#I miss making digital art 😞

[lbulldesigns]

Can anyone recommend design programs, that both work just as well as Adobe and are more affordable?

I want to make more digital art and make a graphic design portfolio for when I apply for jobs, but I can't afford to spend $80 or so for Adobe's software.

[solplease]

kabukimono doodle :]

[tehuti88-art]

10/1/24: r/SketchDaily theme, "Drawlloween: Finders, Creepers." Finders, creepers.

TUMBLR EDIT: I actually forgot about Drawlloween this year. Got rather put off of it the past year or so after getting absolutely zero interaction with it on platforms other than Reddit despite tagging all my posts. I thought it was last year, but the official account seems to have vacated Twitter before then, I just remember seeing them like and retweet others' work, including a literal pencil doodle, while I never got a single like, much less a retweet. That's nothing new…look at my note history here, for example!…yet I dunno…it just really hurts after being at it so many years. I've been doing Drawlloween since 2018 when I first started digital art, just kind of sucks that no matter how long I keep at this or try to improve my "style" (whatever it is) that digital art is yet ANOTHER medium at which I've failed to gain an audience. Just like my fiction writing, poetry, song lyrics, jewelry making, journal making, online blogging, product reviews, photography, videos, and I'm pretty sure macrame too now that I'm starting to get into that. (At least I'm heading into it with the full expectation this time that I'll never be very good at it and nobody will ever care about it. After 30+ years of trying to gain an audience, any audience, gotta keep them expectations low. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

ANYWAY…after being reminded of Drawlloween's existence I almost decided not to bother with it for the first time in…what, six years? I suck at math. I also don't like how theme weeks/months mess with my character portraits (yet another passion project that's failed to attract notice). But meh, whatever I'd draw in its place would be just as ignored, so, here we go yet again, although with rather less enthusiasm than previous years, as I'm not bothering to cross-post it anywhere else official Drawlloween is this year. (I checked out the Threads account they set up since leaving Twitter and granted, this was right before the event's start so maybe I was too early, but the official account was really inactive looking…just one post like from last year's event, yikes.) I don't like going to the time and trouble of posting on multiple platforms if I'll get absolutely nothing to show for it but bots (hello, Instagram 🙄 ), I get enough nothing here on Tumblr. And really the only reason I keep at it here, TBH, is because of the relative ease of posting image + long-form text entries to spill my thoughts, and all the "real" blog communities seem to have died. God do I miss journal/blog communities. 😞

But nobody's reading this so, I guess that's it! Here goes Drawlloween. Again. "Enjoy." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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