Octopics

Hi I'm Lin! This is my personal art blog 🪐 Illustrator lost in TTRPG ocs 🌞 They/them

[agent-octopus]

My spirit bard who uses a tarokka deck as her magical focus!

Shes a little ghostie girl

[robogrind]

drawings are secretly the enemy because they start off very nice and unassuming but then when they're about 80% done they start emanating a malevolent aura that makes finishing them the scariest activity you can imagine

[suliqyre]

When you share your art and it is ignored, it can feel like the value of your work has been diminished. For when it was only you who had seen it, you knew it was real and you could see some value in it. But now even that seems to be in question. From here, it is easy to fall into self-doubt and decide that there never was anything good about your creation in the first place.

But it is important to remember that these judgments are yours alone. The true value of your creation always remains open and undetermined. You have the ability and the courage to continue asserting the value you see in it, even in the face of general indifference.

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[coelasquid]

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

[thingsfromthedirt]

David Lynch, Cannes Film Festival (2002)

[lrosewrites]

YOU go make ART and then REFUSE to EXPLAIN it because you already DID your job and now it's the AUDIENCE'S turn to MAKE MEANING out of the ART

[barberrywire-deactivated2025080]

okay mr lynch i will go and do just that as i fucking should

[ross-hollander]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

[kiwi]

[vampantheon]

artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

[vampantheon]

people saying some variation to "oh no" in the notes of this post are very funny but at the same time. i wish you a very Feel Better

[sylvies-kablooie]

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.

[laneichy]

Grumble grumble…

[jaynovz]

if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...

literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.

go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck

forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.

fuckin rest, basically

[jaynovz]

reiterating this--

stop pushing. stop blaming yourself for not working on creative stuff enough, stop tormenting yourself. remove all pressure and expectation. it'll be done whenever, you'll work on it whenever. who the fuck knows when that is, but it'll happen when it's ready.

stop doing shit that feels bad. do stuff that makes you happy and relaxed.

at a certain level of spoon usage from job, chores, errands, socialization and basic maintenance there will just Not Be Anything Left for your projects for awhile.

you have to let it build back up and then take your time getting back into it organically as it comes.

hope this helps someone else, bc I have learned it the hard-headed stubborn-ass fish-thrashing-in-a-net way and it's been agonizing.

[nikoco11]

(having mildly hard time drawing) i hate doing this shit i’m never doing it again (having mildly fun time drawing) i love this shit it’s what i was born to do (having mildly hard time drawing) i hate this shi

[ad-wills]

[catchymemes]

[bish0ps]

Can you explain this gap in your blog history

[onlinebeast]

I was employed.

[whimsicalfairytales]

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

[marciaillust]

curious. anyway,

[branden-aka-cowboyduke]

Never forget how far you’ve come, despite how far you still have to go

[the-haiku-bot]

Never forget how

far you’ve come, despite how far

you still have to go

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.