Happiness Is....

my husband

sunshine

birds chirping

 

Playing an amazing guitar riff/solo

Giving/Receiving a mindblowing orgasm

Peaking on Ecstasy at a rave to one of your favorite songs

 

Having your son hold the kid sized umbrella over your head as you walk from the car to the house. At that moment you realize that you are loved and that you must have done something right to teach him to help others. Granted I still got wet...he isn't very tall at the tender age of 8 so I had to bend down to fit under the umbrella.

Happiness is knowing your past is your past and your future is waiting!

 

hugs

 

a good night sleep with a cinnamon bun.. hehe

 

Getting away from everything, if only for an hour or two.

 

the warm place where the cat has been curled up sleeping.

 

a better painting then you've ever made before. even if you're already thinking about how you're going to make an even better one next time.

 

so do we get to see some of your artwork, themnax?

 

well you always can. i've never gotten one of those money transfer things to pay a subscription on here to be able to use this site's gallery space.
but there's lots of it on furaffinity dot net, and even some i've posted to pinterest.

longer ago, was on biorust, vcl, and even once upon a time on elfwood, but all of those were before i had the tools i use now, nor much skill at using them.

at any rate, my latest and continuing efforts are on http://www.furaffinity.net/user/themnax/

(i've also got a youtube channel and vimeo, but there isn't much on either of those)

 

Those are all paintings of yours? They look like real architecture....wow! You are a master, no?

 

there are images of things in my head, most of them how even this world could be with what we have and know now. of how we will need to do things if we want our own species to continue and have a world in which we can enjoy doing so. they're not "paintings" in the sense of traditional media. (probably the best thing to call them would be illustrations, as that is my motivation for making them. some, a few, probably would qualify as real art too) there are just an extremely few examples of that among them and a few photos too. most of my work is with a powerful, if somewhat challenging 3d illustration program called blender. (which is actually downloadable free from blender.org)

i've always been interested in infrastructure, architecture and fitting them together into nature in the best possible ways. i started doodling trains in the margins of my text books in kindergarten. i started taking art and drafting classes when i was in high school, long before there even were little computers ordinary people could afford. when computer drafting first came along i took a first simister class, in autocad 13, it was at the time. and then someone gave me 14.0. well i used that for a decade before discovering blender. which i've been using for i think a little more then a decade now. which has 20 times the functionality i use, and probably more then any one person knows or uses all of it. you've almost certainly seen many photorealistic animations made with it. and because it builds actual 3d structures, even though they're only inside the computer, it is possible to fly a camera around in them, which i've done some of that too. (examples on my you-tube channel) though i haven't gotten into what it would take to move a character realisticly, or tell a story with it.

so the computer is my favorite paintbrush in a way. but it really is just a paintbrush. it is still up to me to create every shape, to texture and light it and so on. it does some things for me, perspective and shading, but there are many things, such as organic shapes, which would actually be easier to do with a pencil. everything it does i have to tell it how in great and often strange detail.

 

happiness is always a paintbrush in my hands.....

 

Happiness is listening to rain like what me and my grandma used to do on her porch.
Happiness is having a bonfire with the friends I love and talking about anything as we make smores.

 

spending a sunny sunday afternoon with family



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ft8WLX9G1I

 

having a whole house to myself for several days and not having to spend them with anyone.

 

Solitude

 

Feeling understood

 

coming home from a ride and smelling like your horse

 

The laughter of children playing. The unconditional love of our pets. The feeling of a job well done.