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in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

End of year sketch dump..

#argoz artz #digital sketch #the rollin deep #practice #style practice #Spotify

generaljenobi

THIS is rebellion.

Dandelions in the streets.

Rising up through the cracks.

Wildflower power intact.

These Birds of paradise.

Bright Strelitzia

Liberating ambition.

Add that Guernsey Lily,

Nerine Bowdenii.

Thriving resilience.

✨FANTASTICAL RESISTANCE!!!✨

¡__!

#argoz artz #argoz1 #happy juneteenth #juneteenth 2025 #birds of paradise #dandelion #nerine #guernsey #childish gambino #donald glover #this is america #feels like summer

It’s been a while navigating a some straight unfun days, my music and safe memories have been insightful to my slow yet persistent recovery..

(So im back in here for the time being.. gonna put out all the art i can while i still got the uglies on the priority list)😭😭

“Can’t Slow Down”... I’ve been kinda stuck on this song for a time!!🥹😭🥹

It’s got intensely potent road trip vibes!!!!

#argoz artz #argoz1 #digital art #adobe fresco #pinterest reference #fun in the sun #Adobe drawing #road trip music #almost moday #dive deluxe #can’t slow down #Spotify

donutsbagels

Miku from your culture meme— but we go mash it up TRINIDAD STYLE✨✨🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🦅🦅

Have to rep my people!!

minyboy

The family that writes together stays together.

jonahmagnus

"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

jonahmagnus

Partake in the joy of creation just for the fun of it. Just for a laff.

nintendosformerlover

Me @everyone in the notes

It's my 6 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Hahaha look at that.. I really could do more on here huh.. 🥹😭😵

#6 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #argoz artz #illustration #argoz1 #digital art

As I found myself rewatching the Legend of Vox Machina in the past week, I felt it to share this moment of Scanlan Shorthalt's "Song for Osysa" the eternal mate of sphinx Kamaljiori.

..P.S. happy Valentine's to you all..

.._..

#argoz artz #osysa #kamaljiori #the legend of vox machina #song for osysa #digital art #illustration #prime video #sphinx #fan art #happy valentine's day

wizzardhat

Love when artists put "reblogging for the morning crowd!" "Reblogging for the weekend crowd!" in the tags to justify reblogging their own art. But lets not lie to ourselves anymore. Im reblogging for the exact same crowd i just need them to know i mean business. Im reblogging for the didn't take a hint the first time crowd. Reblogging for the crowd that needs to understand i spent 20 hours on this.

artisimpossible

I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got payed to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

It's my 5 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

#5 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

metalheadsagainstfascism

How to draw Black characters. Because it's way too obvious when you drew a white person and gave them Black skin.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRg6YsKN/

-fae

largishcat

circling back around to the issue of writers being expected to do all their own goddamn marketing via social media these days, because it completely nixes the possibility of writers being weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, or misanthropes. 80% of the literary canon was written by weird shut ins, off-putting eccentrics, and misanthropes. if you weed out everyone who’s the wrong kind of insane to maintain a twitter presence, who on earth is left

charlottemadison42

i heard a talk about this by a terrific mystery novelist, John Straley, titled “In Defense of Misanthropes in the Arts.”

I’ll never forget him sharing his candid fear that authors like him, authors who did not want to post on Facebook or Twitter, authors who wanted to be curmudgeonly and left alone, were being steadily squeezed out of the writing world as publishers foisted more and more promotional work directly onto authors. Not everyone is cut out for the spotlight. Not everyone wants to be their own hype man. Not everyone presents well in 280 characters, especially in a space they don’t even want to be present. The time suck, the scrutiny, the punishment for making a “mistake” -- all this extracurricular work is so different from actual writing.

Make room for weird reclusive shut-in eccentric misanthropic artists and writers. Don’t forget those voices are worth your attention, too.

#THIS #Attention not always worth it if its vain n empty #thoughts n shit