A little portrait of Sal for last year's Pride Month and a page from my (dropped) comic redraw project I did in 2022-2023 (this version was finished mid-2023)
I really want to make comics, but put too much pressure on myself and too scared to actually draw them... This experience didn't help, as I redid this page 3,5 times (started reformating it into a far less crowded version, but desided that finishing what I already have is more important) and spent more than half a year on the whole thing. This wasn't very fun, and both of the finished pages far from perfect.
I'm trying to look on the bright side - I DID learn a lot by making it, and I have a whole comic page with my characters interacting, like, c'mon, how cool is that?? I'm making progress in changing my thinking patterns when it comes to creative work, but sometimes I'm just too tired. Fighting with my perfectionism and anxiety need to constantly overthink stuff every day isn't always a winning battle. And I feel like I'm losing it (and some other battles as well) right now.
And that's okay, as frustrating it may be >:/
Bad mental health days/weeks/months aren't here forever. We are still valuable and deserving of love people even when we're struggling and not giving to the world everything we have.
Saying it loud and clear not only to myself but to anyone who needs to hear it - stuff really does get better. We'll get there. Even if it doesn't feel like it at the moment
Returning to the topic: "The nightmare"'s starring two of my main girlies, Salamander and Little Owl, so you can learn about their dinamic a bit more
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i'm sorry but i don't think we should call this the "autism website" when there's still posts with tons of notes mocking people who:
struggle with social skills / have anxiety around social settings
are unemployed / unable to work certain jobs
have intense or "age-inappropriate" interests
haven't had certain life experiences that are deemed universal/essential
struggle with personal hygiene
don't have any friends or dating experience
don't go outside much or at all
take things literally / don't get sarcasm/jokes
have unusual ways of speaking
generally aren't "normal"
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more Harvey, bc my brain is only capable of focusing on like three things at any given time
imagining he works out with the ladies at Pierre's place and the farmer is peeking around the corner like 😳
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never forget...
read again?
no you did not see me repost this, shh
hemlo!! thank ya'll so so much for enjoying this lil comic series!! i know it's been a year since the first part, but most importantly i finished it 💀✨️
every single tags ya'll leave on me posts and past questions i recieve about this au is super appreciated, they make me smile the widest you have no clue!! im just a lil mad at myself that i couldn't expand on this au more so yall could have had more crumbs. irl stuff happened + still getting the hang of drawing and socializing again after years of doing neither of those 😭
but still, im glad i could share this comfort comic i made for myself, and for you guys too. it's a pretty personal one despite the characters not being mine 😅 i hope that you can walk away from this story believing (entirely or not) that someone out there still thinks of you, whether they're from a late/absent loved one who still wants the best for you or a dear friend who will make room in their hearts for you. life will never not be hard, but if you keep them close to your heart, adulting will be bearable 🫂
thank you so much for reading 💕
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Idk who needs to hear this, but
Whenever I see a self ship double, or a popular canon x f/o ship and feel sad/insecure about it,
I like to imagine that it's an "alternate universe", meaning that it's just a different version of your f/o.
The real version?
They're with you. They're yours, and love you only.
No one can change that fact.
They love you, so damn much.
No one else - nothing else - matters.
YOU are their canon partner.
"I am my f/o's canon and real partner" - say it, manifest it, because it's true.
It's real. 💕
[Pr0ship DNI. Please respect my boundaries]
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Sorry for being such a poopyhead and letting my negative emotions take ahold of me and control my thought process for nearly 3 days guys anyways self-esteem has been recovered (somewhat) and now I'm just doing a colorblind challenge using Caine to test if I can still paint
(I disabled colors on my screens and therefore CANNOT see any of the colors even in this screenshot, I'm relying purely on values and all I can see are black and whites)
(EDIT: Okay, I forgot the exception to this challenge was Caine's eyes because I wanted it to be the same as his original palette just in case this attempt's palette was too unrecognizable.)
I also discovered I like cooking as a hobby during those 3 days of self-reflection. I should stop being terminally online more often
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