#but literally my art skills peaked drawing this

[vickyyrose]

finaly gave in to watching breaking bad currently on season 2 anyways got inspired to draw this loser so here u go.

[theleechyskrunkly]

101 FOLLOWERS!!!!

Guys I genuinely couldn’t be more thankful 🥹 I never thought I’d make it above even 50 followers, so to have reached a milestone of over 100 is just so mind blowing to me. I want to take all of you who have gotten me here, but especially my dearest mutuals, you guys are so amazing 😭🙏

I’d like to give my most special thanks to my irl who introduced me to Tumblr in the first place! @enigmatic-pers seriously THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THIS COMMUNITY PERS, YOURE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!!

Now on to ALL my mutuals, because you guys are all so fucking amazing I can’t even begin to explain it!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH @thehollowwriter !!!! YOUR WRITING AND OCS ARE SO AMAZING YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH I ADMIRE YOU 🫵🫵🫵💖💖💖

YOU JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER @xen-blank AND EVEN THOUGH WE DONT TALK MUCH I STILL LOVE SEEING YOU IN MY FEED, APPRECIATE YOU TONS ‼️‼️

YOU ARE GENUINELY ONE OF THE SWEETEST MUTUALS I HAVE @oya-oya-okay WE DONT TALK MUCH BUT I REALLY ENJOY SEEING YOU IN MY FEED AND WATCHING YOUR ART IMPROVE! SENDING SO MUCH LOVE 💕

YOU 🫵🫵🫵 @cyanide-latte YOU AND YOUR SILLIES BRING ME ETERNAL JOY!!! I hope your life is filled with wonderful things and I BEST be seeing more of those silly babies (OCs) of yours 💗💗💗

I EAT UP EVERYTHING YOU POST SO HARD @tixdixl LIKE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW??!?!?!!?! You are like the chill guy (gender neutral) of my mutuals 😭 your energy is so calm and nice to interact with, ADORE YOU AND YOURS OCS 💗💗💗

😈 @distant-velleity you… YOU… YOOUUUUUU GRRRAAAAAAHHHHHH My brother in arms when it comes to OC torture, peak interactions but your taste is questionable Kai 😄 (fishkisser 🫵/neg)

I sense your presence and wish I could marry you (we’ve divorced twice) @elenauaurs your art tips on drawing what I feel like are marvelous, you’re genuinely a very caring person and I LOVE LOVE LOVE you energy. Love you to bits Elena 🫶🫶🫶

We didn’t interact much, but you’re an oddball just like me fr, and for that I like you 😈🫵 @nahelenia

Bro. Bro. That are you made of Aurinelle? Literally my reference for everything. If someone asks about him? I show him that image. You are FUCKING AMAZING!!!!! FOREVER CREDITED YOURE SO FUCKING AWESOME 🔥🔥🔥 @ghostiidasponk

SHOOPYYYYYYY AAAARRRRGHHHHHH @boopshoops YOURE SO COOL AAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually adore your art and the effort you put into your OCs, you’re very cool and one of my favorite twst artists out there. Keep it up 💞💞💞‼️‼️

We haven’t interacted in a while, but your art is honestly so cute and funny!!!! I love your humor and you’re honestly great <3 @saikira999 HOPE YOU GET MORE RECOGNITION FOR YOUR SKILLS IN THE FUTURE <<33

*stares deep into your eyes with my scary brown orbs 👁️👁️* Well, well, well… If it isn’t one of my favorite artists whom I didn’t even realize I was mutuals with for the longest time ever 🙂 @oathofoaks YOU PRICK I DIDNT EVEN KNOW YOU HAD A SECOND BLOG FOR THE LONGEST TIME 👹👹👹 anyways. YOURE SO FUCKING COOL AND AMAZING YOI DONT EVEN KNOW!!!! Def top 3 favorite twst artists, without a doubt! its an honor to be your mutual ☺️☺️💕

MY MOOTHEERRRR!!!! MY ELDER SIBLING!!!!!!! AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!!!!!!!! @twistedwonderlandshenanigans my top notch cheerleader (and opp because those chanclas hurt 😢😢😢) you have NO IDEA how much I appreciate you being in my life. Your encouragement and sweet words of comfort bring an immeasurable joy to my days, and every time we interact I get EXTREMELY giddy. LOVE YOU TO PIECES V 💞💞💞💓💓💓💓💖💖💖

Literally my other half because who tf is you and who told you you could match my freak 🤨🤨🤨🤨 @lumdays I hope a boulder falls on your head and Jade Juca Leech appears to save you <3 /aff

HIIIIII DARLING 🤪🤪🤪💖💖💖💓💓💓 @amatsuchan-eiliniel literally so lovely, sweet, and amazing 🤩 I want you to know I love you so so much, and you will forever be THE ROOK TO MY VIL <<<333 🏹👑

Another moot who I don’t interact with NEARLY as much as I would like to, but I appreciate you regardless @br3adtoasty your art is MESMERIZING 🤩🤩🤩‼️‼️‼️

HIIII ELLIS HIHIHIHIHI @starry-night-rose my coquette pink girl comrade ALL THE WAY!!! Love love love your sweet kind energy, you’re truly adorable and I hope for great things in your life 💓💓

[jester-w-n0n4m3]

Don’t ask how i know this—highly classified, you understand—but that wyervan guy? Literally just eight gnomes in a trench coat. Their “style” and “skill” is just a grungy procreate brush and sticking pointy bits where they have no right to be.

And if you *still* want to draw smth for their dinky lil slasher au after learning this shocking (!!) information, just know that all eight of them will go ABSOLUTELY FERAL in delight. Like literally they’ll reread your character’s bio several times over, probably save your drawing to their phone gallery, rotate your art in their brain like a microwave. Total weirdo, amirite?

*cough* 👁️ 👄 👁️

Is this the creator themselves or a friend of theirs in disguise?/genq

Uhhh I'll tag if it's alright just so u have the sneak peak of my fnaf oc I'm making and then gonna plan the human version to yeet in the au and traumatize- @wyervan

Bear with me, I don't do any digital art at all- 😭😭

[luckyshouse]

u make me wanna make more weird art but idk how to let myself

i dont know what is holding you back specifically, but maybe sharing some of my own experience with this can help? i had the same issue very badly when i was a fanartist, or at least still defined myself as one. heres some of my fanart from that time, when i was still feeling really trapped in this like phase of knowing i wanted to make "weird" art but not knowing how to, i specifically remember knowing i had things i wanted to say and that i wanted to experiment more but i was right at that peak of breaking out of the mold, but still really held back.

i remember feeling like my art wasnt mine, and that instead of making art that i wanted to make about my experiences, i was trying to find places where i could acceptably "squeeze in" aspects of me into my own art. this is definitely because of the people i was surrounding myself with at the time too, but i felt horribly embarrassed about how indulgent my art was and how weird it was in comparison to the stuff my friends were making. i just felt really off. like maybe if i learned how to draw even better i'd get to a point where things got better but the more and more i practiced technical skills the more i just ended up hating it. the last ones a good example of that. not that i hate it anymore, but i did at the time really badly. eventually i had a couple really really really bad health scares, and all of them hammered in a single idea: it wasn't the fact that my art "wasnt good enough" that i was unhappy with it, it was that i felt unable to express or do what i actually wanted to do, both aesthetics wise and concept wise. i started branching out more and the more i did the more the people i was surrounded by were not into my art anymore, which was a bummer, but at the same time more people who actually liked what i had to say did start showing up. and over a short amount of time it became apparent to me that the issue i was having with my art wasn't even related to my art- it was related to the fact that i literally wanted to express ideas conceptually that not only went against what the "status quo" is, but that me actively choosing not to do that was another form of repression i was using. by branding myself as a fanartist or an artist who does specifically one or another thing for such a long time i had repressed a lot of what i had actually wanted to make, and not only was that affecting my art but the way i saw myself and the way i let people talk to me.

sorry if this is starting to sound a bit preachy, but so much of my experience making "Weird" art has been less about the art itself and moreso a journey on learning how to be okay with my disabilities and the fact that i personally always be "different" than other people for a myriad of reasons, and that there are likeminded "different" people everywhere and its a beautiful, and desperately NEEDED thing. i was talking to my brother a while about how the reason why i am so insanely obsessed with self expression is because right now, to me, it feels less like an act of self love, and more like a political act. i have spoken about ugly laws in the past and how disability history is genuinely, like, genuinely horrific to learn about and as a way to help myself make the art i want to make and do what i want to do, i remind myself that i am historically important time for disabled and autistic people. both because of the political climate right now but also because of the fact that historically, i would not be where i am right now, i would be dead or institutionalized if my family history is anything to go by.

"weird" art is like a fundamental believe of mine, when you compare animation and cartooning history to disability history and keep both in mind when you learn about facism it becomes so obvious to me at least that art is intrinsically connected to the self and identity and expression, but also just like, literally one of the human needs, especially when it comes to processing trauma and becoming a more empathetic and critical and understanding person. and right now i feel like art is under fire at all sides in every direction, and considering that i would argue that being autistic and trans is the same thing, i view making weird art as intrinsically connected to my existance as a high support needs disabled transgender person, it holds the same level of importance in my head, and is one of the acts of "rebellion" i can actually engage in as a disabled person. < i feel preachy LOL I JUST REALLY CARE ABOUT WEIRD ART AND THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE MAKING IT BOTH AS AN ACT OF SELF LOVE BUT ALSO AS A POLITICAL ACT AGAINST FACISM. i have never in my life felt better about my art and had so much fun both making it and looking at it, i have never felt so much ownership about my own abilities and voice. i cannot encourage it enough. and the best part about "weird" art is that it isn't a genre! the only thing that makes it "weird art" is if its literally kindered towards your own tastes and actively what you want to make and enjoy making, its literally defined by going against the grain to create whatever is calling to you and learning the skills that you need to do that but also attuning it to your own specific needs, its like developing a language and learning how to translate that language. and also like learning a language that people who resonate with you know how to speak. that is how i've felt making art. for once i feel like people are seeing me for what i want to be seen as, and who i know i am, and in turn i do the same for them.

i was raised by two "failed" artists, a musician, and all of us were show people and did public performance. i saw and experienced the effects of them attempting to make themselves marketable, commodifiable, and eventually giving up art entirely. it is a tool facism uses to break people. if there is one thing i want to do it is encourage people to make weird art. maybe thinking about it as a political act might help? it did for me.

[willwoodstoes]

few things

one: dear god today's been hell

two: about that art thing

I am in the EXACT same boat.

I get so many ideas to draw things but I just don't have the skill!

like the best thing I drew was this, at 3am, after spending all of the last 2 days on it:

that is my PEAK

and i had to look up multiple tutorials!

the best thing I've drawn since has been a shitty house, literally the same quality a kid could draw

so friendly reminder that you are your own worst critic

I fucking ADORE your art, you're a lot better than you think!

stay drawing, buddy!

-Mod

In return, a couple of things;

1- Don't get me started, I'm starting to hate spring break because I'm bored and it's just a bit shit when depression decides to come out to play

2- HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT DRAGON IS SO COOL I LOVE IT!! /gen

IMMA NAME HIM GUMDROP /silly

3- Thank you for this ask, I struggle...alot (my old acc is evidence of that) and this genuinely made my day. It means a lot that you'd go out of your way to tell me I'm wrong about my opinion on my stuff, I am my worst enemy 😔

4- HAVE A NICE FUCKNG DAY MAN!!!!

[enpr-ss]

The snails are alive!!!! That’s such a cool thing for the auction. And the vinyl record art looks amazing too! The permits were also such a good idea. And the music!!! What a good way to get people to pay attention to the intros. Etho denying charity because he still needs to use his tissue box. On brand. And having MOJANG be the site of the event??? That’s actually such a huge deal!!!!!

They really just be torturing our streamers for charity now??? Grian was the perfect person to give the remote to. Such a diabolical mind. He’s so giddy with power and it’s clearly the best moment of his life. And Martin’s reaction was the best. Ethically I disapprove but I will admit to rewinding the peak moments several times. Pay to save is also a hilarious way to get money. Snapshot is such a good name for a time powers character! Some of these are great questions too. (If I was dropped into the past, what would I do to prove that I’m from the future? Easy. Pay my respects to my ancestors aka my great grandmothers.) the vibrate to mess with Impulse at the end…pure evil. MARTYN’S REACTIONS HAHAHA. THE SHOCKCAST LOL. And of course Scar wanted to get a cattle prod omg.

What a cool guitar omg. Grian is a menace to travel with, is what I learned. ROBO CLEO?!?!?

Ah it’s “loud” not “lewd”. My bad. The complete bafflement at Skizz and the cut from Gem to Jimmy is perfection. And Grian doing antics in the background!!! Definitely going to watch all the streams. Skizz what is this x 1000. Pearl showing everyone up with her excellent IRL art skills. Cub’s commitment to the beard and wig is amazing. The cut and switch of the host stream is actually pretty good! THE CAT KEYBOARD. That’s Mario, Jimmy. JIMMY CLOUDS ARE NOT BLUE. The cut to Cub flipping over his guess of skizz’s drawing. Incredible. Oh dust bunnies is such a good take, classic Gem. WAIT THAT’S WHAT SKIZZ’S PROMPT WAS??? Yeah Skizz THAT’S what a giraffe looks like. “Who built that one?” “Skizz” lies False with 0 hesitation. Everyone’s outrage and horror at Skizz. JIMMY DIDN’T KNOW THEY HAD COLORS WHEN THEY WERE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM! “Man’s got no ligaments he’s got no bones! Ohhh” and Grian can’t take it anymore and leaves. Classic Skizz. Cub’s always getting shot on stream lol. SKIZZ WHAT IS THAT. Cub no. You were on such a good track why. Gem’s silent resignation to drawing feet on stream. And it’s not bad, with knees and heels too. Her disappointed sighs. The whoopee cushion slap in the face as Jimmy despair over having to draw feet. And then Jimmy quite efficiently snatches the whoopee cushion and manhandles Grian into sitting on it. Truly a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass moment. I’m so glad the host stream caught it. Jimmy not the “…” Cub built that in f5? Incredible. The amounts that the drawings are going for on the auction is astounding.

Martyn MVP again with the rapid fire readings of the dollar drive! Incredible. Rip Grian. The return of Etho’s Dishwasher! And Man’s Eternal Struggle. It’s always amazing to me that Martyn can make a list of names actually entertaining to listen to.

CARELESS WHISPERS LOL IMPULSE FUMBLING THE LAST MARBLE AND SHOUTING IN OUTRAGE. “Impulse is not a Swiftie and I’m disappointed!” Not bad for Ren and Skizz. Grian with the tactics but failing with the giggling. Jimmy pull yourself together!!! They were doing so well on the kazoo ping pong balls. No wonder Grian smacked him. And it was LOUD. And they still won lol. Gem with the stick of persuasion…. So much noise and so much anxious yelps from Impulse. Honestly they did pretty well for having 0 time to plan. Rip Impulse stepping on all the bubble wraps. ROBOREN!!! What is this strategy I can’t. Literally trampling all the bubble wrap. Interesting strat from Control Issue Micromanager Grian. And I didn’t realize there were balls in the sticks for extra noise. Excellent work. But still nearly lost to the Swifties lol.

Scar’s bafflement at Skizz’s sock lol. The dono bridge! Sad I missed it.

What is this tortilla slap fight trend??? Of course Impy ripped the tortilla twice. Omg rip Tango. Impulse is so competitive lol. WAIT DID GRIAN GET FRIENDLY FIRED??? And Gem???

False is completely ready to murder Ren in game and IRL. Props to production for showing the saga of Ren stealthing to False.

Tortilla fight part 2! Grian slapped him so hard that he spat lol.

Jimmy was the number 1 nerf target. The nerf wars!!! Now that was a proper battle!!

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

For the character meme: beast wars dinobot

-cybertron-after-dark

hiiiiiiiiiiiii :)

How I feel about this character

Love Pink!

I think everyone's love for him was the reason why I decided to watch beast wars in the first place. And i almost quit the show after he died so i'd say i like him a normal amount (lie).

I have a love hate relationship with his design cuz its sooooo hard for me to draw like why did he do that he should have chosen something simpler. 

His mannerisms and how tall he is makes everything in the show 10 times more funny(to me). ohhhhh I'm fixed on his voice and vocal tics it really does make him stand out from the rest of the cast.

He’s so mean too, a hating ass bitch, I can respect that. He’d be the best fast food coworker (he’d still work at popeyes!!). And sometimes he be loud and wrong, like ok CLOWN.

How do I say this nicely? Making fun of him is my favourite thing to do. Also since he is the fan favourtie (am i correct in assuming this?) everyone makes fire ass art involving him. always a treat, he never let me down.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

A good fight would make him hooooorny.

Tarantulas - one, I just think it's funny and two, that one episode when he was complimenting tarantulas's hunting skills?? Can you imagine them hunting things together??? I need it!! Dinobot in his evil cannibal twins era <3

Tigatron - uhhh the solitude uhh the warriors bond the best slow burn ever. They are opposites and dont understand each other at all. LITERALLY Law of the Jungle ep is just: tigatron doesn't behave the way DB wants him to so Dinobot is thinking “ *snorts* i can fix him!!”. It’s peak to me…

Tigatron so calm and wholesome, and Dinobot is…NOT pfttttt  AHHH LIKE FIRE AND ICE FIRE AND ICE!!!!! They clash but go togetherrrrrr *sigh* who sees my vision 🥹

thats all my brain could come up with aack

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Cheetor and Dinobot lol hi grandpa take his ass to hot topic 

My unpopular opinion about this character

Dinobot would not make a good leader. He’s not emotionally considerate and does not have the skills to “think past the battle”. He can fight, anticipate an ambush, command some soldiers but that's pretty much it.

Actual diplomacy, or caring about the health of his teammates? HA! 

He constantly wants to abandon people, or overthrow someone, switching sides like crazy. Nigga never been loyal…and he likes to talk about his “honor”.

Now I really need some insight on what “predacon honor” is cuz wtf?? Rattrap was lowkey right, how could we trust him? 

I was sad when he died but ion really feel like he needs to come back, you know? You could kind of sense that there was no direction the show could take his character.

And getting rid of him was the logical choice. He a lil self destructive and got some issues (that's why I love him) but after a while it got repetitive for me. I don't think this show was equipped to handle the characterization they were building up to so him dying was kinda a good thing dare i say. 

He's a bottom 🏳‍🌈

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

More predacon interactions that hint at what his life was like before they crashed on earth.

The lil nuggets we get are so interesting to me, I need to see how the dynamics were before he ‘betrayed’ them.

He knows these guys so well im so madddd i missing out on all the dramaaaaaaa

i also wanted him to interact more with rampage...i cant explain it but....there's something there that needs to be explored

Eat more people

be weird

be a freak

Nerd out tenfold about history

Should have killed silverbolt whaaaa who said that

Thats all i can think of off da top of me headdd, thanks for the ask @cybertron-after-dark 💜

sorry for typos!

[james-is-not-here]

Venting

Imagining random shit to try and fall asleep when it full on hit me that I'm an age regresser...

Like I knew I wanted to be smaller so to speak and I wanted to be like a child but it finally hit me. Not only that, it hit me that I think I'm doing it to cope.

The last few years of my teen hood weren't that great. I lost my Papaw, lost my best friend. Then we were scammed out of a house and had to move in with my grandma and during the time at my grandma's I was experimenting and while doing so I kept secrets. I hid everything from my parents and at the same time someone in my family was going down a dark path, went to a shitty hospital for it which made the dark path even darker and my secrets were apart of that too, I started to feel safer at school rather than my own home.

Then I graduated, my family finally moved out of my grandma's house and slowly but surely the tiny thread I had connected to the family member started to weave itself back together but only now am I realizing that I didn't feel like being "small" until after all this happened.

I use to feel independent and could do things on my own but now? Now I'm scared. I'm scared that my art won't get me to where I want to be, I'm scared that I'll always be by myself and my friends will forget me, I'm now scared to be independent and this all happened after a graduated. I don't have a schedule to follow, I don't have anywhere to go, I don't have a set plan to follow anymore and now all I do is sit around and do random shit on my phone.

For crying out loud, I can't even finish a fucking request or stand alone fics. I start it but then I stop and I feel so shitty for leaving all of you hanging but I also appreciate that no one has hated on me for it, that you're still waiting and I'm sorry that it's taking me so long to get things out.

This started out as me realizing I want to be cared for and held and babied but now I realize just how fucking scared I've become. How Co-Dependent I've become all because I'm not at school anymore like seriously? What happened to the person that willingly auditioned for their first solo in band? What happened to person that helped create a club for their school? What happened to the person that literally offered their skills to a teacher to make posters? What happened to the person that would give more than 100% in school projects that included drawing something?

Why did I step back into my shell? Why did I go back to that shy person in the back of the class that stuttered and tripped over her words when put on the spot? Why did I go back when I was so high up?

My old ELA teacher, god I loved him. Student/Teacher love I mean. He, too, had ADHD and I didn't know that but when he told me I felt so seen. He helped me so much. He helped me understand better and he came up with "The Graph". I'm tearing up just thinking about him cause he was amazing. "The Graph" is what we referred to as my progress. I was to push to keep the graph going up, to not stop and keep it from going down.

Yeah, if I was to see that teacher again he wouldn't be happy that my graph is plummeting. He wouldn't be happy that my graph hasn't peaked in a year, almost two.

I just don't know what I'm doing wrong and I'm fucking scared. I don't know how to get back into the groove I had and I feel so left behind. I know I shouldn't compare myself to others but I feel so behind with all my friends in college or in the military. I know I work differently but I feel like I should be up there with them, I should be doing something beneficial rather than doing nothing. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm even starting to doubt my art which I'm also scared of cause I'm so fucking good at what I do.

I just don't know what to do anymore.

[kaksparkz]

for the artist askgame, idk how many youve answered already but 3,4,10,12,21,24 and 35!

hello helloo!! sorry im just answering this now, been pretty busy^^ (also, using this chance to thank u for your support!! i always see u interacting with my stuff here hbasfcyhdb you're a sweetheart😭💕)

Your fav piece/s?

Probably this vergil one! i still love how it looks djddgnds my art peaked here im afraid,,,,,

Piece you wish got more love?

hmm, this is an interesting one!! tbh i dont mind it much but this johnny fanart got waaaaay more attention on instagram!! i mean,,, i have a lot of mk moots there so it makes sense lol (and also just got to 1k followers on IG!! crazy stuff💌)

How do you deal with artblock?

to be honest, once i realize i have artblock i stop drawing for a couple of days. if i keep insisting on drawing i just get more and more frustrated and it makes it worse imo. so i like to spend some time doing my other hobbies!!! (´▽｀)

usually i just come back to drawing once i regain motivation or i get a cool idea that i need to sketch so i wont forget. and when that happens, my artblock is usually gone!! so,, i guess i just wait for it to go away? lol not much advice i can give on that sadly :/

Describe your process while drawing!

CHAOTIC. to say the least.

i spend like. half an hour on pinterest beforehand getting inspo & searching for refs and ONLY THEN i can start drawing. i start on SAI1, do the sketch and if i like how it looks, i just clean it up. if it dont, i do 'proper' lineart. after that i start coloring and shading!! this is my fav part tbh. once im done shading i color the lineart so its not completely black. then i open up SAI2 and start doing more rendering, adding overlays & effects. that part is also SO FUN cause it makes everything come together so nicelyy. my art process is a pretty big 'trust the process' till that part lol.

there's ALWAYS music or yt videos playing in the bg, and me taking A LOT of 15 minutes breaks cause that one song is so good and i have to stop drawing and start singing while looking at the spotify lyrics like im hypnotized LMAO

What do you thin you artstyle woukd taste like?

people always say my art looks so tasty and. i kind of agree!! like. smth very sweet. it really depends on the colors i use on the piece but,,, either hard candy, gummies, marshmallows or even syrup i think!!!

What's a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

i get super giddy with every compliment i get so i dont think i can remember one in particular??? but istg people always say the funniest, most sweet things ever and it's so nice to hear :3 but if i had to say smth,,, i once had the chance to talk with this one incredibly talented illustrator, and he kept telling me how he thought my stuff looked amazing. and i was like!!! wow!!! you actually like my stuff?? what!!!!

Piece of advice for my younger artist self

i would sit this little girl down and talk to her for hours tbh poor thing was STRUGGLING 😭😭😭

i guess my best advice for her (and for anyone who reads this, too!) is to not be so hard on yourself. art is a skill, and it takes a lot of time to build it up!!!

i used to get SO extremely upset when my stuff didnt look the way i wanted it to and ughhh. took me literal years to find my artstyle too and that didn´t help AT ALL with how frustrated i was feeling. i felt,,, stuck??

but now i look back at my art journey and. wow have i improved!! maybe if that little girl saw the stuff i do today she wouldn´t be so sad about her art :´] not to say i don´t struggle today, i still feel stuck and frustrated often!! but i guess i learned to be kinder to myself. but i still have lots of things to improve about my art!! i wonder when i´ll take another look back and see how much i´ve progressed since today,,,

thank you for the ask!! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

[catgirltoofies]

Do you enjoy baking?

baking is one of the few sources of joy in my life. i know that sounds really bad and it kinda is but it isn't that bad

it's certainly the hobby i feel most comfortable talking about with people who aren't already inundated in the other, less "normal" hobbies like gaming and writing fanfiction. it also produces a tangible product that i can look at, touch, taste, the works. the obvious downside is that it's much more difficult to share over long distances. i can't have you download a cake, for example.

I'm going to piggyback off your question and shout out something that i think really doesn't get said explicitly enough, because it's applicable.

there's no such thing as natural skill.

baking, as with any skill, is something developed over time. i wasn't born a good baker. hell, one of the first times i made muffins i accidentally used salt in place of sugar. every skill you have is one that you spent time building and developing, for one reason or another. and if you want to learn a new skill, you can! you literally can. just start doing it. do it bad. mix up your salt and sugar. color outside the lines. make misshapen pottery pigs. the more you do it the better you'll get.

and finally, one necessary clarification: skill isn't natural, but ability is. sometimes there are things that your body simply isn't capable of, and that's okay. maybe your body isn't flexible enough to do olympic gymnastics. maybe you're physically disabled and unable to do certain tasks such as whipping egg whites or holding a pen properly. learning what your capabilities are is important, so that you can take proper measures to ensure you can still enjoy your hobby. if you can't whip egg whites by hand, you may have to buy an electric stand mixer to do it for you. if you can't hold a pen, you might need to find a different way to control your art - i have no personal understanding of disabled computer usage, but i expect there are myriad ways of drawing or writing on the computer that are designed specifically for whatever disability you have. and sometimes you just don't want to deal with the extra shit! i use my stand mixer for so many things that i could mix by hand because it's just more convenient, in addition to the things i don't know if i could physically do, like whipping meringue to stiff peaks. i use krita's rectangle tool for coloring sometimes because sometimes i just need a big block for a background, or i use a straight line tool that results in a single pixel along the line that isn't in color.

sorry for the tangent. anyone can cook

[rawrtriesagain]

Heya, found your Diakko art, and I wanted to say you’re an amazing artist, and was hoping you could answer some questions from an aspiring artist who hopes to be as good as you some day. How'd you learn to draw so well? Do you know any good online resources to help someone progressively better at art? Like videos on youtube/any online resource to learn the fundamentals of drawing? Anything you wish you knew before starting your art journey? But anyway, I hope you have a nice day!

Hi there! Just to begin this is very sweet of you to send and I'm very glad you like my art! I still have a ton to learn though and I truthfully don't think I draw all that well, but its very nice to know that someone's interested in what I've done to at least get to where I am now. I will warn I may not be the best to learn fundamentals from as I am objectively not an expert artist that can whip out the most jaw dropping thing anyone's ever seen (and this is not in a deprecating way, its just where I am in my stage of art), but since you are asking me directly I'll do my best to provide some help!

This might get long so I'll write everything under a Read More haha

I'm not entirely sure where you are in your stage as an artist (as some people start from the very ground up of learning how to draw a line, and that's completely ok), but growing up I did some doodles here and there which kind of set me up for what would become my art blog at @rawrroarart and now here once I wanted to take doing art more seriously.

I think at early early stages someone should just draw literally anything, even if its stick figures and the like so that your hand just gets used to general shapes and lines. A pretty key thing would be drawing against references (And this doesn't at all change in the later stages of art skill) like... if there's a banana in front of you, can you draw the banana?

Once you got that down pat, its time to start looking at guides especially to start learning how to draw human faces and the like. For me personally I was never a fan of realism and I'm still not so young me was subject to those "hoW to DraW animE" books which... shaped who i am as a person but i wouldnt recommend them for art lmaOO. if I were to start from the beginning and I was serious about drawing well, I probably would have forced myself to learning how to draw actual humans and bodies. Once you're able to draw and understand the human shape, it should be easier to stylize it to your liking (like anime aha). I'm p much talking out of my ass rn since I of course didnt do this, but I'm sure I'd have learned a lot faster if I did so.

Anyway I dug up some old ass embarrassing art from my personal blog so you can see where I started before becoming more serious about improving myself.

This is from like 2015 and I pretty much quit drawing right after this LOL

this was like where I peaked until 2020 when I started @rawrroarart heres me begging ppl to join my new blog:

From then on I've pretty much posted every single thing I've drawn on that blog to see my progress. Here's the last page of my blog if you're interested so you can see where I started and then just go backwards to see where I am now https://rawrroarart.tumblr.com/page/26

Anyway I was doing stuff like this against references from straight from google (looking up "snake"):

and then.. heres my first diana and the reference it was based off of

do note that this art took me a god awful amount of time to do still AND I copy and pasted half the face instead of forcing myself to learn properly and draw both sides. I know people have their opinions regarding the copy/paste abilities of digital art and I truthfully do not care what you do unless you're using AI, but for me personally pretty soon after this I decided I wanted to learn how to draw everything myself, even if it meant choosing to struggle just so I could learn. Of course since I became a digital artist, I have so many other tools I use while drawing and its such a gift, but even today I feel it may be detrimental to my growth haha but ive decided im pretty much only going to be a digital artist so, whatever, undo button has saved my ass so many times. If you're a digital artist, its just up to you really and how you measure your level of success.

Anyway if you follow along my art blog you can kind of see where my art started to get more refined, but anyway a big thing I want to touch on is References! Almost every single art I've done has had a reference one way or another. For example I have many pictures in my camera roll of my own hand in different angles, and when drawing clothes I try to get references of fabric and folds and the like. If I find a cool pose, I also will try to reference it since I still don't know shit about anatomy, and I used to reference heads and head angles until I got familiar with the general structure that I'm able to draw it from my thoughts (sometimes I'll still need a reference though, like trying to figure out how to draw someone looking straight up). My art is usually a mash up of all these different references that I put together.

In the early stages of my art I was looking for references from google like looking up something like "rolling on the floor" or something, and you'll find some good stuff here and there regarding poses. Something I noticed though was that a lot of the top google images were usually very... stiff and if its something drawn instead of a real person, its probably really stylized and not particularly helpful (to me). like id look up "anime eye" or something and I just think everything at the top is not something I wanna reference or draw lol

This is where pinterest comes in. there are a ton a ton of references and artstyles and guides from other fellow artists that help break down the human body into more simple shapes. for example these are some of my pins from back in my Assassins Creed Odyssey AU days:

General shapes and clear lines of movement and how different artist handle "movement" in general. Though I didn't end up drawing from these since I dropped Odyssey AU around the same time LMAO but if I did its the same process of studying how the body actually works here and trying it out myself. Then I'd look up something like "Assassins Creed Odyssey Armor" on google and slap on the clothes onto the naked body

Anyway sorry this is very anecdotal of course and I'm just blabbering on. But to keep things short and you are very free to keep asking questions, honestly I only really got better because I kept drawing what I wanted to draw. I really like Diana so I just kept drawing Diana lmao and I don't think I could draw any other character half as well (Akko gets a pass since I sometimes draw her too). If I was more serious about doing art though I think the number one thing I wish I did and I still wish I would start doing now if I wasn't a bum would be to practice drawing poses until I can form my own poses without needing a reference immediately.

I would ideally spend some time every single day on sites like these:

Maybe one day when I get insane about a fandom again I'll be back to do so, but at least for now I guess I don't have the drive to keep improving anymore.

As for picking an art style, honestly... just "steal" random things from artists you like lmao. artists are inspirations for other artists, thats just how it is. Obvi I don't mean trace someone's art and call it your own or anything like that like please don't do that, but if someones coloring style for example is rly nice to you, try it out yourself. If someone draws their characters hair really cool, try that out yourself. Over time you really just end up developing your own style even if it did start by being inspired by someone else. My sketchy/messy style is because idk how to do lineart

I used to be a hater for when artists would say things like "just practice" because it'd mean like absolutely nothing to me, but it really does just come down to practice lol. I'm not a particularly good artist in the sense that I could draw anything, but I am a good diakko artist because thats all I've drawn for the past 3 years (give or take given my months long hiatus every year lmao). If someone handed me a piece of paper and was like "draw ur mom" id probs just cry but if someone was like "draw diana cavendish" id be like bet

One thing to keep in mind that still gets to me to this day is to be ok with failing. Sometimes my art is straight garbage, and that's ok. Sometimes I get frustrated and cry when I can't get an eye right, and that's ok. I've scribbled, deleted, and restarted many art pieces until I deemed it ok to post, and even then I'll still eventually see them with disgust, and that's ok! I like to look at my very old art and compare it to what I can do now (even if I don't even like my art of the 'now') and I just think to myself, "hey I actually am improving!" and that lets me know that if I keep at it, one day I'll get to where I want to be. I think its nice to keep a log of all of your art (if you aren't already doing so) just to do exactly that

Just keep pushing my dude! I'm sure just based on you asking me this you're already on track to be a really good artist down the line, but you'll just need to be patient is all and know its not an overnight thing. Every single thing in your day to day is a potential inspiration for art, its just up to you what you decide to do with it :)

Hopefully this answers at least some of your questions! Feel free to ask any more and I'd be happy to ramble for a good hour haha

tl;dr: me like diakko, me draw diakko

[wisyhana]

I love how soft you draw them. Even if the scene itself isn't soft (Seto showing his roller-skating skills), the characters are drawn with such elegance and care that it feels soft.

Their eyes and expressions are full of depth and life. I can feel the emotions in the faces of the characters. The love, friendship, concern, etc., that they have for the person they're with or looking at is clear as day. DM's confusion while Yugi is building his deck makes me laugh every time.

The amount of detail you put into them is jaw-dropping in every artwork.

How the characters interact with each other and the originality of the art is incredible. It's very easy to copy what is scene online with a change or two, but you take inspiration from the references and requests and make it your own. Characters touching each other's hair, hugging, etc., it's original to the art and request.

Thank you so much for this!

Drawing commissions is a big and constant challenge and it's exactly bc I want to keep a uniqueness in each one of them. I can sit a whole hour in front of the blank paper just thinking about the pose and emotions I want to express accordingly to the request.

Yeah, sometimes I get a little frustrated when I don't have a clear idea, sometimes the 'do whatever you want' is helpful and other times I literally don't know what to do lol but that freedom people gives me is so nice, bc it means they trust in whatever my mind comes up with.

Of course sometimes I have to go and blast with ton of questions and I apologize for that hahahaha but more than understanding the characters, I want to understand what emotion the customer wants to see in this characters. Because in the end that's exactly my mindset when drawing the characters I love. I have an specific emotion/feeling for each couple and each character, even if they all look 'soft' I try to not draw the same softness to all of them, bc they're all different personalities.

So yeah! I'll keep enjoying the commissions as much as I enjoy drawing for myself and share it to yall.

Somehow I feel I talked about anything but what you point out, but I felt like sharing this lol

Oh! Sure some doesn't know yet about the DM in question, so here the little sneak peak hahhaaa (I like drawing subtle but expressive faces)

[godstrain]

augheheue also hey guys does anyone else ever think about how wesker never seems to administer the shots of PG67A/W to himself? excella seems to be the one giving him the doses, and assuming he relied on it before RE5, then the responsibility probably was also on someone else who wesker was certain wouldn't try to fuck him up with it- but it raises the question of why he never just self administers.

there's a cutscene where excella is seen giving wesker his dose and she just sorta jabs him in the arm and he flinches like ok theres so much to be said about that, and most of it is WHO INJECTS ANYTHING LIKE THAT (from the healthcare perspective what the actual fuck sort of angle is that to jab someone with a needle??? no prep??? yikes) but the other part is if wesker thinks he's going to be a god why the heck is he reacting like that

my guess is it's the very human PTSD that he has from his childhood. as noted, project w started with like 100+ children from all over the world, but only 13 lived to adulthood. if we're using 18+ as adulthood, then that's a massive yikes- it's also said that dr. marcus had the students in spencer's school infect themselves if they were deemed unfit- and that's also massively fucked up. but even before that, there's the matter of the actual wesker children and what happened to the majority of them.

i'm no expert on literally anything related to genetics, but i know that just because someone has a gene doesn't mean it's expressed??? that's why there are dominant and recessive genes??? per the RE info on wesker:

Prior to his exposure to Progenitor Virus, like the other Project W test subjects, Albert had certain special genes considered "superior" in his blood that made him immune to viral infections symptoms.

idk if there's a way to test for that being an expressed gene in like. a lab via blood draws, but if there isn't, and also knowing how massively fucked up the entire project w was, i'll bet the way this was figured out was by just trying to get wesker sick by various means. and some of those might've been through injections. there's also this in the concept art of the S.T.A.R.S team- saying "believe it or not, wesker is the same age as barry, 38" idk why that's not believable necessarily, some people age with grace, but that implies some OTHER things.

so, let's say something's funky with how wesker ages on a DEEPER biological level- maybe he looks young because he's uhh been experimented on! spencer wanted to be a god and was using the kids in project w so that they would also be able to withstand the virus- and it's said that albert got weird superpowers whereas alex didn't and this may have been due to the fact that alex was sick and albert wasn't! so that means i wouldn't put it past spencer to be doing a bunch of funky experiments on the kids that involved like. slowing down the aging process to try to keep their bodies in some peak condition???

anyway, all of this just adds up to wesker likely having a phobia of needles (and likely a general mistrust for the healthcare system, because all he's ever witnessed and received is MORE FUCKERY), but he knows he needs the shots, but he sure isn't keen on doing it himself? which almost seems counterintuitive- if he's so worried about being hurt by things like this, why wouldn't he do it himself, but the man has NO healthy coping skills so... i guess that's that.

this was extremely scattered but i needed to ramble about it thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[visible-artist]

(rant)

hi. so it’s been two..three..years, i think? holy shit. the person who’s reading this probably has no idea who i am, and thats fine, i just need to let this out.

tbh i’ve just suddenly remembered this account after procrastinating on my assignment by rewatching every sanders sides video after not engaging with the media for since i left.

ok jk i think about this account every day, i also think about my deleted instagram account that i deactivated after reaching an art block everyday. (it seemed like a good idea at a time, but now i’m devastated, i was literally at my peak at the time, and thomas himself had been following me, but oh well) lesson learned: i’m never giving into art block ever again.

but as for the reason for my art block… it was this. i don’t even remember anything anymore from that era but i did remember having an inconsistent schedule and using all the energy i had when i had it, which is INSANE —because i was only fourteen. the upside had been my skills increasing a drastic amount, but i literally couldn’t bring myself to post anything anymore and my motivation for drawing was practically non existent. (FOR TWO YEARS)

obviously there were many factors that added to my art block, but i guess this had been the main one. what’s ironic is that the thing that morivated me to start posting again was finding my old fanart from this account (i popped off ngl, almost got emotional) i may not have gotten a shit ton of following or interactions, but just seeing the amount of creativity and passion i had made my month. (and I needed this, so much)

this post is kind of a mess… i’m honestly just typing what’s on my mind right now. i just really missed this account. and i’ve started a new one on ig: @kozuwinx for anyone who wants to support me there, i would really appreciate it.

i dont know if i’ll start becoming active on this account, i’m getting pretty busy with school now too, and i don’t want another replay of burnout…still, i’m so grateful for everyone who supported me here, even if those who did probably don’t remember me now. (and i won’t blame them tbh.)

i just wanted to say thank you i guess, and share this story to anyone who might be struggling with the same thing. i don’t know how to end this but this is it. love ya all ✌🏼

[annasellheim]

So this was on the @writing-prompt-s site- so I'm treating it as a writing prompt. (I can't fucking draw right now due to a busted shoulder, so I'm doing a bunch of them because I'm alone, hurt, and sad, and they're fun).

Anyway, the story:

I sat down next to him. I looked at my former student, now an adult. A brilliant engineer. I remembered him. I had really liked this kid. The man in front of me was impressive as hell too. It didn't surprise me at all.

"I'm really, really sorry this hurt you. That I hurt you. What I was trying to do was show you some techniques. My goal was that, later, after you learned them, you could deviate from them and make your own thing.

We have a set of guidelines of things we need to teach. It's a mandatory curriculum, with national guidelines, just like math or science or whatever. But it varies from state to state. And who the hell knows what they do in private school. And the curriculum isn't focused on self expression as much as teaching you how to use fine motor skills and..."

Shit, stop it Anna. You don't need to keep justifying yourself.

I try to remember when he had moved away during the school year. I wonder if I hadn't gotten to the point in the spring semester where I gave my students more lee way, to experiment and deviate from the techniques I showed them. To let them decorate their dishes any way they wanted. To make trees and flowers for different seasons. I wondered if he had been part of one of my first classes, before I figured out how to create a really solid curriculum.

Regardless, I could have been clearer about it. I was new to teaching when I had him as a student, I know that much. I was overwhelmed, and honestly, barely keeping it together for the first, like, 4 years I taught. And there were 20-30 students in my classes. It took me a a while to figure out what works and what doesn't in the classroom.

The most important thing was this man in front of me. He was way quieter and more hesitant than the kid I remembered. I hope I didn't do that to him, but I'm was probably reading too much into it.

I took a sip of my coffee.

"You know what's cool tho? The shit you've been doing at work-"

He looked surprised and snorted.

"What?"

"You swore."

It was my turn to laugh. "Yeah, to be fair I'm not in classroom mode right now.

Anyway, the stuff you've been doing at work, it all sounds like it takes a ton of creativity to accomplish."

"I never thought of it that way..."

"Well, you've been on the forefront of a bunch of stuff because you think outside the box. I'm glad I didn't rob you of that."

We sat next to each other on the bench. He was thinking it over. I was trying to not dwell on the fact that he brought this up, that he had carried this pain with him for 20 years.

"Do you still make art?"

"No, not since elementary school, since my last-"

"Your last required art class. Got it."

I gave him a side eyed glance.

"You know you can get back into it at any time, right?"

He was taken aback, he obviously had never considered it.

I smiled. I've had this conversation before, many many times.

"It's not like a sport or something. You can start at literally any point in your life, you don't need to be young and in peak physical condition. Art ain't basketball.

The cool thing too is that you can choose what you want to make, you're an adult. Nothing in art is required for you to learn. You can pick any class you want, or no class at all."

I gave him my business card.

"If you shoot me an email, I can give you some books to read for you to get started. Not to teach techniques, but exercises that help get you back to the point where you just make stuff. I think a LOT of people stop making art for all kinds of reasons, not just because of a novice teacher. There's been a bunch of stuff that's come out recently to try to help adults make art again. y'know, to recapture the joy of it."

We said our goodbyes. I really hope he thinks it over and reaches out.

Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And it was red, with a green stem. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red, with a green stem.

On another day The teacher said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.” “Good!” thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.

But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacher’s. It was a deep dish.

And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didn’t make things of his own anymore.

Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.

The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.

When she came to the little boy She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?” “Yes,” said the little boy. “What are we going to make?” “I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher. “How shall I make it?” asked the little boy. “Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher. “And any color?” asked the little boy. “Any color,” said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.

~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy

[frostygutar]

2024 Review, kinda

I suppose I should start wondering if I actually feel accomplished in any way this year. 2024 was a bumpy ride the entire year, but I feel like I did a lot more than I usually do each year. I'll start with the three main hobbies I tried keeping up with; Art, music & writing.

Art went fucking horribly, I made three good drawings the entire year, and I've scrapped more drawings this year than in my entire life. Started hopeful, but over the past few months I've decided to not even consider art in my skillset. I'm terrible, have no interest in improving, and I have more fun doing literally anything else, so...

Music went okay, I guess? Still no finished songs, but my skill improved significantly compared to the start of the year! I bought my first vst, Xpand!2, and I learned quite a lot of things about music this year. I also got my first... Midi keyboard, I think? Idk, piano I can plug into my pc and use in FL Studio. Haven't used it that much honestly, but it's neat. I also made more song attempts I was actually proud of this year, unlike last year where I only liked one single song of mine. Overall, this was my strongest improvements, I think.

Writing didn't really go anywhere… Actually, no, it went anywhere, just not the thing I actually wanted. My "main" story collapsed near the start of this year, and I decided I was going to remake it, but I was going to fully plan it out before I started writing this time. I made lots of plans, and I spent all year improving them to a point where I'm really, really happy with it! But... Well, I haven't actually written anything, because the plans aren't complete. My skill itself already peaked last year in my opinion, so I didn't exactly get better at writing, but I would say I got better at organizing, planning, and pretty much everything that comes with writing, other than the writing itself. I'm satisfied, but I'm disappointed I didn't actually release anything despite my efforts. Next year will be the one, surely...

As for everything else, there isn't really anything to say. That's my life, tbh. I had a few gaming accomplishments, but eh. Who cares right now?