#Working on my painting skills

[abalonelyinspace]

Yang! :D

#rwby #yang xiao long #abalonelyinspace’s art #working on my painting skills #It’ll get better with time I’m sure

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[zookie-art]

Shadows and light ~

#malevolent #malevolent fanart #arthur lester #king in yellow #john doe malevolent #malevolent podcast #one of these days i'll sit down and do a proper polished piece for this but that is not today #can't believe i get to use my professional skills in painting cthulhu themed horror to paint art for a podcast this is my life now #why do you even work to become better at art if not to draw fanart of things you like honestly

[muffin-snakes-art]

So I made another Wallpaper Engine thing, this time with Mistilteinn and Magolor! Not only can you adjust how the wallpaper can be displayed, you can also squish Magolor to make him talk! By default, the particle effects will be unchecked in case your device can't handle it.

Here's the link to the Steam workshop item!

#the illustration alone took months of on off time on it #i also had to learn a bit of java scripting to even make the mago squish interaction work #but thanks to that my ambitious idea for a fecto forgo wallpaper is a lot more possible with my current skills #hope you guys enjoy if you have wallpaper Engine! #kirby #magolor #magolor epilogue #mistilteinn #master crown #rtdldx #kirby rtdldx #rtdldx spoilers #hal laboratory #nintendo #wallpaper engine #clip studio paint #photoshop #animations #fanart

[temeyes]

still sick ahu, tweaked the [portrait] i made of Simon from last year to cope

#god my painting skills.. very rusty.. 2022 timaeus would be disappointed #what freckles and good tussled hair can do to a man amirite #i would've worked on this more but i really can't concentrate w/ my clogged nose eughhhh sorry #my art #2024 #call of duty #call of duty: modern warfare #call of duty: modern warfare ii #call of duty: modern warfare iii #cod #ghost cod #simon ghost riley #simon riley #ghost #mw #modern warfare #mw2 #mw3 #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #digital painting #video games #activision

[sillyfairygarden]

in a rose garden

(closeups under the cut :])

piece is a redraw of ‘in a rose garden’ by lawrence alma-tadema! i love the whimsy of the original piece, and wanted to draw something floral and beautiful after all the moody art ive been doing :p

#hermitcraft fanart #zombiecleo #zombiecleo fanart #geminitay #geminitay fanart #hermitcraft #mcyt #mcyt fanart #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #art #thellos art corner #time for the ramble: i have a tendency to over-render and overproduce my rendered paintings #to the point where they become textureless smooth uncanny-valley works #mostly borne of a lack of confidence in my painting skills. so this was an attempt to avoid that nitpicky behaviour! #its… experimental. the demons won on gems face but i think i retained a more painterly style elsewhere #mmmmm i can see the base sketch in some places mmmm im choosing to ignore that. its intentional guys. i swear its intentional #this was soo self indulgent. the zenith of thello core if you will

[rorah]

IT's Dimitri DAY EVERYONE!🙌💙 what's better than waking up with his beloved at his side?

#Accept my humble quick painting #i tried my best to be fast and work with an idea but #well. Im so off in lots of skills #Fire emblem #dimitri #Byleth #dimitri x byleth #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #byleth eisner #azure moon post canon #dimileth

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't know what order to start Dissecting, so i'll just start with:

it's absolutely fascinating how the dynamic Wally & Barnaby had - to my knowledge - before the update, and a dynamic i'd seen speculated elsewhere and generally accepted, has been completed turned on its head

see, given that Wally is the "main character" and Barnaby is classified as "his best friend", i got the feeling that Barnaby kind of... tags along on Wally's 'shenanigans'. that he's the sidekick, the best friend. especially since their dynamic has been previously & briefly described as "Barnaby is very polite to Wally." he's the Companion.

but the audios sorta paint a reverse picture. in the Interview, when Barnaby enters stage right, he completely bowls over Wally's introduction and dominates the interview. when the interviewer asks how the two of them are handling the fame, even outright asking Wally, Barnaby doesn't hesitate to answer the question himself, and only about himself. Wally doesn't get another word in edge-wise until the interviewer explicitly singles Wally out.

(now, an argument could be made that Barnaby knew that Wally was somewhat overwhelmed with all of the questions, and tried to take the reins to give him a reprieve. but, considering that the interview seems to be very early on the possible timeline - like, very soon after Welcome Home debuted - i don't think this is likely. i doubt Barnaby and Wally would've had the time to solidify their dynamic or really get to know each other that well yet)

and Barnaby continues to take point in pretty much all of their other conversations, too. like in the mystery Howdy/Barnaby/Wally audio, their interaction gives off the vibes that Wally is Barnaby's sidekick, his tag-along.

(on a related tangent, it's fascinating how the website described the episodes as "[beginning] with Wally introducing the focus or theme for the day before coming across other characters who would join him on his escapades until the end of the day." but from pretty much everything we've seen so far, it seems like He's the one who's just along for the ride, bouncing from neighbor shenanigan to neighbor shenanigan instead of having his own adventures.

of course, if the 14 audios are present time, which is honestly somewhat likely, this could be because the show isn't running. they aren't doing episodes - they're just existing, doing their things. no need for Wally to take point in any way shape or form. tangent over)

in the 14 audios with Barnaby, he doesn't even acknowledge Wally until the very end - which, of course, could be because that's how the scenes are set up. except that in some of them, the characters do directly acknowledge Wally's presence outside of the endings. Eddie in 5-14, Howdy and Poppy in 1-14, and Frank in 4-14 (technically, since he was infodumping to Wally at the very start before Barnaby interrupted). you'd think that a guy would try to include his best friend a little more!

maybe i'm reading into it too much. & given what we know about Wally as a character, it would make sense for Barnaby to be the go-getter Main Guy of the two. but it really seems like its Barnaby & Wally instead of Wally & Barnaby. he's just kinda... there. going along with whatever Barnaby is up to.

but also, on the other side of things - & it's occurring to me as i type this, it's interesting how in a lot of audios, Barnaby seems to seek Wally out. in "Just So", he shows up to fetch Wally. in 4-14, Barnaby interrupts Frank and Wally's gardening session, almost as if he's stopping by to check on his little buddy. in 7-14, Barnaby calls Julie's house (presumably) searching for Wally, or at least checking in once again. something to consider in all of this!

#and if the 14 audios are in the same day along a timeline - which they Are. im trying to puzzle it out rn but anyway - #its interesting how barnaby just kept. checkin. in. #they had three audios where they were already hanging out and then got two (technically three) more where barnaby checked in! #it feels like there's something there... #separation anxiety? a compulsion? love for his buddy? a secret fourth thing? #maybe he could tell something was Off with wally that day... #(which is a topic i will ramble about in a different post) #its a push & pull to be certain.... #but yeah that plus all the evidence of Barnaby kinda being the Lead and wally being brushed off to the side.... #what a complicated fuckin picture it paints!!! dont know what it means yet! #i have another post im working on centering on how the neighbors seem to treat each other - wally & eddie especially #but this post aint about that. itll be related though #homebogging #wh speculation #please let this have made sense! #when i make posts i just kinda throw myself at it bc i have No organizational skills! #my brain is a complete incoherent mess and i am so sorry if this post is messy <3

[wiredalienvampire]

the littlest guy ever

#I wanted to practice my painting skills for a major project I'm working on #So I decided to do a painting test with the grand minimus himself #It took 7 hours out of my life #Rayman #Dreaming doodles #rayman fanart #grand minimus #Artists on tumblr #Rayman origins

[thechuppster]

redraw of ep 7

#revue starlight #nana daiba #my art #fanart #working on improving my painting skills #not sure if i figured it out yet

[tlcartist]

Family values

Closeups below 👇

#my art #castlevania #illustration #alucard #alucard tepes #dracula #lisa tepes #vampire #fantasty #fantasy art #digital painting #finally back with a finished piece lol #I’ve been wanting to do my version of this illustration for YEARS and I finally felt like I had the skill to accomplish it #also first time drawing a baby and I was STRESSED going into it because babies look uncanny as hell if you fuck it up #also the fucking ruffles nearly killed me #this was around 30 hours of work #I really did enjoy working on it tho

[zookie-art]

Transistor 2023

#transistor #transistor fanart #Red transistor #supergiant games #i may have forgotten to post this one oops? #Each year I paint single artwork of Transistor and have been doing this since 2017 #I use it as a way of seeing how my skills have improved over the years #last year was a focus on character art because most of my work was based around this sort of thing!

[ministarfruit]

wisteria; love and longevity

#ace attorney #dgs #tgaa #haori murasame #rei membami #my darling girl my sweet girl #you deserve the world #I am once again working on my painting skills #with varying degrees of success #who knew painting anime girls could be so hard

[spkyart]

GENTANWEEK2023

DAY 2&3 : TRAINING/TUTOR

#this is the dumbest but i really liked how their faces came out #digital art #kimetsu no yaiba #kny #demon slayer #tanjiro kamado #kimetsu tanjiro #genya shinazugawa #tanjiro kny #tanjirou kamado #ibis paint x #genya kny #kimetsu genya #gentan #gentanweek2023 #gentan week #genya is hopeless leave him alone #they are so so so #i should be working on the 4th day but today my art skills are below 0 #the idea is in my mind tho its great i swesr its great #i LL BE BETTER TOMORROW #grrrrr

[arleniansdoodles]

Probably not a common opinion, but I believe Calliope would feel much more at home in Jotunheim than Midgard XDD It’s a warm place, like Greece; the air smells sweet and the woods are peaceful. And, at the time of my post-Ragnarok AU, there’s a thriving little community of Giants in Ironwood! The artisans are creating, building, and writing. It’s a soft and simple life, and I feel like Calliope (as an artist herself) would fit in well with the Giants.

Not to mention Angrboda is there to help her transition into a life of everyday Giant stuff! :DDD

#calliope would go around feeding the wolves and hanging out with jalla loll #practice her painting skills with angrboda #but also pick up some new hobbies from the other giants! #art #my art #god of war #god of war ragnarok #fanart #god of war fanart #au #atreus #calliope #angrboda #jotunheim #kratos #oh and i also want to update angrboda's clothing design #now that she's some years older #i didn't have any ideas so i just drew her in the game's outfit loll #but sooner or later i'll work on it! XDD

[roxynugget]

Guys, please, Tango doesn't consider himself a builder in the same way Michelangelo might not consider himself a painter* (see tags). You can accept you're very good at two things, and still consider yourself better at one over the other. It's not negative talk when he calls himself a redstone guy.

#tangotek #* Michelangelo was definitely good at painting but his preference was sculpture. Painting commissions were more frequent and profitable. #I don't know if this is the best example because it's difficult to parse exaggeration and fact #About historical figures in general especially artists and their personal feelings about their own art #and he definitely wouldn't have put a very strong divide between his skill sets because like. #You can see how much working and studying 3D space helped him create such life-like people in a 2D painting. #But I think Decked Out is a good example of harmony of skills too #The building part of game design and the coding part needed each other to create Decked Out 2 #My point here is #That we can't ask Michaelangelo if he considers himself a sculptor or painter #Because he's dead and also may not have an actual answer himself #But we can ask Tango! And he says he's a redstoner not a builder. And that's ok :) #Dear God this entire set of tags sounds like pretentious rambling but I'm gonna post it anyway bc I hope people see past me comparing #a beloved Renaissance artist to a Block Game Guy #and take time to reflect on how an artist might interpret themselves vs how their audience sees them thru the lense of their work.