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You won't reach a point where you don't need references anymore 😭

Even artists who freedraw regularly still do studies, refer to their past work, keep character sheets at hand, etc

Please don't impose that expectation on yourself just because of a live demo, tiktok, or timelapses especially

#i was taught by professional artists who've been drawing for decades #they ALL told me that reference is an essential part of creating art #and that Never changes #you're not gonna get to a point where ur good enough to not need a reference #it's not a skil lthing. the most Skilled artistic choice u can make is to know and accept when u need a ref

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the youtube "stop drawing like this" community doesn't want you to know this but you can shade however you want forever btw. it doesn't have to make sense in fact you should actively be pissing people off with how inaccurate your light source is

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More than that, you’ve got to actually spend your time doing this stuff on the off chance that the algorithm picks it up and people care about what you have to say. You’ve got to spend your time doing this even though it’s corny and cringe and your friends from high school or college will probably laugh as you “try to become an influencer.” You’ve got to do it even when you feel like you have absolutely nothing to say, because the algorithm demands you post anyway. You have to do it even if you’re from a culture where doing any self-promotion is looked upon as inherently negative, or if you’re a woman for whom bragging carries an even greater social stigma than it already does. You’ve got to do it even though the coolest thing you can do is not have to. You’ve got to offer your content to the hellish, overstuffed, harassment-laden, uber-competitive attention economy because otherwise no one will know who you are. In a recent interview with the Guardian, the author Naomi Klein said the biggest change in the world since No Logo, her 1999 book on consumerism and inescapable branding, came out was that “neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security. Plus social media has given us the tools to market ourselves nonstop.”

Oh hell yes. An article that supports my half-joke that a corporate app's demand for constant self-promo is technically classist.

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To myself: “It’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art”

*the art is bad*

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if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

#and to draw

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"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

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"i wanna get better at drawing [body part] but i dont want people to think i have a fetish" stop worrying. youre an artist. everyone already knows youre a pervert of some kind.

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new year new Drawing of me :^)

#featuring my big new belly scar. where they stole half a foot of my intestines <3

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shout out to the artists who's "art studio" is just their ugly ass cluttered bedrooms. those aesthetic art studios in instagram with hundreds of perfectly organized copic markers are not real it can't hurt you

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some blorbo family time for the besties @holyteethstudio and @monsterabf <3

#dnd #oc

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wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year

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i love making art

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learn to draw if you’re interested in the irreplaceable experience of trying to explain to people that this does not also make you a graphic designer

#''woah your art is so good can u design me a logo for--'' NO I CANNOT!!!!

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"don't tell people what to draw"

no, fuck you. draw more fat people. coward.

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Pros of being an artist: you can make your favorite characters kiss!!! Yippee!!!!

Cons of being an artist:

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new lemon earrings for sale in my etsy shop ! :^)

#jewelry #handmade #handmade jewelry #earrings