#drawing discourse

[h0neyfreak]

I keep seeing tags/posts about the gay sex cats ai art thing that are like “deciding what art is good is elitist and weird” and “more effort doesn’t mean better art” and these people really Egalitarian Politic-ed their way right out of any meaningful interaction with art. Art being made by a human does matter and that’s okay!!! Van Gogh’s paintings are better when you read his letters and a drawing made for you by a friend will always be more beautiful than clip art and that’s the whole point!!!! “Worth” in art is not just monetary and art can be good or bad in a million different ways and that’s (fundamentally) what experiencing art is all about to me. Understanding why is the fun part!!

I think people get it more with writing so I’m gonna reanimate the corpse of Gabbie Hanna’s poetry book that was Not Very Good in terms of poetry meant to be purchased and read by other people. She went on a tirade about how it was cathartic to write for her and that’s wonderful (and I really mean that I’m not being snarky. that’s a beautiful thing) but you cannot charge people money for your unedited notes app excerpts and then get mad when they critique it for not being “worth” the money they paid. That writing is “worth” so much to the person who wrote it but it is not worth anything to the audience paying for it. And that’s art babey!!!! Duchamp’s fountain was never meant to be placed in a museum and gazed upon without context it was a physical manifestation against fascism tied to particular people in a particular time. A photorealistic drawing of a crumpled playing card on a white background is infinitely more impressive and artistic than the picture on my camera roll of the exact same thing both from a technical skill aspect and because it has entered the artist and emerged as art.

Basically please don’t let hand wringing theory about capitalism and commodification flatten your experience with art into some sort of disjointed morass of shapes and colors.

[codgod]

i have crafted a diagram

[scummrevisited]

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[proxythe]

sorry im really obsessed with this pair … 🧚 u guys must understand… i have a rare pair addiction …

[ssseriema]

its ok guys you can stop asking creators directly about ships and shipping i PROMISE youll live if you dont send that ask or that discord message. its not like necessary ..

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[balrogballs]

god's strongest soldiers are lotr fans who live near the british coastline because every single time the books or films romanticise the 🥹❤️✨ cry of the gulls ✨❤️🥹 i assume you're meant to picture something like

while personally I get war flashbacks of

[linderosse]

✨tea party between worlds✨

Happy 10th Anniversary to one of my favorite Zelda games, LoZ: LBW!

Featuring Fable as Alice, Ravio as the March Hare, Hilda as the visiting Queen of Hearts, and Legend as both the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse >:).

Also gonna use this (relevant, I promise!) artwork to announce that Chapter 4 of The Secrets We Keep has been released! It’s an LU fic of mysteries and misconceptions that takes place in the same universe as Wielders of Wisdom. If you like that sort of thing, go check it out!

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[jesncin]

Clark Kent and Krypto the Superdog for DC Gotcha For Gaza (requests closed for now). A Kryptonian's best friend!

[confusedmothboy]

can yall guess my favorite character

[cloudysfluffs]

REALLY considered not posting this one.......might delete later

ns//fw and/or ki//nk blogs please dni!!!

[skellagirl]

Gordon/Barney/Alyx is really really funny to me conceptually bc it's like, two hot geniuses in their 20s who look at the 40-something smartass who hangs around and go 'yeah that guy. we both want him carnally'

[rejaytionships]

cannot believe i gotta say this but please don't follow me if you're comfortable selfshipping with canon racists. i don't care if you headcanon them as otherwise, because if their racism against a real group of people is a key facet of their character (much less incredibly important to the telling of the story that this character is a racist) then i do not wanna see it. this is not the safe space for you

[sforzesco]

BALAK, PANGAGAD

uhhh conspiracy. can be a courtship dance. ritual. so to speak. & hosting one in your house is an act of service

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wei Wuxian eats a watermelon. Yep!

[esmeraldablazingsky]

the only person in fontaine who i think should have visibly shredded abs is clorinde. look. listen. i have an essay

furina has maintained a performer’s figure for a long time but she’s more of an actress and singer than a dancer. she has the muscle tone of a macaroni noodle, and also her body composition is 80% pastry. but you know what we love her for that

navia is definitely deceptively strong for her hyper femme presentation. girlie puts in the work! shes not a gym rat tho. she has better things to do, and macarons to bake

wriothesley you could definitely make a case for more than the others, but also, consider this. he’s not a mangy half starved wolf anymore. he’s comfortable, he can get whatever he wants from the kitchen staff, he puts sugar in his tea. it’s not like he’s lost any of his combat edge but he doesn’t HAVE to be a lean mean fighting machine anymore, he has other strengths, and he likes it that way!

neuvillette is the world’s most pampered dragon. furina summoned him 400 years ago and proceeded to spend those 400 years ordering him premium water and making him do paperwork and try fancy foods with her. he does not want to go outside, except if it is to swim. you may not like it but this is the ideal sea-animal-guy body type (strong swimmer muscles smoothed over by a layer of squish, like a seal)

sigewinne is literally a marshmallow have you ever seen a ripped melusine I don’t think so. but that wasn’t in question, right?

clorinde though!! clorinde. duelist and bodyguard supreme, a well known figure whose athleticism is highly publicized. she doesn’t HAVE to have abs, but she’s definitely the fontaine character I would most readily believe does