#from 2020! I think I improved ^^

[airborneice]

“What’s this one supposed to mean?”

“Hmm..beauty or strength, sometimes.”

“Perfect.”

@sketchbookweek Day 2 - Wilderness / Witchcraft

going back to my roots of drawing sketchbook being gay in a field

#update I’m doing the silly coloured speech bc I realised i didn’t make it super clear who’s saying what jjghgd #Hilda sketchbook #sketchbookweek #hilda the series #sketchbook ship #art tag #sooo this was the first drawing I did for skbk week and let me tell you guys #it fought me. every. step of the way #i spent like 3 evenings working on the sketch just to scrap it and redo it on the next one #I’m so rusty with art I haven’t been able to do anything remotely ambitious in so long sooo yeah :’)everyone lower your expectations please #however I do think this came out kinda nice #spiritually I guess it’s a redraw of that drawing from 2020 so seeing a bit of improvement is nice anyway #i love these prompts btw I wish I could’ve done both #the flower is a jasmine btw. every website on the internet had a different idea of its meaning so I picked the ones I liked 😌 #is it worth mentioning that I had some doodles I wanted to post for day 1 but I literally could not get them done on time :’) #an attempt was made but ah well. onto the next

[the-holy-ghosted]

inspired by this @archivistbot post that would not leave my head until i drew it

#the heron giveth #the magnus archives #tma #breekon and hope #hellaur....... long time no b+h post #their designs havent changed like whatsoever but my art style HAS improved somewhat since the last time i drew them #i say somewhat as if it hardly looks like the same person drew half of those comics from 2020 compared to this one but still #nyways i still think about theme very day of my life and i forgot how easy they were to draw. i miss it #i wonder how many people didnt realize i changed my url. yes this is still the other guy if you were wondering #did some remodeling to my blog but these r my guys #let me post this real quick so i can sneak the link in the description idk if tumblr fixed that bug yet

[quietzones]

some quiet works from a few years ago

#2020.? 2021…? #these ar far enough apart that improvement is evident #was particulary enamoured with her living to the 90s in outer heaven #Ive been meaning to keep writing my fic on that but damn Its been a. while… #these are some concept designs i made for the idea :-) #the chest scars are from removal of those strange outer lungs that come from the parasite infection #like that one patient in the warehouse if Im remembering correctly #doesn’t make sense but i think It looks sick as hell #might ramble more about this in another post this is getting a bit too long haha… #metal gear solid #mgs #quiet #my art

[simply-sithel]

Edwardian Ball 2024. a success. good times. pleased with my new sketchbook. moved by the performances. love how it's constantly evolving. looking forward to next year.

#that fucking handskirt remains the coolest thing I own (purchased at a previous ball -- Jan 2020 in fact) #really love how my dyed skirts are building out the rest of the outfit - improving it bit by bit every year #the creator of the belt stopped me in the hall- moved by the sight of one of her old creations still in use #(she stressed that she'd moved on from re-using the pants- ignoring my attempt to highlight I enjoyed that bit) #wild to think there's still new bits of the building to explore #edwardian ball #photography #my shoes hurt this year so I camped out on Sunday on the edge of the stage.... and was rewarded

[heliosphere-underthesky]

☉ [SUN] Emperor Helios

2017 vs 2019 vs 2023

#art #emperor helios #sun #sun gijinka #space gijinka #solar system gijinka #gijinka #solar system #space #art improvement #actually #i still think he may have peaked in 2019 #2023 was an attempt to get back at the style again #with the new art techniques i've learned through the years #while 2019 feels more visually appealing to me in terms of anatomy and facial structure #it was a direct study of alucard from harmony of despair but as helios #whereas 2023 is a study of the 2019 piece with many alterations with my more solid art style #i have come to embrace my semi chibi art stemming from my megaman zero days in 2000's and kny this 2020's #and is meant to be a comic panel rather than a standalone piece. so definitely less attention to intricate details #tag commentary

[skitskatdacat63]

Comparing my characters' most recent art to their first art makes me feel like a proud parent 😭😭😭 I can't believe how far they're come 🥹

#sorry just got a bit emo cause i realized some of their 'birthdays' were recently #one of my characters turned six years old a month ago #and then another turned three at the beginning of this month!! #its weird to even compare to a year ago #bcs even if i dont draw nearly as much as i did when i was younger i still have improved vast amnts #like youll look back at some art you remember being really good #and its not bad or anything but you compare it to your recent work #and its just like oh! wow! i didnt realize! #i think i just really have no sense of time passing #especially since the 2020s began...its just one big block of time #but yeah AAHHHHHHHHHH it just makes me happy #like just the fact that ive been drawing them for so long and still! #i can remember designing them in the first place 🥹 #i wonder what younger catie would think #but yeah no i think its funny bcs your memory of drawing it is like 'wow this is peak art i cant improve from this' #and six years on you look at it like wow! its really been a while ;;;;; #but idk just very fond of how ive stuck by them and theyre w me i guess #probably personifying them in a way that seems deranged but #idc they are my beloveds <3 #happy late birthdays :) #also going to post some oc art today :) hope you guys like it! #im happy to get to talk abt them bcs its like im in a fandom by myself bcs i think abt them so often 😭 #catie.rambling.txt

[scottie-draws-sometimes]

I don’t know how, but recently I started thinking about ye old early dsmp and L’Manburg and all that good stuff so here’s a doodle dump

I know some people really hate dsmp, or think it’s cringe, or whatever else. But it’s honestly what got me through most of the pandemic. Not to mention the mutuals I met on here through it!! So no matter what, it holds a little special place in my heart :]]

#I am really tired today #but the grind never stops (I love making and posting art :3) #maybe I show redraw some old things from 2020 #I think I’ve improved a lot since then #so it would be pretty cool to see!! #anyways hope this isn’t too cringe for you guys #I may be cringe but I am free!!!!!!! motto for life!!!!!!! #dsmp #dsmp fanart #lmanburg #uhhhhh what are the fuckin tags again #c!tommy #<- would they still be like this??? idk I hope so #let me know if I’m wrong #c!tubbo #c!niki #Crab Doodles #also don’t mind how long it took me to actually search up niki to figure out her hair -_- #I’m just a little lazy sometimes but I figured it out in the end!!

[tinyfantasminha]

2!! How long have you been drawing _(:3」z)_

from this ask game

2. How long have you been drawing?

For as long as I remember !! 😳 ever since i was a kid I've always loved doodled and drawing and luckily my family were always very supportive of it (๑˘ᵕ˘) I got into drawing animanga style thanks to one alice in wonderland manga I had (during 2010? i think) I loved the artstyle so much that I would copy and draw the panels 😳

I only got into digital art in 2015 since that's when I got my first wacom tablet (and it lasted until LAST YEAR, this bad boy has been with me for 7 years, thanks for your services soldier 🫡 )

UTTERLY CURSED, but here are some of my first digital art from my cringy middle school era 😷

OK IM. still a bit fond of these lesbian OCs I had 😭😭 I created them in 2013 before I even started digital art

#shout out to the lesbians ocs i abandoned them years ago but i hope theyre still happy lol #seeing my art folder with art from 2020-2015 is an experience #ngl i genuinely believe I did a huge fuckin leap once I got into twst and started to draw almost exclusively twst fanart #drawing characters with complex designs over and over again does wonders to improve your art lol #im seeing my art pre-2020 art and thinking HOW DID I THOUGHT THAT WAS ACCEPTABLE #answered ask #ask game

[inexplicably-spookified]

some recent facepics + comparisons to their old versions (and also chaco's there)

#cave story #my ocs #scribblins #too lazy to tag everyone... maybe i'll edit it later #the old versions are from 2sagi story #and were made in like... 2020? #i think? #probably around that time anyway #wild to see how much i've improved lol

[copepods]

art summaries for the past two years! i feel like i’ve been distinctly Lacking in motivation for a lot of this year and it’s caused a drop in quality in a lot of my art.. but eh what can ya do

#text #i still think ive improved since 2021! but much less so than i did from 2021-2020 #like i feel like my art from this month is much the same that it was in january

[gamebunny-advance]

2022 Tumblr Top 10

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#tumblrtop10 #long post #i doubt i'm gonna post anything that'll break these numbers before the end of the year so i might as well do this now #gbunny draws #not a bad year i suppose #though i can't really think of anything i was particularly proud of this year #nothing really went viral but at least my most popular post wasn't a shit post #so i'm gonna consider that improvement #i can't find my post from last year #i know i made one because i remember commenting that i was surprised that laser piss was from that year #so i only have 2020 to compare to #and yeah compared to that year this is pitiful #but still not bad #i'm surprised that something from just a month ago is in my top 10 #but i do like those drawings of kliff/may/tati so i'm happy with that #oddloop 10/10 didn't do nearly as well as i'd hoped for the amount of time i sunk into it #but it just be that way sometimes~ #i do wonder if the notes combined from both XIO posts would have elevated it about the malt shop series though #i had to repost that one since it wasn't showing up in the tags #but the version that's up there is the one where i'm basically begging people to reblog it ;3; #i guess that means begging works but i don't like guilt tripping y'all into doing that #i believe that if you like it you'll reblog it on your own accord #ah. i decided to look up my posts from last year #and the most notes i got (that wasn't a shit post) had 244 hits (for my cheery cherry cardigan) #i guess 245 is about the best i can do when i'm not getting a meme boost~

[fooltofancy]

for a yoga series with above average production value the sound design for this bad boy is just so, so bad. this woman turns her head five degrees and they absolutely lose everything she says, and then proceed to do nothing about it.

#there's years of this btw #it's been the same since season one #like they're filming outdoors so limitations understandable but it's constant and it's amazing #she has one mic it's pinned to the collar of her shirt #production value pretty low actually i am giving them too much credit #it just seems high for a public television yoga show #i think the improvement comes exclusively from being filmed in the 2020s and not in the nineties.

[stinkrascal]

the improvement in my posts from 2020 to now makes me so happy like seeing the difference from the 2020 halloween post to the 2022 halloween post back to back makes it so evident to me that i have in fact improved!! its just like omg!! wow!!

#it makes me happy to see how much my posts have improved #i really like my 2020 posts too!! i think theyre cute still #i wonder where my improvement will be two years from now #oh how i love this little hobby of ours friends 🎃 #one thing is for sure. my hands will never be steady enough to draw hair strands lol #honestly the simple fact that i can incorporate my sims heights into poses now is enough for me #i have this huge ass chart of everyones heights EVERYONES HEIGHTS on my pc for reference lol

[muirneach]

i hadn’t seen the 2021 top names yet that’s crazy. these fuddy duddy ass names 😭

#ive never met anyone named harper. which is interesting cause if i was born a boy my mom was gonna name me harper #anyways mostly these havent changed from 2020 but theodore is new which is what made me say fuddy duddy #i think it beat out mason? an improvement imo. i do like theodore. mason leaves much to be desired #<- YES i check it often enough to know what the top names are #my mistake mason was 11th in 2020. alexander was 10th. #alexander has had a very good run im surprised its not higher #me personally i dont care for it but thats me #i have to say i admire williams longevity. never seen it out of the top 15 since like 1850. respect #anywayssss i should go back to writing this story but i <3 names so sooo much #onomatology

[eggmeralda]

having a hyperfixation forever nostalgic of a certain time of year feels really weird when the hyperfixation was so unpleasant. like you'll have me every april/may from now on smelling the spring air like. ah........threads (1984)......

#2023 was a time i'm still not over my threads obsession #i mean it was such a bad year that watching threads twice felt like an improvement to my life #and then when i fancied bob. for some reason #what's that post about girls will be attracted to a white fence. like honestly #i still back that era though bob is a king i would die for him #it's like a tradition that every 3 aprils i will have a hyperfixation that isn't that weird but the experience is #2014. cheated on my clash obsession by being obsessed with the who and it took me like 4 months to accept my clash thing had faded #2017. read a south park fanfic that was so good i wanted to convert it text-to-speech and listen to it in the car #except i couldn't even drive yet so basically south park made me pass my driving test #2020. the secret history saved my life but then it ended quickly bc i started seeing that guy from work and then had an aromantic crisis #& didn't wanna think about anything recent so i descended back into 2017 and became obsessed with south park Again #and then 2023. when things were going so badly that threads became my comfort film and now i forever associate spring with nuclear war #can't wait for april 2026 like. absolutely unreal #ramble

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday