#I've lost motivation to do art

[mariegolddoesthings]

Hey. Hey you.

I know it's hard to speak up about Palestine.

You may be scared, afraid to get backlash.

You may be a minor and have parents that are overprotective of you or worse, are neutral about the whole thing or is supportive of one side.

But you don't need to speak up about Palestine on your own post. You can always reblog a post with the click of a button. Reblog posts just like this one.

I know it's hard to do much and I know you're sometimes feeling like you aren't doing enough. But you can take it with little steps at a time.

Don't stop talking about Palestine. Your voices need to be heard.

[claitea]

oh god i havent drawn him in forever* i'm going to PERISH

* = its only been 10 days

[gingermintpepper]

This is taking forever to finish but just in case I lose my nerve and don't finish the other parts (which happens more often than you'd expect) I did want to post the one finished panel of this little interaction!

Hyacinth is a very pouty guy but he's having fun, he's just bad at showing it LOL It's really hard for me to keep motivation up, especially when doodling digitally but this, at the very least, is something I really enjoyed doing♡♡♡

[aikaterynne]

Darkness in bloom.

[starrycometmoth]

The urge to draw a digital piece and then my lines are so shaky and wavy that not even the stabilizer can stabilize it auggggghhh

[my-name-is-bunnyfoxy]

POV: You want to join an art challenge for August regarding TMNT but the person hosting it is someone who wrote a Mikey gets adopted by the Rise turtles and you also fear that you doing it would come off as you supporting the creator meaning you support their fanfic that doesn't give any respect to 2012 and makes Mikey look like a damn crybaby and also for some reason calls him Casper and not to mention this person supports Unfamiliar Familiar

[askbrasil]

"are you back???"

YESN'T

[mitamicah]

I see a lot of people have made covers of the snippet of Everybody's Waiting (the new JO track)

I may do it too but at the same time I am hesitant given that I am 90% sure they won't see it (since everything else I'd ever made have never been noticed by them - Bojan's big share yesterday included) and if by chance it is getting seen I am not sure how I'd feel having the first thing noticed by them be just another cover

I am probably overthinking things again

[pine-arten]

i genuinely kept forgetting to post these

i'm pretty burnt out on drawing, so i decided to end the cringetober challenge. as much as i would like to complete it, i would die

day 16 (objecthead) day 15/18 (song lyrics/old art redraw)

i got through halfway the month, which is honestly still a win for me.

look here for a cropped version of the redraw, and the original picture

[sureuncertainty]

helen distortion my beloved

[crazycoven]

[jaxonkreide]

I remember last year when i changed my icon for pride month I said I’d change it into something else once pride month was over, but then I just didn’t end up drawing anything i was proud of enough to set it as a new icon (to be fair i didn’t even draw like one art piece a month last year lmao)

Anyways, it’s pride once again and I decided that i should stop chomping on sunflowers after a full year, so here i am, once again, with a new pride icon which probably won’t change until next year lmao. 

It’s one of my many personas :] this guy is a(n angel pretending to be a) wizard!!

[bambiilooza]

this is quite old but i'm still rlly happy with how i did this. gonna redraw them with more detail cuz i really wanna study the artists' more detailed colouring styles.

instead of ody, i might use another design

(wip) ody in different epic (as in these artists are very cool) styles.

i do plan want to make more but i have no idea when i'll get around to that so, i thought i'd post these in the case that i don't finish those

[trans-loki]

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[starlit-mansion]

want to post wip (fanart) but also don't want to have the wip reblogged/lose the impact of posting

[thingsidrawgohere]

Alright. I'm calling it done before it kills me. This is Second Head. It's an Art Book containing instances of the phrase "second head" in fanfics found on AO3. I'll explain much, MUCH more in the cut.

So when I say 'art book', I mean this is an intrinsic piece. I have no motivations aside from personal amusement and interest in outcome. A lot of money was lost/transmuted into free frustration in this project and I have no claims, obviously. I will prolly be the only person alive to read this.

THAT SAID. I have noticed in my years reading fanfic, there's a few linguistic shibboleths that arise in authors who also have experience in the mines. I think there's not a soul alive who hadn't wandered across a 'ministrations' when reading Narutos oral sexing. There's- Hold on. Here's some pix.

There's an impulse, I think, to in-group even when performing a creative act. A feeling that there are certain ways one Should go about the act, by virtue of seeing it performed that way. Especially so when 'training' at the act is often just Doing. Double Dog Especially when the act is exclusively for oneself with very little oversight. Which is to say, we make what we see and we make what we think we should make. At least, at first.

Now, I've been noticing 'grew a second head' (to insinuate surprise) in fanfic for some time. I've never seen it used Outside of fanfic. That may speak to my own bad habits but it got me curious. So a friend and myself downloaded a mirror of AO3 from July of 2024. He did some code- Stuff to scan the mirror for "second head" and of the ~13 million works, ~70k (English) results were returned. That's a rounding error, honestly, but Far FAR more than I expected.

This book is 401 such examples that I personally selected for a variety of reasons. The number itself was arbitrarily chosen. Each page is separate fic, the roughly 300 words around our key phrase.

I don't think repetition or mirroring is a negative thing. I think it's quite charming. Nor do I think it's a sign of a 'bad' artist or 'bad' art. I think it's a signifier of personhood, of belonging, of enthusiasm. Of culture shared and wishing to share. I think it's real sweet. I always smile when I catch a 'grown a second head' in a work.

And it's really fucking funny when it's John Sherlock getting a sloppy toppy. Bless.

Edit: Fixed a very VERY funny error.