#and im proud of myself for drawing armor lol

[quasieli]

[Image description: Four images, each featuring my OC Devo (they/he), set against a two tone blue floral patterned background. The first three images show Devo in their different layers of clothing, while the last image compiles the three shots together, along with displaying their shield and sword. Devo is a young, buff, tan complexion Elf with medium length curly dark brown hair pulled up in a ponytail and shaved on the side. They are covered in light brown freckles, have a series of gashes and scars across their body, including a thick scar on the stump of their left bicep, where a gold prosthetic arm meets the stump, and top surgery scars. They are stood in three quarters profile, facing right, with one hand on their hip and the other holding their sword, which is resting on their shoulder.

In the first image, Devo is only wearing light blue boxers. In the second image, he is wearing a sleeveless light blue crop top, black pants with gold accenting, blue and green boots, and a brown fingerless glove on his right hand. In the third image, he is in his full armor. The set is different shades of gold and consists of a chest plate, pauldrons, a chain skirt, and greaves. He also has a brown leather belt with a small pouch on his hip.

The last image shows the full design of their sword, with a two tone pale gold hilt, silver blade, and two blue gemstone, as well as their shield, with a swirling, fire-like design on its front. End description.]

Been a little bit since I gave my pally some love! After treating him so badly in Heart, I thought giving the D&D version of him a bit of a makeover/redesign would be nice lol

[guinevereslancelot]

putting way too much effort into drawing a meme rn <3

[everythingsakura]

Imperial MultiSaku AU

Okay I know I said I was gonna save itachi and sasori for last but I can't help but want to post them first 😩😩😩 so here's consort sasori, commander itachi and crown princess sakura y'all.

(this AU was inspired by a manhua titled 'Queen's Palace' which is rather popular. It's a reverse harem that takes place in a world where gender roles are reversed: women are the ones in power while men have little to no autonomy over their lives. I love the characters and the plot is really good too~)

Icb I did all these in a week lmaooo usually it takes me forever to finish a single drawing and now wham I have three, with another one in the works 😂😂 wish I had the same dedication for my assignments 🙃

my drawing style is still inconsistent af, I'm still experimenting with everything 😌

I originally wanted to draw armor on itachi but i got lazy so let's just imagine he's off duty or training so there's no armor okayyy

Also also!!! I managed to draw a decent sword!!! Yeay meee

Initially, i wanted to have sasori more blinged out but to no one's suprise, i got lazy again. I apologise sasori-sama, i will deck you out with more diamonds and gold next time 🙇‍♀️

I put in a lot of effort on drawing that fan y'all, im so proud of myself *wipes away tears*

Sakura is a warrior princess, which explains the less ostentatious and more practical clothes. Don't worry, I'll probably dress her up to max impracticality soon enough lol

Next week: sasuke and naruto~

[the-stray-liger]

when your current art looks shitty compared to what you used to do that's when you know your getting better at it

ive got an old sketch on my wall from middle school of Typical Not Self-Insert Character In Cool Armor With Giant Sword. It's incredible. How did I do that. I can't draw like that now.

but I can SEE this old picture, despite the embarrassment around it's actual subject, is actually good. When I first hung it up way back when it was just because I wished I had a sword. Now I look at the confident lines, the shading, the grasp of depth perception on so many angular objects, the way the cloth of the cape falls in folds that have weight to them. I can recognize what makes it a nice drawing. I couldn't do that before.

there's this thing i read about once where people who are getting better at a skill go through this cycle of This Is Impossible to WOW I'M SO GREAT AT THIS to I Have Lost The Ability To Preform Even The Most Basic Part Of This And Should Fire Myself Forever

and then slowly they realize they can kinda do it again. Hey, they can even do that one thing they've never been able to do before!

rinse, recycle, repeat. Every year I go through it. Depression doesn't help. For a few years I didn't draw anything at all and almost burned all my old sketches. Now I'm doodling ducktale characters and making fat circular birds with twig legs.

I aged out of school and have never had a job (thank you family for not letting me starve) and my whole damn life people have been asking me why I don't sell my drawings.

because I can't draw, I tell them, staring at the things I made two years ago and couldn't replicate now if someone put gun to my head.

but sometimes, for a few months, I can. I can sit down and have an idea and make it happen. Sometimes the idea is a favorite character. Sometimes its just a random pattern of flowers. Every time it happens I'm scared it'll be the last time.

Then I remind myself of all the other people who go though some version of this stupid cycle. If you like drawing, you'll probably draw again someday- maybe not in the same style as you used to- but if it makes you happy you'll do it for the happy feelings, and if you draw you'll get better at it, and as you get better you'll learn to see all the flaws, and you'll get discouraged, and that's normal.

I also remind myself of how other people always seem to like the drawings I'm least happy with, and pass over the ones I'm actually proud of. People have different taste. Everyone else's sucks compared to mine, for example, which a completely true and unbiased fact (lol).

Right now I can draw because I never show any of my drawings to anyone. They're for me. Mine. And the voice in the back of my head chattering about wasting time and being a useless burden can go stuff itself.

Yesterday I drew a cartoon duck. It sucks. I had a lot of fun WHILE making it though. And the duck looks a lot better than it did when I first drew one a week ago. Practice makes progress. Talent is bullshit. Skills are learned and maintained.

so my advice is draw something badly and giggle while you do.

Hey anon! You're absolutely right. I remember back when I was drawing fulll time going thru a couple art blocks where everything I made looked awful bc I was learning to look at it with more critical eyes and my hands hadn't caught up yet. I feel like that's a big part of my burnout too-I suddenly learned a lot of theory and I had come to a point where I hadn't developped the skills to match and it destroyed a lot of my confidence and self esteem

It's also that at the end of the day I forgot who I was drawing for bc I was so obsessed with social media recognition and with algorithms and stuff the harder I worked the less notifications I got

And I generally have a HUGE problem with guilt and feeling like a burden too like I feel you 600% on that lol I always felt terrible bc I couldn't make a living out of my art

I think Im gonna work again on making art that's only for me and drawing things I enjoy even if it's not like the best quality or quantity. I'm gonna take it slow (even if it drives me up the wall) and have fun again!

Thank you so much for the kind word and advice!!