#art insecurity

[sacrilegious-skeletal-scribe]

Hey heretics, I've definitely not only been posting poems as I write them for the past three weeks.

So strange, conceptually, that my main output has become something I dislike bringing up in conversation. You tell people you write books for a living, their eyes glaze over and they ask you the two requisite question required for the conversation moving on. Hell, best case scenario they go back to whatever they were talking about before and you can leave!

A real life human being asks what you do professional, say 'Poet,' and feel the ambient hostility raise by six degrees. It not even specific anger, there's just this weird agreed-upon contracts that poets are somehow less artistically valuable? People say 'poetry' with the same vitriol as 'self-published novel.' Which bodes well.

I'm starting to fear the jokes aren't landing, because we've veered a little too close to genuine passive dismissiveness of the arts, so, pretend I'm jangling keys and don't pay attention to the smoke & sirens combo move behind me, this freeway accident isn't going to start itself.

All of which to say, art is going to fumble over itself way more than is ever going to feel comfortable. And you're just going to have to ignore it and keep going. Make more art and only take the time to tear it off your skin if it gets close to your throat. Never let anyone kneecap you and especially not yourself. That bitch hasn't earned it.

#writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #on writing #writing advice #burnout #but more in the vein of #art insecurity #tomes of a sacrilegious skeletal scribe #i'm not certain what the fuck this is about but i sure as shit wrote it #i've been in a weird headspace lately in terms of art #i don't know. there's a haze of focus that's trying to gnaw my fingers off details later

[mr-malumm]

Stayed gone but vox narrates his passive aggressive insecure ass scrolling text from the bottom of his broadcast 👊💥📺

#plus what definitely canonically happened when this very important breaking news interrupted tv #are we sure this guy is allowed to be an overlord #imagining the audience just trying to enjoy their shows and then BOOM TV MAN AND HIS GAY INSECURITIES #your pitch crush is showing #radiostatic #i fell for the fucking tv #vox #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin art #hazbin alastor #hazbin vox #alastor #katie killjoy #my art

[seagiri]

the guy

#my art #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #chilchuck tims #sorry for posting like 5 drawings with completely different art styles im insecure #i feel like ive drawn him naked way too many times he looks weird to me now

[heliianth]

i know what this show is about 👍👍👍

#probably the last time ur gonna see mlb art from me im too insecure abt the way i draw humans now after spending a year in sonicsville >:/ #mlb #heliiart #miraculous ladybug #ladynoir

[egophiliac]

Wait, did you put a photo of Vil and Neige as kids in Eric’s office??

oh good, I was afraid that wasn't going to read properly and people would just be like "what is this supposed to be". :') but yeah! I like to think Eric was pretty fond of Neige as a kid! single dad sees orphan child approximately the same age as his own son and goes "hmm. okay, you guys are going to be friends now." (this did not go as well as he'd hoped.)

(also I do love how it's kind of a running joke that everyone loves Neige except for Vil, who's standing over in the corner and just seething with furious irrational hatred. someday maybe he'll find someone who doesn't think Neige is the best thing since cinnamon rolls.)

#art #twisted wonderland #vil: am i massively projecting my own hangups and insecurities onto someone who i would otherwise find only mildly annoying #vil: no it must be neige who is wrong #idk i just like neige a lot! he's sweet and i find him fascinating honestly #there's ONE offhanded comment about how oh yeah he's been orphaned since a young age and just never talks about it #he lives with a bunch of dwarves and cooks and cleans for them and this has been going on since he was like eight #like. hello?! #there's a whole backstory here that we're never going to get more than this single crumb of and frankly that makes it better #man if i had a nickel for every fandom about fairytale characters in high school #where i instantly fell in love with the snow white character #i'd have two nickels et cetera you know the rest

[pandadrake]

Shots fired by the Spider-man sequels.

Was ruminating on how Miles and Miguel are technically both 'Spider-man 2' in their respective universes. Got me thinking about the other Spider-successors in the cast, and also what if they all got matching T-shirts or something.

#Bringing back Peter’s ITSV insecurity from his mid-life spider-crisis to document his hard swerve into “dad & mentor” in real time #Miles is wearing a variation of the Hobie watch because I cant see post-ATSV Miles wearing a watch with Miguel's parental controls on it #Miguel is reading the instructions for assembling a couch from IKEA 2099 #he has to build a new one for the breakroom b/c the last one died to T-rex butt #Basically I had an idea that involved learning how to draw Ben Reilly and jumped on it. His comic inking look is weirdly nostalgic for me. #my art #miles morales #ben reilly #miguel o'hara #mayday parker #scarlet spider #ultimate spider man #spider man 2099 #spider girl #spider man #peter b parker #peter parker #across the spiderverse #atsv #may parker #into the spiderverse #atsv fanart #spider man: across the spider verse #miles morales prowler #prowler miles #miles 42 #the cooler spider man #the cooler miles #that's not a bit he's just legitimately the cooler Miles #spider-man

[mel-kusanagi]

so anxious

very normal about these two 🧍‍♀️

part 2

#miguel praising peter b hours lets go #peter was feelin a bit insecure with his dad bod but miguel is all “my darling you are wrong and let me show you how much i adore you” #yeah vdjfvbdfjvbfdjvb #shoutout to my fellow spiderdads enjoyers for giving me this idea on discord vjdfbljdflbj #more peter b with glasses bc sony robbed me from having it #peter b parker #miguel o'hara #spiderdads #peter b parker x miguel o'hara #spider man #spider man 2099 #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #my art

[blodwyrm]

giant moray eel my beloved

#this guy is not available #will let u know if he falls through though #wanna do more things that require….more effort and figuring out things #lately I’ve been a bit insecure with drawing so maybe #hm #maybe it’s time to do another sketch marathon #always with these marathons #illustration #my art #procreate #digital art #adoptable #original character #character design #dragon #dragon art #dragon adopt #eel #moray eel

[driftsart]

Starscream and Skyfire's young years

#did you know Starscream wears glasses he just feels insecure about it so he rarely wears them? #digitalart #art #photoshop #character design #au #transformers #decepticons #autobots #redesign #original design #alternate universe #comic art #starscream #skystar #skyfire #here Starscream's about mid 20s or early 30s (in robot years) and Skyfire's around the same age just a tiny bit younger #Starscream's way older now hes around 50 now #i tried drawing backgrounds... never again lmfao

[yudamori-art]

Lava quick here have some weird-angst comic i spent all day on!! really happy with how the last page turned out :) there's no context i just love them. BONUS:

(also thank you?? so much for all the reblogs and likes and stuff i feel so special teehee im not used to any engagement with my art. why didnt i make a tumblr sooner!!)

#illustration #my art #art #dannyphantom #vlad plasmius #comic #jack fenton #maddie fenton #she's always been wild and confident #vlad's always been insecure #jack's always been jack #college trio

[littlegeecko]

Ouuhhhhggg flynns pretty smileeeee and carl's art skillssss am i right

#my art #comic #echo vn #echovn #echo project #flynn moore #carl hendricks #hmmm the fact i wasnt goin to post this cuz i always feel insecure about posting emotionally charged comic strips #but hey i wasnt goin to let it go to waste #be cringe be free or smt #i like to think carl's art is actually pretty good hes just insecure #ya kno like me

[bottlehawk]

annotated visual diagram of the strilondes selfie taking habits

#homestuck #dave strider #dirk strider #roxy lalonde #rose lalonde #bottlehawk art #you can pinpoint the exact paths that genetics took in who was given which hereditary familial insecurities #and also how far along each one is in going to therapy #hint: dirk's top genre on his spotify wrapped was phonk.

[bulbabutt]

you have to be honest with yourself, leo

every leo has insecurity issues, in this essay i will--

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | and the missing leo hug from this part

#tmnt crossover #rottmnt #tmnt 87 #tmnt 1987 #rise leo #87 leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #tmnt leonardo #my art #art #bulbasturtlesforever2 #i was wondering if i should've ended this on a joke or not but you know what #sit in it #the turtle angst WON today kids alright! you won! my bad! #anyway ive seen enough people try to say leo only started being insecure in 12 and i HARD DISAGREE......... #its written into the leo code

[muimira]

#new art yeaaah #we have GOT to stop drawing this guy #my art #gintama #sakata gintoki #cw blood #tw blood #sorry for deleting I got insecure but I will be brave

[cryptidmullet]

when tulips erupt from my ribcage, is it grotesque or lovely?

#smth smth insecurity in the face of adoration #ive been going on walks and having thoughts #my art tag #procreate #original art #angel art #trans angel #trans artist #digital art #poetry

[notemaker]

Uncle Raph!! Page 1 - Previous Me: I'll just draw a cute scene where Casey worries and tries to rub Raph's frown away haha. One, two pages max. Me, 17 pages later:

CASEY SAID THE THING!! RAPH'S THING!! Anyway everyone give one big hurrah to CJ for being the most nephew ever.

#Casey did Raph's 3rd person thing!! He's the only one besides Raph that can :) #he mainly does it when he's insecure or nervous about something #raphael hamato #raph #future raph #uncle raph #my art #art post #uncle raph comic #comic strips #note draws things #doodle #sketches #doodles #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles art #rottmnt raph #rottmnt casey #casey junior #casey jones junior #future casey #the future boy #rottmnt casey jr #rottmnt fandom #rottmnt fanart #tmnt 2018 #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt au #future au