#i still have artblock but its getting better i think

[meowangelo]

rushing this post cus im in class

[ganondoodle]

I just wanna say firstly that i adore your artwork and takes6on Zelda in general! Secondly, much as I wish you never had to deal with the frustrations of creating (especially when you tack on the stress of being on any kind of social platform), I'm glad you talk about your struggle. I've heard people talk about art block every day since I learned what Art was, but nobody ever mentioned "painting oneself into a corner". It's such an apt description that is so infuriatingly relatable that I had to stop eating to thank you for putting it into words. I really appreciate that you're willing to talk about your setbacks in a place like Tumblr, and still share your arts and thoughts. All the best from US of hellscape A, i hope you're doing well.

Thank you!

i used to call it artblock as well, its the most normalized term i guess; i randomly started calling it painting myself into a corner when i got stuck or frustrated on a painting bc welll, it sure feels like it, you painted the walls all around you and dont know how to get out now

it usually happens when i stop having fun and just draw what i want and instead keep subconsciously forcing myself into arbitrary rules; in my case its usually trying to be too perfect, i try to adhere to the sketch, i try to make every block of color have a perfectly clean edge, separate the drawing into way too many layers and am afraid to delete or erase anything, i tense up my whole body as frustration builds bc of impatience as this method of painting does not work for me at all and in the end lose motivation on it all and my nerves are stretched thin (i work best when i think as little as possible, just kinda loosely letting my hand do what it wants on few layers and no specific plan, after losing that its hard to get it back)

having those low moments with your art is normal as your skill grows, but even knowing so, and having gone through it countless times, it never stops making you feel like shit, and its especially frustrating when it happens when you just got enough time to work on stuff or have alot of ideas but you cant get it to work

(and funnily enough it also tends to happen after another work of mine got more attention than i thought .. even worse when it was just a sketch bc now i got the pressure on me to actually finish it and the fear of it doing worse once done looms over the whole thing- which doesnt mean i dont want people to interact with my wips, bc that also has an extremely demotivating factor to it bc it makes me think no one cares or it sucks and doesnt deserve the time i would need to spend on finishing it; also .. alot of my wips stay wips forever, which is fine, but like .. you cant always expect a finished tm version to happen)

i do find it a little funny you praise me for talking openly about it bc i am notoriously unable to shut up ever and only recently got better at NOT talking as much about it when i feel as shitty as this bc it doesnt really help anyone and gets annoying really fast xD (im also notoriously unable to not post absolutely everything bc i got no one to show it to and otherwise it will just collect dust on my harddrive so i might as well throw it out there no matter how much i might hate it, someone else might still enjoy it anyway)

and greetings back from the -not really much less of a hellscape- that is germany o/

[justlet-melive]

here’s a question :3 uh do you have like any favourite anatomy or reference books/texts. or any tips for doing study’s??

sorry if this is like annoying or weird idk i’ve just been a little obsessed with your art lately. the way you capture shape and movement is so fantastic. you have such a talent for capturing characters personality through visual quirks too. idk like the way you draw ellie tlou is so specific. it’s not exactly on model but it’s kind of better lol. i can instantly tell most of what you need to know about her. same with your recent astarions like idk you’ve just managed to capture a real physicality about him that i think can be hard. idk i’m maybe biased but i think without any exposure to the game you could probably guess how he moves and sounds from your art.

idk uh sorry if this is worded weird i feel like i always do that LOL okay though anyways i adore your art it’s just so distinct. i’d eat it if i could. i’d honestly do a lot to capture even a fraction of the magic you’re creating. okay hope this message finds you well BYE

no need to feel self conscious about doing me a kindness in the form of gratifying to read, thoughtful observations of my fanart!!!!

thank you. very late response because i wanted to respond with some equally thoughtful advice and also let my ego calm down a bit, but..

im 'lazy' and like to keep drawing for fun as easy as possible. So i dont have any reference books hm... You obviously look at art and are able to relay to yourself and others what you saw and felt. thats the skill you should always indulge. looking at all kinds of things youre drawn to and observing why. best ref! (thanks again btw, best feeling being on the receiving end of that. to be... astarion voice: Seen in the Eyes of Another)

I have studied (and continue to do so when i get the chance) figure drawing at my community college, which was a big leap. i ended up focusing a lot on the relationship between the ribcage/pelvis/flow of the spine at that time. still my favorite part of drawing lol. During my most recent artblock i started copying muscle anatomy pages from a Morpho book as a way to keep drawing without a proper fixation. which is great because i also love the weight of flesh :^D

if you'd like my 'woo-woo advice' it's to get lost in the process and less invested in the results. and never be embarrassed. it'll keep you drawing (behind every piece of successful fanart is a mountain of scrap drawings of Fictional Guy #2378 facing 3/4 left.) and its meditative!! cathartic? personally i like to have a song/playlist to keep up the emotion im trying to work out going throughout my drawing session. helps me tell if the expression im drawing feels 'right'

and on the topic of drawing off model--!! Anytime im onto a new character i do spend a few sessions tracing their proportions/copying their models. after i figure out more or less what about their original design makes that Character i like to lose the training wheels. artistic interpretation is more interesting for me to look at and create. and i think it frees you up to better convey a feeling. the more you draw something the more you settle into 'what works' but i never set out to draw the same way twice! usually never anyway

thank you again for taking time to observe my drawings, and relaying back what you saw and felt. it honestly makes my day(s) to the point i almost feel guilty about it

[lynaferns]

I have been thinking for a while that I'm not made to do commissions. Or work as an artist in general.

I said at the start of the year that "I'll open commissions soon" and then never did. I had the sheets of prices and examples ready since then but never dared to post them. One of the reasons being that I have poor time management and deadlines kill me. I also have trouble with communication (you already know this) and if the other person doesn't do the bare minimum to specify me what they want I can't do anything. I'm supposed to draw something for you, it has to be to your liking, I can't do the job if you don't explain to me what you want.

This is still a hobby anyways, I only draw whatever I feel like drawing and if there is something I don't want to draw I don't do it.

But I see people saying stuff like "if people are interested in my art I should sell it (as in making prints, stickers and such)". Once I read people saying that they get mad when they see a talented artist with no print shop nor Patreon, or ko-fi, or whatever platform they could be making a profit of, because of that same reason: they could be gaining money from something they like that they are good at, and people could donate to them to support them, but they don't have anything set for that.

Most teachers and counselors I had, one of the first things they told me when they saw my art was that "I should work from this" "I should get a job that involves art" to "use my talent" "I can't just do nothing with the talent I have" "I have to use it for something", and while I know all of this comes from a good place, it only makes me feel pressured, like I have to do it, as if me being talented at art meant that I must use it for profit.

(I perfectly know the quality of my art, I know it would be perfect for selling, especially if it's fanart. I don't brag often about it because, no, like ????? Maybe if I'm especially proud of something specific but I'm more proud of my neat signature tbh. I don't complain much about my art either because honestly, most people won't notice the mistakes if I don't say what is wrong with my art, and it would become a toxic habit that'd send me into a bad mental state)

People have shown interest in my art before, I know there are people who would like to buy a print from me, but the thought of selling stress me out. Being the one who's in charge of making the merch, searching for a way of sending it to the person, setting prices, solving any problem that may come with- the whole thing that involves selling your stuff. I don't see myself managing any of that.

Making a Patreon comes with having something every month to post there for the people that are paying to see exclusive art that I won't be posting publicly until some time later. Ko-fi would be more suitable since it seems to be made for donations and you can set up a shop there, which is cool but I feel like I'd have it closed all the time. Idk. If I get artblock and I don't draw for a while I wouldn't feel good having any way of donation open.

If I end up selling my art it would be more to the fact that I know there will be people excited to have a print of my art in their hands rather than because of the money I'll make of it. But there is another problem that comes to it that I already talked about in the past: I don't want to sell one (1) sticker for 30 fucking EUR/USD. If you are in Europe there wouldn't be (much of) a problem, but to ship to America it would cost 30€ of fee.

I want to design stickers sometime, or pins. And if I end up making merch of my art I want to make money from it I guess, but idk...

I think I'd be better off working from something that doesn't require too much mental and/or physical strength from me so I can leave art as just a hobby. But that's another problem of its own.

[wachtelspinat]

I've been in a rut as of late, and I really want to get better at form and anatomy. Your style is one of my favorite ones ever, what would you say were your biggest inspirations throughout the years?

hey, first of all i’m so very sorry for the late reply. hope you get to see this still since it’s been a while since you sent this ask... sorry

secondly, thanks a lot! i try to give some insights here, this question's always kinda hard for me to tackle because i'm having a hard time identifying my style and what makes it tick, idk... i guess it's a combination out of everything i like, starting from the artstyle of tf2 to various styles of my mutuals and people around here (but i think tf2, wanting to draw humans ever since i first laid eyes on tf2 and the cartoony artstyle of it all are my major fuels, ngl). 

as for anatomy and form: this is a matter i just recently pushed myself into because i felt really stuck in my ways. like... i never really did studies in my life, so when i wanted to draw i kind of had to count on it to ‘just work’, idk if this makes sense... i always felt like i didn’t actually know what i was doing there, and i worked with ref a lot (i would always recommend using ref, no matter what, what i want to say is that i realized i had not enough fundament to truly fool around in the way i liked to). and now that i started actually doing anatomy studies i feel so dumb because yeah. it IS making things easier x) i understand tho that for most it’s a motivational issue... you have to find a way to make it work for you. like doing studies, but implementing what you learned into a sketch of your blorbo, as an example.

as for resources, it’s hard to find good tutorials, mostly because the place is flooded with art bros trying to tell you “you don’t NEED anatomy and here is why” and then they make a sketch and you can SEE that they put SO MUCH ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE INTO IT. so there’s a lot of bs out there. there is good stuff out there tho, but it might take you a while to find what’s best suited for you. i could make a list of yt channels that really helped me but the thing is, everyone is at their own lvl and with different goals in mind, so i don’t think this would be very helpful.

what i can link you to tho are 2 videos that really opened my eyes in regards of a) finding your style and b) getting better at drawing a certain topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfH9yOGs3o - this video tackles the whole ‘finding your style’ topic. because i often give the tip that you don’t find your style, style finds you (and i still think that is in its regards correct, because you just get subconsciously influenced by the media you consume and like and your fave artists’ style’s if you really dig them) but the ability to actively WORK on your style is there. it’s just something you have to put a lot of work into. but we’ll never stop learning, so there’s that. (she describes it with her landscape drawings but really this works for anything... from dynamic linework to just trying to find the right energy in your pictures)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs - this one really helped me getting over my fear of ‘drawing something ugly’ (big words from someone drawing ugly men as a hobby) but hear me out... because i have a weird brain that makes me recoil from something my mind thinks is ‘imperfect’ i really often get stuck with my art and either don’t experiment at all or get stuck with a sketch and spending hours on it trying to fix it... so approaching this matter like the video described just... melted that away. because when you draw 20 faces a day just telling yourself “NOBODY will EVER see this” you start loosening up... or at least i did. it’s also good for an analytical brain or people who strongly lean into that. this approach was especially nice while being stuck in an artblock... because i could easily just fool around and it kind of changed how i see doing art... like... nothing is ever perfect so i don’t have to make it perfect, i can analyze my art through a more neutral lense than my emotional attachment to it now... does that make sense?

last but not least, there are a ton of good resources out there for anatomical studies, my fave is still “anatomy for sculptors, understanding the human figure” by uldis zarins sandis kondrats.

SORRY THIS GOT A BIT LONGER BUT i put A LOT of thought into this as of late so yeah... maybe it’s gonna help someone too

[zerostyrant]

i just realized we’ve never interacted before . . so i apologize if this ask comes out really awkwardly worded . .

but . . would clove like to be friends with cinnabar : 3 ?

although they’re extremely different, i think they can come around ! on cinna’s part atleast, i would say she develops a particular ( and sort of strange ) interest in clove, and after a few weeks of just observing ( another word for stalking ) and kinda just hovering around him from a distance, she maybe gathers up the courage to talk to him ?

she also likes flower crown making, and probably had left some of her flower crowns near him purpose ! ( and then sprinted away ) maybe if they become friends cinna won’t have to sneak flower crowns near them and run away right after in an almost suspicious manner hehehaha

( i also would say that the experience would also probably go better because of yuna ( @starry-skiez ) rubbing off on her a bit and motivating her to start interacting more with her classmates, who’s she’s still shy and soft spoken with, but also a lot more kinder )

again, i apologize for the awkward wording ( im struggling : ‘ ) ), and also not interacting with you before : ( i find toki really interesting, and your art amazing but ive been just kinda . . hovering around it 😭 i hope you can forgive me 🥲

ITS PERFECTLY OKAY!!!! ITS NOT AWKWARD AT ALL I PROMISE!!!@ AND IM GLAD YU LIKE MY ARTTT T !!1!1!1!1!1! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 i just have very sporadic activity and get bad artblock/lack of motivation

BUT YES OFC!!! Clove would try to make friends with any and everyone he comes across. He'd notice Cinna stalking him, probably, but wouldn't say anything and let her come out on her own. He doesn't do anything about it because of the flower crowns she leaves around him. He might even make a flower crown for her too and sneak it onto her head when she isnt looking 🎀

and yeah like i said youre not awkward at all, ive only been in the community for like a month now and i absolutely love getting asks!!! i love answering questions so any ideas you have you can send them!!!1!1

[fallencrowkarma]

My friend and I are trynna figure out ways to make the Harbingers' designs more slay than they were: Pantalone gets to have that one long ponytail with the purple orchid on the side. Assuming that he and Baizhu ARE related (and I hope they are cause UGH), his main outfit is very Liyuean but retains the Fatui aesthetic.

Sandrone abandons the whole maid getup because, even if she made the Catherines, it just would have been better if she looked like a mechanic of sorts or a steampunk-ish inventor. Not to mention she just looks so boring. I HC that she runs the technological industry in Snezhnaya, so, she deserves to have a more bombastic design. (Sorry if this was long! I was so interested in your art that I had to throw in my two cents!)

Do not apologize omg i love getting asks like this!! Actually thank you sm bcs you pulled me right out of artblock lol the brain was inspired!

I also need pantalone and baizhu to be related SO bad honestly😭 but You and Ur friend are so right about giving him a ponytail he’s so pretty :( thats such a big brain idea. as for the outfit…. I Tried LMAO i wanted something classy and seductive. I think it Ended Up with more liyue than fatui but i still think its an interesting first idea.

As for Sandrone… i’m Not very invested in her yet tbh she does look boring . While i Personally Like the maid aesthetic, i agree it doesnt really fit her all that much and it’s so bland. At least from what we have Seen so far. I think steampunk would be so cool for her! A Little fontaine inspired yk. I didnt wanna get rid of the headband so i made it similar to the flowers ruin guards have growing on them, though they Look better on the full outfit one. I dont know if i would keep that on a second Draft tbh but it was an idea. The elbow and thigh high parts also have a ruin guard Look but i think with Colors it would be more visible.

[witla]

2023 Year Review

Hello!

So first of all I wanted to make this on audio like I did on 2020, but honestly I don’t think I have time and room to record my voice lol.

Second holy shit the last time I did this was in 2020 itself, why I didn’t make this on 2021 or 2022? Idk maybe I didn’t want to talk about it, but I’m going to have a brief mention of things about them here.

So 2023…

It was a very zig zag year for me to be sure

First, I’m quite disappointed on myself because I didn’t make much art like I did before, if you see my archive on tumblr, you can see the gaps between months and the amount of drawings I did (not a lot), I wish I could have made more art, but when you get on a job, your brain gets fried and artblock its inevitable.

Speaking of my job…oh boy, at first I was excited to finally got settled in a job to make my own money and such (I entered last year on August), but the more time I’ve been, the more unwelcomed I felt, let’s just say that I haven’t click much with my coworkers like I did before, my bosses are not there at all, and I just feel like a ghost, not appreciated, but I don’t want to quit yet because I don’t think I can find a job that quickly after quitting one, I want to have more experience and such. I just hope we can have a better environment again like before.

In terms of health, God, it’s been my more painful year yet, sickness after sickness after sickness, at least I went to the hospital once for brief hours, its better because the period of 2020-2022, I’ve been on the hospital like five times a year for days. And let’s not talk about how my moods swings went and so on, my mental health was on the verge of breaking, so much that I was ready to say goodbye to the world like the fifteen time…

But I didn’t

Why?

Because despite all this toxicity and this negativity in my personal life, some things are worth to live for.

It’s worth to hear your dad say “I love you” and cook you the food you love, to say that he will help you no matter what, and appreciate you and say how smart and beautiful you are.

It’s worth to hear your brother say he worries about you, and wants you to be okay, to send you memes, images and videos to laugh with the most surreal humor we gen z have.

It’s worth to hear your sister tell you about her hyper fixations, to hear her silly but funny ideas and contribute alongside her, to see her draw with acuarelas, and show you the weird but funny videos she laughs about.

It’s worth to have your grandma let gift you things you don’t really need, but it’s still appreciated and hugs you and kisses you, when she loves you despite your low self-stem.

It’s worth to hear your uncles and aunts to say how are you beautiful you are, how they love the way you laugh, the way you smile, they say keep that cute smile of yours always.

It’s worth to see your cousins, talk to them, hug them, and play alongside them UNO cards and videogames, especially when they also have the same interest as yourself and understands you when no one else does.

Its worth to see your dogs, pet them, see how they wave their tail at you, how they get happy when they see you coming back home after work,

Even if we bicker and a lot for the most minimum things, we love each other, typical Mexican family lol, but yeah my family has been a big support in this year.

Also I’m proud of myself, I had the guts to join a dance group, specifically an Ori Tahiti group, I learned to dance something that I wasn’t familiar with, not only that, I learned more about Polynesian culture and language, and it that group I made some friends, my teacher is a very open minded and lovely person, after my exam, she wrote on a paper of how if I have more confidence in myself I might be also present as a solo dancer (WOW).

Learning to dance definitely improved my physical and mental health (a little bit yeah because I have my downs) like I lost a significant amount of weight thanks to it, and seeing the others dance and talk with them and dance alongside them, it’s also worth to live for, they definitely boost my confidence.

And even if it’s a bit cheesy, some media I watched and played, it was worth it, it helped me in the bad times, it helped me to have fun, to feel fun again, to enjoy my life, thank you!!!.

So yeah, even if my year had ups and downs, I’m ready for next year

I hope things get better with me, but no only me, to everyone, I hope it becomes a better year around the world, please be a better year for those who need it!

If you read this, well thank you for having the time to read it!

To my followers, thanks for sticking with me, even if I have a small following, I appreciate you a lot and I love you!!!!!!!!

Good news is that I finally made more pieces of art, although it’s my usual personal weird, surreal, abstract pieces of art based on my struggles, good things, just surreal shit and songs I listen too, also made new OCS so… I’m hoping to upload them soon on January!

Happy New Year!

See you soon on 2024!!!

An Witlacosh

[phobia-sweets]

Request: "OKAY I JUST SAW YOu put arkhamverse jervis on your requests and omg- i'm sorry it's only been a few minutes since you did and now here's a req for him-

♡ 22 “Can I take a picture of you?” with arkhamverse jervis please? maybe reader likes taking pictures of people they find interesting, so they can draw them later on? have a great day/night!"

I LOVED THE ENTHUSIASM ON THIS REQUEST SO MUCH---

I was very,,, indecisive with this. I had a lot of ideas, and settling with something was hard and it turned into a mess lmao. I'm not very proud of this, but hey, i did my best and i had fun writing this!

Arkhamverse! Mad hatter x reader

Warnings / Notes: I CANNOT RHYME FOR THE LIFE OF ME, i didnt know how to end this properly so i hope this is good enough, this is my first time writing arkhamverse jervis so i hope its not ooc, not proofread

When artblock hits, what’s the best way to get rid of it? Well, there’s a lot of ways, but you decided traveling was the way to go. Not far, mind you, just the next city over - Gotham. Sure, Gotham might be dangerous and corrupt, but it was full of interesting people. You weren’t too familiar with the villains and their shticks, but you knew to be careful, just in case something did happen. What did your friend tell you to do? Ah, yes. “Don’t draw too much attention to yourself” and “Don’t make friends with strangers.”

And so, Here you were in the middle of amusement mile, alone, people watching in hopes of inspiration. So far, it had not been successful. Sure, some people had great outfits, the amusement park would've made for a great landscape but... it just didn't feel right. You needed something… more. Something that piqued your interest. Something unique.

That's when you spotted... is that a top hat? It was a man! Wearing something thay could've been described as something straight out of a story. Maybe not a fairytale - the colours were too dark for that, but a story nonetheless. Your eyes were practically glued to him as he walked past the colourful booths full of cotton candy and popcorn. Before you knew it, you were up from the bench with your bag, slowly walking towards him as he was stood outside a small confectionery.

Then you stopped. “What am I doing?”, you thought, gaze still glued to the man. If your friend saw you right now, they’d probably be dragging you out for even thinking of conversing with the man. But then again, They’re not here, are they? What is stopping you? Nothing. Except, well, the fact that when you saw his face, you swore you’d seen him somewhere. Maybe he was a vill-

You brushed off that thought, Because, well, what’s the chance of you running into a villain right now? Zero. Nada. You breathed in the cold autumn air, and walked towards the man. You lightly tapped his shoulder, making him turn around to face you. "Hey, can i take a picture of you?” You managed to ask, hand tightly gripping your phone. Before he managed to answer, you started explaining yourself. “I’m an artist and I… like drawing people that I find interesting. And you- well- you stood out, and wanted to draw you…” your hesitance quickly faded away as his hands clasped together and he practically beamed at you.

“Oh dear, How frabjous! It truly would be an honour to be your muse, Rabbit.” He slightly bowed, and you finally noticed the ‘10/6’ slip on his hat. Clever. The mad hatter.

The mad hatter.

Oh.

You swore you’ve heard that name going around a few times the past few hours, and.. this is the guy they’ve been talking about? He didn’t seem all that dangerous. If anything, he seemed sweet.

“Ah, thank you, I suppose-- Let’s go somewhere with better lighting, yes? It’ll be easier to see the details of your clothes that way.” You suggested, walking towards the merry-go-round, which happened to be the place with the most… decent lighting in the place. You took your pictures, and he was very talkative. You noticed he spoke in rhymes a lot, which was sort of… precious, in a way. Your photo session was interrupted by your phone ringing loudly due to your friend calling. You excused yourself quickly with a “Sorry, I gotta take this. Thank you for helping me!” And walking away. Honestly, your friend would’ve probably punched you for the stuff you pulled, but hey, you got your inspiration. You stopped by the ferris wheel, talking with them. They were just worried about you �� You were in Gotham, alone, after all. You somehow managed to convince them that, no, you had not been kidnapped into a riddle-filled death trap or had your back broken, momentarily easing their worries. Once done, you put your phone back in your pocket, Turning around and meeting the hatter’s gaze, making you jump.

“Oh my god, you scared me.” You sighed, holding your hand to your chest. This made his expression turn into one of worry, as he apologised,

“Apologies, apologies, dear rabbit! I just wish to know, Would you care to join me for tea?”

[viviraptor]

Hi ... for the artist ask meme, 4, 10 and 18 ? ^_^

HEYY thanks for sending something!!

4. piece you wish got more love?

if "love" specifically means interaction/popularity then this is a lot harder to answer now than it was years ago. it took me a while to get over the numbers game but i do still get that bummed-out feeling when ppl's enthusiasm for a piece doesn't really match my own, if that makes sense?

i think the last time i felt that way was when i first posted this shrimpship painting, i put a LOT of hours and care into it and i really really love it, i consider it one of the best shrimpship things i've put out. but the notes came in slow in those first few days, and it was easy to compare its performance to the drawings i was doing for a monthly challenge in that same month, that had less time put into them but did a bit better.

but like every time that happens, i found ten times more joy in seeing the 5-6 "regulars" in my notes telling me how much they like it! and my own opinion still stands and that's more important than anything

10. how do you deal with artblock?

in a lot of ways! when i want to draw something but i feel like the process really isn't going my way, what helps the most is just stepping away for a while, for as little as an hour to as long as a day or two. you can't really force yourself to be in "the zone", any attempt to push through usually just frustrates me so i just wait it out.

if i still wanted to draw SOMETHING though i try to make experimental things without the expectation of it looking any good. picture studies usually do the trick, and changing up your regular art process is fun too, like skipping the lineart step or working on just one layer. the point is to have fun and loosen up, eventually i can go back to whatever i was doing with fresh eyes and steadier hands!

18. something you feel like you need to work on?

DRAWING. TAKES. SO. LOOONG FOR ME ANGRY FACE. ideas come slowly in general and i have super deep-seated perfectionism that i'm still whittling away at, the simplest of drawings can take 6 hours, maybe 3 if i really rushed myself. on top of that i try to keep a very consistent neat style for commissions specifically, but that usually results in those pieces taking 10+ hours on average which my prices... don't really compensate for.

that's what makes experimenting and loosening up super important, i need an outlet to make messier things while in the middle of making that super clean thing i'm getting paid for. i'm probably doing better than i was when it comes to perfectionism, i just need to make more conscious efforts to leave good enough alone, especially when the stuff i get hung up about would probably go unnoticed to anyone else... GYAH

[beatendeadcourier]

how would S/I (self insert) would feel with two kids (Lucy and Shape) (Dimensional AU)

[May draw all this stuff but right now I kinda got a small artblock and have been busy a bit lately]

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Well since they are all living with them in their home since in my au, bob survived [obviously] and he kinda just hangs around tryna not get caught by police again in the same town but more on the outskirts [man's is a little dumb]

Then Sal [self insert] moves into town

[I made the reason they moved there specifically because usually they have to move around a lot before because they always seem to attract chaos so they have to leave before the people around them find out something is not human bout them, and they heard this place has rumors of weird shit happening so they we're like "that sounds perfect" since it could help them blend in better and keep attention from themselves, they usually like hiding that they are a shapeshifter at any opportunity they can but if u asked they would probably hint towards it] btw the cult is still very much apart of the lore that's also what Sal is tryna stay away from

But after all that when bob and sal met it took awhile before bob stopped trying to kill and eat them all together and instead after that he kept breaking into their house to annoy them so he kinda just lives there now.

But both Bob and Sal try their best to stop each other from doing stupid shit all the time even more now with kids.

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First with Shape

I feel like bob would find the baby out and about and he just comes home and Sal just goes

",,,What's with the fucking baby did u steal that??"

They would be so confused but once bob says he just found them, they would obviously keep the kid around

They are mostly iffy with kids in general since they never thought of being a parent and doesn't see themselves as a parental figure or a family man,

But they find the kid not so bad

When they find out that Shape is also a shapeshifter it really didn't change their opinions on them much since truly they can't really be surprised, they just had to think more bout the process of being a shapeshifter Intels and how their gonna handle the bad side of it and how they can keep Bob from freaking out about what horrors he may see

But no matter what they will protect the kids and will like causing destruction with them, their not a trickster type shapeshifter for no reason.

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With Lucy

When they find out that bob as a bio kid it would not really shock them that much but it would be more like "wow we've been together for this long and u haven't told me u have a kid yet smh keep ur secrets I guess"

They would mostly be fucking annoying since bob didn't tell them this before hand before Lucy shows up so they could've be prepared

But no matter the place they live at can hold a family

Obviously they would accept her in their not just gonna abandon a kid or leave bob for this, they usually just go with the flow with most things anyway and weird shit always happens to them so their fairly alright with the happenings

They may seem unwelcoming but really they just like to joke around and just has a dead face they can't help

But with Lucy's appearance and obvious powers they would help her out they know a thing or two bout out of control powers like their literally in their adulthood of a shapeshifter and still doesn't got control of somethings like when they goop when or show facial expressions with white markings unintentionally when they get big emotions, they know its hard to hide it

They really couldn't care less who her other "parent" is they don't see family as just blood relations and if she happens to be a cursed demon from the cult or something they still wouldn't back down from their relationship with the kid

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[All in all really they just go with the flow and as long as the kids will join them on their regular fuckory sometime they don't mind keeping them around.

They are all so very silly together. <3]

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Oc Lucy by @muse-the-multi

[skitskatdacat63]

4, 10, 20 :)

4. piece you wish got more love?

It's been so long since I drew it, but I'm still pretty in love with this full-body drawing of boy king Seb and I was surprised it didn't do better, bcs I tend to draw portraits instead of smth full body. Also the most recent matador one! It didn't do bad by any means, but it was a concept I was really proud of and it was much more shippy than most things I tend to draw. I guess I'm just a bit sad that its seemingly shadowbanned from my blog, and irs smth I'm pretty proud of

10. how do you deal with artblock?

I try to just disengage for a bit now, instead of trying to force myself to draw, bcs it just ends up making me frustrated and it makes it last longer a lot of the time. It just sucks when you have an idea, and you're trying to sketch and it just doesn't work out. I try and take a break and in the meantime, I try to think of concepts and hope when I go to draw one that I suddenly can draw again. It feels like I get artblock every week icl 😭 I'll finish a piece and then it'll often be a bit till I can get back at it

20. is your workspace, digital or not, organized (not neat, organized)?

Oh my god I wish I could show you my files, they're sooooo terrible. I've gotten better at this lately, but sometimes it'll be like. 3+ drawings in one file. Which is so glitchy and slow bcs the amnt of layers. Generally I'm a weird mix of being organized and not organized. Also I can't name the files on the app I use, so have fun with that one. But like yeah, I'll have like 20 layers+ for one drawing but heyyyy they're all in specific folders so it's a bit organized! Also those files are just so messed up bcs I like to keep every iteration of the sketches, so there's just so much.

[b33viemm]

expldoes

all fotthem

1. When did you start creating art? when i was born

2. Do you do art in any professional capacity? (Graphic design, commissions, animation, etc.) no

3. What are your favorite subjects to draw? (OCs, your fan faves, etc.) art based on media or topics i like or am passionate about

4. What's your least favorite part of the body to draw, if any? all of it. i rarely draw people in detail. id probably say faces if we get specific

5. What piece of art are you still proud of to this day? (Show or describe)

i like these two but i could also put a bunch of my spiderverse art up there

6. Favorite and least favorite angles/perspectives to draw? i hate drawing

7. Who are some artists that have inspired you? too many to count. mainly fanartists

8. How would you describe your art style? art style?

9. What's the longest you've ever suffered from artblock? i once dropped a genloss piece for several months, but i typically go through frenzies of drawing then i stop for a bit

10. How do you deal with art block? i dont i let it sit until it goes away on its own. normally this works

11. Have you ever drawn a meme with your OCs or canon characters from a fictional media? i almost have but i got bored. i have certainly IMAGINED memes with them

12. Ever participated in a multi-artist collaboration (3 or more) such as a multi-animator project? no

13. What kind of art do you personally not see the appeal of, and why? i dont think theres an art form i dislike.

14. Do you prefer to make fan content or original content? ratio wise i make a lot more fan content but i like original concepts too. its harder to get those to take off cause people arent exactly searching for original characters on purpose

15. Do you/have you participated in Artfight or art trades in general? no

16. What was something you used to struggle to draw with confidence/ease, but have now mastered? ive gotten better at hands if i use refs

17. Your personal favorite works of art (not made by you) are...? aw man specifically??

this by SOMEONE I CANT REMEMBER THEIR USER BT ITS YELLOWHOODIE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT HELP

18. Do you typically use filters on your art? yes

19. What's your biggest insecurity when it comes to your artwork? my lack of consistency

20. What motivates/inspires you artistically? (topics, emotions, etc) i like using quotes or song lyrics and my most recent WIP is based off of a song lyric

[lovermyme]

Dang, if i told you iv never had a fnaf phase ☠️ i was more a undertale kid, that one had my heart i spend my teens with these monsters 💞😔 missing my 13s

Im fine actually, my dogs are better (less pitucha, the one that died, because she is dead 😔). Monday my little princess is gonna take more 2 vaccines (thats why my credit card was maxed). I dont kive with the dogs, so im taking it fine, but my father is destroyed:( he is old and lonely, he spend his whole day with the dogs, pitucha was so loved, she was the mother of the other 3 ones , the oldest, its gonna make 1 month she passed in day 21. he is so sad about her :( when princess got sick (she had diarrhea) he was so scared for her 😭 him sad makes me sad

But i dont like to talk about sad things, i get 3 commissions and enough to pay half of my cradit card, so i am finally financially estable again yeeey :")) so dont worry if you cant buy one commissions of me 💞🥺 you always the first to like my posts and everything (even the weird one),, i think you so cool and nice to me 💞

Also, i plan to open avatar requests soon, after i finishe the commissions and pay my bills, probably next month 💞💅 I hope i dont fall into a blackhole of artblock again

But dang, today was a really exhausting day. Saturdays always like that where i work, very productive, but very exhausting too, especially with the AC still broken (the technician couldn't solve the problem yet, maybe we will have to buy another ac :"(). Im like halfdead, so tired, i also just ate, and i had take a bath some time ago, im ready to bed 😴😴😴

Im glad to hear youre good and safe, elesme dearlin 💞🦆

Elena???? You names elena?? i through it was elesme ☠️

Whats up friend??? How are you friend???? ♥️♥️♥️♥️🦆🦆🦆

yes, my name is Elena ahahah, if you thought so good the username works.

Sme is actually the first 3 letters of my last name.

anyway im all good, i was watching this video https://youtu.be/v8o_hA2eMzI (i need to catch up before the film comes out)

how are you? i heard about your dogs im so sorry, i can't even imagine what you are going trough, if i can (there are low changes) i convince my mom to commission something from you.

how are you?

[asksds]

((Some info on slow updates under the cut!))

Hey y’all! Sorry for the very very slow updates, lots of things came/are coming together. Work has been massively exhausting because of a huge project coming up that’ll eat most of my time until like probably March next year, and it generally leaves me with zero energy at night to do anything aside from playing Genshin Impact. This was combined with an absolutely debilitating artblock that made me incapable of drawing ANYTHING for weeks/maybe even months (idk the concept of time anymore) plus a few of my online friends stopped talking to me and sharing stuff with friends is a huge source of inspo for me so that was also kind of eating away my drive, and with my current window of artistic drive/joy I’m trying to prep for Artist Alley at Dokomi 2023 (if I get a table), though I won’t be posting the stuff for it yet because I’ve also been struggling with posting anxiety so bad lmao but I’ll post some of it once I have a bigger catalogue!

The current big update also proves to be a gigantic roadblock to me because I’ve been thinking about and layouting it in my head for months and you know, thinking about a thing and then making it are very different things and I keep being disappointed that it isn’t turning out as cool as in my head. But I’m working on trying to overcome this by telling myself that it doesn’t actually need to be perfect and super cool and stuff because the story is more important, and it would also be nice to get back into a casual flow of asks again. Still very fond of the plot!! It just showcases that I do better with just one-off-asks and not an overarching plot, which is totally fine, that’s why I have an askblog and not a webcomic, and it’s a fun run regardless even at its glacial pace.

Anyway, thank you so much for reading and have a happy halloween!

[kenjo-arts]

Hey I wanted to ask on how you deal with extrem motivation loss, especially for art. Sadly I am so bad at finishing anything and I mostly have just random sketches and scribbles :/

Mostly i either power through or i say "done" on my scribbles and make a new one. And then keep making scribbles and sketches untill i find something im happy with (that's usually way diffrent from what I set out to draw [but I also have aphantasia so I never truly have something specific i set out to draw so like im used to it] ) For basically every more polished drawing you see here on my Tumblr Ive got maybe 1-3 sketches and 2 erased scribbles i never did anything with. Sometimes i just colour a sketch im only mildly unhappy/happy with and post it like my recent c!Bedrock bros art.

The thing is you don't have to be dishearted about only making sketches if you keep doing it because then you get better and youll be able to make sketches youre more and more proud of. (art is also sometimes also about habbit-> the biggest advices Ive always gotten is to keep drawing everyday (even if it's just boxes or idk hair) that itll help you improve even if the motivation isn't there or youre in an artblock)

Currently im feeling alot of motivation loss myself, which is why Ive not posted as much as I usually do. Which is why I've resolved myself to just keep drawing things im unhappy with untill i get over it <- i brute force it a bit... 😓 Or in worst case ill look at old sketches and just finish something im not that happy about to just get drawing back into my hand.

Worst case you can do like i did in the past (which i still SHOULD DO because Ive been struggeling too sometimes) and draw legs in diffrent poses. Just legs. Legs. Legs. This sounds strange but the likelyhood of you starting your drawings with the head is high so you might actually find it easier to draw more starting from somewhere else on the body. (comon advice is the hips bc that's where everything else goes out from in both directions)

Sometimes it also helps using a diffrent medium or brush. The reason my art shifts sometimes is because sometimes I find a brush i find it easy to draw losely and creatively with <- it's a strange psykological trick like writers writing in casual or funky fonts because it's not as "formal" which lessens pressure.

Because pressure is the killer of motivation in my personal experience, not pressure in deadlines, but in perfroming to perfection. It's also why i draw for myself mostly and kick myself mentally in the face when I get to caught up in drawing things that will do good on Tumblr or twitter instead of what give me brainrot.

Visual of my brain when it's going really well, regardless of how good the drawings are->

I hope any of this made any sense, i feel I rambled a bit all over the place so feel free to ask any questions. I don't have any profisional artist advice because Ive never had any art education outside a few videos on yt, so this is whatever i could think of right now.

ALSO REMEMBER TO USE REFRENCE OH GOD IM SO BAD AT THIS BUT YOU!!! YOU REMEMBER IT!! BE BETTER THAN ME!!! USE REFRENCE FOR POSES!!! FOR TEXTURE!!! FOR HAIR!!! FOR FACESS!!! FOR EVEYTHING IT ONLY IMPROVES YOUR ART!!!! AND ITS NOT CHEATING!!!