#one of the artists i follow does that

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

"You've been broken and reformed..." "Do you really think a monster like you could be a Voltron Paladin?" "Crystal Venom " lives rent free in my head. Shiro spends that episode making so many exceptionally distressed expressions.

#voltron #vld #shiro #takashi shirogane #shiro voltron #my art #artists on tumblr #OUGH that episode OAUGH like episodes of all time tbh for the haunted castle for everything allura does for klance for sendak for shiro jus #this started from me planning a different drawing and rewatching the episode and taking a few screenshots then i was like maybe ill warm up #with some sketches of screenshots and then i had like 15 screenshots and then i narrowed it down and then i started coloring and i always #switch from low to high effort with coloring and then i thought of the broken glass for the background but realized it would be SICK in the #foreground and then this happened #the outline in a light color is a new thing i wanted to try bc i follow ssavaart on youtube and he outlines things in white and i thought i #would see and it looked SICK with this one #this was a marathon 5 hour drawing

[unnamed-proxy]

CANNON ARTWORK OF SUN GETTING DRUNK ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

#btw does anyone know the username of this thumbnail artist? #I know Kiwi is the main artist but I have no idea who this one is #wanna credit them in my bio #and follow them their art-style is adorable #berryboxed #not my art

[luckylectio]

@st-hedge would u consider this an accurate representation of ur blog?

#one of my fave artists #go look at their stuff #LOZ and other pretty game art mostly its not all crying cats i promise #...why does tumblr rec blogs i already follow??

[handweavers]

sometimes i worry when writing like artist statements and that kind of stuff that i sound like a jackass and i think to a certain extent every artist does unfortunately myself included but then i read some others statements and it's like. look i'm decently well read and smart enough, but this shit is totally incomprehensible to the degree where there's no way the artist/writer even knows what they're trying to say. complete word salad

#i think grad school does something irreparably bad to some peoples ability to communicate with 99.9% of human beings #like i can watch videos where guys explain exactly how a CPU works and how to build one from scratch and i understand whats going on #there is no way this 5 sentence artist statement is legible to anybody #i can follow along with complex ideas. its just that you are not leading me anywhere lol

[nevarroes]

can i be honest i never understood artists getting so mad or hurt about breaking mutuals or whatevr. like unfollowing without soft blocking or actually blocking

#its always giving insta mentality to me #not artist insta private one w the “im not ur fan remove me” #most mutual follows happen because i liked someones art nd they liked mine why does it matter so much if one party stops #like maybe smth u draw just makes me uncomfortable. maybe i just dont fw ur current fandom why do we make it SO personal #u couldnt pay me to care that much unless we actually were friends nd talked before and not just mutuals #im not saying that u cant feel hurt about unreasonable things right but the fact that this is the default idk…. idk dawg #maybe someone just doesnt like the art anymore im sorry why do u always assume its max level malicious #i also say artists specifically because i feel like that? should not just be about the person? #if someone doesnt like my art anymore (without straight up hating ME) I still like theirs like why r u guys always so petty

[puppyeared]

how. do u sona....

#i want to give myself a solid sona that. isnt just me with puppy dog ears and a tail slapped on but its hardddd #i want to make like a snowman that can change shape but it keeps certain features like branch antlers and a carrot nose #for consistency yk. but im struggling to find a balance between smth i like drawing and smth that looks like me #how often does one's sona resemble the artist irl.. for one i dont have bangs but i love drawing characters with bangs #so its just an internal conflict on if i should give my sona bangs if i dnt have them but love drawing them. etc etc #maybe im thinking abt this too hard bc nobody really knows what i look like anyway and i can do what i want anyway #but i get hung up on small details like that. like im worrying abt stuff like damn how tf am i gonna draw a snowman in the summer #girl... its a fuckig drawing.... follow your heart. but also HOW. i cant even draw myself with bangs bc it feels like im lying augh auuhggg #its 4 am im too tired for this. im goig to bed #my art #myart #doodles #wip

[xhanisai]

I usually don’t like talking about fandom salt in public because I like to keep my social media places free of negativity but right now I feel like this needs to be said.

I’m mixed race with Chinese and Tibetan roots who lives in Europe. People like me rarely get any positive reputation in animation or film and in real life, we’re often mocked by other people including our families. So seeing and knowing Marinette being mixed race too and also European? I’m so happy to find such an amazing and wonderful character as someone I can relate with.

And then I see entitled non-mixed race people (especially from America surprise surprise) bitching about how she’s not Chinese enough. How they don’t find her relatable. How she would have been better written if the creative team had a Chinese woman with them.

Of course you won’t find her relatable. She’s MIXED RACE. Not 100% Chinese. You people don’t realise it but you’re invalidating mixed race people with thoughtless rants and declarations like that. Comparing Marinette to fully Chinese characters isn’t fair at all. She shouldn’t have to have stereotypical facial features or habits or life style just to prove she is half Chinese.

Just stop being such little bitches for fucks sake.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #ml fandom salt #Marinette dupain cheng #I’ve been taken the piss out of since childhood for my Chinese features from both classmates and family members #I even struggle with culture dysphoria to this day #it’s such a headache #it’s why Marinette is also someone I can relate with so well #we both don’t speak mandarin #and my family stopped speaking out generations ago but that’s besides the point #we both follow a European lifestyle #we’re both artists! #my cousin has blue grey eyes! no one else in the family does! #and so much more

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[sonknuxadow]

i want to make it extremely clear that when i say idw sonic haters are annoying im not talking about people who simply dont like idw sonic or think that some storylines could have been handled better or dont care for some of the characters. i am specifically talking about people who hate idw sonic and are super aggressive about it and constantly complaining about it and throwing huge tantrums over small things like song lyrics being used in the dialogue or the characters making funny expressions or silvers eyes being drawn too rounded or amy being strong. or saying disgusting things about the writers and artists or making fun of people for liking idw sonic and going on random idw sonic posts and writing a long ass rant about how much you hate the comic. basically its ok to not like idw sonic just be normal about it please. if you hate the comics That much why are you constantly posting about them

#also its totally fine to dislike the work of certain sonic writers or artists or voice actors or whoever #but you have to remember that theyre just random people trying to do their job #yet some of you talking about them like theyre cartoon supervillains that are singlehandedly ruining the franchise on purpose?? #also a lot of them are on social media too and theres a very real chance they could see the stuff youre saying about them #like does anyone else remember when that one guy unironically wished death upon ian flynn and ian himself saw it #im not saying to never criticize them. just to be respectful about it #i just wanna make this clear because i know some of my followers and mutuals in law dont like idw sonic. i am not talking about you #from what i have seen you are all normal about it

[peevishpants]

ok what the hell is "jerma"? why are so many people on my dash reblogging jerma jokes? it looks like the most regular-looking guy... i fully don't understand whatever level of irony or humour you jerma rebloggers are on. While part of me is like Stay Away Do Not Investigate This the other part of me is like But I Wanna Know Why People Like It To Such A Fervent Degree

#most of the people i follow on here are like artists and irl friends #but somehow jerma seeps in... #i know im too old for this #i assumed he was one of those minecraft influencers but ive never seen him in a minecraft post #its always some shit like “jerma as a girl” or just unrelated posts tagged as Jerma #ive scrolled past so many inexplicable jerma-associated posts by now that i feel the need to address it #words #what does jerma bring to the table that is so appealing

[causticsunshine]

wanted to share the sentiment here too but didn't feel like rewriting the whole thing lmao so here are some Thoughts i had last night on twt regarding my weird relationship with my art whilst being in fandom:

i know i've definitely talked about this kind of thing in the past but it's been a very recent development that i actually understand what's been going on with me and why i've picked up this habit of letting a fandom i'm in / a piece of media i'm really into fully dictate my creative drive. like, just because i'm very interested or invested in something, it doesn't mean i necessarily feel inspired by it or inspired by it for the duration that it holds my interest, and forcing myself to create relative art or fic or what have you for the vested interest(s) has both dampened my desire to be creative as well as my imagination. i know a lot of people can be super into something or a few random things at once and that can keep them going for ages without them running out of ideas, but in my case, things that hold my interest aren't always synonymous with my creativity and i'm just now learning that despite how obvious it seems!

i also imagine i'm not the only person who functions like this but i personally haven't seen it spoken about very often (if it even needs to idk), so i wanted to bring it up / talk about it a little bit :)

#art things #alex talks #if you've been following me for awhile or at least saw this coming before i did: does it not at all seem obvious lmao #i think the guilt i was feeling for so long over it being my 'obligation' as an artist in any fandom to only cater to fandom was also #exacerbated by some kind of impostor syndrome like... wait why is this so easy for other people also into x but not me? #makes sense now why i seem to lose steam so fast when i'm making work for one thing at a time only #i need to spice it up!! even if i come back to something eventually i can't force it! #thank u adhd my behated for another extension of my executive dysfunction but i guess #i will learn to work with it :) shedding the guilt has been the hardest part and ik i'll still struggle at times to be inspired or feel #like i need to be doing something specific to cater to other people rather than go with what drives me at the moment but #that's ok! that's life! #here's to me making a lot more art / general creative stuff 🫡 i hope the utter randomness of what i have in store #appeases at least one other person 🫶 #sidenote 1d fics will still be eventually finished but 1d art.... we'll have to see bc of the ipad wipe :') #also haven't been in the mood for awhile tbh! been into another stuff and less generally hyperfixated (thank god) #anyway onto better days and more creation!!

[thisisadecisionimayregret]

what are the rules at a nude figure drawing class, apparently I'll be attending one wednesday cause it's the only time I can meet up w my friend and her partner while its in town, and y'all. I have scribbled and at times I might have even doodled, but I don't draw and certainly haven't drawn a nude person before. and any drawing class would've been anxiety inducing for me, especially as a setting for meeting a new person who seems super cool and who I'd like to make a good impression on, but this is just gonna be another level of uncomfortable for me ngl. would it be rude to bring a coloring book and some shitty crayola colored pencils while the ppl around me actually do the drawing they're there to do.

#this isnt even a 'oh i couldnt possibly be an artist' like i don't need to be told its ok for my stuff to suck cause it'll improve later #like i know my stuff will suck and thats fine. drawing just isnt an artistic pursuit i'm interested in or have an affinity for #i just dont know what is or isnt ok in that space. like i'd have a great time if i brought embroidery to do but like. #is that disrespectful to the model and/or the ppl drawing? does that change if i try to embroider the figure in question? #is this a talk in whispers situation. is this a ppl are concentrzting place. or is it like music playing socializing as you draw #idk maybe handling the uncomfy place/situation would be easier or less anxiety inducing if it wasnt combined w the anxiety that #comes from Meeting Important Person #i could do one or the other w only a little difficulty but both at the same time is sendinh my brain into freakout mode #samantha talks #fr tho artist mutuals/followers any advice here would be so appreciated

[pyriteplates]

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#orikero #nururu #hey did you guys know thay trying to render leather is hell on earth? #i follow this one artist who does it so effortlessly. i thought i could absorb their knowledge #i could nott

[signanothername]

Hello to the 1k followers i have now

#idk how to express feelings so the art does it for me <3 #i don’t get as much interaction even with that many followers #<— just how i like it btw #i get anxious when I’m well known and such idk why dhhdhdhdh #it’s nice to be that one artist in the corner with only a few eyes looking at me dhhdhdh #anothers ramble

[amiscreations]

Kinda got a tattoo based on my favourite Def Leppard album🥰 Slang will always be one of the coolest Leppard eras, and a lot of the songs on that album mean a lot to me💜

it was done by the amazing Tommy Oh! check him out on insta, his designs are incredible and its such a privilege to be able have a piece of his artwork with me forever🥰

#btw this isn't my first tattoo lmao I have a bunch #including one other leppard tattoo which I cant remember if ive shared or not #ive been following this artist for literal years now #and its funny bc as soon as I saw the slang video for the first time I thought of him #iykyk #bc he does a lot of similar designs with the TV heads #and it was just meant to be #so so happy with how this turned out too the idea just came together so naturally #even the broken heart represents all of the themes about real heartbreak in the album #the clothing is more casual representing the stripped back approach to the recording #both those things are total coincidences btw which I only realised after bsfdjfjhk #and yes it hurt like a bitch 🙃 #Def Leppard #Def Leppard tattoos #tattoos #Slang #Def Leppard Slang #Slang Album