#make good art

[ravelingbolero]

Bunny!

#make good art #traditional art #sketch #white charcoal #charcoal #rabbit #bunny #baby bunny

[nihidea-art]

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This one's actually a few months old at this point but I never got around to posting it. In light of today's news however ... it only seems appropriate.

YOI will always hold a special place in my heart, movie or not. But I would have loved to learn more about this Living Legend.

#yoi #yuri on ice #victor nikiforov #ice adolescence #yoi fanart #make good art #make fan art #digital media #digital drawing

[starlight-bread-blog]

True sorrow is when you don't get to boop Neil Gaiman.

#neil gaiman #good omens #boop o meter #boop #april fool's day #good omens fandom #aziraphale #american gods #coraline #coraline book #the graveyard book #the graveyard #gomens #good omemes #crowley #anthony j crowley #go season 2 #good omens 2 #archangel aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable spouses #ineffable divorce #good omens book #good omens shitpost #bildad the shuhite #michael sheen #david tennant #make good art

[always-coffee]

We're all stories in the end.

**clears throat** I've told this story elsewhere (tw: cancer, death), but I'm going to tell it again, for reasons. My mom was responsible for my love of reading and books. She took me to the library. She pretty much never said no when I asked for a book at the bookstore. She loved reading.

At some point, she just stopped reading. I don't know why. I don't know if she was too busy or too stressed or what. But when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she was very active--until she wasn't. She was not good at sitting still, ever. And then, she had to.

She felt like hell, and she was bored. So, one day, she asked me for a book--something I loved that I thought she might like. I pulled @neil-gaiman's Neverwhere off my shelf and handed it to her. I told her that it was my favorite Neil book (don't make me pick a fav now, haha).

She absolutely tore through that book, utterly delighted. She loved it. Reading it reignited her love of reading in a way I was, and still am, immensely grateful for. We spent the last year of her life swapping books back in forth. Reading made that year better for her. And me.

So, if you ever wonder if your stories matter, if the book/short stories/poems you are writing make a difference? Remember this. Because they absolutely do, in ways you can know and ways that you can't. Keep writing. The world needs your brilliant bit of weird.

#stories #writing #stories matter #personal #books #books matter #neil gaiman #neverwhere #we're all stories in the end #art #make good art #ported over from bluesky #bluesky is fun #come join us

[sparklywaistcoat]

Just a reminder that good art is always worth making, no matter how bad things seem to get, the suits in Hollywood be damned.

#make good art #Youtube

[novelconcepts]

a cool thing to recognize when you get hung up on perfectionism in art: you don't have to show what you make to anyone. if the story is nonsense. if the drawing looks like trash. if you fuck up too many stitches, if you get all the colors wrong, if you finish the piece and truly do hate it--no one ever needs to know. it can go into a trunk or a drawer. it doesn't have to ever be seen.

but if you don't make it first, you won't know if it's worth sharing. if you don't make it, you don't get to decide how you feel about the finished product.

make the art. what do you really have to lose?

#make good art #or make shitty art #make art that feels shitty while you're making it and turns out to be rad as fuck in the long run #it's a process dude. trust it. and do the thing #i've been wanting to draw for weeks but been too freaked out about the potential for it looking tragic #and like. fuck it! i'm drawing today. if it's garbage no one else will ever know #it's worth doing either way

[elvenferretots]

The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his letters about the painter's fear of the blank canvas-- the canvas, he said, is far more afraid of the painter.

- Philip Pullman

#writing #philip pullman #make good art

[kmclaude]

Do you have any advice for cowards? I seem to get caught in a cycle-- get sad, make dead dove porn, have no one to share it with, feel isolated from irl friends bc I'm ashamed, get sad, make darker porn, repeat. I think I need to stop drawing and the thought makes me queasy, but I can't handle the shame and... i see people who just make stuff like you and I want that so bad, but I wonder, if you deal with shame too?

In short, my advice? Share it.

There's a whole-ass internet. Neocities exists if you can slap up a simple HTML site and they allow any type of art. Twitter still allows NSFW. Pillowfort allows some NSFW. Mastodon instances exist -- I know people complain about baarag or baraag or whatever because it's basically the l0lish0 show but if you wanna go dead dove...there's the biggest test for how dead your doves can die. I know it's not the same as it was five or ten years ago but the internet's not dead yet and it's a way to share and find others like you if your IRL space isn't welcoming.

I'll be honest, I don't feel shame. I could draw....I could draw the l0liest of l0lis getting full on gaped by feral dog dick and squirting buckets full while being vivisected and that'd be a pretty sick metal album cover, right? I'd have 0 shame about that. Why would I? It's a drawing, and one that'd take a good bit of skill -- and I'd like that skill appreciated so I'd share it. What's there to be ashamed of? Why should I feel shame?

Like really: what's there to be ashamed of with your art? It's dark? It's porn? OK and -- what's there to be ashamed of? What's shameful about that?

If you want to make stuff, make it. Share it. If your friends were to throw your friendship into the meat grinder because of your art, they're shit garbage and not worth having in your life. My closest friends have seen my fucked up art since we were ten years old and I'm very open about my art with new friends because somebody who's gonna spurn you over you art is someone who doesn't deserve to be in your life (they also don't deserve to live but I'm trying to be nice here.)

Break the cycle. Make art. Share it. Keep making. Keep sharing. Find your tribe. Yeah, it's easier said than done. Yes, it's a bit harder with all the content restrictions. But it's worth doing. It's so worth doing.

Make good art

#kmclaudereplies #make good art

[happygaytimes]

Neil Gaiman, what are you doing here?

#happygaytimes #chris catalyst #neil gaiman #make good art

[ravelingbolero]

Improved a friend’s coat by adding belt loops. I’m glad I found such a good color match on the fabric!

#make good art #sewing #clothing repair #tailoring

[nihidea-art]

Listen. Probably the most damn specific piece of merch I have ever designed, but. I needed it. Basically I made it just so I could put one on my own ipad case. But figured, maybe other people want one too.

#fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma fanart #make good art #make fan art #make merch art #500

[weirdthetag]

30 hours until the deadline!

If you need extension information, please contact The Moderator.

#announcements #weird the tag #make bad art #make good art

[always-coffee]

My darlings, a moment.

Take the word “aspiring” out of your bios. YEET it into the sun. Never speak of it again.

Do you make art? Write? Take photographs?

Congrats! You’re an artist, a writer, a photographer.

If you create, you earned that fully.

#writing #writer #art #artist #creator #fuck aspiring #make good art #own what you do #go forth with the confidence of a mediocre white man

[trashprinceward]

Ok, so here's my order of operations from now on.

All finished completed art will be posted to Patreon first. These will be the original, high resolution images. After that, I will post a lower resolution, but still clear pic to Pillowfort. Then, I'll post a lower resolution, heavily edited version to other sites like here and twitter.

Sorry if this puts you off, but this is what I'm doing to protect my art, and it's what all of you should do too.

I'll still post sketches here with some lower interference, but overall, if you want the higher quality things, go to my patreon or pillowfort.

#art #artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #anti ai #fuck ai #ai art #fuck ai art #protect your art #support your artists #make good art

[mk-wizard]

HBO Velma doesn't just make me mad. It makes me scared because as you all know, my first webcomic is an adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde that goes its own way and has some liberal elements and character reinventions, but I don't do what the creators of Velma did.

I did NOT create my webcomic to spite, push opinions or self-insert (I outgrew that in high school). I created it because I love the original tale and wanted to have some fun with the "what if" scenario. And even then, I gave it my best shot by trying to write a good story.

And now, I fear that people will look at my adaptation and think it's something like what Velma is which will wreck my chances at getting out there as an artist. And I am not ashamed to say that I cried over this realization. And I don't think I'm the only one.

Making terrible shows, comics and movies on purpose hurts EVERYONE including other artists. Don't do it if not for yourself, for the other people around you because they didn't do anything to deserve being dragged through the mud.

And to think that my next big future project was going to be a Frankenstein adaptation that goes its own way...

#make good art #hbo velma sucks #i hate hbo velma #support comics #support artists

[sourb0i]

For the tiny number of Abel Township runners on tumblr: I wrote another zr fic! This is set between S4M25 and 26, so you know there’s going to be plenty of feels for everyone.

#My writing #my fanfiction #make good art #zombies run #zombies run! #runner five #sam yao