"Just practice" is good and necessary advice, but so frustrating for beginning artists to hear. I think what's missing is the assurance that drawing WILL get more fun. It really will. And the thing that makes it more fun is the control you develop after lots of practice. (thread repost) [tiptag]

Need a pride flag that represents 'quitecertainly not cis but too existentially tired to really get into it'. for personal reasons

If I actually stop putting this off and manage to quit my job I need you all to throw me a parade ok

I've got an MRI for my heart in two days... I've had an MRI before so I'm not sure why I'm so nervous about this one lmao. Everything's been so weird lately I don't even know how to feel, but I guess I'm cautiously optimistic despite everything

Grumble grumble I want to draw. Sooo badly. It's a good feeling even though it's frustrating, after dreading the idea for so long... I feel like a significant part of my art burnout has finally resolved itself but my freakin Real Job keeps me so drained and tired

Seriously, as far as it's relevant to this account / my art output: So like. I'm most likely not getting back on Adderall, the cardiologist is not feeling good about it given All The Things we have discovered *and still* need to look into further. Oopsie

Update: TWO count 'em TWO HEART DEFECTS

Getting a call from my doctor after doing 34895763405 tests (long story) to find out whether or not I have the greenlight to get back on Adderall. Everybody pray because Jesus christ I want to draw so bad but the shit will Not happen so long as my brain is unmedicated sludge

on a sillier and art-adjacent (as is typical for me, that is) note knowing how to crochet is great because then you can do shit like ✨This✨

it's more life updates than art these days but, short version, dealing with a lot of health troubles (physical and mental), family issues and financial struggles. It's been a lot. I'd like nothing more than to draw but I'm just drained 24/7

One Billion Callies!!!!!

summer nights callie is so good...

little by little (I may never tire of drawing squids, honestly)

slowly getting through the commission backlog slooooowly

MY BOOOOY

bit late for this now LOL but I was feeling nostalgic... team naughty 4ever

Groundbreaking Discovery: You'll like making art if you make art of what you like

Oh, also, I took up knitting. As a relaxing hobby. *Clear throat* I. Ridiculously Dyscalculic. Took up KNITTING. as a RELAXING. HOBBY

(Trying to work myself up to talking more, like an actual Person) So, I don't have anything to share as far as art goes, at the moment, but like... for what it's worth, my mental and physical health have been improving (or at least are on the cyclical upswing) lately. I mean,

Not to be that person but ADHD is genuinely the most god damn embarrassing condition. Like, being a whole adult and struggling with the very concept of *doing things* is mortifying, no matter how well I understand the reason and mechanisms behind it.

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Driving myself insane with the fact that I'd use this site more if 1) I actually drew at all (lmao. working... on it..) 2) I could make my nsfw account private so I can finally post unhinged shit at like 3 specific freaks and Nobody Else

Inkfish must train like crazy to be doing All That..... inspiring

rip to the characters that have been designed for years but probably won't be seen by other people for more years

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It's my nervous breakdown and I can cope how I want

Uoh I forgot this account... should probably update y'all on how things have been going, huh. Maybe it comes as no surprise, but: Bad So, for a brief explanation (this is going to be hard to shorten while also accurately conveying the severity lmao, bear with me please) --

Today I learned I can smell fear

Once again I am distracted not only by my busted-ass brain (off Adderall, long annoying story) but the fact that all my creative energy is being siphoned into another little woollen sweater project. Wish me luck this yarn is thin as thread and a nightmare to work with lmfao

"it's tough out here for a huge brained art genius," i say to myself as i draw a cartoon dog

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

I am ITCHING to start new projects but I don't have time aaaaa Somebody please hold a knife to my throat until I finish my commissions this month. THIS fucking month

Cruel how the holidays are always when I have the most creative energy, but are always when I have the absolute least amount of time!

not art but I don't have a 'main' garbage account -- anyway my family eviscerated me for my birthday

I wish more sites had the tumblr tagging system because no one is ever more honest than when writing the tags of their reblogs, people release their full "dog ravaging their favorite chew toy" energy in those things

Oh, I don't think I posted about it here, so here's a heads-up: I got a job recently! It's part-time, but it's retail, so it'd been getting really busy ahead of the holidays. I have commissions to finish and things I wanna draw, I'm just very thrown off in terms of scheduling +

*vague and mildly distressed gesturing* #art #splatoon

I want to post more here to keep up the activity and all (I'm genuinely finding myself on this site more often than on Twitter, anyway) but I just feel terrible still not having any ART to post rahh

Rediscovering the joy of making art!! #art

I think a ridiculous amount of my issues art-wise could be solved if I just did warm-ups... as is obvious, I just. never do it for some reason. what's something dumb and relatively simple I could do.. aaa.. redraws...?

On that note, do any of yall with OCs ever find yourself writing lore and story beats but your brain doesnt... fully recognize it as such? Like, cognitively, you know youre writing and making decisions, but it *feels* more like youre learning organically about something that exists outside of you?

....And like, additionally, maybe I can ramble about my thoughts on everything a little more freely because I'm an artist! A human being! With thoughts and opinions! Most of them bad and poorly thought-out and over-emotional, but whatever!

This is probably a really silly and airheaded thought, and I'm not going to word it well so take me in good faith here please - but with all the devaluing of artists lately, I kind of feel like... ironically a bit freer to express myself.

Ive been saying I want to share stuff about my OCs more openly for years, literally over a decade, and I still havent really done it. Theres just something really incredibly nauseating about it and I still don't feel any closer to getting over it...

Im not gonna lie, it is REALLY comfortable having such a small amount of followers on an ostensibly more chill site almost.. *too* comfortable... please dont let me embarrass myself LMAO

*Just now realizes I could've tagged things* Aaaa. Blame my years on Twitter for making me automatically think tagging would be pointless :( Ah well. If you want to see my work all neatly organized into tags and categories, there's always my Tumblr (same @)

okay posting all my old oc shit tired me out I'll get back to this later, lol.

Okay. Well. Here's my stupid idiot baby. [Thread]

WAIT THIS WAS SO CUTE WHEN DID I DO THIS I should redo this + add veronika are you kidding

Wait If I keep going at this rate, I'll only have my OC stuff left to post, and then that'll be at the top of my page for god knows how long (hurls from horror) Let me get that out of the way now so I can sandwich it between fanart and commissions l m f a o...... christ