#but the skill level is pretty different

[rubitheracoon]

Who knew the first humanoid I would ever draw decently would actually be the character I've been obsessed with for the last 3 months

ANYWAY I FINALLY MANAGED TO DRAW A PERSON IM SO HAPPY!!

#ive spent the last 2+ years just saying to myself “i need to learn to draw people” and NEVER doing it because i didnt have the motivation to #then hazbin hotel pretty much turned into my sprcial interest and ive since felt more inspired to develop my art skills than ever before #like i may love this show to an actually unhealthy level but it has done so much for my neverending art block #before hazbin i had to physically force myself to draw something cuz i just couldnt think of anything #and because of that it was usually something i was comfortable with draeing #so instead of branching out to drawing different crestures i sorta just got stuck in a limbo of drawing 1 or 2 crestures #AND LOOK AT ME NOW! #i can draw deer (ofcourse) ive been figuring out how to draw cats #horses goats dragons birds snakes #ive improved so much #hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin #alastor hazbin hotel #radio demon #hazbin hotel fanart #alastor fanart #next on the agenda #hands #bleh

[flame-shadow]

Bonus question for the responses- How do you personally define the terms, and do you feel strongly towards describing yourself with one or the other?

#flame polls #poll #inspired by an exchange i had on discord which reminded me of the many other times ive dealt with 'ur so talented' used as a compliment #when to me who had to work (and still works!) pretty dang hard and consistently to get to the level of skill i have.. #having that reduced to 'talent' is honestly a slap in the face. even if the other person thinks they're complimenting me #because some people absolutely think skill and talent are synonymous while to me they are so so different

[luvfromlucifer]

exercise is actually fun i promise… you have to find something that works for you… do not listen to the gym rats on tiktok that act like that’s all working out is. take my hand… with dance pilates we can do anything…

#luci says shit #i love dance especially as a warm up!! #there are lots on youtube to different artists/genres of music #generally they r pretty versatile too #so it’s easy to adapt them to your skill level or capabilities!! #if u are able i would recommend it :)

[estradasphere]

not feelin great about my art lately i hope it passes soon :(

#feel like i cant make anythin im rly satisfied with... but also drawing is pretty much my only hobby i have to do it or i will go nuts!!!!! #like the last drawing i did looks Fine but its way different from what i pictured in my head :( #mayb im just trying to draw things way outside my skill level... #but even basic things like ol reliable Guy Standing There look weird and lame to me now when i try to draw em orz

[tangibletechnomancy]

The thing about AI art is, it is easier than conventional art, but it's also not. Like any other art form, it has an infinitely high skill ceiling. It is entirely possible to spend just as much time and effort on an AI-created piece as it would take to produce a visually identical conventional one; it just involves a different skill set. However, the skill floor - the minimum amount of skill required to create something a layperson will find visually appealing - is lower.

And I want to make something crystal clear: as much as I bitch about reckless and malicious use of AI art, I do not believe that taking advantage of that lowered skill floor to make something pretty inherently counts as malicious. It's the factor that enables a lot of that malice, but on its own, I wholeheartedly believe that it's not even just neutral, but a good thing - which makes it all the MORE offensive how it's abused by some really loud and obnoxious voices.

Art is possibly the #1 reason I could never be a capitalist - because art is a "phantom need"; while not as urgent of one, it IS a human need as real as food, water, and shelter. It's about communication, expression, being able to look at something and go "oh, I was here", and all kinds of other things that...sound simultaneously as fundamentally necessary as they are, but also kind of pretentious when written out, because they've been devalued for so long in most English-speaking cultures (that good ol' Catholic guilt + Protestant work ethic and frugality gospel). Most people's mental health suffers drastically without it, even if they don't realize they're seeking it out or suffering without it. Art is even good for physical health - patients have better outcomes in hospitals that don't skimp on art and aesthetics. Art therapy is a very real thing that can save or extend lives; in fact Van Gogh's body of work can be seen as the prototype for art therapy - what makes his work so impactful to so many people isn't just the visual itself, but understanding that this brought a person the tiny scraps of joy and relief he needed to stay alive just a little longer. Lack of enrichment shortens people's lifespans. Art is one of the most universally human ways of getting that enrichment.

Something that lowers the skill floor to make nice art, or makes it attainable with a different skill set, makes that accessible to more people. When we step back a moment and theoretically remove it from capitalist bullshit, that is a wholly good thing with zero caveats and if you somehow disagree on any grounds other than "but we can only do that in theory", then, to be brutally honest: I don't trust you.

Unfortunately, yes, we CAN only do that in theory, so yes, that fact...gets abused. We're seeing it. It's not theoretical. Recall that the two reasons I'm here are 1) watching people's objections cross the line from complaining about those abuses to just plain dangerous reactionary neophobic gatekeeping reminiscent of when digital illustration's "danger" to physical art media was a hot-button issue (and look back now - turns out, just like I predicted then, physical media didn't die out; physical and digital painting and illustration can coexist peacefully!), and 2) wanting to do my part to embarrass the people who maliciously use the lowered skill floor to materially harm conventional artists and see that harm as a feature, not a bug, because so many non-artists, especially those with commercial products that need art, see art as a pretentious frivolity that doesn't deserve recognition or payment. (Trust me, I'm well aware, I've been dealing with them since I was 9 or so--)

But what I'm saying is...it's disgusting that those types even have the POWER to potentially be more than an annoyance in the first place, all because art - a "phantom need", one of the earliest things that defines us as humans, something we've used to communicate since before written language, something we handed down from parent to child in the Stone Age, is wrapped up in this exploitative system of people literally living and dying by what a bunch of rich clowns think. There's always going to be a conversation about the value of art as a form of expression attached to an artist, and the value of art as a part of collective culture detached from the artist; the fact that we have to complicate it with the additional aspect of monetary value in a system that declares that if you don't produce enough monetary value you deserve to die - it's bad enough that such a system exists in the first place, and it just gets messier and uglier when you ensnare art in it.

Thing is, it's natural to want recognition for your art - it is, after all, about expression, and a lot of the time that's about seeking connection. It's not natural to be put in a position where you might not be able to feed yourself, let alone your family, if you don't either get that recognition or give up on art completely for some other abusive undervalued job, and it is certainly not natural to be surrounded by people who think this is fair and just and you don't DESERVE to be able to keep yourself alive no matter how hard you work because either you're pretentious and lazy, or you're a sellout, depending on which side of the survivability line you land on.

Making it easier for people to Make Art is not, and will never be bad. Making it profitable for the people who think that art is for either lazy do-nothings or greedy sellouts to take over artists' work, however...to put it in less-than-academic terms...ew.

#mission statement #look typing some words and doing some math to make pretty pictures occupies a different space in The Sensorium #than scratching at a screen with a tablet pen does #which is a different sensory experience than pushing pigments around a canvas #even disregarding all other factors just because of that ALONE on a wholly Scientific level #I wholeheartedly believe these things will end up falling into peaceful coexistence #with or without my help #because i LITERALLY SAW THE SAME ARGUMENT PLAY OUT when digital painting and illustration became widespread #the only reason it's such a big concern for me right now is that the economic factors are different #because 1) Photoshop and the like didn't lower the skill floor quite AS sharply #so a larger percentage of the people who thought they'd make previous artists ''obsolete'' just failed because they couldn't deliver #(though neither lower it AS far as people who hate new media think they do neither is a fucking ''computer reads your mind'' button) #and 2) we're in the middle of my third ''once-in-a-lifetime'' economic crisis 🙃🙃🙃 #so those two things coming together FUCKING SUCKS!!

[chaotikanvas]

I infinitely admire artists who look at a character and can just convert them to their own style, or even experiment with their looks while still maintaining the core of the character and have them be recognizable!

Whenever I want to draw a character I always stick close to their original look and trying to change anything always feels like I'm drawing them wrong fkjhgdskfjgh

#I kinda wish I had a recognizable visual style #Like I feel I do have a style but that it's more from the execution than the look of what I draw kdfjhgkñ #I see all the different Sun and Moon designs and I crave the ability to come up with one because it looks fun #but I'm unsure of how to do that XD #I guess I'm just indecisive about all the possibilities #I keep experimenting and never know what to stick with #this is all lighthearted rambling btw! I'm not upset about it #I am pretty happy with my skill level I just want to get better at everything and get overwhelmed because I don't know where to start #I guess it's why I find it easier and more inspiring making fanart for shows and fanart for other people's aus #I only gotta follow the guidelines instead of making my own hfdkjhg

[decepti-geek]

Sometimes I randomly remember when someone said the whole 'mlm hostility' thing about Cyclonus and Chromedome and it no matter how many times it never fails to make me wheeze

#mtmte #cyclonus #Chromedome #Like it's not even the physical/combat skill disparity #It's not even that their husbands are really good friends #or the fact that cyclonus has managed to both like. save rewind's life AND almost kill him #I think tbh it's mainly that #like yes Lug and Anode were established as canon before cygate I'm not going to deny that #But lbr anyone who couldn't see SOMETHING was gonna happen after 47 was just not actually reading the comic fully #I think after 47 it was less are they queer and more will they get their shit together #so anyway basically my POINT is #cdrom was the original Gay Robots flagship #but especially while the comic was ongoing there was a definite like #not a dichotomy exactly #but I think post-47 like. some kind of acknowledgement that cdrw (yes I'm using two different ship names shut up) #we're the Canon Marrieds #and cygate were the developing love story of as yet undetermined levels of tragedy/reciprocation #SO LIKE #they were both pretty groundbreaking FORMS of queer rep in tf you had The Originals and then you had significant page space #dedicated to a slow burn queer love story #but that makes it really really funny imo that you had like 'here are two very stand-out variously trailblazing queer couples #who've been with us since the beginning #one guy from each of these Cannot Fucking Stand the other'

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

okay but like. i understand most of the games people find hard. like. lockstep, frog hop, shrimp shuffle, love rap, all of those were hard for me at first. but cosmic dance??? it's so easy-

#puppy rambles #rhythm hell #cosmic dance #i see people say it's hard pretty commonly even- #like i understand people have different skill levels and all but. what??? #it doesn't make sense to me at all #when i first played tengoku i superbed three games my first try. cosmic dance was one of those #(alongside space dance and rap women) #(there's a reason those are my favorite tengoku games-) #(i think i got night walk too but idr) #i love night walk too. esp night walk 2. i kinda wish night walk 2 was just normal night walk-

[astrxealis]

dropping by a bit just a bit before midnights and i head to sleep because HELLL am i so glad with my fire units actually. i need to do work on proper teams and grids and shit but ?? wilnas percival michael medusa athena anila nemone etc i am Winning here

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა gbf ໒꒱ *·˚ #fire... i never really favorited it as an element in gbf to play w but now it is different LMFAO #wilnas + percival is sooo fun i love doing a bunch of super strong attacks and charge attacks esp w michael's double ca skill #but yeah even before i got lucky with those three units in particular i was pretty smart w using athena and nemone already #like. synergy. or maybe i'm stupid idk but !!!!! the way they build up levels of yk. one when they get hit. one when they dont. so it fits #okay that's all ..... sorry it's funny to me i was suuuper yeah with gbf farming before the break and then throughout it NAH FAM but after #again. hi! also i played a bit of ffxiv today GOD i miss playing that game actively sooo much ..... kinda feels unreal i havent been super #active. anyway. sleep. uhhh oh wow i don't really feel stressed even though i have a quiz tomorrow that. is likely easy but i didn't really #study HAHAHGBSJ I HAVE A LOT OF TIME THOUGH SINCE IT ISN'T TIME-LIMITED and until afternoon sooo yeah. yeah #GOOD NIGHT i ramble again. also percy jackson universe my fucking BELOVED wait

[floralquafloral]

15 match win streak 😳

#i just saw that one of my Switch friends was playing Turf and decided to join #and then over time two more friends also joined in and we had a team of 4 #there wasn't even a voice chat going on as far as i'm aware? #i'm pretty sure this is the first time i've ever played Turf with a full party of 4 people #and even though they're essentially strangers it was a TRILLION times better than usual oh my gosh #i think it's just because i was able to play over and over again with this same set of teammates #all of whom knew what they were doing #and with a pretty balanced weapon composition between the four of us #whereas normally i just have to rely on matchmaking to assign me a new team of 3 strangers for every match #random weapon comps. wildly varied skill levels. different people every time. it's so much better not having to play like that oh my gosh #i really need to find a group to play with so i can experience this kind of consistency + trust in teammates regularly. it's amazing #floralaqua

[prozach27]

Morrowind really took a few days to get comfortable with but honestly it’s so fun once you do?? I can see why people enjoy it. It has so much just straight up weirdness and a million factions to join and stuff. You can tell Bethesda or whoever embraced the weird with this game, and then oblivion sorta streamlined it and made it more lord of the rings, then skyrim made it fully unstoppable. Morrowind’s really alien and rough around the edges but once you get used to the mechanics it’s low key so addictive lol

#basically the big one that took getting used to is that you miss when you attack a LOT #if your stamina is low (and it often is because you move at a snail’s pace and have to run) your character is exhausted #and so if they try to cast a spell there’s a decent chance it’ll fail and if you use a weapon there’s a good shot it won’t hit #if the weapon or school of magic is low level it then becomes much harder to hit also #level 30 or so is when it’s pretty consistent and by 50 you pretty much always hit #but level 5? 10? 15? no. you will literally never once hit your target #which is actually kinda neat mechanic wise because it’s the first time in an elder scrolls game where you really do need to use the trainer #like having a trainer level up your skill is a necessity and idk I think that’s so cool #also you can wear rings that are basically free spells to cast that always work #BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BY FAR: it’s from 2002 and quest journals just didn’t exist then #so basically they tried by giving you a journal that updates with a lil bit of info when something important happens but it misses details #so like… everywhere online says you legit need to get an actual physical journal and take notes #not even for basic quest stuff but also you have to buy directions to towns and stuff rather than aimlessly explore #and it’s honestly so weirdly fun to flip back to your actual real life journal and be like ah yes I took good notes I know what to do #or follow the directions you wrote down after someone told you and then end up at the right town #idk it took a minute to get used to but it’s the most weirdly satisfying part of the game to me now lol

[mobs-99]

Sorry but I'll never stop thinking abt mp100 literally I think every main chara is some flavor of autist/adhd literally all of them

#thats why reigen is so spastic and st #such a strange guy bc hes just has impulse control but also is like has a bunch of hyperfocuses like thats why hes so good at so many #diff skills in diff bursts bc he gets focused on one and puts all his energy into learning it then he moves on the only reason hes still #running spirits and such is literally bc he loves mob otherwise he would be off on some other whimsy #ritsu and mob to me are clearly the siblings w/ adhd/autism but are percieved very differently and have diff levels of coping with it and #what their strenghts are #like i have a similar thing with my own siblings where we r all brain weird but all have different flavors and conflicting traits #then theres teru i think hes autistic and has mapped out a very specific social structure and rule for himself to follow so that he can fit #in and control how hes percieved #but then he still has you know off beat presentation and masking where he is just threatening and casual and wears silly clothes and just #sees that as the peak of fashion god.... hes everything to me #to me teru is the kind of person where he likes everything in its place in many different ways #then you have tome!!!!!! classic with special interests in games and aliens and telepathy and also inattention w adhd #and also tsubomi!!!! i think shes another great example shes very pretty and she knows how to kind of play her role and be polite but shes #very set in her ways and doesnt just do stuff bc its expected of her #and i think thats also why she and mob get along so well :) bc i think she knows he doesnt see her the way a lot of ppl see her and the #same is kind of in reverse where she doesnt see him solely for his powers or for his outward disposition (which is established to be why he #had such a crush on her) #its just about autist to autist communication in my opinion #talking tag

[tillman]

is violet the only one you play with? is she good?

yeaaa none of my other friends play fighting games and i dont mind. its very much just me and her booting up a guilty gear and duking it out for a few hours. and YEAH SHES SO GOOD. she like actually plays fighting games beyond goofing off with me in a closed lobby.... she was sooo awesome at the dragon ball fighting gmae when she played that... shes so cool.

fighting games r soooo much fun when u have a rival this is so real

#our skill levels are pretty wildly different but i consider myself a fast learner... im picking up some stuff..... i can easily hold my own #in strive at least. #sometimes she uses actual terminology with me though. which is insane . #well be fighting and shell just hit me with the oh yeah use your oki and im like got it boss i dont know what that is #<- just learned what that was the other week

[azpherambles]

3d art is great and more people should get into it but also its kind of offputting how much it overlaps with... idk, reddit nft crypto techbro sorts.

Heartbreaking how almost every cool person I find turns out eventually to be that sort. Not necessarily 'bad people' or 'doing bad things' but. Those sorts. Bad vibes.

#would genuinely love to help people learn 3d stuff #if i had a voice i like hearing I would love to make li'l tutorials #if youre curious go get sculptris/zbrush's free mini program thats just sculptris's corpse with new paint #blender is also free and will do the same thing but its so big and scary its hard to actually start with it #though i dont actually sculpt anymore #i pprefer modelling #which are 2 pretty different things #maybe ill make a whole post about it #i love 3d and talking about 3d #especially blender #if anyone wants to jump into it ive learnt a lot #also you dont need a tablet to do 3d! genuinely #except for textures i prefer using purely mouse and keyboard #its very accesible and i dont think people are aware how different the skill level is to 2d

[jinglyhigh-heels]

I feels it’s quite indicative that I got bored taking an ADHD test, couldn’t focus on what it was asking, and just quit without finishing it.

#it was a terrible test lol #that definitely contributed #btw I am diagnosed it was just something my mom sent to a groupchat and I decided to check it out #I hate ‘rank your capabilities in [skill]’ type questions cuz they so often require you to be *aware* of how you do in those #Like! my perspective is so skewed! p much everyone I’m around is the same as me (has ADHD) so how am I supposed to measure how well I focus? #like‚ I’m pretty organized in comparison to some other people I know! but idk much about the ‘upper level’ of functioning for that! #your understanding of the numbers is different from my understanding of the numbers and it’s inevitably going to be inaccurate #also! Your questions are not helpful! I can’t tell what exactly you’re measuring with them! I don’t wanna expand but just know I hate it.

[potpiehead]

to get some stuff off my mind

#went to the bjj session tonight; was pretty fun in general; i was drilling with a pretty experienced blue belt so i expect her to be way #better than me always so i dont usually get on myself for getting owned by her #i was being hard on myself for a second for repeatedly failing but i told myself; obviously shes dling better; she has literally 4 more #years of experience #and then it was time for open rounds and i got paired with this ~12 year old white belt girl. idk why she was in the adults class but #nonetheless #we are working on back control so i took her back (basically sitting behind them and wrapping your arms and legs around their torso) #and i was thinking about how it literally felt like i was holding a stuffed animal until SHE STARTED FUCKING WINNING ?????? #i cannot exaggerate our size difference #she was genuinely tiny AND SHE SAID SHE HAD ONLY BEEN DOING THIS FOR TWO MONTHSSSSSSSS #neither of us won; its easy enough to *defend* myself but to actually advance and get a better position felt genuinely impossible #i also did a round with one of my usual sparring partners after class; i always love rolling with him but it was exhausting because first #of all i was already exhausted second of all the timer after class is six minutes rather than five for some reason. #he is also much better than me so i got stomped #and it was fun anyway but like. man #i dont want to be salty bevause these ppl genuinely have earned their skill level; either by having done it for longer or coming #more frequently #so i dont expect myself to be on the same level with them #it wpuld just be nice if i was on the same level as like. anyone #and i mean i am but it sucks wgen i do pretty well in a round with someone and then i find out its like their first time sparring wver LMAO #and im just thinking. would i enjoy it more if i forced myself to work harder to improve my skill so i could fend for myself; or should i #just like. call it quits lol #because there are some other things i am interested it #*in #i do enjoy it. but being free food has started to wear on me #a big part of me enjoys bjj for kts own sake but an increasingly big part of me is starting to get pissed at myself #on the bright side; the guy i rolled with after class threw me hella hard but i landed good so it didnt hurt a bit 😎 #also i did manage to submit that new girl (and my coach but like. hes 60lbs heavier and a brown belt LMAO so he let me win) but its also #that thing where i will do genuinely well and then find out the person is new as fuck #my brain is on fire rn idk