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Just because your drawing, writing, sewing, or general crafting/art isn't as good as someone else's, doesn't mean it isn't good. You can still make great art without being the best.
#just because#you don't think so#doesn't mean it's true#not as good#doesn't mean bad#you can#still do it#make great art#without being the best#imposter syndrome#don't let it stop you#keep creating#you can always get better
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I have yet to use this phrase but it is exactly how I direct theater.
I say- once we know it well enough to just have random fun with it we can create some really GOOD stuff.
For reference I work in community theater with people who come to rehearsal after doing a full day of work and volunteer all thier time for 3 months for a weekend of performance. The general attitude is- “If they are willing to volunteer thier time, we can’t ask too much of them” and the usual show is only just memorized and everyone is happy is they remember where they stand on stage.
Meanwhile I demand you know the text a month in and have blocking down by the end of the second. It gives us just a couple of weeks to really “fuck around” and find great stuff.
But mostly- I pull in things from fandom.
I say- “find a song for you character. Find a playlist of songs. Why does it connect?�� By the end of the show, I swear, every song playing on the radio as I drive home from rehearsal relates somehow, (and I see it in full fanvid behind my eyes).
I say- talk to your fellow actor. We know the present from the script. What does it tell us about the past? What WAS your relationship? What parts can you fill in together? (The word headcannon is never used, but that is EXACTLY what we are doing)
What are you wearing and why? (I also demand my costumes so much earlier) Is it said in script? Does it give you a nervous thing to do with your hands? Is your character being rebellious? What in the script would suggest that? (Don’t tell me one of the favorite bits of fan work isn’t dressing up your favorite character in a new outfit they would TOTALLY love, and I can prove it with these 3 episodes!)
I know there is more, but I am struggling to think of them in the moment.
The point is- fan work has shaped how I used my brain to look at stage craft and that is only good. I get EXCITED about my shows- the story becomes my FAVORITE for awhile and the work only benefits.
If you are an avid member, or even an occasional visitor, of fan spaces, you have artistic skills in dissecting text that are useful to you in other spaces. Use it. Enjoy it.
Anytime I see people talking about canon and fan fiction and all the discourse that happens therein, my brain always goes back to this line from Slings and Arrows. It’s been living in my head rent free for nearly 20 years.
Geoffrey Tennant is standing in front of a workshop class full of corporate middle management people who tell him they’re at the workshop to learn communication skills and management styles by learning about the works of Shakespeare. And they’re all just very cut and dry business folk who are there and are gonna Learn a Thing. Geoffrey basically waves the class’s notions aside and says: “Let’s fuck around with some text.”
I love that line. I think about that line a lot when I think about fandom. Taking canon and finding our own way to play and fuck around with it. Search for profound truths about a character. And the horny. The silliness and fun. Explore the new and process trauma or share joy with fic or art or vids. Going in completely different direction from canon because we’re in so deep and are possessed and that’s where the stories and the fanon has carried us.
Let’s fuck around with some text. It’s so good.
#also geoffrey and darren's incandescent rivalry is *chefs kiss* so good#their ideas of fucking with the text are so different from one another#slings and arrows#fanon#working in artistic spaces#get excited about your own work too#make great art#community theater#theater as fanon#I confuse so many older people in my sphere#they think I am being an artistic genius in that crazy way#but they let me get on for the most part because my stuff has depth and audience reaction#I want to tell them that they have no idea#I am being tame#I could go so much more feral#but i wont#because then I wouldn’t get the nice ladies with sewing machines to work for me#or the old guys who hammer the set together#can’t scare them all off in a small community- there would be no one left 😂#they don’t realize all the crazy energetic teenage actors are getting that energy from ME#I taught them to make memes about thier characters and it just snowballs#they think the teens effect ME#naw bitch#I litterally taught them everything they know
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Live Mel reaction
#no one in this damn city can last two seconds without her smh#I can’t believe this is my first ever arcane fanart lmao#look the finale airs tomorrow and this joke won’t make sense anymore after that point so it’s gotta be done now#I don’t have TIME a to study the the art style and create a meaningful homage to one of the greatest animiated series ever made#this is what you get instead#it’s funny cause her canon response will be ‘’:( I’m sorry jayce. he was a good friend and a great man’’ at BEST#cause even tho she canonically likes him they’ve had like no direct interactions so nothing more would make sense#but an enby can dream#arcane#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2#arcane season 2 spoilers#mel medarda#jayce talis#viktor arcane#art#my art#digital art#fanart#doodle#drawing#sketch#shitpost#meljay#jayvik#meljayvik
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Your media stinks, but that's ok
Hello, friends. I posted this on my blog, but I want to share it here too because it is relevant.
I am here to talk seriously though kindly, as always, about the issue that Hollywood and the video game industry is facing right now. Everyone is throwing their hat into the ring right now, so as an artist and comic connaisseuse myself, I have my own criticism though I want to give it constructively. For context, I think it is great that we are more aware that different people are into a media, so we try to represent those fans who love the media so much. In fact, I think it is very sweet of creators though it should be done right and naturally not shoehorned in. Moreover, you should not alienate or vilify one group of people just to uplift another. Art supposed to be love after all. The root of it all goes beyond the obsession with representation and inclusion though. I think the real problem is that nobody in the professional world wants to be the bad guy when it comes to judging creators. We don't want to turn away people because we don't want to appear bigoted even though we know we're not. We are looking solely at what they are presenting and only judging the piece not the person, not their lifestyle and not who they like to kiss. Our eyes are on the project. I mean, I'm just a fan and I have never ever thought about what Steven Spielberg eats for breakfast, how often he goes to church if at all, how his love is going, how often he exercises, or his parenting style. Nor do I sit there thinking about what any artist does in their private life because it doesn't matter and that is the very point; it does not matter. What matters is whether they are good at their craft or not.
And that circles back to what the real problem with modern media is right now. It's not the obsession with appealing to a modern audience, it is not checking inclusion boxes and it is not the political themes in art because art, especially comics and cartoons, has always been liberal leaning, progressive, showcased the underdog and is politically themed. Just look at Robocop, Rambo, Beverly Hills Cop and even Alien namely the sequel Aliens. The real problem is the quality of what we are getting now. All of the new medias Wish, The Acolyte, and even Starfield, they all had the potential to be great, but they failed because of bad writing, bad storytelling, bad art designs in some cases and bad creative decisions. All this has nothing to do with modernization. It's the bad quality of work combined with over-relying on modernization to cover it up. And it doesn't work that way. THAT, friends, is the real problem. Modern day artists have trouble accepting that they messed up or that they are just not good at working with a specific medium or genre. Or in some cases, some people just stink at making art period. It's nice of people to give them a chance indiscriminately, but it should not be at the cost of holding professional work to a high standard. People are paying for that art, they are getting excited for it and they are spending time on it. They deserve the best version of it, but instead of being allowed to say that we got stinks, we are told to not do that because it is mean. The result doing that though is that we now have a bunch of naked emperors who think they are fabulous, but are actually embarrassing themselves and it's not entirely their fault. It's ours too. The truth will set these people free of their delusions and allow them to genuinely improve their craft and produce great media. Moreover, some people may learn that maybe they're in the wrong line of work and that's ok too. Let them move onto things they are good at. The point is that is that honesty really is the best policy. If we want comics, movies and shows to get better, we have to be better ourselves and not be ashamed of expecting better and asking for better.
If anything, believing that these artists can do better is a good thing because it means we believe in them. I know I do even now.
#encouragment#tell the truth#the emperor's new clothes#naked emperor#quality#make great art#no more bad art#no more excuses#no more participation trophies#comics#webcomics#films#movies#tv shows#tv series#video games#keep trying
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Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!
I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished
#makeaterriblecomicday2024#comic#comics#sketch#does this count as horror like comment subscribe down below#Ever since I stopped being on social media as often/stopped taking it deadly serious I've been able to fall back in love with the process..#...of art which is fantastic!! I do enjoy taking my time with things but it's still very easy to get caught up in making something Perfect#ESPECIALLY WITH COMICS#As a comic maker and comic enjoyer you have to remind yourself people speed through reading them. It's ok to take shortcuts#Every frame does not need to be a painting#Anyways this was a great way to make something after falling into an MMO hole for a few days...#unrelated did u guys know Wizard 101 is still alive with an active player base#Ok hopefully I can get back on track to finishing my next short horror comic in the next month or so wish me luck fellers
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we’ll fly together until the stars collide
#my art#illustration#digital illustration#bird art#bird illustration#heron#great blue heron#procreate#i want to make this a painting but i am frustrated with painting rn lol
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•. A visit in a dream .•
#the owl house#toh#my art#cw fatphobia#toh comic#amity blight#amity toh#toh amity#green haired amity#time skip amity#time skip Luz#luz noceda#lumity#angst#toh angst#it's finally done omg#idk why it took me so long to make this but it's a great improvement from my last comic imo
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I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.
#animation#animated film#animated movies#across the spiderverse#across the spider-verse#spiderverse#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#puss in boots 2#nimona#nimona film#yes i'm posting this specifically because i just watched nimona and am feeling all kinds of things but really these are all PEAK TIER#the fact they have ALL been released within 7 months of each other...like...woah we are thriving right now#stylised animation with its own unique style reflecting the movie i love you forever kissing you on the mouth#films that make me ferally rip up any and all art blocks to shreds#and that's just the animation side of things#i won't get started on the plots. they also make me want to bounce off of walls#hugging all these close to my chest#as well as all the other great animated movies that exist because animation wins all catergories for me always#(let's not forget anime movies either; y'all are beautiful too! keeping 2d animation alive and i'm so here for it)
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Something that could have been
#femurs art#carolina parakeet#quagga#great auk#extinct animals#extinct species#this was for a school thing#also this isnt supposed to be realistic#so like. i know that thylacines wouldnt make very good hunting companions but that wasnt the point of the piece#thylacine
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great blue heron bell
cone 04 terracotta, underglaze, glaze, wire, cotton thread
#NFS i made him for meeee but i will make more im sure. it was very fun especially braiding the cord!#ceramics#clay#sculpture#animal art#finished work#bell#pottery#heron#great blue heron#bird art
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The queen wore a high-collared black silk gown, with a hundred dark red rubies sewn into her bodice, covering her from neck to bosom. They were cut in the shape of teardrops, as if the queen were weeping blood.
#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#cersei lannister#my art#everyone’s done this outfit with this quote but whatever. my turn.#the more asoiaf clothing I draw the less internal consistent it gets#but in the words of the great philosopher rene descartes who give a shit#my fondness for cersei grows daily… they could never make me hate u queen
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i can't find the original post of this idea but im obsessed completely with Sam Reich! Master
upd: The original idea was by @ace-whovian-neuroscientist!!!
#i was sketching a comic of 15 being handcuffed to the podium (due to alexmeys great take on this) but eh#stuff i rambled while drawing this include:#master lost a game to the toymaker and it fucked him up so bad he reincarnated into a game host#he made his sonic into a mic that Sam holds during every introduction#doctor who#dw fanart#dw#dr who#doctor who fanart#the master#Sam Reich!Master#yeah make that fucker a tag#dropout#sam reich#game changer#northernfire art#Reich!Master
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It's not diving underwater, but he still looks pretty good swimming and burrowing up like a mole.
#You can't convince me that this isn't the most mesmerizing new ability Link's scored by losing an arm#He's not that great at it but makes up for it by winning through his usual clever bullshit#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#totk link#totk bokoblin#ascend mechanic#loz#totk#link#cucco#my art#my fan art
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12 Best Games Inspired by Resident Evil You Need To Play
It’s not about being fancy, it’s not about the name and it’s not about company behind it. Make something great that comes naturally to you. There is no modern audience. There is only YOUR audience. Love it and take a bow when it applauds you.
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queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎
I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers#coming in well after the fact but that's what happens when the art doesn't cooperate#and i just HAD to draw something for vil's ob (re-ob?) because i loved it so much#legit put my hand over my mouth and went “oh!” when i realized what was happening#i thought it was just going to be an idia thing because. y'know. closing out his character arc from episode 6 and all#so this was like. oh! oh we're going to get ALL the inky boys!!!!!#i wonder if this is why we got a malleus flashback so early...#not to mention everyone's dreams?!#i am braced for 90% of the dreams to be kind of jokey/inconsequential because we have SO many characters to get through#and most of the time will probably be spent on our lads (literally) dropkicking their emotional problems#but i am excited to see everyone regardless!#and also kind of terrified! what on EARTH will floyd be dreaming about. do i want to know.#i do but do i want to.#man. they're probably not going to get back to it but i do wonder what silver's dream was#what was he doing when he was like 'wait a minute' and noped right out of there#lilia: here silver i made dinner :)#silver: oh boy this looks great! ...YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD#ouuuagh i'm still deep in the blotsauce guys and i'm loving it#come make snowangels in the ink with me it's great
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illustrated the last scene of the official Sonic & Silver wallpaper cover story - translated by @acquascans!
#sonic the hedgehog#silver the hedgehog#sonic channel#it's missing a line but that was purposeful since i figured it doesn't make sense out of context#please read the story! it's great#sonilver#my art#comic#sonic wallpaper cover story
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