#I'm self-taught

[farah-o-0]

my first animation🥹

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fan animation #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel valentino #Vox #Valentino #voxval #staticmoth #I'm so tired #I worked 5 days on this #but it was worth it #selftaught #self taught artist #I wrote screenshot instead of click noises #I’m so dumb #I’m so sorry #It was 2 am and I was tired

[lazylittledragon]

please look at how cute my new tattoos are!!!

#ramble #calling them my eddie tattoos >:)) #also my first hand pokes and 12/10 would do it again #my artist was self taught so i'm making some Plans

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

here's the first animation i ever did!!! just a simple little moth

#nothing too special! #I'm entirely self taught so I'm still getting the hang of things but i have some animations in progress hehe #gif #moths #bugs #since y'all wanted to see <3

[mistfallengw2]

Learning quickness builds is quick and easy, they said

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 fan submission #charr #sylvari #my ocs #gw2 ocs #my art #mistfallen #Aurelia #Aurelia Dragonwings #Maeveryl #Deryn #Adamas Crystalsoul #over the past few months I managed to sit down and learn how to decently play some builds. quickness ones were the ones I memed the most #I'm actually having a lot of fun but retaining information sometimes is a neurospiced struggle #for the record they are all exagerated. Deryn and Adamas are quite competent in spite of being self-taught. Mae doesn't have that much - #-fun usually. Aurelia knows basic math. #quickness family woohoo (technically quickness poly pod. Aurelia is in the “alac-quick switch” couple with Ellara) #broken doodles with no care for the OCs' proper designs shall cure my “first try perfectionism”. right? right???

[non-un-topo]

My Neekeys over the last two-odd years. I was curious to see the changes 🤔

#forgive the low quality dfghfds it was just an experiment #now to do the DRAW ANYONE ELSE challenge #siggy draws #he is my blorbo. my muse. i guess #don't get me wrong. i am CRINGING and SWEATING at just the thought of uploading this. #have i been drawing almost every day my entire life? yes. does my style still change all the time? yes! #and i'm mostly self-taught so i struuuuggle a lot. i'll finally admit that reference pictures help immensely. no shit lol. #i learned a lot in the last 2 years!!! there are some really ugly ones i didn't show but i kept the cringe old ones sdfghfds help. #i mean they're still here on tumblr so i can't exactly hide them #you can kind of see when i actually started to use reference pictures. and when i got more used to using a tablet #idk digital art is so hard. it's a whole other world. but i'm in it now and haven't drawn traditionally in forever #i can also literally see how i used to CRUSH my nibs while drawing. all those really thin lines?? i pressed too hard lol #i've actually kept all my nibs since i started drawing digitally and....... it's too many fghfds #that one slightly more realistic nicky in the bottom right of the first collage lmaooo. i should finish him... maybe... it's haaard. #the top right on the first collage and bottom right on the second one are good comparisons ;_; they're both pirate!nico gifts for lily!! #i'm feeling sentimental now omg

[uncanny-tranny]

A lot of people may scoff at the notion, but when you truly start learning more and more, you realize the binary between "you are disabled and I can recognize you as such" and "you are barely disabled, if that, and I can tell" are false dichotomies.

You will never completely understand the intricacies of somebody's disability, and even the most simple of disabilities ("simple" in the ableist way) can easily become life-threatening to a person, and vice versa. There's this glorification of the self for so many people that's done in such a way that their word feels like law, even if it robs others their own words.

#disability #i've probably talked about this before #but so many people take the idea of 'i can always tell' and make it almost an entire doctrine #it's the same mentality that makes people go 'i can ALWAYS tell trans people from the normal ones!' and they harass a cis butch #because what you're fundamentally doing is reaffirming the biases you were taught and then broadly applying them even when... #...it doesn't make sense or actively silences others. the doctrine of the self becomes too important becase it feels like that's your ego... #...that's YOU and YOU know best right? YOU know what 'should' and 'should not' disable people right? #and i think it's a natural response when you might not havs expanded your worldview and challenged it #so i'm not going to attack an individual for that but it does reinforce previously instilled biases

[hotasfahrenheit]

I'm worried about you, First.

[Twins, episode 5]

#Sprite is so smitten and is too dumb to realise it #i like the grumpy ones too buddy i totally get it #“i wanna be his friend” no my dude you wanna be his boyfriend and you'll figure that out soon i'm sure #the colouring is a nightmare but there was no good way to not make First be blue with the things i currently know about colour fixing #if i made him not blue then i lost all the colour in the background which is part of what makes these so pretty with the colour contrast #i have limited tools and am self taught but i'm getting better so like here we are #twins the series #firstsprite #twins bl #frame ritchanon #ryan panya #mia gifs things #mia gifs twins things #mia gifs drama things

[a-very-smooth-boltzmann-brain]

Me going to sleep knowing that there's so much stuff to learn in the world and it doesn't matter if I fail at first, eventually I'll get there.

#yeah no self depreciation today #aka i just finished writing a code and I'm feeling good about myself #just wholesome thoughts #striking me once every 35375 days #dark academia #philosophy #light academia #coding #codeblr #cs50 #math studyblr #physicsblr #:) for now #actually cs50 actually taught me one important thing and that is how to sit my ass down and learn stuff #and i needed it #happy monday #now i sleep #computer science

[youjustwaitsunshine]

genuinely so sorry if i didn't list your craft! feel free to elaborate about your craft and projects in the tags and notes ❤️

#I'm trying to learn how to make bobbin lace #i can do most of these in a mediocre fashion but it's like 90% self taught #i can knit and crochet pretty well. sewing with and without pattern (mostly i micarah tewers it) #embroidery felting weaving and macrame are like low level but im having fun with it

[theoscout]

MADD? No problem! Get EMPLOYED to go EXPLORE the FUCKING BACKROOMS!!

🧱🧱🧱

🧱you can already walk for hours without getting tired!

🧱what else are you going to fucking spend your time doing? :D walking????

🧱you're so disconnected from reality that you aren't even bothered when reality STARTS BREAKING! :D

🧱run in ONE DIRECTION forever and get to act out ALL YOUR WILDEST DAYDREAMS without EVER needing to pace in circles!

🧱an IMMERSIVE but NON DISTRACTING environment that you can improvise your daydream around!

🧱no one will hear you scream :)

🧱or laugh. or shout. or whisper. or sing. or any other noise that you want to make when you're dreaming

🧱no one's around to distract you from the longest dreams you'll ever have

🧱sure there's entities to worry about but who cares, AT LEAST THEY CAN BE SOLVED BY RUNNING AWAY!! unlike your dwindling life :)

🧱open spaces!! empty spaces!!! run around fast and don't wave between furniture!! there is no furniture!!!!!! you are free to go where you want!

🧱'you are alone' is a thing that you'll be happy aboutttt

🧱if you're an introvert you'd be fucking UNSTOPPABLE

🧱🧱🧱

#the backrooms #backrooms #liminal #madd #maladapting daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydreaming #my post #actually madd #my writing #liminal spaces #fun fact: liminal spaces don't scare me #idk why but they just don't scare me #I had to be taught what a liminal space was and they still don't scare me #and yeah this is a callout post for myself #except for the introvert part #I'm an ambivert #so I'd like a computer or something #caps tw #tw self deprecation

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

yeah i can’t stop thinking about the parallels between hearth and alex’s backstories… they were both born into a life that, under slightly different circumstances, would have offered them a lot of privilege. their families had a ton of money and a good social status, and hearth and alex were, in many ways, set up for success.

but there was a catalyst for each of them, something that ended up setting them up for failure instead - the way hearth’s father reacted to him being deaf and alex’s father reacted to her being trans. both of them, despite being born into a life that would have offered them plenty, ended up ostracized and shunned from their families. constantly ridiculed and criticized and blamed for something they couldn’t control and didn’t ask for, but in a better world should have been able to celebrate. hearth should have been able to celebrate his deafness and alex should have been able to celebrate her transness, but they were both robbed of that. they were robbed of their childhoods, growing up in toxic environments and spending their formative years being abused, all for some of the only people in their lives who understood them or cared about them to die.

and yet, each of them were able to cut ties and make their own way in the world. they both managed to build a better life from the ground up, bringing together a solid group of friends to spend the rest of their life (or afterlife) with. they were both taught to hate themselves, spent every day of their childhoods being mistreated by their fathers and told they were worthless, and yet in the end they both manage to undo all that and learn how to love themselves. they learn how to celebrate the very same parts of themselves that their fathers tried to stamp out, choosing instead to surround themselves by people who care about them.

additionally, they both embody the paradox of wanting to distance themselves from their parentage and yet simultaneously reclaim it. alex wants nothing to do with any of her parents, yet deliberately reclaims loki’s urnes snake symbol. hearth has no desire to be associated with his father or former life, but reclaims the rune of inheritance.

but in reclaiming their past, neither of them return to it. alex doesn't try to go back to her house after being kicked out. hearth accepts the othala rune in the end, but after his father is killed, never returns to alfheim again. they take what's theirs, leave, and never look back. so, both of their journeys ultimately involve leaving their former lives behind - giving up privilege, wealth, social status, and the acceptance of others in order to be themselves. becoming the people they want to be, rather than the people society and their fathers wanted them to be.

#anyway if you need me i'll be in the next room chewing on plywood #i never stop thinking about this #resilience and radical self-love and whatnot. identity. embracing the parts of yourself you were taught to repress etc etc #i really wish it had been explored more in canon #i have so many thoughts about hearth and othala and his father's heart & alex and her tattoo #i plan to write a separate meta about that once i'm finished rereading the books #my words #mcga #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #hearthstone #alex fierro #meta #also othala autocorrected to ithaca lmao #every time i think i'm done with this i end up adding more so i'm going to post it now lol

[thebirdandhersong]

not to be dramatic but will I ever know peace

#will i???????? #i taught this boy to waltz. i taught this boy to communicate his emotions. i taught this boy to not be afraid of vulnerability and honesty. #not to take credit for it ALL but i DID teach him some things and i know because he sure as heck did not do those things before #maybe i should get a t shirt for this. i made it through heartbreak number 3 and all i got was this shirt #not to besmirch his good name but this boy hasn't got a CLUE y'all i can't even tell you #in the same conversation he essentially said yeah you're too old for me and im not attracted to you but if you were a few years younger i'd #consider it he also said. also you're really pretty you smell really good if you want someone to dance with i'm here #and there's this dress you wore before which you look really good in so you should wear it again! #and it has been a roller coaster ever since #genuinely has NOT got a single clue i can tell he was trying hard in that conversation to not freak out but MAN #at risk of sounding self righteous i don't think i deserved half the stuff that's happened since!

[bardic-perdita]

Some more of my recent sketches that I actually like. Compared to previous drawings, these are marked improvements.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #bg3 tav #Tav! Zeke #Tav! Breoch #I guess this is a positivity post for myself #and perhaps for any other artist going through the same #I'm completely self-taught so the process is SLOW #but I'm enjoying it #bg3 kar'niss

[coffeexxcigarettes]

Always Almost Perfect

-

Spending my entire life

Being ripped apart.

If I could just fix this,

I'd be lovable.

If I could just hold my breath longer,

Hold my shoulders back further,

Hold my head higher-

I'd find

"Love".

And then when I did find connection,

He took a blade to my body.

I had no reason to struggle.

If I could just change this,

I'd be loved.

And then you.

You showed up out of nowhere,

Pulled me from the massacre with

Flowers

In your goddamned hands.

You touched my curves gently.

Not despite them,

But because of them.

Every flinch,

You'd pause,

Every time I'd hide,

You'd frown.

What the fuck is that supposed to be?

I've never felt like a caged dog,

Afraid of being pet,

Until you told me you loved me.

I've never felt like a wounded soldier,

Still holding her weapon,

Until you stood before my blade-

Ready to die,

And called me beautiful.

I've never been beautiful.

There's always something to chase,

A new size,

A new shape-

Yet you pull me from those tendencies.

You hold me in your lap.

You rip me down to the most vulnerable parts,

And even those,

Even those.

You long for?

There's not enough poetry,

About never being taught

About unconditional love.

And maybe it makes me weak to admit it,

But maybe.

Maybe I'm afraid.

x

#poets on tumblr #writing #spilled ink #poem #spilled thoughts #original poem #heartbreak #lovesick #sad thoughts #mental health #poor self image #i don't understand #i can't understand #i wasn't taught to understand #being loved #simply for being me #it makes no sense #i'm sorry #it's not something #to be fixed #poems #poetry #dark academia #tumblr writers #tumblr is my diary #vent poetry #vent post #personal vent #just for me #prose poetry

[feytouched]

there's a certain sense of existential despair as a stylized line artist trying to learn how to paint in any capacity. yeah i render my regular drawings a little but what do you mean no outlines. it breaks my brain a little and i start feeling like i once did when i was 12 and i would stare at every art piece i come across for 2 hours and marvel and the impossibility and beauty of it. anyway i think it's healthy

#even if i always remain a sketch-and-lineart gal i think it will improve my art in general to try my hand at this #doing a somersault off my comfort zone and straight into the deep end #this makes me wish i had some sort of formal training in art bc there's just. so much to learn #and i'm speaking as a professional artist! this is my everyday job! #but self-taught sometimes feels limiting yknow. i feel like i'm at the base of mt everest looking at the climb ahead #getting started is the hardest part and i know i'm gonna make lots of shitty art pieces before i Get it #which is the annoying part i've always been the sort of person who wants to be good at something right away or not at all #anyways we endure & persevere #ką sako lapė

[artvaris]

Your art is beautiful do you have any tips on how to draw faces thank youu 💖

Hi! I'm glad you enjoy my work! If you are a beginner, it is good to start from the beginner basics, such as learning the basic proportions of a face. Everyone learns a bit differently though, so use the resources that fit your learning style the best, be it YouTube videos made by professionals or art theory books, etc.

And remember to use references! When it comes to learning anatomy, here are 3 anatomy books that I've personally found educational and useful:

Morpho, anatomy for artists: Simplified Forms

Anatomy for Sculptors

My approach to drawing faces is loosely influenced by the Loomis method, but I've kind of merged various technical influences into my own process over the years. (Note: I have only included a few resources as an example since I do not wish to overwhelm folks with too much info/technical resources. Getting swarmed by all kinds of resources and information all at once can easily make you feel overwhelmed and confused.)

It's good to know the classic "rule of thumb" proportions, even if real human faces have a lot of variation depending on the person. It's still good and beneficial to know the "rules" before you bend them when you draw and stylize your characters.

The classic proportions act as your basic guidelines so to speak, which you can use to build all kinds of faces with different proportions. This previous Tumblr post of mine (regarding shape simplification, stylization, and drawing faces) could also be somewhat helpful because a lot of the stuff that I talk about here also applies to drawing faces.

#Art tips #varis talks #art talk #Disclaimer: I am self-taught and I'm not a teacher though