#art adjacent

[grimvestige]

I made a Clip Studio TIPS guide on consistently working on a webcomic! If you're struggling to start your own or having trouble being consistent I hope this guide can offer some help!

You can click here if you wanna read it for free and are sick of me pitching it to you!

In the guide I go over:

Tips on planning your comic

Tips on creating a production pipeline, and an example of what I use

Tips on planning how to sit down and actually WORK on your comic

Ideas on how to stay motivated while working on a long-running comic

Practical advice to keep improving your production pipeline

If any of that sounds helpful, please consider reading it, favoriting it for later, or sending it to a friend who keeps saying they want to make webcomics ^.^

[lastnightstoryart]

I made a new video, this time talking about the dangers of becoming a slave to your art style.

I talk about how many artists, myself included, are in the search of finding their artist identity, without realizing how detrimental it can be to your evolution as an artist.

[irvingcoded]

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please feel free to send me some for warm-ups here, too!!

[enspey]

The ongoing AI battle. I had to unfollow yet another author, and stop supporting their patreon. It breaks my heart. It really does. I understand the excitement of “oh look people made fanart”, but the cost is this. If you share AI Art, you promote it. You say it’s okay. It’s to be tolerated. You may not be able to stop people from doing it, but you sure as hell can stand with artists and not give it your platform.

AI Art is ART THEFT. Periodt.

Really stings with authors tho. Especially since I know so many struggle and feel burned when people leak their patreon stuff. Don’t be a hypocrite. If you share and promote AI art you’re not better than someone benefitting from someone else’s leak.

[vanilla-extracter]

If i never finish this still life, just know that the setup was fire

[laskardoodles]

if you have a trakteer.id account and the money to spare, consider supporting a small-time queer indonesian artist! https://trakteer.id/cakargambar

[ccosmicentity]

hiii i cant decide what to paint so if anyone wants to help .

hi thanks 👍👍

[novastar-creations]

Asking as a writer, so please let me know if this is offensive:

I’m writing a Native American character from the Waco band of the Wichita Tribe named River Renatus (they/them). They are a part of a superhero narrative I originally started for a class project, but I’ve since grown attached to the narrative they’re apart of and want to make a fleshed-out story of it. I originally started from power up after my friend suggested a nonbinary shapeshifter who doesn’t hold form too long due to dysphoria, and after naming them River, I started to look into what their heritage could be. While researching, I came across Native American cultures (I’m from Australia and haven’t had heaps of exposure to other First Nations cultures) and two spirited people. I thought that that would be a really cool concept, and decided to research it a bit more. I’ve been looking into both Wichita and Waco culture, as well as tropes and stereotypes to steer clear of. The thing about River is that they’re a shapeshifter, and I’m now debating on changing them because of a couple things:

1) I’m still not clear on their origin story, and whether their powers are because of magic exposure or scientific modification. In the event of magic, I’ll probably steer clear of it being genetic, as that could have affiliations with “Native Shaman” and “Magic Native” tropes.

2) Shapeshifting may have negative affiliations to do with sk/nwalkers, two-faces, and other folklore myths and stories in Native American cultures.

3) The name River may need to change. I named them River because of associations with fluidity and change (because they’re a shapeshifter), but I named them that before deciding on race, ethnicity or heritage. During my research, I found that naming a native characters after nature-y things can play into stereotypes, and can also be related to Spirit Names, which is a deeply personal and complicated practice.

TLDR: I would like a bit of advice about writing a Native American character (specifically one from the Wichita region), and whether I should change their name (River) and power (Shapeshifting) to be more sensitive.

Also, when I write, I try to incorporate as much diversity and belonging as possible, especially in real life settings, because I believe positive representation matters and it’s important to me, as an individual, to be respectful. I usually put a lot of very extensive research into writing my characters, and 99% of the time I can find an answer to any questions I may hold, but I unfortunately couldn’t find answers to these questions. Please help, and please don’t be shy if I’m being insensitive or overthinking this.

[zoof-katt]

Lets see if this works

Feel free to vote no matter what your art form is! This goes for writers, poets, musicians, and so on

[grimvestige]

OKAY BUT ACTUALLY I used to not really "get" modern/abstract art, even when I was a student studying to get my degree, and I had to make some my freshman year. And honestly, I didn't get it until at a museum trip standing in front of a large solid black painted canvas one of my professors explained to me that the solid black canvas was painted by hand. There was no indication that there was ever a brush there whatsoever, it looked printed. And yet it was hand-painted, and even more so the artist had mixed the paint for that themselves. And that shade of black was consistent. If you've ever tried to mix paint for yourself, or hell even get colors matched, you know how hard that is.

That experience alone cemented the fact that at least as far as my personal understanding of abstract art, it's a really valuable way to explore artistic concepts (color, rhythm, etc) without the complications of adding a subject that people start attaching meanings you don't want to it. It's a way of just getting so lost in the making part, in just the aesthetics. It's also a way of saying something really complicated in a really simple manner if you do end up using subjects or names that are recognizable.

Anyway that's my mini 7am ramble about abstract and by extension modern art.

[grimvestige]

OH YEAH BTW I AM DOING ART FIGHT HERES MY PROFILE

if the site goes down, here's my forever homed folder on TH, most of the characters featured here are in my D&D folder ^^

[rosesncarnations]

I know only tog fae have the fangs but fuck you feyre’s getting little fangs

[enspey]

Reminder

AI “art” is art theft. If you reblog it or support it, you support art theft. No way around it. You turn a blind eye to it. You’re supporting it. I won’t go messaging people or sending hate mail. You do you. I’m gonna do me. I don’t support it. I don’t support people that support it. Even if it pains me. It hurts more to watch people I like and respect hold no respect for what I do.

Really hurting rn tho……

[grimvestige]

THIS ALSO GOES FOR ART.

Creatives want to talk about their work!!! We just also don't wanna be annoying as heck so you gotta prod us a bit! Or sometimes the satisfaction comes from someone else finding the little secrets we put in!!!

Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness

Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?

THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT

I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible

Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together

[xeelane]

Wanting to start sharing my art again but the fear of AI is too real