sirsketchedoodle

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Hello Portfolio day!

I do character design, fanart, stickers, commissions and whatever else I feel like! Check out my pinned post for more info.

linktr.ee/sirsketch

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Musa sketch, trying to get back into the swing of drawing.

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some quick lotr studies :]

prints

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Goodnight.

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The gurlsss

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a personal favorite of mine

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Winx Redesign done!

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I am going through an incredible loss that has gained some attention on the internet so I have uninstalled Twitter for my own mental health

Sorry for no art. I know what I'm making next

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i feel like trying to "make it" as a creator can get so disheartening when stuff performs so much worse than you expect it to, and it's hard to keep motivation when it feels like nobody cares when you put all your effort into something, even when you're doing something you love. do you have any advice for managing expectations and dealing with that?

i still struggle with this a lot but i've learned to move past it faster

it's easier said than done but it's nice to put it into perspective and truly seeing the numbers as actual people. getting 5 likes might not seem like a lot but remembering that those likes are 5 real life people who enjoy your work is huge. don't become desensitized to numbers.

i think also acknowledging that algorithms are kinda bullshit (often random) and play to a specific kind of person also helps. know it's not your fault if your art goes unnoticed. it's not that no one cares, it's just that social media algorithms aren't usually made with artists in mind, therefore making it hard to get your stuff out to the right audience a lot of the time.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, having a community or friendships offline helps. even if one of my pieces does't perform as well on social media as i want it to, it ends up mattering so much less when i show it to a singular friend in person and they gush about it to me then and there. a post going viral is fleeting but the genuine interaction and engagement of sharing art with a friend sticks much longer.

i've VERY much been tempering my expectations for this pilot. when i first started working on it, i was pretty concerned about numbers and worrying that it'll flop. it still might! but genuinely, being able to show it to my friends and other folks who've been helping me on the project has been so rewarding already. getting their feedback and seeing their enjoyment watching/working on it has inspired me and kept me going. i'm less worried about how well it'll do now. the learning experiences and new connections and friendships i've made during the process of this pilot make it worth it already.

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Home is where you are.

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I should start drawing gravity falls stuff again

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New oc alert: this is Beau, a bastard child of a rich family in the Blades in the Dark game I just joined. He just wants to be friends

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Painting from a friend's birthday, added ink when I got home. It felt nice to make physical art 🤙

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Bad art is better than no art

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Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work