animation. I don't sculpt my own models from scratch, I'm an environment artist at heart and modify basemeshes made by more specialized artists. But when I make my statues, I have struggled with poses, armatures, and joints deforming. I have had to adjust shapekeys because my models often don't look right once posed. My stock nymph is very slender and breaks around her shoulders often. I wonder if this is true in reality, with clay as well? It would be funny if the simulation has all the same difficulties as reality.

[The Demigod @SonOvApollo]

@OInscendence Immaculate taste, as always

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

We don’t because we stopped treating art as something that forms the soul, and started treating it as content to be consumed.

Edmund Burke warned that a civilization survives not by innovation alone, but by preserving what refines human taste, judgment, and imagination.

Hand-drawn animation carried discipline, patience, and a sense of beauty shaped over generations.

When that disappears, it’s not just a style that fades. It’s a way of seeing the world.

[Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ @NiccoloDaily]

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.