feralcatalyst
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Old usernames: Trollsplay Bucketsexual Artisticcaste Fuchsiaheiress Art blog for FUCHSIAFINS! Content may NOT be suitable for all ages. Tread with caution. Commissions Open!!
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feralcatalyst · 2 days ago
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Most Sims games put you in that titular role by design
Have you ever played (a) god (like literally) (in a play) (or similar) >Yes >No >Nuance
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feralcatalyst · 7 days ago
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Little runty Imp excited for the new year
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feralcatalyst · 7 days ago
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Do you have any tips for drawing?
Never stop. Just keep drawing. No matter what your evil brainworms whisper in your ear, no matter what the public or the internet says about it, no matter what you do, do not stop. Take breaks, of course, stretch and refresh yourself with water, but never GIVE UP on drawing. The more you do it, the more you study and watch and learn and the more time you spend actually drawing, the more progress you will make. Hitting a wall? Does what you draw look bad to you? That's GREAT!!! Study what you made, and figure out WHAT and WHY it looks bad to you. Are the eyes wonky? Get to the grindstone and study different styles of eyes, from toony, to realistic, find something that looks and feels good to you, and practice practice practice. Is the hand looking off? Look at your own hand! Look at hands other people have drawn, study and watch and learn and replicate, even tracing and reference is okay so long as credit is given when and where necessary! As long as you are taking steps to learn what you are doing *wrong* then eventually you will find solutions and ways to make them look right! It may take you days, weeks, months, even years, but if you never give up, you will eventually continue improving. My personal art history below the cut for context, I hope it helps and brings some form of inspiration to everyone, even non-artists trying to learn or get into hobbies or new skills <3
I've been drawing ever since I could hold a pencil, so let's say since I was about 2. No one taught me how to draw, as I aged I started to notice that things were 'wrong' with my art and I would work to fix them. I realized very early that most animals don't have 4 legs on one side, so I'd draw two legs and add the "missing" two behind them, I saw the sun did NOT in fact wear sunglasses or have a face so I stopped with that childhood trope, I drew and drew and drew the things I loved the things I wanted the things I found beautiful cool or mysterious. (Dragons and yoshi's...) I was easily the best artist in my elementary school and I won some award for a recycling calendar our whole grade submitted art to.
I started growing up into a cringe teen that loved wolves and anime and emo skater aesthetic. My focus went from free-handing art to learning to do "real" practiced and professional style art, IE sketching the drawing in pencil and then lining it in ink, and then coloring it with colored pencils. I got my first drawing tablet around 13, when i was also old enough to join deviantart. I made fanart for everyone that reached out to talk to me, I drew characters I wasn't used to drawing, I wanted to make people happy so I drew and drew and drew for my friends and artists I looked up to. I started drawing fanart of my favorite tv shows, I dabbled more and more into digital art and I was BAD but I kept at it. I didn't let my mediocrity stop me. I knew I would never get better if I didn't at least TRY. There are no failures in art, only happy accidents. The only time you 'fail' is when you refuse to stop trying. But you can pick the hobby/job/skill back up whenever you ARE ready to try again. It's never lost to you.
Then I got into a car accident at 16. I had a concussion and a traumatic brain injury. I was injured severely enough that I had to relearn how to do… Well almost everything. I had trouble walking, speaking, playing games, and worst of all for me at least, drawing. I couldn't do it anymore. The wires in my brain weren't bridging the right connections anymore, trying to draw was like trying to speak a different language and no matter how hard I tried everything I had in me was just…. gone. I had to start from scratch, a blank slate but this time I had everything going against me, a brain that struggled to remember retain information and learn, and a body that struggled to move and react as I intended. I was so depressed, it took almost a year to get back on some semblance of improvement, and just as I stubbornly refused to stop drawing, I stubbornly forged my path forward. I got into a new fandom, started seriously practicing the human form since before then I'd only focused on animals and fantasy creatures. Yeah I sucked, my anatomy was shit, my understanding of the body the facial expressions perspective it was all off. But I kept doing it.
I started drawing smut when I was 18, it helped me immensely in practicing how bodies could interact, what made poses or people feel rough or stiff, I studied porn and cgi and famous smut artists, i took time to learn what I liked about it, what was right but looked wrong, what was wrong but looked right, how light and textures were supposed to look, I had no obligation to improve I just wanted to. I had striven to keep going and make small steps in the right direction, taking time to study all my old pieces and figure out WHY they were bad, all the things that were WRONG, how how I could edit or fix the issues to a point where I would deem it acceptable. I never deleted any 'finished' works. I can still access my art from when I was a cringe tween, I can see my mistakes from every year I was active on the internet. I also did my best to not self deprecate, I would objectively critique my abilities and pieces and not take any feedback negatively no matter how harsh or scathing it may be. If someone had a strong enough opinion to voice it then I should have a strong enough backbone to listen and hear them out.
I started taking commissions once I felt comfortable in myself and my abilities. I never turned a commission idea down (Unless it was genuinely unethical) and used every opportunity to give MY BEST to my clients. Even if it was content I did not enjoy or characters with complicated designs or anatomy, I vowed to TRY and give my best and if I didn't know how to do or convey something I studied whatever it was until I felt confident enough in my understanding and embraced the challenges as they came. Study, learn, draw, reflect, redraw, rinse and repeat. Never give up. Try new styles. Try new mediums. Just keep trying! Do and do and do and see and watch and study and keep going.
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feralcatalyst · 9 days ago
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Another year into the unknown *wink*
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feralcatalyst · 1 month ago
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feralcatalyst · 2 months ago
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You know you're doing a good job when a phishing scammer tries to get you and all you do is waste their time until their dumb ass gets themselves banned and deleted somehow.
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feralcatalyst · 2 months ago
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Hey Nerd.
:V NAKNAKNAK
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feralcatalyst · 3 months ago
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Plz help me help my cat, Chitter, she has a double ear infection or ruptured ear-drums based on the discharge. I've dealt with both before myself and know how painful it is, if you can spread or donate so i can take her to the vet it would be appreciated.
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feralcatalyst · 3 months ago
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Plz help me help my cat, Chitter, she has a double ear infection or ruptured ear-drums based on the discharge. I've dealt with both before myself and know how painful it is, if you can spread or donate so i can take her to the vet it would be appreciated.
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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Some girls just wanna have fun
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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A sharky cat furry anthro pal!
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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just gals bein pals
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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Man I hate shitter and elon husk but at least shitter doesn't censor me and breach my artistic rights to make and share tasteful nude drawings. Is this good enough CENSORSHIP for this hellsite?
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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The real jewels of Faramore are Arzette's rockin tibbies
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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Got commed to draw some Arzette booty
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feralcatalyst · 7 months ago
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some foxes get their licks in
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