#but im slowly figuring it out

[toasthoneyandstardust]

My art slump is getting BAD, but I still want to make an effort to draw as my escape from academics

I remembered I hadn't edited Lance yet (or Hunk, but he's saved for later on) so I picked out a few screenshots to edit and here's the first out of that bunch!

Screenshot is from episode 5 "Joyride to Doom" and is under the cut! Open images for better quality <3

#voltron #voltron force #vforce11 #voltron force 2011 #vf pidge #voltron pidge #vf lance #voltron lance #plance #voltron edit #vf pidgance #darrell pidge stoker #lance charles mcclain #my art #hair is still my enemy #but im slowly figuring it out #why does vf draw shoulders so wide #the dorito shape is unparalleled #toast talks

[arrows-and-ace-thetics]

Reminder that even if your asexuality or aromantism could have a "different source", if these terms help you feel safe and advercate you needs you can still use them!

Maybe you are a "late bloomer" or "too young to know" but maybe the identity means you can explain yourself better, you can find others who feel the same, you can take things at your own pace. That's OK.

Maybe you're on medication, maybe you have some sort of neurodivergence that is affecting things. If these terms help explain your emotions or how you are "lacking" a certain thing, that's OK.

Maybe you're trans and you're not sure how your dysphoria effects it. Identities and feelings are confusing. That's OK.

Cause for every person who realises the terms no longer fit, there's someone who wishes they used the terms earlier. If you have shared experience, if the terms help you define yourself and protect yourself or hell just give a small sense of belonging that's OK.

You're welcome here

#aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #im just thinking about this again #thinking about young me who was so close to a toxic relationship but had enough safety in identity to say no #thinking of my friends slowly figuring it out #thinking of myself and my confusion over where identities fit together #were ok #were allowed these term #what use are identification and terms if not to help people anyway

[obsob]

KISSING YOU mentally 

#mine #art #yes yes yes more cats i know yes #all my pencil stuff is not. done. im to busy for fun pencil #figured out my new prints!! am in the process of drawing them eheh #im looking forward to colouring them!! doing. pride month prints hehehe #ive had a good week! yay! #i ordered some lucy and yak dungarees which arrived today im very happy about them #i ordered some off depop n i loved them so. i bough some new...n actually th right size #i had to buy size 10!! im never size 10! my other ones r szie 12 n they like. fit. but they r. a little large #not so much they look insane but. 10 fits better #when its autumn i may buy some....cord ones >:) hehe #im like slowly figuring out i am actually size small in most clothing #like for years ive just bought large size bc im like yeah thats how big i am. wrong. #like i bought a small size shirt n it like. fits me. n i was like ough. #im slowly. actually buying clothes that r my style. slowly #i want skirts and dresses but im a coward #maybe one day!!!!

[biblically-accurate-dca]

keep it up!

#my art #moondrop #daycare attendant #i've been getting a lot of attention here lately.. thank you everyone!! #im almost at 200 followers which is. wow #unfortunately i draw very slowly so i can't post very consistently #maybe for 200 i'll make that accurate dca tutorial? i'll see what i can do #anyway.. about this drawing!! it has a funny story #so.. my 'kill everyone' tshirt sun drawing actually does have a matching moon!! because i drew the idea months ago #back when i was still figuring out how i wanted to draw them #so this moon was supposed to be the matching moon shirt.. but i couldnt get the face to look right so i gave up lol #but i'll probably try again later.. in the meantime i'll keep chipping away at my other drawings

[arudoe]

cloud watching ✨

#SOO SORRY FOR MY PROLONGED ABSENCE 💔 #ngl i have no excuse but i havent been drawing a lot at all bc im in that hating all ur art n thinking ur the worst phase sooo 🫡 #soooo yah.. #im also slowly maybe getting out of ninjago idk 💔 #in any case… please enjoy this while i figure out what to do w myself #ninjago #art #cole ninjago #jay ninjago #bruiseshipping #ardosart

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

#edit: the command not to talk about it is from personal experience! #i have heard Otherwise in the tags so i will edit to say: #if you've noticed that you tend to like Talk A Lot about ur piece but never WRITE it - #consider voice-to-text #also #u might be like me and ... need to figure it out on the PAGE and not OUT LOUD #i am often an auditory processor so i wont tell people specifics but i'll be like #huh. so i have a character who is in love .... and they don't know it #and my friend will be like ''oh they should kiss' and meanwhile #somehow #saying it out loud im like #yeah thank u ur right the dress SHOULD be purple that's what the problem has been <3 #idk!!! it's up to you!!! my suggestion is to say LESS until you know for a FACT that saying MORE works better for you #-- always better to slowly unspool in ur exploration of that #than to accidentally talk too much and get Bored Of Project #idk idk idk #i have adhd so every book surprises me bc im like #wait where did any of this even COME FROM #and whatever little gremlin in my brain that writes is like :) #''heyyy girlie.......'' #WHICH IS A LONG WAY TO SAY: #i didn't know about Not Talking About It as an option until i'd ruined a few projects!! #but there are people who need to do the other thing!!! and i love us both!!!! #wow brains are so funny!!!!

[synth-spinner]

Quick thing I rushed for father's day ^_^ Peter b and his kids :3 they r going to save the multiverse ☝️

#NOT EVEN FATHERS DAY ANYMORE HERE BUT YAYYY #slowly working my way out of artblock.. maybe.. #also cried 10 billion tears idk how to draw babies.. #the shading on mayday is rlly off hut im not smart enough to figure out how to save it😭 #also i am extremely inexperienced in drawing spiderverse miles i neeed to draw him more ^_^ #spiderverse #atsv #peter b parker #miles morales #mayday parker #across the spiderverse #isa's art

[luck-of-the-drawings]

HAVNT ANIMATED IN A HHHOOOOTT MINUTE AND I WANNA GET BACK INTO IT. this here is super scuffed n cheap but it EXISTS NONETHELESS and i like it and wanna share. i love making these silly lil guys move.. jrwi is such a cartoon in my beautiful brain and mind

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #jrwi riptide spoilers #HEHEHWEEEEE I LOVE THE GILLION NIGHTMARE ARC...im also doodlin up a lil animation where he stabs himself #THIS IS ALL PRACTICE THOUGH. IM STILL WORKIN ON THAT FUUUUCKING LORD OF LIGHTNING ANIMATION I STARTED LITERLY YEARS AGO #SLOWLY BUT SURELY THAT BITCH IS GONNA BE DONE #AND IM GONNA PUT IT TO MUSIC!!! IVE NEVER PUT A WHOLE ANIMATION TO SOUND BEFORE #NEVER FIGURED OUT THAT AUDIO HOO HAA #in the meantime though im PLAYING im having FUN HERE!!! i love animating.... i love animatin so much.... #OH AULSO AAUUUUGHGH FUCKINNNG #the one n only condi condifiction liked it on twitter... THATS SOOOO COOOL IT BLOWS MY LIL MIND WHEN ARTISTS I LOOK UP TO GAZE UPON ME #i dont like to make a big deal out of it where everyone can see bc. yknow. we're all artists here. we're all justa buncha guys here #it feels weird to point out someone like that like HAIII HAIII I SAW U LIKED MY THINGGGG #its not weird when other ppl do it though like thats fine. but ME doing it. well. inconceivable. #but this is MY TAGS my secret little scrolls i bury beneath my art #and booyyy im KICKIN MY LITTLE LEEGGS SQUEALING AND GIGGLING AND SUCH HEHEHE WEEEEEEE!!!

[stankworth]

I had a stressful week and my new coping mechanism is drawing moments from my fanfic that I haven't written yet... the theme for these doodles is Simon Experiences Bisexuality

#simon blackquill #kay faraday #apollo justice #klavier gavin #ema skye #my art #the ghist is Simon is A MESS after getting out of priso n but he slowly figures out his life :) #Im writing simon as b i and more of a relationship anar ch ist. theres no central shi p but he messes around #tho i do think of this whole generation as eventually being one big pol ycul e #appy juice is tr ans ma sc :) and shares a jo int with simon :) after theyve decided they don't hate each other. eventually #ema skye is drinking the kaiji bee r bc she is very kaijicore

[skishie]

i like men :]

#dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #davesport #i love men #i lovem en #i loemven #my art #ill try to post my stuff here if i can :] i mostly use twitter #im just not super active anywhere other than discord to be fair #sorry i love these freaks i love them #ill slowly figure out how to use tumblr again #havent used it in a while lol

[grellestie]

wow i really love the new chapter

such a brave choice

also the small one hit so hard

#SLOWLY figuring out how to edit this manga- i think im figuring it out! #its awkward bc of the cross stitching and yana's style being a tad weird to recreate #but love (boobs) finds a way #black butler #kuroshitsuji #grelle sutcliff #grell sutcliff #grell #edit tag

[puppyeared]

its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

#I have an assignment that was due a week ago and I really really dont want to do it. I have to but i dont want to #im probably making it worse because my brain has built a wall around it so now i can’t do literally anything else until thats done. but #because I don’t want to do it I’m just kinda stuck. turns out this is what they meant when they said emotional regulation is part of #exec dysfunction.. I’ll have a thought like if I get a little bit of it done now i can get it over with. I can just submit something #and then not even 5 minutes later itll be like ugh but I have to draw all the assets out. I have to write things and make spreads ugh #and its just flopping between those two things. i hate it when ppl are like well how much time do you need to work on one thing #because BOY id love to know too. I’d love to know exactly when my brain wants to cooperate with me and work around that but I cant #even my period can’t decide when it wants to punch me in the stomach. which is kinda funny in the grand scheme of things but still #its so weird im just lying on my bed thinking abt all this like damn.. the time will pass anyways no matter what I decide to do.. damn…. #if I submit that assignment now and take the L I literally won’t die. it’ll just be a deduction on an assignment nobody will ask me about #I know this but I’m still stressing myself about it so my thoughts aren’t really connecting to my body. weird #maybe its because Im having a hard time looking forward to things. theres definitely a lot I should be living for but I don’t really feel #a strong attachment to it I guess? it’s been like this for a while with holidays and meeting with friends so I just don’t #I kinda figured its because im pretty passionless and its more like passing interest. but it’s not very fun when it feels like I’m going to #be living distraction to distraction for the next 70 years or so lol #idk it kind of feels like slowly bleeding out. which is funny because I actually did experience blood loss this week #had a 30 minute nosebleed and literally could not stand. also it felt like someone was pinching the back of my brain which was interesting #yapping #does this count as vent #vent #Ive just been making an oc carrd and contemplate changing my blog header for the past 3 days honestly

[imviotrash]

I of course had to draw her again to match the others. Gwendolyn Violet (ft. Her Errand Girl, Avril (derived from the name "Arthur" me and a friend of mine decided to pick as his first name))

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#honestly crazy how much i improved #im slowly but surely figuring this tablet out #kuroshitsuji #black butler #gregory violet #kuroshitsuji fanart #cheslock #vio draws #vios genderbends

[oceanwithouthermoon]

the fact that we never actually got to see kuboyasu interact with saiki in gym class is such a crime

hes like the most perceptive of the group so it wouldve been so fun to see how kusuo would hide his powers around him

i kinda wouldve loved to see them flesh out the "shadow leader" bit a little more instead of just forgetting about it lmao, yasu being sorta like hairo and thinking saiki has hidden power or something

#ik a lot of people have said that aren doesnt think that anymore #and maybe i need to reread ?? cuz im unsure but i dont thinkkk thats ever said or alluded to #so i want to see him either going crazy trying to observe saiki and figure out wtf is up #and/or him slowly losing interest because saiki is clearly just an wet cat boy with autism charm #that woudlve been sooooo funnyyyyy #side note kokomi is also very perceptive but very stupid when it comes to specifically saiki #because he defies everything she knows about men #aren is just as silly as the rest of the group but i dont think he has the same foggy perception of people so #yea idk #this just made me think of that cuz i think they would make a really good team #teruhashi and kuboyasu AND saiki ?? unstoppable #ok done yapping bai #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kuboyasu aren #meows post

[mushtoons]

hehe

#still trying to figure out how to draw turtles djfjfj #its fun #im also slowly coming out of my art slump lets gooo #anyways heres a doodle that went from angst to silly #wanted to draw leo and raph arguing but i couldnt make it serious :( #they have to be silly or ill die #rottmnt angst no thanks/j #rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rottmnt raph #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #mycel doodles

[arrows-and-ace-thetics]

Reminder that even if your asexuality or aromantism could have a "different source", if these terms help you feel safe and advercate you needs you can still use them!

Maybe you are a "late bloomer" or "too young to know" but maybe the identity means you can explain yourself better, you can find others who feel the same, you can take things at your own pace. That's OK.

Maybe you're on medication, maybe you have some sort of neurodivergence that is affecting things. If these terms help explain your emotions or how you are "lacking" a certain thing, that's OK.

Maybe you're trans and you're not sure how your dysphoria effects it. Identities and feelings are confusing. That's OK.

Cause for every person who realises the terms no longer fit, there's someone who wishes they used the terms earlier. If you have shared experience, if the terms help you define yourself and protect yourself or hell just give a small sense of belonging that's OK.

You're welcome here

#aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #im just thinking about this again #thinking about young me who was so close to a toxic relationship but had enough safety in identity to say no #thinking of my friends slowly figuring it out #thinking of myself and my confusion over where identities fit together #were ok #were allowed these term #what use are identification and terms if not to help people anyway