#faebruary art challenge 2021

[ballad-of-medusa]

2021 Faebruary

PELARGONIUM — BOREDOM

"Sometimes, there is no much to do: fooling around, laughing with the others, hiding in the flowers ... This is so ... boring. Why wouldn't it be possible for a fairy to do something more exciting, more ... daring? Something that would really make them feel alive, and not only a small and fragil magical creature."

Devis is a very old character and I think I don't have to introduce him anymore by this time. He is the typical "i-know-how-to-wear-the-pokerface" character, and he feels bored very quickly if something doesn't seem to be worth his interest. He is also very lazy, but it doesn't make him more difficult when it comes to find something which is 'exciting": playing some games with strategy may sometimes be enough for him.

CROCUS — ELATION

"When the ray of light of the morning sun are barely visible, that is the best time for fairies to wake up and to enjoy their daily life. Morning dew has not vanished already, and yet, here they are already moving, floating, flying, dancing ... Is that the feeling of a new dawn on a beautiful day? There is so much to do today, they may as well start their day with joy and elation!"

Do I really have to introduce you Neoko? I don't think so, by now! I really really enjoy drawing her in a typical classical dancing pose. I think it is the best way I can represent the feeling of elation: having a light body moving without any problem, with delicacy. And thus, Neoko is probably the most fitting for that!

THISTLE FLOWER — VENDETTA

"The problem with feelings like anger, hatred, jealousy is that they quickly turn into a strong and negative envy, which pollutes every inch of kindness in a fairy. Suddenly, the urge for destruction and revenge is stronger than anything else. It is not always like a fairy tale: sometimes, being a villain is so ... satisfying."

Misery is my little devil. Turned into a fairy, she would mess around all the time. She is sort of psychotic, sort of crazy, sort of villainous, sort ... Yet, she is a huge antagonist. One of the best thing she is good at is destruction and murder. A charming hobby for a young lady, isn't?

FRITILLARY — ADMIRATION

"People tend to explain that a fairy's birth happens at dawn, at the perfect moment when dew and flower create the perfect cradle. But in reality, some fairies are born under the cover of the night. From the top of their flower, they watch the whole sky, hoping that one day, they can fly as high as the stars."

Ivan is the twin brother of Katya, and he shares many common traits with his sister. But there is one thing that he is unique for, it is his dedication and admiration towards his father. Ivan really aspires to become like him: proud, confident, trustworthy, strong ... But for now, he is still a bit too shy for that.

✿ Last batch of my 2021 Faebruary with one of my favorites ones! That's also my last fulfilled challenge ... I hope you'll still enjoy my artworks though.

Devis Hayes, Neoko Ailen Shinkiseki, Misery Wellsburth & Ivan von Friedholf (OCs) are mine. Art is mine.

#Neoko #Artists on Tumblr #Drawing #Traditional Drawing #Watercolor #Ink #OC #Original Character #Devis Hayes #Neoko Ailen Shinkiseki #Misery Wellsburth #Ivan von Friedholf #Fairy #Fairy AU #Fae AU #Faerie #Flowers #Flower Language #Crocus #Thistle Flower #Fritillary #Pelargonium #Neoko_OC

[md3artjournal]

Guess I should check in. I haven't made art in such a long time, it seems. I was already off my daily drawing practice. I didn't do half or most of MerMay.

Failed to stay on Creatury---AGAIN. I really thought I had it this time. I should have done another January of daily flower sketches.

Skipped Faebruary. I don't know why. It's one of my favorite monthly challenges. I get to draw flowers, tiny chibi, butterfly wings, and my OTPs. I don't know what happened. I think it was just my overall drop off of daily drawing practice. ;_;

March should have been Magical March. Every year I gather up costume design reference, and I say I'll draw Magical Boys to go with Magical Girls. But I'm usually burnt out from Faebruary. I really should have been able to do it this year, since I skipped Faebruary this year. I drew ONE random maho shojo OC. That's it. x_x;

April is supposed to be my own challenge that I made up: "AprilAngelsAndDemons". And it worked out well for me in 2020…But I haven't been able to bring it back since. x_x

MerMay is one of my favorite challenges. It's pretty a well-known challenge, so there's a lot of exposure, so a lot of encouragements. Plus, I don't have to draw clothes or the entire bottom half of the body. ^^ Bonus: I love drawing wavy, flowy lines, so fish tails and fish fins really work for me too. ^-^ …But I only did part of the challenge. ;; My May got taken over by some depression, and drawing cards for Mother's Day AND my mom's birthday.

June was supposed to be another one of my made-up monthly drawing challenges: JuneBridesGrooms. But I haven't done it since 2021. x_x; That was a really good challenge for me. I don't know why I haven't kept it up. ;.; But this year, I know. May 2023 got taken over by that photography contest with unlimited entries, and I think I took some days to recover from that. Still, it couldn't have been that many days. And then I had to draw my dad's Father's Day card, though that didn't take more than 2 days. And I'll still trying to continue that MerMay2023 DMCL fancomic I started last month.

Maybe I'm just burnt out. And I know I have a hard time getting back into drawing, if I don't keep it up frequently. That's why I always take on those monthly drawing challenges and try to draw every single day. But lately…I've just been letting it slide. Tired. Needed several days to do laundry. Writing too many nonsense journal posts and random Tumblr posts; fandom type analysises that I don't even post, half the time. Maybe I'm just tired.

I've been thinking a lot lately about getting more serious about returning to cons or at least finally opening an online shop. I've let the online shop ideas get postponed, because I was too busy, constantly restocking for convention tables. The pandemic let me slow down and reassess, but that just left me staring in the face, the intimidating prospect of online sales. Years, I've followed artists and read their posts about horrible customers. I've got too much social anxiety for this. So when I recently heard about "print on demand" services, I thought this would be perfect for me. But now I'm hearing it's called "dropshipping" and has a bad reputation? I feel like I can't win. I can't even figure out what name to rebrand to. Because that would require knowing how to summarize my art style and what I want to do. But all the commonalities in my illustration style, are unflattering. All my best work is flat, 2D, and monochrome, but that's not exactly the best impression. Maybe it got me dwelling too much on how I don't know how to describe my style. But more likely, I'd get disheartened, looking through my Archives, to give me ideas for what name best fits my rebrand…and be reminded how badly I draw. I can't compete with the competition. I can't even get the guts to order stickers of my art. x___x;;;;;;;;; My best art is photography and sculpture. But my photography can't compete with most other figure photographers. My 2 figure photography contest wins don't really count for anything when you see how objectively worse, even my winning photos were, compared to most others'. And I've ruined my reputation with sculpture. I'm beginning to think I've been buying weak, non-durable, polymer clay all this time. I've always had to worry about it breaking during shipping/travel, people shittalk my work's resiliency, while passing by my convention tables, and people just expect it to be as strong as some cheap Walmart industrial-plastic trinkets. I don't want to deal with more problems with materials/packaging, making more customers mad at me. Just that one incident completely ruined my ability to sculpt for my business ever again…even though it may be my best medium. I cannot deal with conflict on any kind of level. …So that's made me wonder if I should give up on art, and return to some office job. I know I heard getting a job is nearly impossible these days, especially since I don't have the basic socializing skills that are usually expected. But maybe I'd be better off if my art is just a hobby. No more worrying about competition, and not measuring up. …But I decided a long time ago, during my last office job, that if I wanted to stop feeling suicidal, even though I had all the money and medical benefits that everyone said I needed to be happy, I needed to make art my job. I was too tired after office days to do any art as a hobby. And without it, I was getting more and more, inexplicably self-destructive. I may be too lazy to really study illustration and improve, but I need to do art as my career. If my job takes up all my time, and I'm too tired in my downtime to do art, but I need art to be sane/happy, then making art my job was my only logical conclusion. …But I'm so bad at it! x________x;;;;;;;;;;;;; Even aside from my quality, I just don't have the guts to even open an online shop or take commissions. I've avoided the stress of it so much, that I don't even know where to start---Well, I know where to get the information about where to start. I've subscribed to a lot of independent small business artists on social media, who talk about all their business stuff. But I still avoid actually reading or listening to their videos…because it's all too overwhelming. More and more, I think I'm not cut out for this small business artist thing. But at the same time, I don't see anywhere else for myself.

Well, that sounds like an artist block, if I ever heard one. I guess that's why I haven't been drawing daily lately.

People say that drawing every single day is unnecessary, or even bad for you. But it works for me. It more than works for me. I NEED it. Not just because my drawing muscles instantly atrophy as soon as I stop practicing. But I also really enjoy drawing everyday. I need that feeling of accomplishment everyday. Even when I draw badly, compared to the competition in artist alley, it just feels so good to have been able to make something, and additionally be so much better than past me. Past me couldn't draw what was in my head this easily or this quickly! I feel so proud of myself after I manage to finish drawing. But then a day or 2 later, or when I have to think about which illustration to pick, to become merch in artist alley, I just fall apart.

I don't know what I'm doing.

Also, my best art isn't actually photography, sculpture, or even jewelry or printmaking. (And my storyboarding has gone to hell, since I stopped reading manga daily.) It was always writing. I'm bad at it now. I haven't been confident in writing narrative stories in years. And maybe most of what I write lately is just journaling and fandom analysis essays, that I'm too afraid to un-Private on Tumblr. But people have been telling me for years that my writing is good, I've repeatedly seen my writing get me out of situations through its effectiveness, and I know what it feels like to work hard at a craft and really enjoy the WORKING HARD at it. And I enjoy working hard at writing. I think that actually ENJOYING the "working hard" part is a big sign that it might be what I should be doing. But I've completely let this skill atrophy. x_x I've thought about maybe submitting essays for publication as articles anyway. But I just don't have to confidence to put my real name on anything public. Especially something as incendiary as writing. I could write an opinion piece about how much I love chocolate ice cream, and the trolls would come out of no where to tear me into pieces. I don't think my social anxiety would let life be tolerable with that.

Maybe that's why I just keep ping-pong'ing myself in limbo, doing nothing.

#rambling #venting #please ignore my idiocy #finding my art style #artist block #creative block #drawing practice #processing thoughts #checking in

[savethecatraaa]

Faebruary but make it she-ra part 10!! And SURPRISE, it's a lil bonus Bow!! Or, you might say, it's a Bow-nus!! Hehehehehehe ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary art challenge 2021 #faebruary she ra #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #she ra netflix #she ra fanart #shera and the princesses of power #she ra bow #bow fanart

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY ELEVEN: FLORAL

My hand literally cramped up on me so much while inking this (traditionally) that I immediately had to drop my pen twice :’)

#guardians of childhood #rise of the guardians #rotg #william joyce #vanish #faebruary #februfairy #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[ballad-of-medusa]

2021 Faebruary

IXIA — SHYNESS

"With the season of love, some fairies may discover the true nature of love. The heart beating, the blushing cheeks ... Everything up until nobody knows how to hide such a strong feeling. Thus, sometimes, hidden in the flowers, one may be the witness of a lovely yet shy in-love fairy."

Katya is the whole embodiment of shyness and delicacy. She is mostly seen with Mick and she is deeply in love with him, but still ... She is a princess who takes her time and who respects the good manners. No one wants to rush their true lovestory, so does Katya.

AMARYLLIS — PRIDE

"Even in a so-called fairy world, it is not always easy, and pink, and beautiful. No sometimes, fairies can be proud and ultimately they can feel superior to the other ones. Well. It is not their fault: they do are superior on some aspects. But not all."

Haibara is one of my queens. Really. Why queen? Because she sure acts as she is one. She is supposed to be "perfect" and thus seeks only for such perfection. Sometimes being alone with such expectations can also be a burden. Fortunately, she got Aaron for that!

ANEMONE — REJECTION

"Lonelyness and isolation are lethal for a fairy. As it has been said, sometimes fairies are crual against one another, especially when it comes to differencies. Can you imagine who cannot fly? What a shame! They can never be a real fairy!"

Andy is my soft cinnamon roll. He is absolutely one of my favorite character. Most of the time, I tend to give him a shy spot and a nervous personnality, but in reality, he is a little sunshine. He loves jumping around and spending time with his boyfriend, Etoile! But, he also suffered from rejection from his mother, even though he never really hold a grudge against her for that.

CYCLAMEN — JEALOUSY

"Waiting and longing for someone is an awful feeling. Especially when the fairy is known for fooling around, or ... not being so serious about the others, or ... being too perfect. Affection turns into paranoia, love turns into hatred ... Jealousy is now blooming in the heart of a small fairy."

I'm feeling so sorry for Eleonor: each time she is in a challenge, she always represents jealousy because of her boyfriend, Raymond, but she is more than just a jealous girlfriend! She is smart, talktative, attractive ... She actually knows how to fool someone, and she loves listening to the lovestory of the people around her. Really not a bad girl.

POPPY — FRAGILITY

"A fairy is a being which is small and fragil. You have to be very careful with them. Their wings are thin, but powerful. Sometimes, human confuse them with butterfly. And juste like butterfly, their wings tend to be easy to break."

Louise is a little cutie. She is calm but shy. Though, I really love to draw her, even if it's not really often. From time to time, it feels right to give her some attention!

✿ Second batch of my 2021 Faebruary! I'm happy with how it turned out.

Ekaterina von Friedholf, Haibara Yang, Andy von Friedholf, Eleonor Daïan & Louise Elizabeth Warren (OCs) are mine. Art is mine.

#Neoko #Artists on Tumblr #OC #Original Characters #Ekaterina von Friedholf #Haibara Yang #Andy von Friedholf #Eleonor Daïan #Louise Elizabeth Warren #Fairy #Fairy AU #Faerie #Fae AU #Faebruary #Flowers #Flower Language #Ixia #Amaryllis #Cyclamen #Poppy #Anemone #Drawing #Traditional Drawing #Watercolor #Ink #Neoko_OC

[savethecatraaa]

Faebruary but make it she-ra part 9!! Ohhmygosh it's REALLY not February anymore but shhh it's fine, it's fine... 😅 ANYWHO, for the last and final faebruary character from the dodgy lil prompt list I made myself, here's (the love of my life) She-Ra!! There's also a version with less armour bc *arms* hehe ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary art challenge 2021 #faebruary she ra #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #faebruary she ra 2021 #adora she ra #she ra netflix #she ra fanart #shera and the princesses of power #fanart #fairy she ra #she ra netflix fanart #she ra season 5 #adora she ra and the princesses of power

[savethecatraaa]

Faebruary but make it she-ra part 8!! And like, okay, I know it's technically not faebruary anymore but work with me here 😅 a lil fairy Mara for y'all bc she's perfect I love her I simp ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary art challenge 2021 #faebruary she ra #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #she ra netflix #she ra fanart #shera and the princesses of power #she ra mara #mara fanart

[savethecatraaa]

Faebruary but make it she-ra part 7!! A lil fairy Angella bc she's literally an angel and I adore her I miss her ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary she ra #faebruary art challenge 2021 #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #shera fanart #she ra fanart #she ra netflix #queen angella #queen angella fanart #shera and the princesses of power

[savethecatraaa]

Faebruary but make it she-ra part 6!! (Very late, but we're gonna ignore that!!) So here's a lil fairy Spinerella bc she DESERVES to be a magical fairy I love her ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary she ra #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #she ra netflix #she ra fanart #she ra spinerella #spinerella fanart #she ra spinerella fanart #she ra spinny #faebruary art challenge 2021

[savethecatraaa]

Here's the lil prompt list I made for faebruary but make it she-ra!! Well, it's the nicer version. The original was just different she-ra character names scribbled everywhere with some circled that was eventually turned into a mockery of a prompt list 😅 anywhooo ✿

#faebruary but make it she ra #faebruary art challenge 2021 #faebruary she ra #faebruary 2021 #faebruary #shera and the princesses of power

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY TWELVE: THE PRINCESS DIARIES

I know I already put down movies for the “Movie You Like” days but by time I was drawing this I was watching The Princess Diaries and I like that much more than A Cinderella Story

#guardians of childhood #rise of the guardians #rotg #william joyce #vanish #faebruary #februfairy #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY FIFTEEN: ROYAL

I finally designed book!Tooth so I could draw the royal tooth fairy sisters together for this prompt~

#goc #guardians of childhood #william joyce #rotg #rise of the guardians #toothiana #vanish #goc toothiana #goc vanish #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY SIX: 80s/90s

I definitely leaned more towards the 90s with this bUT aNYWAY here’s Crysta from Ferngully, the movie where I was, and still am, scared of Tim Curry’s pre-villain song high pitched voice

I’m pretty sure that’s the origin story of why I hate and cringe so much over slimy villain voices

#ferngully #crysta #faebruary #februfairy #ferngully fanart #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY TWO: CAROUSEL

If there’s anyone who doesn’t know: This here is Vanish, who, according to William Joyce himself, is Tooth’s younger sister

I thought while I was designing Katherine and Nightlight from the books I would design Vanish and also an extra Jack Frost, whom I named “Jacques/Jaq”, so I can have both ships :’)

#faebruary #februfairy #guardians of childhood #rise of the guardians #rotg #william joyce #vanish #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY TWENTY: GHOST

Movie!Tooth is back as a ghost bride!!

#rotg #rise of the guardians #faebruary #februfairy #rotg tooth #rotg toothiana #toothiana #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021

[the-officially-kat]

FAEBRUARY DAY TEN: SUPERHERO

I couldn’t decide between drawing Irma or Hay Lin so I settled on all of them (the theme song still kicks ass)

Also, remind me to do some more W.I.T.C.H art of the girls at their actual ages ‘cause I was looking them up just now and apparently they’re 12/13????!?!!

#w.i.t.c.h #w.i.t.c.h fanart #will vandom #irma lair #taranee cook #cornelia hale #hay lin #faebruary #februfairy #february art challenge #monthly art challenge #kat's faebruary 2021