#its a great outlet

[iristhewonderblunder]

This is by no means an exhaustive list but here are a number of suggestions to help you on your art journey! Feel free to contact me for clarification or examples and I will happily provide them.

Check under the cut for many creative options and keep on creating, everyone!

Collage is pretty accessible, if you don't have old magazines/newspapers of your own libraries often have some they were just going to throw out anyway

Drawing/painting can be intimidating but also lots of fun, again your local library might have "GOOS" paper (good on one side) that would just go to waste otherwise. You can also paint on random trash, rocks, jackets/jeans, or scrap fabric to make patches to sew on your stuff

Textiles like sewing & embroidery are a very cool outlet that gives you skills in repair as well as fun finished products like stuffies or custom pockets, you can use scrap fabric or buy a cheap pack of felt to start out, can't go wrong with a classic sock monkey.

Crochet and knitting are good repetitive options that leave you with practical creative products in the end, you can make little guys with Amigurumi once you get the crochet basics down, and you can unravel and redo the same skein multiple times until you are comfortable!

Dig into your recycle bin for cardboard and plastics and you open up a whole world of sculpture, you can make miniature scenes, cardboard accessories/armor/faux animal mounts. Even furniture if you have enough cardboard. When I was younger my friends and I would use applesauce cups and hot glue along with random scraps/trash to make boats which we would race through big puddles

You can go for a nature walk and gather components for sculpture as well, a bit of jewelry wire plus stones and twigs can go far. You can also try whittling or woodcarving with dry wood scraps and a sharp knife, safety gloves recommended.

There are many types of clay you can sculpt with, be it pottery or figurines. Stuff like plasticine never solidifies, so you can keep working on it, other clays air dry or oven bake so you can set it permanently. I love a material called Cloud Clay, the Crayola version crumbles but any other one I've used has been good. It dries super light so it's great for jewelry or little guys to carry around with you. It is sensitive to moisture so I'd recommend clear coating it once it's dry to keep it safe. I accidentally ran a piece through the washer and it survived mostly intact thanks to clear coating it.

Mod podge, pliers, a bottle cap, a safety pin, and a pop tab can be put together to make your own buttons sans-buttonmaker.

You can play with fashion, costume, cosplay, prop making. I personally do Live Action RolePlay in organized groups, you can see if there is one in your area, it has been a fantastic outlet for me creatively and athletically because I'm not big on traditional sports and I love a good camping weekend.

Pick one jacket you have and just have fun expressing yourself, paint on it, sew stuff on it, add studs or jewelry, put buttons on it, stitch your favourite quotes, make it yours. It could also be a vest. In the punk scene they are called battle jackets.

Origami is fun and there are tons of books out there about it, it can be practical too, there's a way to make a paper cup with it to carry snacks in, you can make little gift boxes, it's very fun.

Build a puppet! Storytelling is part of our nature and what better way to do it than with a little guy? You can make finger puppets, hand puppets, sock puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets, your own Muppet, the list goes on!

Pop up books/cards are a fun challenge that mostly use paper and glue. You can combine this with collage as well.

There are many different ways to use or decorate eggshells from Faberge to Pysanky eggs, painted eggs are even in the official clown museum to show registered clown's makeup so no one has the same look.

Journaling or sketchbooks are great outlets, you don't have to just write about your feelings you can just play with calligraphy, short fiction, typography, poetry, character design, and you can decorate the pages with gel pens, stickers, etc.

Make a zine! It's short form, very flexible, you can tell a story, send a message, info dump, or just put words to paper, there's no wrong way to do it.

As we go into spring you can press flowers to preserve them and also use those in all manner of art, even press a flower between two pages and smash it with a hammer to transfer the pigment to paper and work from there.

how do i get creative in a traditional way no electronics used

[blusthings]

Danny and Reem, thank you for allowing me to explore myself and my identity through you. Thank you for showing me what love can look like. And thank you for being brave on my behalf.

[sapphorror]

Okay but my favorite GIR moments are ALWAYS the ones that imply he's just aware enough of what's going on to know that the thing he's doing will fuck up Zim's day, and he still does it anyway, possibly specifically for that purpose.

[caerial-aerial]

Is it valid of me to keep drawing sky coyl but i dont actually play the game i just like to draw bc of the whole dress up thing

sky just is honestly unreasonable with its pricing nowadays which disappoints me bc its just no longer playable when ur struggling financially + irl bc of the whole grind we have to do

[stormco0l]

hello tumblr user stormcool please give a random character fact from memories of dead places (i'm so normal about that story trust :3)

hello tumblr user procrastinova i have seen how normal you are about this story firsthand so ues i shall give you a ramdom character fact

Jess's hair is blue because she got dragged to a work party she was very uncomfortable at, got really drunk, had a reall good cry, broke several things and then got her hair dyed. in that order.

she thought it looked ok so she decided she might as well keep it blue. because it was a thing that was nice and she didnt have many of those

[sometimesanequine]

keep forgetting to actually use the watermark so im just gonna slap it on when i remember 😭 or at least slap it on the stuff that people would actually steal

[boycritter]

OUGHGHGHH.

[cadwo]

Hate feeling called out for something that I know is true lol

[crescentfool]

i think loving things is a great thing!!! yay!!!! i just got hit with happy beams!! and you get happy beams too!!!

[orcelito]

ok i am actually so very angry and there's literally nothing i can do to fix it. life keeps going on. she might even be happy. and fuck dude, i'll make sure im happy too, i was a fully developed person before she was in my life and i'll continue to be one without her. but God Damn, the fact that she can just do something so blatantly awful and unfair to me and then run off without any actual repercussions is just so fucking rankling to me.

like perhaps she feels guilty. she said she did when it was all going down. but it was just something she "needed to do". so obviously she didn't feel guilty enough or she wouldnt have done it like that lmaoooo

i really did deserve to have a good solid yell at her. but unfortunately, by the time i did see her in person i just wanted her out of my fucking life. so. no yelling was done, unfortunately.

[thatonegeekygirl]

Me tryna explian to aly why I love to torture aoura with inbox implodes

my dear celestiel body why art thou this way......

[reamed]

im literally peaking rn

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

Participating in fandom is very fun theres a lot of gorgeous fanart and compelling fics and its a good way of meeting wonderful ppl who like the same thing you do the only downside is the fandom.

[thinkingthingsthrough]

she really is the bravest soldier bc i don’t know how someone could a. release something so vulnerable and then b. go sing in front of thousands that same evening

[earl-grey-love]

😳 Let me tell you my feelings for Barbs are next level. I woke up suddenly possessed with inspiration and spent 5 uninterrupted hours writing a 5.3k word fic about him and my s/i before I even had coffee. I didn't even PLAN to write that much. Good grief.

[wildstar25]

[ Chainsaw ]

Got machinist to lv 90! My first job to reach the current cap! Thank you to the various pvp modes for all the exp 🙏