#and yknow what im pretty good at . art. and commissions

[pastel-rights]

whats the most iconic/memorable thing abt ur friends

what ISN'T memorable about my friends tbh. /lh

hmmm.... let me think.

Tae - Well in light of... recent events!! Tae trying to give me roses is right and present in my mind!! /lh/pos

but for most memorable... shit, there's a lot tbh. If I had to choose something though... I'd have to go with either "Move it, pretty boy!" or the day she told me Morningstar can't count/do basic math.

Oh and whenever I hear "I Love You Like An Alcoholic" or "This Day Aria" I will think of you.

Sam - "Is it Sammmmmuelllllll?" [ thanks for that one, mama!! /j ]

There's also the day me and Sam learned there's a KFC dating sim and we just lost our shit. Or them on their [ fake ] marriage counselor/priest/divorce attorney arc.

Or Dan the Divorce Deer!!! We still have tea sometimes, they're the best!

Or Immortalpheus with the questionnaire. Now THAT is the funniest shit I've ever been subjected to.

Navi - I always think of how Navi had that train conductor crisis and giggle. It's just so... Navi!! /lh

Fifi - Timothy has severely traumatized me.

Pins - YOU CALLED ME A FURINA KINNIE IM IN TEARS. IM NOT A FURINA KINNIE!!!! is this how Tae feels when she gets called a Light kinnie /j

Oh and your Jade musing arc was also pretty memorable to me!! Your Jade is so funny /pos

Clown - Clown's stepparent shenanigans are so fucking funny, and I never thought I would have a muse to accidentally become a part of them. /pos

Orange - Anytime Orange would entrust me to be their anon crime messenger was pretty funny yknow I think Orange is funny as FUCK.

Boris - the fool's gold simping arc. But I also giggle whenever I see their art, it lives rent free in my head it's SOOO good.

Klai - I always will think of Narrator Phineas when I think of Klai. I don't know what it is, but Klai loving Narrator Phineas as much as they do fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling. /pos

Beth - i

i'm so sorry

the tram beth. the tram /lh

But I also will always and forever think of the commission of Susannah and Beth you did for me!!! And the next commission will go right next to it once it's finished🫶I want to get them printed out and put on my walls, will update you if I ever get to it. /gen

Marioguy - Brendan trying to murk Hare the moment they met will never NOT baffle me. congrats.

Emma - "only one monster lover can exist in this server. GET EM!"

[eirian]

haiii!! im thinking about starting to make money off my art after im done with school and i was thinking if you have any tips how to successfuly do that :33

AW OMG im happy u thought to come to me for advice ;o;

first of all i wish u the best of luck bc i'll be honest its pretty hard !!! especially if you dont have a huge following u_u but! to fix that all u gotta do is just, post consistently and find what appeals to the audience youre going after!

consistency and timing and..luck, play a huge part in it i think. if u post the right thing at the right time it could be super great for you!!! the same goes with the other side tho--if u post at the wrong time it can hurt bc it feels like u wasted ur time (which may not be the case but that is how i feel sometimes lol)

GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE IS KEY !!!!!! you want people to come back right??? make sure theyre happy and comfortable working with you then! if you give great customer service--quick responses, eagerness to fix mistakes, patience, etc--then your service will be memorable as "that nice person i commissioned" and youre more likely to get returning customers!

make sure u price urself fairly, but also keep in mind supply and demand applies to your art as well, unfortunately. if you dont have a huge following/reach, then the demand for ur art wont be very high, so if you charge "too much" then itll be very hard to get business. this is a difficult one for me to grasp still. it sucks having to have lower prices than u want, but sometimes u gotta start there and work ur way up rather than starting at the top, yknow?

just keep posting as much as u can and build up your audience, and eventually--it does take time!--youll be able to consistently get commissions ^^

HONESTLY FR GOOD LUCK i mean it !!! doing art for a living is soooo fun and gratifying for me personally, even when its hard and stressful. its all ive wanted to do my whole life, and im very lucky and grateful that im able to do it myself. i hope ur able to do the same !!!

[lonelyquail]

since ive been too College to have enough art for any sort of summary im just gonna put a general year end rundown of what i feel i did best on this year!!

i think every year since i figured out that i dont need to use pens to line has just gotten better art wise for me. FUCK lining. pencils are my best friends forever and ever and can do your job better than you ever could. anyway apologies for some of these drawings being crunchier than others, i only recently got a scanner and Cannot be assed to scan my old art for this post rn.

also the first art here is a hatoful boyfriend spoiler. i mean i guess the last one is too but its vaguer i think. anyway. none of these are actually analyses of what i learned with each art im just braining

april 5th-

you guys know this one i REALLY like it. why in the goddamn were my best pieces this year hatoful boyfriend. anyway i uh. hey did you know that i didnt do the notgeki with graphite because i like mixed media. i did it because i have not owned a grey pencil for my some-teen years of drawing ever. i only JUST got a grey pencil like. a couple months ago. i mean im good with graphite i would have done it like that anyway but. yeah. anyway this was abt the height of my beginning hatoful fix and Also indirectly what got me to meet like a bunch of my mutuals here!! i did. not know there was a hatoful community. and because That i actually started using tumblr so!! hey thanks hitori. i need to do more birdform art.

april 15th -

this motherfucker! ill be. completely honest i dont have a lot of feedback for a lot of my graphite art bc ive Been doing this. ok actually yknow what i will say. there is a limit for how dark something can be with graphite and i Very much remember going over the inside of the cloak So Much. this was my pet project during my weekly 3 hour long lecture so god bless it. also i do still like how i did the eye. can i draw eye guys exclusively please.

july 3rd -

not really Art im proud of but!! holy shit i dont design often and i dont hate this!! this is at least in part thanks to my gf. my gf knows how to clothes better than i do so i did ask them for help. also i really need to scan this one. or maybe draw her a new ref. anyway (holds up celine) look at her. look at the silly.

september 6th -

this one was a trade for my friend raicatty and. also something i probably should have scanned. but its fine. anyway this one did teach me something and its To Line Your Damn Pieces Darker. lining with the color that youre going to be coloring in is kind of Asking For Disaster if it overlaps with others and u can. see that. this is a bit imparseable. but its also pretty. and thats all that really matters. a fun fact for when i ever do commissions is that being allowed to use this purpley pink pencil i have will make me really happy. its so pretty.

OERSHRIMP INTERLUDE

OERSHRIMP INTERLUDE

november 13 -

forgive me for including a sketch in this but YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO DRAW HUMANS. like. NEVER. much less in an actual decent pose. (god bless adorkastock) im So very delighted by this oboromaru and hes!! like!! one of my least favorite characters!! (not to say i dislike him hes just lower). i dont know what happened here!! if this wasnt at the very back of my Sketchbook I Just Put Away Because It Was Falling Apart id say id finish this one later. rip. he and that dark daroach sketch i had there can just vibe i guess.

aaand the big one. december 8th -

things i learned from this one! 1. the scanner did not pick up the red lines very well! 2. scanners are good! 3: NEVER do a full page project again! buuut i do want to say i am like. insanely proud of this one. its the first art ive done i can really say has any sort of Composition and im so delighted that it turned out just as cool as it looked in my head. also this took forever and i could have easily messed it up Multiple times in the process. so god bless.

#an ongoing problem ive been having w my colored pencil stuff is that u can see my pencil lines through a lot of it #especially if its got warmer colored lines #but ive kinda?? accepted it?? since my lines tend to be too light and imparseable anyway if theres pencil underneath you can tell #mm its not the best solution and it still bugs me but shrugs. #vee shut up #look at my art boy

[orowyrm]

massive disclaimer this is not a fully thought out post im just firing this off from the bathroom at work and pretty much immediately after i hit post im putting my phone down and going back to the register so don’t throw me to the wolves on this but like. i genuinely don’t understand why so many people act like ai art is inherently ‘not real art’. i understand not liking it when people use it to try and emulate the styles of preexisting artists, that’s shitty and the people who do so are hacks but to act like their sheer existence is ‘robbing artists’ feels really like….. one dimensional. if i grabbed my good camera and took a photograph of a sunset while someone next to me painted that same sunset on a canvas, would my artistic interpretation somehow be ‘lesser’ because ‘all i had to do was push a button’?? the mindset that “the more a person suffers for their art, the better it is inherently” has always rubbed me the wrong way. art can and should be easy and fun, yknow? a while back i saw someone say basically word for word “these programs want our JOBS!!!” and it was weirdly funny to me bcs a. the ‘program’ doesn’t want anything. it’s code. it’s a tool. a human person still used the program to make that image. and also b. the people who would bypass commissioning a real human artist to just try and ai generate the pics they want to see are probably not the type of clients you’d wanna work with cuz if they want professional quality art at low/zero price i know personally i’d avoid them like the plague cuz they’d have no respect for the process. idk this isn’t a fully fledged thought it’s just something i feel kinda strongly about cuz it’s weird to see people go full on ‘fire bad technology scary thomas edison was a witch’ because they feel threatened by “good” ai art (what is and isn’t ‘good art’ is subjective anyway but whatever)

maybe it’s just a sore spot for me as someone who’s had people up my ass about digital art and photography and stylized art and simpler art styles and basically anything that isn’t ‘the norm’ for ‘good art’ being “not REAL art” all my life both in personal and academic circles so i’m conditioned to get defensive about this shit but it annoys me a lil. it’s such a weirdly hostile mindset to have to me i guess

#i know a lot do people feel strongly about this so i’m aware i might be kicking a hornets nest but like. cmon guys it’s just a fucking tool #i AM open to conversation on the topic too but i guess be civil about it. idk

[goremet-chef]

DREADFUL so dreadful but the only step is to just reach forward. like all i need to do is pick up my pen but i cant. wish i could tho

art will always be my passion, even if it bothers me sometimes. its all ive ever been good at, fantastic outlet for creativity and emotional buildup but i just. sometimes i cant move and i dont know why and its literally inches away from me but i can hardly move forward yknow? im fine physically, but mentally its like this huge step that seems so intimidating

i feel like i live off of outcomes and when the outcome isnt certain my brain goes haywire and holds me in place until the outcome can settle. but? this outcome IS the same. its so easy, ive done it before. reach and grab, draw what yr dying to draw

im drowning myself in lethal company things im so excited and im . all my minecraft ocs and my sotf ocs like i have so much i need to make and just.. no will to do it. but i want to! want to more than anything. id feel better if i did, which is true i would feel better. when it builds up inside you its OVERWHELMING like insanely so. i can get it out and free myself if i just DO it but theres always this barrier between what i want and what i actually do yknow? very lame

yknow art is my passion even if it hurts me sometimes it makes me very happy and i like to create, everyone likes to create. i like to see what i can do, like to bring all these buzzing thoughts to reality. can hardly hold onto them long enough to do that but i try at least. sometimes i feel really really unreliable and i dont know why?

i dont do commissions anymore, i pretty much ONLY draw for myself. who are you disappointing? who do you THINK yr disappointing? no one even remembers all the times you say "im drawing this 😼", YOU dont even remember all the times you say that. theres no pressure, you can do it whenever you want, it doesnt make you worse or anything. art is for you, you'll get to it when you can

yes :] i think i probably will. im just trying to make myself feel better honestly its something that eats at me and i dont know why?

its like some HORRIBLE combination of impostor syndrome and bpd fears like "oh no im not good enough!!! i need to provide i need to create for others to consume to prove im worthy" and then when i DO create, when too many people like it its.. i feel like ive conned them, surely i didnt make something that good, i must have faked it somehow and the attention is undeserved

SHIT LIKE THAT honest to god all my mento illnesses come together and hold hands like some really fucked up version of the power rangers. all of them collide in the WORST ways possible its. what is bro doing in there !!!! seriously its actually comically tragic but i live in spite this, i probably always will live in spite of it. sometimes im like wow lets let everything wash over and give up, this hell isnt worth it. but isnt it? back and forth black and white, world is ending world is beautiful type shit. when it feels over i just try to remember all that stuff that and it forces me to remember that there is no giving up on this, wouldnt give it up for the world. its mine and ill keep it

as i was saying tho, i feel so much happier drawing when i try to keep it out of mind. like yes, of course i love the attention. who doesnt? but i used to be INCREDIBLY numbers driven for like. hefty chunk of my art history. like little 11 yr old me breaking coppa on dA had so much fun just drawing hot garbage and sharing it and it never got like any likes but i didnt even CARE i just. to be able to create and share is the best part of all

i wish i was like him again. im not that boy, not anymore, but i remember him and i keep him close. all that cringe bullshit and i was having so much fun

ill give myself some credit yknow. im an adult, money is a necessity in this world. art becomes more of a chore and something i feel pressured on because logically its the only thing i can DO right to make a quick buck like. its the one thing i know i can do. but having my passion turn into something like that? dreadful

sometimes you cant avoid it, i just have to do my best to look past it and recognize that beneath all that shit. theres something in me that needs to draw, the same thing that forces me to carry sketchbooks and pencils with me wherever i go, even if i never use them. just this lingering presence that screams at me and tells me that i will create. i will! i will create

#weird ramble #just talking to myself lol #AS IS MY RIGHT its my blog shut up

[bbeelzemon]

i really need to get back to commissions .... like i already even have one lined up i just . have not been at my computer at all, even though we were able to set it up, i guess several weeks ago by now 🤔

#we've been unpacking and settling in and now school has started so i have just barely thought about art in like 2 months dmfhjdfh #to be clear frill is the one going to classes and stuff but Im Helping <3 #i Do need to get a job probably sooner than later but i really really want to try and wait out for the new year #i want to spend the holidays with my gf and friends and that isnt very likely in the field im going to be trying to get back into ;; #and yes i know holidays dont really matter and its about the people not about the day on the calendar etc etc etc #but also yknow what. #i want. to be at my roommates halloween party. i want to go to frills parents house on christmas and experience that with them #even if its just this once like in future years sure we can work around schedules more later #but Just Once i want to have Nice Holidays with people who Actually Celebrate Holidays since my family didnt really #i wanna wake up on christmas day with my girlfriend ;w; i havent been so excited for it in so many years yknow #so if we can figure out how to make it until january with me not working at an actual job. i want to try #and yknow what im pretty good at . art. and commissions #i just need tooooo actually sit at my computer longer than 3 minutes #i keep really wanting to like go through the apartment and Put Everything Away Once And For All and then continuing to Not Do That #but i need to just do it . i wanna have it all done by the time our roommate moves in uhhh in like . a few days. this weekend? sometime #i also have just not been online really In General like i still look at tumblr multiple times a day #but whens the last time i just sat here and Talked like this yknow dmfhjdfh #anyway! need money so i can continue being selfish and self-centered and put off getting a job until the new year <3 #i havent drawn Anything since we moved in ..... i also just Want to get back to it even disregarding the money factor about it #today we're out of the house and Cold so we might just . hang out and be cozy when we get home. but tomorrow! tomorrow i put things away! #no more procrastination <3 i need my space clear so my mind can be clear so i can manifest art so i can manifest money. simple as that!

[yostresswritinggirl]

hello, i love your writin'!! seriously, it's so cool to read and im just ajdhsish and this is the first thing- second thing, would you be comfortable with writin' albedo x gn reader (headcanons are cool yknow!) who dislikes goin' outside alone? like, they worry that somethin' bad will happen to them or are a bit scared of doin' things that might go wrong around people, so they prefer goin' outside with someone? (they also want to get rid of their fears but have no ideas how) i will understand if you don't want to so dw!! 👉👈

First thing, thank you so much for requesting! This took a while, I'm so sorryy! This was supposed to come out yesterday but I got sick and barely had the brainpower to even stand :(( feels better now tho so yey? And yess ahhh thank you for your kind words, you guys have been wonderful too, give yourself some credit too!

This is the last Albedo request in the inbox and woohoo, we ended this streak in one of the hard prompts I've come by so far ahaha

I'm not sure if I interpreted anon right but this shall be a fic as originally requested? I'm apologizing in advance because I don't think I've captured this scenario well enough hehe,,, but I hope you still enjoy this!

Keep Me Intertwined

Albedo with a gn!reader that's scared of going out alone (Mild Social Phobia?)

Albedo is a genuis, everybody knows that, even beyond the walls of Mondstadt. Praised and sought out by scholars to ask for his wisdom and a majority of the time they receive their desired enlightenment.

Indeed, the Kreideprinz is a genuis even if he says otherwise, but he's a genuis in the art of Kemia. And only that. Truth be told there are a lot of things he lacks when it comes to knowledge, as his focus is only in the science he wants to explore. Beyond that, he comes close to a child's understanding of the world.

When he bumped into you when he was strolling through the stalls during a market fair of travelling merchants, he'd thought it would be something he can shrug off easily, but as he moves his head to look at the perpetrator he'd hear a squeak of a "sorry" and a running figure. What?

Albedo silently pats himself down as he continues to watch as the silhouette disappears farther, with a calculating gaze to memorize all their features for... future references.

After he made sure it wasn't a thief that bumped to him to pickpocket, he immediately moves on without another thought.

"Ah, you're the one from the marketplace yesterday." In all honesty, your second meeting was quicker to come than he expected, and at the most curious location of all places. In the Knights of Favonius HQ. How had he not heard or seen of you before?

Your shoulders tense at the sound before you even closed the door of which you came from. This was a room he's never seen anyone use, he realized. Was this where you've been residing all this time? What an oversight on his part but it seems that you two share the common practice of barely leaving your quarters.

When you turned around, behind those surprised eyes lies a gentleness of relief he has not seen a mixture of in the ones he'd observed before. "O-Oh, Chief Alchemist! I'm really sorry about that, I was- I'm really sorry!" He hums in contemplation before shaking his head, assuring you it was a matter that caused no harm.

There was more to it, but his thoughts are distracted with his current task at hand, and with a short goodbye he made his way out down the hall where the stairs resides.

His heavy boots clap on the carpeted floor...

Paired with shuffling light ones to try and match his stride.

Huh? "Are you perhaps going outside?" He confirms with a soft yes as he continues his walk. What are you implying? "Is it okay if I join your company? I uhm also need to get some stuff from outside." He just nods, not one for small talk or questioning. It's nothing much to think about really—

Your loose and subtle grip around the chains hanging by his coat seem to ground him from his musings as you two traverse through Mondstadt in a normal gait. He tries not to think about it too much, but the way you look around with unease when you near other people or your desperate strides to stay a respectable distance to him were things he observed during the walk. Albedo was no man of science focusing on human personality and it bothers him.

It was like a game of cat and mouse between you two running errands, he'll detour to the side and you'll follow him, and if you need to drop by to a building then he'll have to follow you.

And he doesn't know why. Is it because of his mannerism towards taking care of Klee? Or his feeling of responsibility for bringing you along?

During this whole ordeal the Chief Alchemist has brought himself a bright idea (it is not) and went into his scientific mode. He watches you talk to one of the citizens about a commission you had finished yesterday and after confirming your undivided attention, he quietly slips away from the area to visit the Alchemy stall where Timaeus would surely be working on.

It took about an hour before he was allowed to use the table, because Timaeus took so long working on his forgery. Goodness that man needs to work on his studies more.

Ah, speaking of— Albedo realized he'd just up and left you for an hour. Without a second thought he retraced his steps to where he had last seen you. Surely you would have gone off to do your own thing, probably finished up your errands by now and had gone back to the Knights headquarters.

An unmoving force made him tumble forward as his coat seemed to have been caught. If you were there, it would be a sight to see, a rare moment of the Kreideprinz so uncomposed and shocked as he catches himself with a sputter. What the hell? His head snaps to look over his shoulder at such incredible speed, you'd thought it really would have snapped—

The clutch on his chain accessory tightens. With your head down low he couldn't see what expression you were, but your tense shoulders shake with a tremor similar to that of an on-going earthquake. His guilt was more obvious as your knuckles turn white from the deadly grip.

"Albedo-!" You exclaimed in what seems to be a cross between a whine and a whimper. "You disappeared, I couldn't- I couldn't leave..."

He hides a sigh as you refuse to look up to show your face. And in a comforting manner he has 'mastered' with a certain someone, he gently pries off your tight grip (with some urging pats to get you to loosen) before interlocking your fingers with his gloved ones. And he smiles as genuinely as he can, "I'm sorry, I won't do it again. Are you done here? It's almost night, we should get moving."

Your nod of agreement was a breath of fresh air to him.

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Days after that were pretty much as uneventful as uneventful it could be for Albedo's lifestyle.

Holed up in his laboratory for days without rest like the madman he is. Master's alembic and grounds of scarlet quartz able to keep his mind occupied to not wonder. Hyperfocused, no one has seen him out, only Sucrose dropping by with an 'assistant pass' despite the experiment on-going sign hanging by his doorknob.

When he finally stepped out to the hallway, three days already passed. The door behind him clicks as it locks, a sound that echoed with the door four rooms apart to his.

Kaeya looks up from your doorknob when he noticed the approaching silhouette. "Oh, Chief Alchemist? Finally came out of your cave." He quipped as he leans his shoulder against your room's door, visible eyebrow raising slightly after noticing the fleeting gaze Albedo passed at the door.

"Cavalry Captain, good evening. What were you doing there?" Straight to the point.

The taller man's eyebrow rose higher before he composed his amusement. "I didn't expect you to be into rumors, Albedo." The Alchemist's brows furrows in response. "No harm done, worry not. I just accompanied them on their trip outside before retreating for the night."

Humming to himself, Albedo's eyes wonder back to your doorknob before it was protectively shielded by the man's... white fur cloak?

"I also heard you left them alone when you two were out. I didn't expect you to be such a cruel man, amping up their fear after the progress they've made." Fear? Progress? More questions swirled within the genius' mind the more he talked with this.

Kaeya had noticed his faraway look and pieced together the context. Finally, he offered to explain the background of the issue and Albedo was ecstatic to listen in, a first with the blunette.

"Do you understand it now?"

"Mhm."

"Then I'll leave them to your care, I'm sure your genius mind can come up with something."

"Huh?"

And thus you find yourself standing at the bottom steps of the Ordo Favonius HQ the next morning, hand in hand with the Chief Alchemist you've last seen four days ago. Doesn't he have better things to do? No, he reasoned the solution he worked on will take two days to formulate the desired sediment, and so he has that timeframe free for the taking.

You would have been confused and wary he'd abandon you again—

Were you not forced to listen to the two dummies talk about YOU right outside your ROOM.

"You uhm, you don't have to hold my hand during this whole trip, Master Albedo."

"Albedo." He corrected. "And this is necessary, much more convenient and predictable than pulling on my chains really." A touch of a blush framed your cheeks with embarrassment.

"I have nothing in my itinerary today, so feel free to tug me along. It is, after all, the most I can do for what happened."

Despite the rough texture from the long use, the leathered hand in yours brought about more comfort than you would have thought.

Bonus:

The solar isotoma sparkled in pure golden beauty in front of you, but it didn't prevent the anxiety bubbling inside as you watch Albedo hop over the ledge with the help of his geo construct. "What- what are you doing?"

"Experiment. I'll be up in the roof looking over you so you'll know I'm still here, if it makes a difference if your company is far from arms length or not." He replied as he casually hopped over to the roof of a housing unit.

"Albedooo!"

I didn't get to capture all the aspects of the request that I wanted to focus on ahhhhh, I got so conscious of the length I had to stop it! Still ack I hope I captured his personality and context well— and I'm sorry if I amped up the fear more than you gave, I'm not really sure how bad it was supposed to be skskskks

But hey, this being the last Albedo req in my inbox, I am now free from this man *happy sigh* //:Albedo smut leading the leaderboard for the followers event looms over from behind:// *sweats*

#genshin impact #genshin impact imagines #genshin impact x reader #exile.flower #albedo #albedo x reader #genshin impact albedo #exile.goblet #genshin impact oneshots #genshin impact scenarios #glorysuffer #i enjoyed writing this more than i thought i would have! #sorry this took so long!! #the requests are getting harder lately hmmm #followers special #gender neutral

[finalrestingplace]

ello gamers can you help me with a pretty specific question i have to ask.

how do i say to a customer something along the lines of “Sent! (context: the commission in the mail) Is now a good time to talk about payment?” ??? how do i discuss payment. i am just being really autistic and not knowing what sounds Normal and stuff. i’m all wooblyxiety (woobly+anxiety) all of a sudden and i don’t know why

(ok maybe i do know why, more context: i offer free postage to some people and i am probably just overthinking and worrying that i wasn’t clear enough that i’m only doing free shipping, not free request- we’ve always referred to what i do as “commission” in messages, and not “art” or “request” or something like that.... yknow what as i type this it’s reassuring me that im just being stupid and all i gotta do is ASK like a normal person right? im just being normal? god i personally hate being autistic like this how certain things needlessly affect me.)

(customer is a trustworthy and respectful returning customer who’s a big fan of what i do, we get on very well too)

#cw i hate on myself for being ahtistick #im just being frickin stupid im calling it now

[valdotpng]

Question. Do you have any specific resources you used to learn art and painting, etc?? Your style and skill is so so good and I'd love to see how you Do It

oh, gosh. i dont think i could ever answer this question in a truly satisfying manner, but i’ll try my best to do it!

learning art in general has just been a road of trial and error for me! looots of trial and error. im a ‘self-taught’ artist & i’ve been drawing since i was a toddler, so i’ve accumulated certain skills just bc i’ve been doing it for so dang long

that being said, i’ll share some links in a moment! but first, some advice from me to you, anon. just.. go wild. try new things and dont set too many rules for yourself, yknow what i mean? nowadays i tend to use lots of weird textured brushes + work on only one layer (which i hear is quite bad for when youre working on commissions, but i paint for myself so i dont gotta worry about correcting things all the time), and as a person struggling w/ a pretty severe case of OCD, i find it so liberating to be Forced to not give a shit through that painting method. just have fun! allow yourself to be messy, to make mistakes, and remember that you can just paint over them later. some of your ‘mistakes’ might even end up being the things that make your drawing look more interesting/organic, in the end! the ‘happy little accidents’ mindset just makes the whole process much more enjoyable imo :]

ALSO, an important thing to me was finding the right brushes for painting. just dl a shit ton of the ones that look fun to you (or make your own if your drawing program allows it!) and make an effort to try out each and every one of them at least once!! the brushes certainly arent that important-- you could paint a masterpiece with a simple square brush-- but more often than not i find my style being subtly influenced by the brushes that i use at the moment. its a thing worth considering!

another thing i should note is that, while im mostly happy with my art nowadays, i AM still learning, and i dont think i’ll ever stop learning, so, like, check in in a couple of years for some better tips i guess asuhdfuashfusdf

anyways, here are some resources that are/were very helpful to me:

when i need to browse for general art tips/tutorials/cheat sheets/etc, i usually go here: [link 1], [link 2], [link 3], [link 4], [link 5], 

now, here are some specific posts ive collected over the years that really made me rethink how i approach composition and the like in my, uh, more ‘serious’ paintings: [link 1], [link 2], [link 3], [link 4], [link 5]

this [link] video series is a Godsend, its got some very good advice AND its got nice editing too, my hellbrain was actually able to focus and learn smth from a video tutorial for once

heres a nice post about practice and improvement that you should deffo read before using all of these resources

i also find it very helpful to just.. look at art that inspires you/ that you find appealing Right before painting? that way all of the techniques you might pick up while staring at other peoples art will stay fresh in your mind, so you’ll be more likely to try em out. (setting a drawing that you really like as a phone/desktop bg works well too since youll inevitably stare at it quite often)

i also really like seeing other peoples process, so i tend to watch speedpaints/analyse process gifs & photosets a lot! seeing how messy and abstract most drawings are in the early stages of painting is really comforting/reassuring to me :] heres a couple for u: [link 1], [link 2], [link 3], [link 4], [link 5], [link 6], [link 7], [link 8], and finally, [link 9] and [link 10] (3, 9 and 10 are the ones that inspire me the most atm)

as a bonus, heres one from me as well! (usually i only post these on my patreon, but ik times are tough rn and any of your spare money could (and should) go to a far better cause) im putting it under a read more bc it contains blood and self-impalement, so beware! (bloodborne bosses, man) i might make a speedpaint in the future, too, so watch out for that!

#good luck! #hope you have fun :] #Anonymous #gif #blood

[mrdizzy]

HI I’m Behe this is my epic Mr. Men/Little Miss sideblog :o)

im not good at making pinned posts can u tell

🎇 My main is @muddlemore​!! 

🎇 I’ve been a fan of the franchise since??? 2013 I think???? Good times

🎇 There’s posts of all sorts from all versions so there’s somethin for everyone

🎇 DNI if you’re a terf/anti anti/MAP/ or condone aging up minors and incest

tag guide and drawing request rules

RULES

considering its free art please dont yell at me if your idea doesnt get as much effort put into it as someone else’s. go commission someone

I DO NOT DRAW NSFW. EVERRRR

im sorry but if i dont want to draw your idea im deleting the ask. which doesnt happen often*

*Characters I HC as family

this usually winds up being the reason why i dont draw certain requests btw. ALSO SOME OF THESE ARE CANON SO

mr happy and little miss sunshine

mr bump and little miss whoops

mr chatterbox and little miss chatterbox

mr fussy, mr clumsy, mr busy and mr rush

little miss fabulous and little miss splendid

mr scatterbrain and mr nonsense

mr grumpy and mr grumble

mr noisy, little miss chatterbox and mr quiet

mr nervous and mr calm

mr tall and little miss somersault

mr tickle and little miss fun

little miss naughty and little miss bad

TMMS = Mr. Men Show (yknow for the beloved 2008 series :o>)

MMLM = Mr. Men/Little Misses (for the classic hargreaves look thats pretty much the standard these days)

Classic = 70′s - 90′s era stuff. Like the original books and animated shorts. whatever u know what im talking about lmfao

OP = My posts lol. 

Art tag = I don’t have a catchy tag for my art but I like to keep it separate from others’ fan art I reblog so I don’t get confused

IRL = For posts that are taken in da real world. Like merch or the public events

I tag every character in a post no matter what. it’s exhausting but it’s worth it

#pinned

[toldentops]

so uh

there’s this dude that i’ve been talking to for a bit and he was a nice guy and all but he keeps being whiny on deviantart about getting rejected by girls and he calls girls “females” and I honestly feel uncomfortable about him?? he made a journal abt how he’s been miserable and nobody likes him and the girl he liked rejected him. deadass this was the second time he asked this same girl and she rejected him again like dude can’t you take a hint?? This dude asked a girl out, she rejected him, he made a journal about “hmm maybe I should take a break” the writes another journal about how miserableh e is because he asked the same girl out and gets rejected. Honestly what the fuck man, you expect me to feel sorry for you?? then he writes a journal about how he got a girlfriend after he talked about “getting one” like he told me he was just in a rush to have a girlfriend and that honestly bothers me bc he actually confessed to me once about liking me. It was flattering, yes, but it felt so unreal and made up. He just. acts so desperate and yknow I was skeptical about him getting a girlfriend and he told me yesterday “yeah I just want one in the future” like man I get it but that’s all it seems like you’re focused on. dude, like let love come to you don’t go asking for it. 

deadass he mentions everyone in the discord group “hey im single now” and it’s like bitch????/ it hasnt even been a week and he’s just BEGGING for attention.... and I told him “buddy why am I not surprised” like judging by the was he acts in his journals and when he talks to me, he just wants a girlfriend for the sake of having one

he just makes me uncomfortable in general because every time I get onto discord he messages me like “hewwo” or smthn and sometimes I just don’t feel like talking to him but it’s like he messages me the moment he knows I’m online...

I don’t feel sorry for him one bit. First of all, he’s got to get over rejection and not be whiny about it. He’s got to learn when to just stop. I’ll say that he’s admitted to his mistakes before about rejection but the moment he said that he had a girlfriend I just kinda was disappointed. 

deadass his deviantart page says single:looking  like buddy. come ON did you not learn anything at all??

More gripes down below, I just really wanna say everything

See the first time I ever talked to him was him asking for an art trade. He wanted an anthro milotic(which I said in my commission page that I did not do) and he asked if I did fetish art.  I don’t know why I took it in, I just felt kind of uncomfortable about it. I asked him for a mlm scrafty and eelektross couple and he OK but in the description he said male scrafty and ambiguously gendered eelektross. Now, it wasn’t much of a problem but still. I had learned later from him that he doesn’t care for mlm porn, even though he was fine with gay. Here’s the thing, I wasn’t asking for porn, and if he was ok with gay ships, then he should have been fine putting “hey look here’s some gay pokemon” in the description.

He’s also said to me multiple times about how hot lesbian porn is and I’m like “OK” but it’s so clear that he’s fetishizing them. He’s got mostly female pokemon anthro ocs in skimpy outfits and to me, that’s a red signal right there. it literally says in his deviantart “i  like to slap tits on pokemon” and I’m like, OOF....

it’s just so obvious that he fetishizes women., it’s gross.

he’s also got a foot fetish and yknow at the beginning of our conversation I was like well ok, and we both shared what turned us on and there was that mutual trust but one day he asked me to share photos of my feet and just the thought of him jacking off to my feet made me really uncomfortable. Every time I draw his characters he asks if I can show their feet. he’s also asked me to draw nsfw of his characters multiple times, Although I admit I never explicitly said “no” I always said that I was busy or whatever. I was never really against it but he’d always say u don’t have to if u don’t want to” and I’d say “yeah no i dont want to” but he’d ask again at some point like bro dont’ you know how to take a hint

there was always this uncomfortable tension in the conversation, it was always something along the lines of “hey (insert sexual thing here), and then Id be like “nah man im not up to it” and then hed be like oof ok sorry if u don’t wanna do it then u don’t have to but i’d love if you did” and it always felt like guit tripping of some sort. I don’t feel comfortable talking to him and I’d never know how to directly tell him “look I don’t wanna talk to you right now” and I didn’t want to make him feel like I hated him or didn’t care about him. but the more I interacted with him the more I began to feel skeptical of his character despite the many journals about how thankful he is about the people in his life and the apologies

idk if those apologies are good intentioned or just a tactic to guilt other people into feeling sorry for him or whatever. 

So, jump to yesterday where he announces that he was single. all trust in him and his relationship just. dropped. He DID say that the girl just wan’t ready to have a relationship so based on what he told me it’s not really his fault, but just based on the way he acted he acted more liek “hhhhhH she dumped me lemme make everyone feel bad for me Hey guys i don’t wanna talk rn but i feel horrible and  lemme just disappear” instead of “well she just wasnt ready and I understood that so we broke up” 

Buddy if you were really sad and you really loved her you wouldn’t put “single and looking” on your fucking deviantart page. That’s honestly the last straw and I’ve given up on trying to deal with him. I told him straightforward “hey buddy you need to take a break” and he said something like “now’s not the time to tell me this u made me feel worse now” tell me that’s not guilt tripping. THis event is what made me tell you this, I felt the need to address this to you, listen here buddy you need to take a break. That is the point I was trying to get to him. I told him he comes of as desperate, straight and to the point. He told me that other people have told him that too. Buddy can’t you take a hint, like, at all?? 

To be fair, he does make journals saying “oh im sorry about the way I acted and I need yalls help for recovery” and my only thought is “hey maybe if you changed the way you act then maybe this wouldn’t happen again, hence me getting pissed at his “single and looking” status.

also, he kinda just turned 18 so he’s pretty much an adult. I just feel like he shouldn’t feel inclined to have a girlfriend, and the fact that we talked about nsfw stuff at all makes me feel uncomfortable.

the time when we talked were nice, but I just don’t want to talk to him or deal with him, but I also don’t want to regret it.

If anyone wants to see him journals or our conversations, PM me because I honestly don’t know what to do rn and yknow he seems to be completely over it now

the least I can do is protect his name

#al speaks #idk if I should block him or nah #but I seriously don't want to deal with him anymore #this is really personal oof sorry

[eirian]

yknow what while im here and my thoughts are a-flowin im gonna ramble abt life for a minute, i’ll put it under a cut for ur convenience

so some of u who follow(ed) my twitter may have known that ive called with my biggest art inspo (and honestly mentor at this point) stephen silver on multiple occasions! i try to do it every few months or whenever smth big happens irt my career path and art

well over the past few calls hes helped me come to the conclusion that perhaps breaking into the animation industry as a character designer isnt quite for me, at least not right now.  this was after i had taken his advice and become a live caricature artist a couple times, one of which being at six flags, and that job took the life out of me after Two Days because of the amount of moving parts i had to keep up with (including time cards which was a lot of math) and i guess my ~autistic ass~ couldnt quite handle it.  so having that in mind he suggested that maybe i should rethink the animation industry bc its also a lot of work like that that i have to keep up with, yknow?

so having said all this, where im at currently is trying to make a career out of just being a commission artist online!  so far its worked out pretty well ^^ ive made rent every month since starting (thank you!) and while it can be stressful and draining especially near the time rent is due its also very fun and fulfilling and definitely way less stressful than an industry job would be.  so im pretty happy with where i am currently

the only issue is that the stress of making rent every month comes from how i kind of Barely make rent usually.  like, i’ll make enough to have about $30 over rent each month, give or take.  and that doesnt really feel good :( id like to treat myself every now and then and like..buy items.....and treat my fiance to dinner and gifts and such.  yknow, luxuries (and even fuckin essentials sometimes, thank god we’re on food stamps at least).  but thats really really hard to do u_u so im gonna try to do more this year to help with that, be it raising prices more or figuring out how to get my commission info to reach more people

anyway stephen also looked at villain + school and said he loved the character designs and could see it being a netflix cartoon bye im dead

[gr-74]

ouugghhblblblbllbl is that a half-asleep lookin back at 2017 post yea babey

nobody needs to hear me say ‘what a terrible year’ but what a terrible gotdamn year!! what the fuck!! it feels like it just never ends year after year but looking back what i CAN say is this fucked up domino effect has . at least slwoed down.  and im going into 2018 better than i did 2017, not really in my actual living arrangement and shit (really disappointing and infuriating but thats a whole nother can of warm spaghettis) but, mentally, which is important, im pretty sure

i get whiplash thinking abt how angry and tired and guilty and miserable and scared i was all the time as recently as like ? august i think LOL like who the fuck was that dude, not me.  i know ive been shit ive said shit things ive done shit things and thingsd have been my fault as much as anything but im also learning tht my own anger and hurt and SHIET is alot real.  and im trying to own it.  and also not be scared of clowns that might be lurking on my shit even though they shouldnt

thinking emoji

art wise i dont rlly care honestly i rlly dont like my art rn so its hard to thnik of what to say.  i guess i did good.  i did a lot of commissions, unfortunately mostly stuff i dont like drawing but it be like that, i dont mind it and i like doing stuff 4 other people (when its appreciated and im not like yknow treated as subhuman).  have to do better and work ahrder.  at what i dont know but uh if i say vague positive stuff it probably sounds good

honestly best of the ebst i can think of right now from 2017 is starting to talk to bestest pal tumblr user fragmachine again which i am eternally bless’t they evn wanna give me the time of day after me being a complete bastard and blah blah blah dumb stuff not worth talking about but basicaly if u read this i hate u bitch 💕💕💕💕💕💕

also super fucking lame but discovering p///ayday has been like super super great i love it so much.  yet another game i love that i come to the party way late but im here now sucks to be u guys HEH

i hav a hard time rlly hopign i wont be in this shitty annoying living situation or rlly doing anything with my life that i wanna be doing this time next yr because it just doesnt seem feasible like at all but whatever im alive which i guess is supposed to be some kind of victory so uhhh 🤔 hmm