#hope everyone has a great 2024

[britishsquidward]

Template Here but I just used the one Jam did because I've not done this before, lol

Apologies for the Tumblr compression, clicking on the picture may help? Or dragging it into a new tab, either/or.

Anyway here's my art summary! If only there wasanother box to offer special thanks to the vanilla extract memes I drew!

Still, I hope my art made you all smile this year, and here's to many more 💙

[ionomycin]

2023 favorites

[crescentfool]

my longest friend and companion

[temeyes]

2024 art summary! this year was mostly me rediscovering my love for different fandoms (both old and new) and realizing that the stuff i could illustrate the ideas of my teen self was too shy to make with full confidence now (thanks to the encouragement of friends and moots!)

like always, i'm grateful for those who became a part of my art journey this year! and to those who stuck around despite me broadening my horizons in my works. i love you all! hope we're all still together this incoming year! much love!

[days-until-wwwy-24]

WWWY Starts tomorrow!

[starleska]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN LOVELY SPOOKY PEOPLE!!!!!!! 🎃🦇👻🎃🦇👻

[daevilpanda71]

Azure: Itoshinigami on Artfight

Cherry: Mossy_Frog_Soup on Artfight

Finn: @fishi-feshi

Peony: -Blue-Swan- On Artfight

Zaks: @hexagoniin Whole buncha monochrome attacks! God already onto the last week! hope everyone's holdin in okie!!

[creativexdreamer]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 💙

[danikoshi]

Happy New Year yall! Hope 2024 doesn't screw us over!

[considerad]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 you know that post about creating community if that's what you crave?

I made an enormous pile of choc chip cookies and I batched it out for our upstairs and downstairs neighbours, my ma and my great-uncle across town, and my granddad's old pal and his family, and I just got done delivering them and I feel like 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

so alight and alive with it all!!!! I love people! I love them!!! I am so full of fruit and phone numbers I probably won't ever call!

Life can be so unbearably sweet ❤️

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital painting of Nigel Tufnel from This is Spinal Tap. It depicts him playing his guitar as he's strumming it with a violin. He's looking down at the two instruments as he does this, focused. His tongue is stuck out in an exaggerated manner, and his mouth is wide open. His shirt is off. The brush used gives the piece a fuzzy appearance, as if it was airbrushed. There's a wide array of colours used, but they veer to softer tones. A middling brown is used for the darkest parts of the shading. The background is a darker blue, which has a noisy texture.]

Inktober - Day 30 (Violin)

Film - This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)

[megidoreyn]

Heyyy it's about the art questions

I would like to know your answer in 18 (the purpose) and 22 (artspiration).

I would also ask 3 but I'd completely understand if you prefer not to answer

The rest are already answered

Hope you have a great month. ;D

Hey there! Thanks for the questions!

⭐️3. Show us your oldest piece of art you have on hand

→ It was a real trip down memory lane to look back on some of these, but here's a sample of some old things from 2021-early 2022! (Prior to posting on social media in Aug 2022) Back then, I didn't have any real incentive to improve my art outside of drawing quick sketches like the pictures above. I had issues being cleanly (due to lack of motivation), committing to learning character details, and more LOL. →Fun fact, I drew on a very tiny 11 inch screen 4GB RAM laptop with horrible color calibration for about 3 years until finally getting something better in early 2022 too LOL. It might be noticeable in some of the above pictures with the color choices being a little too light or too saturated, LOL.

→As also seen at the bottom of this post, It might come as a surprise that I also draw fanart for my favorite assorted fandoms outside of megaten too, LOL. I just never post it in public since they're meant as warm-up doodles!

To be honest, 2020 thru late 2022 was a very low point in my life. I had given up on all creative endeavors at the time due to: My career, being diagnosed with a bodily issue of which the effects I still deal with even today, and other personal issues.

It truly wasn't until late 2022 (when I started posting online) that I truly felt confident picking up my tablet pen again and view art in a more positive light…!

NGL I had written out my entire life story here but ended up deleting it--it would have made this post terribly long regardless LOL💦 Perhaps it'll be a story for another time, though!!🙏 And it absolutely has to do with why the Samurai husbands mean lot to me!

⭐️18. What is your purpose for drawing?

→ That's a good question! For me, (especially due to my visual agnosia) it'd have to be the ability to draw whatever comes to mind with skill and precision. To not hold back and draw whatever comes into your mind's eye without fear or hesitation from others (or your own critical inner voice)… And to be able to properly convey the meaningful themes of your work as clearly as they come into your mind... That, to me, is true freedom.

➡️As for BL content: Despite not posting much of it in public (yet), my purpose in drawing BL (or OTP content in general) is to transmit feelings of love + warmth in my art! To depict tenderness, warmth, and love with affectionate, natural-looking body language to make it as believable + realistic as possible...That's always been my goal! →The world is a scary place out there. Though, if my OTP content can make someone feel a slight glimmer of peace, tranquility, or even hope to keep moving forward...then I'll be incredibly happy!🙏💕 It's always my intention to convey nothing but sweet wholesome vibes and warmth with my pictures, and I truly hope that feeling comes across too. ➡️I'll be super candid and say I actually really enjoy angst and raunchy content as much as everyone else! But drawing wholesome + sweet characters in love just comes much sooo much easier and naturally as breathing to me, LOL. Just because I don't post angst or raunchy things, doesn't mean I dislike it! ☝️

⭐️22. List at least one of your “artspirations.”

→ I tend to gravitate towards professional artists with thick painting (厚塗り) coloring styles, dynamic illustrations, and artists that have a strong grasp of anatomy, character design and storytelling! It's hard to pick just one, so here's a brief selection of ones that come up at the top of my head right now!

Thanks again for the questions! Have a wonderful January and rest of your 2024 as well!✨🌟

[bbq-potato-chip]

Just wanted to wish everybody a happy new year :)

[moneyisthebestlawyerinh3ll]

Today is a good day to be perceived 🙌

[dichard-grayson]

Hey all, I’ve been letting my blog run on a queue for the past couple of days due election anxiety, given that I am American, but I feel like I have to at the very least address it. Obviously, the results aren’t what we had hoped for and unfortunately the future looks bleak, but we shouldn’t give up. The power in the US is held by the people, it’s literally the first three words of the constitution, and we have the power to make change not just in the voting booths but in the streets. We have to stay strong, build community, organize, and protest whenever and wherever we can. I know it’s discouraging but the biggest form of resistance is getting up every day and fighting back just by being alive. We will get through this, the road is long but we’re stronger than we think, so don’t lose hope just yet.

[creativexdreamer]

Merry Christmas! 🎄💙