Hi! I'm Mikaëlle. I post my drawings here. feel free to ask me anything (ˊᵕˋ) but please read my INFO PAGE first ! (I reblog/ follow @sornetteistired) [requests are closed] mobile links: [twitter] [insta]
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Hi! I love your art so when i saw your post about Naruto requests i thought I'd send one. I've never sent one before and i didn't see instructions on your FAQ so i hope an ask is fine.
Can you draw Anko when she was younger, and was training under Orochimaru?
Hello to you both ! just posted them, and put them into a single post since the characters matched !
Thank you for your messages and kind words !! and you were right first anon, no worries!
i hope you'll like the drawings :^>
hello !
i would like to draw some naruto sketches during this month, im open to requests, if you want to send some my way !
(you may know im not very good at this, so be understanding if i end up doing 1% of it rfdkjghhd but i'll do my best!!!!)
i hope you're having a good day or night!! <3
edit: thank you for the messages !! im on it ! :^D
Hi!! So I've been following your blog since middle school and it's TG days, and now I'm in university for art and you've always been one my biggest art inspirations and muse! So I know this sounds crazy and maybe jealousy-filled and envious, but sometimes I feel like I can never ever reach your level? Like aside from the technical aspects, the way you have mastery over your style, approach to color, "soul" that embodies your art... There's something in it that makes you feel emotion.
Meanwhile I feel like a robot who can only draw and paint technically well, but my art doesn't inspire feelings. It's always the same things with no variation and I'm always scared of getting out of the box and being truly free. Like I'm simply not creative. It's just that no matter how much I improve in art, I feel like it means nothing at the end at all because there's these hard limits regarding creativity set upon me. Even in university, my classmates have so many creative designs but nothing ever comes up in my mind. Do you ever feel like that? How do you get over it?
Hello Anon !
I'll begin by saying thank you so much for your message, and for trusting me with your words and raw feelings about your art journey ; i hope i can be a good listener here, and help you a little..!! im honored my blog has been a part of your path for so long, and still be a place you like today.
(It's a pretty long reply so i cut here!)
Now, to reply directly to your last questions: yes ! I do/did feel like this ! And the 'how to get over it' has no clear answer, it's a personal one, but all these feelings are natural i think, but not absolute, it goes away, it comes back, it becomes minuscule.
It's interesting because what you describe liking about my drawings, are things that is/used to be such difficulty for me, and such fears !! Colors are still a real struggle, and, i'm opening my heart here, because you were kind enough to open yours, i'm always deeply scared my drawing doesn't say anything, i fear it holds no soul, i worry it makes the viewer feel nothing. It's always something in the back of my mind. And i feel no expertise in my techniques! So your enjoyment about my drawings is a very pleasant surprise to me, and a tiny slap in the back of my skull that says : 'chill sometimes!!!! it's okay, you're doing great!!' , and, i hope i won't sound impolite, i'm saying this with tenderness, but maybe that's what you need to hear too !! So i'm saying it to you Anon ! You speak of yourself very harshly, with like a severe sentence over your head that tells you what you're capable of or not, a sword of Damocles awaiting to strike and stop your body from drawing. It's too mean and wrong. Take good care of yourself, it is you who matters most!
I had a terribly shitty time in art school, i don't know how is your university, but i hope it's not making you feel bad, i hope it doesn't crush day by day your relationship with your art and with your self. The way you kindly describe your enjoyment about my drawings over the years, and the way you're serious about what you do and what you'd like to do, tells that it is deep to you, that it is something you hold dear ; if i can keep on giving advices here, i think maybe connect again to that, your enjoyment; you like drawing ! Also, i probably just heard one single interesting thing in art school, but it helped : '…it's just line on paper.' At that time, i was having a nervous breakdown in the classroom, the teacher was flabbergasted, and blurted out that to me. I was working on a large format and my mental health was IN THE GUTTER, i felt my life was on the line with every little buildings i was drawing, my whole body was trembling ! But, between very unrespectful and crazy statements, here she was right. We can be serious about what we do, and still remember that it's just lines on paper, pixels on screen. We can go back to it tomorrow, we can erase all of it, it's okay. It doesn't matter as much as us waking up, drinking a good glass of water, drawing a smiley on our skin to cheer us up!
More precisely about what you said about creativity, i had the same feelings in art school, i thought my classmates were so much smarter and creative ! And they ARE brilliant, i met wonderful brains there !! We talked together about how i felt behind, and for example my friend was surprised because they were really admirative about my drawing ! The confusion was mutual haha ! I still feel inadequate sometimes, but we all have our own aspirations and interests, and it's actually so much fun to share, have mutual inspirations, together.
Did you talk with classmates you trust about your struggles ? You would be surprised!! It's interesting to hear what other people have to say ! Do you think they feel nothing when looking at your drawings ? Did they say it to you ? Or is it something you believe in the back of your mind only ? And even if they did say something like this to you, did they provide fertile feedbacks ?
Also, the fact that art inspires feelings or not, or the fear i talked about earlier that haunts me sometimes..i think we can agree it's so subjective!! Something you love, something you want to cherish all day and keep below your pillow because it makes you feel so much and strongly, can be a complete 'whatever' to someone else aha, and it's just like this, and it's the very same 'something', it's okay, it's good like this actually!
Creativity, from what i understand, is a difficult thing to define and characterize, honestly. But i'd say, while there is this tiny spark of indefiniteness inside a process, the little squeeze in the chest where you feel you're getting something coming up, the bubbly things you want to process and tell in your drawing, it's not all there is to creativity in my opinion! These 'ideas' can be fuel or the sparks in your drawing motor yes, but creativity is most importantly the choices you make !
You said you have technical skills, and improving, and it's this technicality that can guide! A lot of artists think of themselves more as crafter, or even 'robot' sometimes ! It's automatisms over automatisms, choice over choice over choice, to get something as close as possible as the goals we had in mind, as close as what we like or imagine or need. Be rigid! there's nothing wrong with it.
That being said, you mentioned that you're drawing the same things. In what sense ? If you portray the same subjects and you're not happy with it, it could be good to change subjects, draw whatever !! Your interest will spark in space you wouldn't imagine ! And, if it doesn't, coming back to what you know with other things done will revive old flames.
What seems to hold you back is fear (and deep fatigue if i can add this, i'm serious take care of you). We know how much seriousness and love we pour into drawing, it's personal, but it's not a reflection of our self in absolute, it doesnt say anything about you, your value, what you can or can't do.
For real, the limits most of the time are on the technical side, and it seems you have this covered, i trust you to ease your brain into trying new things for you, trying things again with an unserious mind also, look at how fun your brush hitting the canvas is, mix mediums, or don't haha! And, if it's difficult to do it 'mindlessly,' once again it's about choices ; 'i deciced the light should hit there because it's the main subject', 'i decided this color meant /thing/ that's why it's there', 'i decided the lines should be thicker because it's a reference to /this/ and it made sense to', You can be very free inside your own box, truly ! You will expand your world without realizing it!
I hope i make sense, and didn't say too many stupid things. I talked a lot once again, and a lot about me ouargh but since you asked about my experience, i hope it's okay, and that you can find some points useful to you. For now that's what i can give !
I'll finish all this by saying thank you again, and wishing you all the best in your path, in whatever form it takes. Don't hesitate to contact me again if you feel like it, or to talk about it with classmates and people you trust, and take a step back when needed. You got this!!!
I *literally* just saw you're back, welcome back! Been here since your tokyo ghoul days, and you're still churning out bangin' art!
...i- im gonna cry..??!!!! thank you so much!!!? happy to be back, and happy to have you here again as well !!!! !
it's been so long since then, knowing you enjoyed looking at my drawings since so many years makes me so happy, and almost stunned, i'm very moved !
i hope you'll enjoy what's next, and i hope you noticed some improvements ! i had quite a blurry time, but ive gained some strength now, i want to do my best ! im glad you still like my recent posts!!
i want to take care of this blog again ;v; so let's have fun together ;;;!!!!!
Whoahhh your art is so cool ! Followed you already on twitter and found you on there thanks to the soriku ahah I'm kinda curious what's you process when you do painting-ish pieces like this one ? It's so crisp and nice looking !!
hello !! gyahh thank you so much, happy to meet you here as well welcome welcome !! ://^> !!!
i don't have speedpainting to show etc sadly, but you can find some very old posts about my process on this tag ! the process for the paintings hasn't dramatically changed, honestly now i just try to make cleaner lines so i don't lose as much time painting all over my mistakes and scratching my head at everything bhaha
i could find some of my wip for the soriku one though, i'll put it below ! :
very rough tiny sketches of the idea
made cleaner lines, added colors , then painting all over it on a new layer, like shown in the old posts ! the brushes used hasn't changed much too
for this one, i used as reference the 3D models on Clip Studio Paint that i moved as wanted! i don't use it often bc it feels like driving a plane, i'm not very at ease, but it was very interesting and it definitely made it easier to draw ! ..it also explains the slightly shorter legs than usual reiugbierg (characters i draw without ref always end up with extra lonnnng limbs welp)
i hope it's understandable ! i'll try one day to make new process posts, but for now i can only show this ;; ''
have a great day / night !! <3
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