Had a dream the Florida government was trying to ban all animals not mentioned in the Bible by calling them woke. I live in Florida and am unhealthily obsessed with doomscrolling the news.

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This was a full PSA that played out in my head last night.

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Hit a little too close to home

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It’s not Halloween until someone dresses up as Shostakovich.

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Context in comments

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Charcoal profile sketch of Mahler. His features are so satisfying to draw!

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Another Shostakovich doodle, of course.

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Not a whole lot of memes about the research process itself! Anyone else relate?

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Maxim Shostakovich on encountering a German prisoner of war in the early 1940s (Source: Mikhail Ardov's Memories of Shostakovich)

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No two Johnnies are the same!

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My column on Shostakovich was published in the DSCH Journal!

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Shostakovich sketch dump!

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Haven’t drawn in forever, but here’s Gustav Mahler. He’s simultaneously cottagecore and will fight god, and I respect that.

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This was a dating sim. And yes, my brain did somehow confuse Putt Putt with Putin.

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had a dream that DreamWorks announced that they were getting way better about listening to feedback from fans about how to make better movies, so to prove they’ve learned so much about making good movies from their fans, they dropped a trailer for a movie about Anne Frank on the Titanic

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Haven't done a full art project in months. Finally drew the Second Viennese School!

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Been a while since I’ve drawn Shostakovich, if you’ll believe that.

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Never, ever research music history before going to bed. Saw this image very clearly in my mind of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, conductor, and... leg model, apparently.

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Inspired by Mahler's 1st symphony.

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More Shostakovich art.

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Planning on making a painting of Mahler and started making sketches. Here’s one!

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“My only love affair was with music” - Maurice Ravel

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“And yet, I still had so much music in my head!” -Maurice Ravel. Ravel suffered from gradual aphasia, which prevented him from performing a variety of functions, including writing music in later years.

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yep

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My (growing) music history biography shelf!

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trombone go doot

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Ravel was once called the “Clockmaker” and had a penchant for dressing well, so I drew him in a Steampunk outfit. You may notice some biographical references here too!

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Do it. Do it Now.

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seriously why are there so many

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Explanation in comments

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Fun fact: Shostakovich loved getting candlesticks for his birthday, so today, I gave him 114!

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My first conscious decision not to buy Chinese products- super comfortable shoes manufactured in Italy!

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I mean

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The long-awaited Mahler painting is finally done!

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this is how I'm coming out to reddit

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Okay but does anyone remember Beethoven's Wig

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I photoshopped Shostakovich’s glasses out so now nobody can say he is wizard boy

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“If they cut off both hands, I will write music anyway, holding the pen between my teeth.” -DSCH

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Satie!!

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Hobbes and Locke

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are curse of the 9th memes still a thing

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based ravel

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Oh yeah and it also echoes the end of Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde, which he often said he'd listen to if he had an hour left to live

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I just think he's neat

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*Sad Ravel noises*

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why have boyf when u could have tchaimk

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Light sketch of Shostakovich.

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Name a more iconic duo; I’ll wait

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Oh my

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GLINKA, TCHEEKOVSKY, AND RIMSKY-KOR-SAW-KOV!

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:(

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Best composer; I don’t make the rules

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My name is Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer. AMA (Picture for proof)

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My friend made this edit. The item in the picture is a book of sheet music with Al Bowlly's name on it, which was recovered from the wreckage of the Cafe de Paris nightclub in the UK after it was bombed in 1941.

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GET IT BECAUSE GLASSES NOW LAUGH

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Come on, guys

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It was mentioned in a dissertation I read once

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richard wagner is dead :((((

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RIDI, PAGLIACCIOOOOO....

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Had a dream every democratic politician except for, like, two senators decided that they were going to be republicans, but all they did was put on red suits and have a dance party. It was all over the news.

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My university's Russian club said I could give a presentation for an upcoming meeting. They're not ready.

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Rick Scott 2 Electric Boogaloo

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Following his taxi accident in 1932, Maurice Ravel endured the effects of aphasia for five years leading up to his eventual death in 1937. During this time, he gradually lost his ability to read and write, both words and music.

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This is my friend's dog.

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Oh yeah and it also echoes the end of Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde, which he often said he'd listen to if he had an hour left to live

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I need help translating the Russian in this document, but I'm also not sure if all the Cyrillic text on here is Russian (explanation in comments)

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It do b the composer's confrontation of death after fearing it all his life and struggling to produce more works despite his failing health tho

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help I doodled this and now I’m laughing

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Target 75% achieved

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Behold! The Box Of Shost!

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The calm before the storm

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Just in case you don’t hear from me for a while, this is why.

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It's September 25th; you all know what that means!

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some 1 AM caricature doodles

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