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I end up making busts more often than anything else. Faces are just my favorite part to focus on!

#my art #art practice #goblin things #art

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REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.

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I’m on the furry side all the way

ALRIGHT FOLKS

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skrunkles I forgot to post

also please tell me you all have seen that “social battery” pin that trended on twitter a while ago I’m sick

#persona #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 #p5r #p5 royal #persona 5 joker #ren amamiya #this is so cute! #i love your art style so much

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That dino is so cute! I draw a lot. Mostly just doodles tho. In pink because it’s the best sketch color

I love crocheting it makes me feel like a damn craftsmen, a yarn wizard, summoner of toys and other useless objects. Like this, look at this little dinosaur. Eat your heart out Jurassic park. Catch this hook

Did you see this post? Tell me about your hobby. Show me the fruits of your labor. If you want to. No pressure.

#crafts #my art #sketches #dinosaurs #legend of zelda #this is how things look when you refuse to use references

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ocarina of time: adulthood

#i love this so much

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it's been said before and i'm sure said better than i can phrase it. but really, really - if you like making "i'm going to kill myself" jokes, please try switching to being ironically conceited instead.

anytime something goes wrong, say things like "ah well at least i'm beautiful and charming and everyone loves me." when you forget something, try "my big huge brain is so smart and thinking about too many other very big wizardly thoughts you wouldn't even understand." when you're frustrated by one of your symptoms, start talking like you're in My Immortal. "Life has come for me but my eyes are beautiful pools of gorgeous fire and my hair is amazing. I stuck my middle finger up at life and told it to fuck off and it did."

just... try it for a month or two. try saying the most absurdly self-congratulatory shit you can think of.

i know it's tempting to make suicide or self-harm jokes. and for me at least, a decade ago (!) when someone suggested i stop making those kinds of jokes, i was kind of at a loss for what to replace them with. i wanted to make light of these moments, but genuinely (at the time) my first thought really was suicidal ideation. there was a part of me that even felt like ... i was kind of "making light" of that voice. that if i could say i want to die lol, it would help take the sting out of that genuine (albeit passive) desire. like i could turn my illness into a joke.

when i started complimenting myself instead, it felt awkward and stupid. it felt really, really ironic. what i was actually saying was nobody would ever think this stuff about me, that's what makes it so fucking funny.

but. the effect was immediate. first thing i noticed was the people around me. when i dropped a glass and said ah my skin is too beautiful and sleek the glass has swooned and broken for me, other people were suddenly overjoyed to jump in with the joke. rather than making an awkward moment, we'd both start cracking up. ah princess sleek hands, i've heard of you.

i was 19. i hadn't noticed i'd been making others tense when i said i want it all to end. i know now that it's incredibly hard to know how to walk that moment - do you talk to them about your concern? do you potentially make them uncomfortable by asking if they're okay? do you ignore the situation? do you help them pick up the glass, or do they need to do it by themselves? are they genuinely made suicidal over this small moment? and most importantly, how do you - without professional training or supplies - actually help?

most people want to help you pick up the glass in your life, they just have no fucking idea how to do it. they don't want to make anything worse. they don't want to make assumptions about you. they love you, they're scared for you - and being scared makes people kind of freeze up. it's not because they don't love you. it's because they do.

now when something bad happens, my first thought is how can i make a stupid joke about this. it isn't my brain saying you're a dumb fucking bitch. i spend more time laughing. i spend more time being gentle with myself. i spend more time feeling good.

and the thing is - what's kind of funny - is that you'd be surprised by how many people agree with you. the first time i said i'm too pretty to understand that, someone else said to be fair you're the prettiest person in this room. i promise - you really don't know how kindly your friends see you. but they love you for a reason. they sort of reverse-velveteen-rabbit you. your weird and ugly spots fade away and you just become... the love they want to give you.

go love yourself ironically. the worst thing that happens is that you end up tricking your reflection into actually loving you.

#nothing but truth

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I decided to mess around with colored lineart and I ended up with this! I really like how the colors turned out

#my art #coloring the lines #art practice

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My cat is way too much of a gremlin to look this regal in real life

#my art #cat art #my cat is an adorable ball of hate and hunger

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I’m so bad about posting art anywhere (mostly because I never finish any), but I’m gonna try to do it more! This was just supposed to be a quick pose study, but it got away from me and I actually like how it turned out!

#my art #artists on tumblr #art practice #backgrounds are hard #Don’t look at the feet

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The genuine distress on that cat shirt’s face in panel 3 gives me life.

Cooking with my partner!

#it’s expression doesn’t even change #the forehead lines just look like eyebrows there #incredible expressive talent

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These colors make my eyes bleed in the best possible way

Meet Spider-Clown, your friendly neighborhood prankster 🔴🔵🟡

#across the spiderverse #tw eyestrain #spiderverse #colorful #blindingly colorful

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I’m back home from Reddit and everything’s familiar and different at the same time. It’s great!

Anyone else feel like you and a few other new redditors became mutuals and we’re all just reblogging tumblr history and shit like some sort of fucked up shitpost study group so we don’t look like wild animals in front of everybody except you find out they kind of like it if you’re a wild animal

#reddit migration #reddit #I don’t remember how to tumblr but I’m learning

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Wanted to figure out how chimera’s wrote and ended up starting on their written language proper. MASSIVE info dump below! 

Keep reading

#neography #i constantly have to stop myself from spending days making new writing systems that nobody else will ever see #the emotion/subject split is so cool

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YOU CREATE YOU, ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL?

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knight and princess

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he’s right