#eh not gonna tag this one

[mmgceramics]

I’m not going to do a real art summary thing this year, mostly because I don’t know how to use photoshop to make it look decent. Instead, I’m just gonna dump some musings on y’all. It got longer than I expected, though, so it’s beneath the cut so I don’t take up too much of your dash space :)

When folks talk about my work, a word I often hear is “deliberate”. I live in central North Carolina, and everyone here is familiar with ceramic folk art, so it certainly makes sense in that regard, but it taps into something else for me.

I have dyspraxia; I was diagnosed as an infant, but it’s still something I struggle with a lot. I, physically, learn slowly. My mind understands the process, but the realization of that process is another thing altogether, and that gap can be vast.

I had a therapist when I was younger who phrased it as “missing the trees for the forest” when I tried to explain how everything was so overwhelming. The idea of taking on a project, in my mind, was (and continues to be, often) to take on the entirety of that project. I don’t know if that’s related to the dyspraxia or some other thing I’ve got floating around up there, but it’s something I wrestle with every time I start something new or just try to get myself out of bed to do so.

My work is very deliberate. I move slowly, carefully, and I overthink everything. My work is deliberate, but there are unstraight lines and sloppy brushstrokes and messy glaze. I like sharpness and contrast, aesthetically and narratively, but I can be clumsy.

Anyways, dyspraxia has been a big part of my year: learning how to accommodate myself and give myself room and time. I’m still working on the whole nonjudgmental stance thing, but I’m proud of a lot of the work I’ve done this year, and I’m looking forward to continuing to improve in the next.

And I promise this was a one off 😁 I typically try to keep my thinking on the inside, so we’ll get back to pictures soon. Happy New Year!

[signanothername]

Environment practice

Kinda just how i think Killer’s room would look like (a lil bit hdfhfjfj) but also just me messing around

[ratmadeus]

SILVER IN SONIPON1!!!!

[ph-cutie]

jeaker

[messiergalaxy31]

My piece for @hotguycalendar The Views of Hermitcraft! I drew The Astral Library, Season Nine's Nether Hub for the month of August. I've always wanted to draw it, so this was the perfect opportunity! This was a lovely experience.

The calendar is already out, so go check it out here.

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[starving-mimi]

copies

and now as a sidenote, it's time for mimi rambling/ PSA ! (which might sounds dickish here and there)

I've seen an absolute sudden increase in "daily [characters] blog"[which consist, for those who don't know, of drawing a certain character or thing everyday (or trying to)] and as somebody who's been posting daily for over 2 years (if you ignore small breaks i took on rarer occasion here and there) I feel like I'm in a position where I can say things about these kinds of blogs.

if you're the owner of one of these kind blogs or think about making one, this message's for you

to current owners of such blogs:

do not FORCE yourself to draw/post everyday, much less MULTIPLE TIMES a day

even though it's the goal of these kinds of blogs, do not tell yourself that just because it has DAILY in the name, you NEED to post everyday. Use queue if needed, don't post if you don't feel like it.

You're going to burnout sooo quickly if you just draw slop because you don't want to skip a day, no one LIKES slop posts made just to fill in the day, trust me, i have many! No one is going to hunt you down for forgetting a day or even mention it to you or anything! (or at worse if you know you'll have a period of innactivity, make a post about it to your followers that you can later delete if you really want)

Don't try answering requests as soon as possible just because you don't want to "disappoint" people or whatever! you owe people nothing, and especially not a "quick reply", again, you'll burn out if you force yourself into doing people's request

also this might be more of a personal opinion, but, please keep it to posting once a day (or like twice if absolutely needed), if you're just going to post a ton a day, might as well just post to a main where you just so happen to also post daily (also lazier posts made only because you want to rush multiple drawings every day are just bruh.)

to people considering making one of these blogs:

honestly, don't. You want to challenge yourself into drawing everyday? Do that on your main blog! You have too many doodles/art and want to post it all? Post it on your main! Don't put yourself under the limitations of having a blog specifically for DAILY posting, especially for a SINGLE character. Even if you love a character, you WILL get bored/burned out/just out of ideas for what to even draw with only ONE character

Sure it's cool and everyone else is doing it, but you're also putting yourself under unnecessary stress and limits. Not only your art, but yourself will suffer of these limits eventually

You trust and know yourself enough to know you WILL post daily on that blog? AND won't let it take so much over your life and schedule that you feel terrible when you don't post/decide to abandon it? Then make one, who am i to stop you ig

You wanna make one on a whim because everyone else is doing it and it looks fun? But you don't know if you're going to actually hold up to posting everyday? Yet again, don't. Don't make one. Just post on your account, let people know you by your username, not because of some gimmick (like I mean, ppl know me as (starving-)mimi, not as "daily dst funny" or whatever, do you really want to be only known as "that person who draws [character] everyday" and not as yourself? If you do then ig go make one, but I think it's much nicer to be recognised for who you are than to be just known as "that person who draws a character daily")

tl;dr: don't put yourself under the curse of silly daily posting on a whim just because everyone else is doing it and it's the current trend, and don't post slop art just because you don't want to skip a day POST SLOP BECAUSE YOU WANNA TORTURE PEOPLE WITH IT BHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA cough, i mean. cough.

this might all seems very obvious, but i think people don't realise that daily posting isn't always as fun as it seems :')

TL;DR FOR THE TL;DR post daily cuz you got too much stuff to post that is just too good to all dump in a single post, not just because everyone else is doing it and you find the people daily posting cool and want to get in on the trend

[silverware-is-interesting]

i've never really made a comic before, well, i have, but nothing i had intention to show anyone else

[levemetal]

Day 1: Destined / Doomed

Doomed eternally by the narrative. No fucking clue where I was going with this one. Lineart is not my fortee. Well, art isn't my fortee but you know.

It's fucking midnight and now officially September 1st here where I live so f u this counts.

[mmgceramics]

On their way to new homes!

[chaoticlad]

Go on. Answer the question

[sticcmann]

that reveal was so cool

[elkaseltzer]

dont forget, you're in my house

closeup below, and as always, fun details in the tags

[cheriboms]

i dont really know game lore, i just like the friendly robot :]

(original b&w sketch under cut)

(i forgot my watermark on this one so pls dont steal lol ;w;)

[greennoobartist]

Vio's ability to make me cry is insane... HE DID IT THRICE LAST NIGHT!!

[hotchipsauce]

psst pspspsps u should totally talk about grebbymints more ... i am enabling u......

AAAAAA bro….. my dude…. the thing is i always feel crazy talking about them together bc i think like they’ve only publicly interacted like 3 times? LOL (i have watched and documented every interview minty and grebby has appeared in for the leafs/marlies. it’s so bad. me being sick has actually helped me not be as weird about it since i had less screen time in general)

but even then me and @tufzy just constructed this whole separate reality in our heads for months about how like they prob got closer after getting called up and minty is the only familiar guy for grebby there due to being on the marlies together + no russian player on the leafs to fall back on for help so grebby is just sticking to minty’s side the whole time, and minty even tho he’s a lil popular with the leaf boys he still is looking out for his linemate. even when they get sent down they’re still drawn to each other out of habit. but i’m always like second guessing like wow this is pure delusion like maybe they don’t even fuck with each other like that it’s just coworker friendliness this rpf shit is truly a disease fr fr 🙏

and then the videos started dropping. they’re goofing off and pushing each other around during sewer ball. and then i see a single frame of minty next to grebs during the one rare tiktok that he shows up in. and the delusion starts anew