#for my fiber arts besties

[asthecrowrambles]

[ID person of color wearing a white crocheted spiderweb sweater with a crop top and shorts underneath. /End ID]

IT IS FINISHED 🕷🕸🎉🎉

after about a week of work and intense crochet sessions, my spiderweb top is finished! this is my first major crochet project ^_^

i followed the video tutorial by aperpetualmess on youtube!

#i highly recommend taking a look at the tutorial #its pretty easy just takes time! #and counting #lots of counting.. #crochet #fiber arts #image described #traditional art #ccrowart #this is for my bestie and i think im going to make a dark red one for myself hehe

[lordofthegoldenflower]

Made a new friend! Meet Mo the Worpertinger

#mun things #megan crochets #crochet #amigurumi #fiber arts #he is my new bestie

[hydrangeyes]

I caved 🧍🏾‍♂️

#trolls 3 #my art #trolls band together #trolls dreamworks #trollsona #I love him with every fiber of my being #the art revival is REAL #guess who he crushes on- it’s pretty obvious tbh #I loved the way I drew and colored this I might stick with it #music wise specifically Pierce the veil #and sleeping with sirens are the inspo #one of his besties is a cloud- old pranking buddies

[singswan-springswan]

Me 'n my fave 💙

#fighting the perfectionist urges with gritted teeth and every fiber of my willpower #feet? 🤷‍♀️ #hands? 🤷‍♀️ #🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #what are those?? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #will I ever draw faces consistently? #that remains to be seen #mermaid ocs #oc artwork #self-insert oc #he's a serial killer but like 💙💙 #he's my bestie #look at that cute lil face uwu #you'd think with unlimited reference I'd be able to draw myself more accurately #anyway I'm having fun and that's what matters #singswan-springswan art

[monstera-tea]

Crow skull patch officially up on gumroad, as well as some stickers! Patches are $15, stickers are $1.50 - $4 :>

#artists on tumblr #art #embroidery #digital art #fiber arts #patch #stickers #small artist #gumroad #maker sale #sale #please buy my patches bestie

[pheoblitz]

For Alton's family in Dnd I decided to bring back the Avens as his in laws! Here is Warren Aven, better known as Wren. This slight redesign that hasnt changed much about him.

Redesign wise:

-I mostly returned his mask to having leaves on the side rather then fluff. I liked this one's shillowette more.

-I removed the smile on his mask to replace it with the usage of signs for the expression. This allows him more varity of emotion to be shown. Also so my friend stops comparing it to dream and starts comparing it to Rio Ranger.

-I made him a deer rather then a goat like before. This lets him line up with his family better.

-I broke off his horns to show how his healing actually works.

-To show he is more deer like now, I also gave him dots on his face under his regular eye fur.

-I made his face more slender but kept his large eyes. I feel this makes him look young still and not overly tough but stops him from fully looking like a child.

Other notes:

-His eyes have X in them as a joke about how he died before as well as to resemble a button with thread through it as a reference to his secrets and family's main trade.

-Dispite sticking closer to his olfer looks, I kept the cape being laidout like a bird rather then a flat cape. His cape otherwise felt empty and too bland for me.

-His bell collar is a reference to Simon, his bestie.

-I drew him in the wrong shirt. No one noticed- but I plan to draw him in the right one next time before the DM decides to use this drawing of him as his intro art.

Fun facts:

-His family are all Tailors or work in relating jobs.

-Each male in the family is given a special glove that lets them do some magic like mending. As well as a special needle as well. In non DnD, the gloves allows them to harvest the fibers of magic and spin them into a stread to then use and embroider into cloth or to make clothing and fabric out of.

-Wren has died alot but was brought back by his father each time with. Now he keeps himself kicking. In normal lore this is done via a magic needle and thread by Wren himself given to him by spiders. However when his father dose it, its via sacrifice and sketchy deals with sketchy magic creatures. In DnD the dm has not revealed to me how it works yet. Though he has plans.

-In non DnD, Wren is filled with leaves cottons, soils, etc to keep his shape. He then soes his flesh together with magic making him a very weird livibg plushy or taxidermy in a way.

-He is almost never seen with his mask or cape off and is constantly putting on a character.

-Most of the males in his family are missing a digit on their hand as part of a deal they made generations ago with the spiders. It was done so no one but them could wear their gloves unless you happened to also be missing the finger or had smaller hands. The digit they do not have is their pointer and they are born without it.

-He is the youngest of his three siblings.

#art #artwork #my art #digital art #oc #oc art #pheoblitz oc #ibispaint #my ocs #digital #digital drawing #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #my oc #my artwork #original art #ocs #original character #drawing #doodle #digital doodle #deer

[dangerphd]

what's the word for when I am genuinely excited for a bestie mutual to get new fiber arts gear (you're going to have SO much fun!)... but also truly selfishly excited because my timeline is about to get a veritable flood of delightful eye candy?

#fiber art #hand crafted #yarn

[itsnicsalad]

Super big fan of your art. Especially the Lilith and Darius besties artwork. Their relationship reminds me of the one I have with my best friend and everyone assumes we're dating when we're not.

But something him and I agree on is that the next time makes a romantic jab at us we'll play along like "Oh yeah, I've known them for [x] amount of years. They mean everything to me, and I love them with every fiber of my being and couldn't imagine a world without them, so let me introduce you to MY BEST FRIEND."

And it gives me massive ravenation vibes lol

lmao you guys are amazing

id love to imagine lilith and darius saying that as well lol,, at least in my s3 au (might sound weird but like,, canon ravenation and stars below ravenation have different dynamics in my mind?? like canon has more of a reserved kinda feeling but stars below is way more open,, solely just due to my own brainrot)

#the owl house #toh #lilith clawthorne #darius deamonne #i need to talk about/draw more of stars below in general #tbf i did say in my crash video that after ftf aired id probably forget about it #but idc i need something to distract me from canon lmao

[bakubunny]

BUNNYYYY CONGRATS ON 2K!!!! Your blog always brings me lots of joy (among other feelings 🫢) thank you for creating and sharing so much excellent content 💜

It took me a little while to think of some good facts, but i landed on:

1. I love making things! Mainly fiber arts but I've yet to meet a craft I didn't like

2. My love languages are quality time and letting me put stuff in your bag

3. According to my bestie, the most on-brand thing ive ever done was drunkenly scold a man i did not know for making a derogatory comment about women

(And my fav aesthetic is naturecore, but only if you genuinely feel up for it! The match-up offer is already so generous i can't wait to see who everyone gets🌻✨️🫶)

ok so this is giving shoto so much but i’m not great at writing him so forgive me if this is way off. 😭

your match: shoto

he might have some ‘dom’ energy, but you have a bit of a nurturing side that compliments him and makes him feel safe with you. he’s in his head a little too much, and you have the ability to pull him out of that.

your love languages is what sealed it for me. he’s letting you put stuff in his pockets, in his bag, carrying your bags when he goes shopping. it’s a silly little thing, but it makes him feel needed, and he likes that.

i feel like shoto would be an appreciator of your craft. he’s not really an artist of any kind, but he’s enamored by how beautiful your works are, how much work you’re willing to put into them, etc.

shoto loves that you’re not afraid to speak your mind… even if it only happens like that when you’re drunk. 😂 but really, he needs someone who will speak up in a relationship and who’s willing to put in a lot of work towards communication. sometimes he doesn’t fully understand what you mean if you’re not very direct with him, or maybe he’s a little more harsh than he intended to be.

#really i have a talent for writing soft assholes i feel #and shoto is not like that lmfao #bunny’s 2k celebration #todoroki shouto

[phoenix-rising-starbird-one]

😂😭🥹

So. 1400 and I’ve been talking about failures in life and how I feel like it’s my default. I feel like my life has been 95% failure and 5% success. Mind you, this is a topic that comes up often from my side. We talked again this last week. Lots of crying on my part as well. I also mentioned how, somehow, I always feel like I can’t do things by myself. Like there’s nothing wrong with help of course, but like I feel like I can’t do shit without someone constantly holding my hand.

So what does this goof do? Sends me a video of when he first started surfing, with Break My Stride as score. (I’ve added the song at the bottom if you’ve never heard it before.) Now, some people are naturals when they first pick up surfing. 1400 was not. Lmao. But eventually, he got it. I met him at a stage in his life, where he’d already been surfing for a bit and he’s really good. But I am aware, that even if you’re a natural, it takes time and practice, and a fair amount of falling and getting back up, and more practice and falling… You get the idea.

Now. That video made for a good laugh. Cause that’s just so 1400. You know. He knows how to poke fun at himself.

But what would the weekend be without a good cry, right? I mean he didn’t keep it at that video. He also sent me a second one. And… I don’t know when he had the time and HOW he even got all those pictures from before we met. (I mean I’m sure he asked everyone I know, lol.) Like there’s little 9 years old me sitting on a stack of three suitcases. The amount we had when my family left East Germany. Or a picture of me learning to ride a bike, with scuffed knees and my besties from elementary holding the bike, and me, three days later holding my “biking license” cause in Germany a lot of kids get a bicycle license in elementary, right? I had like a week to learn cause I’d never learned to or owned a bike. But I learned to ride the bike in less than that. Then there were pictures of me and my sis at one of her school recitals. I was the one who attended cause our parents never made the time.

Like there are so many pictures. Right. Me, holding my first driver’s license after barely passing. My American citizenship. My degrees. First day at work pictures. Unpacking and packing cause of how many times we moved. Festival pictures where I traveled by myself and met total strangers cause how crazy was that? Pictures of my art and fiber works, from when I first started to most recent. Pictures of me writing. Pictures during and post the whole cancer ordeal. The picture after I’d almost suffocated cause my tracheotomy failed twice! Like that one hit hard. The picture of me ringing the bell. Pictures of me in so many hospital beds and even still out after surgeries*. Clearing the house after divorce. Pics of my new place here. Etc…

And also arriving in FFM with three suitcases. That picture was a pivotal moment in the video because he split the view of me arriving in FFM with three suitcases with the picture of when I was little and sat on three suitcases when my family left East Germany. 1400 subtitled it with “STILL TRYING TO FIND THE WOMAN WHO IS FAILING. I don’t see her. Can you point her out to me?”

And I’m just…

And god dammit. And then he layered Rise Up as the score to it all. I just can’t. With this man. S’agapó…

* please know I gave my son permission to take those because he was documenting my battle for his video and photography class!

#Spotify

[krakenartificer]

Tagged by tumblr bestie @turtletotem. Thank you!

Are you named after anyone: Nope. I was named because my parents didn't know anyone else who had that name. Sadly, however, the name occurred to them for the same reason it occurred to a lot of other parents at that time (presumably due to complicated socio-economic factors), so I ended up with the third most common name for my AGAB for my birth year. There were five of us in my elementary school year. It was a nightmare.

When was the last time you cried: God I don't know. I'm in the phase of my PTSD recovery where I cry like a toddler: because I'm tired, because I have too much energy, because I stretched and now my back feels better, because I made a typo, because I forgot to make tea after the water boiled, because it's too sunny, because it's too cloudy....) It's 10:47 am, I think I'd remember if I'd cried today. Did I cry yesterday? Probably. I definitely did on Friday. So somewhere in the last 24-48 hours.

Do you have kids: None biological. A lot of adopted teenagers whose parents don't deserve them so I'm their mom/aunt/cool older sibling now.

Do you use sarcasm a lot: Yeah, but I'm trying to make sure it's in a wholesome/ironic/silly way, and not in a dismissive/mean way

What sports do you play/have played: I had a run for a while where I played volleyball once a week with a casual family group. Have done a little shooting hoops with spouse. Other than that, not much; I prefer cooperative physical activity to competitive.

What’s the first thing you notice about people: whether or not there's something showing (T-shirt, hairstyle, pins on their bag, etc) that indicates an interest we have in common that I could use to make conversation if I needed to.

What’s your eye color: Driver's license says hazel

Scary movies or happy endings: Happy endings, fo sure. I've had all the terrifying depressing hopelessness I need in one lifetime, thanks.

Any special talents: Weirdly good at memorizing dialogue and song lyrics. Naturally good at fiber arts. I think all the rest of my "talents" are just repackaged ADHD symptoms

Where were you born: Colorado

What are your hobbies: Fiber arts. Writing. Guitar. "Overthinking" things.

Do you have pets: I wish T_T But the neighborhood cats stop by often, and I'm still plotting how to get unlimited access to the neighbor's husky

How tall are you: 5'5.5"

Favorite subject in school: I really cared more about the teachers than the subjects, but my dad is super into science, and my extended family includes a lot of people who genuinely, deeply love mathematics, so I definitely gravitated towards STEM. If we're counting "subjects" from elementary and middle school, then Reading Class

Dream job: Independently wealthy enough that I can live on my ranch and make art without worrying about whether or not it's profitable

Tagging: @stitchlingbelle, @floating-in-the-blue, @jasonsdeli, @animatedamerican, @oma-goodness (no pressure if you're not feeling it)

#ask game #gpoy

[thekingofcrochet]

I did know you went to art school!

Please, bestie; tell me errythang! 🍿

I went to art school because I was gonna be an English major and get my degree to be a high school English Lit teacher and I absolutely did shit at my English 200 course (my first C when I had actually tried to work hard) and I failed my history class and i never wanted to take math again so I transferred to art school. (there's a separate essay I wanna write about gifted kids burning out and dropping out of college. Like were we really gifted/good at academics or did we just know the right facts to regurgitate when it came time for testing?)

My first year of art school had these intro art classes where we had to make some of the most insufferable pieces.

I remember that I had to make 1/2 of a piece of produce from balsa wood and I ended up getting banned from the wood working studio because of safety reasons (I almost lost my thumbs). i think to teach us about scale and proportion?

Another assignment involved making a book that was just pictures and I made mine about the life cycle of pomegranates in which because it was accordion folded you could connect the back and front together so it would be continuous.

I had to make an abstract painting (9"x12") based on 30 seconds of a classical music song.

I made a luxury gas mask as part of an artifact from an imagined world.

I failed most of my art history classes because I couldn't remember the exact date (month, day, year) that a piece was made.

I drew a lot of self portraits.

I barely passed ceramics because I think the teacher just wanted me to never return to the studio.

When we could focus on our concentrations I did fiber arts so I learned how to spin yarn, felt wool, weave fabric and weave baskets. I made 2 quilts that required me doing all nighters for weeks straight (watched a lot of Netflix).

I have a vivid memory of sewing a fabric basket while watching Game Grumps Sonic Boom play-through in my dorms communal kitchen because my sewing machine was too loud to work in the dorm suites.

I have another memory of weaving late into the night at the art studio watching the Game Grumps play Wind Waker. It's a piece made from selected colors from the Pinwheel Galaxy and I made the pattern by hand.

I ended up losing 99% of everything I ever made or owned in an apartment fire in my 5th year of college so I just barely have any photos of my stuff.

I made a semi recent post that that had some of my old art and most of that was during art school.

I feel like art school wasn't really about learning how to make good art but was partly about how to make art safely (see the paragraph where I almost lost my thumbs) and make something on a deadline. Which are both very important! But anything I learned was through self study + determination and that's really what college is for.

#ask me anything #art vibes #yes I did make an unlicensed studio ghibli bed set. Yes i did lose it in a fire

[caeruluspirit]

i saw a post on here about paintings of mundane scenes, like of apples and things on tables. it was about beauty in the mundane, which is something i have Big Feelings About so i’m making my own post. none of this is connected coherently, but it doesn’t have to be.

there’s so much in natural details- it’s always been a habit of mine to study one thing really well. it started as just absentmindedly staring at something, then an art study, but it also helps me when i’m dissociating. there’s realness here, despite everything, the living room table still stands. despite years of coffee mug stains, dust, spills- they make the wood more colorful. unique. there’s a story. there’s embossing glitter from my mother’s scrapbooking still glued on my childhood dining table, they told us it was the tooth fairy. there’s paint from my brother’s school project. old stains from a particular pasta incident. we don’t have the table anymore, but i remember it still. i have memory loss.

to know something is to love it. i study the wood grain on the windowsill in my new house- my boyfriend’s childhood home. it’s old and chipped, but it’s here. it exists. someone carved this. the house has history. and i get to see the result of a million tiny moments when someone was looking theough the window and leaning on the wall, reflected on the chipped paint and the cracked sill. there’s tiny handprints left on the doors from greasy baby hands, the wood remembers it fondly. the landing has stairs made in 2008 by his father’s hand when he started his business. they don’t use the landing anymore because of the dogs, but it has a bookshelf- organized neatly with books and figures of his dad’s interests.

i study max- my cat, sleeping soundly. he’s a brown tabby. he’s got bits of white on his chin, and his stripes are so intricate- there’s coarser, defined fur that gives way to lighter and softer fibers. there’s even flecks of orange on his muzzle.

every time i see a painting, even an abstract one, it says “i wanted to make a painting of this. it is beautiful.” this post isn’t about the politics behind art museums, i want to make that clear- but even abstract art says this. “i made a painting about being sad. the canvas is all blue.” because knowing emotions is seeing beauty in them. you’re human.

anyway, the world is full of color and things to look at. every trip to the grocery store is an adventure, and the fruits in the produce section are beautiful to me. so is the wooden window sill in my boyfriend’s house. so is the old table i used to do homework on in my parent’s kitchen. so is the feeling of love and sadness and apathy and anger and mild amusement.

i’d spend hours studying the folds of a towel, and how the fabric flows beneath its own weight. i could spend years staring at a garden.

long post out of nowhere! sorry to my besties but i’m beholding the wonders of the world and i gotta post about it. i love paintings of apples

#rambling :o)

[captaincolossal]

Okay, well, I've actually enjoyed embroidering again. Like I got super into it, and then I tried to sell them with my other art and that kind of spoiled it for me for, like, several years now, I've only done a few things. But, I know now that I can't and don't have to monetize everything I do, which is sort of a difficult boundary to find and keep when your job is selling items that you make. Like what is the art that I make with intent to sell and what is the art I make for funsies. Hand embroidery is for funsies. Or trades. I like trades. A guy at the fiber group I've started going to at the local queer coffee shop/dry bar commented that he'd trade a hat for an embroidered heart like the one I was working on, so that could be fun.

Also I may have to text my bestie about this one. Yes, even though she's on vacation and left her phone at home, I've just continued to occasionally text her, my mom is very ??? about it. But it's just things I would have intended to tell her anyway, so it's more of a "remind me to tell you about (thing)", you know? So potentially this first film, brought to us by the letter F.

Force Majeure (2014)

Wait, had no one noticed the (muffled explosions)? They're at a ski resort, I don't think there should be (muffled explosions) happening in the mountains. Ooh, or (crackling) equipment.

#force majeure #movie funtime

[guruan-is-not-here]

okay i know we aren’t like moots or anything i requested art like once but bestie i just wanna say theres nothing to be self conscious about with your art of the moon boys!! personally i go absolutely fucking feral whenever i see new moon boys fan art you’ve drawn every single piece is a massive hit even if notes don’t reflect it. bestie if you got a million fans i’m one, if you got 1 fan its me, if you got none i’m dead on god for real!!

🥺

you making me emotional

thank you so much for your words really 🤧

now, for some reason, tumblr feels a lot more public than my twitter (the side ones I mean)- and there's when I get self conscious- these sketches (the ones that are not requests) are driven purely by personal preferences, and I feel so vulnerable about that 😂😭 is taking me every fiber of my being to share these with you all, but I want to do it- is just hard

I usually have no problem with the ones that are just... them- looking pretty and... stuff

but these ones are slightly different in context so... yeah- I'm nervous about sharing them

I'll share a peek of it tomorrow on twitter- Just Jake for now

Thank you again for your words *hugs*

#guruan #just thinking #answered