not to mention that *finishing* something is it's own skill/set of skills that also need to be practiced and refined and the only way you can effectively do that is making a bunch of stuff and seeing it through until it's completed

Stop measuring your right to create by how "good" you are today.

Daily plan.

Make your bad art. When you do it, someone else knows they can do it, too.

wind blowing 🌬️ i’ve enjoyed this vibrant palette! #ourplanetweek2026 #opw26wind #sketchbook #art

now this is what a cd player looks like. cheap plastic piece of shit, awful tinny earbud mics, and two AA batteries, god's own disposable battery format

A dog astronaut mug 🐶🌌 [ #pottery #potterysky #ceramics ]

creators get better by finishing projects no project ever comes out as good as it is in your imagination but that’s ok, the next one will be better also it’s ok if projects fail, taking risks and big swings is an important part of growing as a creator

Why do people only bring up disabilities when it’s to defend AI generated art theft? “Some people are disabled and can’t draw.” Yeah I’m one of them, and you better fucking believe I give it my all every time despite the difficulties. There’s artists out here drawing with their mouths, cut the shit.

I was thinking about how annoying ‘bald’ chants are in AEW and then I was thinking about how we always call our cat small and I don’t really draw but I had to make a mockup.

Moleskine alts, quick and dirty takes (for people who draw with pencils and pens on smooth paper): Pentalics—nice softcovers, paper kinda lightweight (maybe lighter than 120gsm, based on how it feels, which is decent!), bigger ones lay flat better than the pocket size ones, relatively affordable

The process of randomly painting just whatever. And at some point it just goes BUT WHAT IF CREATURE Yeh, that works~. #drachenmagier #art

The title "artist" belongs to anyone who keeps creating, even when the results aren't pretty. Now, say it with me: ✨I'm an artist✨ ✨I'm an artist✨ ✨I'm an artist✨

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

mmmmmm rly dislike that people are eager to hop on a redraw trend but rarely do the due diligence of crediting the original. photography is art too and photographers deserve credit, especially when their work inspires countless people

For former moleskine users needing a rec, this is the best sketchbook I’ve ever had It takes paint and ink like no prawblem, made by an indie artist, small enough to fit in a purse, and has been my trusty travel sketchbook since 2022 www.etsy.com/listing/8051...

If you leave nice comments on art and writing, you are a big part of why we get to continue seeing more art and writing. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to make the community continue flourishing. You, the audience, matter just as much as the creators do.

I painted a sleepy cat under a ginkgo tree! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

…that in this absolutely terrible garbage age of AI, where tech bro billionaires are throwing everything at us to remove our agency, imagination, attention span and actual cognitive function, we must resist with everything we have. So that hobby you were thinking of, like me and Japanese? Do it!

For my fellow Clip Studio Painters, if CSP ever crashes on you and/or corrupts your files: I have the solution 🌟 This method has saved my ass MULTIPLE times‼️and also CSP has a feature in which you can have your progress autosaved, and you can customize how often it saves :3

Cracks #hollowknight

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. 4 colors, pixelart

Friday is approaching! #hollowknightartmonth #hollowknight #silksong #hollowknightsilksong #help

The daughter of three queens #silksong

there's lots of changes but one of the major differences between the new internet and the old internet is that on the old internet when someone linked to an article that generally meant you would actually be able to read it

Color wheel 🎨 *A small design for making anti-bird collision stickers! #illustration #birdart #stickerdesign #windowsticker #birdsafe #longtailedtit #wildlifeart #digitalart

I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."

-Never open a strange file name -Never open a strange link -Vgen will never ask you to verify ANYTHING. -Check usernames for impersonation -NEVER accept/discuss comms with a person with a NFT profile picture. 100% a crypto scam. -Inflated offer = scam -Look for oddities in communication.

birds and rot and stars ✧ #art, #mspaint ✧

A couple of banana eels! 🍌 [ #plushart #sewingpattern #plushie ]

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FLOCK AROUND IS AVAILABLE NOW!!! 🐦🦅🦆🦢 youtu.be/_eEmBQ4MSGs store.steampowered.com/app/3618030/...

dimensional traveller

I have apparently wildly upset the Pro AI community for setting fire to an ai slop character in Minecraft as a joke. This was a fun moment where we set fire to Rome Because of the upset, I will be viciously mocking pro AI users further in future, because it's quite entertaining to do so

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why do people keep following without interacting. who are you. where did you come from

Searching for a RAIN WORLD that doesn't exist ( sfawtde x rain world au) IM ONCE AGAIN MIXING THE STUFF I LIKE WITH RAIN WORLD BUT NOW ITS FINISHED #sfawtde #dawtde #rainworld #au #d3rlord3 #avery #kiy #slimeknight

hey quick note if someone on #vgen sends you a file leading to this, it's a phishing link this is not the real vgen link and "Completing verification" will most likely steal your shit vgen has never asked me for verification to view files or references before and it probably never will

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

This is actually hilarious to me

Honored to be part of the anti ai/ai haters blocklist LMAO

We report: we are here when the sun falls into the sea, and once it has gotten very deep below the surface, nothing remains of the sky. Meanwhile, the waves never stop rolling; in the dark, they look much colder than when our nose was burning in the sunshine.

Thanks to andrew and all for letting me draw so many [LITTLE][NORMAL] guys and [RANDOM][NORMAL] objects 🙏 please enjoy them

I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.

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