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To those who think they're "working hard" and spending "lots of time" (like 90 minutes, i've heard) typing prompts into AI to make "art" -

More than time gets sacrificed when creating the art you feel entitled to plagiarize. While pain and suffering isn't and should never be a pre-requisite for making art, it is inevitably experienced by most artists (physically & mentally) due to the taxing nature of creation.

Michelangelo, when working on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, wrote this letter to Giovanni Da Pistoia:

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This is just a small taste of the daily physical & mental experiences of artists, as they create the work you steal with a click of a button. Yet, our struggles are overcome by our personal love for creation, and we endure it for as long as it takes for us to complete our craft.

Can you do the same? Or is this all just a trendy, instantly gratifying gimmick to you?

#delete later #im in a bad mood because of my phd #btw “My painting is dead” is such a haunting line when you look at the sistine chapel and just how amazing it is

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Digitized and coloured some sketchbook pages :D

[Dandelion Children] This new character is Pepper, Neppie's non-identical twin separated during their childhood. While Neppie was trained by their (immortal) dad as an alchemist, Pepper's upbringing with their mother leads him down a very different path in life.

Pepper's physical prowess makes him a dangerous enemy to have. Together with Neppie's resilience, the two make a great team - if only they were aware of each other's existence.

More Dandelion Children posts here

#dandelion children #tweaked their designs so it's more practical #Also i'm thinking about writing the story rather than drawing a comic #it's more practical and tbh i really don't like multi-page comics #will illustrate a large portion of it but yeah don't think a comic is right

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2024 sketchbook 1

Finally finished a sketchbook that had been sitting in my childhood home for 8 years 😅 I first started it in 2016 but ripped the first few pages out and never touched it again until January this year.

Eyeliner drawings from life because I left my pens at home xD

Dandelion Children character sketches:

Study of Yuri!! on Ice (opening animation)

While painting my Hollow Knight illustration, I actually had to use the skull to figure out what was going on with Grimm's head xD

Exploring some thumbnails for a portrait assignment

More Dandelion Children

Lots of skull drawings (I tried scanning all of it but the printer wouldn't take it haha;;;;)

More drawings from life

Thoughts: At NMA we were always told that sketchbooks were private things, and should be a place to explore ideas, media, write notes, and anything we wanted. But so is my diary; I think these reasons don't have any appeal for me to keep a physical sketchbook.

As a digital artist, the sketchbooking habit truly stuck for me when I began pulling ideas out of my sketchbook and turning them into solid illustrations and ideas on the digital canvas. I began to reap the benefit of of using markers to figure out silhouettes in character design, having really small & non-zoomable canvases to do thumbnails on, and just having a bunch of fun with physical materials.

Anyway, thanks for reading!!

#personal #sketchbook

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The king is dead (?); Long live the king

I wanted to depict Maglor's coronation. This is probably before in the absence of nelyafinwe

#once again this is for the politics #i give you: king maglor #still vibing with short hair maglor after feanor & nelyafinwe's passing #maglor #the silmarillion #this is kinda really sloppy but i fulfilled my quota for march

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I made this house shield for the academy, only to find out that European house shields don't look like this... ok, that is my bad. I put a lot of time & effort into it and I still like it but never in my life have i misunderstood an assignment as horribly as this one. I blame my Asian heritage for this blunder.

#original #i feel fucking awful about this #and here i thought i had a cool-ass design... this must be hubris

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"Just a Fat Grandma" sits in her treehouse all day feasting with her tiny animal friends, but there is much more than meets the eye.

She will make an important appearance in Dandelion Children ^-^

Premise sketches:

#dandelion children #i reworked this so many times... #original

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Hermes, god of trickery

Details ↓

#greek gods #hermes #figure painting #artistic nudity #first time figure painting in a long time!! #i think i got slightly better than last year...SLIGHTLY

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Hey, I'm so exited that you are back with dandelion children!! I'm really looking forward to learning more about the characters and the story!!

And I'm really touched to hear that you still remember Dandelion Children after so long - it really motivates me to continue working on it. Thank you friend!!

#askbox #i'll also be back with more fandom stuffs!!

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I'm excited to say that after two years of little to no progress, Dandelion Children will finally be getting some pretty meaningful updates this year ^-^

Although most pre-existing characters will stay, their designs have all undergone significant changes and the plot will focus on Neppie's journey rather than Rahn's final days. New characters will also begin showing up in the next few months :) You can check out the Dandelion Children tag on my blog to see previous characters designs and story concepts.

My art goal for 2024 is to tell more stories, and I'm really excited to share with everyone what I've been working on for a while now :) I'm grateful for those who still remember Dandelion Children & hope it isn't too late to begin pushing the story out! xD

#dandelion children #original #neppie's design is finally solid #which is why this news is coming out only now #I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN MORE THAN TWO YEARS #ANYWAY having a solid protagonist design gives me more confidence to say the project is going ahead #also lots of new characters i've been drafting!! can't begin to describe just how excited and nervous i am for this #not sure if i'll have time this year to start drawing a comic etc #but at least there will be Progress to be made xD

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sketching some of my old feanorian week submissions

#my recent endeavors have made me realise i Do Not enjoy drawing heads and portraits at all #which might be why i'm so bad at drawing faces #i never practice them asdkfsjdfgdfhg #silmarillion #ALSO i just realised this but my design for grown up ambarussa actually SLAPS i might make something new out of that

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The Troupe Master meets his Dear Wyrm in the City of Tears, and inspects his finest craft.

Illustration notes

The concept is to draw a meeting between Grimm, the Pale King, and the Hollow Knight. It's a bit difficult to translate from bug to human because sometimes it's not clear if a design element is the bug's body or the clothes they wear.

In the future I think I would design the Hollow Knight with pale hair (as with the Pale King) but for the purposes of this illustration & clarity, they have dark hair.

The dialogue I keep thinking about during this scene is "Fine craft, dear wyrm."

#hollow knight #troupe master grimm #pale king #pure vessel #btw this is pure vessel because maybe they're not tainted yet #translating the character design from bug to human is fun xD

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Studies of the skull and deep muscles of the face, drawn in the Russian academic method

Graphite on sketchbook paper

#studies #anatomy #cw: cadaver #cw: skulls

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Before year is out I want to share one last (unfinished) painting sketch - I explored the concept of the judgement of Feanor.

In the new year, I want to complete more polished work. It's a pity because I put a lot of time and thought into my preparatory studies, but my self-confidence plummeted so much this year, I only managed to finish a couple of illustrations. This is a truly awful thing, so I really hope I can apply all the fundamental studies I have been doing this year into the work I enjoy creating.

Thank you guys the support this year - it is a privilege for me to show my work here. Wishing everyone all the best in the new year :)

#the silmarillion #abandoned painting

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Tonal and still life studies I did in the past couple of months 😁

graphite on drawing paper | charcoal on toned paper

#still life #studies

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pumpkin speedpaint (1hr CSP)

The challenge was to only use the hard round brush for this xD

#digital painting #pumpkin #trying my best to stop copying the goddamn reference

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This is such a lovely moodboard! Captures the vibe I was going for in my illustration. Really love the flashes of colour against a muted environment. Thank you so much for this treat!! ❤️

Moodboard Treats | @tolkienrsb

Here's a small moodboard treat for @navyinks' amazing art, Healer in Training! I fell in love early in the exchange and have been holding on to it since, and have been so excited for @grundyscribbling's wonderful fic, cannot recommend both artist and author enough.

#reblog #moodboard

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It's September, and you know what that means - @tolkienrsb!

Story: See How They Grow by Grundy

Art: @navyinks’ gorgeous art is here

Rating: G

Warnings: mention of past canon-typical violence/battles

Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor

Relationships: Maedhros & Elrond, Maedhros & Maglor, Elrond & Elros

Word count: 11,705

Summary: Elrond wasn't born a great healer. Some would have said living among Feanorians was an unlikely place to start that journey. (Maglor probably would have agreed with them.)

#about to sit down and read this masterpiece 😁