Art Rant - Blog Posts

i really love when art in general has detail, like the detail of rugged white walls in buildings to show how many people lived there, and how people have a hooked nose or have a slight dark tone on their skin due to melanin ugh i love it

Posting this before 2025! My art journey in 2024, couldn't find good enough art early enough in the early year, so you will have to deal with it.

January- Fanart of Furina from Genshin :/

February-March early art of Chaos. One of my many ocs

April- BRONYA!! also another oc of mine, love her so much istg

May- I changed her name to Cala, but she is my blue bee oc.

June- ... ANOTHER FRICKING OC?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME. Low-key forgot their names lmao

July- CATS I FUCKING LOVE CATS I WOULD DIE FOR A CAT AJSJWJSKSNSKENEJENEJEN

August- A more modern chaos design. They are so fucking annoying here, FUCK OFF CHAOS. Anyways low-key stopped caring for chaos after this tbh.

September- the start of my inanimate insanity arc. I didn't want to post anything crazy because I didn't do anything crazy. So simple drawing for now, you can actually find a lot of the rest of my art posted here!

... fuck there is an image limit... since you can find the rest on my page, I will just generally talk then!

October- I spent like 20 hours on that comic but it got barely any attention... then again, the character usage wasn't proper, nor funny

November- hehe I had fun drawing this, even though I draw my selfsona with wide eyes, irl I am more akined to Shrimpo than tbh creature 😞

December - I genuinely had so much fun making this Taco gijinka, I had fun with the shading n such. I should do more big artwork like that in the future.

Just realizing how over time the way I think about the art I'm creating has changed so much over the years.

Only recently now, for the first time in the 3.5 years I've been actually been starting to think about viewership and the emotional impact I want to bring out through the tools, style, etc. in the art rather than the overall skill I want to show. I feel like this has definitely made my art have a more appealing feel to it that it didn't have nearly as much as before.

I think something else that has definetely changed is how precious I am with my art. Today I've been working on a new piece, but I decided I wanted to combine this "painting" style I did but in a full body character in my normal style. I've been really struggling with figuring out the painting/rendering bit, but when I know somethings not working I get rid of it, I go over it, whatever. I'm not precious with my art, because I know if I've done it once I can do it again. This gives me so much freedom to create without worry, and I think really allows me to create much more interesting pieces.

I think my art style will be changing a lot over the next while, I don't even know if I'll really have a consistent art style after this anymore (and won't that be interesting?).

Both who I am and how my art is is changing, and I want to document as much as I can onto Tumblr, rather than my DeviantArt, even though I have roughly 400 less followers here (like 10 or something, compared to the 405 on DA).

This place feels more right though.

Thanks for reading :))

Sharing this bc I need to rant about the absolute chaos the process of making this was

1st pic: sketch of the face. 2nd: finished version

Basically, our teacher realized we had to make sth for a gallery she forgot about and decided we would quickly draw coal figures inspired by / copying Käthe Kollwitzes artworks*

Since I'm rlyyy behind on our current big/main project, I had to rush this coal drawing in like an hour. (other students had 1-6 hours) and well.. Rushing a life sized coal drawing is def not a good idea wkdhkwej

EXCEPT. That's not we're the chaos stopped. Not only did i forget my coal eraser at home, but i also realized after making the sketch that this WASNT coal, it was chalk, which u can barely erase... (It was 7am alr, i was too tired to notice i was using a different black stick than usually-)

Usually when i use coal, i apply a bit much at first & then use my eraser to create value, but now that obviously wouldn't work... Not only that, but by the time i realized you couldn't erase this properly, i was already done with most of the sketch...

(* is bellow)

*kind of like a collage, but instead of cutting them out we drew life sized version with coal. We also arranged them differently than in her artworks & used figures from multiple of her artworks.

Ik that online, "copying" other artists tends to be a bit controversial, but most art schools use it a LOT, since it's a great way to learn from more experienced artist! ("why reinvent the wheel if someone else already did it for u already?") It's just for studying tho and we don't pretend it's our original artwork/idea or sth... That would just be plagiarism LMFAO

Actually i wanna rant about this more at some point bc i do not like how the whole tracing drama influenced the online art communities view on learning from other artists...

ngl as an artist with a few hundred followers, tumblr is probably the best platform to post art on. from what i’ve noticed in the past years, is that twitter and instagram are only great when someone already has a huge platform, but on tumblr it’s just so much easier to reach people with reblogs and tags. The tagging system helps out a lot when it comes to reaching others with common interests, and it’s always so nice to read through them! (especially when it’s people barking at ship art, i hold u all very close to my heart ily)

so i guess i just wanted to say that i really appreciate all the love and support on here, i love u all <3

I hate posting my art on here bc like how do you tag something for tumbler that isn't for a fandom??

Like I had thought this was THE place for art online but no? Apparently not??

It's like I NEVER made fanart before tumbler and now that's a big part of what I draw which sucks because I love being creative and I feel like with fanart I can't do that as much

Fanart is 10 times more difficult to draw and looks 10 times worse in my experience

But I mean if you love making fanart all the power to you but I cannot stand drawing it

Idk I love looking a fanart like, but it's a pain to draw

Does anyone else have this? Just the inability to draw fanart or do I just need to get good??

I can't be the ONLY being who makes a playlist for a Oc, selfinsert, selfship(??) or whatever!

Sometimes music helps me understand better what I want for them, their past, their personality, how they interact with another character, etc. It also helps with my mood or creativity block, i might have horrible structure but i can imagine a whole animatic in my head!!