What in the hell is this?
Hold your horses.
First, a little detour.
Like the gravity of the sun, the first thing I was pulled towards after installing a few apps was testing out all dem brushes. Gotta work dem brushes, bruh.
Even though this is my first experience with drawing apps and using a stylus, I feel like this is a universal one for all new digital artists (or those trying a new program for the first time). Ya just gotta get in there and test-drive all the tools available before settling into a rhythm with your favorites.
Things started innocuous enough with civility and grace, but then quickly devolved into 'I'm-two-and-still-fist-the-big-crayons' territory. Let's just call it wild horses to keep the analogy going.
A long day's ride
Ok, so that gets us a bit of time out on the open range with pencil, calligraphy, pen, marker, paint, watercolor, sprayer, chalk, charcoal, design, fill, glow, screentone, harmony, legacy, and miscellaneous brushes.
Saddle sores?
With a majority of the brushes back in the stable, and my tender little paws needing a break, it was on to some tools and textures. Tools & Textures was a great 80s synth-pop band btw. Not to be confused with the more contemporary Angels & Airwaves. This is where the art for the NFT at the top of the post came from.
Those pieces in the middle were a bit frenetic, so I wanted to mellow out with this one. Not as many options to play around with in the tools tab (in the neighborhood of 75+), but infinitely more complex, both with regard to understanding and application. I kept it simple with some shapes and masking; baby steps and all. It is much easier to use an oversized crayon than a radial symmetry tool.
That's what she said.
So I ask again, what in the hell is this?
It occurred to me as I was putting together this post that it would be fun to select something I was working on in or around the time of each post and mint it as an NFT. Something that captures the spirit, tells the story, and/or conveys the struggle to put stylus to glass or lens to subject at that point in time. So that's just what I did.
Jazz hands 
A few notes about the format and other details:
I will be doing seasons, each of which will be a calendar year.
One season = one contract
The SEASON // 001 contract is on Base chain.
There will be no set number per season, just however many posts there end up being during that year. It could be 2, it could be 200.
The price will increase with each new image minted in a season. I will probably do something thematic and completely unnecessary with numbers. This is mint 001 and is priced at 0.01 ETH. I think you can see where this is going. (Fun side note, Foundation wouldn't let me start at less than this.)
I am not really expecting any of these to sell, but if they did, that would be rad.
Hay is for horses.
Time to hitch those horses
That's going to wrap it up for this one. Not even sure where this whole horse-themed thing came from. Apologies.
Next time I will probably be chatting a bit about my ongoing experience with Drawabox and the initial lessons. Lines. So many ghosted lines.
Until then,
Catchphrase (work in progress)
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Aww, shucks.
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