#Lineless art is fun I should make it more often

[chrometheraptor]

clinging to life

[anonbeadraws]

for the weirdly specific ask game: super curious about 5, 12, 21, and 27 :>

Thank you so much, I'm gonna respond to all the lovely folks who asked me here too about the weirdly specific art ask game! (Thank you to @phantomseptember, @wyrmzier , @grumpyoldsnake, @philcoulson-redtapeninja @swordsandspectacles and the other anons for asking!)

1. Art programs you have but don't use? I don’t think I have one! I’ve been playing on Photoshop for so long, though I’m thinking on getting Clip Paint Studio for comics at one point!

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)? Mmmm, often find I draw folks looking to the left, but wouldn’t say I prefer one way or the other, especially when I’m flipping the canvas at least three times to make sure they’re all even!

3. What ideas come from when you were little? Mmm, lots of fantasy things, I have this old story about the green man that I made when I was 16 and it’s been rolling and remade ever since! It really needs another go other, it was my first dip into anything non cisgender before I knew, y’know?

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw? Mmm, probably cars. Hate drawing cars, so annoying.

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself? Ohhh, probably, 80%, but that’s what happens when you’re chronically online like me lol

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw? Mmm, love a big floofy skirt or shirt, all those folds, very hard but so satisfying when I get rolling

12. Easiest part of body to draw? Mmm, eyes n’ mouth? I wanted to get good at them ever since I was a kid, cause they’re the expressive bits! I want to get better at Hands, the gay part of the body.

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing? I honestly can’t think of any? I guess I try n see the good in any art, even if it’s not my vibe; the colours, the lines… There’s always something

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)? At home! I try and keep Digital art to my desk, but If I’m doing ink art for fun, it’s on my bedroom floor, praying that I don’t mess the carpet

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy? Mmmmmm, mouths and hair?

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways? Ohhh, mmm, lineless art! the amount of effort that goes into it, love it!

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with? Iiii should be doing it more! But it’s usually a pretty lady with voluminous hair and fangs, it’s a good go to!

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated? Mmm, I think, it’s this piece, It really vibes with what I want to make at the minute, deep shadows, good lines, good Shapes! Thanks again for asking me!!!

[pigswithwings]

Hi pigs "whale yuri Wednesday" with wings!!! I think the colors in your art are very cute nd i was wondering if you have a method with picking them? I struggle a lot with color picking when i dont have smth to work off of!

Also not an ask but you should post more about your original art/reblog it!! ocs too!! :]

well!! i don't have a specific method most of the time I'm eyeballing all of that!! but i can give some general tips on how i personally pick colours...

also: thank you 🫶🫶 ... i do not make art very often so most of the time i feel like there is nothing to post about!! but i will try to reblog my own art more often!! i have been working a lot on one oc of mine so perhaps you will see more of it :]

- i tend to first put all the colours side by side to get a sense of how they'll all look together!!

- usually i start with a very light or very dark colour that i like, and build off of that.

- after i choose a color to work off of, i tend to pick another colour that's similar to the first colour. (black and white can go well with basically every colour if you're stuck!)

i personally try to keep the colours distinct enough that you can tell it's another colour. this isn't totally necessary, it's mostly because i use a lineless style and my shapes won't be distinguishable if i don't make it clear which colour is which. for example with fhese two images - it's easier to tell between the colours on the right than the colours on the left.

specific processes here:

in the top left corner here, i chose the black, then the dark blue/dark purple, then the purple, then the light purple. they're all in the same area of the colour wheel but each one gradually progresses in brightness and moves into another area of the colour wheel.

same with the top right corner - i started with the white and chose a shade of orange that was easy to see against it. then a similar shade of yellow to pair with the orange, and then i wanted a highlight colour to stand out. since the general pattern of this colour set is bright/warm colours, we can choose another bright or warm colour that's different in brightness or shade - in this case i chose a bright green, but a bright red would have also gone nicely with this.

the bottom left and right is mostly the same as above, but finding a colour palette like the bottom right can be trickier. i started with a combination of white, cyan, and purple but thought that it looked a bit boring. so i picked a colour that wasn't blue or purple but a bright(er) red so that it stood out. could have also used bright orange/yellow/pink instead, but i think the red gives it an interesting contrast. i like to think that it's all about contrast

i tend to make colour palettes at random just for fun, so i think that practice or just putting colours together to see what looks good can also help!! some more examples below of just. colour palettes or colours that work well together

and yeah! to be honest i don't really know what i am doing but i like messing around with groups of colours. do what you want, lay down some colours that you like and most importantly have fun 👍👍👍

[i3utterflyeffect]

been playing sky: children of the light and. is good

i decided to do this. at. 10 pm yesterday. and it took at least 7 hours to finish it with like-- 2 short breaks and one long break to just sleep

still, i’m REALLY happy with how this turned out, especially since i don’t usually do lineless (and rarely have the patience) so. even if my hands are probably ruined now it was still totally worth it c’:

[finiffy]

My main grape about the designs (and really, the animation itself) is how bland and unexpressive it is.

you wanna flat 2d lineless art? Okay! Sure, but have some sort of shading or fun details. People made cool ass drawings of plants with only shading to help them.

No? You just want little to no shading with only the most prominent detail so you can differentiate everyone? I'll let it side for now........

Oh, you wanna use basic shapes? Sure, people had cool character design while only using triangle before. Mosiac art is really fucking cool, I would love to see it in more often outside out religion settings.

You're.... using basic shapes to.... draw a person? With no... you know... actual anatomy? Like no shapes that are thicker but get slimmer out to make an arm? Um. I guess you can be minimalist. Not that I like it.

Having only like, five colors to use at a time? It'll be a fun experiment to see how to use them. Wait. Are you only using colors on the pre-made color palettes? And only the first row of colors. You know you could scroll down to see more, and there’s a color wheel right? There’s a slider to choose lighter and darker colors as well.

Really? Only the most basic of all colors without the fun sliders? Fine fine, have fun.

Oh... you want to use the same character model? Uhhhhh, maybe you could use different colors and details to add more favor? You really want all of these people to look like an infinitely large family with only different haircuts and genders? If you’re doing like a horror animation where everyone is the same with only one very slightly different looking character, then go for it. The uncanny valley affect is interesting when the protagonist is the uncanny thing.

No? Then what the hell are you making? Scp Foundation content? Isn't that basically a horror archives with a weird mix of dangerous monsters to a sentimental soup bowl in addition to doctors with interesting characteristics trying to contain them? That’s like, the greatest way to explore character designs and you're wasting it on one simple model with 4 colors max and no shading?! For everything?!

And why are you doing this? What's preventing you from simply going all out?

Quick and simple artwork that can be made easily......? That can be made efficiently to make videos in order to make profits?

...

And Don't Get me Started On the Fucking Animation.

Having your characters move via motion graphics? I could see how that could work, if you mess around with how fast each character or setting move with their animations. That's another layer of detail! But there other ways to animate with better quality.

2d animation is much more interesting for a lot of reasons.

Pieces with slight jitters and fast animations to show how energetic and active they are; Like small animals running away, character who has fast reflexes and is constantly on the move, waterfalls. All of these move fast and look like a blur unless they slow down which they often don't do.

More smooth animation for most movement, add or decrease the amount of stutters depending on what's in motion. Slow on into near stop motion for well, slower things. Either have an extra frame to have them linger.

Y'know how things are sometimes faster than each other? That's what I'm saying.

Steam moves faster than smoke which means slightly faster animation. People move in their own ways. Elderly that are slow and careful with their steps. Teenagers range in the why they walk, popular students with confident strides, average kids just dodging and weaving their way through the crowd, maybe some kids wayy into anime naruto running around. Whoever they are, their animations should be able to highlight who they are.

3d would also work, just need to a model a character and start moving them around and adding little touches. No need to draw a new scene.

Meanwhile, McFuckingLazyAssMf known as Scp expla*ned decided to forgo all these possibilities to churn out truly brain dead content which is very bad for new up and coming Scp fans.

I also wanted to add, WhatInTheWorldAreThoseExpressions? Those are just sad. Actually scratch that! I can't even tell what "emotions" these little breadsticks are making. There's like a 3 second animation where the eyebrows move up or a painfully stupid attempt make a glare with two grey lines and scooching them like, half a centimeter to the left. They don't even bother to add gestures or body language.

These doctors have two different body gestures. Arms up for surrendering and panic which is wayyy to obvious, and the shrimp curl.

Where the hell are my doctors with hunched back? These fuckers can be bothered to sit up straight when there's a breach every 3 days or someone pissed off the senior doctors and now they might be in the cross fire of some revenge plan. Why the hell is everyone the same height? Clef is a manlet and isnt close to Kondraki's height. No, slenderman, siren head, long horse, and the cartoon cat aren't and will not be part of the scp foundation. Even then, it wouldn't be that hard to like, I dunno, block off the areas they live, stamp out amnestics, then start scrubbing through anything mentioning where you can find these spoopy fucks.

Not mention whitewhashing, gender swapping, or the fact LGBT characters are suddenly, well, not LGBT anymore.

-soap

^ All very fucking good points

[trans-clown-catgirl]

Sooo, someone on Rewritten Belial wanted to know what I see wrong with mid fight masses. Boy, boy oh boy, where do I fucking start

ANIMATION

My god. My god the animation. The problem for the most part isn't the animation itself (except for the title screen, fuck that, it looks so weirdly floppy and stiff), it's the fact the animations aren't aligned properly. Take one good look at Sarv's sprites in the first 2 songs. Look how often her position shifts. There's seemingly no ground whatsoever for her, her feet get positioned up and down seemingly at random with the notes and it's REALLY frustrating. It isn't even bc of exaggerated poses, Week 4 shows that exaggerated poses can work while still making sense with where the floor is. Sarvente continues to be an offender in that regard with the fact the telephone animation looks EXTREMELY choppy and lacks a lot of inbetween frames, not to mention how stiff it feels.

Ruv is a lesser offender, the only thing that bothers me is how his feet curve down on his idle stance, because, again, That's Not How The Ground Works.

Selever. Dear god. His idle animation is so fucked. He goes 3 steps to the left by standing still. And this is purely an XML issue btw, bc there's a gif in the files with the animation in its raw state and it looks just fine

ART

THE BACKGROUNDS, DON'T GET ME STARTED. They're completely fucking lineless. That's NOT what you do with FNF. In FNF, lineless stuff is the environment, a car, the sun, a house, individual objects that are supposed to be in front or behind of one another are lined, always, and the mod NEVER does this, making everything blend in super hard.

Then there's a problem all the sprites share. They are by no means in FNF's style. FNF's art style consists of a lot of thick lines, big shapes, and a generally very street-like style. MFM does none of that. The lines are thin (with sarvente having completely lineless elements, which you should NEVER do for fnf character sprites unless it's pure black) and look very out of place when put next to every other character. Ruv is, again, the lesser offender, although he's definitely still one.

THE CHARTING

Hell. Hell. HELL. SO MANY NOTES THAT AREN'T EVEN IN THE SONG ITSELF, SUCH AN ABSURD OVERUSE OF TRIPLES AND DOUBLES, because god forbid the player actually has fun doing patterns for fast songs, right?! Gospel is safe in this regard, meanwhile Zavodila. Why. Zavodila could have been perfectly fun and difficult without them. Why did you do this. They're not inherently wrong, you just need to implement them really well and chief this ain't it. Jacks and multis aren't to be abused, ever. Patterns are best, always.

THE MUSIC

Subjectivity zone has been entered. Worship, Parish and Gospel are very subjective and down to taste, personally I ended up only liking Gospel out of the three even if I insist it should be a metal song bc demons are just like that.

Now Zavodila I have an objective complaint about, AND IT'S THE BEST SONG IN THE MOD. This isn't too much about the song on its own, but as an FNF song. Listen to it. Listen to it and tell me Ruv's voice sounds like a voice at all. No. It's just hard bass without a smidge of voice on it. If it was a voice with a filter on it that made it kinda sound like hard bass, fine, Whitty is good for that reason, it's a voice with a filter that makes it sound SIMILAR to an instrument. But when it's JUST an instrument, you've gone overboard. Idk what Selever's song is called but it has the exact same issue.

THE WRITING

ULTIMATE SUBJECTIVITY ZONE ENTERED. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.

The writing is very lackluster. Everything just kinda happens for the sake of it, there's no background motivator or thing that got BF and GF there against their own will, it just kinda. Happens. And the reveal for Sarv's demon form is VERY lackluster, she just goes "lemme show u a secret actually" and transforms for no reason other than an excuse for a harder song. And to be blatant hornybait btw, I saw the namefiles, this demon form was designed with pure libido and no brain processes. Either way; everything just kinda happens for no reason here. It's not good. It's. Very, very bad.

And then you get into the background lore and it all gets so goddamn confusing because Dokki literally dug up OCs from when she was a kid and tried to bullshit up some backstory for them and it all crashed horribly. Every little fact is thrown in just because, like. She's lucifer but also didn't want to become lucifer and did so on accident?? How? It's never elaborated on? And WHY would she help God, who she hates, to bring people to heaven, what kinda consequence is there to not doing it, why is she being told to do this, and yet she's apparently NOT an actual nun and is just wearing a costume. What the hell is going on there. It's a mess. And Ruv. What's going on with Ruv I actually don't know I just know apparently he has dead nerves that make him unable to smile (which btw THAT'S NOT HOW NERVES WORK THEY'RE SPREAD ACROSS THE BODY AND ARE VERY, VERY LONG, THEY'RE NOT DIRECTLY CONDENSED INTO ANY SPOT AND THEN THEY JUST STOP THEY'RE INTERCONNECTED) and that he "kills for a sense of justice and ends up becoming an antagonist because of it"?? It's all so confusing and it makes 0 sense. They should have been remade from the ground up instead of having been picked up and thrown a buncha shit onto. You don't pick up a rotten piece of meat, slap a buncha sauces on top of it and make it taste good. It's still old, rotten meat, and you should just get fresh meat instead. Same type, new start. Remake, don't rehash.

CONCLUSION

In my sincere opinion? This mod had a TON of potential. You could have done a lot more under more capable hands. On every single end. Writing, charting, art, music to a lesser degree, if it had been done by more capable and experienced people it could have been one of the best mods. But then it wasn't. And it got popular anyways. This. This all is why I'm reclaiming it. Because I see what could have been. How much you could have done with this mod. And I wanted to take a shot at the writing end of things, because that's what I'm most capable of, even if it isn't much. That's why I made Rewritten Belial. And why I hope I did a good job of making something worthwhile with these characters.

ALSO THE DEVS ARE SO ENTITLED HOOOOLY SHIT YOU LITERALLY CANNOT POST RECHARTS ON GAMEBANANA ANYMORE WITHOUT GETTING BANNED BC THEY GET MAD WHEN PEOPLE FIX THEIR HORRIBLE CHARTS. THEY NEVER, EVER ENCOURAGE FAN CONTENT THAT ISN'T SUCKING UP TO THEM AND JUST COPYPASTING WHAT'S ALREADY THERE WITH 0 MODIFICATIONS. MIKEGENO UR THE ONLY DECENT PERSON HERE BLESS YOU

[messedupessy]

PET THAT HAM GOOD YO  (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Ayo look some actual coloured properly, sorta at least, art! this is what the wip from yesterday was off, and i am pretty damn happy with how it turned out, this is another one with Stretch dressed up in outfits from Sailor Moon though with my own spin a bit, been wanting to draw him in a shirt saying that for like forever ever since my waifu @mcfudgie drew their pap in one saying the same thing, because Stretch is a bottom bitch pfft xD 

And look Ham aka Haminator 3000 is back! The sphynx cat that I came up with for Stretch ages ago, who i really should draw more often because I love that cat, sadly I can’t draw cats for shit but I tried 

Anyhow really happy with this, wasn’t supposed to colour this but the sketch turned out so good that I just had to, had so much fun just colouring willy nilly not trying to make it look super good and colouring lineless is always so much fun I should do it more often, really happy with the colours like all of the colours turned out so good, only the shirt ended up a bit too yellow or is that just me who knows, really like the shading on his feet, and his damn face I love how his face turned out the expression is so good yes, and the smoke I thought at first it would turn out bad but I somehow made it look pretty good, he is supposed to be blowing the smoke out of his nose hole but dunno if I succeeded with it, not so happy with those hands tho the one on Ham looks pretty good but the other one is just nope, looks too weird and i was unable to fix it, I also didn’t use any black on the lines on his body which looks a bit weird but I like it, tried to not line with any black except for the gloves and hat, I did want to make him sit on something but couldn’t come up with anything, so floating in the air it is yay :D and my writing style is so bad look at it pfft

[artsbysmarty]

Whoa I really love your lineless art! How do you do it?

:”ooo thank you so much, it really does mean a lot to hear that— usually bc I don’t go lineless often, it takes me forever lmao 

And here’s a lil tutorial- this is just how I do lineless art. It is by no means the correct way, so feel free to mix and match w other artists! Personally, when I do lineless art, I do my best to keep it sweet and simple— i think that’s when it looks best, but if you want to go for a more detailed piece, that is okay too!

1. As always, start off with your sketch. It doesn’t have to be super detailed; as long as you got the basics of your drawing down you’re good. (Eg, I’ll add in the seams of the clothing and hair partitions later on).

2. Set your sketch layer to Multiply. Create a new layer under the sketch layer. This’ll be your first lineless layer. I usually start with the face and work from there. And another thing I do (that I find helps) is just use random colors for each layer to get the shapes of the layers down, and then go back and properly color them later. This helps me see the shapes I’m working with and refine them if I need to (I usually go with various shades of red and pink).

Some tips about layering:

-It’s easier if you divide your hair into 2 layers— a front (where the bangs usually are) and a back layer. The back hair layer is usually under all the other layers.

-Separating the face layer from the other skin layers helps make shading easier as well.

-It might seem like a pain to separate your clothes into different layers (eg for the collars and sleeves and main body), but it’s a huge help when it comes to the final shading (I’ll admit I’m a little guilty of not separating them myself when I’m in a rush :”) ).

This is what your first layer will look like when you hide the sketch layer:

It’s a little messy, but that’s okay— you can refine it if you want, but don’t get too caught up in refining before you actually get your shapes down. 

3. Fill in the rest of your lineless layers. The colors look kinda weird, but that’s just to show that each color is a different layer. Note how the hair, clothes and skin are split into different sections. There’s also breast pockets on her uniform, but those’ll be added in later on. Refine your shapes if you need to at this point. 

4. Now, go in and recolor everything to the colors you want them to be.

Now, it’s time for the fun part— shading!

So usually lineless art has a combination of gradients and hard shadows, yes? Do the hard shadows first. (At least, it’s what I do.)

There’s some parts that aren’t shaded yet, they’ll be colored w mostly gradients. Also, you don’t need to create a new clipping layer to add the shadows— you can just do it on the same layer after locking the transparency. 

9. Make a new clipping layer over each different layer, and add gradients as you see fit. It’s really up to each different person how they go about adding the gradients. For the eyes, I usually make it graduate from dark to light, and then add a light shine afterwards. I didn’t do the hair yet, bc I have a different technique for it.

10. For the hair, create a new clipping layer over the hair layers. Then, using a default pen at different opacities, draw hair strokes— just enough to not seem overly detailed. 

Using the lasso selection tool, create a selection where you want the hair shinies to go. Then, using the Gradient tool, make a gradient with the darkest part on top. After you do so, it should look like this:

Now, repeat the process for the back hair.

Almost done!

11. Now, create a new clipping over the shading layer. This’ll be your highlights layers. Set the blending mode to add, and add a couple spots of shine along the gradient you made. 

And you’re done! ❤️

OPTIONAL STEP: Merge all the layers down, and create a new clipping layer over your merged drawing. Find a paper-like texture and overlay it over the drawing. The blending mode should be set to Overlay for best results.

I really hope this helped you a little bit, anon! Lemme know if you have any questions!

[inevitably-johnlocked]

consultingravenclaw221b said:

Hey Steph! So, I’m going to start off by saying that I actually really love your art and I think you’re really really skilled. However, my opinion and the opinion of anyone else doesn’t actually matter!! It’s YOUR art and if the way you draw makes you happy then keep drawing like that. Draw what you like in the style that you like because in the end nobody else really matters. Draw for yourself not others, especially not people who are going to make you feel bad about your art 💖

khorazir said: @inevitably-johnlocked Your Darkwing Duck art is fantastic 😍 I think your style works very well for comic characters, and I’d love to see your own comic one day – but yeah, I totally get the time issue. There hasn’t really been progress with my graphic novel for months now, too.

kilmameri said: so i got curious and wanted to see what anon meant by the uncanny valley effect on your art. i didnt know you drew, steph! i think theres nothing unoriginal about your art. the poses are fine, the physics and anatomy look alright, shading has color, etc, like it is technically pretty good and it shows that youre good at drawing

personally, i think the uncanny thing is the clash of dark and very visible lineart with the realistic style youre going for. as you draw digitally, you could experiment with coloring the lineart as well? make it blend in a bit more. or trying to lean more on the realism and drop the lineart alltogether?

or lean on the lineart even more, but that doesnt seem like a thing you would enjoy based on a very brief look on your deviantart. theres also the colours that do remind me of colored pencils that we all used at school. so, try different color palettes?

my favorites from your deviantart were the black and white portraits, i think it was 12th doctor that i liked the most, but they all looked great. i think it is because your art is great when the individual parts arent distracting from eachother. i wish you all the best and i hope i didnt step over a line here, have a good day

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@consultingravenclaw221b​ Thank you Lovely! These days I draw what I want and for myself. I join art things when I can, because I do like doing stuff like that, and especially for Fandom Trumps Hate, it’s for a good cause :) And it’s fun :) Which is why I draw whatever fandoms or stuff interest me LOL. I should go back to drawing dragons and furries LOL.

@khorazir​ THANK YOU!!! It was the fandom I was in BEFORE TMNT but after Sonic, LOL. I have LOVED DWD forever. I need to draw more again. 

And yeah, with regards to a comic, I actually want to take someone’s fic and convert it to a comic because I can’t write a decent story, LOL. But yeah, Time is something I don’t have because of my day job.

@kilmameri​ yes! I advertise it rarely: My OTP art blog is @stephdrawsjohnlock​ so that’s where all my more recent stuff goes to, LOL. And wrt the line colouring, I’ve actually been starting doing that within the past year, but I’m still not committing to the line colouring, hah. 

I suck SO HARD at realism, and my lineless stuff looks like trash, so I don’t do that often, LOL. I am better, it seems at BW stuff because I have a style I’ve committed to. With colours, especially since I switched to digital, I haven’t seemed to commit to one colouring style and I keep trying too hard to emulate my traditional style. Which I need to stop. I think my style lends itself more to cel shading I just.... am not confident at it. I need to do some online courses I think. 

Thank you all for your kind commentary. :)

I feel so terrible saying this because I don't know if there's a better way, but after reading the reply where you mentioned that you feel bad your art isn't getting out there, I went and had a look. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into it, but there really seems to be a bit of an uncanny valley effect when you draw people - it might be an issue with the level of detail/realism you're trying to go for, or perhaps the shading? I love your use of colour but the characters feel creepy.

Hey Nonny!

Thanks for your honesty; I’ll take it to heart and try to improve. This is the proper way for constructive criticism, and it’s appreciated.

I think it’s just more frustrating because this has been something ongoing for literally decades. I used to draw anime/manga style, my art was considered shit. So I tried a little more loose and fun style, my art was considered unoriginal. I focused on a chibi style, it was considered unoriginal. My last style, people hated it because they said my heads were too big / feet too big (funny thing about this one, another big name artist in another fandom actually stole my crooked tails/big feet style, and everyone fucking praised them and my art was still ignored).

I switched to humans AND digital art a few years ago, and I still have troubles with noses and mouths, and I can’t do either of those right either. 

You can actually see my art progression over on my deviantART. There’s over 1000 pieces up there, I think. Just so much of the gallery is old stuff that I cringe when I go to it, LOL. But I’ve always found passion and love in fandom, and I’ve always wanted to do a comic, but time is something I’m in short supply of.

I can’t please anyone, anymore, honestly. I have other qualms regarding certain... styles... but I’m not going to publicly say it here, because I already get enough hate in my inbox. It’s mostly all a self-esteem issue these days. People like my art fine when I do stuff for them. But as soon as it’s not for them, I get shit on. I’ve seen other styles similar to mine, and they get lots of traction, so I dunno. And as I said, people have down right stolen my art before (hence the big watermarks), and yeah.

I’ve never done bad in art classes in high school and college (90+, deductions were always because I was always late with assignments), and I’m a professional graphic designer, so I guess I just have a hard time with... thinking beyond the confines of a social media shitpost piece? Newspaper design destroyed my creativity, Lovely. Because almost 20 years of design jobs “everything has to be just so” has pretty much erased the creativity I used to have, LOL. I like it when my freelance clients let me work beyond “photo, name, call to action” LOL. My day job is great but we have to pretty much have to stay on-brand all the time.

I know I need a lot of learning to still do re: digital art, and I do lessons online here and there from time to time. It’s just hard when my current job demands so much time from me, and depression and feelings of self-loathing leave me constantly just... not up, you know? I used to have a lot more free time than I do nowadays, which is ironic given I’m at home all the time. 

Anyway. I know those aren’t excuses. I just want to make people happy with my art, and it’s hard when work and my own anxiety bleeds me dry, y’know? I do art for myself more than anything, just something to break up the ennui of my day job and loneliness.

Thank you for your respectful comments. I’ll try from this point forward to tweak my stuff, and I hope you’ll come back in a few months / another year and let me know if you think.