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Answering a question, today...
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It be like that sometimes (all the time)
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the only good art you'll ever make is the art you'll make btw
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You don’t suck at Lineart, you’re just not familiar with line weight👍🏼!
Nah man, I am familiar with line weight, I just suck at lineart🤷
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being an artist is having both a superiority and inferiority complex
I was listening to different Mario voice clips, planning for a small fan animation project I may or may not be starting in the near future. I've already got an idea for it, have had it for a while. It's mostly silly, kind of cute, maybe a little funny.
So why in the world did I keep getting angsty ideas while I was listening to these voice clips?💀 Why am I like this?
HELP.
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Howdy, It has been a while. But yea I can understand the pressure and stress. I do agree, the point of creating should be passion first. And I wont lie, I have made posts and writing where I did it for fandom approval more than my enjoyment. Whatever comes next for you, I hope you enjoy it and you have fun with it.
Oh, absolutely. I believe that's something we've all done more than once and to varying degrees, because to be fair it is very gratifying to feel validated and to receive praise for what we make. But the more we get, the more addicting it can become. And it's very easy to lose ourselves in that spiraling, increasing urge to maintain a previously achieved height. 😮💨
Creating out of genuine passion may sound like a given, but I think that many would be surprised by the disturbingly high amount of people who instead create primarily (if not solely) in the hopes of obtaining approval and recognition; regardless of what they truly want to express deep down. It's a sad and scary phenomenon, and one that unfortunately exists in every artistic field. I can only hope that more and more creators can one day break free from that endless pursuit. 👐
Thank you Gale for the insight, and wishing you the same. 💫🎨
Great reminder. Let's just create what we enjoy (unless it's for a client or sth), and whether other people share our excitement or not should never come first.
But I won't lie, it can be a little discouraging when you hardly get any recognition - or none at all - for something you spent a lot of time creating and are proud of. It's exactly why I almost never post on Instagram anymore. Why bother when no one or almost no one sees it, or likes it?
I'm so grateful to everyone who sees value in my art here on Tumblr. I'm not nearly popular enough to experience this sort of pressure, at least not yet (or anytime soon lol), but it's still important to remember to never fall in this trap.
For now, as long as creating Mario fanart keeps bringing me joy, I'll continue doing it.
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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
Huh. I didn't know that, but it looks like it might actually be very useful.
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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol
Same with art, especially animation 💀 I remember it taking a couple months of intense work to create an about 1 min and 40 s long hand drawn animated short film all by myself. I showed it to my father who doesn't know much about animation and he said "it's okay I gues, doesn't look like you spent much time on it though" so... yeah.
But hey, some people here like my art so I can't really complain 😁
#artist struggles#i'm just slow at drawing#but while animation takes a long time i consider the process very satisfying#i live for these moments when my drawings are brought to life#if only a fraction of a second at a time#just to be clear only my father was so mean about it#my classmates who all have at least a bit of experience in animation could see how much time and work i'd put into it#and my professor loved it#so everything is fine
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Just what I needed to see tbh.
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Honestly when people say their art needs to get "more weird" they usually mean that as in "less commercial/less broadly appealing" and I think the answer to this is not to insert artificial Quirky Weird Style Stuff into it I think you just need to get uncomfortably earnest. What's the thing you really want to draw but feel shy about putting the effort into because it'd be too sincere an admission. You need to draw that. I want to see it
This is what I think of drawing something unusually angsty or otherwise super emotional. That being said, I'm only brave enough to post such things on Tumblr every once in a while because no one here knows who I am. I wouldn't dare do the same on Instagram for example, considering how some of my followers are people I know IRL xD
#artist struggles#i actually love playing with different emotions in art#good and bad#it's fun#can be cathartic too#but it's too embarrassing to show people who know me the full range of emotion i can convey#maybe it's because it feels so vulnerable#because if i can show strong emotion in art i'm likely capable of feeling it myself#or something like that#idk man#just a theory#mugi's musings#then again i did co-animate a music video with depression self harm and implied suicidal ideation as major themes#but it was for a project that i had to do and not something i just chose to do for the sake of self expression#so it was a little different
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I LOVE drawing hands
The LOVE ITSELF is stored in them
#unpopular opinion drawing hands >> drawing feet#<prev tag#in general drawing hands isn't as bad as some artists make it out to be#feet aren't too bad either#but they're tougher than hands because you usually don't practice them as often#sometimes i struggle with both and other times neither#artist struggles
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i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.
Sometimes, I have to remind myself of this. I’m not all that popular as some other amazing artists and writers on here, but I still love doing my own thing regardless, even if I feel a little jealous at times. 😅
I can relate because I’ve been through it before back in my younger years back on Fanfiction.net and DeviantArt (I’m no longer active on them but you can see my archives there). We all feel a need to compare to see where we stand but in my experience, art is so subjective and therefore I come to the realisation that my content will NEVER please everyone and I’m actually okay with this realisation. I can never replicate a style that’s out of my reach.
All I can do is create what I deem is wonderful to my eyes and if these aesthetics happen to connect with other people who love what I do…well that’s the best feeling in the world. High Numbers and stats do not necessarily indicate the best…
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by making art you are improving no matter what im so serious never stop making art ever . Never stop drawing that game you like or those ocs only you know or things you see or objects that appeal to you or stars or hearts or shapes. draw wonky hands and weird proportions . This is important btw
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At the moment how I feel
So this is how my life will end, huh?
Other possibilities include, but are not limited to:
-trying to draw clean lineart
-attempting to put everything in correct perspective, especially architecture
-drawing long straight lines by hand