#Sitting and drawing to recover

[salchat]

#A little Steddie sketch for my daughter #Queued for hours and hours to get her a photo with Joseph Quinn #Sore feet #Sitting and drawing to recover #Stranger Things #steddie

[pleucas]

we breathe, eat, fall in love and die

#pleucas #pleuart #bsd #bungo stray dogs #soukoku #skk #dazai #chuuya #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #recovering slowly from asagiri homo death baiting us every chapter for a yr by drawing them @ peace #ik logically chuuya would sit on the railing but tbh in canon dazai is on more strange elevated surfaces than he ever is for some reason #if you don't believe me go rewatch fifteen. he's like a squirrel

[aurosoulart]

Moonflower (prints)

finally finished another celestial art again. ;w; this will have a companion piece titled 'Sunflower'!

#art #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #moon #celestial #sky #stars #nature #mandala #art prints #prints #my drawing hand is very slowly recovering from all the overwork strain... #i've had many wips sitting for months and this was one of them #but it's done now!!!!! yeehaw

[afraidparade]

dearly departed

#do they know #(the answer is no) #been really into drawing guys Just Sitting There lately idk why #oc: lam #oc: pazu #itsybitsyghost #ghoststories #g/t related #kind of a random piece i'm still trying to recover from burnout

[desertomb]

Figure Skater Peach ❄️

#princess peach showtime #figure skater peach #fan art #//I was gifted the game at the same time I was recovering a chest injury. quite a cute game :] #/I mean Im still recovering but I can sit up to draw now at least lol #//A photo of Yuna Kim was referred to for the pose !

[tomopri]

it's been a while since i drew meeks so . have her in mspaint

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #my art #i missed you drawing #sory i've been recovering from surgery and can finally sit up so ofc i drew miku immediately

[blackmeetsworld]

I don’t think I will ever emotionally recover from Castlevania: Nocturne, s1.

Ever

#finished it in one sitting #I just couldn’t look away #now we wait for season 2 #I’m never recovering #I’m attached to those drawings #Castlevania #castlevania nocturne #richter belmont #Belmont #Alucard #YES YOU WERE LATE WHERE WERE YOU? #Annette #Maria #Tera #mizrak #olrox #Dracula #oh Drac #Edouard #my poor baby

[parbra]

out of all the weeks for me to be sick and hospitalized, it had to be when they were holding a BraPar week over on twitter

I'm just

#the first time they even make an event specifically for this ship like ever #the universe conspires against me #I wanted to sit down and try drawing something for it but #I'm still not 100% recovered #admin stuff #EDIT: it was covid 🙃

[ghostonly]

If I could give one piece of advice to young, teen artists, it wouldn't be about what to do better or what to avoid in their drawing practice, it would be this:

Get in the habit of putting the date on your sketchbook page when you're done with it.

If you do one drawing per page, you know what date you drew it. If you do many doodles per page, you know you did them between that date and the date on the last page.

It may all be easy to know off the top of your head right now, but ten years from now - yes, it's a long time but, by god, it will pass - you will wonder when exactly you drew that drawing.

If I could give a second piece of advice, it would be to never fully destroy a drawing that you actually put effort into. Doodles, sure. If you don't care about them, didn't put any real effort into them, whatever. But, if you sat down and put care and effort into a drawing - even a little bit - keep it. If you have too many notebooks, keep only the special hardcopies and scan the ones that don't matter as much.

If you're like me as a teenager, and you go into your art once every year or so and look through it all, you might get tired of it Once a year seems infrequent when you're 15. That same feeling of infrequency will require 3 years when you're 25. A year will seem like nothing.

So, when you get to the point where you're tired of seeing these same drawings over and over and judging yourself for your lower skill level, when you're tempted to delete the scans or toss out the originals, do not.

If they're hardcopies you're tempted to get rid of, scan them. If they're digital, simply make a folder called "The Vault" and send them there to die temporarily. You can pretend they're gone and quit looking at the same drawings you don't like much anymore. But, after ten years, when you're longing for the physical evidence that you were once a child, once less skilled than you are now, once more naive than you are now, they will be there, waiting for you.

25 may feel like an eternity from now, but when it arrives, 15 will feel like an eternity behind you. Don't let those early works that you poured hours of your days into slip away into the unforgiving void of time.

They matter. Your history matters.

It might not feel like it in the present, but nothing ever does. A boring old dining chair from 1700 might have been an unconcerning thing to leave in the shed to rot when it was 1700 but, in decent condition now, would be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Monetary value may not come into it when it's a pencil sketch from junior high, but when you're older, you will become a collector of your own history, scraping up everything you can find like an auction-goer spending their whole paycheck on a fancy, handmade chair they feel compelled to save from the forgetfulness of human memory.

#advice #art #art advice #drawing advice #i feel like this is especially important if you have trauma #it's easy to try throwing away everything that doesn't bring you immediate joy #to try shedding yourself of anything that feels like a burden #but some things are worth shouldering the weight of for the sake of your future self #who has had time to recover #and who is able to value the younger version of you that you couldn't value at the time #also shout-out to my bitches with #adhd #actually adhd #who impulsively throw shit out because of consequence blindness #I'm looking at you #you WILL care #one day you'll fuckin kick yourself #just put it in a folder #right click and hide the folder if you're sick of seeing it sitting there #just don't delete it

[marsuro]

Yo guys throw me some ideas/prompts for (were)tiger zoro au

#yeet them in my askbox :) tho commentimg on this post is fine too whatever works best #im bored lol #sitting on my ass bc i gotta recover #quick give me drawing ideas before i start doing push ups or something (jk jk) #weretiger zoro is basically just. he’s sometimes a tiger and sometimes not #yes he can control it (mostly but not always) and yes he uses it to his advantage including annoying others #tiger zoro #tiger zoro au

[tiabwwtws-art]

FE Aspec Week Day 6: Acceptance | Pride

Perhaps an unconventional show of pride, but she's vibing

#fe aspec week 2023 #fe aspec week #fe6 #fire emblem binding blade #fire emblem #fe idunn #binding blade #i once again have just. SO many thoughts on being aspec that i fear ive failed to articulate in the drawing #and tbh am too tired to try to articulate in the tags lmao. so instead you can know this: #the original sketch was going to lean more into the acceptance part rather than the pride part so idunn would be vibing amongst other guys #sitting quietly as part of the group yknow. so i had drawn an admittedly very cute fae asleep leaning against idunn #but it wasnt the right vibe #...okay maybe im not too tired to ramble. idunn hits in a way bc her post finale arc about trying to recover her selfhood and emotions #and being aspec can feel like having the same kind of....gaps. #so hc-ing her to fully recover eventually and to have no more gaps in her and STILL be aroace. it hits. yknow. #thats not something that she needs to recollect #so i put her by her little beach where she laughs for the first time. feels right to

[caffeinatedopossum]

I just want to be able to indulge in my disorder without losing my ability to draw often and hyperfixate and hold a conversation and physically digest food without nausea and pain

#maybe i just want to get better but i dont know how #its so so hard. i cant even put it into words #i dont want to live like this. its like my only 2 options are relapse and maybe feel happy sometimes #or keep pushing for recovery but hate myself and my life and everything i make and every waking moment #and every bite of food that im just a little too aware of sitting in my stomach as i wait for something to get better #but it doesn't. i can draw and talk to people ig but its not good enough. my life is still being controlled by this shit #i wish i never tried to recover sometimes... just to keep up the illusion that things could get better if i chose to make them that way #what a joke. i was never in control of my life. if it isnt my ed its my DID or my anxiety or my phobias or ptsd or my insomnia #or my dysphoria or my autism or my disabilities #im so tired. i cant do anymore but i cant do nothing. i just want some decisiveness for once

[spearxwind]

once again if i havent answered your DM/ask in like two or three days

1. i did not forget. im sorry 2. i am going through it

#no energy for anything no time to spend on anything but recovering from not having energy #i just wanna sit the fuck down and draw eels but no i gotta deal with fucked up government procedures #and CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #shitting and crying derogatory. pray for me #thunderclap

[0509-brainrot]

*shaking* can you believe it guys? 0509 day, just a week away! *clawing the walls* *eating the paint* 0509 day is in a week! woohoo! I am so happy about this informatio <- is currently sick and can't draw or write anything

#txt #0509 ramblings #me sitting patiently marking my calendar knowing Full Well that there will Still be No Content waiting for me in a week </3 #but.. if i recover... perhaps i can do something... #i have had no art to provide due to a combination of having no energy for like a week and then getting Sick I'm So Mad :sob: #also to the like 2-3 people who have combed through my entire blog screaming and 0509ing with me know that i see you and i Love You #maybe with the power of friendship we can make an 0509 miracle happen... (<- delusional) #was thinking of drawing today but. but. orz yeah still sick #maybe if i brainrot hard enough </333

[rucow]

sorry ive been so inactive on here lately (and everywhere else tbh), i have a lot going on irl right now and i havent had the motivation to rly work on any art or writing this entire month 😔 but hopefully after things calm down i'll get to draw again 💔

#txt #nothing bad happened just. ive had to be at the vet a lot with one of my cats (shes ok she just had some minor procedures done) #and its been 37-40C every day and my bedroom gets as hot as 33C on the worst days and i just Cannot draw in a sauna #i havent even been turning my laptop on bc i dont want to fry it fhshdd #it has started to cool down now so i can finally!!!! clean my room without dying 😭 and also sit down and draw maybe #also. my mom is at the hospital for a few days (shes getting thyroid surgery) and by christ i loathe living alone #u forget u have psychosis until its nighttime and dark and ur alone and u get paranoid and fearful and cant sleep bc u see things OUGH #i!!! am!!! living!!! a literal!!! fnaf!!!! nightmare!!!! life!!! 😭😭😭 #i survived my first night alone tho its gonna be ok #my mom should be home tomorrow :') i hope she recovers fast oof #i did have. two crying instances bc i hate being alone but im over it now the worst is behind me #(yes i know im 25 but i mentally cannot live alone its too dark and quiet and scary and i am Babey.)

[cosbeans]

i miss huffing whatever crack i was on while drawing submas last year

#i cant believe its been a whole ass YEAR #since i got into the fandom #rewrote my entire brain #im slowly recovering from the burnout i suffered from it augh #definently pushed myself to push out draws towards the end which was less fun #but i didnt wanna just up and leave all my wips behind #im definently gonna finish this one comic ive been having sit around #bc i still really like the layout i did #been reenergizing with ocs meanwhile :'] #cosme screams #slowly drawing ingo again and sighing wistfully cuz my arts changed AGAIN on god