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Find a tea grub, pick it up,
Then all day you have good luck.
Pour the water, let it steep,
Tasty tea to help you sleep.
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"I Provide Succor" Acrylics on hand shaped aluminum, 5x6", 2024
#sold#hive gallery#tea grub#bugs#grub#worm#weird art#artists on tumblr#art#painting#pop surrealism#agblend13#traditional art#acrylic painting#lowbrow art#traditional painting#flowers#porcelain forest#dreamy#kawaii#creepy cute#fairytale#fantasy art#fantasy creature#sci-fi art#mini painting#new contemporary#narrative artist#poem
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Tommy basically said "the DSMP was good because it was, and still is, loved" and that basically sums up my feelings on the matter too.
#sure you can talk about the controversies about former members#and how the types of people involved in the writing shaped the narrative in ways that are increasingly troubling to look at#but it was also a project that was and still is loved by many of the (to our knowledge) better people involved#and it inspired so many artists and writers and musicians#people made friends through it#it helped people get through the worst parts of lockdown#my opinion of the dsmp for a while now has been pretty bitter. even when i wanted to remember it fondly it was tainted#and i dont think the worst aspects of the story or the ccs should be ignored#but its also so nice to have the opinion of 'yeah. it was good'#despite everything else there was something worthwhile in the dsmp#dsmp#tommyinnit#okay thats enough dsmp posting in 2024 lmao
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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[ Main comic | Tag guide ] CATEGORY 2 of my AU ! ::)
#messyr#im drunk and about to go to sleep bye#basically revolves around the ship only but not far from narrative#doodle#artists on tumblr#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel: michelin stars au#hazbin hotel au#hazbin hotel human au#hazbin hotel lucifer#hazbin hotel alastor#lucifer morningstar#hazbin alastor#charlie morningstar#hazbin hotel charlie#radioapple#HH:MS [Radioapple]
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The Watchers’ Favourites
#grian#jimmy solidarity#martyn inthelittlewood#itlwart#grian fanart#solidaritygaming fanart#martyn itlw#inthelittewood fanart#traffic life#trafficblr#traffic smp#how do you people function there’s so many tags#I like to call them “doomed by the narrative and hated by the gods trio”#Pigin is artistic
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💋 first aid 💋
#arcane#jayce talis#viktor arcane#jayvik#tw: blood#tw: injuries#just wanted to draw something cute#and there was nobody around to stop me#the narrative in my head is that Jayce caused an explosion in the lab and was trying to be cute by apologizing by “kissing it better”#but in the undercity they don't do that (probably on account of everyone and everything being filthy all the time)#so it's way more confusing to Viktor than it is cute~ lol#thanks for coming to my tag story - the end#pidgy drew#digital art#artists on tumblr
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"If you were the last vampire on earth, it would be enough. YOU AND ME. ME AND YOU. YOU AND ME." 🖤
#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanartwork#my art#amc iwtv#claudia iwtv#iwtv fanart#iwtv s2#interview with the vampire#i love my doomed by the narrative girl
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Hellen, how do you know how to do so many things? I know how to do a few things but I look at your stuff and every time I'm like "damn. I wish I could do that"
oh, I just do them.
It's after 1:30 am, so you get the existential answer. The fun thing about personhood is you get to just be whatever. You can't necessarily do whatever--money and laws are things, unfortunately, and you only get so much control over the opportunities available to you. But you can sort of just throw yourself down on the anvil of life and hammer yourself into whatever shape you want. Ideally the process of it drives out some flaws as you go, but sometimes also you take an impurity and make yourself stronger with it.
I am, still, a person who is terrified of failure; of incorrectness; of being wrong. And there is nothing to do with fear except shatter it with blunt force, and so I line myself up against failure again and again and again. I will try. I must; or the fear of failure wins, and I must keep trying after I fail or I have failed utterly. I fear failure, and therefore I take it as a challenge. I must do what I think I cannot. And you know what? More often than not, I can.
I have a weird and wandering skillset because I make myself try things, knowing full well that I will remember for decades every time someone saw me be less than instantly successful, because the only way I know to get better is to batter down the dross of my own fear. That's the deal. I'm not doing anything that nobody has done before. I know it's all possible. I just have to be the sort of person that does it. And it gets easier every time. If the question is can it be done and the answer is yes, then the next question is can I be the one to do it, and the answer is I want to be.
Every time I fail my way over and over to eventual success, trying again the next time is less scary; every time I have a broader base of skills to carry to the next challenge. I'm not unusually talented, just stubborn as hell, and I've lived long enough on I have to do what scares me that honestly, not that much scares me anymore.
If you keep failing long enough, it turns out that you just get really good at problem solving, and figuring out unconventional ways to reach your goals. It's not about a special secret concoction of skills, it's about persistence, and hammering away until you've taken a mess and made it into something you think is worth keeping. It's not easy, but it is simple.
Also I have incredibly strong unmedicated ADHD. But I sort of assume that's glaringly obvious.
#Also. If I'm being honest. I tend to operate on instinct and while my instincts arent BAD they are definitely weird.#there has been a lot of no-hesitation I should do this...#in my life#and its resulted in a kind of eclectic skillset#rejection sensitive dysphoria my ancient foe#my narrative foil....#on the same topic i have a strong fear of heights and as a result I spent years doing theatrical rigging because it forced me to get good#at working at height#mostly bc i was personally offended by the idea i may have a quote unquote weakness#so now im scared but functional#the artistic philosophy of put your shoulder down and press on#"
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I’m not even a star.
page for @cassunzine
#my art#I don’t like it when songs about race r stripped of their context but I think interpreting cass as wasian adds so much to the narrative#so thank you mitski#tts#cassunzel#tangled the series#rapunzel#cass#rta#artists on tumblr#art#rapunzels tangled adventure#rapunzel x cass#rapunzel x cassandra#casspunzel#moon cassandra#cassandra x rapunzel#cassandra#tts cassandra#cassandra tangled#cass tts#cassandra tts#tts fanart#tts rapunzel#rapunzel’s tangled adventure#fanart#tangled the series fanart#disney tv shows#disney#dtva
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idk how i want to draw him yet and not ready to make a srs attempt but here's a bad kdj phone doodle lol🚶🏻
#orv#kim dokja#omniscient reader's viewpoint#my art#oh yeah i didnt have ref for this fkdnfn was going off memory of the last (first) time i drew him#i cant do a serious attempt tho bc i havent read the novel so i dont have a clear image of him in my head yet...#(dont want to just copy the webtoon design hastily... if it matches my image thats fine but... idk yet)#my main opinion on the webtoon design is he's too hot/ikemen tho KFJDKDJ (this is what i thought since the beginning)#its like BONES mp100 anime reigen.... kdj is like manga reigen to me /j#but who knows maybe if i catch kdj brainrot i too will start drawing him like a kpop idol out of affection...🤷🏻♂️#like the webtoon artist prob draws kdj pretty bc they love him sm#just like how i draw jys pretty bc of my brainrot...#so who knows maybe that will happen to me too🤷🏻♂️ time will tell#my main opinion on webtoon yjh (no one asked): CUTE BUT WHERES THE T1TTY BEL- *voice muffled as i get dragged away*#(copied most of these tags from twit too lazy to retype the commentary)#EDIT: i call him reigen jokingly bc theyre abt the same age but#kdj is also mob core to me....#in that theyre both protags that dont look flashy and look more like extras/'mob charas'#yet r irrevocably unequivocably the protags of their respective stories#(just as everyone is the protag of your own life! sieze ur narrative! etcetc🖤)#also. both black haired bowlcut havers KJDJS#kdj is reigen coded (derogatory) and mob coded (POS)#hes also a 'con man like reigen..... yep hes def still reigen coded
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All these asks and nobody is gonna ask who Strawgoose is??? I like their design and name!
Woe, Strawgoose reference upon ye.
Strawgoose is the same age as Caterpillarpelt, and was mentored by Cougargleam! She is incredibly bubbly and optimistic and thinks that everything will work out in time. After all, nothing is final.
Regardless, she wishes that Caterpillarpelt wouldn't stress himself out so much! What's the problem with a few stray silver hairs?
#I ALSO like strawgoose!#lets hope she's not doomed by the narrative#thank you for the ask!#clan generator#clangen#wc#wc oc#wc art#warrior cats#wc clangen#clangen challenge#clangen oc#clangen art#warrior cats clangen#warrior cats art#warriorcats#wc artist#art#lutumclan#ask#reference#LutumLore#Strawgoose
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handsss
#artists on tumblr#fan art#star wars fanart#star wars: the clone wars#commander fox#Corrie Latte#Fox/Caf#Just some doodling#How to Get In M.C. Fox’s Good Books:#step 1: Introduce Caf into M.C.’s vicinity#step 2: wait to see if M.C. hones in on the aroma/huffs it#step 3: if no#retry step 1#^read in a David Attenborough documentary narrative#Very faint skeletal-vibes with the lighting
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Lone Voyager | [Speedpaint]
I had another Astronomy Moment™ and I wanted to draw Silver in a costume semi-inspired by the Voyager probes. This was also a sort-of study of the artist Rella's lighting!
Sketch of the costume and other thumbnails below the cut:
special thanks to google for having an actual 3d model of the Voyager probes that I used as reference lmao
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fanart#silver the hedgehog#silver the hedgehog fanart#digital#space#clip studio paint#artists on tumblr#my art#my god i am NOT built for lineart or for drawings that take longer that 4 hours hhkkhfkhdf#still im pretty happy with this!#i kinda want to make an au from this but idek what the Narrative would be
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IN CASE YOU MISSED THE MEMO: HERE'S THE THING ABOUT DRAGONS
#coyoteworks#art#digital art#original art#digital painting#dragons#queer artist#artists on tumblr#i had to crush this image like fucking crazy btw it was like. nearing 200 mb in file size#anyways uhhh picked colors based on the gilbert baker pride flag (not directly eyedropped though)#was just kind of thinking about dragons as narrative tools and how people of marginalized groups frequently identify with them#so i made art about it. naturally#its 4am i need to sleep gootbye
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the disc war remained relevant throughout the entire plot of the dsmp because the discs themselves served to represent both Tommy's relationship with tubbo and an idealized past he wished he could go back to. it was the catalyst for the initial conflict between tommy and dream that escalated as time went on and it effectively stablished the emotional core of the story from s1 to the disc finale being clingy duo (fight me on this one) with dream as the main antagonist.
#sorry i hate bad takes#i am a hater first lorehead second artist third person Fourth#wddy#its a narrative throughline !!!!!#dsmp#discourse
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here’s a series of illustrations i did for my junior thesis last semester, based on the book “This Is How You Lose the Time War” that I had made into a physical book 👉👈
i also made a character sheet — i understand that the book is kinda meant to be pretty abstract, so red and blue arent really supposed to have fixed forms. but i had to come up with something to draw for my style of illustration 🫠 i hope i did them justice somewhat
i didnt have time to finish the last illustration which was a shame bc i felt like it would have wrapped up the series perfectly, but heres the sketch of what i planned for it to look like
#art#illustration#fanart#digital art#lilliangst art#art school#this is how you lose the time war#book illustration#narrative illustration#digital illustration#thesis#artist#illustrator#lilli schl#lgbt#lgbt books#lgbt art#character design#character illustration
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