I've been thinking about how great of a time it is to do art. When have digital art that looks traditional, traditional art that looks digital, multi media animation accessable now more than ever, plenty of open source art software and tools, a plethora art tutorials that can be found completely free on YouTube.

Thinking about much the art landscape has improved over the years, it makes me so happy!

I've always had a fear of needles, despite this fear I have always wanted to donate blood. Half because blood is always in high demand, and half bc I feel like once I donate blood I'll feel like I have officially put my fear into it's grave.

A little while ago I had to go to the doctor and get my blood drawn for tests several times (I'm good btw 👍) so I have been facing my fear head on. This gave me the confidence to go to a blood drive ...and yeah, they couldn't take anything from me.

My heart rate was slightly too high for them so I got denied. They said if I were to donate with too high of a heart rate it's possible my body could go into shock and I could blackout. I admit I was a little nervous so that's probably why they had to send me loose, they we're kind enough give me juice and treats even though I didn't do anything useful lol. How unfortunate.

But don't worry I'm gonna keep on pushing for donations, I'll always push for donations, and you WILL take my blood motherfuckers.

Outside of drawing I also like the outdoors, including mushroom hunting. Here is a 3lbs chicken of the woods mushroom I found at the base of a rotting stump yesterday. Family is probably gonna cover them in panko and deep fry it.

Oyster mushroom I found a month or two ago. Got pretty excited coming across these, very first time finding them. When I picked them they had a deep, spruce-like smell.

Insane mutation I found in the wild. A little mushroom growing on top of a big mushroom. Growing mushrooms indoors you will sometimes come across cool mutations like this, observing it in the wild though was a treat. I'd agrue it's much harder to come across wild mutations than 'domestic' mushrooms.

So I'm not sure if we can use copyrighted images in our posts so I'll just post the comparison here if that's the case