Willie Darktrousers Art

Did u ever get yellow nose?

👁 Life is such a riddle !
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To me it is a peaceful idea that I will never understand it and all I can do is follow my heart to do what I believe in. 🙏
Which is trying to communicate the value of the unsolvability of the mysteries of existence and the animist way of looking at it. 🫖 🐊🦀🐌🐝🐠🐐🕊🌳🌷🌚🍎🍊
The meaning of live is some kind of 'Russels Teapot... 🙈
But today I wanted to see if we can fix a small piece of the puzzle! 😅
What is that thing this potato and his child are looking at? 🥔🥔
What do you think? 🧠

He didn't take a look at his hands yet... I guess! Poor gnome... but also his own fault! So children remember! Don't take to many mushrooms, your nose can get yellow...

I like carrots and other vegetables and fruits but I also love gnomes very much! In the Netherlands we call them 'Kabouters' which feels like some different then a gnome. It is little bit more of a sophisticated sound, less ... gnommy ....

We got 'Paulus de Boskabouter' . He is my favorite gnome of all time. Or my favorite kabouter of all time. Ok from now on I'll just say kabouter to you guys and maybe one day the word 'kabouter' will get in the Oxford Dictionary of the English language ! Please support me in this one!

For the carrots I like the very tight black and white line art but I also want to develop a more wild and raw style of artworks. This kabouter is one of my first experiments for that. I used lipgloss and nailpolish and eyeliner charcoal pencils on grey paper. What do you think of those materials? Ever experimented with makeup?

This poor carrot.. seems to have more and more nightmares... first octopuses then turning into a spiral! Then being sawn down by potatoes ! And now turned into a tree...
What was the nightmare you will never forget?

My used to be little brother (he is taller than me now) and my little sister (she didn't yet grow longer than me... she is in her mid twenties so you never know what will happen..) Oke .. again.
My brother and sister and I used to watch cartoon shows in mornings of the weekend when our parents still were sleeping or doing other things in the bedroom. We loved it so much. We had a few channels with cartoons and one of our favorite shows, of course, was pokemon. I really remember thinking 'wow this is s**t is gonna define our generation!'
Nowadays I don't like the concept behind pokemon at all! To me it is such a disgusting idea to capture creatures, keep em in a small ball and then make em fight with each other. What kinda world view you wanna raise your children with on that way??? I hope they will change this part of the franchise and keep the cool creatures but then let them have adventures of their own... without humans involved. Imagine a series about the adventures of bulbasaur in the forest, or charmeleon in the vulcano mountains. I think that would be way cooler than this silly Ash boy. Oke oke enough complaints. I think I need to make an animation myself... Nowadays my favorite animation is 'the hedgehog in the fog' by Yuri Nornstein! What is your favorite animation?

I don't know what this lil bug is been smoking, whether it is frisian dew, furfur, crow leaves, gorilla flakes, Kazachstan, invisible berries, reaper, Weasel ears,or OG Poe it seems very good. He is seeing some ghosts but he doesn't feel scared. That means he is heaving a good trip. When smoking particular plants you can have a good trip or a bad trip. Don't blame the plant to soon when having a bad one ! Most plants don't mean to do you harm,.. well... some will kill you... But no plant ever asked you to smoke it. I like to smoke em sometimes though,... It feels like a way of communicating with nature in an interesting way, like the plant is telling me things. When it makes me feel bad it means I am on a wrong way with myself somehow, when it makes me feel good I can get in a very creative and fun mood, when it is real good it makes me go into a magical world. My favorite pick is silver haze most of the time. What is yours?






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Yes the poor robot again ! The carrots and potatoes tried to feed him and danced around him. But still was feeling miserable. He didn't understand why and went crying into the forest.
Back into the bushes where they found him.
I sometimes feel like a motherless child. A sad sad boy. Some days this sadness just comes to me. It doesn't knock on the door, it doesn't say hello it just suddenly appears like a blue ghost from an empty bottle. Sadd, sad without a cause, sad without a reason. Some invisible things are making me feel like I wanna cry.
But then looking at plants and vegetables always makes me feel better, also the singing and moving of birds and especially this small sweet lil bugs and other insects start a sparkle of joy in my heart again. I hope the robot also will cheer up. But I don't know if he is like me or what else he is going to do in the forest.

The carrot dreamt he was falling naked into yellow! Today I could not hold it any longer. I wanted to escape from this black and white line drawings and dive into a more abstract colorful world.
Abstraction can be a very conjuring thing, it can be powerful and frightening. It can be very beautiful and it can be very cold. Sometimes dreams can get very abstract in all those ways at the same time. With art it is the same...
I love black and white line drawings but I also love to want to try all those other materials. It is so much fun to try new things. I been working on a lot of music lately but now I also got time for visual stuff again. Except a lot of experimentation besides the black and white carrot world!

That said, what are your favorite materials to experiment with? What would you still love to try once? Or maybe there was something that really, really didn't work for you? Let's talk about all the options and things we love to try as visual artists!

Isn't it so weird and beautiful to fall asleep at whatever time and at a certain point have these experiences in another realm? Sometimes my dreams are so boring. I even dreamt of doing the dishes for hours and hours one time ! But sometimes I wake up and I feel really relieved that my dreams were just dreams. Sometimes I dream I ruined something so badly... I don't know what dreams mean, if they mean anything. But I believe the experience and feeling they leave you with can be very meaningful and tell you something about yourself. But is a tricky puzzle and you will never be sure. The weird dreams or nightmares of the carrot continue in this drawing. He seems to have hard time. Or is it a dream of one of those potatoes who is feeling some tension with a particular carrot ? I don't know. All I know is I made this drawing inspired on some kinda lucid dreams I sometimes have. Well not really lucid dreams, but just before I go to sleep all these carrot images come. I still got like hundreds of ideas for this series I want to draw.

Happy Christmas ! ! !

Sick potato

Ever felt sick? I've been down to Ghana one time to learn about those anansi stories you know.
In the city of Kumasi I stayed in the freeman hotel. These we're such nice people. One day I was walking down Carpenters street where they made all the coffins. ⚰️ It was a very interesting seight. Kumasi is a very interesting city in more aspects, but that's for another time.
So after walking down Carpenters street I started to hear my belly so I bought some bananas of an old ladie at the side of the road.
Later I heard that of those bananas had a crack in it's peel. I might have noticed but didn't bother, I am not shure, all I remember I ate the banana. Back at the Freeman Hotel I started to hear my belly again. But it made a very unusual sound. I started to sweat, I felt cold and I was rilling all over the place. My stomach started to hurt more and more. I fainted a couple of times, I hallucinated and I really thought this would be the end. The people of the Freeman Hotel took care for my like I was a family member. For three days I laid in bed feeling the most horrible I ever felt.

This potato also doesn't seem to have the time of is his life. I hope he gets better soon, like I did.

Spiral
As some of you might know I was sucked into this spiral... Into this book 'Uzumaki' by the great 'Junji Ito'..
I love his work so much, it is such a weird kind of horror. It can get gruesome but in a very peculiar way. It gives me way more thrills then most other horror I know. He rarely gets very bloody... it's more about distorting the human body and soul than destroying it in a harsh way, like most horror. Also he doesn't play with the fear of pain that much but rather with the fear of getting crazy or ill or getting stuck in a very disturbing situation.

Also the way he draws is very beautiful to me, very vibrant and vivid but always keeping some sinister undertone... Until it gets really weird or horrible in whatever kind of crazy way.
I wanted to do a little hommage to his work with this one.

Till now I've read most of his short stories and 'Gyo'. Have you guys ever read some of his work. What is your favorite?

Hello dear people!
I am sorry I was gone so long. There is something going in this world what make me go roaming al the time. Seems I got the spirit of a vagabond. Always wandering around between dream worlds, never really coming to rest.
I've been singing a lot of old folk songs and writing some new songs. And you know I love this world of folk songs so much. It is such a mysterious, adventurous realm filled with brave heroines and disgusting bastards, magical objects, dark nights in the woods and glory full mornnigs on flowery green fields.
You never now what is true in these songs because there are a lot of different versions of the same song. Like every village had it's own version of a song. It is world in which all information is suspicious and all truth is full of doubth
I like this aspect of oral tradition. It brings a more fluid narrative to lay next to life. Like if all stories could be lies, and you know it. You don't know for sure what happened in the past so it is hard to know for sure what will happen in the future.
The only thing you know is that you are together in the now.

riding worms through the forest

Ever seen this Dune adaption of David Lynch? Felt odd? When reading a lot of interviews with Lynch it seems he regrets the way this movie went out. He didn't had final cut, so someone else ruined a lot of hard work in the editing.
The lesson is that as an artist you always should final control over your work.
There is a thing in you mind and feeling which you really really love and no one can decide of this comes through in the work.

I think humanity is able to live in symbiosis with the other animals and the plants.
I don't know if these worms enjoy the carrots riding them. But I surely can believe there is a way of humans and animals living together. The thing is to learn to know the animals. TO learn to know what they like and dislike.
Like the artist finds a symbiosis with the materials he is making his work with.

catching worms

I don't know how to feel about this one. I think the carrots maybe should leave these worms alone. But maybe the worms are destroying their village. These worms are huge!

I always got this idea that things started to go wrong when people in prehistoric times began catching animals to keep them. I consider the moment Adam and Eve took the apple as some kind of metaphor for this thing. As soon as you start to catch and domesticate animals, they lose their mystery in your perception. It also marks the start of the idea of wild animals and the apparent difference between human and animal. Like when there weren't yet domesticated animals, there we're no wild animals as well. Like the category didn't make sense because all animals, including human we're wild.

For my every physical thing (and maybe non physical things to) holds the eternal mystery of existence and in that sense deserves our respect and awe. Especially living creatures! They are mythical beings in the mythology of the mystery of existence. They deserve to be free and live their lives in their own way. It is not for other species to decide how another species lives. At least I never heard any solid statement to oppose this.

Worms

This weekend I've been working in the garden... we shoveld the compost heap. To get the compost which turned into soil from the bottom of the heap. It was an amazing experience to crawl through the rotting vegetables along with the worms.

Worms are such of a beautiful species. Like snakes their 'design' is so elegant.
I always was very impressed by a storie my father told me about a movie he saw of buddhist monks. The monks wanted to build temple but before they started to build it they removed all bugs and worms one by one from the sight so the animals wouldn't get hurt.

The people I worked with in the garden this weekend did it is well. One of them told my his ideal vision of the future the other day. He said that he envisioned a future where humans feed soya burgers to lions so they wouldn't have to kill the antilope anymore.
I like the idea that it's the goal of humanity to remove as much violence from the world as possible.

Tied

I guess it is back to the nightmares again. I wonder if it is all a dream or our carrot friend is really going through all this. Anyway this carrot seems to have a hard time at night. But I also understood some people like to be tied up. This thing gives me such a weird thrill, on one hand it makes me curious on the other hand I feel disturbed and sad when seeing images of people tied up in a s*xual context. I've read most of Markies de Sade's work and to me this whole philosophy of sa**sm is so horrible.
For me it feels like the coctail of christianity and capitalism brought up the idea of s*x being something children should not be confronted with. And then in some post modern crackle's of civilisation the idea (a misconception in my opinion) started to grow that: 'when s*x is something which children should not see.... it essentially must be something horrible or shocking. So B**M was born. I like to share my spiritual objections towards it.
You know capitalism raises us with the idea that we should try to own more that the other. That society is some kind of a match and the goal is to achieve as much money and power as you can. The more power you got over 'the other' the better you did. But to me the idea of 'power' and even the idea of the 'other' are fake or... like a fictional myth to disconnect us from our hearts and spiritual growth. We are all parts of the same whole so why try to overrule each other. Of course I cannot really judge or think that I understand how s*xuality feels or what it means for other people. And I surely respect people do s*x the way they enjoy... It's just that from my spiritual views on the universe I feel afraid that B**M is product of a very cold and lonely system, that it is a way for people to embrace their 'disconnection to their feeling' because they are so deeply hurt and alone that it is to fearsome to get in contact with their feelings. Maybe I am totaly wrong and I 'd love to hear your thougts!

Rodent

Yeah so this inktober is a perfect opportunity for my to experiment with ink on paper.
I'm looking for ways to make my style deeper and richer. That's why all these inktober post vary in style and subjects. I love to try new things.
In this one I used a lot of water with the ink and then different layers. Starting with a lot water an adding more ink. I use the same small glass of water and keep adding ink so it works from light to dark in a very natural way.
I love this technique it gives you a nice kinda space to work in.
Hope to put some carrots an potatoes in the next inktober drawing.

A mouse with Black orange and yellow ink! Really enjoy inktober! This is rodent part 1 for today!!! 🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚

inktober

part one

A long long time ago, far, far away in illustrationland on instagram there was this thing called inktober. The illustrators had loads of fun with this thing. They illustrated, and shared their illustrations and had a great time. One day a newbie really got stuck on understanding this thing called inktober. He soon figured he didn't understand a f**k about this whole inktober thing. He asked around and some people said it had to do with some kind of list.
The newbie really wanted to find that list. Some people seemed to had their own list, but how they got this list was a mystery. So the newbie set out to find his inktober list...

Soon part two will be here for you ! ! ! !

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Is this a nightmare?
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Seems in the meanwhile a carrot kept having these bad dreams.
You know these type of bad dreams you feel really vulnerable, like something real bad is about to happen to you and help seems to be far away.
Dreams of losing control over your own body, dreams of being taken away by someone who might have bad intentions. Dreams in which a person you thought you knew starts to behave really badly towards you. And you just don't understand, you feel powerless and desperate.
Terrible dreams, and what do they mean?
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There is this tradition in surrealism of painting and drawing dreams and using deserts as the location for these dreams. I like this desert theme in surrealism very much. The emptiness of the sight gives so much space all kind of weird fantasies.
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