#i think i might be having an art block

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Hi remember the familiar au i made up a while ago and then never made anything for? In other news i forgot how to draw so-

I am still not comming back i think i just need to lay down for a while so have fun with this, whatever it is

#fnaf sun #fnaf moon #sundrop #moondrop #dca #daycare attendant #my art #familiar au #i think i might be having an art block #feelin unwell a bit #sorry if the colors are shit #i am curling up. need to not exist for a little while

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

#art #i had to block multiple people because of this post and i easily could have blocked more #do you guys have any idea how exhausting it is to hear 400 people make the exact same unfunny joke each thinking they're being original #or worry that another person might get harassed over a post i made because of the way people are talking about them #or be harassed/insulted YOURSELF because some people don't know how to fucking behave #you guys don't get reblogs back. you should be grateful i'm leaving the post up at all.

[magnapanther]

finally got a working tablet again!!! :D

anyways, back from my several-month-long nap (which will not be addressed further) with a lil fog canyon warmup. now with more scribbles! perhaps too many. entirely too many, in fact. anyways, hopefully the quality does not get obliterated (it will) :')

#hollow knight #art #artists on tumblr #my art #original art #the knight #digital art #fog canyon #been having absolutely paralyzing art block for the past few months so it's nice to have actually finished something :) #not entirely sure about this style yet #but i did have a ton of fun with it #might refine it a lil bit more so it looks less thrown-together :D #so if anyone decided to read through all the tags lemme know what you think :)

[elodee]

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 10

Stressmonster x Cucumber Quest

For Stressmonster I chose the wonderful webcomic Cucumber Quest!

I chose this design for her because I thought her colors and aesthetic would work wonderfully with the art style. I also think she would probably appreciate how cute the comic is if she were familiar with it.

This one was very difficult for me and I'm still not entirely satisfied with how it turned out. The rendering for this comic uses a very different style than what I'm used to, and I had some trouble reverse-engineering how the visuals are created, so it didn't turn out as on model as I would have liked. But, that being said, I think she looks adorable anyway. I also totally made up how the kitty would look, since as far as I can remember there aren't any kitties in Cucumber Quest, so I came up with her design from scratch.

To learn more about Cucumber Quest and see my style references, adventure below the cut! (The funds are still raising for Gamers Outreach!)

Cucumber Quest is sweet, beautiful webcomic by the artist Gigi D.G. It follows the adventures of a young rabbit boy named Cucumber and his sister, Almond, as they go on a quest to defeat the Nightmare Knight. Unfortunately Cucumber Quest will not be finished as a comic, due to changing circumstances in the authors personal life, but the story will eventually be concluded as an illustrated script and every one of the over 800 pages of the comic is more than worth reading.

I cannot say enough good things about Cucumber Quest. It has a charming, engaging story, beautiful art, and fun, memorable characters. Please give it a read if you have the chance, you will not regret it. Style references:

The comic uses a lineless style and soft color palettes. The shading changes drastically with the lighting, but I tried to mimic the style as it looks with flat lighting (such as in most panels of the above example).

Here's an example of a character rendered with more dynamic lighting (this is Peridot, she is a witch)

Cucumber Quest title banner

#I think one of the issues here is that I do not know the best brushes for this style #but I am still glad I attempted it since I love the art in this comic so much #I also think the original artist might block the characters in with shapes then add detail over top #which I am not very good at and do not have much experience in #since I am a big sketching and lineart guy lol #And yes the kitty is a Jellie cat #hermitaday #stressmonster #stressmonster101 #hermitcraft

[benetnvsch]

I think that they should kiss when they reunite

#:thumbsup: #kite draws #kite watches bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd #kunikida doppo #Dazai osamu #kunikidazai #if they do not at least hug I will bite someone and not in the sexy way #yehehhh #may have taken it way overboard with the blur effect whooops- #I don't really like this but lakhdkjsadksd adhaksjdhsd askjdha I finished it so might as well post it- #blegghhh #wehhhh #I redrew kunikida entirely #I finished this last night but hated it even more then so I Didn't Post it and waited for today to change it lol #still am not certain but uhhhh feel like I need to post it cuz thats what ppl are provably following me for :Sweats: #ignore this all I am just Entering an Art Block again I think-

[gotchibam]

Just a heads up, I might open commissions soon since I'll need extra budget for the next month! I know I still have a backlog of ko-fi doodles I need to work on but I'll try my best to do them alongside the comms 😤💪💪💪

#i wasn't able to do much of the doodles bc of art block this past few weeks 😔 #tbh I feel like my current workspace is draining so I feel like having a portable device to use for art might help me to be more productive #been thinking of saving up for a tablet so I could work anywhere & anytime i wanted to #I see a lot of ppl use ipad + procreate but apple products are super expensive sooo i'll probably just go for a samsung tab #i've heard the s series work well for drawing? like s6 / s7? #tho I just might go for s9 fe instead since that's the newer version #if you guys have any recommendations abt what tab is good for drawing (that's also budget friendly) pleeeease let me know #i'd really appreciate it!! tysm ;w; #bam blabs

[amazingspider-z]

Continuing to be back on my bullshit, I'm rounding out the year with the next installment of my Blue Beetle au nonsense or.

AKA @wazzappp 's Blue Beetle headcanons give me life and I'm yoinking them because. Everyone deserves a little body horror. As a treat.

(Well. Except for Oo'Li, by virtue of being the type of alien (yk more or less) that the scarabs are using for that sweet sweet basic DNA template)

Anyway, following my timeline of Jaime ending up with his second 'upgrade' after the reboot re: Khaji Da's last ditch effort to keep him from smashing into the ground of terminal velocity, Xiomara and Roma end up more buggified after their altercation with the Crimson Scarab in issue...2? I think, when their powers get drained, in the same vein of their scarabs getting inventive with ways for their hosts to defend themselves in power drain scenarios.

In keeping with their power-sets/specialities, Roma ends up with a scorpion-esque tail (yes ik that's not an insect but if she can manifest tentacles Im saying it counts) and retractable claws, while Xiomara has fully armored hands/gauntlets and extra insectoid legs

#jaime reyes #oo'li a'barr #roma lopez #xiomara erazo #reachling au #it took me almost a. month and fighting for my life against art block (and ok. being distracted by ghost rider) but i made it #kicking and screaming but i made it #yeah idk why i added fancy dress even tho. i lost steam soo fast its just. some social/public event about the Horizon idk #anyway roma and xiomara might have escaped reachification but buggification leaves no prisoners #speaking of which. technically ig the Horizon are fairly alien-y for. a protagonist alien species (<so has to be bc of the Reach) but #can always be more :) #it is. soo obvious i started using references 4/5 the way into this but. whatever its fine #and ok. the teasing between oo'li and jaime did get me #....it might just bc bc i made jaime like. 1/3 reach and i think the hypothetical interplay would be fun #the cultural barriers! the flipping of it being his humanity that's new to oo'li vs the uh. everything else hes got going on #its about the vibes (<aroace and yet again leaning into relationships as a thought experiment maybe but. whatever) #also she's taller than him and yk. thats always fun

[caaaterpillar]

dark fountain dead ahead

#deltarune #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #bright colors #eyestrain #they are microorganisms. lol #also hi everyone! i had bad art block but i think this might have kicked it #i love putting rainbows in deltarune... so many thoughts about the idea of a prism. where light meets dark etc. the edge of reality #reupload to fix missed shading #p

[raveartts]

turt

#raveartts #wings of fire #wof #turtle wof #dragon art #kinda art blocked lately but at least dragons are easy enough to draw #i'd love to draw some warrior cats stuff too but like...cats hard #oh well at least i'm drawing SOMETHING #i promised myself i'd do proper art fundamentals practice this year #but so far it's been absolutely pathetic #i'm barely even drawing in the past month #though i shouldn't be hard on myself about it i suppose #i've been stressed and busy and mentally unwell and dying #and i don't HAVE to draw....i just feel obligated to because it's all i'm good at and don't have other reliable hobbies i enjoy #perhaps once school is finished i can draw more #though by then i might be having to move out and work full time and i think i'll just die when that happens #so i'll just never get better at art i guess and i'll just pretend i'm totallyyyyy okay with being subpar forever and ever #lack of perfection DEFINITELY doesn't bother me :))))) not one bit #anyways i have to go to work soon.... #at least my chores are done. perhaps i'll promise myself i'll do some gestures tonight since i'm not busy

[bugscreating]

More art. I’ve haven’t drawn for years until recently. So I’m trying to figure it out again. And shading confuses me, so sorry

#my art #saiki k #original art #I wanted to test what he would look like in a different aesthetic #I was planning on my next art piece being similar #just changing the aesthetic #but this took me like a week #and I don’t have the free time #I had to recently put my fanfic on hiatus due to writer’s block #but it’s getting to the point I need to start writing again to flex my writing muscles #anyway this was fun to make #I was thinking that instead I might do ship fan art #but I love almost all the ships #I also thought about drawing saiki as a tiny lad and akechi

[echo-does-art]

I've been waiting since the beginning of the month to do this prompt :)

#greninja #I noticed my ninja frog does a lot of Spider-Man poses which opened up a ton of reference possibilities :) #never thought I'd use a person as a pose reference for a frog #although now that I have this might not be the last time #anyway thinking of Spider-Man made me think of heavy block shading and interesting panel borders #so I had some fun with that :) #pokémon #pokemon gen 6 #pokémon xy #kalos region #starter pokemon #frog #amphibians #amphibiuary2023 #video game #my art #digital art #daily prompt

[grimbothefool]

say hi to him

#doodle #oc: dr.o'hara #i can feel the art block creeping in so i have started to try and beat it off with a stick #by trying to think about ways of changing my art style a bit #still in the early phases so. please stand by things might get worse before they get better

[roxynugget]

Guys, please, Tango doesn't consider himself a builder in the same way Michelangelo might not consider himself a painter* (see tags). You can accept you're very good at two things, and still consider yourself better at one over the other. It's not negative talk when he calls himself a redstone guy.

#tangotek #* Michelangelo was definitely good at painting but his preference was sculpture. Painting commissions were more frequent and profitable. #I don't know if this is the best example because it's difficult to parse exaggeration and fact #About historical figures in general especially artists and their personal feelings about their own art #and he definitely wouldn't have put a very strong divide between his skill sets because like. #You can see how much working and studying 3D space helped him create such life-like people in a 2D painting. #But I think Decked Out is a good example of harmony of skills too #The building part of game design and the coding part needed each other to create Decked Out 2 #My point here is #That we can't ask Michaelangelo if he considers himself a sculptor or painter #Because he's dead and also may not have an actual answer himself #But we can ask Tango! And he says he's a redstoner not a builder. And that's ok :) #Dear God this entire set of tags sounds like pretentious rambling but I'm gonna post it anyway bc I hope people see past me comparing #a beloved Renaissance artist to a Block Game Guy #and take time to reflect on how an artist might interpret themselves vs how their audience sees them thru the lense of their work.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you absolutely already know this, but i adore your work. i think it's hard to avoid the pressure of being surrounded by people we might consider "true artists," but the fact is that, frankly, everyone who makes art is an artist.

before this year, i hadn't drawn a complete piece in nearly three years. the line work i did produce felt abysmal and i was tempted to give up. then, i saw your comic and i thought, "wow, that's really cute, and it looks like a fun style to emulate."

i drew you, pondering me, eating grass. and it WAS fun. i forgot how fun it could be. i can draw lesbian horses, or pony!WWX throwing a chicken, or me eating grass. i can even make shitty memes! and all of it, no matter how good or how bad, is fun again.

you bring a lot of fun to people here. that's something equally as important as people who cultivate fancy line work or expert level digital painting. i'm sure that's something you know, but i hope it never hurts to hear it.

happy first season, friend! i can't wait to see the rest.

As a chronic perfectionist, it's been a long journey for me to accept that 'done is better than nothing' and that the worst critical voice is my own. Sure there's people who've gone to professional art schools, and those with a more than a decade of experience on me, but honestly? Would I tell a child their sonic drawing isn't art? Just because they have no 'experience' or 'technique'? Absolutely not. So I'm no longer saying my efforts should not count as art.

At the end of the day, art is what we choose to make it. We have the power to create whatever we want. And we are going to use it to have fun! We never lost the love and fun for creation we all had as children, we just told ourselves it wasn't enough. But it really is B*)

#ask #non mdzs #Thank you so much for this very heartfelt message B'*) #This kinda hit hard for me cause this blog isn't actually my first attempts at art (started with the classical florals and life drawing) #but it stressed me out immensely. All I could see was flaws and it made the process miserable knowing I wasn't going to succeed #So I stopped trying. I didn't draw for *years* #The point of Poorly drawn mdzs was always 'it doesn't matter how it looks it matters that I just keep going' #and it made art fun! I was making comics for ME and no one else. The bar was so low and I really could only go up from where I started #I think art block might be 50% fear of failure and 50% the weight of expectations. *That's* why art is perceived as 'hard'. #I'm gonna be fully honest here; your art is GORGEOUS!!! I'm glad you didn't give up B*) Though I understand the feeling. #I have greatly enjoyed chatting and collaborating with you! Thank you for so so many things #I hope to see more of your work again in the future!! I hope you keep finding the joy and fun in the act of creation! #is it not so amazing we can make something out of thoughts in our heads? #Lets all remember that art let's us draw ourselves eating grass and realize how wonderful that is

[pulsedemonremastered]

drawing my favs as those cheesy office type motivational posters. it helps ^_^

#my art #doodle #mspaint #yes if i had a printer i would tack him to my wall #feppi #pizza tower #i like the look ive been getting by not using reference photos #that said i think while im still in this neutral sort of state itd be a good time to study the pt sprites again #would love to get a real good handle on the style. might look at some 90s/00s 'toons styles too #been wanting to draw moe more. been wanting to draw her in a style like ren & stimpy or eene or something #i think this ''not outright depressed but still not particularly hyped about art'' block (?) im in feels like a good state of mind #to actually sit down and study with. if that makes sense. dont mind me talking to myself down here im having late nite coffees #i stole the rest of moms oatmilk and its too late to go get normal milk so i have to use this kinda yucky chocolate creamer she got me #its not my first second third fourth or even fifth choice but ill still drink it . its not disgusting its just not. good.

[funnywormz]

been having a mild identity crisis lately so if my blogs just randomly get deleted out of nowhere sometime dw abt me i'm fine i'm just figuring shit out

#i've loved this blog but i feel like i tend to be pretty open and kinda immature and thoughtless on here sometimes #and i'm considering reining in my internet presence more #i'm also in a massive art block atm and if i do start drawing more regularly again #i've been thinking that i want to switch to more original stuff #also maybe having a go at writing again too #instead of deleting i might just leave it inactive that's a possibility too #i am very attached to the funnywormz name though #maybe remake this blog? idk