#I miss my old pen

[tootditoot]

A sketch of a young Salome and her newly found friend

#the art block is getting to me my dudes send help #I miss my old pen #it was so smooth in comparison to what I am using now #it sadly ran out of ink #oc #oc art #sketch #ink #artists on tumblr #illustration #traditional art #salome barko #sacabambaspis

[vamptits]

Backstage doodles for @vampmilf <3 i can't stand them.

#mcr #my chemical romance #mcr fanart #frank iero #mikey way #gerard way #ray toro #fanart #wish to GOD my laptop still worked im having to doodle with like old pens and stuff #i miss you digital art!!!!!!! i miss you zine i miss you edits. #my art

[jamieenthusiast]

do people still like art of these two

#missing my nori and yeva art era #i even brought out the old pen #my art #murder drones #murder drones fanart #nori doorman #nori fanart #nori murder drones #yeva #yeva murder drones #yeva fanart

[phonification]

untitled dadroogs from the past year or so that i forgot to ever post

#yaoi be upon you boy #i miss them as usual #never got over them #its goin to be like? a year soon #since i first started goin crazy over em #they mean ssooooo much to me man #le sigh #diamonds droog #dad crocker #homestuck #dadroog #these vary in oldness #second one is more recent #so a lot of these wobble around since i was still figurin out how 2 draw dd n dad #and i was usin pens i didnt like #i found my pens n my style recently i think #cheers #ok im done #toodles #phonification

[sincerely-sofie]

Quick, post Hollow Knight sketchbook art from circa five years ago and go to bed before anyone notices (but a second time because Tumblr is being weird about the first attempt)

#I'M SO SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO IS SEEING THIS A SECOND TIME. I THINK TUMBLR FIXED THE ORIGINAL A FEW MINUTES BEFORE I DELETED IT. AUGH #Tumblr please don't be mean to me this time. it's just cute bugs I don't know why you hated the original #anyhoo. original tags time: #posting this and realizing Grimm and Hollow parallel Twig and Ark’s shadow/fire motifs #and wondering if my OTPs throughout the years are truly just the same couple but copy and pasted in different fonts #I miss using pencil in my sketchbook… #I also just miss my sketchbook in general. #might need to dust the old thing off and set aside the pens for a bit. #grollow #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight comic #hollow knight pure vessel #hollow knight pale king #hollow knight white lady #hollow knight hornet #hollow knight grimm #hollow knight little ghost #hollow knight quirrel #hollow knight oro #hollow knight mato #stuff by sofie

[aiura-stan]

old saiki k (+beastars) sketch compilation!

#saiki k #saiki kusuo no psi nan #phew this is what. 4 years old at this point #I miss this pen. the texture on it broke the last time that I updated CSP :< #I cry. #man tbh these are cute even if theyre kinda wonky #my art #katha draws

[chitinleg]

i got into star trek ds9 in 2019 and never posted these (ID in alt text)

#star trek #ds9 #star trek ds9 #julian bashir #kira nerys #miles o'brien #star trek deep space nine #pen and ink #comic #pencil #wow theyre 3 years old now... #my comics r way better than this ajxhajxhajxhah #i had art of sisko garak and another of julian too but theyre missing :(

[cathalbravecog]

first thing i drew on my new tablet to test it out is the tv beast themselves

#gonna take a while to get used to... tfw u get an intuos for the buttons but realize u have #way too much muscle memory for ur old keyboard shortcuts (im talking YEARS. of the same/similar shortcuts. like. when did i get my first #tablet???? 2015??? YEAH.) (not my latest one btw i went thru a few tablets but yknow) #oh well!! ill see #took a bit to get used to but eventually i got into the swing of it since the work space on this is a bit smaller than my old one #i LOVEEEEE how the pen feels tho like the brush strokes its more consistent and i think ill be able to do good if ... my hand isnt hurty #and once i get less shaky with it!!!!! its sooo good. then again my old tablets pen had...its nib for 2+ish years #YEAH IT WAS BAD BAD....kept asking for replacement nibs but wouldnt get em #oops... oh well! anyways we ar the SMOOOOFFF zone HEE HEE #anyways i misse ddrawing cathal............. the skrunkle . the him. care him much very much a lot #trying out different ways to draw him too #and not try to be as on model as i was before... just have fun yknow??? get stylized and funky with it!§§§§!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HEEHEHEHEHEEE #soarry my brain wants to amsh buttons randomly rrly hard rn so its evil laugh time #ok normal tags time GO #toontown #toontown corporate clash #multislacker #cathalposting #guz art

[spacebubblehomebase]

What app and what pencil do you use :3?

(I send u big hugs and hav a nice day :D♡)

Hehe. (Hugs back. I like hugs. XD) I believe someone else had a similar question before! I made this art then too to demonstrate how I use, Ibis Paint. The free beginner friendly drawing app! (No I'm not sponsored-) And as for the "pens", I usually go for the default brushes. As in the first basic ones you find on the app! ^v^ I've been promoting this idea for years and I'll never get tired of saying it! While fancier equipment IS nice, skills can ultimately outclass tools any day! =D In fact, sometimes limiting yourself can hone your creativity as it forces you to work with what you have and invent new ways of experimenting with materials that are often overlooked! That's how I learned. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ -Bubbly💙

#spacebubblearts #asks #thanks for the asks! #and sorry it's so late #I was busy with mother's day and my parent's anniversary #but no cap I use to draw strictly with pens and markers #no erasing and soon enough mistakes became part of the art itself easy as anything #improved my drawing speed too #as for digital art #for years I only had my phone and fingers #I remember making animatics on them like a mad man #and I'm not talking animation memes either #I mean full on song animatics XD that could be minutes long #that took a lot of work #man I miss the motivation #thinking of training myself that way again. #ehem anyway I hope this was a satisfying answer #if youre curious my animatics are still up on YT XD #I made a Glitch Techs one on two player game but a lot of them are really old back when I was just starting online #enjoy! #and have a nice day as well! =3 #art #doodle #chibi #mascot #art practice #art discussion #art advice #why do I keep writing them on the tags??? #ibis paint

[b4kuch1n]

dip pen ink comm batch 4 complete! for Ezechiel, @ohwwhuv, and Leo :]

#bakuspecial #commission art #the grayscale for these were done on a train with my laptop track pad fksdjhf it was! manageable! but not desirable condition #that was before I got my new current tablet too... thank you my old huion. you served me well. Im so sorry I chipped ur paint to shit #ngl the texture on the new one's better off the bat. the grip's better and it has good kinetic feedback #too bad abt the touch buttons tho... I was confident I could make use of them but alas #things need actual feelable buttons again please I can Not tell where anything is when Im drawing and cant look at the tablet #my eyes are on the screen!! Im bad at gauging distance!!! please give me buttons I can find in the dark. please #even the old huion which has actual buttons I still couldnt use them. bc theyre not raised #theyre flat to the tablet's surface. you know what I shouldve tacked raised stickers on them I was stupid there #well! the more u learn. the more u learn #I'm happy with the current tablet tho!! buttons stuff aside it's nice to draw on. and thats what important. wrists dont hurt no more #almost said ''I miss the wacom eraser end" I don't. not really. every time I used that thang I was like wow you are so imprecise and blunt #litcherally why would you want basically a mappable stylus end but it's 50 times the size of a normal nib and you cant see where ur drawing #especially on a screen tablet. the dynamic there makes absolutely no sense #I can really do the same thing now by mapping one of the stylus buttons to swap foreground color to transparency #anyways. this has been my testimonies on tablets. in the tags of a dip pen ink post lmao #well! this is a late post I shouldve posted this before art fight. thank u again to that anon who reminded me #have a good day lads! we can answer emails together. hands in professional hands

[dipplinduo]

So....TTPD is out.

...how in danger are we?

Yes. ✌️🤍

#some updates are spared #others are not #laughing in S&S D #laughing in DIOH #laughing in angst #laughing in MY PEN IS CHARGED BRUH #little did you know your home's only really just a town you're just a guest in #the voices in his head called the rain to end our days of wild #pulled him in tighter rach time he was driftin' away my spine split from carrying us up this hill #stitches come undone #i can fix him no really i can #trust me i can handle me a dangerous man #say it once again with feeling #how the death rattle breathing #silienced as the soul was leaving #old habits die screaming #So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street #Is it a wonder I broke? #change the prophecy #cards on the table mine play out like fools in a fable #theres so much more LMAOOO #do with those as you will #my fics #I am also debating writing an absolutely devestating oneshot just because I can #this album is lowkey my personality for the foreseeable future thanks taylor swift #you neVER MISS

[archersartcorner]

Sometimes u look back at old Homestuck artists’ works and get the immense desire to draw those AUs where the ancestors raise the trolls from hatching. Primo wholesome AUs…

IDs under cut!

[ID: Six doodles, drawn traditionally in black pen, showing the Vantas trolls from Homestuck in an AU as referenced in the caption, where the ancestors raise their descendants.

The first image is of the Signless, referred to as Kanaan, and Beforus Karkat, referred to as Kardin, sitting together. Kanaan is nervously holding close a little grub Kankri, while Kardin is reassuring him. Kanaan says, "I just don't know..." Which Kardin responds with, "You'll be alright, Kan. I'll be here for you." There's two notes around the doodle from the artist, the first states, "Also wanna practice with pen again..." The second is under an arrow pointing at Kanaan and Kardin, which states, "Hatch mates, raised together. Closest human proximation is siblings."

The second image is Kanaan holding grub Kankri again, this time little Kankri wrapped up in a blanket, like one might swaddle a human baby. Kanaan is looking off panel at something that’s caught his attention.

The third image is of grub Kankri, all curled up. He appears uncomfortable, trembling slightly. A note next to him says, “If you’re cold, he’s cold. Sweater.” Off panel, Kardin says, “Give him a blankie. Or something. Warmth.” Kanaan says after, “Small baby…”

The fourth image is technically two panels. The first “panel” shows Kanaan looking down at his hands, nervous expression on his face. Someone behind him has their hands gently on his shoulders, and is saying, “Be careful with him…” The sentence continues into the next panel, which shows what Kanaan was looking at, holding a very small grub Karkat in one of his hands. The other person continues, “He’s a lot smaller than Kankri was…”

The fifth image shows Kankri at a later time, about 6 years old, no longer a grub and wearing a big ol’ sweater, looking off panel at Kanaan, who’s nervously asking Kankri, “Kankri, baby, have you seen your little brother?” There appears to be something in the poofy collar portion of his sweater.

The sixth image continues from the fifth. Kankri lowers his collar, showing little grub Karkat, curled up and napping away peacefully. Off panel still, Kanaan exclaims, “Oh thank goodness…” Kankri nervously explains, “He was cold…” Kanaan responds, “Ah - thank you for watching him, baby.”

END ID.]

#my art #my scribbles #described #homestuck #the signless #beforus!karkat #kankri vantas #karkat vantas #grub au #yea I’ll just label it as that lol #y’all remember dormir????? I remembered their blog the other day and went to check out their old grub art #they haven’t updated their tumblr in years. I hope they’re doing okay 🥺 #their grub art was fuckin iconic tho. love those strange little baby creachers. kisses them all #anyway I’m rusty with pen so sorry if these are messy LOL gonna keep workin on it… miss pen as a medium ajdbdj #tumblr pls. I’m begging you. I’m hitting post pls don’t mess up the id. #DANGIT. okay I’ve hopefully fixed it #okay hold on gotta go on desktop to fix this. love that #okay. NOW PLEASE?

[midnite--cruiser]

quick zapster doodle to christen my new tablet

#technically a downgrade because.. turns out i dont need 8k pressure levels when i literally don't use pen pressure while drawing. #so i sold my old one and got the one by wacom #its got 2k levels and no buttons #no tilt no touch etc . its a cutting board #the new owner of my old intuos pro is going to put it to FAR better use than i ever did i literally used zero features it came with! wasted #my art #sketch #digital art #frank zappa #i miss the eraser on the end of the pen tho :-( i keep flipping the new one around to no avail its burned into my muscle memory #70s

[fembatman-the-blanknight]

I heard the news today: the bell tolls for thee

I draw my pen: the pen tolls for thee.

Whose pen this is I think I know:

I played Doki Doki Literature Club.

Am I Yuri? Can I be Monika? Thou art more lovely

and more temperate. I draw my bottle.

I'm coming out of my cage and I'll be doing just fine,

but this time I took your reading list in mind,

the one in the dumpster (they told me that's how you

sent code to your wives.)

Ayn Rand, The Ethical Slut, Michael Crichton, The Bible,

Times New Roman, Margaret Atwood:

I read them all, or did i?

(i miss you. I'm beginning to talk the way I think you do now.

Can I be you again? Let me count the ways.)

I watched the TV show they made for you.

They said you kissed people

and then left.

I'm afraid I'm not as lovely, or as temperate.

Whose kiss this is I think I know.

Can I be the Lucifer to your Samael?

The Chloe to your Decker?

The Dexter to your Dexter's Lab?

I can't do what you do, angel hair,

but maybe I can become something more,

something they cannot kill,

a symbol,

a Dark Knight...

#Fantasy Realization #The Bottle Tolls for Thee #I Draw My Pen #I Chain My Saw #Skin Meets Plaid #Plaid Meets Lip #I Miss You #My Friend Came To Visit Me Today His Wife Looks Like You #The Million Year-Old Soul Virgin #Indigo Teenager #Symbolic Brutalism #Duck Face #Lucy Zipple #Zippel Pride #Talia al Ghul #Jewish Lifestyle #The Dark Knight

[ds2mtoi]

a serious post about my experience with amin/khennya.

hi, this is a serious post. but it'll be quick since everything is explained in this twitter thread and the attached google document. (and i don't really wanna keep talking about this anymore, i wanna move on and heal.)

long story short/tldr: amin is a freak who manipulated and abused me, made me fear for my life ever since i was 15 years old. he was 18. he is going to be 20 yrs old this year, and yet he still hasn't changed. he will never change. he is an incredibly dangerous person who will find any possible way to remove the blame on him, he will find all sorts of excuses for his disgusting behaviour. he is rotten to the core. please avoid him for your own safety, he is seriously dangerous. i opened up about my story and my experience with him not because i want to stir up drama or whatever absurd reason like that, but because i want other survivors of abuse to gain courage, to be uplifted from me finally speaking up about my story. i want to tell everyone my story, so that nobody will ever have to experience something like this with amin, or with anybody else for that matter. if you have gone through similar things as i did, please do not be afraid to open up. i hope you will find courage, i hope you will have wonderful people who will support you all throughout your life. thank you for your time, i will be inactive for the following months until i'm ready to be back online again.

#i have been really REALLY mentally exhausted #so exhausted i forgot to talk about this on tumblr LOL #i have been dreading about this moment for over 1 year and a few months #i feared that it would've went wrong.. and everybody would hate me. but i'm glad that my anxiety got proven wrong. #i'm really happy seeing so many people supporting me.. some others even telling me about their experiences. they're really brave too. #and i've had many old faces send me messages as well #it's nostalgic.. a wonderful feeling. i'm really happy. i really missed talking to my old friends. #even though life has been really chaotic . complete hell and just...overall terrible (especially last year) #i will get through it. i'm strong. i'm strong enough to talk about my story. i can do it. and i have my wonderful friends to support me too #one day..i'll pick my pen back up and be motivated to draw again. #one day i'll be ready to go back to everyone and cherish every moment...being as happy as possible. #i'm so glad to be finally free from his abuse. i can be my own person again... i can be myself. i'm free. i don't have to hide anymore. #thank you again. may you have a good day or night. #thoughtcabinet

[freebooter4ever]

Hey thanks I thought I was the only one who didn’t like the joke. Everyone laughed yuck

Ahhhhh yeah :/ i thought the joke was definitely funny, but with that harsh twinge of sadness at just how normalized and accepted this sort of sexism STILL is.

' i was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, i get older but your lovers stay my age '

And its not necessarily a damnation of the man himself - obviously rami is a favorite of mine but i dont think hes ever dated anyone over 30 and is veering towards jake and leo disease too, and i still think rami is one of the most brilliant character narrative builders in the business currently - but its a damnation of a culture that treats romantic partners not as equals but as disposable play things with an expiration date. Look, i got flirted with by much older guys in pittsburgh all the time - usually it was cute, they were friendly, very complimentary and flattering about it, and they never treated it seriously or asked me out. Then i came to LA and the difference was night and day. Older (rich) men here feel entitled to younger women in a way that is frankly scary - at one point in a bar when a guy in his 60s was hitting on me my muscular male friend had to physically step between us and scare the guy off to get him to go away.

And it doesn't help that im sort of in the 'one of the guys' category, so i've heard the way these super rich dudes talk about the models they date behind their back while hanging with 'the guys', and, ugh, its not nice. I will say one thing for sports dudes - i imagine guys like ja*gr have way more respect for young women who are passionate about health and fitness than computer science executives.

But there's negatives in the sports world too - yall know how much i adore taylor. But even i recognize that she's not 'sports bro hot' - she doesn't have silicone, her make up is understated, she doesn't have that social media defined 'hotness' that sports fan dudes expect their sports heroes to date. So while i was naively scrolling insta looking for cute snapshots of taylor and travis being all lovey dovey at the end of the game, a good half the comments were men complaining about her. Saying they cant understand why travis is dating someone so old, that she will never be able to give him kids, that she's already showing her age (both of them are 34 btw). So far travis seems to ignore these types of comments but it would be hard to judge him for giving into peer pressure because this stuff is just so prevelant and exhausting.

And it does effect us older women - while i was dating Pilot Boy i was absolutely hyper aware of the fact that here is this rich, handsome, successful, and extremely smart guy dating beneath him. Like we bonded over being literally the same age - we had mutual friends in college without even knowing it. But i was always questioning like what does this guy see in me - why isn't he dating a gorgeous 25 year old whose only goal in life is to live on the beach with him??? Like he was honestly more the type of dude i would be friends with while he dates hotter women, lol. So i really was not surprised when he ended things (i was mostly sad that we couldnt stay friends and continue geeking out on airplanes and history together LOL), it just felt like it made sense, of course he wouldn't be serious about me, a guy like him should be dating a fresh, youthful, less bitter and cynical 25 yr old blonde. Six years in LA and this is just the pattern i see repeating itself over and over.

And im the romantic - when i fall in love its ALL in. Usually it's personality, usually its intellectual - that comfort in finding someone who just understands how you think. I love being so close to someone that you know them better than yourself, that you can communicate wordlessly. Shared humor, shared experience. As i age im learning that i actually dont pay much attention to the signs of aging when it comes to attraction - who notices wrinkles when what you're in love with is that look in their eye when they smile at you? The mental connection between romantic partners is the most important for me in my book. For me this typically means someone within the ten year range plus or minus - though i prefer it even within a five year age gap.

#But i also really feel for the women because when i was 22 i got myself into a relationship with a man a decade older #Who only valued me for my youth and tight skin #And even back then no matter how much in love i was (and i have since deleted all the posts but even after he dumped me i was still #coming on this blog sighing about how much i loved and missed him) #The feeling of being only valued for your youth was still skeevy to me #In the back of my mind i knew that this was a trait i was eventually going to lose because everyone ages #And i was not confident enough to think i would ever have any value beyond Young #And thats not to say there are not relationships with age gaps that are healthy - there totally are look at ally and justin they ARE love #Its just a very specific type of relationship where the older partner keeps dating younger and younger and only values youth #that creeps me out #And in our culture that narrative usually is an older man with a younger woman and i tend to side with the woman #THE GOOD NEWS is if you notice in the clips and gifs it looks like the younger guys on the pens are laughing a lot less than the old guard #i think the newer generation - the dudes in their 20s are starting to realize how shallow all this is and that things are changing #and that the generation of women after me will deal with a lot less pressure #At least i hope!!! #Jrnlsht #Sorry this got long