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A marvellous spatuletail griffin!

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Happy turt burgling month!

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yes

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A little present for a @squidong.

I can now turn my drawings into flat 3d objects and print them in 4 different colors at a time! The possibilities are endless… (as long as they don't have more than 4 colors).

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A void for the living room. I might make 3 more…

3D printed a Decoration!

I stuck it to my bedroom door frame with double sided tape. It's like a cute little night light! (Until it falls off in the middle of the night and scares the shit out of me.)

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A little rat friend for the kitchen door.

3D printed a Decoration!

I stuck it to my bedroom door frame with double sided tape. It's like a cute little night light! (Until it falls off in the middle of the night and scares the shit out of me.)

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3D printed a Decoration!

I stuck it to my bedroom door frame with double sided tape. It's like a cute little night light! (Until it falls off in the middle of the night and scares the shit out of me.)

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Warming up with Dodogama

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.

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stop freaking out about getting old and start planning out what kind of old person you're gonna be

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Idk who needs to hear it but if you have Aphantasia you can absolutely do character art. Don't let it discourage you. Especially since a good portion of art advice won't fit you and will leave you feeling like its your fault.

I have Aphantasia, its super hard to put characters in poses from my mind. I cannot draw cartoons or exaggeration well, its very hard because I do not see the drawing until it is on the page. I use so many construction lines and blocks of color and always need a reference to base my character poses on. I cannot imagine things artistically before they're on the page and it is super frustrating.

You can still do it with Aphantasia though, it just takes practice. So many of your sketches without references are going to look awful despite you knowing the proper proportions of the human body, it doesn't mean you don't know what you're doing.

It just means you need to give yourself extra help. You're not lesser or bad for not being able to draw on a whim or not having these intricate details. Trust me, I've struggled with thinking that.

The best thing you can do to work with it is collect so many references, use a pose software (like magic poser), and absolutely screenshot and collect art that has a creative element you struggle with. (For me its color, backgrounds, and splash text.) Also, maybe practice abstract art. You have a brain unhindered by a visual expectation, I recommend it. For me I like to do surrealist/abstract pictures of water and space. It takes technical skill but everyday is a good day to start practicing.

Having Aphantasia is a neutral thing. It's not bad or good, it's just there. That bad part is not acknowledging that you work differently so you need to adapt differently.

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being an artist is so goofy. you literally start looking at things and going 'oooh those are some good shapes' like some kind of toddler

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Lynda Barry

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I made something

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everyone saying "art doesn't need to be perfect" hasn't taken into account the art monster, the monster that comes and kills you if art doesn't look exactly like it did in your head

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Happy mermay! Here's some warm ups.