Okay, I started using Procreate and found out they use stamps. So, I buy hand stamps. Put hand on canvas. I buy head stamps cause I suck at drawing.
Instead of using head stamp, I go "lemme just do a rough sketch of Lou's face to get a general idea of what angle I want the head to be at"
I sketch THIS and it's better than all the trash drawings I've posted for this fandom 😭 Infected doesn't count cause I traced it
But now I hate that I've posted the trash drawings...
Despite the fact there are no repercussions for my failed attempts at being cool on this site, I genuinely feel like I've lost many points because of those drawings 😅
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i am still a little mad at the sanitised view of protests. putting aside all the completely harmless (read: ineffective) ones i’ve attended the more recent rally against posie parker i was a part of was a much more real protest, and it felt so weird afterward to have people ask if i enjoyed myself. i said yeah because it felt good to have so many allies, but it was standing in a courtyard for 3 hours screaming to protect friends and family. its fucked up that people asked if that was fun. what about that sounds fun.
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when this posts, the queue has ran out!!
thank you so much for being here with me on this little daily-art journey (LMAO). this was all the tmnt art ive drawn (and posted on twitter) since the rottmnt movie came out august 2022, and i'm so grateful for all the support i've gotten here on tumblr!
I STILL DRAW DONT WORRY!!
but of course from now on i will post art gradually whenever i draw, not daily!
throughout as the queue progressed i also put the art i drew in the queue, so the past few ones have been recent
i know alot of you found comfort in the daily posting so im really sorry it had to end, i also enjoyed the daily feedback and seeing your happiness!
it feels a bit surreal in a way, i know it hasnt been that long but also it was about 3 months of daily posts which is a bit weird to just stop suddenly,,, but anyway!
art for me is hard alot of the time, my artstyle seems rly simple and not hard to do to others but for me i have very low wrist stamina and alot going on in my personal life currently so im unsure on just how often i will post. i hope you will respect this!!
i still draw, i will post it whenever its drawn! and my ask box will ofc be open and i will answer the asks i am able to/feel like/have anything to answer them with! so just you know nothing is necessarily ending, it just wont be daily! hehe!
thank you so much!! see you soon!!
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So uh. My freelance work here is kind of dying.
I thought i'd keep my long-term followers on the know-how, so i might as well write about my current circumstances here, give y'all an update, so to speak.
So, for several reasons, most of them not even my fault, i've been getting less and less commissions, almost none, actually, and the ones i get are usualy on the cheaper side, which is bad concidering that this is my livelihood, commission money pays my bills, my groceries, and my taxes, and now i sure as hell am strugling to imagine this will sustain me for long.
Twitter is a sinking ship ever since elon went over, Specificaly for people like me. I had just broken into 12k followers there, a huge milestone for me, and then i got shadowbanned, and for the last few months i've gotten *nothing*. It's completely dead, i'm stagnated there, all my arts are censored, and there's no way for me to undo it or fix it, and so i've gotten less and less comms out there, which sucks because its the only reason i was even on that stupid site.
Here on tumblr, meanwhile, the CEO went on a massive transphobic streak, and a lot of lgbt folk (which composed a lot of my following,) decided to jump ship, and i sure as hell dont blame them, but sadly that's more potential costumers that bailed, and there's no proper website to go to.
Anywhere i'd go, i'd be starting from scratch again, which would be utterly disheartening and frustrating, and there no website that is kind to artists, with no algorythim, that also have a messaging system (the latter being ESSENTIAL to the way i do comms) So i'm kind of stuck. I just. have nowhere to go, and nothing to do.
And last but not least, my own fault, I've just been drawing and creating what *I* specificaly want, on an hedonistic streak this year. That's why theres so much pony bs on this blog now, and why i was straight up posting poetry a while back, and have written hundreds upon hundreds of fanfiction pages in the last few months; Which, unfortunately, is a terrible business decision if your intent is making money. Which I surely should have prioritized, but in the end, its not up to me, its up to the costumers...
So now i'm a bit stuck. I've enjoyed the things ive drawn and written more than anything i've ever done, and yet, i've never been less successful on the actual business side.
I'm still considering my venues, my possibilities, but there's not many. Trying to get a job would certainly pull me away from creation, and i'd hate it regardless of what it was, and on another venue, theres no guarantee that going back to furry titties would bring me money.
and that's whats heartbreaking about it too. no matter how much effort i put on my work, theres no guarantee of sucess, so why even spend time trying to craft a masterpiece?
why not just follow trends and make a tiktok account or whatever the fuck makes money these days. I'd rather not, frankly. And i wont.
Well, that's about it. Thanks for reading this update, that's how my life is goin atm. i'm going to continue doing as i am right now, but yknow...
I'm not sure what i should do, if you want to give me suggestions, feel free.
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the nice thing about rote 3D work is its mindless - it kind of like doing the dishes. there's room to think, or call friends, or listen to music or movies or hockey cause your brain is just kind of running on auto pilot. an its relaxing because at the end there will be this output that's technically pristine. the other funny thing is since i downloaded a 'trial' version of maya im finding myself missing features from z*modeler. which is totally backwards from when i started in z*modeler and was missing features from ma*ya. i wish i could combine the two, lol.
Anyway, sculpting...sculpting is different. It's more emotional and about translating what my brain is observing. There's no perfectly 'correct' answer, and thats often what stresses me out so much. But the lack of 'correct' answer is also what i love about it.
I need both in my life because the mindless work clears the busy clutter in my brain and gives me a break from the sculpting work while still exercising the same technical skills.
Drawing is similar - the daily doodles i usually post that are fast and sketchy are mindless work. And ive been so focused on trying to find a job and get this portfolio piece done fast...that i have not creatively drawn anything in literal months. Not since december. I had ideas, and i went and forgot about them until i was looking at old sketches the other day and suddenly remembered - hey i never actually did that thing i wanted to draw. When i have a job and a stable income my weekends are reserved for drawing, and i havent been able to do THAT since last june.
I just really really miss having time to myself that doesnt feel like if i am not being productive in a specific direction i am wasting it
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