saw some1 on tumblr talk abt writing shitty guys u wanna throw rocks at as protags instead of likeable/relatable protags. and while i understand the distinction, i like to write guys in the middle: relatable/likable protags who make bad & stupid enough choices u wanna throw rocks at them anyway.

no one tells you this but if you make an elf D&D PC and your PC is the only elf in the party you will feel immense amount of angst over the difference between your PC's lifespan and the lifespans of the party. this is an occupational hazard you have chosen by making an elf and you MUST live with it.

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felt like redrawing this meme as sebylen because i thought it'd be funny and needed a doodle break between tasks #memeredraw #redraw #ocart #ocsky #dndoc #dndpc

man i am soooo glad that streamlabs got updated to automatically switch to recording your device's sound output device in use. i fucked up too fuckin many recordings of me gaming with my friends by forgetting to swap the sound output and as a result not catching any game or call audio.

couldnt sleep a fuggin wink last night so i spent all night doing meme redraws with some of my ocs instead of angsting about not being able to sleep #myart #OCart #ocsky #theskyinpieces #tsip

been obsessed with flavor foley's song butcher vanity lately so i drew sebylen a la the MV. they're not actually the cannibal type but as an actor they looove playing a good villain, hence why they got picked to be drawn in this style. #myart #ocart #ocsky #butchervanity

i hate finishing a piece of art in the middle of the night. what do u mean there are "optimal posting times" i wanna POST my ART right NOW!!!

further note to my previous post: i will probably end up posting on here semi-regularly again. my mom threw a bunch of fearmongering at me and tried to get me to wipe my socmed presence so to compromise i deleted a bunch of my art. might reupload it, might not. but im out of the paranoia fit for now

due to recent events i may lay low for a while. not going to delete my bluesky account, but will probably not post as often. expect me to come back in a few years and repost a bunch of shit

sometimes i forget how much caffeine is basically the Juice That Makes You Write™ for me until i drink a big thermos of it and shit out 7k words in a single sitting with only a single break taken in the middle to shove food in my gullet and immediately resume.

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i love TTRPG so much. last D&D session sebylen delivered a dramatic speech to the final boss of story arc to try and redeem him and was so convincing we actually managed to talk him down successfully and skip a whole phase of the boss fight because of his choice to listen to sebylen.

it's not my circus nor is it my monkeys but i happen to be in the bleachers of that particular big top and i would like to be able to throw tomatoes at the clowns sometimes.

best part of having a drow PC in a campaign is when u spend an extended amount of time in the underdark and ur DM is constantly going "ah fuck, goddamnit, ur crazy ass darkvision again... [reveals WAY more minimap]"

silly little doodle. dont let sevylle in the second panel fool you, she talks a big game but she 100% started crying over a poem in that book 2 minutes later. post this was based on: www.tumblr.com/andrewbelami... #tsip #ocs #myocs #ocsky #ocartist

might actually be getting through my artistic dry spell. working on some art right now that im so happy about that i am like vibrating into the next dimension.

Still using Win10? No plan or ability to update to Win11 after they stop supporting Win10? Get a BLANK flash drive and take a look at this video; youtu.be/am0O6GpB7qI?...

used my new CPAP machine while sleeping for the first time last night. i slept for 14 hours and woke up feeling the most rested and happiest i have felt since uhhh... my teen years? it's pretty fucking awesome. to my friends, this is ur sign to do ur sleep study if you've been putting it off.

thought i was suffering from the classic "art block" but it turns out i actually have extremely severe sleep apnea. shockingly, your breathing stopping multiple times per minute while ur asleep makes you extremely tired all the time! 😱

realized recently that the art block ive been struggling with lately is just due to my own damn perfectionism. embarrassing. thought i'd be over that by now but i guess not. time to spend the next few months drawing intentionally shitty doodles to unkink my stupid brain.

lately my moms been starting to watch timelapse videos of ppl doing big home/yard renovations on youtube and if anyone is in the room w her she loves just heckling the FUCK out of the person doing the renos and it is legitimately hilarious. thanks mom

a friend organized an art trade event in a discord server im in, and this was my half of the trade i was given to do. very happy with how this piece came out. #art #artistsofbluesky

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sometimes it feels like i use all my brain power on creative projects to come up with cool characters and detailed worldbuilding and lots of interesting character dynamics, but then on a day-to-day basis the thing i most end up wanting to draw are my characters in cool outfits. over and over. 😔

caitlin doughty of ask a mortician fame has a truly unique ability to manufacture perfect vocal stims on the power of nothing except good delivery and a catchy jingle. every time i watch a video of hers i always end up repeating something from it over and over for like 2 hours afterward 😂

why are people suddenly posting art vs artist memes in the middle of the year?? i thought it was an end-of-year summary??? i spent the first half of my year being poisoned by contaminated medication bro, i hadn't been drawing!! pls let me at least have the next six months to finish some pieces!!

i love getting compliments on parts of an art piece that i fucking hated working on. like "thank u for the compliment on the background of this piece, it almost drove me to the brink of a madness so total that i might not have been able to return from it. yeah, drawing all those bricks sucked ass."

almost done my quilt for my wife. blossom is really enjoying it #cats #catsofbluesky #quilting #petsofbluesky #whiskerswednesday

i love when ppl ask me "how do you manage to make such hyper-detailed outfits?" well you see, when i was 16 i didnt know how to draw anything except the most basic stuff. so i studied fashion, and now if there's too much undecorated space in a character's outfit, the brain goblins bite me all over.

imo the funniest kinds of compliments to get as a creative are always when someone compliments you for handling well something that drove you insane to actually do. like im glad u think im good at drawing armor but every piece of that armor cost 50 sanity points to draw. at least it looks good! 🥲

new life motto in the form of a small poem: "Don't borrow grief from the future, Don't dig up pain from the past. Your life is lived moment to moment— Enjoy what you've got while it lasts."

i think the #1 reason why ive been able to decouple my artistic self-esteem from social media numbers over the years is simply because im in a lot of private discord servers, and enthusiastic compliments from friends in those servers does more for me than any amount of Number Go Up on socmed.

there are two best things to be told as a creative imo, and they both boil down to: 1. "i liked your stuff so much it made me want to work on my own stuff" 2. "i have this feature/body type/am part of this character's demographic and the way you portray them makes me like myself more"

the roleplaying part of TTRPG is very fun and important of course but i honestly also really enjoy being a hype man and cheering / losing my mind whenever one of my tablemates does something badass. if someone rolls a nat20 i WILL go apeshit and it's so much fun

one of my friends recently made a bsky account on here for their cat, so if u like cat pics (especially pics of extremely cuddly and fluffy tortoiseshell kitties) pls toss a follow to @baby-blossom.bsky.social. i cannot overstate how much i love this cat fr.

my favorite thing abt telling ppl about my writing project the sky in pieces is always how quickly people become invested when i start telling them about the tangled social dynamics between the protagonists. having so many seems like a weird choice but it's like showing off a veritable buffet

btw for the oc artists that have been following me ive been dreaming up a little event ive been thinking about that's focused around sharing and enjoying each others' ocs some more, so im going to post about it fairly soon once april begins.

very funny to me how official D&D lore says that drow are evil but so many D&D enjoyers are just like "fuck that. drow are cool and sexy and awesome actually and i love them. suck my shit completely off gygax"

i think one of my biggest pet peeves wrt ppl criticizing fiction is using the phrase "power fantasy" derogatorily, as if that aspect of the story alone is enough to make the whole thing worthless. like do you know just how much fiction out there are power fantasies while still being well-made????

sebylen's party has been going through a dungeon made by a goddess of humor and pranks and ive been seriously considering making a highlights video of all the best parts and drawing art of it to make it even more fun to watch but god. that would be so time-consuming... and yet slap so hard...

sometimes being in the specific artistic skill range im at rn is very frustrating. i know im capable of creating some amazing pieces and it somehow makes it MORE frustrating when stuff comes out wonky or weird or when i don't know how to draw smth.

sometimes i'll look back at problem sleuth and the midnight crew parts of homestuck and marvel at how PERFECTLY suited andrew hussie's writing style was for satirizing film noir tropes. problem sleuth is still fucken hilarious even now bc of this. hussie should write more noir parodies tbh

i love how so many TTRPG anecdotes are so utterly insane. truly incredible hobby

being both a digital and traditional artist at the same time is weird. i can be working on new digital pieces every single damn day but if i don't occasionally draw a traditional piece my soul slowly withers and dies like i have art block anyway.

you ever draw something that's miserable the entire process throughout and you're just whining and grinding your teeth from how bad it is, but then the moment the drawing is done you're so happy to finally be done that suddenly the world is beautiful again

I love deku scrubs

sometimes being an artist means just letting yourself draw what you actually WANT to draw. and sometimes what you want to draw is your oc in a gajillion different outfits like you're playing w paper dolls. guess im gonna be doing this for the next few days

sometimes it's funny making a story where the characters' sexual preferences figure so heavily into their personalities, esp when those preferences are so dif from your own, and a lot of them are things you put in there bc you find them FUNNY, and are mostly sexually uninterested in them

there's a certain set of people on tumblr who seem to think that creating with an audience in mind for your work is the death of uniqueness in art. and god sometimes it really fucking annoys me because they seem to be laboring under this really specific assumption of what that means