Welcome to the Art Swamp.

Abstract artist, writer, game dev, balloon animal-er, whatever. Main is @Tulipstem.

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Emergency Mutual Aid Commissions

Hey there... I haven't used this blog for a hot minute, but I'm back for a good reason. If you haven't heard, Kansas is revoking the licenses of trans people who have changed their gender marker effective immediately. This means they cannot legally drive, rent a car, apply for a loan, etc without getting a new ID that will misgender them. This will put a lot of people in danger of being outed forcibly at best. Now, why am I telling you about this? Well, my finances are tight ATM but I want to help.

For every donation that you make to the ACLU Foundation of Kansas or the Trans Continental Pipeline of $5 or more, I will draw you a wiggly pixel of anything including your OC, cat, or an original creation based on a (1 sentence or less) prompt you give me, etc. They aren't going to be complex, but it will have 2-3 frames of animation and will be wholly yours.

Send me an ask with proof of your donation and what you'd like me to draw.

If you can't donate I 100% understand, but any boosting you can do would mean the world as even 1 extra reblog can mean it gets seen by someone who can. Let's do this!!!

Examples:

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dancing in 'da moonlight

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These adopts are now for sale on my Kofi ^_^ Grab one while you can!!

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[catmask]

a lot of times the difference between messy art and clean art or imperfect art and perfect art or bad art and good art is that the former actually gets finished and the latter stays an idea you punish yourself with

[etheringtonbrothers]

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[xenosagaepisodeone]

randomly remembered how on deviantart in the aughts using images as references was treated as an actual cardinal sin. if a pose in something you had drawn by hand was 1:1 with an existing photo or another piece of art, it was considered the same as stealing. there were artists who sincerely insisted that references could only be used for practice and that if you wanted to draw something for the purpose of posting online you would need to have studied anatomy and color theory to the point where you could just Produce that thing from your mind with maybe the help of some general reference photos at best as reminders of what that thing looked like. insane amount of rigor to demand from a userbase of largely casual hobbyists. no wonder ms paint emo furry art is the only thing people remember fondly from that era.

[3liza]

the first thing they teach you to do in actual concept art school like for movies and video games is to immediately start tracing and referencing heavily. I spent about four hours a day doing nothing but copying classical sculpture casts with pencil at a standing easel. the teachers recommended we sell the finished drawings for some pocket money. these are the guys who did concept art for games like BioShock and Infamous. they had a Photoshop brush for everything: chainmail, chains, hair, leaves, grass, fur, sometimes entire chunks of drawings. this shit absolutely does not matter in the real world, ever. the only people who think it means anything are amateurs and hobbyists. Vermeer was tracing his camera obscura in the 1600s. Robert McGinnis, the painter who did most of the James Bond posters we're all familiar with, traces his opaque projector directly onto paper while manipulating the position of the picture to elongate the figures' limbs or change the spacing of their facial features. every commercial artist considers this kind of thing a basic skillset for the speed and quality of production they are required to produce.

this whole "bespoke handmade art with NO artificial flavorings" is nonsense, which is evident primarily in the quality of art it produces: bad anatomy, bad perspective, bad composition, bad colors, because none of these people know how to observe and interpret their surroundings

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Wanted to recreate one of my favorite paintings, "Moon Cowboy" by Eugeniya Dudnikova for my website. Check out the original here!

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Bye for now, July 2024

[possibly-emu]

make bad art or you will always feel bad about your art. Make bad art until you find joy in the crooked lines and the off colours. Make bad art because art is about expression and artwork is never ugly because it was made by someone who has lived a life no one else will ever live. Make bad art and find love through ugly. Make bad art so you make art at all. Make bad art.

[7777777awawawa7777777]

the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

[hylianengineer]

The point of art is to let other people know that the thing wrong with them is also wrong with you

[sarnakhwritesthings]

This is in fact how you make friends

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You gotta keep an eye on the hairline when you're drawing a character. Tally's keeps encroaching when I'm not looking--get back, damn you!

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Mordred Alcantera

They/them nonbiney

Hardcore steampunk enthusiast & not embarassed about it. Will 100% wear that top hat to the grocery store.

Lives in a house with a toxic "queerplatonic" polycule. Their parents agreed to pay their share of rent till they've saved enough to buy a house.

Both parts of a boardgame couple all on their lonesome. Keeps getting enmeshed into a new game, but then struggles to find a group willing to stick out 3-5 hour playtimes.

In general they're mild mannered, but become very intense when talking about their interests.

Has known Kai since middle school, bond is so strong that even when they dont talk for months its not weird. Or the day after they get into a screaming match over the interpretation of a roll at DND night.

[tulipstem]

When I think about you, (oh oh oh!) Flowers grow out of my grave!

I could've probably cleaned this up more, but oh well. I've been drawing a LOT traditionally these last few weeks. My camera isn't great, but I want to try and keep a record of my work here, either way. Drawn on plain printer paper with Sharpie acrylic paint pens and highlighters.

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Montana.

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Off to the Left

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Not Quite Super