#the other day i got a compliment saying my art style is robust. im not sure i fully grasp what that means but i really like that compliment | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bmpmp3 · 7 months ago

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its interesting as someone who used to be a bit closer to the very online capital A "Art Community" but is now a little more outside of it and focused on local art academia etc instead because the former always compliments me on "art style" and the latter always compliments me on the supposedly bizarre subject matter choices i make... its not bad its just interesting to see those two bubbles and how surprisingly separated they can be. unfortunately for them both, my art style is only Like This because i have a learning disability that slightly colours every line i draw and the unusual compositional choices like only drawing one eye and shit is because i was on deviantart in 2009 <3

#i dunno i was thinking about this because i was doing some experimentation with different ways to draw cartoon characters #i used to do it way more often but recently ive been super busy from school and family stuff going on (nothing bad just a lot of work)#the bmpmp3's artstyle is only extremely consistent when shes stressed!!!! jk jk but kinda LOL #if im too busy to play around my drawings will slip into whatevers comfortable for my dysgraphic hand <3 <3 <3 #but i loooove experimenting and fucking around. consistency for brand purposes is long outside of my perspective at this point #do i wanna draw detailed hair and faces... do i not.... who knows. it will change within the hour #i do appreciate when people compliment my art style tho even tho its not something i really try to do #because while i dont try to make things look a certain way - recently i had decided to not hold back on my dysgraphic nature #i probably talked about it before. instead of painfully agonizing and trying to get a line perfect and scrapping a whole drawing because #of the hand-got-tired-after-2-lines jerks and wiggles i just decided to leave that all in. show off the drawing even if its scribbly #the other day i got a compliment saying my art style is robust. im not sure i fully grasp what that means but i really like that compliment #its very evocative. robust..... gonna be thinking about it for a while #but im not joking about the academia thing professors get so baffled by some of my drawing choices and like i straight up tell them #these are habits of children largely. children on early internet in my case that i never grew out of but also habits that children still us #go on an art website and sort by new and look up fanart for something popular with kids and you'll probably see someone doing #stuff with similar artistic choices. maybe not the same because i am 26. but similar. coming from similar places.#they always laugh and seem to think im being humble or making a joke.... im not orz im not trying to downplay my skills either #if anything im trying to bring up the skills of a thousand children uploading oc art every moment of every day.... they are out there...#yeah i dunno its funny these different relationships im having to different art worlds. in the end i will always probably be a tiny bit #outside of them all as some kind of alien or creature masquerading as human but i think thats what we're all doing after all

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