dearHadrian's dusty art drawer

Anna / 27 / Poland For more art, support me on patreon! Commissions: OPEN (but for smaller pieces, not full illustrations).

[dearhadrian]

i’m playing Pathologic again and i got this Margaret Atwood poem stuck in my head

[dearhadrian]

I'm playing Patho 3 - fish hook metaphor real

[dearhadrian]

Greetings from Town-on-Gorkhon!

[dearhadrian]

Greetings from Town-on-Gorkhon!

[flekh]

as AI gets more widespread and commonly used I notice myself drifting further from my previously preferred overly rendered style. for years I would practice for better realism and render and now it feels oddly cheapened... the lazier and the more undercooked my art is, the better I feel about it. like trying to slip through the cracks of the machine's (AI bros, in reality) understanding of meaningful art

[dearhadrian]

Worst of all, a coward.

[dearhadrian]

Josephine I painted for @joshduun last year ☀️ Companion piece to @badbadsloth's Leliana!

[dearhadrian]

First, do no harm. If you can help it.

[dearhadrian]

I don't deceive people. But I touch things, leaving behind tiny pieces of myself. Then I watch… watch them change.

Saint Clara, here to save us all. Painted for @badbadsloth!

[prokopetz]

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than our OCs is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: You don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OCs' story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contexless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

[badbadsloth]

ok #pathologic but girl is back in session with Artemy!! butcher? i hardly know her!!! *laugh track*

[dearhadrian]

Bury me somewhere 'round those rocks, all right? I want to grow into swevery. It'll be pretty…

I got a lot of feelings about Murky's connection to the steppe.

[dearhadrian]

What if I drew Artemy and Daniil older, gave them longer hair and made them fall in love again. What then??

[blackheartbiohazards]

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

[depodraws]

Once someone tagged art that I made with "woah" and I think about it at least once a week. Someone else said "oh neat" once. Someone else WROTE A WHOLE DAMN POEM IN THE COMMENTS. Anyways even just one word can change how someone sees their art. You don't even have to think about it too hard. You could put a keyboard smash and I'd probably cry from joy.

I'm also trying hard to interact more, I understand that it's hard to break away from opening your phone and being in Content Consumption Mode.

[sakichi56]

I honestly hadn't stopped to think about this until I saw this post... I used to think people would get annoyed if they were notified everytime someone posted a comment on their art. I never thought about it being like fanfiction and that they might appreciate comments. Frick, that means I'm part of the problem on here. Thats gotta change.

[gatoma]

Every tag, every comment, every reblog with some kind of reaction/opinion or even just one word. All of these things are precious to creators!

I spent countless hours reading and rereading tags full of love people left under my art. All the people i could gift a laugh to or even inspire with something I made mean more to me then you could ever know.

It's what makes me proud of my art!

And to think that you could have enjoyed my art in silence and I would have never known.

[stinkbrat]

A very special shout out to the person who tagged "these mcgriddles make me want to shit so bad" on fanart in 2013 I think about you once a day

[ao3commentoftheday]

memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

[dearhadrian]

Scraped knees and ominous prophecies

[dearhadrian]

Those bloody romantics.

[dearhadrian]

psst, there’s a new Pathologic post on my patreon 👀