cassady zane @cathartes-aurae - Tumblr Blog

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#my art #artists on tumblr #stationery #stickers #sticker shop

in my ecstatic art-making era apparently

#obsessed with bernini's ecstasy of st teresa #i think i'm getting better at painting faces!#my art #artists on tumblr #sketchbook

After 12 years I finally finished this sketchbook! I bought it in 2013, as a sophomore in college. The stickers on the front are all from 2017 (and it shows lol). Most of the work in here is from 2023 and 2024. Grateful I get to move on to a fresh book for 2026.

#my art #artists on tumblr #sketchbook #birds #pokemon

any time i feel like there are limits to what i can do artistically, whether self imposed or not, i start to squirm and i want out. i need to not feel caged, and this applies to all areas of my life i think. i felt hemmed in in college and high school and in too many other times in the past. any reminder i receive about the largeness and openness of the world i am so grateful bc i can breathe.

#personal #feeling like changing my handle on social media but struggling over what to change it to #i picked my own name in part bc it allows me to do whatever and not adhere to a certain theme or aesthetic #but lately it's chafing and i want something different #means i gotta get new business cards again and i just bought a bunch a few months ago T_T #it's making me wish i had a cool stereotypical nonbinary name like cloud or star or something fun like that

st. pancratius

#my art #artists on tumblr #sketchbook #saints #I was gonna wait to post until I can photograph it in natural light #but I often get home just as the sun is setting these days #so it is what it is

So much of making art for me is holding my teenaged self’s hand and telling them that their ideas are cool and important and that the things that inspire them artistically are worth pursuing even if no one else sees their vision

#listening to a perfect circle and painting saints and thinking about cathedrals #I spent a lot of time doing that when I was 16/17 #my art #sketchbook #work in progress

St. Valentine study

#I wanna get better at painting bones #so I can paint relics!#my art #artists on tumblr

#my art #artists on tumblr

#my art #artists on tumblr #decided to give these their own posts

submitted some of my sticker designs to a local art business in my home state and feeling ehhhh about it but i think it's mostly cause i feel like i've outgrown the designs?? bc they're two years old?? and i've changed a lot since i made them?? kinda cool.

#constantly feeling like i'm not developing any skills artistically but #then i look at my procreate designs and i'm like oh i would do that differently now #so that's neat #personal #gotta make new stickers ig