#art school .. time consuming

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I want to read books I want to write more I want to play the piano I want to sing in key I want to delve into fashion history I want to travel I want to publish research papers and I want to become a surgeon and I’m supposed to do all that in this one wild and beautiful life

[willczek-art]

The real nightmare of Nightmare Time is that there's so little of it

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

skirtnaga sketch between classwork

[axel-tiredstudent]

for my naruto high school au! heres an updated relationship map of the teens + the teachers

and heres my queer headcanons for the teens i havent drawn yet!

[thatthirstyweirdo]

OH MY GOD! Is that- AN ACTUAL REFERENCE FOR MAVERICK?? God bless me and my lazy ass I’m finally doing smt

YIPPEE SO HERE’S MAVERICK MIC!! I might as well tell y’all a bit more about him, since…I don’t talk about him as much as I should…As I mentioned before, Maverick is Welcome Home’s one and only radio host! But before that he used to be an actor, and a very successful one at that. But unfortunately a freak accident occurred during filming (one of the actors got shot 💀) which led to lots and lots controversy. Maverick’s career was… kinda in shambles so he decided to leave it all behind and move to Home where he got himself his own radio station!!

I feel like in the show he would be more of a background character. Since he’s always on the station his voice can be heard on the radio 24/7. And even when he’s not his voice is STILL heard on the radio. It’s just a funky thing he does. After all what kind of radio host would he be if he left his audience waiting? Not a good one that’s for sure. So it became common knowledge among the neighbors that Maverick’s always around!!

I think Maverick over all is quite a charismatic character. I like to think that he’s a rather chill guy but if he were to spend time with his neighbors he would act like a sort of dad friend trying to keep everyone out of trouble as much as he can. But since that doesn’t happen often the neighbors see Maverick as kinda mysterious. I mean the guy talks a lot about anything but himself. He doesn’t bring up his past or really anything related to him. And when he does he doesn’t go into detail. He’s just kinda like that. But he does like telling fun stories from his actor days!

[ambyandony]

(Flashbangs you) Fugo wake up. I just saw a really cool frog on Wikipedia. Look.

2024 version

old versions below

2022

2021

[bogkeep]

it was always a strange dichotomy. every middle school classmate i had told me i'd be a millionaire when i grew up, a Famouse Artisté. it's easy enough to imagine as a teen, i suppose: skill equals fame equals money. i was doubtful about this prophecy, not because i wasn't confident in my ability to draw, but because it was hard to imagine a world where i'd be paid for it.

it was an ice breaker game at summer camp. horrible one, really - everyone in a group were given a character profile. now we had to imagine that it was the zombie apocalypse, and the helicopter to safety was two seats short and we had argue why we deserved a spot. the character i got was an asshole doctor of some kind. i don't remember if i argued my way into the helicopter or not, but i do remember the feeling that's been hanging over me my entire life - if the apocalypse happens right now, i have nothing to contribute.

there's something really painful about it. i have cultivated a skill for my whole life, i can make art and tell stories that are entirely unique to me, there is no way to get someone else to create in the exact same way i can, and yet - i've contributed more to capitalist society by sitting in an empty hotel reception for eight hours a day.

which made me develop anxiety, to boot.

i illustrated two children's books. they're some of my best work. the contract i signed was industry standard and the indie author who had hired me was incredibly kind... but even after stock sold out i had earnt little more than some pocket change.

in high school we had an outing to dig our own snow caves that we would spend the night in. in teams, thankfully. i have so little physical strength to speak of, most i could do to help was clear away the snow rubble and toss it outside. i know, i know, my classmates reassured me it was an important job to do, i was an invaluable member of the group, sure - but it's that feeling, you know?

what would my task be in the communist solarpunk commune?

a person cannot be useless. it's a human being. they just exist, no ifs and buts about it. one can only be useless in the eyes of an ableist, capitalist society that sees no value in being alive beyond production and profit.

sometimes i receive messages from internet strangers to tell me something i said - often several years ago - was helpful to them. maybe it was a throwaway comment on a forum. maybe it was replying to a question they could've googled the answer to. maybe it was an encouraging reply to someone's artwork. turns out it mattered to someone. huh.

of course you can learn new skills. i have learnt plenty over the years! i have also learnt that there are limitations to what i can do. that some of the obstacles i face are not in fact obstacles everyone faces. it's not that i can't break tasks into smaller steps, it's more that half of those steps are going to be "rinse your hands because you Touched a Thing and now you're going to have to touch Another Thing." i wonder if that's adding to my cognitive load or something.

i was never raised to be a man, so by all accounts i do not understand why i'm so haunted by the spectre of toxic masculinity - what would i do if i was a medieval peasant and a war broke out? what if i was in a pre-historic hunter gatherer society and i was expected to hunt? what if i was a humble farm boy discovering the sword of the chosen one and the world depended on my non-existing courage to face certain death?

look, it's stupid. these are not scenarios i will find myself in. besides, pre-historic humans depended on community and taking care of each other. that's how we survive.

i'm not useless and i decided to make peace with being useless anyway.

we're surrounded by digital clocks. we can't really escape them. do we need watchmakers? would they save me a spot in the zombie apocalypse helicopter? no, don't answer that. i'm just happy i found something that requires a light touch and an observant eye.

[thejacketscloset]

Gang ik I mainly post fanart but like... I'm real proud of how thus painting study turned out for my painting class

It was a study on one of the landscapes painted by the group of 7 n I think it's pretty neat

[ruddigerspawss]

been playing around w watercolors heres a muno painting my mom requested :]

[lilacmuffins]

;; "please forgive me for whatever i do" (art)

i sketched this on mspaint at 3:00am if it looks bad LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

anyway i've been thinking about one of the most devastating adoptive father-daughter duos ever recently, especially with fionna and cake coming out and me rewatching AT and all that. simon and marcy make me SAD!!! (no words ver. and sketch under the cut)

my sketches are nearly incomprehensible to everyone but me (especially the mspaint ones)

[karnaca78]

Inktober Day 26: Remove

FULL PICTURE UNDER THE CUT (slightly gore + disturbing eye imagery)

Fanart for the fanfic In Ictu Oculi by @wikipedianna. The idea came to me after reading a very memorable scene. Style-wise, I was seeking to emulate 19th century scientific illustrations, such as those you could find in a textbook, but with an additional horrific and surreal touch to it.

(All the hatching has been done by hand, but no wrist has been harmed during the process.)

(click for higher resolution I guess)

[fishfission-dc]

if you’ve sent me a doodle request in my inbox i promise i’m not ignoring you i want nothing else but to do all of my little goofy dc comics drawings but unfortunately i go to college and have two jobs and have to build my 3d generalist portfolio and apply for internships and learn maya and nuke and premier and photoshop and substance painter for school and also somehow sleep and eat

if i respond to your ask in 6 months know that i have even freed

[luckyshouse]

almost all of my fear about plagerism and the creators hating what i've done to their characters comes from my internalized fear of people taking my characters and warping them into something i explicitely didnt want them to be (common occurrence in rp spaces i was in as a kid) and even deeper than that it comes from my dads fucking insane ramblings about people taking his beloved comic book characters and twisting them into "mary sues" or "self inserts" or GOD FORBID...! MAKING THEM GAY!!!! and his constant rants about it that would typically end in me getting punished. morally, i see nothing wrong with taking characters from popular fiction or media whether or not it's SUPER mainstream or not. the only issue is if small artists are getting properly comped for their already existing work. it's the same exact logic i apply to shoplifting, but arguably even more lenient. can you even steal an idea? a character? if everythings already done can it be stealing at all? a character will mean a different thing to every single person in the audience and one artist could never produce another artists same thoughts and ideas in the same symbolic and metaphorical ways. all of this is accumulates to a frustrating internal dialogue about worrying about making fanart and what the creators might think about it vs believing that fanart itself doesn't even really exist. needless to say, i think i've gotten over my whole dilemma about drawing fanart and what it means about me morally, and what it means about the creator. it doesn't matter. i'm not getting paid for the things i do, and all fanart i make is reimaginative and interpretive, i make fanart to be about myself instead of about the creator. and if the creator doesn't like it, well, it's certainly not the worst thing anyones ever done with their work. and if i became famous, i have accepted that people will warp my writing and characters either way. i have the autonomy to ignore it. i have the choice to disengage. and i think that has given me a lot of calm when it comes to my gripes about fanart. if the artist doesn't like it that's fine. they have the autonomy and choice to ignore it.

[cinemacrypt]

So so so fucking angry tonight

[icterid-rubus]

Tonight’s breakdown comes from finding my old drawing supplies in their handmade pouches that I’d put away after graduating and haven’t touched in six years. I’d spent 20 years of my life fine tuning my selection, carefully decided what goes where and why. Then I got burnt out and put it away. I can’t believe I forgot about them. I don’t remember why I used these particular pens. I’ve never felt more like I’ve wasted my life.

[bmpmp3]

I NEEED to go back to making art that makes it ABUNDANTLY clear that theres something wrong with my brain BUT NOT in a cool or stylishly interesting way. i need to do it in a way that makes people say "hm." and walk away