#artists struggles

[zebracorn-chan]

My honest reaction to Gangle at first was "eh, that's okay" and now it literally has become my fixation

I WANT TO CLONE MYSELF TO WORK ON ALL THE FANART I WANT TO MAKE AT THE SAME TIME

#I'm so normal #tadc #tadc art #tadc artwork #tadc meme #tadc fanart #tadc gangle #the amazing digital circus gangle #gangle fanart #zooble x gangle #gangle tadc #gangle art #gangle artwork #hyperfixation #meme #memes #artist struggles #struggle #the strugge is real #artists struggles #art meme #fanart meme #gangle my beloved #🎭 masked fools #🎭 best dressed #theatre 🎭 #🎭 #too many ideas #too little time #too many ideas too little time

[daikunart]

Actual representation of me trying to draw

#It's not sunshine and rainbow #Well... Most of it is not.. For me 🤡🤡 #only friends the series #artists struggles #Ofts top #force jiratchapong #Only friends #Gifset #Clowngifs

[these-things-illneversay]

Me, everytime I go through my old works

#zuko #atla zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar memes #atla meme #artists struggles

[synsick]

#thephotographersicksyn #photography

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"Your favourite Neuordivergent Non-popular Male Photog"

Alright Tumblr wtf?! C'mon and give a damn like, look, follow, repost, something! All these "followers" and next to no support.... c'mon!

#artists #artists struggles #artists on twitter #artists on tiktok #artists on instagram #artists on ig #artists on tumblr #follow #reblog #like

[roamwa]

Oh no... I think I'm slowly starting to ship kyman😶

They really are kinda canon, but now I'm in conflict because I'm also a style shipper T-T Idk if I'm capable of drawing both kyman AND style... This is so stressful

#south park #sp kyman #Sp style #Shipping crisis #artists struggles

[6vaguebook]

Drawing batfam characters is almost impossible BECAUSE THEY ARE NEVER! DRAWN! CONSISTENTLY!!

#funny #artists on tumblr #artists struggles #Art meme #Art rant #DC #DCU #Batfam #Batfamily #Batfam rant #DC rant

[endress-knight-the-drokain]

I think the reason gman is so inconsistent throughout the half life series is because he suffers from the same problems artists do when trying to draw their oc multiple times.

#the guy is obviously projecting himself as human (almost) #Perhaps he had to make an entire fursona(?) for the job and isn’t used to remaking the same thing over and over again #Either this man dosent think anyone will notice or is silently eyeing every detail he got wrong #artists struggles #half life #half life 2 #half life alyx #hl #half life gman

[nataliadrawing]

This was actually inspired by advice given to me by an art friend. We were talking about if a drawing we didn’t like was still worth posting. Her opinion was to post it anyway because there will always be someone who'll see something good or interesting in there. 

#artists struggles #art #artists on tumblr #drawing

[stinkyhorsebitch]

There are only two options in art

• Start with body, struggle with head

• Start with head, struggle with body

#art #artists struggles

[mochiimonsterr]

Almost done I’m gonna upload this on Redbubble 🥹

Signed,

A poor artist

#powerpuff girls #powerpuff girls z #buttercup #powerpuff girls buttercup #i need money #broke tingz #artistsupport #artists struggles #sketchbook pro #digital art

[tasenwrobots]

Hey you, let me tell you a little secret about artists. The reason we start on a grey canvas instead of a white one isn't because of any of that color theory shit, it's because the whiteness of the screen burns our mcfucking eyes.

#artists struggles #shitpost #rextalks

[glitchyko]

Hmmmmmmmm I wanna draw and share other things on here that aren’t LMK related, and sometimes not fandom related in general, but my brain goes, “But that’s all you post! What about the lmk oc’s, au’s and stories and such you wanna share and do stuff with? Are you just going to forget about them?!” And it’s frustrating cause it’s my blog and I should be able to share what I want to share, and I’ve been wanting to check out and maybe get into other things like Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, Slay the Princess, Trigun, Dungeon Meshi, I could go on, but my brain is mean to me

Sometimes I just need to remind myself that this is my blog, I can make and share whatever I wish despite what my brain tells me, I’m not chained to only be into one thing and that’s it. Whether it be fandom, characters, art style, etc. I can explore and check out different things, if you stick to only one thing you’re gonna eventually get bored and things will stagnate and then you’ll get burnt out, it’s not a bad thing to take a break from something and try different things, it’s good for you actually

I think it’s about time I start doing that

#fandom #fandom talk #glitchyko #glitchyko rambles #glitchyko ramble #lego monkie kid #lmk #artists problems #artists on tumblr #random ramble #ramble #artists struggles #artists pain #fandom discussion #art discussion #art talk #I guess this is my weird way of telling myself it’s time to take a break from lmk #I don’t plan on just never doing anything with it again #but I think I need a break #I wanna try and see new things #cotl #hollow knight #cotl seems pretty interesting #and slay the princess #I also wanna study the backgrounds in hollow knight #and I still need to watch dungeon meshi #so much to think about #so much to check out #mean brain #rambles

[these-things-illneversay]

ART PROCESS!

I’ll be sharing my art process below!

WARNING: This is gonna be a roller coaster ride! The process is not linear AT ALL and the end result will be different from the initial sketch because I’m just an amateur fool who tries to do art and I think it’s funny. Posting it here as a reminder for me us, artists, writers, to keep pushing through until we're satisfied :D. Now, on to the process:

The idea was pretty simple: Piggy-back Tokka. This piece was quite a challenge for me because: Side profile is my weakness, also, I've never drawn piggyback rides before but I was pretty satisfied with how the sketch turned out.

2. Then I had this idea where I wanted Sokka to look back because "intimacy", so I changed it up.

3. And then I colored it..... and then...

4. Changed my mind about the "intimacy" part and went with Sokka looking straight ahead.

5. And THEN I noticed that the anatomy was fundamentally wrong and that Toph was practically sliding off Sokka's back so I was like FUCK THIS SHIT back to the drawing board it is :)

6. Started by tracing Sokka again. And then tried to imagine the correct position for Toph. DO YOU SEE IT NOW?? HJASHASHKASKASJSAK

7. .............aaand it went pretty smooth from this point on (kinda). Changed up Toph's position. Changed up Sokka's face for the millionth time. And I was finally done! Why couldn't I have figured this out from the start I'll never know :)

8. Thanks for coming to my ted-talk! I accept feedback from all my artist gurus if you want to leave some behind :D

#toph #sokka #atla fanart #tokka #art process #artists struggles #artists on tumblr #art wip #art rant #beginner artist #rin's fanart

[camping-with-monsters]

Genuinely speaking, what was up with people (on Twitter, mostly) spreading around screenshots of random artists posting their art improvements and people getting upset that their art had a “downgrade” and that they actually went backwards on improvement with their art. I remember there being an underlying issue that was the cause of this sudden thing, frankly I don’t 100% remember what it was. Now I don’t know too much about the people they usually did this with, if I had to be honest. Maybe the people/screenshots they always referenced were not great people. Regardless of whatever, here’s my two cents on that action as a whole, completely disregarding whatever that original issue was, cause I’m not opposed to believing that this still happens to unassuming artists trying to mind their own business.

I guess y’all have never once considered that improvement is a versatile thing with art. Maybe people’s art styles seem to change to, what you consider as, “for the worst” because you look at it with a blind eye based on a scale of “high quality art” vs “low/lower quality art”. That’s black and white. Whatever happened to considering the art process? Maybe for some artists, the style changes you consider “downgrades” are easier on the artist to work with. More efficient for them, even. The efficiency of making the process easier for them plus having a style to correlate with the tweaking of their process is improvement on it’s own. Sure, maybe their art looks different than it did some time back, but that’s because art is ever changing for everyone.

People draw what they want however they want, and if they want to switch up the process on how they make art, that’s not for you, the person who did not draw their art, to judge. I promise you that the artist probably doesn’t actually care if you miss their old style. Maybe they don’t miss it. And maybe they don’t miss it for a number of reasons other than quality. Maybe they didn’t like a certain thing they did with their shading, or didn’t like that they were spending 5 hours on perfecting the linework (I’ve been there before, it’s tedious.). Maybe that artist wanted to add steps to their process or rid of unnecessary ones. Improvement with art is not specific just to the changes of quality of their art. Drawing is a process— it’s not easy without practice and can sometimes be stressful and strain you. Your body hurts from arching your neck so low into a sketchbook or your fingers hurt from using a pen for so long. Your eyes and head hurt from staring into a digital screen for so long, and often you forget about your own physical needs because you just have to get this one detail right first.

Everyone who doesn’t draw will digress. “Art is easy”. No. It’s. Not. It’s only easy for you because all you have to do is look at it.

You do not get to decide if or how an artist has improved or whether or not they have improved at all. You will never be able to see a piece the same way as the artist who put time and effort into their craft as if nursing their own young. It’s not your job to make comments or even critiques unless the artist has opened up to the idea, whether or not you mean it with lighthearted or helpful intentions. Your job, as the viewer of the art, is to view and to share the art. That’s literally it. You are not, and never will be, entitled to tell an artist that they have somehow not improved. You didn’t make their art. You don’t know why they made these changes. You don’t get to question that. Their art improvement does not lie just within whatever’s on the canvas. You love the art, but often forget that there is a person behind said canvas who meticulously plans every stroke of their brush, what colors to use, and like Atlas with the world on his back, they carry with them years worth of practicing how to draw eyes, hands, backgrounds, perspectives, this thing, that thing, you name it. You forget about the fact that people (the same kind that you are criticizing) are the only things that can create the things you love with their love. By insulting what you deem as “bad improvement” by your standards, you insult the entire process; not just what you see firsthand. Think whatever you want to think in your head— but you best trap it if your words could offend, lest you find yourself taking just one organism off of a food web, throwing the entire course on its side.

Honest to god, what happened to being happy for someone making a positive change for themselves that they are happy with themselves?

#the kiwi speaks #idk if this is controversial or not but #here’s my utmost unsolicited opinion on this #needed to ramble about it cause like #it’s been kinda bugging me a little lately??? #/not neg #but still #artists on tumblr #art struggles #art problems #drawing #art #artists #artists struggles #drawing struggles #serious talk #art issues #art improvement #improvement #art process #drawing process

[lavellyne]

i want to draw my ocs so much more but it's hard when i'm only feeling 1-2 of them while other 50-something just watch from the backlines 💀

#lave talks #ocs #artists struggles #oc #artists on tumblr

[roachthefish]

I think it's a great opportunity to talk about "talent"

So the thing is, there's no such thing as "talent".

There are people with better developed left or right brains, but it affects more aspects of our personalities than just our skill in drawing. And just because you have left brain better doesn't mean you can't make pretty art. Because in reality, the only thing that matters is PRACTICE and HARD WORK.

And these are my drawings from 2016 and 2023, after 3 years of studying anatomy and still life :)

Studying basics is hard and boring, I know, but it brings effects! So to all the artists that think about themselves as "talentless" - I've got good news for you, lol.

I hope I could motivate somebody with it 💚

#art #artists on tumblr #artists struggles #art advice #skillnottalent #skill not talet #art problems #art progress #personal